Chapter 23 Chapter 23: An old woman playing with a young dancer

I have been catching up with the course for several days, and the fever has quietly recovered in the busyness. At lunch, I still pass the bento to Long Zai. I hope he is full, but I no longer pass the cheat sheet to him. Long Zai seems to know something , has never disturbed my indifference, but his eternal silence now seems to add a bit of unspeakable suffering and pathos. I have a new view on Professor Zhuo. When I see her face during lectures or dance practice, I often forget everything at the moment. This is someone I have admired all my life. I know her history well, but that It was from newspapers and books, and it was her youthful and beautiful past, not the skinny old woman in front of her.

Professor Zhuo should be coquettish. When she was much younger than me, she became notorious for living with a Japanese dance teacher, and then abandoned the Japanese for a low-level Parisian musician. Then she bid farewell to Europe and crossed the ocean. , when she arrived in New York and stayed away from the dance circle, people said that she was madly infatuated with a Russian painter at that time. She was still younger than me at that time. Any record, it should be the mysterious years, right?At the age of 31, Professor Zhuo was reborn and miraculously made a comeback in New York. Since then, she has been popular among all sentient beings, and in the way of life, she has received the true biography of the Greenwich Village art circle. Her bohemian-style erotic affairs continue... ...but that was all the beauty of years ago, not this old woman playing with young dancers.

What an unbearable truth.I will always remember that for the first time in her biography, I saw that black-and-white photo of Professor Zhuo taking a nap after dancing, reclining in front of the lady's bed with a cigarette in his hand, looking towards the edge of the photo, I was so amazed by this The goddess on the side, this little book is already outdated now, she in the shadow pauses in eternity, looks at the smoke and walks charmingly, so beautiful that she doesn't even want to show it to others.I thought that was Professor Zhuo. I thought I knew her too well. Professor Zhuo's western style, her accent and her conversation made people think that she was from a wealthy family in other provinces, but I knew that she was actually a 100% Taiwanese. The Zhuo family lived in Changhua. County, I not only know, but also visited, long before I heard of Professor Zhuo.

The well-known Zhuojia Oil Factory specializes in the production of black sesame oil. It is at the intersection of that simple town, two streets away, and you can still smell the burnt aroma coming from the oil factory. The karma between people is tactful. I didn’t even start ballet that year, and I tied two long braids. I traveled with my father. Looking back now, it turned out that my father always liked to take me out alone. To my father For me, the essence of travel is to search for delicacies from all over the world. When we arrived in the small town that year, we went straight to Zhuo’s oil workshop. At that time, I didn’t know that it was Professor Zhuo’s home, but the impression was still very deep. I only felt that it was delicious. What a place.

I also remember the old lady with a Japanese aristocratic style from head to toe. I think it is Professor Zhuo’s mother. My father had a good conversation with her in Japanese. I roamed alone in Zhuo’s courtyard. I remember the parrot in front of her house The chrysanthemum pots in the wind corridor were put away in a hurry, and a few barefoot men were busy mixing and shoveling black sesame seeds all over the ground under a gigantic trellis. Haiyang, my father called me with four bottles of black sesame oil. I twisted the fine sesame seeds on the ground, and I was fascinated by the sight. The crushed black sesame seeds smelled fragrant and tasted bitter.

I didn't know that I was getting to know her gradually, and then I thought I really knew her. Professor Zhuo was the one who influenced my fate. I longed to get close to her, and when I finally got close, I had a new view on her. She Not a god, not even a person, she is just a flower that is extremely narcissistic, blooming too stubbornly, and withering too panickedly. It was from this moment that I sympathized with her. I gradually understood that she would do everything possible to belittle our feelings. The change of generations was a natural journey for us, but for her, it was shocking. Never forget to give us a verbal blow at the right time, saying that we are an absurd generation, a child's play generation, and a generation without ideals.

Among the group members, I was the oldest, and I was the most tolerant of such slander. The deaf Long Zai was completely out of the way, while the other partners would inevitably suffer setbacks, so they could only think of the best. To hate iron but not steel. During the lunch break, we lay all over the floor and enjoyed Cliff’s music service. The group members who hadn’t fallen asleep chatted. Everyone talked about their plans after the performance. Except for Ah Xin who was very determined to continue his studies, most of them were obviously hesitant . "I think I still have to take the exam again." Ronaldinho said.Thin and thin, he has always been a theater dancer. He has a pragmatic view on life planning. He is going to take the public office, and he will hold his job first before dancing.However, everyone knows that he has failed the exam twice in a row, and I also guess that he is not the type suitable for the exam. "I don't know if Professor Zhuo will take me in." Lixin said, "I will jump down again, maybe two or three years, and it depends on the situation."

Lixin married very early, and she still looks like a schoolgirl. She has been married for several years, and her in-laws have been expecting her to have a baby. It's a problem. Lixin has been obsessed with yoga recently. Everyone can see that she has gradually turned to change jobs. Where's Cliff?Everyone turned to Cliff, who today had silver powder sprinkled on his short baby-blue hair, who was chewing gum and cleaning a camera with great vigor. "I just know I'm not going back," he said nonchalantly with a shrug, and I presume he meant his home country. A loud voice came, it was Ah Wei with a cheerful personality, he said: "I have already decided, after this dance, I will go to Teacher Li's side."

Everyone is quiet.Ah Wei is a veteran ballet dancer like me, and he can also dance modern dance quite well. Regardless of his innate talent or acquired development, he can be regarded as a shining star. But everyone stopped talking.Although Teacher Li's dance troupe is known as a professional, it is actually a base camp for cultivating TV show performances.We all know that if you dance like this, only a few of them will make it to the top. Side as the reason for the first choice.