The Sabbath

"It turns out that you, Xiaomei, have listened to all the details of my body that I usually talk about. Also, if you didn't listen, how could you draw my body so... so..."

"It's almost exactly the same as back then." Fingers draw on the screen cherishingly, Ronggui's heart is flattered, "But it's a little thinner than I was back then."

Then--

"It's just a reference to the principle of 3D skull repair." In the next second, Xiaomei revealed the cruel truth.

"The original appearance of the mummy collected in the history museum was restored by this technique." He added one more sentence.

Mummy... Ronggui was hit hard.

Immediately after—

"I drew according to the muscle weight that this skeleton should match, that is, the shape in the picture is the shape under the standard weight state." Xiaomei said again.

The figure in the picture is a standard weight, and I just said that the figure in the picture is a little thinner than I was back then, isn't this a disguised statement...

Are you overweight? ! ! ! !

How can it be! ! ! ! ! ! !

"I'm a muscle! A muscle! I'm definitely not overweight! Absolutely—" Ronggui retorted righteously.

Xiaomei just turned around and walked towards the back room.

After tidying up the room, the two little robots were ready to go to work as usual, but they had one more job before going to work today.

"Drag the sofa over, and put our bodies on it, let them bask in the sun!" Ronggui made another suggestion.

There is a sofa bed in the room, but the sofa bed is a bit too big for their current robot body. Usually they still sit on the bench made by Xiaomei, and the sofa is left unused.

Now that the two bodies come out one by one, Ronggui thinks that the body can use the sofa.

"Even if it's the light, it should be able to play the role of sunlight, right? I feel that we are both too pale." Ronggui said, Baba stood next to his body, and even held his head.

He was already like this, there was no other way, Xiaomei had no choice but to go over and hug Ronggui's legs.

Ronggui's body was still a little stiff, in order for him to "sit" on the sofa, the two little robots really used up a lot of energy, and finally although the sitting posture was still a little stiff, it was barely "sitting".

Xiaomei's body is much softer, almost no different from a living person except that her body is cold.

The bodies of the two people sat on the sofa strangely.

One shriveled like a mummy, and the other looked like a normal person but remained motionless, quietly closing its eyes...

It looks really weird, Xiaomei thought quietly.

however--

"It looks like they are very close to each other~" Ronggui said with a smile as he stretched out his hand to gently smooth Xiaomei's hair.

He keeps saying that my aesthetics is problematic, but in fact, this guy’s own aesthetics is also very problematic, right?

Thinking silently in her heart, Xiaomei cherished words like gold and didn't say a word.

Arrange the body and fix the curtain firmly to prevent the two bodies on the sofa from being burned by the strong "sunlight".After thinking about it, he was still a little uneasy. Ronggui dragged Xiaomei and dragged the sofa back to ensure that the two bodies would stay in a place where they would not be exposed to the "sun" after a while. Don't worry.

That is to say, they have lived in this place for quite some time, the public security nearby is very good, and no one usually comes to their house to look for them, so Ronggui is relieved to release their precious bodies.

"Bye bye, you two take good care of your home~" Before going out, Rong Gui actually waved at the two bodies on the sofa.

Xiaomei holding the lock: ...

"Xiaomei, lock the door~" Ronggui immediately said to Xiaomei.

Xiaomei quickly locked the door.

As always, he sent Xiaomei to the blacksmith shop, watched Xiaomei enter the door, and then Ronggui rushed to the place agreed with Lili.

However, Rhubarb's top speed is only 20. No matter how anxious Ronggui is, Rhubarb still maintains a steady and steady speed.

Fortunately, they were not late. When they arrived at their destination, Lily's figure just appeared on the side of the road, and she had just arrived.

When Lily appeared, all the male dwarfs around looked at her.Not caring about other people's gaze at all, Lily just walked forward without looking sideways, and when she saw Ronggui, she smiled and said hello.

Gao Leng reservedly opened the left door of Rhubarb and got into the car. After the car drove away and confirmed that no one around could see her, Lily was relieved.

After looking around for a while, she happily said to Ronggui: "The number of people looking at me on the road today is three times that of before!"

"Congratulations~" Rong Gui immediately laughed.

Even though they are destined to be popular at birth, female dwarves still care about their appearance very much. Being more popular is the best compliment for them. Under the drawing, the four female dwarves re-examined their past shortcomings in behavior and clothing, and not only became better at dressing themselves, but also behaved more elegantly.

The increasing number of admirers every day is the best evidence!

"Lily, you are suitable for long hair~ You will look better when your hair grows a bit." Ronggui said to her.

