Chapter 471: – Learning Dance
At six o’clock in the evening, Lin Jin, cousin Wu Jia and Lin Chen, who was joining in on the fun, arrived at the rooftop.
Lin Chen very enthusiastically moved all the potted flowers aside, clearing up an open space. Then, he stood there with his arms crossed and tapped his feet while watching the action with a smile.
Aiya, this was such good entertainment!
Lin Jin and Wu Jia didn’t bother with him. The two stood face to face. Lin Jin’s face was full of smiles while Wu Jia looked like he was dying.
“So, uh, do I really have to learn dance from you?” Cousin Wu Jia frowned so hard that his handsome face looked distorted. “And it will also be posted online?”
“Yeah." Lin Jin positively nodded. “You already promised me. I even became a cheerleader.”
“I thought you would at least be a little embarrassed." Wu Jia sighed. When they were younger, Lin Jin would get shy and hide behind him whenever she wore girl’s clothing and got compliments. But now, she had grown up to the point where she could wear women’s clothing in public without feeling shy at all.
“Am I the type of person who would get embarrassed?!”
“Exactly, my sister is a tomboy, okay?!” Lin Chen laughed as he chimed in.
Hearing this, Lin Jin immediately shot a terrifying glare at Lin Chen, her face full of displeasure. She looked as if she would rush up and pound his head in if he uttered another world.
Lin Chen was naturally scared and also quickly admitted his mistake: Sister, what I meant was that you look so beautiful and are not at all shy like those other girly girls!”
Too lazy to pay attention to Lin Chen, Lin Jin just rolled her eyes and didn’t bother much as she took out her phone. She placed it on a nearby flower pot, put her hands on her hips, and said to Wu Jia: “Copy it!”
Wu Jia looked confused. She said to copy it. This dance didn’t seem too hard, but as a learner with zero basic knowledge, she at least needed to teach him a bit, right?
If every teacher was as lazy as this, then why would we need teachers?
“You’re so annoying." Lin Jin was not happy, frowning as she said “You know nothing but have to learn it in two days, so of course you need to copy it and learn!”
“Even radio calisthenics has people teaching, okay? No matter how easy, how can I learn it just by copying!” Cousin Wu Jia argued, “Plus, these moves are so embarrassing. I can’t do this alone.”
“Trying to drag me down with you?” Lin Jin disdainfully scoffed. She had even more embarrassing dances before, okay?
“Fine, follow my lead.” Lin Jin actually didn’t know how to teach people dance. When she taught that young girl, it was just teaching the basics. When she learned the dance afterwards, it was mostly self taught. But now, she actually had to teach her cousin step by step.
Well, since even radio calisthenics had instructors, then let’s just follow the radio calisthenics method!
Lin Jin picked up her phone and looked at it for a bit. After breaking down the first few moves, she glanced back at Wu Jia and said: “Then just follow me.”
“1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4…” Lin Jin counted the beats as she demonstrated the moves she had memorized.
Of course, it was all very simple movements. When Lin Jin slowed it down, basically to one beat per second, she thought even a pig could learn it well.
Wu Jia followed Lin Jin’s rhythm with a look of despair on his face.
Lin Chen patted his chest. Watching the excitement felt great. Especially when he saw his usually invincible cousin being tortured like this by his sister. It felt like his dark side was about to awaken.
So, watching others suffer really was the best.
After Lin Jin went through the moves once, she looked back to see if there were any problems with cousin Wu Jia’s movements. But she discovered he looked as if he was just being perfunctory. Not only were his limbs weak, but his back wasn’t even straight.
“Push your chest out! Straighten your back!” Lin Jin’s eyebrows twitched and slapped cousin Wu Jia on the back without any courtesy. “Look at yourself, your posture is terrible. You can’t even stand well, how can you dance!”
“You still need to stand upright for dancing? I have a slight hunchback, what can I do?” Wu Jia looked at Lin Jin in despair.
“It’s okay, I had a slight hunchback before too, but aren’t I good now?” Lin Jin frowned.
Actually, a slight hunchback doesn’t affect people’s daily life or appearance much. Nowadays, probably 30% of young people Lin Jin’s age have some level of hunchbacks. Most of which were due to bad habits developed during childhood or middle school.
But when dancing, this little hunchback would be fatal, okay?
Back then, Lin Jin had corrected hers by standing against the wall, taking several weeks’ time to completely correct it. However, she wasn’t sure if cousin Wu Jia was even staying for two weeks.
Sigh, so that meant! Just don’t care about it!
Lin Jin patted Wu Jia’s shoulder again and comforted him: “It’s okay. Even though you are a big hunched over, I think you can just pay a bit of attention to it when dancing!”
“Yeah, that’s what I think too.”
After that, Wu Jia resigned himself to his fate and repeated the movements over and over again, no matter how embarrassing they were, until Lin Jin was satisfied.
However, this wasn’t radio calisthenics where it could be learned in just an hour. At around seven o’clock, the sun had already set in Guangzhou, they couldn’t even see each other clearly anymore. But this wasn’t as simple as morning exercises, which you can learn in an hour. By around 7 PM, the sky over Guangzhou had darkened. Only after the people on the rooftop couldn’t see each other clearly anymore did this first lesson end.
Lin Jin planned to drag cousin Wu Jia back up at noon tomorrow to practice, all the way until the evening. That way, her cousin might get somewhat familiar with the dance. Then the day after tomorrow would be to consolidate his training and make the dance look a bit better…
Well, thinking about it that way, if her cousin wasn’t an idiot, he should be able to thoroughly master it in time, right?
After returning home, Lin Jin was a bit tired and wanted to go lie down in her room. But her mom had already made dinner and was waiting for the three of them.
Speaking of which, her mom had been very busy these days, so she basically wasn’t at home during the day. Usually, she wouldn’t be back until nine o’clock at night, bringing back some night time snacks or something.
But she basically never had dinner together with Lin Jin and them, not even once since cousin Wu Jia arrived. Today was the first.
The meal her mom cooked today was very lavish and the taste was quite good. Lin Jin felt her mom’s cooking skills would at least be at an intermediate level by the black cat standards.
Even though her mom was usually busy, things like cooking could be considered to have been done since she was a child. When her mom was young, she cooked herself. After she grew older and got married, it was also her cooking. It was only after moving to Guangdong in the last ten years that she had started to ease up a bit.
So that was to say, Lin Chen normally never ate at the cafeteria and just grabbed something from street stalls.
“Lin Chen, you go down and buy two big bottles of Coke." Their mom seemed to be in a good mood. After cooking a big table of dishes, she looked at Lin Jin beside her and cousin Wu Jia across from her with a big smile on her face.
“Okay.”
Lin Chen was not only used to being ordered around by Lin Jin, he was also used to being ordered around by their mom.
Helplessly looking back at the table of dishes, Lin Chen sighed and suspected if he was really their mom’s biological child.