Chapter 11 Section 5

The exercises of the basic course use part of the movements of "Swan Lake"—— She is in good health today, Wei Xu confirmed while jumping, she felt sorry for what happened yesterday again, if this happens a few times, others will have distrust of herself. The body is very brisk, and indeed the sky is high and the air is cool. When I woke up this morning and saw the blue sky from the window, I couldn't help but feel a long-lost sense of refreshment in my heart. After the basic course, everyone began to rest.After that, there will be a preview, and after the 20th there will be a "Beauty Sleeping in the Forest" performance.

Wei Xu and Yasuko went to a nearby coffee shop together, they have been coming here to eat something light. "I want coffee and—" Yasuko glanced at the menu on the table and said, "And egg sandwiches." "Are you about to eat?" Wei Xu asked in surprise.Jingzi's nose turned up slightly, and he replied, "Yes." "Before, you usually only drank coffee for lunch." "Yes, but I want to eat a little bit, from now on." Jingzi drank half a glass of water, her thin throat throbbing like a pulse.A few years ago, she was a woman with beautiful lines from neck to shoulder, but her image changed drastically after she started a thorough diet.To put it bluntly, it looks like a chicken skeleton, but this seems to be the body shape she expected, and she is very satisfied with it.

Wei Xu drank tomato juice and ate tuna salad. She had no intention of going on a diet.That's all she has appetite for.I don't know if she is born with a dancing physique, but her weight will hardly change.Friends in her class in high school would say that she "looks like her body can be broken", but now she is completely unchanged from then.The breasts bulge a bit, but that's not worth mentioning. Jingzi was munching on the egg sandwich in front of Wei Xu, looking as if he was having trouble with something.Wei Xu felt that she could understand this feeling very well. With a strong respect for Oda, she went on a harsh diet that can be called excessive, but now that Oda is no longer around, her awareness will be much weaker.Of course, it is understandable that being thinner is beneficial to ballet dancers, but the degree of dieting of the actors headed by Yasuko seems a bit abnormal to Wei Xu.It is said that some of them used dangerous drugs to lose weight.As a result, the originally very beautiful figure was shriveled and a bit ugly.

"But it's better not to overeat all at once..." Seeing that Jingzi was about to clean up all the food in the blink of an eye, Wei Xu reminded him gently.Immediately, as if Jingzi had just realized it, her hands and mouth stopped, and she slowly put the sandwich back. "Yes, that's true, thank you for reminding me." Jingzi breathed a sigh of relief after drinking half of the coffee left.Her usually cheerful expression now showed a layer of bewilderment and tiredness. On their return to the ballet, an air of uneasiness prevailed for some reason, and they immediately recognized why.Several criminal policemen are arresting the actors standing around and interrogating them.

Wei Xu and Jing Zi had been standing in the corridor, and immediately a man came over. It was a middle-aged criminal policeman with a long face.Wei Xu quickly glanced around, but did not see Kaga. The long-faced detective named Sugawara said he wanted to ask about the circumstances of the crime. "It's not a very important thing, that is, after the beginning of the general rehearsal that day until the end of the second act, what is your whereabouts? We especially want to know who you are with." "Isn't this investigating our alibi?" Wei Xu underestimated a sentence, and Sugawara showed a nonchalant expression, "Haha, that's true," scratching his head.Then took out the notebook, "So let's get started?"

Wei Xu said that she appeared in the first act of the dance drama, and then she was with Akiko during the intermission, and watched from the side door of the stage after the second act. "Who were you with at that time?" "Together with Liu Sheng." She still remembered that the two of them were watching Akiko and Konno's dance with fascination. "and then?" "I'll be with Akiko at the next intermission." Sugawara's long face nodded, and wrote down what Wei Xu said.Then he asked Yasuko the same question. "Basically, I'm with Xiaoxun. We're going to play together, and the lounge is also in the same room."

"What is basically?" The policeman stopped the pen in his hand. "It means almost, because we don't even go to the toilet together." "Oh, that's it." Then the criminal police asked the two of them where they were before and after the horizontal bar training class before the general rehearsal. Yasuko said that she had been on stage before the class started, and Wei Xu replied that she was with Akiko. "I totally understand, thank you very much." After Sugawara thanked the two, he went to the next dancer. "Why are you asking us this?"

