Cartoonist's Dream

At about the same time in the afternoon of the next day, Uncle Limu finally got his wish. He knew who it was who called his nephew yesterday, and he clearly saw these four people!

A tall blonde woman!

Three Chinese-looking brunettes!

The reason why I say it looks like is because one of them always pops up a sentence or two in Japanese during the conversation, and the other two can also respond in Japanese. At the same time, these four people can also communicate in Mandarin mixed with Cantonese.

According to informed villagers, after making a phone call yesterday, they booked a plane ticket and flew overnight to Nanhua City, took a rest at a hotel near the airport, and found Pingnan Village all the way in the morning.At the entrance of the village, led by enthusiastic villagers, they went to their small grocery store. The purpose of their journey to Nanhua was to find Limu! [

But the nephew was not upstairs at this time, and the four of them could not be allowed to wait for him to come back.Li Jiakang could only bring these four "foreign friends" and a large ticket to follow the villagers from the entrance of the village to the gate of Lu's compound.

At this time, the door of Lu's courtyard was not closed, and Grandma Lu Wei, who was sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the shade, was taken aback, secretly thinking that she hadn't done anything bad!How did you get surrounded? !

(The house is besieged, Zensheng is good!?)

"Old man!" Grandma Lu Wei shouted, ready to close the door and let the wolf dogs go.

As soon as she stood up, she saw Li Jiakang leading the way, followed by fellow villagers, and suddenly realized that she was making a fuss.She sorted out her mood and was about to ask a question, Li Jiakang said first:

"We are here to find Li Mu, is he with you? Didn't you go out to play today?"

"Yes, it's upstairs, it's safe, nothing happened." Grandma Lu Wei lost her mind and emphasized that Li Mu was "very safe" now, for fear that they had misheard some rumors to find fault.

"No, no, someone is looking for him, tell him to come down quickly..." Li Jiakang gave up his seat and pointed to the four people behind him.

That blond hair, prudently white skin, and the most conspicuous foreigner's face.The other three of them are also very different from ordinary villagers, at least the way they dress makes them stand out from the crowd.

(How do you use that word?) Grandma Lu Wei's head froze for a moment.

Tide—probably the feeling of young people leading the "trend".In the whole village, or in the whole urban area, there is no one dressed as fashionable as them.

"Come in and sit for a while, come in and sit for a while." Grandma Lu Wei invited.

She showed the Chinese people's enthusiasm for foreign friends, drove the two wolf dogs to the side of the yard and locked them up, took the best rag from the yard pool, and wiped the stone table and stone bench under the peach tree.

Of course, only foreign friends were invited by Grandma Lu Wei. For a while, no one dared to sit with the four of them. After a long time, only a few old women sat with them under their invitation.A group of villagers gathered around the door like watching a monkey. Those standing in the outer circle stood on tiptoes and straightened their heads to look into the courtyard.

"Unexpectedly, in the capital of a province, in the center of a city, there is such an elegant place." The blonde girl sighed to the invited village women in Chinese that was not very fluent and full of foreign accents.

This is... an urban feature called an urban village.

"That's it, that's it." The village woman replied.

But I thought in my heart: If you walked in along the path beside the compound, you probably wouldn't think so.

The interior of the village is mostly one-story houses, the bricks are blue bricks instead of red bricks, and some people live in mud and tile houses.In the middle of the village there is a fish pond that does not smell bad but is not very clean. There are three pigpens beside the fish pond.One of the pigpens belongs to the Limu family you are looking for, and it is currently being abandoned to build a fourth house for rent.The house with the best living environment in the whole village belongs to the house you are visiting now, and you have directly chosen the two wealthiest families when you came here. [

"I said, girl, what are you doing here looking for Limu?" Another village woman interrupted and asked.

Village women who dare to volunteer to sit next to foreign girls are naturally not timid, or their curiosity has exceeded a certain level.

The entrance of Pingnan Village is a place to sell vegetables. After all, Pingnan Village produces vegetables every day, so people living in nearby cities will go there to buy fresh vegetables.When there are more people buying, a market will be formed, and some people will come here to sell meat and fish.Therefore, the village entrance of Pingnan Village is also known as the "small vegetable market". In later generations, it is an illegally operated black vegetable market.

