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The taxi stops in front of the apartment building.Before Mu Lai got out of the car, the driver had already taken out the luggage from the trunk and handed it to her.She entered the door of the apartment, greeted the security guard, passed the mailbox, and remembered her agreement with Tom. She took out the key of the mailbox from her bag, opened it, and sure enough, it was a stack of letters.She peeked at Tom's mailbox secretly through the slit, and there were indeed many.Mu Lai went upstairs happily with the letter in hand.

Back at the long-lost home, Mu Lai crawled into bed before taking a refreshing hot bath.Leaning against the head of the bed, I read Tom's letters one by one.In one of the handwritten letters, in beautiful fancy English, this poem is from No. 7 of Mrs. Browning's Lyrical Sonnets:

The face of the world, I thought, suddenly changed,

Since I first heard your steps in my heart,

Gently, gently, come to me.

Through the brink of me and death: the thin gap.

Standing there, I only thought it was time to fall down this time,

Unexpectedly, he was rescued by love and taught a new song of life.

I drink willingly the cup of bitter wine that God gave me for baptism,

Praise it sweet -- sweet, if you are by my side.

Heaven and earth, because of your existence

And change shape; and this song, this flute,

I was loved yesterday, and it still makes people feel kind,

The singing angel knew, because

Every sound has your name rippling.

Mu Lai held the letter in her heart, and the scene of Tom writing this sonnet appeared in her mind.

On the second day, Mu Lai invited Kaisen to have afternoon tea together.These days, friends who haven't seen each other for a long time come to see her with small gifts.A pure white kitten lay peacefully in the cardboard box, having a good night's sleep.This is a cute chubby Exotic Shorthair cat.

"My Anmei's child." Kaisen said, "I remember the first time you came to my house, seeing Anmei, you couldn't walk. Beg me, if Anmei has a kitten, I will give you a kitten." Just. Look, now?"

"Kaisen! I really like it. You are always so, so considerate." Mu Laiwei felt that he couldn't take his eyes off the cute and bleeding kitten in front of him, "I don't even know, why? Repay you."

"You brought me Chinese tea, which is worth a thousand gold." Kaisen pointed to the three cans of tea next to his hand.He is a person who knows tea, and every time he asks Mu Laiwei to bring him tea back from China, and the tea brought back by Mu Laiwei every time is really top grade, which cannot be bought in England.

"How about this time?" Kaysen said about the recruitment of "Swan Lake".

"Since we're here, we went there with ambition and confidence." Mu Laiwei's eyes left the kitten at this moment, picked up the tea on the table, and took a sip.

"Mu, I believe in you." Kaisen raised his glass and said, "If you need it, just make a phone call and I will be by your side. My friend."

"Thank you."

In order to be in the best condition when recruiting, Mu Lai did not devote himself to it.When she was still in school, she once played the heroine of "Swan Lake".At the time, she was praised for it.Despite her experience, she dared not relax.She started from scratch, went to the park to appreciate the real beauty of swans, and used a brush to outline the swan princess in her heart. Starting from the heart, she felt the emotions of the characters in different periods, and carefully reviewed every movement, striving to make it perfect.And Kaisen, who is responsive, is his male partner in practice.

During this period, many dance companies in the UK had contact with her.They hoped that she could sign a short-term contract with their dance troupe and participate in this recruitment as a member of their dance troupe, and finally the successful results of this recruitment would stay in their dance troupe.But Mu Lai refused all of them.Because she doesn't want to sell her initiative to someone, she doesn't want any comfort, she wants more freedom and more initiative.

Finally came the day of social recruitment for the heroine of "Swan Lake", and the location was at the Royal Academy of Dance.This time it was Han Xi who accompanied her. She said: Anyway, I have studied ballet for several years. Since there is such a social recruitment without any threshold, isn't it a pity that she doesn't come to make soy sauce?

This time there is no threshold, the organizer said this: This is a carnival belonging to the excellent art of ballet, and everyone who loves it should not be rejected.As for the format of the competition, there are four rounds in total, and the number of people who advance to the first two rounds is uncertain.In the first round, only basic skills are tested, in the second round, selections of classic ballet repertoires, and in the third round, four weeks of intensive training will be given to the advanced contestants, and evaluations will be given every week, and finally five contestants will be selected to participate in the final competition .As for the TV station, the first three rounds of competition will be made into a TV program, which will be broadcast in July.The fourth round, two live matches, is expected to take place at the end of August.

Although it officially started at nine o'clock, Mu Lai didn't deliberately get up early, and arrived at the registration point at seven o'clock.The door of the academy has not been opened yet.So they were outside the door and, as expected, very crowded.They stood at the end of the queue and listened to the chats of those people, only then did they know that some people had queued all night, and some came from New York, Sydney, or even Buenos Aires.

"This competition! Come to think of it, how many people make soy sauce?" Han Xi and Mu Laiwei spoke Chinese.

Mu Lai didn't know that there would be a long queue, so she specially told Han Xi to bring a folding chair when he came.So this wait, for them, is not too long.The two sat on folding chairs, Mu Laiwei read the novel, and Han Xi swiped his phone.

"Hey! Look! Look!" Han Xi patted Mu Laiwei on the shoulder, motioning her to look over there.

In this long queue, after a long wait, some people began to swing their hands and feet, and a few ballet movements continued, which attracted applause from the people around them.Among the applicants here, there are many people like Han Xi who have studied ballet halfway, but many of them are from professional ballet schools.

