Cartoonist's Dream

"Wait a minute!" Seeing Li Mu pack his schoolbag and "elope" with Lu Wei, the labor committee member chased him into the corridor, and couldn't help asking him in a voice that everyone around him could hear: "Did you forget that you are on duty today?"

On duty?As if she didn't know yet, Li Mu tilted her head slightly in doubt, and blinked innocently.

"You are the student on duty today!" Lao Huifang further reminded.

Student on duty? !For a moment, there seemed to be a bit of surprise on Li Mu's face, but it disappeared immediately.

He almost forgot that there was such a scum in primary and secondary schools.In order to integrate "labor education" into daily life, the school asks students to clean the classrooms and corridors by themselves every day.There are four on-duty students in each group of the fourth class of the second year. They are mainly responsible for tidying up the tables, sweeping the classrooms and cleaning the corridors. On Fridays, there is another task of cleaning the house. [

"I, I'm leaving first." Lu Wei said when she saw that he was left behind.

"Can't you wait a little longer?" Li Mu thought she was still angry.

"No!" Lu Wei said with her hands on her hips.

"—Really." In the stubborn thinking of Li Mu's later generations, it is dangerous to let elementary school students go home alone, and they can't help but urge: "then hurry up and catch up with Hongjing and Jianming, hurry up, we must Go back with them!"

"I don't need you to tell me to do it!"

At the junction where the basketball court leads to the football field, there are a few students who are going home together. They are a few Limu students who still remember their faces and names, and they are basically students who go home by the same road.Liu Hongjing, Liang Jianming, Ma Yingshao... this group of people probably had already discussed leaving Li Mu and Lu Wei and slipped away early.

After watching his sister-in-law disappear in the corridor, Li Mu obediently resigned and went back to sweep the floor.

Sweep the floor, beat the soy sauce; sweep the floor, beat the soy sauce...

With the tortoise efficiency of primary school students, it took four students half an hour to finish cleaning.Of course, Li Mu himself is also in a state of paddling.Primary school sweeping is not based on how clean the students are, but how long the students have been sweeping.If the teacher finishes scanning too early, the teacher will say that he is not serious, so the students still do things according to the standard time.

After sweeping the floor, when Li Mu came to the school gate with his schoolbag on his back, walked a long bend, and came near the intersection of No. [-] Middle School.She didn't expect that Lu Wei was hiding in the stairs on the third floor just now, and after he left, she turned back to the iron door of the flowers on the first floor, and jumped into the flower plantation through the door with no less skill than a boy.

... Lu Wei actually cared about that picture book.

(When he found it, he secretly threw it back on his desk.) She made up her mind.

Unexpectedly, just after jumping off the door, he was hidden behind a clump of sunflowers, and the vicious old gardener discovered it.

"That student, what are you doing here!"

The bonsai carefully cultivated by the gardener is often stolen. Although it is not worth a lot of money, some students directly pick the flowers and trample the unflowered plants. This is something he cannot bear.But now in his eyes, Lu Wei is such a little girl who wants to steal flowers.

"Ah... that... I..."

"Come here! Let me see your school badge!"

"Eh--? I... I'm going out now." Lu Wei was at a loss, and replied perfunctorily, trying to escape by chance.

"Don't climb, if you want to go out, you should go out through the door over there. If the door on this side is not open, if you climb the door again, it will break." [

"Oh..." Seeing that the gardener didn't intend to catch her, Lu Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't come here again, you know!"

"understood"

Lu Wei walked through the long flowers, and did not forget to straighten her head all the way, looking around, intending to find the picture book along the way.A little further on was the key search area, which happened to be directly below the fourth class of the second year, and she couldn't help but hold her breath and walked there.

"Hello!" The old gardener suddenly looked at Lu Wei, which shocked Lu Wei, but unexpectedly, the gardener asked with some certainty: "Are you Li Mu?"

"Eh?"

Lu Wei was very surprised why the old gardener knew about Li Mu and said with such certainty that she was Li Mu, but she soon knew the reason.

The old gardener took out a picture book from an empty flowerpot waiting to be planted, opened a certain page and looked at it, then nodded and handed it to Lu Wei, and said with relief: "The self-portrait is good. Exactly the same as real people."

"Ah...that's..." Lu Wei closed her mouth halfway through her words.

She took the picture book from the gardener, looked away in a panic, and couldn't help but let out a "hah".Ah, really, this guy Li Mu actually drew something like this in class...

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The words are divided into two parts.

Near Tenth Middle School, in a large stationery store next to the road.

This is already the third stationery store Limu has entered.Two female clerks in overalls were chatting behind the counter, and when they saw the kid coming in, they smiled and asked, "Welcome, kid, what do you want to buy?"

"Excuse me, is there any 100g~200g manuscript paper here?" The first sentence stopped the clerk from asking.

The two clerks are new employees who came to work, and they might know if they have 4 or b4 paper, but they were stunned for a while when they asked about 100g to 200g manuscript paper.

"What kind of paper is the 100g~200g manuscript paper?" The clerk asked simply.

Li Mu shook his head, he didn't expect too much, and was going to check it out in the store by himself.This store is already the largest stationery store in the vicinity. There is no intersection where elementary school, middle school, and high school converge in this area. There can never be a stationery store bigger than this one.If she still can't find the manuscript paper that can be used to submit the manuscript, Limu can only take a ride to the specialty store near the art school.

