"What's the matter, I don't have money, I don't accept apprentices, and I don't like to meddle in things, don't try to beat my idea."

"Can you lend me your sketchpad, brush, and paper?"

"Think beautifully, this paper, pen, and paint are all my belongings, what should I do if I borrow you?"

"Hmmm... Can I just use a box of paint? Just a box of paint. I begged, it's really not easy to be a man, it's really not good to be thick-skinned.

"One box is one, this box is for you, don't say you know me, go quickly, go aside." He said with disgust, he should have picked a box of colors that he didn't use the most, and added, "How can you draw without paper?" ”

"I still have a face without paper, the so-called number of people is powerful, there are so many painters on the street here, I can find some casually, ask them for the colors they don't use the most, and I can almost make it up!" I laughed.

He scoffed, as if he wasn't going to pay any more attention to me. Me too, it's really too easy to think, they all cherish their own painting tools, and the Wenqing painter is quite kind, probably for the sake of me blocking the sun for him.

After the morning, all my belongings were still a box of paints and my own paintbrushes, and it was really cold in the world, and some painters refused to give me even a piece of used paper, so I gave up.

I nestled by the lake and leaned against the bridge fence for an afternoon, my stomach rumbling, and my throat was about to stick out my claws. I stared at the box of paint, I wanted to eat it, it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, who told me that I could paint and have a foothold in the rain, and I could eat it as a meal when I painted in the rain.

I went to the lake and washed my face, staring at my own shadow in the lake for a long time, thinking what is the use of this white and pure face? It's better to be a piece of drawing paper, and the thought of this suddenly struck me.

When there are many people on the street, I use the tip of my paintbrush to dip some paint, so I must save some money! I drew a small and delicate stamen on the palm of my hand, and then used the lake as a mirror and printed it in the center of my forehead.

People come and go, and I just hold my head high. At first, everyone looked at me strangely, and then finally a girl who knew the goods stopped in front of me.

"Girl, that stamen on your forehead is quite chic, can you draw me one too?"

"Yes." I gently applied a thin layer to the stamens on the palm of Fang Cai's hand, found the right position, and fixed it on her forehead, and then quickly moved it back, without adhesion, very well.

I saw a lot of children playing on the street, and then I printed a butterfly on one side of my face and a rabbit on the other, holding my face high, waiting...

I don't know how much or less the money is, it's all for them to look at, and by the way, you can also exchange things, so I can earn enough money to buy buns, and I didn't starve to death on the first day, and I bought a few boxes of paint by the way.

The next day, in order to save paint, I told the interested guests that it would be cheaper for each of them if there were three people together.

After three days of this, I can eat two hot buns every day, and I can add a small box of paint, among many painting tools, paint is the cheapest, and the price of painting tools in Xicheng is generally lower than that in Dongcheng, I can barely buy a little.

Three days later, the situation improved, probably because a girl had exchanged her set of clean old clothes for this little flower in my hand, and I changed into a little girl's house. As I said at the weekend, it is quite distressing for the girls in the rain to come out and show up.

Today's business is sparse, early in the morning only waited for a man dressed in a family clothes, he accosted me, asked a lot of questions about my life experience, I said I am alone, has been homeless, since childhood love to paint, this time to the rain to pre-test the orange painting garden, the result was not admitted, can only live on the street.

Half a day later, he also explained his intentions: "Miss Aru, that's right, our young lady took care of your business that day while enjoying the lakeside, and after she returned home, she also mentioned your matter to our old lady, and our old lady is merciful and very sorry for Miss Aru. It just so happens that our house is also recruiting maids recently, Miss Aru can inquire, our Xu family's reputation in this area is still good, and the treatment of the people in the house is good in terms of treatment and monthly money. ”

After listening to it, it turned out that I was recruited to be a maid for others!

"Actually, Miss Aru, there are many street painters, not only is the wind and the sun blowing, but the business is still not very easy to do, I heard that you don't even have a place to stay now, the weather is good these days, the next few days the weather is cold and there is wind at night, looking at your body and thin, it is really distressing." The people who came were also very humble and polite, and they knew their good intentions.

Actually, what he said is not unreasonable, but I... There's still a little bit of heart.

Seeing that my face was quite embarrassed, he continued: "The contemptible people don't know about Miss Aru's past, but this day will always be passed later. Miss Aru said before that she wanted to take the Orange Painting Garden, but she still wants to continue? ”

"Hmm."

"In fact, these two compartments are not in conflict, in the past, there were also outsiders to take the orange painting garden, three times in a year in a row three times have not passed, this assessment once every three years, do not give up will first look for some errands in the high door, after all, the rain is the capital of painting, the atmosphere of painting is particularly strong. Therefore, we have recruited people from all major high-ranking households, and the term of the contract is three years. In three years, you can do your own work to practice painting, three years up, you can devote yourself to the practice of painting, just these three years can be regarded as earning some labor for yourself to eat and wear, if not, to stay or by personal will. ”

I still didn't say anything, although they were right, but...

"Miss Aru, my surname is Cai, I am the housekeeper of Xu Mansion, if you think about it, you can take this letter to Xu Mansion to find me when the time comes, the place is not far away, from here I go straight to the west and turn a corner, and then walk all the way to it, ask along the road, it is easy to find." He handed me a letter and told me to put it away.

I thought for a while that I was going to end up at this point, and that food and clothing, which was the least problem, became the biggest problem.

It was really said by the Cai housekeeper, the sky is unpredictable, the afternoon began to be cloudy, and then the pouring rain poured down, instantly drenched me into a soup chicken, standing dryly under the eaves of others, the rain is still oblique, swept by the wind to rush to the face, menacing, can not be stopped.

I curled up under the eaves of someone's house all night, like a lost dog.

The wind and rain invaded the whole world, and the whole world shook with it, and I watched those towering trees swaying uncertainly, and I was also a little shaken, and I had a hot meal to eat, and a place to shelter from the rain and wind, and I was fine.