afternoon.
In Chuli, she was obsessed with proofreading A Gui's "Hearing", and she was dizzy with deletions here and there, and her Q profile picture, which she had been looking forward to for a day, finally shook. She threw away the proofreading book and couldn't wait to open it. Here comes a composition draft—
Before clicking on it, Chu Li glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer. The time was just right, and there were still ten minutes before the end of get off work. In theory, it could not be more accurate "before get off work".
"..."
Chuli clicked on the "draft", and was very surprised to find that the degree of completion of the draft seemed to be beyond the description of a "draft". The so-called "draft composition" originally thought should be just some messy lines, with silhouettes of characters, Posture and general composition stand
But what Cocoon sent over was obviously a line draft that was almost finished—
The cocoon maiden is worthy of being the cocoon maiden, and the figure in the reasonable painting is reassuring. I saw that the figure in the painting is slender, with a handsome face, slightly hanging his head, long hair loose, striking sword eyebrows, and a nose hanging like a gall. He is sitting on a boulder , slightly sideways, probably wiping his sword, a few strands of hair hang down from the edge of his handsome cheek...
Chu Li heaved a sigh of relief, and then he felt pain again: What happened to the two-person spread that was agreed, but there is only one person here? And it's not a draft, just give the line draft directly, what should I do if I want to change it then
[The sailor invited by the monkey: Why is the degree of completion so high?]
[Broken Cocoon: After drawing, I feel like I will continue to draw, hey!]
Chu Li: ... ... ... I'm just praising you!
[The sailors invited by the monkey: The degree of completion is so high, it may be very troublesome if the composition needs to be changed?]
[Broken Cocoon: Huh?]
Chu Li: Huh what! Could it be that you don't want to change? !
[Broken Cocoon: It’s not that I don’t want to change the picture. First of all, I’ve read "The Book of the Luo River", and this picture has existed in my mind for a long time; secondly, according to the character design and scene picture given by Mr. Hiukawa, now I want to draw this well. The posture and demeanor are also very suitable and feel very good... If you want to change it, it may not be as good as it is now.]
[The sailors invited by the monkey: ... ]
[Saijun invited by the monkey: Well, let’s put aside the question of whether to change it or not, let’s make sure first, isn’t it a two-person spread that was agreed that day? Why is there only one person, and another person?]
[Pococoon: You also said that the line drawing of this character is very complete, so the other person didn't have time to draw it, and the position should be standing behind him... I'll circle it for you, let's say it takes an afternoon How can you draw so many?]
First ceremony: "..."
Is it even me forcing you to rush the manuscript
If you are drawing a draft, it will definitely be in time, my friend!
What we agreed is just a draft—the kind of draft that can be changed directly if it is not suitable!
It is of course too late to sort out the degree of completion that can be directly colored...
Chuli was helpless, so he called Ah Xiang who was packing up his things next door and was about to go home from work—A Xiang himself was an art major. Although he doesn’t paint now, he still has the basic knowledge, so usually the manuscript handed in by the artist, see the picture What kind of color, composition, perspective, proportion, etc. Yu Yao gave her full control over the graphic part of the book she was responsible for designing...
At this moment Ah Xiang came over and glanced at the draft: "The perspective is correct, and the characters can be regarded as cocoon, a beautiful figure who is good at painting. There is nothing wrong with it, but why is there only one person, isn't it a double-page spread? And Isn't it a draft, what's the matter with this line draft and can start coloring after finishing it?"
"... The teacher told me in a tone of 'an artist's inspiration is hard to come by, you know what the hell', and I drew the line when I was happy." Chu Li paused and continued, "Also, the other head said it was too late I drew it, it should be the figure standing behind him: I can figure out the specific figure by myself."
Ah Xiang was silent for a while.
After thinking for a while, he slowly said: "Let her finish drawing two drafts of human heads to show you—I saw that this person is facing a ">" symbol folding on the left... Generally, this kind of orientation of characters will cause the title of the book to be blurred. It’s very bad to be able to put it on the left: because when the books go into the newsstand or some bookstores, they will be stacked to the right, and if your title is placed on the left, guess what will happen?”
Chu Li thought about the scene when he passed the newsstand on weekdays, hesitated for a while and suddenly said: "It will cause the title of the book to be blocked by other books stacked on top of it—ah, how can that work?!"
