Chapter 115: The Dance of Ritual Eating and Drinking
Most of the alumni and students had chosen to leave after the noon buffet luncheon, while the remaining students and some parents gathered in the student auditorium of the Fuxing Building to wait for the upcoming Homecoming dance.
The students of the Symphony Club are doing their job, playing the sixth movement of Barzanov's 'Tomorrow Again' with their expensive instruments.
As soon as the light dance music was played, it resonated with the members of the classical dance club who had just returned from a successful performance in the lakeside performance area, and several 'swan' girls in white feather skirts moved uninvited to the dance floor in the middle of the auditorium, walking lightly on their toes in the nano floor, making various soft and elegant movements.
The stage troupe dressed in Shakespeare's costumes also joined the performance, with King Lear and The Count of Monte Cristo dancing with the Swan girls with the same difficulty, and one of them, who had also practiced classical dance, lifted the tallest swan above his head.
The dance party began in a warm and spontaneous atmosphere, and students with the desire to perform encouraged each other and laughed to enter the dance floor, stretching their bodies and making various suitable and inappropriate dance poses to the beat of the music.
The ceiling of the auditorium flickered with flickering lights, and the holographic projection that was originally used to play the courseware was also turned on by the students of Good Deeds, showing the whole picture of the stars of the Milky Way in the venue, and then transforming into a completely different style of galaxy miniature, and the huge stars, the erupting corona, the slowly rotating planets, the misty stardust in the broken gold corridor, the endless glow of the Android Sea, accompanied by the applause of the beat of the room, echoed with every smiling face on the dance floor.
At the end of the piece, the students of the symphony orchestra began to play the official chapter under the command of the conductor, a famous dance song called 'Eternity', and the students seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and they took their positions in the prelude to the dance, and when the low chords of the cello filled the audience, everyone began to move at the same time.
"Why is it so neat?" Jonny looked strangely at the dancers, who had just been in a mess, but now looked like the uniformed soldiers in the Nutcracker opera.
"Because that's the climax of today's burlesque." Roger looked at the male and female students in the audience in strange costumes and bouncing each other's chests with a look of disgust. If it weren't for Jonny having to bring Joanna here, he would have gone to the open-air stadium and waited for the fireworks display with Moreno.
"Many parents teach their children this high social dance from an early age, which would have been especially popular in the upper classes." Vivian. Lee replied to Johnny for Hill's head.
It is said that this ceremonial dance was first performed by the Heisenberg family on the Minotaur, and they held a dinner party or a small banquet to celebrate the anniversary of their monopoly. It was later spread by the middle managers who had the privilege of attending these banquets, who used to use the dance as a status symbol, and in the city of Providenton there were dance studios all over the city, where the populace signed up at a very young age to let them memorize the dance steps, fearing that their children would lose their noble and elegant qualifications. ”
"Aunt Li, do you need to learn this strange dance to apply for a job in Heisenberg's company?"
"As far as I know, there is no such requirement."
"Does that increase the success rate of the application?"
"That's not going to happen, at least I think there are some important positions where Heisenberg's selection mechanism is complex and effective, and they are never sloppy about what they need to pay for." Vivien said.
"It's a bullshit trick, the same stuff they're forcing us to consume." Roger said as he pointed to the empty wrist, he never seemed to wear a holographic watch, just at this moment Xi Kewen from the Da Vinci class of Fuxing Building walked all the way with a watch, he grabbed Xi Kewen's wrist and dragged him to Jonny regardless of the other party's struggle.
"Look at these glamorous appearances, he will incorporate your habits and change them, and once you get on it, he will hold you back, and as long as you can't take your eyes off it again, those noble lords of the Minotaur will get their way, do you think you are consuming this?" He held Xi Kewen's arm and shook it around. "Actually, it's the consumer, and you're the unlucky one who gets consumed."
The narrator shouted what are you doing, let me go. But Roger, who was talking about it, turned a deaf ear, and his palm was like an iron tong.
Just as he was about to shout for help, Roger, who had finished speaking, threw his wrist away again, and never looked at him from beginning to end. The narrator was so confused that he had to shake his head, hold his watch and walk away.
"See, another trick that has been successfully implemented." Roger reiterated as he pointed to the back of his watch intently.
"Little Clark's point reminds me of what 'Snail' used to say." Vivien smiled.
"Snails? Which snail? Roger was a little puzzled, and Jonny shook his head at him, motioning not to ask more.
"The chubby one you held his belly in the morning." Vivien's prompt reminded him and nodded in realization.
"Judging by his so-called research, the Heisenbergs' original intention of inventing this 'dance of etiquette' is to surprise the eager imitators, who were originally only used to ......," Vivien said with a pause, her lips pursed to look at Joanna, who was already laughing.
"Helps digestion after meals." She announced the answer.
Everyone laughed, including Jonny, and Roger laughed louder.
Something that passes down from the top of the pyramid may just be a custom that solves physiological phenomena...... Jonny smiles, but it is interpreted by the people below the class as a noble cultural heritage, which may be as strong as Clark suggests, and there may be a strong irony, because the thing itself is not important to this, but who has done it and who has not done it.
"You mentioned the noble lord, and I remember that the Heisenbergs once gave Brown . Clark gave him the title of Earl, that's your grandfather, right? Vivien was surprised to learn about Roger's family without any introduction, and it was only now that he discovered the true power of Clark's family, which had been passed down for generations.