It's been a month since he came to this city, but he has never seen the city well, even the surrounding areas of the community, because he comes out from time to time to find supper, so he is more familiar.

Walking to the bookstore I remember seeing, it is not a weekend when there are not many pedestrians, and the weather in August is unusually hot, and the city is like a stove scorched by charcoal.

Xia Ziyu walked along the shadows under the leaves, and now he was interested in observing this Linshi that he had never noticed before, how many times he had passed through this city without stopping, and now he had lived here for a month.

Only to find that it is only less than 100 kilometers away, and it has a completely different urban rhythm from the provincial capital, and the people here walk leisurely and casually, unlike his impression that people are a little urgent.

After walking a short distance, I saw the sign of the manga house in the distance, and the bookstore arrived.

He opened the glass door covered with various comic posters, and immediately felt a refreshing and penetrating coolness, the air-conditioned interior was different, compared with the heat outside, it was like a glass door separating heaven from hell.

There is a female employee in the store who is sorting out the shelves, and the owner is holding a comic book on the cash register and reading it with relish, completely ignoring the customers who enter the door.

"Guest, what books do you need? In addition to comics, we also have a lot of entertainment magazines here. ”

Dressed in casual clothes, but wearing an apron printed with the signature pattern of the comic house, the female employee saw Xia Ziyu enter the door and asked kindly.

It was the first time in Xia Ziyu's life to enter such a bookstore, and he used to buy books from large municipal libraries to buy literary books, and he was very interested in these entertaining books.

Since he didn't know his goal, he could only ask the female clerk for help and asked, "Can you introduce me to some of the most famous manga?"

His smile is very fresh and very infectious, coupled with his handsome appearance, the female clerk is very curious about this polite customer, he has a bit of the temperament of the chaebol young master in the movie, but he does not have that superior posture.

The female clerk's face was slightly red, but her tone was still normal, "The guest comes with me." ”

After saying that, she walked in front and took Xia Ziyu to a bookshelf, she skillfully selected a few comic books from the piles of comic books, and asked Xia Ziyu: "You need popular comics, this "Magical Beautiful Girl" is a must-choose comic." ”

She's holding a single comic book of "Magical Beautiful Girl".,Now it's out of the third volume.,But the original serialized work is in the Vitality Girl Weekly.。

"Oh, why do you say that?" Xia Ziyu asked curiously.

"Look at these. The female clerk didn't answer directly, but swept her finger at a piece of comics and said, "Have you seen the names of these comics?" ”

Xia Ziyu saw the pile of books she pointed to, and paid attention to the names on them, which were indeed as she said, basically the same.

The female clerk looked at Xia Ziyu and nodded, and then handed the comics in her hand to Xia Ziyu, "It's the popularity of this "Magical Beautiful Girl" that created a new genre of "Magical Girl", which led to a bunch of comics following the trend here." ”

"Isn't this a girl's comic? I'm not suitable, right?" Xia Ziyu looked at the girl on the cover with some embarrassment, and the cute and youthful style made him slightly embarrassed.

I didn't expect to meet a guest with an old idea, the female clerk was a little surprised, Xia Ziyu didn't look like those older generations at this age, and complained: "Your thinking is too outdated! It's not the military era, and you will be shy when you read a girl's protagonist's book." ”

Xia Ziyu was embarrassed, because he had not paid attention to entertainment in his previous life, his concept was somewhat similar to that of his father's generation, and he felt that it was a little unnatural embarrassing to read a cartoon with a young girl as the protagonist.

"Then give me all this comic, by the way, what magazines are there about comics?"

"Magazines?comic weekly, or magazines that introduce comics-related content?" The female clerk was afraid that Xia Ziyu would not understand, so she walked to the magazine shelf, took out two types of magazines, and introduced them to him.

"Well, it's this kind of magazine, which introduces information about the manga industry. ”

After buying the comics and magazines he wanted, when Xia Ziyu was leaving, he asked the female clerk where to buy the pen tablet and tools for drawing comics?

Knowing that the location wasn't far away, he walked by.

He came to this comic goods store and found that there were many surprises in the store.

The store is brightly decorated, fully stocked, and a shopping guide is in the store to recommend products to one of the customers with a junior high school child.

Xia Ziyu, as a professional and a cartoonist's assistant in his memory, naturally didn't need to be recommended by others, after he entered the store, he just glanced at the layout of the store and saw which product shelf the tools he needed were placed.

He grabbed a shopping cart, filled it with comic books, and went into the shelves to pick out the tools he needed.

