An hour later, the statue of the girl was placed in front of Black Gold.

The Grey Dwarf made the Master wait for forty minutes before crawling out of the raw gem ore that filled the entire workbench and blocked half of the passage, and then spent a minute listening to the Master's explanation. Deep blue is the world of magic and the world of gold coins, but there is nothing about art. The Grey Dwarf had one foot halfway up the Magical Peak, and the other foot was standing at the top of the Gold Coins Mountain, so his physical height had just touched the Master's chest, but his mental height was the opposite.

The master explained that the gray dwarf didn't listen to a few words at all, he skipped all the explanatory sentences, and grasped the point, Richard's work, one of the situations that His Royal Highness Helen Su specifically requested to report. Hearing this, Heijin didn't dare to slack off, and carefully tore open the wrapping paper with his hard and rough hands, which were covered with calluses comparable to the scales of a Warcraft, revealing the portrait of the girl inside.

There was silence.

The gray dwarf's eyes barely moved as he stared at the statue of the girl, his lips opening and closing rapidly, and he didn't know what he was muttering to himself. The master was deeply shocked, and did not expect that Heijin would be able to see the glowing charm of this painting, and tremble. The master suddenly felt that he had indeed been prejudiced against the gray dwarves before, who said that this race did not understand art at all?

Heijin suddenly exhaled a breath of turbidity, rubbed his sour eyes, and said, "That's it?"

"Ahh......h

"This painting hasn't been painted yet, has it?"

“......”

The master struggled to suppress his heart, which was beating fast and slowly, and after taking a long breath, he reluctantly replied, "This is a plain painting. ”

The gray dwarf suddenly realized, re-examined the portrait of the girl, and commented: "Well, it's not fully developed yet, but the figure and appearance should be very average." I'm measured by your human standards, if in our Stormhammer tradition, hum...... Aha! I saw it, that lunch box! It was a special lunch box for Richard! It was so perfectly detailed and proportioned that not even a single line could be faulted, it was really Richard's style! You know, the magic master of Lordan had already praised him three times this week. How many times has it been this year? Let me think about it, fifty or seventy....... it's a lot anyway! You know, that old guy hasn't praised anyone so many times in the past ten years!"

The master really couldn't say how he was feeling, and he couldn't explode at the black gold, so he could only guide patiently: "Look carefully, the moment captured by this painting ......"

The gray dwarf looked carefully, and then again....... and again and again and finally felt that the painting should be painted with some color.

When he left the office of Black Gold, the master's heart was almost as dark as Richard's, and the unprecedented frustration made him almost lose his artistic self-confidence. He never understood why this master of jewelry, magical equipment, and antiques knew so much about painting, and every jargon he uttered was so devastating.

Behind the Master, the two bronze doors of the gray dwarf's office area slowly closed. The height of the gate is twice that of a normal area, which means that the height of the floor in the Grey Dwarf office area is also twice as high as that of the others. Therefore, these two simple and luxurious gates representing wealth and status have always been the objects of envy and envy of many people in Deep Blue. It's easy to see why a gray dwarf, who is only half as tall as a tall human, would make his office area so tall.

When the door was closed, the gray dwarf behind the door suddenly sneered and muttered to himself: "The joy of the boss, how can it be so easy to get?" It was in his cabinet, if this portrait of a girl was also included, the events that wanted to make Su Helen 'happy' had already filled most of the cabinet, a total of sixty-seven pieces.

The gray dwarf instinctively walked towards the gem ore, but frowned again, stopped his steps, turned back to the desk, opened the portrait of the girl again, and examined it carefully for ten minutes before closing it, hesitated, and put the portrait into another cabinet that was one size smaller. In the small cabinet are also events or reports that want to make Su Helen 'happy', but there are only five in total, and this painting is placed in the second position. Unlike the large cabinet, the report in this cabinet is that the report will soon meet with the legendary mage. And the contents of the big cabinet may be dumped out like waste ore in a few months.

