kingnovel Chapter 491 Class Reunion
Chapter 491 Class Reunion
As the first customer arrived, Lu Cheng first asked the other party to sit on the small stool he had prepared, and carefully observed her appearance. She was a young woman with ordinary looks, with a few freckles on her face and two pimples.
After memorizing the other person's appearance in his mind, Lu Cheng would of course not paint it literally. Instead, he would automatically beautify the other person in his mind, remove acne and freckles, and make his slightly round face a little thinner, and also fine-tune the nose and chin. He wanted to ensure that people could recognize at first glance that the painting was of the girl in front of them, and also make her feel that the portrait was more beautiful than the real person.
Although most of his memories were temporarily sealed, Lu Cheng had seen countless beauties after all, and his vision, knowledge and aesthetics were all top-notch. He quickly beautified the girl in front of him.
Afterwards, Lu Cheng, who was confident in his plan, began to paint, sketching out the general outline with just a few strokes, and then filling in the content bit by bit.
Since Lu Cheng's physique far exceeds that of an ordinary person, the control and flexibility of his wrists and fingers are extraordinary. In addition, he has mastered the seventh-level painting skills, so drawing a sketch is a piece of cake for him.
The people around couldn't help but stop to watch as Lu Cheng created one painting after another from scratch, filling it out bit by bit at a speed visible to the naked eye and becoming clearer and clearer.
More and more people gathered around. Everyone inside was very quiet and did not make any sound, for fear of disturbing Lu Cheng's painting.
There were some people outside who came over to watch the fun. Some of them had no idea what was going on inside. They just saw a lot of people gathered here, so they gathered over curiously and asked people around them what was going on here.
Normally, it takes 1 to 2 hours, or even longer, to draw a relatively complete sketch.
Lu Cheng is a street performer, so it is impossible for him to paint in such detail.
But the sketch that Lu Cheng drew in just over ten minutes was more detailed than those works that professionals took several hours to draw.
As the painting was finished, the girl sitting on the small bench across from her quickly stood up and came over to check it out. After seeing herself in the painting, the girl couldn't believe it: "Is this really me? Why do I feel so much prettier than myself?"
The audience on the side also looked at the girl, then at the painting, and nodded repeatedly: "It looks like the girl in front of us, but the painting is more beautiful than the real girl. The level is really high!"
"The painting is so good, I want to draw one too!"
"I want it too, I want it too."
In this age without beauty filters, paintings like Lu Cheng's are particularly effective.
For a moment, everyone around took out money and wanted Lu Cheng to draw for them first.
The girl who got the painting was in a very good mood. She took out her wallet and took out five yuan, and handed it to Lu Cheng: "Your painting is really great. I'll treat you to a bottle of water with these five yuan."
"No thanks."
"Just accept it. I'm very satisfied with your painting. It's much better than the photos I took. I really like it."
Seeing that Lu Cheng was determined not to take the money, and the people behind him wanted to squeeze to the front to let Lu Cheng draw, the girl turned her eyes and saw the sign on the side, and said, "Did you write these words too? I'll give you five dollars, can you write another line for me?"
"can."
Seeing that the other party was standing in front and the people behind were scrambling to move forward, Lu Cheng followed the other party's request, picked up the pen and wrote another line of words on the painting, "August 16, 2002, Cai Wenli", and then accepted the five dollars from the other party.
The girl turned around and left contentedly, and the people behind her squeezed to the front with their money in their hands, most of them were young girls.
"Well, could you please line up? It's a bit chaotic. If we attract the city management, we might not be able to finish the painting."
Afterwards, a group of people reluctantly lined up under the command of a middle-aged man.
Lu Cheng took the five dollars handed over by the second customer, took a close look at the other person's face, perfected it in his mind, and then lowered his head to start painting.
This time, Lu Cheng only took 13 minutes to complete a complete portrait. After seeing it, the other party was quite satisfied and gave Lu Cheng a thumbs up.
The third customer directly handed over 8 yuan and asked Lu Cheng to help draw a cartoon portrait.
Seeing that the colorful cartoon avatars were also very beautiful, many people began to ask for cartoon drawings.
Compared to sketches, cartoons are less common in this era and are more likely to attract the attention of women and children.