He not only has to use a pen tablet on the computer, but also a physical comic tool such as comic manuscript paper, because different pictures may have different expressive power of the two paintings, and the color vertical painting of pen tablet painting is the most suitable.

As he was picking up the goods, he passed by the mother with a junior high school child and heard the clerk introducing them.

The female clerk was enthusiastically recommending the little girl to use a student brush to paint, Xia Ziyu saw several brands on the shelves when she passed by, and took another brand of brush barrel, which is a wooden paint brush barrel with a replaceable pen head.

Seeing the brand Xia Ziyu casually chosen, the mother asked the female clerk: "What is the difference between the paintbrush that the gentleman took just now and this one?"

Maybe she thinks that Xia Ziyu, who already has a lot of goods in the shopping cart, may be a professional, since someone else has chosen a different brush, it means that the one he chose may be better than the one recommended by the female clerk.

This is a professional manga appliance store, if you are just a manga lover, and those who have just started to learn, you must not know what kind of tool you need when you come in.

Often, they buy a lot of things that they don't need because they don't know about the tools, so the caring staff of the manga shop will recommend painting tools that suit their skill level.

But there are some customers who will have a skeptical attitude towards the clerk, always feeling that they will be deceived into buying expensive and impractical goods, and this mother has such a mentality.

The female clerk smiled and replied, "The brush that the gentleman chose just now is more professional......

Before she could finish her sentence, the mother said, "Get us that too!"

The corners of the female clerk's mouth twitched slightly, but she patiently explained to her: "Guest, that's the case, because each painter has a different level and uses different brushes, and professional exchangeable brushes are not very friendly to newcomers." And I recommend this brush to you, suitable for novices to learn comics, the design of the nib is not easy to hurt the hand, and the thickness of the pen barrel is more suitable for girls' hands. ”

The mother looked at the clerk suspiciously, then turned to her daughter and asked, "Which one do you want?"

Obviously, after some explanation by the female clerk, she still didn't believe it.

Xia Ziyu didn't go far, he chose the pen next door, heard their conversation, looked at the little girl who hesitated but didn't dare to speak, he also knew that this was a girl who had just started learning comics, and it was indeed as the clerk said, suitable for using the brush she recommended.

So, Xia Ziyu's helpful personality made it so that he went to relieve the female clerk.

"This little sister should really use her recommended brush to practice, if you use the one I chose directly, the nib is easy to hurt your hands when painting, the important thing is that there are several professional nibs, and novices will not choose the right nib when they should use the student nib to practice. ”

He said to the mother, sincere eyes and a good person who was obviously more credible than the female clerk, so the mother no longer insisted, but chose the style recommended by the female clerk.

The clerk gave him a grateful look, and he smiled and nodded, and left.

This is just a small episode, Xia Ziyu is very fast in choosing tools, basically he knows which tool is suitable at a glance, when he pushed the shopping cart to the cashier to pay, the mother and daughter just lined up in front of him.

The girl's mother was paying the bills, and the girl was standing behind her, timid, a little introverted, tied with a single ponytail, and her skin had the fair and delicate skin of a little girl, very cute.

After she and Xia Ziyu glanced at each other, they lowered their heads in a panic and avoided their gaze.

"Thank you. A thin soft female voice came out of her mouth, if it weren't for Xia Ziyu's good ear, she really wouldn't have been able to hear her voice.

"You're welcome. ”

Xia Ziyu replied with a smile.

On the other side, the female clerk just now was talking to another short-haired clerk, the short-haired clerk: "Did you say that boy gave you help because you were beautiful, what you just said was made up casually." ”

The beautiful female clerk just now rolled her eyes, squinted at her companion and said, "Maybe someone is a cartoonist, more professional than you." ”

"Hehe, I can see at a glance with years of experience that he is definitely not a professional cartoonist, because he doesn't have the kind of calluses on his hands that cartoonists should have!"

The short-haired clerk made a positive declaration.

Xia Ziyu is indeed not a professional cartoonist as she judged, except for the need to draw design drawings when studying industrial design, he basically doesn't use a paintbrush the rest of the time, and naturally there are no cartoonists' calluses on his hands.

When it was time for him, there was a shopping cart, a tablet, a dip pen, a brush, a marker, a pencil, ink, paper, a writing table, a ruler, and ...... Counting the same thing, it is close to the price of tens of thousands.

The cashier of this comic tool store looked at Xia Ziyu in surprise.