On the first weekend of late November, Jessica waited by the carriage wearing a lounge dress and holding Hannah's hand.

Seeing Link coming out of the castle with a cardboard box, Hannah jumped and waved his hand and shouted, "Daddy, come on!"

Link smiled and quickened his pace and said, "Hannah, don't worry, we won't be late." ”

They are going to the market. Every year this weekend, Fox hosts a Hopping Market. The sellers are all from the town, and they will all clean up the things they don't want and sell them cheaply. Some are sold in their own small yards.

Later, some children joined in, and they would sell their own knick-knacks or old toys. Also buy something made by someone else.

Hannah didn't know if she had heard from the kid — Link seriously suspected it was Stephen's kid — and she was going to sell things too. But she was reluctant to sell those toys, so she had to make things herself. It's just what she can do with a two-year-old little guy.

Jessica suggested that she sell her paintings. So Link bought paper, Hannah painted four new paintings, and Link himself made a wooden frame and framed it. The cardboard box also contains a dozen or so paintings that Hannah had painted before, all framed in the frames she bought.

Jessica and Hannah sit in the back of the carriage. Although selling paintings was her proposal, it was she who was most worried about now. He asked Link, who was driving, "What if no one buys the painting?"

She was worried about the problem because Link had set the price too high. A painting is at least twenty dollars. Who wants to buy a two-year-old painting for that price?

But Link was adamant about the price: "Hannah paints a painting for at least an hour and a half, and even at the minimum hourly wage, the painting sells for twelve dollars." My labor is also calculated according to the minimum hourly wage, not counting other costs, which is also the price of jumping. ”

Thinking of him Link, even if he didn't do anything, he could make hundreds of millions of dollars a month by lying in bed and sleeping in—those few oil wells could bring him at least $300 million a month. He only received the lowest hourly wage for his labor, which was too aggrieved.

Jessica just laughed speechlessly when she heard his algorithm.

But then she was worried that if Hannah couldn't sell a single painting, she would be hit. It's easy for a child to get into the horns.

Link lowered his voice and said, "I transferred fifty dollars to Song last night! ”

When Jessica heard this, she couldn't help but laugh. It turns out that Link has been thinking about this for a long time.

Hannah was excited to sell something for the first time in her life, and she kept talking to Jessica and Link along the way. A bird flying on the side of the road can make her happy for a long time.

The carriage came to the site of the market, that park in town.

There are already a lot of stalls in the park, and there are no obvious boundaries between the stalls, and they are all set up here by some families with children. None of the things that can be sold here are bulky items.

As soon as Link's carriage arrived, the little boys gathered around. But Link didn't come to be a groom for them today.

He looked for a place at the entrance to the park.

Hannah knew a lot of the kids in town, and after she got out of the car, she talked to a few girls of about the same age. However, most two-year-olds do not speak clearly enough.

Link didn't care about her, just tethered the horse under a tree and placed the painting on the luggage rack behind the carriage.

Hannah squinted and smiled, and said to the girls that it was her painting: "I painted it, Daddy's frame!"

"It's so pretty!" Americans love to compliment, and along with their children, they have learned a little.

Hannah's favorite thing is that people praise her paintings. She nodded again and again and said, "Well, Daddy and Ka Ka said the same thing!"

"Hannah!" Stephen the kid came running.

He squeezed in front of Hannah and said, "Why are you here, I've got you a place on the edge of the stall!"

Hannah didn't know how to answer, so she had to look at Link.

Link smiled and said to the boy, "Because our horses are going to be tied to a tree." ”

Stephen looked at the two horses, sighed, and turned and ran.

After a while, he ran back and smiled at Hannah and said, "I'm going to set up a stall here too, my dad is cleaning up, and I'll be here soon!"

The entrance to the park is empty. When Song Xianhe came over with his things, Link realized that this kid didn't have many things, just a dozen or so things, all of which were made of some shells, beer bottle caps, and wood. There are wind chimes, and two grotesque-looking Transformers.

Song Xianhe said hello to Link, and then placed his son's "artwork" on a piece of plastic paper. He looked at Hannah's paintings and was a little surprised and said, "It's all Hannah's paintings!"

Hannah preemptively exclaimed, "Yes." Then she looked at him with a blank eye.

Song Xianhe smiled and said, "It's so good!"

"Hmm. I draw very seriously! Daddy and Kaka say yes, too!"Hannah is happy every time she gets a person's approval. But she felt that the most important thing was the praise that Link and Jessica had given her. So whoever likes her, she will emphasize that Link and Jessica "said the same thing".

Song Xianhe smiled and said to Link, "I dare say, this is something that all other two-year-olds in the world can't draw like this!" He may not know how to draw, and Hannah's paintings really don't have anything artistic in them. But the lines and chiaroscuro in it should not be something that a two-year-old can express on paper. Two-year-olds can focus, except for autistic children, I'm afraid there is no one left.

Hannah, on the other hand, was a normal child.

Soon, this makeshift bazaar began. Fox gets quite a few tourists every year. Many tourists go to the Olympic National Park to experience the werewolf culture.

