Is it okay not to want to work hard?

Be patient when it's hot and use a fan or electric fan; be patient when it's cold and wear thicker clothes or use a heater. In short, don't use air conditioning if you can. Unless it's so hot in the summer that it melts you, and so cold in the winter that it kills you, then you can't use air conditioning.

Dongye Zou was drawing in his room and was so cold that he had a runny nose. Fortunately, his mother was watching TV in the living room downstairs and didn't have the time to come to his room and open the window to let in some air for ten or twenty minutes.

“I can’t paint.”

Higashino Kanade blew a breath of hot air onto his hands and could clearly feel his hands becoming moist.

want to cry.

It's rare that I feel motivated to paint, but why is the environment so bad?

I don’t know what happened, but there was a sudden noise downstairs. Dongye Zou was about to go out to take a look when he heard the sound of “thump thump thump” coming up the stairs.

This pace, this frequency, this direction.

This recipe!

"Xiaozou, I'm here, catch me"

He heard the voice before he saw the person. When Dongye Zou saw Quan Konata, the latter had already pounced on him.

This guy actually jumped into the air and let him catch it.

Higashino Kanade took over Izumi Konata and blurted out the words in his head subconsciously.

"Good weight!"

One sentence, a simple sentence, and the smiling Quan Cifang's face turned gray. Quan Cifang turned his head to look at the clean floor, and muttered in frustration: "Some people can't find a wife in the future, it must be their own fault."

"..."

As for it, isn't it just a word that it's heavy? The problem is that it's really heavy, isn't that a good thing, it means that you've grown taller and developed. Well, it doesn't seem to be necessarily true.

Higashino Kanade estimated Izumi Konata's height, touched his own chest first, and then touched Izumi Konata's chest.

The cliff of the empire, the first general who ended the chaos and pacified the world - Izumi Konata.

"What are you doing?"

Quan Cifang's expression was a little gloomy. The reason for her gloom was not that Xiaozou was behaving like a hooligan, but that Xiaozou was not behaving like a hooligan. He was testing whether she had developed or not.

"Oh, yeah, what am I doing?" Dongye Kanade looked at his right hand and said without thinking, "I want to see if your flesh is growing where it should be."

"I knew it."

Quan Cifang, who was already gloomy, became even more depressed.

Because she was Princess Taiping, she would not be too shy if Xiaozou touched her. Even if she was, she had known Xiaozou for so long that she had been touched by him unintentionally before. She would even hug Xiaozou and rub against him when they went to bed at night.

Being touched by Xiaozou is not a problem; the problem is what Xiaozou said. What Xiaozou said hurt her heart.

Woo woo woo, Xiaozou doesn’t understand human nature.

Chapter 47: Hopelessly flat, hopelessly hard, hopelessly painful

New Year's Eve passed uneventfully at the Higashino family.

The adults were playing poker in the living room with the air conditioner on, while the children were watching cartoons or drawing on KuMiFans in the study.

Because the study is close to the living room, the air conditioning and heating in the living room float into the study. Although Higashino Kanade's hands still feel cold when he is painting in the study, they no longer feel stiff.

You have to work hard, strive, and draw well. If you want to be a cartoonist like Togashi, you should be a hard-working manga artist in the early days, and then become Togashi who takes a break after you become successful.

Recently, Higashino Kanade has become famous for winning the first prize of the Tezuka Award.

The 30-year streak of no winners in the Tezuka Award was broken this year, and the winner of the first prize was a child who was only ten years old.

Probably because the New Year is approaching and everyone is free, both online news and TV news reported the name "Higashino Kanade", a rare talented cartoonist in a century.

As a country with strong ACG culture, Japan's news media is more or less tainted with the second-year syndrome, such as the Empire's Demon King - Zhang Yining, the Empire's Fierce Tiger - Zhang Jike, the Empire's Destroyer Dragon - Ma Long, and the Emperor of the End - Liu Guoliang.

The report on TV was fairly normal, simply saying that Tezuka had selected a ten-year-old manga artist who was a rare talent in Japan for fifty years, and predicted that this young boy might become the god of manga in the new century. Yes, this was normal, compared to the reports on the Internet, this was normal.

For the sake of popularity and traffic, self-media, marketing accounts and some official media are not normal. They praise and brag hard, saying that Higashino Kanade is the number one cartoonist in Japan. They punch the super popular manga "Rurouni Kenshin" which has been serialized for 12 years, and kick the original manga "King's Emblem" which became the annual hegemonic animation after being animated this year.

When Higashino Kanade saw these reports, he just wanted to beg for mercy.