The whole summer, for Richard, seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. One day later, the harvest festival is ushered in, which is the beginning of autumn and the end of the fishing season in the floating bay. On this day, millions of people who depend on the sea for their livelihood in the ice floe bay hold a grand celebration to thank the sea god for providing food to survive the long and harsh winter. The deep blue, located in the bay of ice floe, also celebrates this day as a festival, which is considered to be a sign of the official beginning of autumn.

The Harvest Festival didn't mean anything to Richard, and all his time was spent meditating on the accumulation of magic and the practice of magic except for the heavy schoolwork that he could almost never finish. He had to fill up all his time, otherwise his thoughts would come up like blisters, pressing this side and floating that side.

On the evening of the Harvest Festival, Erin arrived punctually at Richard's residence and brought him dinner. The heavy lunch box has made it very difficult for the girl to carry it on her arms alone, but it will continue to increase in weight for the foreseeable future. While Richard buried himself in cleaning the food, Erin sat quietly and watched silently. Now there is no longer a single gold coin transaction between the two of them, and they don't even say much. Therefore, during this time, Erin did not receive a single gold coin from Richard. Eating was now a complete torment for Richard, and the girl's melancholy could not be concealed from him, but she refused to reveal the reason. So Richard suffered, but he couldn't do anything about it.

The last piece of snack was swallowed by Richard with tenacious will, and then he looked up at the girl for the first time, habitually wanting to say thank you, but the rows of numbers that appeared on the girl's body made him stiffen on the spot! The girl's body changed, and in the digital vision, the original subtle changes were infinitely magnified, and they were presented in front of him very eye-catchingly.

Her ** has increased slightly, and the left and right sides are not balanced, obviously not natural growth, but due to external injuries. And her movements also seem very unnatural, especially her legs occasionally tremble slightly, and her waist keeps moving quietly. It was as if sitting on the cushions covered in brocade would sting her. The girl's eyes were slightly puffy, redder than usual, and she seemed to have been crying fiercely for a short time. Today's girl's magician's robe was wrapped very tightly, but during her inadvertent movements, a bruise on her neck was revealed. And her heart was also beating much faster than usual, compared to Richard himself, it would only beat so fast when he had just experienced something very important.

All the signs put together immediately gave Richard an answer in his mind, an answer that he felt completely unbelievable. When he had just turned eleven, Richard did not understand the initiation of the children of the aristocracy at the age of seven or eight, but now that he was eleven and a half years old, Irene had led him through most of the way, so he had long known everything that must happen between adult men and women.

"You...... Is there a man?" Richard's voice was so dry and hoarse that he could barely tell the difference.

Erin's body shook, and her face turned pale in an instant. When the truth of the matter was revealed, she slowly calmed down, raised her hand to comb the hair that was a little messy on the side of her cheeks, and said, "Yes, it was just last night." ”

Richard took a deep breath and closed his eyes, no longer letting the desperate numbers beat in front of him. "Why?" his voice was as calm as Erin's, but with a chilling coldness.

"I need money. ”

"I've got a lot!" Ever since noticing the changes in Irene, Richard began to look beyond his studies like a bird out of his shell. Although he still didn't have a friend to talk to, at least Richard understood that he couldn't measure the others in Deep Blue by his own standards. Taking consumption alone as an example, his monthly income is enough for dozens of people to live well in the deep blue.

Erin's face turned pale, she looked deeply at Richard, shook her head, and said softly but firmly, "But I don't want to make your money." ”

She packed up her lunch box as usual, and when she walked to the door, she turned around and said, "I forgot to tell you, starting tomorrow, another person will come to bring you food." So...... Goodbye, Richard. ”

The metal door slowly closed, and when the heavy impact was heard, Richard seemed to suddenly lose all his strength and leaned back in his chair. He clutched at his hair, trying to believe that nothing had just happened, but not only the two enlightening talents, but all the traits he had cultivated as a child reminded him of the cold and cruel truth. However, he couldn't figure out why Erin would be reluctant to make his money.

At this time, Richard still didn't understand that people always had some inexplicable persistence when they were young, and they moved themselves with this, but they often inadvertently let the really important things flow through their fingers.