bookbashuk Chapter 4 Who says she can't dance?
Chapter 4 Who says she can't dance?
Xu Sui had just left.
Du Yue and Qiu Ju looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Why is this person so calm? Is he just giving up entirely?"
A solo dance requires real skill; otherwise, one wouldn't dare to step onto the stage.
Even though the two of them had been in the performing arts troupe for a year or two, they didn't have the ability to shoulder the main responsibility on their own.
Most of the leaders in the army will be attending tonight's performance. It's a rare opportunity to show myself, and if I do well, I'll definitely have a place in the cultural troupe in the future.
But what if you don't do it well and make a mistake?
After that, they could only be marginalized and wait for the right opportunity to be kicked out of the performing arts troupe. There is competition and exclusion in every place, especially for people who got in through back channels. Without real skills or a strong backer, it is difficult to survive in this place.
"Who cares? We'll just wait and see what happens."
The two women in the performing arts troupe who looked down on Xu Sui the most were not the two of them.
On the other side, inside the bathhouse.
Xu Suigang entered the bathhouse with her clothes, bath tickets, and other items, and had just started taking a shower.
The next second, hushed voices came from next door.
"Have you heard? The new girl, Xu Sui, is engaged to that handsome and refined Battalion Commander Qin. She got into our cultural troupe through connections with her fiancé. But it seems their engagement is going to fall through. A few days ago, someone saw Battalion Commander Qin telling Xu Sui that he wanted to break off the engagement."
"It seems that Xu Sui was secretly seducing Political Commissar Gu behind Battalion Commander Qin's back. But who is Political Commissar Gu? He comes from a good family, is very capable, and became a political commissar at a young age. He is even more powerful than Battalion Commander Qin. The person he will marry in the future will definitely be someone from the same social class as the Gu family. How could a woman from a small place like Xu Sui be interested in him?"
But to be honest, this guy is really bold.
She was still engaged, yet she dared to seduce other men.
Xu Sui, who was sitting next to them, coughed.
The next room suddenly fell silent.
He remained silent for a long while.
Xu Sui simply opened her mouth and greeted them with a smile, "Comrade Liu Lan, Comrade Xiao Mei, what a coincidence, to meet you both at the bathhouse."
"By the way, are you all performing on stage tonight? Are you all doing solo dances?"
Liu Lan and Xiao Mei recognized Xu Sui's voice and froze instantly, "..."
Shouldn't a normal person be angry or silently swallow their grievances when they hear these things?
How could there be such a person, actually greeting them with a smile?
Separated by a small curtain.
Xu Sui could only vaguely see the two motionless figures next door. She quickly finished her bath, put on clean clothes in a few moments, dried her long, shiny black hair with a handkerchief, and then took the initiative to lift the curtain.
She walked up to the two people, her almond-shaped eyes smiling innocently yet earnestly, as if she really came to ask questions.
"Why aren't you two saying anything? Oh, right, I'm interested in what you just said, but I didn't hear it very clearly. Why don't you tell me in more detail, and preferably focus on how I seduced Political Commissar Gu?"
"You two know more about this than I do, the person involved, so you must have seen it with your own eyes."
Liu Lan and Xiao Mei turned pale, bit their lips, quickly put on their clothes, covered their faces, lowered their heads and ran away, not even bothering to take the soap and dirty clothes they had with them.
That was so embarrassing.
Who could be as unlucky as those two? They were just casually gossiping, and they ended up running right into the crossfire.
For ordinary people, it's fine.
Who told Xu Sui to have powerful backers? With just a word from them, they could make them suffer terribly.
Seeing that the two had already disappeared, Xu Sui sighed in a mock manner. She wasn't going to eat them, so why did she run away? People would think she had bullied them.
She just happened to run into her colleagues, greeted them in a friendly manner, and chatted with them.
But you know what?
I don't know who spread these outrageous rumors, but they say that besides Qin Shu, the original owner had a powerful backer who made the deputy commander willing to offend the commander to recruit her.
In reality, that's not true at all.
I just came out of the bathhouse.
On the only way back to the cultural troupe's dormitory.
From afar, Xu Sui spotted someone.
She stopped in her tracks instinctively.
Before she could react, the cold-faced man had already walked up to her. "Let's find a place to talk."
Early this morning, under Qin Shu's cover, they barely escaped from under the noses of those watching the commotion outside the door, but those people still heard his and Xu Sui's voices.
Although they couldn't see their faces directly, they could guess who they were based on their voices.
Because of this incident, his brotherhood with Qin Shu could never be the same again.
Xu Sui glanced at the watch on Gu Yunzhou's wrist. "What time is it?"
Gu Yunzhou was taken aback, glanced down at the time, and asked, "Six o'clock. Do you have something else to do?"
He remembered that she had just started working at the performing arts troupe and now spent most of her time training; it was already past her workday at this hour.
Xu Sui walked past him quickly toward her dormitory. "I have a performance tonight, let's do it another day."
"Wait a minute, didn't you say you've never learned to dance? You've only been in the performing arts troupe for less than a month, so why are you being put on stage?" Gu Yunzhou immediately realized something was wrong, turned around, and strode after him.
He and Qin Shu were good brothers before. They enlisted in the army around the same time and have worked together step by step to where they are now.
Qin Shu had mentioned his fiancée Xu Sui countless times. He knew almost everything about her, including the fact that when Xu Sui first applied to the cultural troupe, she only wanted to take the civilian exam, not to become a female soldier in the arts.
Xu Sui and Qin Shu came from very ordinary backgrounds; their families were already struggling to afford to send them to school.
Not to mention providing her with opportunities to learn arts and crafts.
"Whatever it is, let's talk about it another day. I'm very busy right now." Xu Sui quickened her pace, not even glancing at Gu Yunzhou.
She didn't know any of the dances from that era, let alone the piece "Under Pinghu Mountain" that the cultural troupe had submitted for her.
She doesn't have much time left. If she doesn't hurry up and learn, how will she perform on stage?
Gu Yunzhou didn't stop her anymore. Watching her leave, his eyes were dark and deep. For some reason, he felt that Xu Sui was different from before.
The face is still the same face, and the person is still the same person.
But there's something different about it.
This feeling seems to have started after that bed.
Gu Yunzhou frowned slightly and turned to leave.
Unexpectedly, there was a person standing in the distance.
He was taken aback, wondering how much this person had just seen.
"Qin Shu, when did you get here?"
"I've always been here." Qin Shu's eyes were deep, and although he was some distance away, he couldn't hear their voices.
However, he saw with his own eyes that he ran after Xu Sui, was rejected by her, and kept staring in the direction she left, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.