At about the same time in the afternoon, Uncle Riki finally got his wish, knowing who was calling his nephew yesterday, and he clearly saw these four people!

A tall blonde woman!

Three people who look like Chinese brunette women!

The reason why it seems to be said is that one of them always has a sentence or two in conversation, while the other two can also respond in Mandarin, and the four of them can communicate in Mandarin mixed with Cantonese.

According to villagers familiar with the matter, they booked a plane ticket after making a phone call yesterday and flew to Nanhua City overnight, rested at a hotel near the airport, and went all the way to Pingnan Village in the morning. Under the leadership of the enthusiastic villagers at the entrance of the village, they came to their own small grocery store, and they came to Nanhua thousands of miles to find Limu!

However, the nephew was not upstairs at this time, and the four of them could not wait for him to come back. Li Jiakang could only bring these four "foreign friends" and a large number of onlookers from the entrance of the village to the gate of the Lu family's compound.

At this time, the door of the Lu family's courtyard was not closed, and Grandma Lu Wei, who was sitting in the courtyard enjoying the cool, was startled, and secretly said that she didn't do anything bad! Why are you besieged?!

(The house is surrounded, how can life be good!?) ）

"Old man!" Grandma Lu Wei snorted and prepared to close the door and let the wolf dog go.

As soon as she stood up, she saw that the leader was Li Jiayasu, followed by all the villagers, and then she suddenly realized that she was making a fuss. She sorted out her mood and was about to ask a question, but Li Jiakang preemptively said:

"We're here to find Riki, is he here with you? Didn't you go out today, did you? ”

"Yes, it's upstairs, it's safe, nothing happened." Grandma Lu Wei thought about it, emphasizing that Limu is now "very safe", for fear that they have misheard some rumors to find fault.

"No, no, it's someone looking for him, tell him to come down......" Rika Yasu gave up his place and pointed to the four people behind him.

The blonde hair, the white skin, and the most conspicuous foreigner's face. The other three are also very different from ordinary villagers, at least the way they dress makes them stand out from the crowd.

(How do you say that?) Grandma Lu Wei's head crashed for a moment.

Tide - probably the feeling of young people leading the "trend". There was no one in the whole village, or in the whole city, dressed as fashionably as they were.

"Let's sit down for a while, let's sit down for a while." Grandma Lu Wei invited.

She set up the enthusiasm of the Chinese for foreign friends, drove the two wolf-dogs to the side of the yard and locked them, took the best rag in the courtyard pool, and wiped the stone table and stone bench under the peach tree.

Of course, it was only foreign friends who were invited by Grandma Lu Wei, and no one dared to sit with the four of them for a while, and after a long time, a few old women sat with them at their invitation. Outside the door, a group of villagers gathered around like monkeys, and all those standing in the outer circle stood on tiptoe, straightening their heads and looking into the courtyard.

"I can't imagine that in the capital of a province, in the center of the city, there is such a leisurely place." In Chinese, which is not very fluent and full of foreign accents, Goldilocks sighed to the invited village women.

This is...... An urban feature called an urban village.

"That's that, that's." The village woman replied.

But I thought in my heart: If you go around the road next to the compound, I don't think so.

Most of the interior of the village is made of bungalows, the bricks are blue bricks instead of red bricks, and there are people living in mud houses. In the middle of the village there is a fish pond that does not stink, but it is not very clean, and there are three pigsties next to the fish pond. One of the pigstys is the Limu family you're looking for, and it's in abandonment to build a fourth house for rent. The best home environment in the whole village belongs to the one you are visiting now, and you can directly choose the right two families as soon as you come.

"I said, girl, what are you doing here to find Limu?" Another village woman interjected.

Village women who dare to volunteer to sit next to foreign girls are naturally not timid, or their curiosity has exceeded a certain level.

After all, Pingnan Village produces vegetables every day, so people living nearby will go there to buy fresh vegetables. When there are more people buying, a market is formed, and there are always some people who come here to sell meat and fish. Therefore, the entrance of Pingnan Village is also known as the "small vegetable market", which is an illegal black vegetable market in later generations.

However, because there is no rent, the meat and vegetables are fresh and cheap, which is indeed very convenient for nearby villagers to do business.

Only when foreigners came in from the entrance of the village, naturally they could not escape the eyes of the village women who sold vegetables.