"Yeah, why?" Jingzi tilted his head. They walked into the training ground for warm-up training, and when everyone arrived, Sakagi and Takayanagi Shizuko from the secretariat came in. What Sakagi called everyone to announce is about Oda's wake that will be held tomorrow evening.If anyone who has time after the training is over, try to participate as much as possible, Shizuko added from the side. "Just show your face and go home." Sakagi winked at everyone. After the announcement, the two were about to leave the practice field. When they were walking to the exit, Sakagi stopped and called Yagyu's name.After he responded, Sakagi said: "The data office you mentioned is ready, just ask An Ben for it."

"I'm really sorry for your inconvenience," Liu Sheng replied. "Information? What information?" Shizuko asked, and Sakagi squinted at Yagyu and said: "When Oda went to New York two years ago, he also stopped by Washington and Canada for study reasons. He said he wanted to see things like the schedule and records at that time." "Nothing in particular." Liu Sheng quickly waved his hand. "I think I have to go sooner or later, so I originally wanted to ask Mr. Oda about specific things, but now I can't ask him." "yes?"

Shizuko stared at Yagyu intently, apparently believing his words completely.That's good, she said. "Okay, okay, it's this time, so don't cause unnecessary misunderstandings." "I know." Yagyu bowed and saluted, Shizuko quickly walked out of the training ground, followed by Sakagi.Before Liusheng looked up, the voice of the ballet coach sounded behind him: "Okay, let's start the rehearsal." The rehearsal ends at five o'clock sharp.It took Wei Xu a while to change clothes, and he was the last one to walk out of the dressing room. After going out, a child's voice came: "Ah, it's my sister."

