The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 496 Comics Workshop
Dou Xueer was a little flattered that the first-class maidservant next to the concubine actually came to invite her in person.

She tidied herself in a hurry, put on the few pieces of jewelry at the bottom of the box, and then got into the carriage of the palace.

Entering the side door of the palace, it took two cups of tea to reach the main courtyard where the princess was.

The concubine saw her in the side hall of the second entrance courtyard, and when she entered the room, she saw a man and a woman sitting next to each other, reading and laughing while holding an unknown book.

The woman was dressed very plainly, wearing a fine cotton dress, with only a pearl headband on her head, and no other decorations, her belly was raised high, and she was half lying beside the man in a very comfortable position. in the arms.

"Miss Dou, this is His Royal Highness King Jin and His Majesty Wang Concubine, hurry up and salute!"

What a prince and princess!

When they saw the guests, they didn't seem to plan to sit separately. Song Qingyue still lay comfortably in Li Zhao's arms, and only smiled and let Dou Xueer sit: "Come on, it's like being at home. I'm now It doesn't matter if you are heavy, don't be offended."

Dou Xueer was a little overwhelmed, Bai Momo sighed in her heart, but she got used to it, and pushed Dou Xueer onto the seat.

Only now Dou Xueer felt that it was unusual. How could this big chair covered with cowhide under her buttocks be so soft? Comfortable!No wonder the prince and concubine are leaning together like this.

In fact, a kind of iron ore was discovered near Hengzhou Mansion in Huguang, and the iron produced was extremely hard!
Around that kind of iron ore, another kind of ore was found. Adding a little bit of it when making iron can make the iron extremely tough. If you add a little bit more, you can make steel with super hardness. , it can produce steel with particularly good toughness.

The local people call that kind of ore "corundum", but Song Qingyue has now renamed it manganese.Well, the so-called particularly high-hardness steel is actually high-strength steel. Forging at different temperatures can also produce the most advanced spring steel of this era.

However, the current technology is not too mature, and the extraction process of manganese ore still needs to be improved. The spring steel produced has good and bad elasticity. The workers are still in the stage of groping. Used it as a sofa.

Dou Xueer was sitting on that comfortable big leather chair in the palace, eating stewed pears with rock sugar, and drinking Fujian black tea. The prince and concubine also treated her very kindly, and she felt that she had received more treatment than she deserved due to her status.

So when Song Qingyue asked about her relatives in her hometown, she suddenly hesitated to speak.

"What's the matter? Could it be that Mrs. Dou's family suffered a disaster?"

Song Qingyue still thought that the elegant and well-spoken woman in front of her was a daughter of a wealthy family, or at least a lady from a scholarly family, but Li Zhao had already seen that the woman in front of her was a good prostitute, and not just an ordinary Prostitutes should also be the kind of very famous courtesans.

He stared at Dou Xueer, wanting to see if she would answer honestly.

The princess's eyes are clear and flawless. Dou Xueer doesn't know her age, but she still looks like a little girl who doesn't know much about the world, but the eagle-like eyes of His Royal Highness King Jin beside her are too much. Sharp, Dou Xueer's back was sweating.

She lowered her head in some embarrassment, and her back unconsciously left the back of the chair behind her.

"What's the matter? Miss Dou has something to hide?"

"Minnv... Minnv is ashamed!" Dou Xueer said, kneeling on the ground at once, bowing to Song Qingyue, pressing her forehead to the ground, and said with a hint of tears: "Minnv used to be Feng Feng of Kaifeng Mansion. The oiran of Lelou."

"Ah! That's what happened!" Song Qingyue raised her hand, motioning for Nanny Bai to help her up, "Don't cry, it's nothing. There is no woman in the world who volunteers to be a prostitute. Say it! What a pity."

Song Qingyue comforted her softly while handing over her handkerchief.

"My lady..."

"It's okay. Speaking of which, there are too many little girls brought back from brothels here. To be honest, I want to demolish all the brothels in Taiyuan!" Speaking of this, Song Qingyue's face suddenly changed Just collapsed, Li Zhao coughed twice, Song Qingyue laughed, and said, "I heard that you still have two sisters."

Dou Xueer cautiously raised her eyelashes and glanced at Song Qingyue, seeing that the princess really didn't care at all, she burst into tears suddenly.

"Yes... yes. It's just... my two younger sisters... are not good at drawing."

"Then what are they good at? I heard that famous prostitutes have unique skills."

"One is good at pipa, another is good at fan dance, and... both are good at poetry." Dou Xueer's voice became softer as she spoke, those were all tricks to please men, and she was really afraid that she would be cast aside by the princess.