"Yeah." Lily nodded seriously, indicating that she had made a note of it.

"But..." Apart from being happy, she was also a little sad.

"The most popular ones are the heroines in blacksmith shops. They have particularly well-developed abdominal muscles, and they look great in navel-baring outfits. In this regard, we cannot compare."

Not all female dwarves will choose to work in blacksmiths. Of course, there are reasons for hobbies, but there are also problems of talent and talent.

For example, Lily and Mary chose to engage in farming and animal husbandry on their own initiative. Although they are engaged in a job they love and are no worse than other female dwarves, they still lose to each other in terms of popularity. The key is their abdominal muscles. for the sake.

"So you also like abdominal muscles. I should have said this earlier~ I have the most experience!" The question of beauty and fitness is not difficult for Ronggui, let alone the question of abdominal muscle exercise that he is best at. When Lily asked, he immediately Here comes the spirit.

"Really? Agui, you actually know how to exercise your abdominal muscles? Oh my God... I thought you could only develop such perfect abdominal muscles by forging iron..." Lily was taken aback.

Ronggui then chuckled.

Therefore, on this day, the topics of the two of them all focused on the problem of abdominal muscles.

When the news was known to other female dwarves the next day, the female dwarves began to train their abdominal muscles again under Ronggui's guidance!

In the following time, on Xiaomei's drawing paper, four female dwarves with increasingly thinner abdominal muscles appeared.

Then there were even more male dwarves looking for Xiaomei's portrait, not only the blacksmith where he worked, but during the one-hour break at noon, the male dwarves in the nearby blacksmiths also tried their best to find reasons to ask Xiaomei to come out and paint them.

And the dwarves brought more dwarves.

Knowing that Xiaomei had to complete a total of [-] portraits, the female dwarves mobilized their relatives and friends to have Xiaomei's portrait, so that the fat and water would not flow to outsiders' fields. Although they could find someone else's portrait, since they knew Xiaomei, they naturally wanted their family members to ask for Xiaomei's portrait as well.

On the other hand, Ronggui and Xiaomei didn't stay at home all day on weekends. They set up stalls in various places in the city, and they didn't charge any money. If they just painted two portraits, they could give one to each other. It's Xiaomei who draws well, or it may be Ronggui who speaks well, but their business is actually pretty good;

And at night, they were not idle either, they showed themselves and Xiaomei's bodies, they were the best models.

Although the painting career did not bring them too many points, it did increase their family's material reserves. On the one hand, there are various materials, and more on food. There is sufficient nutrient supply every day. Xiaomei His body returned to its original shape again, while Ronggui's body was finally not as shriveled as before.

It's actually still flat, but it doesn't look so dry.

With the full-body portrait repaired by Xiaomei using 3D bone restoration technique on the first day, Ronggui seems not to care so much about the ghostly appearance of his body now, and puts himself in a beautiful pose every day, and he lets Xiaomei paint a portrait of himself .

And whenever he felt that he seemed to be getting better from the portrait, he would obviously breathe a sigh of relief.

In the back room, Xiaomei completed more and more drawings.

However, Ronggui noticed——

Not once did he paint a portrait of himself.

After noticing this point, Ronggui did not point it out clearly, but that night, when Xiaomei habitually moved a small bench and sat in the living room at the fixed drawing time of the day, Ronggui dragged her body to the went aside.

"Today Reya slaughtered a wild boar, gave us a small piece of meat, added a large can of oil, added a little essential oil that Kiki gave me, I used it to make a large can of massage oil ~ tonight Just try it with my own body." Ronggui said, showing a large can of lard in his hand.

After speaking, he really started to rub oil on himself.

Thanks to this period of manual training, he was finally able to master his own strength, otherwise, according to the previous situation, he really wouldn't be able to massage himself without Xiaomei.

Ronggui massaged right next to Xiaomei, so the only thing that could be painted in front of Xiaomei...

Only Xiaomei's own body was left.

Ronggui massaged slowly on purpose, he planned to delay the time.

While massaging, he watched Xiaomei's movements indiscriminately. Seeing that Xiaomei finally picked up the paintbrush after a pause for a while, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he didn't know why he was relieved.

While massaging, he observed Xiaomei, and finally waited until Xiaomei put down the paintbrush. He immediately dropped his half-massaged body and ran over.

Squeezing in front of Xiaomei, Ronggui finally saw the finished portrait, and——

Ronggui tilted his head: "It's strange, the drawing is quite similar, but...how come it doesn't look as good as the real one?"