"I don't think they did as well as you." Han Xi said in a low voice.In Han Xi's opinion, Mu Laiwei is the best ballet dancer in terms of her innate appearance, body proportions and flexibility, as well as her acquired dancing skills and dramatic tension in her performances.

Mu Lai smiled, and then returned his attention to the novel.

At nine o'clock, the recruitment officially started, and the cameramen of the TV station were already in place.Mulai didn't notice that there was Mr. Jones in it.He smiled at himself and concentrated on doing his own thing.Mu Lai didn't put away the folding chair, and the novels moved slowly along with the team.

After a while, the first group of interviewees came out of the closed door, and their expressions were not very good.Someone asked them, and they said: a group of 30 people, only look at the basic skills.In the first group, no one qualified.

Near the end of the morning, it was Mu Laiwei's turn in the team.They quickly changed into their practice clothes, each with a number, and stood by the railing according to the examiner's instructions.There were five examiners in total, and Mu Lai didn't notice that one of them was a teacher from the Royal Academy of Dance. The teacher recognized him and winked at him secretly.

A soft piece of music sounded, and they needed to move to the rhythm by themselves.But unfortunately, among the 30 people, very few of them could do such a simple movement, and even fewer of them could satisfy the examiners.After watching the five examiners all morning, I still couldn't bear it. Someone was so unprofessional in front of them, and they all looked like they didn't want to watch, cursing in their hearts that the organizer had come up with a trick.But fortunately, after several groups, there are still a few people who are pleasing to the eye.

But in this group, from the moment they walked into the practice room, the five examiners had only one girl in their eyes, she had perfect temperament and elegant figure.This short-haired girl from the East was their most pleasant surprise this morning.In a series of basic movements, she is fluent and smooth, and she shows her excellence in all of them. It can also be seen that she has a very high ballet quality.The teachers from the Royal Academy of Dance on the side saw several other teachers from foreign ballet schools staring at their students, and felt even more proud.The student in front of them was the best student of that class. Unfortunately, because of her status, she was always habitually forgotten.But gold always shines, and this might be her chance to shine.

Not surprisingly, "Number 25! Please stay!" The examiner in the morning, a teacher from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Petersburg, accurately called out the number on Mu Laiwei's waist.The remaining candidates all looked at Mu Laiwei, some with admiration, some with envy, and some with jealousy.

"Everyone can leave."

The examiner's voice sounded, and someone left the pole and walked towards the package.And Mu Lai did not get the official registration form for this recruitment from the chief examiner.The 5-minute demonstration of basic skills is just a prelude.Although the publicity of this social recruitment is a ballet carnival without threshold, the standard has not been lowered in the slightest.There were more than 400 people this morning, and only 7 registration forms were given out.Mulai did not fill it out and handed it back to the examiner.When leaving, the teacher who taught Mu Laiwei gave Mu Laiwei a thumbs up.

Wait for the girls to walk out of the practice room.

"What do I say? This oriental girl looks so familiar. So she is a student of your Royal Academy of Dance! She graduated the year before last, right? Last Christmas, I watched the dance video of her and Kaysen Hill." .” The examiner looked at the registration form in his hand.She was very impressed by this oriental name.Because several of her students had been under this name in previous years' international ballet competitions.At that time, she was the nightmare of many dance academy teachers and students.Because as long as she is here, this gold award is definitely hers.

"Yes!" The corner of the teacher's mouth curled up slightly. sk

The examiner looked at his complacency and thought that the students of the Vaganova Ballet Academy who came to participate this time had met their opponents.

After leaving the practice room and going outside, even though the morning was over, they were still lined up.

For the final result, Han Xi is more excited than Mu Laiwei.

"I'll just say it's yours." Han Xi spoke super loudly. Fortunately, she spoke Chinese, and probably not many people could understand it.However, many people still looked at her. They all knew that this beautiful girl with an oriental appearance received the seventh registration form at noon today.

"Be low-key." Mu Laiwei teased the excited Han Xi.Han Xi looked around and immediately stopped being excited.

They walked down the stairs to the school gate.Along the way, Mu Lai met some people, some were alumni, some were former contemporaries, and some were competitors from previous competitions.And there is...

"Mu Laiwei" A Chinese girl called her name, and she introduced herself to Mu Laiwei, "Do you still have an impression of me?"

impression?Mu Lai didn't look at the girl in front of her, she tried hard to recall in her mind, "You...you are, Cao Ruci!" She learned dance with her at Beijing Dance Academy.

"Yes!" Cao Ruci looked very happy when Mu Lai failed to recognize him, "I didn't expect you to remember me."

"How could I forget you?" Mu Laiwei said, "I went back to Beijing last month, went to school, visited the teacher, and the teacher mentioned you to me. She said you are very good! Now let's dance solo at the National Ballet of China! "

"Yes! No matter how good you are, I can't compare to you!" Cao Ruci was quite surprised that Mu Laiwei knew her situation so well.Mulaiwei, the name, although they are classmates, she has always been something she needs to look up to.When she was still in school, she was the one that the teacher praised. On the stage, she was the most eye-catching one. Later, she won the gold medal in the junior category of the Moscow International Ballet Competition. Later, she was accepted by the Royal Academy of Dance. After being admitted, she went to the UK, and later, her name could only be heard from the teacher, and she heard that she had won a gold medal in an international competition. Until last year, she got the Emperor's solo dance contract.At that time, she was so jealous when she heard it.