Chapter 23: Sketching

"Good morning, Miss Rokuchi."

Out of respect for the elders and children, I took the lead in bowing down. Since I didn't know Sa's mother's name, I called her by my last name. Originally, for the older generation, I should have called me aunt (おばさん).,But she doesn't seem to like the way it looks.。 After being corrected,,Call her Miss Six Senses (さん)。

Miss Liuzhi looked at me with a trance-like gaze and nodded: "It turned out to be Baishi, hello." ”

Her tone was cold, she didn't smile, and she didn't affectionately call children by their first names like other adults. But I don't care about that, in fact, it's not just me, the other children get the same treatment at Miss Liuzhi.

Mika and Rina may be a little better, and Miss Rokuchi's attitude towards women and men is slightly different, and other children may not feel it, but I can see the difference after a little observation.

I think it's because of Sa's father. To be honest, I still have some admiration for Sa's father, and I can be unmoved by a beauty like Miss Liuzhi. But for gay people, this beauty may be a kind of ugliness.

It is difficult for people to understand each other, and even if God does not destroy the Tower of Babel and make people speak different languages, this will never change. It's like I can't understand that Sasa's father can resist the charm of Miss Rokuchi.

"Mom, I'm sorry. I...... I'm just a little hungry. ”

The yarn beside him lowered her head, timidly, and looked like she had done something wrong. She was afraid of her mother, and spoke in a lower voice than usual.

"Since that's the case, forget it this time."

After being silent for a while, Miss Liuzhi held her round belly with her delicate left hand, and slowly stepped forward to stroke her daughter's cheek: "Okay, let me do the rest." You go to the living room with Shiraishi, and if he wants to read, you take him to the study. It's still the old rule, except for the books on the shelves of 'recommended', 'excellent' and 'good', you can't touch anything else. Do you hear that? ”

The last sentence she looked at me and said it to me. There are a lot of books in the yarn family, and the types involved are relatively rare, and some books are not collected in the Golden Township Library. The "recommended", "excellent" and "good" she mentioned belong to the first category of books, which are books that can be read and circulated without restriction by the ethics committee.

"Okay."

That's my answer, curiosity is something I don't lack, but I will never break taboos for it. There are a lot of secrets that you will know when you should know, and there are many secrets in Kamisu 66 Town, but since adults don't think children need to know, there is a reason for this.

I used to be an adult too, so I naturally tend to think like an adult. Some secrets are harmful to children, so there is no need to let them know. Only when the child grows up, has a stable outlook on life and values, and has his own judgment on these secrets, should he dabble in it.

"Mom, I'm very obedient and I've never touched a book other than the first category. You don't say that about him. ”

Sha retorted for me in a low voice, which was already an unexpected bold statement for her.

"Oh, is that so?"

Miss Liuzhi's gaze became gloomy, and I pretended to know nothing, and nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be like this." ”

I didn't touch it, but there was an open book on the desk, and I just stood in front of the desk and looked at it for a while. At that time, I was afraid of being imprinted by the magic attached to it, so I turned the page by blowing air. Although it was eventually restored to its original state, it seems to have been discovered in the end.

Luckily, however, the books at that time were about the use of mana, which could only be said to be relatively precious and advanced, and could not be called a forbidden book. So when I was discovered, Miss Liuzhi glared at me and didn't say anything after that.

"Alright, you two go outside."

Miss Rokuchi shook her head helplessly, walked over to the stove, and then the lid of the soup pot on the stove floated. She looked at the soup pot and the fire, and looked at me meaningfully: "I did a good job today, but it was a little too much." ”

"There's also a discount in it. His mom went out early today and didn't make breakfast. ”

Yarn brought out the lie I had told her, but it couldn't have fooled even herself, a six-year-old girl, let alone her mother.

"Your mother's work is so busy, and there are still people willing to go to the library when it's snowing."

Miss Liuzhi looked at me with even more displeasure, and she rubbed her temples with her fingers, and her tone was a little colder.

"Maybe it's not the library's job."

I can only vaguely understand the irony hidden in her words. My mother's work at the library was actually a holiday after the snow fell, and most of the people in the town stayed at home to enjoy a quiet life during the snowy season, and there was basically no need to go out.

"That's really hard."

"Did something happen?"

The yarn was a little unclear, but Miss Liuzhi had no intention of exposing what I was doing, and after saying "nothing", she kicked the two of us out of the station.

Sasha and I went back to the living room to sit, and as soon as Saki sat down, she got busy, brewing hot tea, bringing snacks, and didn't stop until I stopped her.

"Yarn, didn't you ask me to teach you sketching last time, go find a few pieces of paper, and I'll teach you."

After saying this, Sha put down other work to find pencils and paper, and I also took advantage of this time to find a book in the study, which is a collection of essays similar to "Pillow Grass", the title of the book is "The World of All Kinds", the content is some research records and talks about the living habits of animals and plants.

The content described in the book is like that of other books of the first kind, without the slightest pyrotechnic or combative content, the author only summarizes his observations of various creatures in light language, and then uses the observed phenomena to illustrate people, and tells people that they should learn from the good character and spirit embodied in these creatures.

All in all, this is a typical children's educational literature, but the words are simple and soft, and it has the value of reading.

"Sketching is a way of painting that highlights beauty through lines and light and shade, the most important of which is line. Yarn, you first draw and observe this cup, and then tell me what you see. ”

I placed a teacup in the center of the table, and the light was shining brightly.

"Cups and shadows."

"What else?"

I instructed and gently traced my fingers on the rim of the teacup.

"The rim of the cup, and the texture of the cup."

Sha tilted her head and observed for a while, then gave a barely passing answer.

"Almost, but not completely."

I nodded, smiled encouragingly, and began to explain, "Everything we see in our eyes is actually made up of the most basic points. In one sentence, it is to point into a line, a line into a surface, and a surface into a body. ”

As I spoke, I picked up my pencil and dotted a dot on the paper, traced it down to become a line, and then sketched out several connected lines to give the paper a rectangle.

"You look at this cup, it's a body made up of multiple faces, first of all, the rim, which is a round face. When viewed from the side, it will be oval. Then there is the body of the cup, the lower part is semicircle, while the upper part can be seen as a square. That is, a body is made up of multiple faces, and faces are made up of lines. Therefore, whether a complete body is good or not, the key is to see whether the surface composed of lines is coordinated. ”

I picked up the cup again and drew it, explained the theoretical knowledge roughly, and then drew a teacup for demonstration. Then I asked the yarn to start practicing the most basic observation and structural sketching. The object of observation is her own teacup, and she is asked to draw the structure of the teacup as symmetrically as possible.

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