With no research on painting, Ronggui can't come up with any professional insights, all he can think of is adjusting posture and moving props.

After rubbing the oil on his hands on himself (← not a bit wasted), he immediately went to move Xiaomei's body.This movement lasted for a long time, and when he finally found a pose that he thought was good, he realized that Xiaomei had been drawing for a long time.

On the screen, Xiaomei's body is still so dark and stiff, but the figure of the little robot is so flexible. If you look closely, it looks a little cute~

etc--

What props are you looking for?You are the best prop!

Putting down the painting, Ronggui immediately ran back to the sofa and sat down on Xiaomei's lap. Ronggui found a comfortable position and leaned against Xiaomei's chest, then waved to the robot opposite Xiaomei: "Come on, here is This is the pose, let's start drawing!"

Xiaomei: ...

From this day on, Xiaomei was forced to live a life of painting herself every day.

Ronggui will be used as a "prop" for as long as he paints.At this time, Ronggui couldn't help but thank him for his experience as a magazine model. It took a whole day to shoot, and there might only be one photo selected in the end. Has he been trained to be patient?

and--

Still fashionable~

Ronggui came up with various poses for himself and Xiaomei's body, inspired by the cover photos of the major fashion magazines he had seen back then, and occasionally added his own inventions.

Being naked every day is not quite right, the key is that it is a bit monotonous, Ronggui also sewed a lot of small trousers for Xiaomei ← If it weren’t for his lack of skills and the expensive fabrics, he would also like to sew other clothes, but unfortunately the conditions at home are different from his own The ability is here, he can only sew the bottom of his trousers.

Thanks to Xiaomei's good looks, she wears Ronggui brand underwear with her own aura, which abruptly props up the whole picture. Otherwise, with the tattered little robot in the painting and the same tattered trousers, the whole picture would be a mess. Wasted.

Xiaomei: ...I feel like I'm about to be played to pieces.

In short, under Ronggui's command, the boring work of painting portraits became extremely lively, and every day was in full swing, and the task of [-] portraits was completed very quickly.

In fact, they overdid it.

Excluding those given to others, they finally sorted out 680 five portraits.

All the pictures were clipped by Ronggui in self-made picture folders, arranged in chronological order from top to bottom, every 120 pictures were packed in a book, a full of [-] three big picture folders!

On the weekend when the task was completed, Ronggui immediately took Xiaomei to the research center to hand in her homework.

The rear compartment was full of large picture folders, Xiaomei sat in the passenger seat where Ronggui was sitting before, Ronggui sat in the driver's seat, and then...

Da Huang drove steadily.

Hmm~ It's perfect.

When Da Huang was driving, Rong Gui was humming beside him, while Xiao Mei sat silently, her hands not idle. Didn't they receive a lot of materials recently?He is now making a finger out of these materials.

Except for this one, he has already finished making the palm and the other four fingers between work and drawing. After finishing the last finger on the road today, he will be able to press the new hand for Ronggui that night. up.

Passing through the jingling streets and alleys, Rhubarb, carrying the two masters, stopped firmly in front of the examination center.

Pack most of the picture clips in your own small trailer, there seems to be not enough space...

Ronggui and Xiaomei moved some by hand.

Even so, their strength was still too weak, and they went back and forth three times before moving all the portfolios to the examiner.

When they brought the last batch of portfolios over, they happened to meet the masked dwarf who took the exam on the same day as Xiaomei.

Obviously, he also came to "hand in homework".

With a burden like a hill on his back, he carried all the paintings by himself.

This strength is really great - Rong Guixin said.

Then, the two candidates and their assignments are placed before the examiner.

This time, the examiner didn't let Ronggui out.

After taking out the paintings of two people, he immediately called his assistants over. The assistants put the paintings of two people on the worktable of a machine. It was a very strange machine with a The box is just the size of a drawing paper, and there is a rail-like track next to it. After the machine is started, the paintings are fixed well and start to move forward through the track.

The track moved to the back of the wall of the room, and not long after, the first picture suddenly appeared on the top of the wall behind the examiner!And then the second one!The third...

"Wow!" Ronggui was amazed.

It turned out that this was actually a slide projector?No... Different from the slideshow, these paintings are actually hung up. Could it be called an automatic picture hanging machine?

A must have in the gallery - Ronggui thought silently.

The examinee next door drew exactly [-] pictures, Xiaomei had more, and it took a while to hang them all. When all the pictures were hung on the wall, the scene was really spectacular.

It's no wonder this room is so big and so high, maybe it's specially used for hanging pictures - Rong Gui continued to think.