"They are all talented women! What do they do for a living now?" Song Qingyue asked.

Dou Xueer said: "I found a job in the library next to the low-rent housing complex. I read books, taught people to read and write, and sometimes wrote letters for nearby neighbors. However, our sisters They don’t know simplified Chinese yet, and they’re still learning.”

"The library near the low-rent housing... Lingxiu is in charge, right?" Song Qingyue turned to ask Nanny Bai, and Nanny Bai nodded yes.

"How much does she give you a month?"

"One tael of silver." Dou Xueer said, "Although it's not much, but there are low-rent housing, enough for the three of us to live."

Song Qingyue held her chin and thought for a while, then turned to look at Li Zhao, and said, "Isn't it a little inferior to let them teach those literacy classes? One can sing and the other is good at dancing. How about letting them go to the mission team? The monthly salary can be higher !"

Li Zhao just smiled and said, "It's up to you to decide."

So she asked Dou Xueer again: "Madam Dou is good at singing and dancing?"

Dou Xueer lowered her head, it's not that she is not good at singing and dancing, but if she returns to the stage to sing and dance, she has become an actress again.They didn't want to do that lowly job anymore, so they begged with some grievances: "Minzi wants to paint for the empress."

Song Qingyue had no choice but to give up: "Okay, let's draw."
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In about half a month, Song Qingyue found thirty painters.

But after everyone came, the princess did not directly ask them to start painting, but started to teach everyone with her pregnant belly.

Nanny Bai felt that Song Qingyue was working too hard, why couldn't she just wait for the baby to be born?
Li Zhao smiled and said, "If you don't tell her to work hard, she will be wilted. It's just a hard work, asking for trouble."

Except for sighing, Bai Momo had nothing to say.

"First of all, let's take a look at this set of books first." Song Qingyue distributed the textbook of "Health and Hygiene" to everyone.

Someone immediately raised his hand and said, "Your Majesty, I have read this book!"

"The little one has seen it too!" The other followed suit.

Song Qingyue said with a smile: "It's good to have seen it. Now everyone is invited to draw this type of painting. Is there any problem? If you think you can't draw, you can raise your hand and quit now."

No one raised their hands, and everyone cherished this opportunity.

Song Qingyue laughed: "Then let's start. Starting today, I will talk about some principles of perspective and human body structure, as well as painting techniques such as fabric texture. I hope everyone can learn as much as possible within a month. We will talk about it in a month. There is an exam, I will stay if I pass the exam, I hope everyone will work hard!"

Dou Xueer looked down carefully at the "Health and Hygiene" textbook in hand, her expression gradually changed from relaxed to dignified.She quietly asked the people next to her: "Is this book drawn by the empress herself?"

The painter nodded and replied enthusiastically: "Yes! We ordinary people like it! I can understand it!"

Dou Xueer smiled, feeling even less confident.

This painting is similar to the illustrations in the storybooks, but it has more illustrations than the storybooks. Almost every plot is represented by a painting, and what the characters say is marked on the picture.

This kind of painting is very different from the painting I have mastered!The painting is not beautiful, even a little ugly in Dou Xueer's eyes, but there is an indescribable intimacy in the ugliness.

Not only the intimacy, but also the spatial arrangement in the picture, which is indescribably pleasing to the eye and reasonable.

It was a weird feeling.

Ahead, Song Qingyue had already started giving lectures with chalk.

The first class briefly talked about the most basic things such as viewpoint and perspective, but it made all the painting lovers in the audience feel enlightened and enlightened.

Even Dou Xueer, who has already made achievements in the field of ink painting, felt a burst of excitement.

She didn't fall asleep that night, and took the "Health and Hygiene" textbook sent by Song Qingyue to study all night.

At the beginning, I thought the technique was a bit clumsy, but when I looked closely, it suddenly became unfathomable. Even the image of Princess Jin became unfathomable in Dou Xueer's heart.

Xie Lifen and Dai Yuqin returned home from the library, and the three met to go to the cafeteria to have dinner together, and then went to the public bath to take a bath after dinner.

There are many choices in the cafeteria, and the cheapest way to eat is to buy three steamed buns with cornmeal for one penny, and then use an aluminum bowl to hold a bowl of free shabu-shabu soup.Cornmeal steamed buns are sandwiched with pickles, which tastes delicious.Pickles can be pickled by yourself, or you can buy them outside, but they are sold in cafeterias, and they are sold very cheaply, even cheaper than pickling by yourself, spicy or not spicy, pickled cabbage, kohlrabi, radish, long beans Yes, all kinds, everything you need, eight cents a big can, buy one can, enough for an adult to eat for a month.