For some women, it is necessary to magnify the other party's advantages, and the more beautiful the better while exaggerating. For some children, it is more inclined to be cute, and some small animals or small decorations can be added on the side.
In fact, cartoons in particular can be painted much faster, and the reason they are priced slightly higher is simply because more paint is used.
At the beginning of the morning, Lu Cheng could draw 3 to 4 paintings in an hour. After lunch, when he started again in the afternoon, he drew faster and faster as he became more familiar with the style and feel of street painting.
When I was finally ready to close the stall, I painted six paintings in a row in one hour.
From morning to night, excluding rest time, Lu Cheng drew a total of twelve cartoons and twenty sketches, and almost all the pencils and paints he brought were used up.
A cartoon painting costs 8 yuan, a sketch painting costs 5 yuan, and some customers would insist on giving him one or two yuan, three or five yuan as tips. Lu Cheng's final total income was more than two hundred yuan. Even after deducting the cost of pens, ink, paper, and paint, his net income was still 210 yuan.
In this era where a monthly income of three thousand is considered a high salary, a daily income of more than two hundred is definitely considerable.
Of course, this is only because Lu Cheng is in good health and has a high level of skills. If it were other painters, their hands would be worn out after painting so many pictures a day.
So, this is hard-earned money.
Seeing that Lu Cheng was about to close the stall, those who didn't get their turn were very dissatisfied and asked Lu Cheng whether he would come tomorrow. They only dispersed after hearing that Lu Cheng would come tomorrow.
In fact, such a business cannot continue forever unless Lu Cheng changes locations frequently.
After all, there are only a limited number of people who love painting and are willing to pay 5 or 8 yuan to ask Lu Cheng to help them paint.
However, Lu Cheng will not keep doing this, but will just treat this as a new life experience.
After closing the stall, I rode my bike and passed by a small restaurant on the way. I ordered a big bowl of pig skin noodles. On the way back, I bought some other food. This was the end of my day.
For the next two or three days, Lu Cheng continued to perform on the street, and in just four days he earned a thousand yuan.
Especially in the last two days as it was the weekend, there was a large flow of people, and Lu Cheng was more prepared and painted faster, so his daily income exceeded 300 yuan.
When Monday came, it was time for the class reunion. Lu Cheng temporarily gave up his street performing job, rode his bicycle, and went to the class reunion.
Later on, a saying circulated on the Internet: Hold a class reunion for no reason and break up every couple.
Of course, for a group of high school students who have just graduated, especially those of this generation, class reunions are still relatively simple.
As soon as Lu Cheng arrived at the agreed restaurant, he saw several classmates greeting him enthusiastically.
"Old Lu, this way."
"Old Lu, you're about to graduate, and you don't even try to dress up. You're still wearing so casual clothes."
Lu Cheng laughed: "Do I need to dress up? If I were dressed too handsomely, would you still stand beside me?"
"Hey, that's right. If you put on a white shirt and tie, you will definitely attract a lot of attention."
Boys and girls were in different groups in the same class. Lu Cheng stood with five or six boys and chatted. About ten meters away, there was another group of boys standing together. One of them had a rope hanging around his neck with a new mobile phone hanging under the rope. He was showing off: "See? This year's latest Motorola V70 screw-on phone, which can rotate 360 degrees. It cost more than 7000 yuan. If I hadn't done well in the college entrance examination, my dad wouldn't have bought it for me."
As everyone was talking, a boy patted Lu Cheng on the shoulder and said, "Look, Lin Jingyi is here. I heard that you two were admitted to Dongda University together. Are you going to make it official at this class reunion?"
"Official announcement of what? Don't talk nonsense."
Today, Lin Jingyi simply tied her hair into a ponytail, wore a beige floral dress, carried an exquisite small shoulder bag, and rode a pink bicycle.
As the weather was still a little hot, Lin Jingyi, who came by bike, had dense beads of sweat on the tip of her nose and a faint blush on her collagen-filled face, which made her look particularly eye-catching.
So much so that all the male students stopped talking and looked at the beautiful scenery together.
Soon, two boys whispered, "Guess who our class beauty will greet first?"
"Is there any need to guess? Of course it's our school hunk, Lao Lu."
Sure enough, Lin Jingyi looked at the roadside, then parked her bike next to Lu Cheng's bike and walked straight to Lu Cheng: "Lu Cheng, you guys came early. I'm late here."