Wei Xu took a closer look, and there was a middle-aged man and woman standing at the gate, and a boy who seemed to be in a lower grade of elementary school. Wei Xu couldn't help opening his mouth wide, and greeted them: "Hello." This middle-aged couple is Ye Liuzi's parents. "We have been here before, but it was just when you were at your busiest time, so we went back before we saw Shang Weixu." The father, the governor, bowed his gray-haired head politely.Although the expression was still as calm as ever, it was indeed a little haggard compared to the last time we met. "Needless to say that, why are you here today?" "Well, we want to see how Ye Liuzi is doing recently. We have met her this morning, and they have allowed us to visit." "How does she look, is she healthy?" Weixu asked with full expectation. "Well, it's much more energetic than I imagined. We had the impression that the detention center was often treated coldly by the police. Fortunately, this is not the case. We are finally relieved." Listening to Zheng Fu's words, his mother Guang Jiang kept nodding.She also looks a lot older all of a sudden, it must be because she hasn't slept well for days. Behind them, Kaga appeared out of nowhere.She looked at him with puzzled eyes, and Guangjiang immediately explained: "It was the criminal policeman who stopped the taxi to drive us here, and said that it was by the way anyway." The couple thanked Kahe again.He seemed a little uneasy, and said to Wei Xu, "I have something to ask you." After a while, Yagyu Shizuko came out to receive Saito and his wife.I have really troubled you a few days ago. Judging from the conversation of the political husband, they seem to have met Shizuko several times. Jingzi took the two of them to the reception room, Wei Xu said, "Let me take care of Xiao Zhi." The Xiao Zhi she said was the son of the couple's eldest—that is, Ye Liuzi's nephew, Wei Xu had met several times. Although the couple wanted to decline, but Takashi himself seemed to hope so, so he accepted it embarrassingly. "His father is on a business trip, and his mother has returned to her hometown to give birth to her second child." Xiao Zhi told Wei Xu.Then he said softly with an unspeakable expression, "I have a place I really want to go." "Where do you want to go? Where?" "Seibu Stadium." Takashi replied. "Seibu?" Wei Xu was surprised, "Is it baseball?" Xiaozhi nodded, "Sister Ye Liuzi took me there before." "Really, but it's really troublesome. My sister doesn't know the way." "It's very close." "It seems to be quite close, but I haven't been there." "I'll stay with you." Suddenly a voice came from the side, it was Kaga.He looked at his watch, "There is still plenty of time today, and there will be Seibu Japan and South Korea qualifiers tonight." "Wow..., I really want to see it." "But Mr. Kaga, won't it be inconvenient for you?" "I'm fine, but in exchange let me ask you some questions." "That's okay..." "Then it's settled." Saying that, Kaga patted Takashi's head. Players in white uniforms hit the ball and ran, and the players on the opponent's side began to catch up, and the players and the ball complemented each other.When the home run was hit, Takashi next to him immediately cheered. It was the first time in his life that he saw the real sports field, which was more colorful than Wei Xu had imagined. The artificial lawn was verdant, and the uniforms of the players were also brightly colored.Although the lighting is very dazzling, but looking up, a layer of darkness shrouded it. The three of them were seated at the inner designated seats at third base. When buying the tickets, Kaga told Takashi that it would be better if they were at first base, but Mio didn't understand the meaning at all. Wei Xu looked at Kaga who was sitting on the right seat, he was looking at the field at this moment, his hands clenched into fists.As soon as he heard the sound of hitting the ball, he murmured "that's great" and clenched his fists harder.His sharp eyes scanned back and forth, and finally he tapped his leg and clicked his tongue. After a while, Kaga realized Wei Xu's gaze, hurriedly looked away in panic for a moment, and then showed an embarrassed smile. "Silly isn't it?" he said. "You're passionate about baseball." "I don't really like baseball, but I get motivated just by looking at it, as long as it's about winning or losing games, like sumo wrestling, ice hockey and so on." "Do you watch sumo and ice hockey too?" "It's just on TV, I don't have time to go to the scene to watch the battle." The beer seller came over, Kaga stopped her, and asked Wei Xu if he would like a drink, but she declined. The child habitually poured the can of beer into a large paper cup and handed it to Kaga, who reached into his trouser pocket and took out a crumpled thousand-yen note.Then he put the change he found back.Wei Xu This is the first time I saw someone put money directly into the pocket of his trousers without using a wallet. He drank the beer in the paper cup with relish, and looked around and found that there were people drinking beer like him.A white-collar-looking man fell asleep after a few drinks and nearly slipped from his seat. "I came here to watch the game but fell asleep..." Wei Xu accused the man, "Let him go," Kaga said casually. "That man came here just to get drunk. How the game played has nothing to do with him. He only needs to glance at it occasionally when he opens his eyes." "Will that be fun?" "Although I don't know if it's fun, but it can really relieve pressure. Most people come to the stadium to watch the game for this reason. Cheering loudly is very effective for relieving pressure. The reason why the stadium is so full , There must be a lot of people who have accumulated a lot of pressure." "Don't these people go to the ballet?" "Probably not going to see it." Kaga replied simply. "People who can appreciate ballet are generally rich in spirit and money, but unfortunately, most of the citizens of our country cannot meet this condition, and everyone