Just because the pickles sold in the cafeteria here are super cheap, many city residents also come to buy pickles.

There are even some pickle vendors in the city who stop making pickles themselves and come here to purchase directly. Some masters even rent out their shops and come to work in the cafeteria here to help pickle pickles.

The reason for the cheapness is naturally that the salt used in the canteen to pickle the pickles comes through the channels of Prince Jin's Mansion, there is no corruption of salt tax officials in the middle, and there are no salt merchants to make profits in the middle, so the price is extremely cheap.

The canteen near the low-rent housing was not opened to make money, and the wages of the canteen employees were also subsidized by Song Qingyue, so the dishes were basically sold at cost prices.

Of course, if you want to eat something good, there are also cafeterias.

Tonight, the three of them ordered mapo tofu, fish-flavored shredded pork, a plate of stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and three bowls of white rice. It cost nine coins in total.

The scent floated to the adjacent table, causing a large group of men who were doing coolies at the Fenshui River Wharf to stare at their beautiful and rich women, making Dou Xueer and the three of them want to change places.

"Look at you! Look at you! You've never seen a woman in your life, have you?!" An old woman came over with steamed buns and scrambled eggs with leeks, and sat next to Dou Xueer and the others, helping them block the sight of those men, " These two are female teachers from the literacy class! Be respectful!"

The aunt glared at them.

"So it's the female teacher from the literacy class!" Those guys became more energetic.

A man immediately said: "I will go to the literacy class early tomorrow morning!"

After that, a group of people burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at, what are you laughing at! Laughing again, I'll break your front teeth!" The aunt stood in front of Dou Xueer and the others like a chicken guard, waving her fists to demonstrate against a few men doing coolies on the pier. Hippie smiling, without any fear.

The aunt said flatteringly to Xie Lifen and the others: "The three gentlemen, don't be offended. They are all bachelors working as coolies, and they have no home or money."

There was a female teacher in a literacy class before who was pissed off after less than a month of being molested.

This aunt is a student in a literacy class. Although her learning ability is limited and her study time is pitifully small, she has learned more than 150 characters and more than 300 Chinese characters in one year. The book "Health and Sanitation" The picture book, she has been able to read through stumbles.

The aunt got unprecedented happiness from that picture book, so she became a loyal fan of the literacy class.

There used to be a particularly strict male gentleman, who was said to be a boy student nearby, but my aunt didn’t like that gentleman very much, and she couldn’t understand the lectures given to these muddy legs.

The gentleman asked them to do their homework, and he would get angry if he didn't come for two days, and even hit the board, what the hell!

The new female gentlemen are different. They are beautiful and soft-spoken.Occasionally, I would borrow books from the library to read to everyone in class, and the students in the literacy class especially liked them.

The aunt has now become a loyal fan of these new female gentlemen, lest these female gentlemen will be angry and go away again.

However, the three of them were not daughters of a scholarly family. They had long been accustomed to such gazes and teasing in the brothel, and their calm expressions surprised the old lady.

However, the three of them were very grateful for the aunt's maintenance, and even shared some dishes for the aunt to eat.

After dinner, the three of them made an appointment to go to the bathhouse to take a bath together, and they couldn't help talking about Princess Jin.

"Sister Xue'er, I heard that the concubine is a stunning beauty. How can she be so beautiful that she can make a young and vigorous highness give up the delicate flowers in the backyard and favor only that one?" Xie Lifen looked at her with self-pity. Looking at the fair and smooth skin all over his body, he asked with a smile.

Dou Xueer was still thinking about the profound painting techniques taught by the princess, she shook her head and said: "Beauty is beauty, but she is pregnant, no matter how delicate and beautiful, can she compare to those young women who have never given birth?"

"how?"

"That princess... is not a vase. I see that the prince's infatuation with her is not just a man's infatuation with a woman. He respects her." Dou Xueer said, "She is different from other women, she is not a golden object in the palm of a man. Canary."

Dai Yuqin smiled coquettishly: "However, no matter how much you respect her, it won't prevent His Highness from pampering the other women in the backyard."

Dou Xueer shook her head: "Then there is no way to know. I only met that Highness once. Maybe he is an infatuated person?"

"That's really enviable." Dai Yuqin said.

But Dou Xueer said: "I think that good people are rewarded with good rewards, God prefers that empress."

"It's a pity we didn't have such a good life."

"Coming to Taiyuan City is our luck, you are really dissatisfied!"

The three of them splashed water on each other and began to fight, and a large group of women around them thought it was very seductive to watch them fight.

Afterwards, attracted by the looks of Xie Lifen and Dai Yuqin, the literacy class in the library suddenly became popular. In addition to the morning class, four classes were added every morning, noon, and afternoon, and each class had at least More than 20 people came to listen.