The higher he is praised, the harder he will fall. Whenever his new comic is rejected and not serialized in "Akamaru Jump", these news media will definitely perform Sichuan Opera face-changing.

How you praise me now, how you will be criticized later.

“Painting is tiring.”

Dongye Kanade drew for an hour, then put down his pen and rested on the table. Although he bought a digital tablet, he still drew by hand. It's not that he doesn't know how to use a digital tablet, he knows, but he hasn't used it for more than ten years and his hand is unfamiliar. People who can draw by hand can quickly learn to use a digital tablet.

He doesn't use a digital tablet because he feels that hand-drawing is more comfortable than drawing on a tablet. He bought the digital tablet mainly to make it easier for him to draw comics and publish them online, to heal the fans who were hurt by the original work. You have to plan ahead. If you don't succeed as a cartoonist or succeed but not completely, then it's not bad to post your own paintings on P station and get commissioned. If you participate in any activities and win awards, you may even become an illustrator for light novel writers.

For Higashino Kanade, if he is a popular cartoonist, then light novels are toilet paper. If he is a light novel illustrator, then light novels are not toilet paper, and there is no lack of serious, philosophical literary works (certain).

"Have you finished the painting?"

After watching the horror movie, Izumi Konata stood up from her chair and stretched. When she heard what Tono Kanade said, she stood up from her chair.

"No, I don't want to paint anymore. I'm so tired and I want to die. It would be great if I could print the pictures in my mind onto paper."

Dongye Zou put his head on the table and his hands hung weakly to the ground. He felt sleepy easily after eating and drinking. If it wasn't only eight o'clock and there was no warm bed here, he would have wanted to go back to his room to sleep.

"Then your comic will definitely not pass the review."

Quan Konaka covered her mouth and laughed, she walked happily to Dongye Kanade and looked down at Dongye Kanade's masterpiece.

"Nonsense." Higashino Kanade slapped the table lightly, pretending to be very angry, "Do you know what an international cartoonist is?"

Higashino plays a tactical retreat.

"I don't understand." Izumi Konata sat sideways on the armrest of the chair with his back to Higashino Kanade, flipping through the unfinished comics on the table, "Can you draw faster? I really want to see it."

Izumi Konakata is very much looking forward to Higashino Kanade's comics. She knows that Higashino Kanade's comics are about another world, and this comic has the same world view as the comics that participated in the Tezuka Award, but she doesn't know what kind of comics Higashino Kanade will draw and what the plot of the comics is.

She knew that if she asked Xiaozou what the comics were about, Xiaozou would definitely tell her, but if that happened, wouldn't she lose the sense of freshness when reading the comics? Some plots that others already knew would make others excited, moved, or sad, but she might not only feel no emotion after being spoiled, but might even feel like laughing.

Of course, you never know. Even if you know the plot and what story a good story is going to tell, when the story is truly presented, especially in the form of pictures, animations, sounds and music, you can still immerse yourself in the world of the story and empathize with the characters in this world.

I cried after watching it once, and I cried again after watching it a second time or a third time. As I grow older and gain more experience, I may have different feelings every time I watch it.

"No."

Higashino Kanade lay on the table again. It was more comfortable to lie on the table than to lean back tactically.

"Can't super powers help you draw?"

Quan Chifang was curious and quietly squeezed towards Dongye Zou.

"Okay, I'll feel bad."

Higashino Kanade can use his superpowers to speed up his painting, but painting requires concentration. He felt dizzy after using his superpowers for a long time, which affected his painting. Whenever he used his superpowers, he would feel uncomfortable, but it was very slight at first and he could bear it without affecting his painting. But after a while, the discomfort would become stronger, bit by bit, and it would inevitably affect his painting and distract him.

Using superpowers will not improve his efficiency in drawing comics, but may reduce his efficiency in drawing comics. After all, comics are a slow and delicate process, and problems may arise if you draw too fast or too anxiously.

"That's it."

Quan Chifang squeezed closer to Dongye Zuo again. Originally, she was sitting on the armrest of the chair, but now she rested her thighs on the armrest of the chair and sat on Dongye Zuo.

"What are you doing?" Dongye Kanade pushed Quan Konata, "It's so crowded, can you get down?"

"Don't be so stingy. Good friends should share with each other."

Quan Cifang did not forget his original intention and leaned towards Dongye Zou.

"what?"

This is how this phrase is used, and at this time?

Higashino Kanade got up from the table and looked at the smiling Izumi Konata, feeling somewhat helpless. He knew Konata was trying to get close to him, but when girls and boys get close, they have to have breasts and butts, but Konata...