is exhausted." "Now that such a structure has been formed, isn't there a kind of human flesh pyramid in gymnastics? When doing this movement, it is the people at the bottom who work the hardest." It's a very apt metaphor, Wei Xu nodded in admiration, and turned his gaze back to the arena.I don't know when the offensive and defensive rotations came. "I've always wanted to ask," Kaga began to ask. "Aren't you interested in anything other than ballet?" No, Wei Xu replied. "We just don't have time to have our own hobbies, and we are too busy with other things...so I think it's good to be forced to watch baseball, because I don't know when there will be such an opportunity next time." "I'm relieved to hear you say that." Kaga showed his white teeth, and drank the beer in the paper cup in one gulp.When the cup was removed, there was still some white foam on the mouth. In the end, the game ended with the victory of the Seibu Lions. Although both sides had many opportunities in the middle, they also adopted corresponding combat strategies based on these opportunities. In the end, the Seibu team with fewer mistakes won the victory.Although Mio didn't know anything about baseball, she watched the game while listening to Takashi and Kaga's commentary, so she finally figured out even those incomprehensible player moves.Still, she couldn't tell if a player needed to touch an opponent when the ball went out of bounds. Although she didn't have a favorite team so far, she unknowingly began to support the Seibu Lions at the end of the game.Because the people around have been applauding Seibu, and Takashi next to him has been introducing in detail the characteristics of each player, their current situation, and their compatibility with the opponent's pitcher.The team members that Takashi likes so much even remember their birthdays clearly. When Seibu's pitcher went out of bounds for the last time in the Japanese Super League -- Mio didn't even know the name -- Mio couldn't help clapping. The star players started to be interviewed on the court, and the singing of the fans in the auditorium was still going on. After hearing that, Wei Xu and the others also stood up. "Ah, it's so interesting, Akiyama's home run is awesome." Takashi said to Kaga. "That was coming to an end, and the first few innings were even better, and the runner on the left wing was so straight up, the shortstop was going to jump up to catch him." "It's not that exaggerated, is it?" "It's true, it's because of this time that the big reversal was completed." Eh?Xiaozhi still tilted his head, seeing Kaga's triumphant smile, it seems that this story is still made up.But what's so exciting about this is completely unknown. In front of the Seibu Stadium, I took the express train bound for Ikebukuro. Since the hotel where Ye Ryuko's parents lived was in Ikebukuro, Takashi had to be sent there after the game. The tram was so crowded that it was hard to even turn around.Wei Xu said that commuters must be treated like this every day.Kaga narrowed his eyes. "Trams aren't like that at rush hour," he said. "It's more extreme than that." "Is it more crowded than this?" "It's several times more crowded than this. It's basically inhuman treatment. Some people's faces are deformed by the people around them, and they may be crushed when they get out of the car with the bag." "Is that too much?" "I used to take the Oda Express once in a while because of work, and I was stuck in the air from Machida to Shinjuku and couldn't put it down." "what?" Wei Xu opened his mouth wide in surprise, but a smile appeared on Kaga's always serious face.She glared at him, "You're talking nonsense again, right? Still pretending to be serious." "I just want to use an analogy to explain how crowded it is to this extent. This is also one of the realities that you don't know." At this moment, the carriage suddenly shook, seeing that Wei Xu was about to fall, Kaga quickly stretched out his hand, and Wei Xu grabbed his wrist without hesitation. After arriving at the hotel, Wei Xu contacted Ye Liuzi's parents in the lobby.On the phone, Guang Jiang said he would be down immediately. "Let's go watch baseball together later." While waiting for Hiroe, Takashi said, "Next time I want to see Kiyohara's home run." "Next time sister Ye Liuzi can also come with us." Wei Xu said, "However," Xiaozhi looked up at the two of them, "Sister Ye Liuzi won't come back, will she?" Weixu seemed unable to answer the boy's words, so she looked at Kaga.Kaga flashed a frown, but immediately restored a gentle smile and said, "It's okay, she will definitely come back, absolutely." "Yes." Wei Xu bent down and put his hands on Xiao Zhi's shoulders, "It will be fine, sister promises." "really?" "Really." Wei Xu said excitedly. Not long after Guang Jiang went downstairs, she bowed deeply to Wei Xu and Ka He to thank them. After walking out of the hotel, Mio and Kaga walked towards the station on the street late at night, probably because of the influence of Takashi's last words, the two were speechless for a while.Although there are thousands of words to say in his heart, Wei Xu and Kaga have completely opposite positions on Ye Liuzi. After arriving at the station, Kaga immediately bought two tickets from the ticket vending machine, handed one to Wei Xu, and said, "I'll give you a ride." Wei Xu nodded silently. "However, how about we go have a cup of tea before, you should be a little tired?" "Okay." Wei Xu said this time. The two walked into a coffee bar near the station. There were only a few tables and a small bar, decorated with some oil lamps.They went to the table in the back and sat down facing each other. Kaga ordered a cup of ground coffee, while Wei Xu ordered cinnamon tea. "Are you cutting out sugar because you want to lose weight?" Seeing her drinking black tea just like that, Kaga asked. "No, it's not like that... I used to put no sugar in it." "yes?" Kaga brought the coffee cup to his mouth, without sweetened milk. "I used to think that ballet dancers were