Early August 1937, on a cruise ship on the Yangtze River.
Zhou Qiong sat on the deck. He held a sketchbook in his left hand and a pencil in his right. In his shirt pocket, there were many different B-numbered pens.
After Zhou Qiong boarded the ship, he did not stay idle. He had been drawing portraits for others for five yuan each.
In order to sell his paintings, he had been practicing sketching and sketching since he arrived in Nanjing. He stayed in Nanjing for a few months, so he practiced for a few months. Hard work pays off. Look, there are still quite a few people waiting in line for Zhou Qiong to paint.
In fact, he could exchange for painting mastery in the system store. He only needed five exchange points to max out his painting skill. However, it was a critical period now, and he had so few exchange points. The system did not take the initiative to issue the mission, so he had to save some.
If the five points were exchanged for bullets, he would have ten bullets!
This cruise ship was heading from Nanjing to Shanghai. One day, Zhou Yuhao went to the pawnshop and told Zhou Qiong that Ryuji would take this cruise ship to leave Nanjing.
At that time, Zhou Qiong asked Li Jie to help him buy a ticket to leave Nanjing on the same day as Ryuji. Li Jie thought that Zhou Qiong wanted to stop Ryuji from passing the information to the Japanese, so he told Zhou Qiong to be careful.
Zhou Qiong's intention to board the ship was not as noble and noble as Li Jie thought. He came here mainly to meet Lan Yanzhi and Feng Manna. In the original work, Lan Yanzhi, Feng Manna, and Beichuan Ryuji returned to Shanghai on the same boat.
If he didn't meet the two of them face to face, Song Mian, that brat, would beat him to it!
On the deck one floor lower than Zhou Qiong's location, the patriotic students seized the opportunity to promote resistance against Japan and burn Japanese goods. This scene was exactly the same as in the original novel.
"Da da da…"
Even though the students were shouting loudly, Zhou Qiong still heard the sound of a woman approaching him in high heels.
The woman walked behind Zhou Qiong and squatted down. She praised,""Boss, your drawing is really beautiful.”
Zhou Qiong turned around and politely replied,"Thank you."
The woman was wearing a blue dress, a beige sun hat, and translucent gloves. She looked very fashionable.
In this era, this kind of dressing was undoubtedly a rich young lady.
Zhou Qiong was very familiar with this lady. She was Feng Manna, a very tragic character in the original novel. His loved one was sent to a dead end by his best friend, and the man he loved finally fell in love with his best friend. It was extremely pitiful.
Zhou Qiong's grip on his pen tightened when he saw how happy Feng Manna was up close.
He wanted to protect this happiness.
Feng Manna squatted beside Zhou Qiong and didn't leave. Zhou Qiong quickly finished drawing the portrait of the customer in front of him. After receiving the money, he stood up and apologized to the customers behind him. He would not draw anymore.
Those ladies had waited for so long. When they heard Zhou Qiong say that he was not going to draw anymore, their faces were filled with dissatisfaction.
" You don't even want to earn money. You wasted your skills," a woman complained to her friend before she left.
"..." The more Zhou Qiong listened, the more he felt that this sentence was strange.
"Why aren't you drawing anymore?" Feng Manna stood up and asked curiously.
"With such a beautiful lady like you by my side, how can I still have the mood to paint?”Zhou Qiong teased Feng Manna.
Feng Manna, who was still a university student, blushed instantly. She said " I hate you ", but the smile on her face betrayed her. She clearly liked him!
Zhou Qiong glanced at the drawing board in Feng Manna's hand and asked,""You like drawing too?"
Hearing Zhou Qiong's words, Feng Manna suddenly remembered that she still had things to do!
She immediately ran to the railing and was about to draw when her eyes turned to Zhou Qiong.""Hey, help me draw a picture and I'll give you money.”
Zhou Qiong smiled and said,"It's my honor to help a beautiful woman. I don't charge you."”
Feng Manna laughed again when she heard the word 'beauty'.
"Draw what?" Zhou Qiong prepared a pen and paper. His gaze was already wandering around the deck. Soon, he saw Lan Yanzhi in the crowd.
She was dressed in a rather ordinary manner. She wore sunglasses and knocked on the deck with a red and white wooden stick in her hand, pretending to be blind.
" Just draw everyone on this deck," Feng Manna said.
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