Axiang nodded: "So the US editor will place the title of the book in the center or on the right by default—you have to make it clear to Yu Yu that it must be like this. If she doesn't want to change the manuscript, then we have to flip the entire picture horizontally : Yes, it is possible, but generally the works of painters who are not good enough will be ugly after being flipped horizontally, and there will be bugs in the hairstyles, clothing and handedness of the characters... "
Chu Li raised his head, watching Ah Xiang talking so much for the first time, talking in a flat and unwavering voice about the knowledge accumulated in these years of design... For the first time, he felt that Ah Xiang's image was so tall!
While nodding in response to "Okay, okay", she turned her head and told Cocoon all the precautions that A Xiang said, and finally typed and sent the words, and then looked up, Cocoon's profile picture had turned black—
not offline;
Just hide it online.
Chu Li rolled his big eyes, and left a detailed message to the black and white head portrait who seemed to have entered a mourning hall with the reasons and precautions for the change. , if she wants to get an official answer from Yu, she may have to go through a new round of long waiting.
On the way home from get off work, Chu Li asked, "If Cocoon doesn't pass the final draft, can we change?"
Ah Xiang: "It's too late, you can open the official Weibo and take a look."
Chu Li logged into the official Weibo of "Moonlight" with his mobile phone, and found that the official blog had posted a thin mosaic of the draft of the afternoon lesson taught by Empress Yu, with the words: [Guess, this male god is—]
Below are a bunch of "Wow cocoon is big", "Wow Luohe divine book", "Wow cocoon is going to draw a cover for Riu Chuan? Looking forward to it"...
As the long-term controller of the official Weibo, Chu Li looked confused: "Who did it?"
A Xiang: "Teacher Xia is in charge, and Lao Miao is conducting field operations. The euphemistic name is: a warm-up wave."
Chu Li: "... What is the warm-up? No one wants to notify me, the editor-in-chief, before the warm-up?"
Chu Li: "No one wants to inform me, the poor editor who may not be able to rush the manuscript and thinks that the artist may be replaced???!!!!"
Ah Xiang: "No."
First ceremony: "..."
…
after an hour.
When Chuli came home, he opened the gate of the yard with the key and looked up to see a person and a dog saying goodbye silently under the eaves. The man was dragging a suitcase in his hand, still dressed in black and wearing sunglasses...
Chu Li silently raised his head and glanced at the sunset that was about to sink into the mountain, and then silently retracted his gaze, forcing himself not to make a fuss and said, "Teacher is going to the airport, it's almost dark..."
What are you doing with your sunglasses on
I haven't signed a sale yet, and I don't want to post photos on Weibo. Who knows you? Why isn't it Hu Ge who is so mysterious!
Hiukawa patted Er Gouzi's head, raised his head and glanced at Chu Li from behind the sunglasses, said "um" and didn't know if he understood what Chu Li said, but told himself: "I'm not at home, you and Er Gou Dogs should be more honest, eat and sleep on time, and don’t play around like a house.”
First ceremony: "..."
How do you have fun, hold two dogs and pee on your pillow
While Chu Li watched silently, Hiukawa came out carrying the box, and said in a low voice, "If you don't have enough canned dog food, call me or you can buy it first and I'll come back for reimbursement; take Ergou to change the medicine and remove the stitches on Friday; when I'm not around [the tenant] The Thirty Rules] are still in force, and bipedal male creatures are not allowed to be taken home—even roosters, shut up, how dare you argue?"
"..."
Shut up and shut up.
Chu Li closed his mouth and nodded, swallowing back the sarcasm on his lips, expressing that he didn't want to waste his tongue to refute him... At this moment, the man stopped beside her, took off his sunglasses, stared at her with brown pupils, and after a while Suddenly he said without beginning or end: "... I saw the message in the morning."
Chu Li: "... I'll just complain—"
"I told you not to use cocoons a long time ago, and painters with problematic character will naturally have many faults, do you still expect a person who is duplicity in order to gain popularity, pulls CP and scolds his fans disgustingly to treat editors with respect like Haoyue Mingliang? I told you all and you still don’t believe it, now you know you’re wrong—you deserve it.”