But because there is no stall rent, the meat and vegetables are fresh and cheap, which is really convenient for nearby villagers to do business.

Just now a foreigner came in from the village entrance, but naturally he couldn't escape the eyes of the village woman who sells vegetables.

What's more, the villagers were stopped by four outsiders, and they saw them take out a note with their address on it.As the citizens of the state of etiquette, although they are only small villagers, they take it for granted, and they take their foreign friends to the residence of the person they want to find, and then they are taken to Lu's house by Li Jiakang who is in the residence.

"Let's sign a contract with Mr. Conviction." The woman who seemed the most obedient among the four answered the village woman's question.

"Does that 'judgment' refer to Li Mu?"

"Sign what contract?"

"Are you here by plane?"

"..."

Once the chatterbox is opened, the village women will start to ask each other one by one. If they didn't have four mouths to answer, they would be very busy right now.

"I think so. The convict we're looking for is Limu." A woman with glasses, of medium build, sitting upright and with long, straight hair said.

"Li Mu is a child!" said the village woman.

It seems that they want to hear them say: Oh, I found the wrong person.

It's good to add a little fun to ordinary life.

"It's right to be a child." The long-haired woman became more certain.

"Where are you all from?"

"I'm Chinese~!"

"She is also Chinese, but from Taiwan."

"They are all Chinese, so she is the only one who is British?"

"No, that quiet guy sitting over there, Ryoko, is Japanese." [

Chatting and talking, the village women gradually became acquainted with them.

Among the four girls, the one who talks the most and is the shortest is from Hong Kong; the one with medium build, wearing glasses and long hair is from Taiwan; , fair-skinned, rather handsome girl is British.

The four of them belonged to a company called Shangguo Publishing House, and they came here to let Limu sign a contract with them for a certain comic work.

"The kid from the Li family... is promising, and has attracted foreigners to the village!"

"Look at the family, my grandson doesn't know where to play, and he has to scold him when he comes back."

"The Li family has become famous this time. Their grandson has given Pingnan village chief a face this time."

"Can comics make money?"

The villagers surrounding the courtyard couldn't help whispering.

In the eyes of the villagers, singing, dancing, and painting are all things for the rich to entertain. To put it bluntly, they are selling singing and performing arts. In fact, only rich people can afford expensive paintings.Speaking of painters, it is a profession in which people were poor during their lifetime and their works were bought and sold at high prices after death.As the saying goes, you don't know wealth in life, and you don't enjoy glory in death.

This is true throughout the history of artists. The best is that they were poor when they were young, and they lived a little better in their later years.

Indeed, the art of artists is not for ordinary people to see, and ordinary people cannot appreciate and collect art.Taking those abstract paintings with twists and turns as an example, Li Mu said that he would not appreciate it and would not bother to appreciate it.Because I can't understand the art of abstract painting at all, I stubbornly think that it is arty in the upper class.

But the cartoonist he dreamed of was different from the artist.Artists are called artists only when they make impression paintings that others cannot understand. A real great cartoonist.

one way or another……

(Even foreigners have been attracted, and that thing called comics should be able to make money, right?) With all kinds of thoughts, the villagers finally waited for the protagonist of the incident.

The little boy was followed by the two daughters of the Lu family.

Elisabelle had fantasized about the scene several times, but she never expected that the other party would be so young.She stood up in surprise and compared the height of the little boy with her eyes. It was estimated that she was lower than her waist, and probably only reached the hips. She was smaller than the six or seven-year-old children she saw in England. !

(It's so small!) Just as she was wondering whether the little boy walking towards them in front of her had the ability to conceive and draw comics like "Fullmetal Alchemist".The little boy spoke a string of fluent English, and stretched out a hand to start a conversation with her:

"ples'mlmu,theauthoroffullmetl

ge (It's an honor to meet you, I am Li Mu, the author of "Fullmetal Alchemist", welcome to our village.)"

As the president said, not only is he good at drawing manga, but his language skills are also quite good.If the other party is really a juvenile cartoonist, then he will have great training value!Such a cartoonist cannot be let go, so the president asked someone to buy a plane ticket as soon as the decision was made, and personally came to sign a contract with this little cartoonist.