When Ronggui looked up at the paintings on the wall, the examiner also turned around, his hands behind his back, motionless, apparently also appreciating these paintings.

When the last painting was hung, he turned around at the same time.

Then said:

"You didn't pass, and then, you passed."

This sentence was said to two candidates at the same time, the first half sentence was addressed to the dwarf candidate next to Xiaomei, and the second half sentence was addressed to Xiaomei.

"It's not fair! There is not much difference in the quality of the paintings between the two of us. Could it be that he passed because he painted more than me? The regulation is clearly [-]—" the examinee next door immediately retorted: "Or , there is a female dwarf in his portrait who passed?"

Seeing that he was about to say a long paragraph of protest, the dwarf examiner immediately stretched out his hand in his direction and pressed down.

"Be safe and don't be impatient." After finishing speaking, the dwarf examiner made a backward movement with the same hand, probably because of something done by the assistant next to him, the wall that was originally covered with paintings suddenly turned black, and then——

Two huge pictures that almost filled the wall suddenly appeared side by side on the black wall.

On the left is the picture of the dwarf candidate, while on the right is Xiaomei's picture.

Ronggui remembers this picture: the protagonist of the picture is him, and it is an ugly and tattered little robot, which is the first portrait drawn by Xiaomei!

really--

"This is the first picture you two drew, arranged according to date, and all the pictures of you two will appear on the wall." The old dwarf said.

Then, as he said, the portraits drawn by the two candidates began to be broadcast on the wall in turn.

Just as the dwarf candidate protested, the drawing skills of the two are about the same. Xiaomei is certainly good at drawing, but since the dwarf candidate dared to apply for the third-level craftsman exam, he really has his own set of skills. Both of them can draw well. It's very realistic, the only difference is probably the content.

The dwarf candidates didn't look for too many models, they were those people over and over again, but the posture still changed;

But Xiaomei’s is much richer here. At the beginning, the model was a tattered little robot, and then it became all kinds of female dwarfs, then male dwarves... and then there are dwarf old people, children. ...At the end, there is actually a skeleton drawing...At the end, there is a beauty who takes one's breath away just by looking at half of her face.

Ronggui looked at it with relish: Look~ I am really good, obviously using such a rotten shell, and then just by adjusting the posture, the texture of the body has been improved by more than one level, otherwise it is also me, why the first time? One is so ugly, but it looks so cute in the last one?

And his mummy-like corpse... No, the body, in the end, looks much stronger than the first one.

Lily's abdominal muscles have been trained quite well, and the portrait in the navel-baring dress at the end is really pretty~

Mary finally took off the mask. It turns out that Mary has a baby face. What happened to the baby face?Also very cute~

And Kiki... Jack...

who is jackJack is Xiaomei's colleague, and also the master hammer of their workshop. He is a very powerful dwarf, probably because he is so powerful. Among the portraits that Xiaomei drew for his colleagues, he has the most portraits, and he and I am also keen on posing, and Xiaomei has drawn all kinds of scenes, isn't it, Lily actually has a crush on him...

While looking at the picture, Rong Gui thought about the current life of each person in the portrait, and the more Ronggui thought about it, the happier he became.

As a layman, all he can see is this "lively".

But as an expert, the dwarf candidate in front of him saw the way.

"..." After reading the last picture in silence, he turned and left the room.

Only Ronggui and the examiner were left in the room.

Until the last slide disappeared on the wall, and the black wall faded away, revealing the wall full of drawing paper behind it again, Xiaomei remained silent.

"It seems that you also understand why you passed." Looking at Xiaomei, the dwarf examiner smiled slightly.

Without making a sound or nodding, Xiaomei's gaze was still on the drawing paper on the wall.

"In the beginning, there really wasn't any difference between your two pictures." Without disturbing him, the examiner spoke his own words.

"Very accurate and lifelike... This is what you two have in common, and it is also a necessary condition for being a craftsman."

"And starting from the tenth picture, the pictures of the two of you began to be different."

"Your drawings have emotions, expressing this emotion through drawings, so your paintings are essentially different from others."

"Even if the examinee draws the same person as you, your paintings will be different."

"If it is a first-level craftsman or a second-level craftsman, the candidate's painting will definitely pass, but if it is a third-level craftsman, the content of the exam will not only be accurate, but also give these two characters."

"Giving one's own feelings to the utensils made by one's own hands is a necessary quality for those who pass the exam. It is precisely because of this reason that he failed, but you passed."

"Congratulations, you can get your craftsman qualification certificate after you go out." After saying this, the examiner left.