It is no wonder that the items in these stationery stores are scarce. After all, it was 1998, and some products had not been valued by the stores.Limu plans to find it in the store by himself. The thickness of the paper is usually marked on the packaging, and there will be a small word indicating how many grams.

Just as he was walking towards the place where the papers were placed.

A woman in uniform who was obviously older than the two counter clerks walked over.

"What is he going to buy?" the career woman asked. [

Riki noticed the shop manager with the nameplate hanging on her chest.Obviously, this woman has the same position as his before, except that Limu is the manager of the honey store, and she is the responsible manager of the stationery store.

"Excuse me, is there any manga manuscript paper here?" Without waiting for the two shop assistants to answer, Li Mu directly talked to her.

For the two shop assistants who got carried away chatting and had a lot of time to familiarize themselves with the products in the store, but couldn't even understand how many g, Li Mu didn't intend to talk nonsense with them.But the manager’s words are another matter. When he was the manager of the honey shop, Li Mu could even help people with bee therapy.As the head of a store, you don't need profound knowledge, but you need to be comprehensive. The most basic thing is to have an understanding of all the products in the store.

"Yes, what brand do you want?" The professional woman treated Li Mu equally, not treating Li Mu as a child, but as an ordinary customer.

"It's best to buy Master brand, and others are also fine, as long as they are sold." Li Mu said.

"Okay, please come with me. This area sells manga manuscript paper, the thickness increases from bottom to top, and there are also different specifications of web paper, from 240mm*175mm to 480mm*350mm. This store does not bargain, but buy it once. A membership card can be obtained if the total amount of goods exceeds 150 yuan.” The manager of the stationery store introduced next to a row of paper shelves.

Hearing her introduction, Li Mu nodded with satisfaction. The product introduction was in place and the service attitude was good.It seems that the store manager is much younger than himself at the time, but the stationery store is no more profitable than the chain monopolized honey store.

I looked at the price, good guy [Master Manga Submission Paper 135g, 30p, 30 yuan] a piece of paper costs 1 yuan!It costs 30 yuan to buy this stack. Do elementary school students have so much money?Other elementary school students may not.

But Limu is still considered a good guy among the elementary school students at the moment. He remembers spending 50 yuan to buy a Chaomeng rare card, and he didn't even blink his eyes.It's not that Limu has a lot of lucky money. In fact, most of the New Year's money he got was handed over to his mother and then deposited in the bank.Except for tuition fees and interest class fees, his mother did not spend money on him at all.

The reason why he was able to get a "big sum of money" was purely because Li Mu didn't eat snacks randomly under the guidance of his mother, which saved expenses compared to classmates who ate snacks in the morning and evening.Furthermore, the gambler father always gave out pocket money without hesitation if he won money, and his father always won money once or twice a week.

More importantly, every time his father gave him pocket money, he warned him not to give pocket money to his mother...

The activity fund is 685 yuan.

The pocket money is not controlled by his mother, and Li Mu is considered a little rich among elementary school students. Naturally, he doesn't care about buying painting tools, let alone use these manuscript papers to submit manuscripts to make money, so of course he has to buy the best ones.

He didn't want to send out a four-dimensional line draft and then be returned.If there is a decent publishing house in Nanhua City, it's okay, you can go to the office to talk to the editor at any time.However, there is no decent comic publishing house in Nanhua City, or even in the mainland, and the comic business in the interior is not booming at this time.

If you want to vote, you can only vote for publishing houses in Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan. This is a matter of atmosphere and national conditions.Although he also thought about changing the fate of comics in the interior, he did not have the capital to establish a publishing house for the time being.The biggest reason is the fraudulent approval by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, but the "Detective Conan" of the Xiaoxiaokan was actually approved as a pornographic animation and banned from playing.

As a last resort, I can only cast from a distance.

Spending more money is forced by the state.

Li Mu happily said to the store manager: "I want this kind of 135g, four servings, and other things, please take me to see, I hope I can buy all the tools I need in the same store. "

"Okay, I'm happy to accompany you." The store manager felt that he had met a wealthy primary school student.

"Don't look at the pencils, Zhonghua brand, 10blk to 6hr, give me two of all types."

It's a lot of money, but it's also a waste. At this moment, the store manager thought seriously.

"Show me a dip pen, I'm going to pick out some nice nibs, um, and ink."

Looking at the little boy Limu carefully selecting, maybe he is an expert?

"Ruler ruler, cloud ruler, triangular ruler, compasses, handmade knife... I think they should all be in the same area, take me to have a look, I don't want to buy deformed ones."

Maybe he didn't want to buy it and was just making fun of me?How is it possible for a child to have so much money?

"Finally go back and look at dot paper and normal 4 paper."

Usually the largest transaction is only a hundred yuan, but in the end he paid!

A total of 675 yuan, perfect crimping!

Throwing the smaller tools into the schoolbag, holding a stack of manuscript paper and dot paper, Li Mu, who was planning to ask Lu Wei to help, felt a little worried.Thinking that it’s not far from home anyway, he tried to ask the store manager to give him a ride on a bicycle. Does he know that the store manager’s job is busy when he says he’s busy, and he’s also free when he says he’s free...

After sending out the membership card and getting a 675% discount, the cost changed from 64125 yuan to [-] yuan.The beautiful store manager agreed to send Li Mu home. She was aroused by Li Mu and wanted to know more about this little customer. Who was the drawing paper for?where do you live?Why is it so easy to do things?