Those who learn that there is a flea market for children today usually come by to have fun. Especially some tourists who come with children. In addition, even the children who set up stalls here will see if there are any other people's stalls that they like. In addition to this, there are some children in the town who do not have anything to sell themselves and will come here to play.

Hannah's paintings have never been cared for.

However, she said that she was here to sell something, and she didn't care about her paintings at all, just sat with Stephen, and the two children got together and didn't know what to whisper.

Link inadvertently saw that Stephen's kid secretly gave Hannah candy to eat.

Song Xianhe had a conversation with Link, and then went to chat with a few familiar parents nearby.

Link chose the entrance to the park so that people could see them as soon as they entered. However, the people who came to their stall were completely looking at the two horses and carriages, and were not interested in Hannah's paintings at all.

Link was upset about this, and said to Jessica, "I knew I wasn't going to drive the carriage. "He came in a carriage to attract attention. But there was absolutely no desire for those people to see only the carriage and not Hannah's paintings. It was drawn little by little by his precious daughter's full attention.

The market is said to be for the children to sell, but in fact it is more of a social interaction for the children. Hannah, for example, is vividly expressed. The girl didn't care about her paintings, just sat on the side and muttered to Stephen not knowing what to say. Other children came running, and she was talking to each other.

He smiled and said, "It seems that she will be sad and worried that the painting will not be sold, it is redundant!"

Jessica also laughed and said, "I think she just thought it was a fun game." There is no intention of comparing with others at all. I also sold stuff before Christmas when I was a kid. I usually sell soda and juice though. Ten cents a glass of soda and fifty cents of juice. I can make a dozen dollars a day. That's a great opportunity to make pocket money. ”

Link had just taken a look at the kids in the market, and several of them were selling sodas. "The soda business is also very competitive," he laughs. ”

"It's just exercising children's expression skills, social skills, and promoting children's psychological growth. ”

"Who drew this?"

As they were talking, someone suddenly asked.

Hannah is sensitive to this issue. She still sat there and raised her little hand as if reflexively and said loudly, "I painted it!"

The person who asked was a curly-haired man with gray hair. He was holding a little boy of three or four years old, and he was standing in front of Hannah's pictures and watching.

Link smiled and said, "Hello sir, this is painted by my daughter." Hannah, come here!"

Hannah ran over and looked up at the man and said, "Hello, my name is Hannah Lim." Two years old and one month old. ”

"Two years old?" the man looked at Link, as if to make sure what Hannah said was true.

Link nodded and smiled, "Yes, Hannah is two years old. ”

The man nodded, smiled and said, "I beg your pardon, I'm just surprised that a two-year-old child has such drawing ability." How long has she been learning to draw?"

"How many days a month?" he said, turning to Jessica. "I'm right. ”

"It should be a month and a half. She started drawing a few days before her birthday when she drew invitations to children. ”

"A month and a half?, draw an invitation?" the man was a little surprised. "I have to say, you have found a very good teacher of painting. "The man was a painter, and he ran the only gallery at Fox. He knows very well that it is not easy for a two-year-old child to understand what it means to be three-dimensional, even if he is talented.

And the paintings he saw had already seen the three-dimensional sense of the picture, which was essentially different from half of the children's paintings. Although these paintings are not artistic, they can depict the concrete image of objects with lines and shades of color, which is remarkable for a two-year-old.

Jessica laughs, "Actually, we didn't ask Hannah for a teacher, I just taught her how to hold a pen when she started drawing. Later, she painted it herself. ”

The man confirmed again and again, and even asked Hannah. learned that Hannah really realized that objects are three-dimensional in a month and a half. He even spoke to Hannah about the use of color in her paintings.

If someone asked Hannah what the light was or what the hell was going on, she wouldn't know what to do. But the man seemed to know the child well. He asks Hannah why she used that color in her painting. Why draw such a line.

Hannah struggled to listen, but when she understood the question, she would happily answer, "It's a cloud, and it's dark on one side of the cloud." There are black clouds, and the sky is not happy, so it is not blue, and there are white clouds, and the sky is blue when it is happy. The clouds are so high, there are many stories high, and it's so big! Birds fly under the clouds, there are black clouds, and the birds are afraid to fly high. ”

Link listened to her staccato and hear her say "there are black clouds, and the birds are scared" and knew that she still had Halloween fears buried in her heart. He bent down and picked her up.

The man listened carefully to what Hannah had to say, and looked at the painting Hannah had said again. He smiled and shook his head and said, "It's me who underestimated little Hannah." It's a living painting!" But this is a two-year-old child who clearly draws what he wants to express in his heart. It's quite amazing.

"Your daughter has a talent for drawing. The man said with a smile. "So Hannah, how much are you going to sell for this painting?"

Hannah didn't understand his question and had to look at Link.

Link smiled and helped her answer, "Forty dollars for this painting." This is calculated based on the local minimum hourly wage. ”

"She was able to draw quietly for three hours straight, that's amazing!"

Link laughed and said, "No, she's actually more amazing than that." Because of this painting, she only took an hour and a half, and the other hour was the time it took me to make the frame. ”

The man chuckled under his breath and said, "According to this algorithm, if you engrave your name on the frame, Mr. Hans." It could sell for $400,000. ”