The Late School

PS: The two chapters are unified.

Song Wen has a habit of buying the latest issue of comic magazines every week, such as "Alloy Society", "Datang Fantasy Night", "Jingwumen", "Comic Rabbit"...

These are the best cartoon magazines in China today. As a cartoonist, Song Wen must maintain inspiration and a keen sense of market trends. Reading magazines and cartoons is the easiest way.

There are two main modes of comic serialization, one is online serialization as the mainstay, and the magazine as a supplement, and the second is magazine serialization as the mainstay and the web as a supplement.

Generally speaking, the second mode is more difficult because the cost of serialization in magazines is higher. In order to control profitability, publishers must strictly control the serialized comics, so the quality of comics that can be serialized in magazines is basically guaranteed.Serialization is a long process. During the process, the standard drops, and the fate of being cut in half will be immediately ushered in. This forces the comic authors to maintain high pressure and online standards at all times.

Song Wen's "The Lantern Burner 1" is being made into an anime. Currently, "The Lantern Burner 2" is serialized, and it has come to an end. She began to conceive the plot of "The Lantern Burner 3".

The first work was very successful, so it was picked up by Pujiang Film Studio, but "Burner 2" went to the next level with higher popularity and better response. Not only was it making anime, but it also released a booklet. .

"I want to invite Zhang Tan to dinner, thank him for helping me figure out the plot." Song Jia thought while running in the morning.The plot of "Burner 2" was conceived by her and Zhang Tan together. Most of the creative ideas praised by the readers came from Zhang Tan.

As always, she maintains the habit of running in the morning every day.After the morning jog, I bought breakfast on the way. When I walked home, I finished my breakfast, took a shower, and started the day's work.

She is an independent cartoonist, a studio alone, keeping the rhythm of the weekly change.

"Boss, do you have any new comics?" After a morning run that day as usual, he returned from the finish line, passed the newsstand, and asked the boss who had just opened the door and was sorting books.

"It's new to "Datang Fantasy Night", do you want it?" the boss asked.

"Come on."

"20 yuan."

After getting "Datang Fantasy Night", Song Wen walked back and flipped through the magazine. The cover was still "Magic Tower" and "Flower Wants the World".

These two serialized comics are the main works of "Datang Fantasy Night", which are very popular, and Song Wen is also chasing them.

She glanced at the catalog to see if there were any newly serialized comics.

"Huh? There are three new comics serialized, "The First in the World", "Prince", "Dream and Circle Travel"..."

Song Wen didn't watch it immediately, but first finished watching "Magic Tower" and "Flower Wants the World". After that, he had breakfast, returned home, took a shower, and sat in the study before reading the three new comics.

The style of "First Under Heaven" is very sharp and fits its name."Flower Wants the World" is very cute, this is a love story comic, and "Dream Quest" has strong antiquity and bright and bold colors.

Song Wen first watched "Dream of the Dream", and quickly turned to the homepage to check the author. The style, rhythm and story of this painting are obviously not like a novice.

"Little Red Horse Comics Studio?" Song Wen hadn't heard of it, but since it was the studio's work, it would certainly not be bad.

10 minutes later.

"Why is it gone???? Go to the underworld!" Song Wen was immersed in the plot, but she was fascinated just by watching it, and she found it was gone!

There are many comic enthusiasts like Song Wen on this day. "Looking for a Dream" has attracted everyone with its unique style and plot.

——

In the evening, Huangjiacun.

Aunt Huang’s house, Zhang Tan is having dinner at her house tonight, and the berries are there.

"Not in good spirits?" Huang Berry Berry asked.

"very good."

"Fart, look at you, Frost hit it."

As soon as her voice fell, the three people who were eating looked at her, and Aunt Huang said, "Can you be a girl who speaks more gracefully? Everyone is eating! You learn from Zhang Tan."

Yellowberry murmured softly: "A kid from someone else's family."

"what did you say?"

"I said Zhang Tan is so handsome."

"..."

"Is the air conditioner turned on? It's a bit hot. Mom, you see Zhang Tan is sweating. Turn off the air conditioner. The house is quite warm."

"Zhang Tan is going to turn off the air conditioner?"

"Close it, Aunt Huang."

Aunt Huang went to turn off the air conditioner, and Zhang Tan wiped his forehead. He did sweat while eating. It was a bit sultry, young man, and of a hot coal age.

After dinner, Zhang Tan sat for a while, played two chess games with Huang Berry Berry, lost 200 yuan, left with Aunt Huang, and returned to Little Red Horse Academy together.

Huang Berry Berry glanced at the kitchen, then got up and walked: "I'll go and I'll go too, I'll go see the naughty bag of durian."