If Cifang could still grow, he could still have some hope, but the despair was that he knew that Cifang's height could still increase by one or two centimeters, and there was really no room for expectation in terms of breasts and buttocks.

He is not picky about girls as long as they are pretty, no matter if they are Steel Plate, Cliff, Ump45, File Xiaojiajia or ABCEFG. But if possible, between being painful and warming the heart, he would prefer the warming one rather than the painful one.

On the last day of 2011, Higashino Kanade and Izumi Konata were quarreling. After 12 o'clock, it was a new day, a new year, and Higashino Kanade and Izumi Konata were still quarreling.

It was so before, it is so now, and it will be so in the future.

Chapter 48 It doesn't cost any money, so just trust me

2012, the new year, is said to be the year of the end of the world.

Nishimiya Yuzuru woke up early in the morning. It was not her biological clock or the alarm clock that woke her up, but the noise her mother made in the living room.

"So annoying."

Nishimiya Yuzuru opened the closet door and saw the grumpy old youkai woman standing outside.

"Wake up, Yuzuru."

Yaeko Nishimiya's voice was cold. Those who knew her would think that she and Yuzuru were mother and daughter, while those who didn't think she was a stepmother.

"it is good."

Nishimiya Yuzuru sat up from the bed and prepared to get dressed.

The clothes were right at the head of the bed. She closed her eyes and put the clothes on her head in a daze. When her head popped out of the clothes, Nishimiya Yaeko was gone. Then she didn't put on the sleeves, but fell backwards with the clothes on.

Keep sleeping.

Ten minutes later, the closet door was opened from the outside.

"Before the wedding, get up."

The voice was Nishimiya Shoko.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm up."

Nishimiya Yuzuru sat up from the bed again, she put on her clothes slowly, and put on the next piece of clothes when she saw her sister didn't leave, and put on pantyhose when she didn't leave. After putting on the pantyhose, she fell back on the bed when she saw Nishimiya Naoko leave.

Another five minutes.

"Yuzuru, get up!"

"Wow!"

Nishimiya Yuzuru, who was about to fall asleep, heard the deafening sound and instantly sat up in shock from his dying illness.

Mom, that's scary, she's really a grumpy old monster.

Nishimiya Yuzuru muttered to herself, but she absolutely dared not say this out loud.

"Hurry up, wash your face and eat. It's the first day of the new year. You are not behaving like this at all."

Nishimiya Yaeko looked at her little daughter who was slowly getting dressed and urged her, "Today is New Year's Day. We have to go to the shrine early. If we go late, there will be too many people. You know?"

"I know, I know, it's really annoying."

Nishimiya Yuzuru spoke the second half of the sentence in a very low voice, so quietly that he could hardly hear it himself.

Mom was so annoyed, so annoyed. She knew about this kind of thing. If there were too many people, she would not go. She went to pray for blessings last year, but she didn't see any blessings. Well, there were blessings. She and her sister met Sister Konakata, Brother Dongye and Xiaoling.

I hope my sister won’t be bullied and can make friends.

My wish came true last year, although it was fulfilled late, but it still came true. So if I go to worship God and pray this year, maybe my wish will come true too.

Thinking of this, Yuzuru Nishimiya, who had just been feeling listless, quickly put on his last skirt and got out of bed.

Brush teeth, wash face, and eat.

Everything is ready, and Yuzuru Nishimiya can't wait to go to the shrine to pray.

She was not anxious before, but Yaeko Nishimiya was anxious. Now she is anxious, but Yaeko Nishimiya is no longer anxious.

Grandma cleaned up the dishes, cleaned the table and under the table, and washed the dishes. Mom went to the bathroom to put on makeup and dress up. Nishimiya Naoko sat quietly on the sofa with her hands on her legs, smiling, looking at Nishimiya Yuzuru and the home environment in a well-behaved and cute way.

"Hurry up, hurry up, mom, you are so slow. You have to put on makeup before going out, and no one will see you."

Nishimiya Yuzuru was anxious, very anxious, anxious, anxious.

I don’t know if it’s because of the character he developed while protecting Nishimiya Shoko, but Nishimiya Yuzuru is like a boy in many aspects. He is somewhat like Izumi Konata, but he is also very different from Izumi Konata in many ways.

"If you keep talking like that, I'll throw you out."

Yaeko Nishimiya was angry. She was not in a hurry when she called her to get up, but now she is in a hurry.

"Throw it away, then throw it away. I'm going to be someone else's child, with a mother and a father."