Be a Cartoonist In the Fairy World

"Fortunately, I didn't waste my whole life on this, otherwise this life would be wasted." Du Ziyuan, who was clear-headed, naturally wouldn't dig into the horns again.

He is very clear about where his current advantages are.

Don't even think about singing and dancing, he doesn't have that talent. It is feasible to copy songs and scripts, but it is very likely to make wedding dresses for others. After all, singers and actors are always more popular than songwriters and screenwriters.

He doesn't know how to play musical instruments, let alone create games, it's not bad for him to play games...

After much deliberation, novels and paintings are the most suitable for him now. But the competition for novels is too fierce, and I don't know how many people submit articles every day. After all, some people have already succeeded in this path, and everyone feels that this path is more stable. If he is a newcomer to submit a manuscript, he may not even see the review editor.

"In the end, I still have to do my old job." Du Ziyuan looked at his hands, wondering if they could reproduce the skills in his dream.

To be honest, he is still very optimistic about his prospects. After all, the entertainment industry in this world has only developed for 80 years. Before that, swords, swords and shadows were the mainstream of the world, and literati were only a minority.

Although today's social atmosphere is much more open than that of feudal society, the monarchy is still there, and this place is still ancient. Everyone still draws with a brush, and what they draw is ink and wash. There are quite a few peaks in artistic conception, but they are obscure and difficult to understand, and they are not suitable for the public.

It's not that there are painters who don't follow the popular line, such as some big touches who paint erotic pictures. In Du Ziyuan's view, they are the book painters in the fairy world.

Moreover, the "painting" in the fairy world is still limited to landscapes and portraits, and there is no concept of "caricature", and even erotic pictures have few plots. The best is to add one or two illustrations to other people's novels.

The ink painting skills of these "famous artists" are naturally superb, and the top ones are even better than Gu Kaizhi and Wu Daozi on the earth, and there are many people who have achieved something.

However, it was useless to Du Ziyuan, because he didn't know how to do it at all.

"Ink painting still needs enough background and talent after all, not everyone can handle it." Du Ziyuan naturally wouldn't paint ink painting, he couldn't let his greatest advantage not use it.

He wants to bring his favorite "manga" in his dream to this world. He believes that this will definitely have a huge impact on the culture and entertainment industry of Hun Tian Xing, and he may become the founder of the first person to eat crabs. . At that time, it will not be a fantasy to ascend to immortality.

But now there is a problem, he has no tools.

Neither the paintbrush nor the drawing paper he needs are original things in this world. It can be made with the craftsmanship of Huntianxing, but it must be made to order.

Du Ziyuan weighed the wallet, there were about 3 taels of silver and a dozen copper plates in it: "I don't know if it's enough."

Just do what you think, Du Ziyuan should leave the house and walk towards the town.

His family lived by the sea, about ten miles away from the nearest town, and it was just after noon, so there was still time to walk there.

"It's dazzling." Du Ziyuan, who hadn't been out for countless days, couldn't bear the scorching sun in the sky.

According to legend, there is an immortal living on every star, and the real sun lives on the sun. Taiyang Zhenjun is just a title. This immortal has another name in the folks, called "Xudong Daxian", which means the rising sun in the east. In some legends, this simply became his real name.

The Huntian star has existed for too long, and mortals have reproduced from generation to generation. Although it is said that they are descendants of immortals, many people may not see a cultivator in their lifetime, and most of them can only hear it in legends.

When Du Ziyuan walked into the town against the sun, he already felt a little dizzy.

"Shouldn't be suffering from heatstroke." He was also reluctant to spend money to buy popsicles, so he walked straight inside.

After walking not far, he came across a group of people gathered around a roadside stall.

"What's the matter?" Du Ziyuan went up to watch curiously, and found that it was a stall selling fish. This is a very common stall in the Linhai area, and there are other fish stalls next to it. Why do everyone gather around here?

Du Ziyuan was about to ask a question, when he heard a person inside shouting: "Selling fish, you are too greedy! 10 taels of gold! You are robbing!"

Immediately afterwards, another sharp voice sounded: "What did I rob you? Am I the one who robbed you? How much risk did I take to bring it here from the deep sea? Shouldn't I give you 10 taels of gold?" Everyone, take a look, this is a carp with golden scales, have you ever seen such pure golden scales in your life? 10 taels of gold is the price, if you like it, buy it, if you don’t buy it, go away, look at how stingy you are!"

"You..." The man was pissed off enough, and he couldn't bear to pay for the fish, so he said bitterly, "It's only your price, a fool would buy it" and left.

The rest of the people went up to have a look curiously, and Du Ziyuan was among them. I saw a golden carp swimming in the water in a large wooden barrel on the ground. It's not that Du Ziyuan has never seen a golden carp, but it's just a little golden. It's the first time he's seen a carp like this one that looks like it's been carefully polished.

But this kind of thing is nothing more than looking at it. How many people can get 10 taels of gold in this kind of backcountry? The purchasing power of Aolan country’s currency is that 1 copper plate can buy a big steamed bun, 1,000 copper plates are equal to 1 tael of silver, and 10 taels of silver are equal to 1 tael of gold. If you have to use soft sister coins, 10 taels of gold is almost equal to 100,000 yuan or more.

Who would pay that much for a fish?

After Du Ziyuan glanced at it, he turned to a calligraphy and painting supplies store not far away.

As a result, I went in and asked, and the cheapest custom-made brushes here cost 5 taels of silver each. It is ridiculously expensive to have special requests. The excessive development of the entertainment industry has caused the prices of its peripheral products to skyrocket. 80 years ago, 50 copper coins for a writing brush topped the sky, but now it has increased by more than a hundred times.

"3 taels? Here, this is the only one you can afford." The waiter in the shop knew Du Ziyuan and knew his identity, so he didn't hide his contempt, pointing to a pile of white paper beside him and mockingly.

Du Ziyuan turned around to look, and found that what he was referring to was the lowest grade paper in this store. Not to mention rough, it didn't absorb much water, and only some families would buy it if they wanted to enlighten their children but were reluctant to spend more money. . Papermaking is well developed on Huntian, and the price of paper is very cheap. You can buy two sheets of this paper for one copper plate.

Du Ziyuan, who felt insulted, silently kept this matter in his heart. He couldn't hit Xiaoer in the face now, and he didn't like to stick his neck and shout at people, "Don't bully the young and poor." But he won't go on like this forever, sooner or later he will slap these people in the face.

Du Ziyuan, who didn't intend to continue to listen to people's ridicule in the shop, left directly, planning to visit other shops. But just as he walked out of the store, his eyes suddenly went dark, as if he had bumped into something. The weak Du Ziyuan was knocked to the ground on the spot, his head dizzy for a while.