Uncle Huang shouted behind him: "Berry, don't go, come over and wash the dishes."

Huang Berry Berry pretended not to hear, turned the door shut.

Aunt Huang said, "Return the money to Zhang Tan! You are so embarrassed."

Huang Berry Berry is confident: "Why am I embarrassed? I make money by my skills."

Aunt Huang mocked: "...no wonder you are single until now, a daughter of steel."

Huang Berry Berry said: "Zhang Tan said that I am quite plump, this figure is very attractive to men, right Zhang Tan?"

"Cough, cough, cough~~~" Zhang Tan almost choked to death with his own saliva. This yellowberry is too sturdy, he did say, but when faced with parents, how embarrassing, isn't she embarrassed?

"Aunt Huang, I remember that there is something else, you should go back first, I will buy something, and I will return to the academy later." Zhang Tan said.

"Go, go back early, it's cold outside." Aunt Huang warned, taking the berries and raspberries away.

Huang Berry Berry kept looking back, thinking that Zhang Tan would not be going to have a tryst with a girl.No way, I have known Zhang Tan for more than 20 years. The impression he left on her was too deep, and it was difficult to reverse it all at once.

"Don't look, Zhang Tan can't stand you."

"The average man really can't stand me."

Aunt Huang rolled up her sleeves angrily and wanted to teach her a lesson.

The berry berry laughed loudly and jumped into the tea room in the small alley next to it, which was very popular and warm.

"Aren't you going to see the durian?" Aunt Huang asked.

"What's so good about that naughty bag of Liuliu. Master, please go, I see Xiaolan is here, I'll talk to them for tea."

...

Zhang Tan put on a red scarf and overcoat, and walked in the deep and quiet alley.The lights on both sides are on, and occasionally someone voices from the cracks in the doors and windows, dogs barking in the yard, cats walking out leisurely from the shadow of the alley...

Without knowing it, he walked downstairs to a small four-story building. The walls were covered with creepers. The windows on the first floor were lit, the lights on the second floor, and the lights on the third floor.From the windows on the first floor, the sound of news broadcasts, the voice of people on the second floor, and the sound of swords colliding in the TV series on the third floor.

Only the windows on the fourth floor were completely black.

Zhang Tan just took a look and kept walking. He bought a pack of batteries in a nearby convenience store. The remote control of the air conditioner at home was dead, and he couldn't stand it at night without turning on the air conditioner.

——

In a remote mountain village in Sichuan, at around 7 o'clock in the evening, the small mountain village in the depression was lit up. Compared with the boundless and dark surrounding mountains, it seemed to be swallowed at any time.

These lights are crowded together, it is more like heating each other, keeping them in the cold wind.

Walk north along the central area of ​​the lights, pass a stone arch bridge, and then walk about 500 meters along the dry rice field, and you will arrive at a red brick house with only one storey.

This red brick house is a semi-finished product, not even a semi-finished product.In rural areas, people generally have to build three-story small buildings with freshly painted interiors and porcelain slabs on the outer walls.It's not as good as the buildings in the city, but it is also considered a well-off home, where a family lives in it, and it's fun.

But the foundation of this small house was only laid and the first floor was repaired. The second and third floors of the plan were not up yet, and the man in the family died, leaving behind this "unfinished building" and a pile of yards. Plan to build the house with sand and red bricks.

For several years, the red brick yard is neat and tidy, and canvas is pressed on the sand to prevent it from being blown away by the wind and being corroded by water.This clear appearance, as if someone will use them at dawn tomorrow.

The "unfinished building" is located on a small hill, backed by the mountains and forests, and in front of it is a continuous paddy field, but it is winter, the paddy field is empty and lonely, and unknown little beasts neigh from time to time in the dark night.

365 days a year, most of the time in the unfinished building is always dark, as if no one lives, but today, it is brightly lit and there are laughter from time to time.

"Mom~~ Xiaobai is back, I want to play with her." On the left hand side of the unfinished building, on another small hill with two paddy fields, a three-story building that is most common in the countryside was built.

A down-to-earth boy stood at the door and looked out to the unfinished building. The evening breeze was blowing on his face, and he shivered coldly, but he also blew the laughter and voice of a little girl, making him reluctant to return. Home, just want to run out.

A woman came out and called him into the house: "I will go to Xiao Bai Xi tomorrow. I have to talk to my grandmother, and there is no time to talk to you. Dunzi, come in, you have a runny nose!!!"

In the unfinished building at the moment, Xiao Bai is nestling in the arms of grandma, and whispers telling her what he has experienced this year.

The breasts were all white, with a kind smile on her face, she held her in her arms and rubbed her watermelon head from time to time.

Every time at this time, Xiao Bai would squint his eyes, showing a look of enjoyment.