What's more, the villagers were stopped by four outsiders, and they were seen taking out a note with their addresses written on them. As the people of the state of etiquette, although they are only small villagers, they are also natural, and they are familiar with bringing foreign friends to the residence of the person they are looking for, and then they are brought to the Lu family by Li Jiayasu in the residence.

"We're looking for Mr. Conviction to sign a contract." The most obedient of the four women answered the village woman's question.

"Does that 'judgment' refer to Riki?"

"What contract?"

"You're here by plane?"

“……”

As soon as the conversation box was opened, the village women began to ask questions word by word, and if they hadn't had four mouths to answer, they would probably have to be busy at the moment.

"I think so, the conviction we're looking for is Riki." A woman with glasses, medium build, sitting straight, and even her hair is long and straight.

"Riki is a child!" The village woman said.

It seems to want to hear them say, "Oh, I'm in the wrong place."

It is good to add a little fun and joke to ordinary life.

"It's a child." The long-haired woman became more affirmative.

"Where are you all from?"

"I'm Chinese~!"

"She is also Chinese, but from Taiwan."

"It's all Chinese, so she's the only one who is British?"

"No, the one sitting over there who doesn't like to talk, Ryoko, it's me."

Chatting and chatting, the village women gradually became acquainted with them.

Of the four girls, the most talkative and shortest-looking one was a Hong Konger; Medium-sized, with glasses and long hair are Taiwanese; She doesn't talk much, and the girl who seems to be the most well-behaved and gentle is herself; Blonde-haired, snow-white-skinned, rather handsome girl is British.

All four of them belong to a company called Shangguo Press, and they came here to get Riki to sign a contract with them for a certain manga work.

"The children of the pear family...... It's promising, and it's attracting foreigners to the village! ”

"Look at people, my grandson doesn't know where to run, and I have to scold him when I come back."

"The pear family is famous this time, and their grandson has given the head of Pingnan Village a face this time."

"Comics—can this kind of thing make money?"

The villagers gathered outside the courtyard gate couldn't help but whisper.

In the eyes of the villagers, singing, dancing, and painting are all things for the pleasure of the rich, and those who say that they are not good at singing and performing arts, in fact, only the rich can afford to buy expensive paintings. Speaking of painters, it is a profession in which people were poor during their lifetime, and their works were bought and sold at a high price after death. As the saying goes, life does not know wealth, death does not enjoy glory.

Throughout the history of artists, this is the case, and the best is that he was poor and sad in his youth, and only in his old age did he live a little better.

Indeed, the artist's art is not for ordinary people, and ordinary people cannot appreciate and collect art. In the case of abstract paintings with twists and turns, Riki said that he would not appreciate or disdain to appreciate them. Because I can't understand the art of abstract painting at all, I stubbornly think that it is the upper class in the vassal elegance.

However, the cartoonist he dreamed of was different from the artist. An artist is called an artist only when he makes an impression painting that no one else can understand, and the more people can't understand it, the more art it is; Cartoonists, on the other hand, refer to the general public, and only when the cartoons they draw are widely recognized by everyone, can they be regarded as real cartoonists.

Anyway......

(Even foreigners have been attracted, so that thing called a comic should be able to make money, right?) The villagers, with all sorts of thoughts, finally waited for the protagonist of the event.

The little boy was followed by the two daughters of the Lu family.

Elisabel had fantasized about several occasions several times, but she didn't expect the other party to be so young. She stood up in surprise and compared the height of the little boy with her eyes, which was estimated to be lower than her waist, probably only to the position of the thighs, and smaller than the six or seven-year-old children she had seen in England!

(It's actually like this!) Just as she wondered if the little boy walking towards them in front of her would have the ability to conceive and draw a comic like Fullmetal Alchemist. As soon as the little boy opened his mouth, he spoke fluent English, and stretched out a hand to start a conversation with her:

“pleasedtomeetyou.i‘mlimu,theauthoroffullmetal

Alchemist.WeetoourVillage. (It's an honor to meet you, I'm Riki, the author of Fullmetal Alchemist, and welcome to our village.) ）”

As the president said, not only is he good at drawing comics, but he also has a pretty good level of language. If the other party is really a young manga artist, then he will have a lot of training value! Such a cartoonist can't be let go, so the president asked someone to buy a plane ticket and personally came to sign a contract with the little cartoonist.