Chu Li remembers that when she was a child, she was reluctant to wear long johns in winter when she went to school, but she caught a cold from the cold. At that time, her mother used this tone to scold her while force-feeding her with medicine... Keyword changing is like a dime, and time travel Like.
Chu Li: "... You took off your sunglasses just to say this?"
Hiukawa: "The reason for taking off your sunglasses is to see clearly the remorse on your face—yes, it's the expression now, very standard: remorse."
Chu Li raised his hand and touched his expressionless face: "Teacher, go slowly, wallet and phone keys."
Hiukawa disdains: "It's not a three-year-old child."
First ceremony: "ID card."
The disdain on Hiukawa's face paused for a moment, and was replaced by emptying three seconds later. Three seconds later, he stuffed the suitcase in Chu Li's hand, turned around and hurried into the room... Chu Li stretched his neck and looked at it speechlessly After a while, he closed the courtyard door, handed over the suitcase to Ergou, and then walked back to the house, put on those ugly plush slippers, and shouted into the house, "Teacher, did you find it?"
"If I find it, I will stay in the house and lay eggs?!"
"..." Look at this pissed off, it's not that I hid your ID card... Chu Li put down her bag, stepped on her slippers and stomped towards the study, "If you don't put something as important as your ID card in your wallet, where do you put it?" It’s gone, why can everything be placed indiscriminately—”
"If you have time to ridicule people, why not help me find them together." A disgusted voice came from the next room.
Chu Li entered the study room and glanced at the desk. Laptops, ashtrays, newly opened packs of tobacco, lighters, handwritten drafts, pens, and ink bottles were scattered all over the table... I rummaged through the things that were as messy as a garbage dump, glanced at the draft paper, and wrote something that was probably set in a novel—
... New article
Chu Li picked it up and looked at it, and then found that Hiukawa was not simply writing about oriental fantasy this time, it seemed that he was going to write about oriental fantasy romance for the first time, and this article actually had a heroine. There is only one name, and next to this name is a very old-fashioned sword box or something...
Chu Li was afraid that Zhou Chuan would make a fuss about looking for these drafts in the future, so he didn't dare to throw them around. He tidied them up and put them on the table. When I shook a thick dictionary, I only heard a "click", and a small square piece of plastic fell down...
Chuli: "?"
How can anyone use their ID card as a bookmark and use it in the dictionary
Picking up the ID card, he walked out of the study in a hurry, and called out the master who was still rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the room—the man saw the ID card in Chu Li's hand, his eyes lit up, and he took it over: "Thank you."
Chu Li nodded perfunctorily: "Be good in front of uncle and aunt."
The man put on his sunglasses again, and this time he went out in a hurry. He walked to the courtyard door, pushed the door open, but stopped for some reason—turned his head, and looked at the man who was leaning on the door at this moment, wearing the shoes he bought on his feet. The little girl with fluffy slippers and arms folded watched him leave intently, he suddenly felt a move in his heart...
He raised his eyebrows, and without thinking, he used two fingers to check his ID card, and said, "I owe you a favor."
Chu Li was taken aback.
Then he waved his hand: "No, let's go."
The man showed an unscrupulous expression: "Wait for me to come back."
Chu Li lightly leaned his head against the door frame with a "boom", and finally smiled: "Don't come back."
The man sneered, and pushed the box towards the garage, Er Gouzi followed closely behind his buttocks wagging his tail. One person and one dog walked into the underground garage, and Chu Li vaguely heard Hirokawa's rare gentle voice amid Er Gouzi's dog barking, saying "I'll be back next week" and "Don't talk about it"... A few minutes later, the underground garage rang There was the sound of the sports car starting, and after a while of jumping around, the yard fell silent.
Er Gouzi opened the door with his nose, slipped into the room, kicked the door with his hind legs, rubbed his paws on the floor mat in the entrance hall, then entered the room and jumped onto the sofa, closed his eyes and slept peacefully: he didn't see any harm to the owner There was nothing uncomfortable about the imminent travel.
First ceremony: "..."
The dogs raised by the actor are all the best actors among dogs.
…
On that night, Zhou Chuan flew to the next province to attend the Writers Association Conference. After frantically looking for his ID card, the sentence "I owe you a favor" left by the man was originally just a deaf ear by Chu Li——
What she didn't expect was that it was actually not a windfall, but a huge flag.
On the first day after Zhou Chuan left, there was no news from Yu Niangniang.