dieting because everyone looked so thin, but then I heard that you were influenced by Oda." "A few people are indeed like this." Wei Xu replied. "It is said that excessive dieting has a lot of bad effects. I wonder how they think about this?" "I don't know." Wei Xu said with his neck tilted, "Anyway, as long as you can dance on stage, everyone will endure a lot more or less." Kaga nodded his head a few times, and suddenly stared into Wei Xu's eyes as if he came up with some idea. "You must have endured a lot, right?" "Just a little bit……" Wei Xu turned his head away, and immediately came back to continue talking. "I think I have to bear it a little bit. If I can't bear it, I won't be able to dance properly. Maybe I won't be able to stand on the stage anytime soon." "I see." Kaga took a sip of his coffee and sighed secretly. "That," Wei Xu said, "I am very happy today, thank you very much." "No, you don't have to thank me. To be honest, I took a good breath today." He picked up the coffee cup again, saw it was empty, and drank another half glass of water. "You said you like to play games, but do you play any sports yourself?" Wei Xu remembered the conversation on the court and asked. "me?" He rolled his eyes slightly, as if a little hesitant, and replied: "I know some swordsmanship." "Ah...Speaking of which, I heard that the police all learn some swordsmanship." "No, I've been learning since elementary school." "Until now?" "Well, sort of." "Ah, then you must have played well, must have a rank?" "Oh, yes." Kaga licked his lips and picked up the cup again. It was very rare for this detective to show shyness like this. "Then how many paragraphs are you... Ah, I don't know if it's rude for me to ask like this?" "No, it's okay, I'm six." "Six paragraphs?" Wei Xu was a little speechless, she felt that she should be a master at the second and third dans, and she couldn't imagine it at the level of the sixth dan. "It's actually nothing unusual." Perhaps seeing through her thoughts, Kaga said, "I just practiced for a long time, which is not worth mentioning at all. Seriously, anyone who has practiced for twenty years can reach the level of sixth stage. Some legs and feet are not good enough. The nimble old man can still pass the nine-dan and ten-dan exams—is there anything wrong?" Because Wei Xu laughed in the middle of what he said, so Kaga asked this. "Mr. Kaga, you seem to be defending something. I didn't say there was anything wrong." Then Kaga touched his position among the crowd and said, "I'm afraid you've overestimated me." "But you are really good. Mr. Kaga, you said several times before that I am very passionate about a certain firm and envied me. Don't you have such a good side yourself?" Unexpectedly, Kaga showed a wry smile, "I'm not like you, I've always been lazy, but it's not easy to resign after becoming a policeman." "Anyway, it's very powerful." Wei Xu repeated the same words, he closed his eyes, thought about something thoughtfully, then smiled and said "thank you", and refilled his cup of coffee. "Mr. Kaga, did you aspire to be a police officer from before?" He was waiting for the coffee to be delivered to him, when Wei Xu asked, his expression was slightly surprised, "What's wrong?" "It's nothing, I asked when I thought of it, but if I'm rude, I apologize to you, I'm sorry." Wei Xu put his hands on his knees, "No, you don't have to apologize." He said with a wry smile. "It's true that I wanted to be a policeman since I was a child." "Knew it." "But I changed my mind a little bit. Let me tell you about my career before I became a policeman." "Didn't you become a police officer as soon as you graduated?" Wei Xu asked in surprise, a little surprised. "My first job out of college was as a secondary school teacher." "teacher?" Wei Xu's voice got a little louder so that people around looked at them both, she shrugged and whispered, "I'm sorry." "But you look like you'd make a great teacher." "My girlfriend from school days said the same thing, but it's not true, I'm not good enough to be a teacher. I've always been convinced that doing things for the students isn't really good for them at all." "What did you do?" "It's just... I firmly believe that everything I do is for the students." Kaga clutched the empty glass tightly, maybe his thoughts stretched all the way to the palm of his hand, the glass was steaming white. When we went back, the Seibu Line was still very crowded. After waiting for a tram to pass by in Ikebukuro, the two jumped on an ordinary tram and sat together. "How about Oda-sensei's case?" Wei Xu asked cautiously. "We will do our best. Because of the search, we have already started to enter and leave the ballet frequently." "I heard that the teacher was injected with poison, is it true?" Kaga hesitated for a moment, and replied, "It's true." "I moved my hands and feet on my coat..." He nodded slightly, glanced at the surrounding passengers suddenly, and moved his face closer to Wei Xu.There was a faint scent of perfume on him. "Is there anywhere near you where you can get needles?" When he asked this question, his expression was a bit serious, which was completely different from before. "Needle?" "Yes, does anyone have such a thing?" The interior of the ballet building began to appear in Wei Xu's mind, and then the scene when he walked into the rooms of various partners, but he didn't remember seeing anything like a syringe at all.She told Kaga, and he replied, "It's fine if you can't remember." Kaga finally delivered it near her apartment, and it was too late at this time, for which Kaga apologized.Weixu replied, please don't take it to heart. "Anyway, I will be alone when I go back. I am very happy tonight." "me too." "May I meet your kendo skills next time?" Hearing Wei Xu's words, Kaga lowered his eyes for an instant. Although it was only a small movement, Wei Xu noticed it, and his reaction was as if the most sensitive place was touched. "Next time," he said, "definitely." Wei Xu nodded and walked towards the apartment.