The wrinkles on her face show that she has a rich life experience, but at this moment, listening to Xiaobai's tweet about the outside world, she can't understand a lot of it.

Ma Lanhua sat aside and listened with a smile, interjecting words from time to time.

The brazier was burning in the living room, and everyone's faces were illuminated by the fire, and they looked red.

I have eaten and are chatting.

There is no entertainment in the country at night. After dinner, I either went to the door or watched TV at home, turning off the lights at 8 or 9 to go to bed.

"Xiao Bai, what did you buy for grandma?" Ma Lanhua said.

"For grandma~~"

Long ago, Xiaobai bought new clothes and new hats for her grandma.Of course, she paid for it and aunt bought it.

Grandma once again thanked Malanhua for taking care of Xiaobai. Speaking of which, she and Malanhua's family are not related, but they belong to the same ethnic group in the village, and their ancestors are from the same family.

Ma Lanhua said, "Xiaobai bought these for her own money, and she's very chatty."

Xiaobai raised her chin proudly, Barabara said that she was filming and singing again.

"Boss Zhang instigates, Xiao Baixi, you come back and we'll be filming Xi again, you're so amazing, you must come, you play the doll well."

Grandma laughed and listened. She had heard Xiaobai talk about Boss Zhang, and she always mentioned it both in and out of the vernacular.

While talking, Xiao Bai ran to the room, and soon came out with a glass bottle of fish maw, which was a little heavy and filled with candied fruit.

"Grandma eats a thiol." She pinched one and fed it to grandma.

Grandma let her eat it by herself. She lost her teeth so badly that she couldn't eat something like candied fruit. Her teeth were sticky and too sweet.

Xiaobai's face was bulging and disappointed. She specially brought something for her grandma to eat, but she didn't expect her to eat it.

"Xiaobai eat it himself."

Ma Lanhua said with a smile: "Xiaobai, you melon baby, I'll just say it, grandma can't eat it, you have to buy it, this is a good chat, you can eat it by yourself, your ass is black and smile."

Xiaobai was furious: "Auntie, you're so black~~"

Ma Lanhua: "You have grandma, don't you dare to scold me?"

"Then why are you scolding me?"

Ma Lanhua said to her grandma: "Look, Xiaobai is very fierce. No one dares to provoke her. Don't worry."

"Huh! I'm not fierce, I am grandma's good baby."

"A good baby often scolds people?"

"I don't scold people, I never scold people."

"You still fight."

"Shovel...Where is it? There is nothing wrong with it. Aunt, are you wrong?"

She stared at her aunt vigorously, like that, as long as her aunt dared to continue speaking badly about her, she would fight.

Ma Lanhua saved some face for the children and moved on to other topics. Talking about her son's marriage, her grandmother's face was full of gratification. Congratulations on her becoming a grandmother too.

...

Xiaobai was a little sleepy, and she lay down in her grandma's arms and took a nap. Grandma wanted to hug her back to the bed, but she couldn't hold her and couldn't straighten her waist. Ma Lanhua hurriedly helped and sent Xiaobai to the bed.

Xiaobai, who was struck by the sleepworms, grabbed Malanhua's clothes and told grandma to sleep together.

"Grandma will come in a while, you go to bed first." Ma Lanhua said, leaving the room, into the living room, took the tongs, turned over the wood in the brazier, the flame became more active.

Sparks splashed, like fireworks, and the two were silent for a moment, and Ma Lanhua said, "There is still no way to find that person."

Grandma's eyes looked at the jumping activity, muddy and difficult to distinguish.

"Didn't you find it?"

"I only know that she has lived there for a long time. She has few friends and few people who can inquire, so she still didn't find the man."

After a long time, grandma said in a slight warm voice: "Thanks for your hard work."

"Don't say anything like that, Xiaobai is my niece."

After sitting for a while, Ma Lanhua held the flashlight and left.

"Don't give it away, lock the door, and rest early," said Ma Lanhua.

"be careful on the road."

"I know."

Grandma stood on the hill, and the light that watched Malanhua drifted away until it disappeared. She returned to the brazier in the living room and put it in the yard, watered it out, turned off the light in the yard, closed the door, and went back. In the bedroom.

She stood by the bed and looked at the red face of Xiao Bai who was sleeping, and her rough right hand stroked her little face affectionately, smiling silently.

"Grandma, you are so cold."

As soon as grandma went to bed, Xiao Bai squeezed into her arms.Grandma was so cold that she woke up Xiao Bai Leng.

"It'll be warm after a while, don't be next to you."

Xiao Bai didn't listen, but hugged her grandma tightly, and said with a smile: "My aunt abetted me to be a warm baby, so hot, grandma, let me warm you up."