On the second day after Zhou Chuan left, Empress Yu found no such person.
On the third day after Zhouchuan left, Empress Yu disappeared; Yu Yao asked, where did the cover of "Luohe Divine Book" go;
On the fourth day after Zhou Chuan left, Miss Yu disappeared from the world; editor-in-chief Xia personally added Chuli Q to ask about the progress of the cover design of "Luohe Divine Book".
On the fifth day after Hiukawa left, Chu Li's mentality collapsed when Ah Xiang reminded him "No matter how gentle you are, you will never get the manuscript", Chu Li's mentality collapsed, and the group went crazy @肤娘娘娘 more than 30 times, and finally exploded Miss Yu, who said like a normal person—
[Broken Cocoon: I'm sorry I didn't go to Q a few days ago]
First ceremony: "..."
What's your business? Is another Yotu guy blocking you at your door with a kitchen knife? I only believe this.
[Broken cocoon: Wait a moment, some last details need to be revised, I will do it now, and I will send the manuscript to you tonight.]
[The sailor invited by the monkey: Teacher, you finally showed up, okay, okay!]
Ah Xiang watched everything: "Bet on a cart of bananas, she won't show up tonight."
Chu Li: "Don't be like this, be optimistic."
At this point, Chu Li, who was still optimistic, heaved a sigh of relief, and spent the whole day in the innocence of thinking that he could finally face the editor-in-chief Xia... Going home at night, cooking and feeding Ergou for himself After cooking and feeding himself, he went to take a bath, walked out of the bathroom, and when Chu Li looked up, he found that it was half past ten in the evening—
Chu Li was silent for a while, feeling like she had forgotten something, when she went to Weibo and saw Empress Yu cordially saying "go to bed, good night" to her little fans, she finally remembered what she had forgotten.
After thinking about it, I didn’t receive any unread messages on my phone tonight. At this moment, I had a bad feeling in my heart. I opened Q without belief, and the Q was as quiet as a chicken—
Empress Cocoon
nonexistent.
Chu Li was so suffocated that she almost threw her mobile phone out of the window. At this moment, she really knew what riding a tiger is hard to get off—in anxiety, she climbed up the window of the attic, sat on the window and basked in the moon, trying to collect the essence of the sun and the moon to soar as soon as possible. Leaving this mortal world where the mentally handicapped walk everywhere and can drive normal people to death...
Sitting by the window, blowing the evening summer breeze, the scent of evening flowers planted by some family gave her a headache.
His eyes wandered, and finally fixed on the courtyard door under his feet. Chu Li paused, sat up straight suddenly, and suddenly remembered that five days ago, there was such a handsome, tall, mighty and handsome man standing there, smiling at She said: I owe you a favor.
First ceremony: "... ... ... ..."
…
then.
Thirty minutes later.
In a distant city A, in a villa located among mountains, rivers and lakes, a man sitting at the dining table was staring at the bowl full of red dates, peach gum, tremella and bird's nest syrup in front of him. When he was in a daze, his phone suddenly vibrated.
He shivered, raised his head, and silently looked at the fifty-year-old woman sitting on his right hand staring at him lovingly and urgently. After a long time, he grabbed the phone as if he was relieved, and said lightly: "Mom , it seems to be the phone number of the editor of Yuanyue Society."
The woman nodded with a smile: "Go pick it up, your dad will be back soon, you can wait for him to drink sugar water."
"..."
The man grabbed his phone and ran away.
Walking back to the room on the second floor and closing the door, he sat on the edge of the bed, the moonlight poured in from the outside, half of the man's body was swallowed up in the darkness... He looked down at the endlessly vibrating mobile phone in his hand, slid it, and stuck it to his ear By the side, he said "Hi", and was about to ask "What are you doing, Banana Man"—
However, before he had time to say another word, the familiar voice on the phone had already roared—
"Ms. Cocoon really wanted my mother's life! She actually played fairy dance for me! I was wrong, Mr. Zhou Chuan, please give me back the trouble of finding ID card now at the cost of sacrificing hue!! Now!! Immediately! !! Immediately!! NOW!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!”
Hiukawa: "..."
Taking the phone away from his ear, the man stared at the bluffing phone for a while like a monster: I don't know if it's too late to hang up the phone and pretend that I never picked it up