Xie Lifen and Dai Yuqin taught simplified characters while learning, which did not hinder the teaching.

The teaching effect of the two was very good, and they were sought after by quite a few people, which made Lingxiu very surprised, so she made a special report and went to the palace, intending to raise monthly money for the two.

Such good talents may not be lost because the monthly payment is too low!

Song Qingyue naturally readily agreed, adding three taels of silver to the monthly salary of the two, and also gave a guarantee that they would add five taels of silver to the two of them in a year.

As for Dou Xueer, one month passed quickly, and the final exam was based on a short story given by the princess, using four to six paintings to draw, and the time limit was two days.

The story is very simple, it is the story of Cao Chong weighing an elephant. I was afraid that the local people had never seen an elephant, so they changed it to weigh two cows.

About half of the sketches submitted by everyone satisfied Song Qingyue. Among them, Dou Xueer painted the most attentively. She even carefully drew the passers-by behind the protagonist, making them either puzzled or surprised. All expressions of appreciation or appreciation are drawn.

Song Qingyue circulated Dou Xueer's works to everyone, and praised her hard work, which moved Dou Xueer very much.

She is the oiran of the brothel, this princess really doesn't mind at all!

As for the half of the works whose quality was not up to standard, Song Qingyue asked them to look at more good works, figure out how to draw by themselves, and take the second test a month later.

The [-] people whose work quality has reached Song Qingyue's requirements directly started the work of drawing comic strips.

Song Qingyue has asked Li Zhao's capable people to fabricate a story about a patrol censor named Song Gongming based on real cases in this dynasty, using his own wisdom to make decisions for the people and solve strange cases repeatedly.

Of course, Song Qingyue made some changes, for example: at the end of the story, the widow, who will be a widow for life at the chastity archway, was changed to meet a new lover under the guidance of heaven, and thus remarry and reap happiness.

There is another story that Song Qingyue asked them to write by name. It tells how a fake monk who was deceived and deceived, how he did evil, caused disasters to the village, and how he was finally exposed by Mr. Song. In the end, he was ruined and was arrested by the government. Mine.

The subordinates who helped write the stories discovered that the concubine seemed to have a grudge against monks, priests, and sorceresses. The three stories in which the concubine wrote the outlines were all related to fake monks, fake Taoists, and fake witches.

However, they all obeyed orders, and they wrote whatever the princess asked them to write.

The title of this set of French-language books is "Song Gongming Judgments", and eight short stories have been written.

Song Qingyue plans to publish a text storybook with illustrations first. As for these stories, they need to go through a round of deletion before they can be drawn into comic strips.

Song Qingyue divided the [-] who had met the technical requirements into nine groups, two by two, and Dou Xueer was in one group alone.

Dou Xueer’s task is to draw the setting set. First draw the images of several main characters that appear repeatedly in the story, including their appearance, height, clothing, etc. After that, each group is responsible for one of the stories. The figure painting is basically consistent with Dou Xueer's painting.

Dou Xueer drew two versions of the hero Song Gongming, but they couldn't satisfy Song Qingyue. The next day, she simply pulled Li Zhao to be Dou Xueer's model for half a day, and asked Dou Xueer to draw like Li Zhao!

"Your Majesty, Master Song in the story is already a censor, does he look a little too young?" Dou Xueer raised a little objection of her own.

Song Qingyue winked at her slyly: "I want to be handsome! I want to be young! And the martial artist next to him, the more beautiful the better! I want all men, women and children to love to see it!"

Dou Xueer nodded helplessly and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"

As a result, Song Qingyue's face was naturally placed on the martial arts woman next to Mr. Song.

This made Song Qingyue satisfied.

After drawing the setting set, Dou Xueer received the second task: to help draw illustrations for the uncondensed version of the text novel.

Because the target audience of text novels are wealthy scholars, Song Qingyue required that the illustrations of novels should be much more exquisite than those of comic strips, and considering the subsequent engraving and printing, the drafts had to be revised many times before they were approved.

This kind of painting work is much more difficult than Dou Xueer imagined, even Dou Xueer finds it difficult, not to mention that the rest of the painting skills are not as good as Dou Xueer's.

Every day, when the sun comes out and draws until it is almost dark, everyone moves their sore shoulders and necks, and they all feel that the high salary of five taels of silver is really not easy to earn.

However, Song Qingyue promised them that after the sale of this set of picture books in the future, they will give everyone a proportional commission. The more they sell, the more they earn. In a word, everyone's tired body and mind will be cheered up!

If this is the case, this job should be treated with more care!

(End of this chapter)