Chapter 476 Puppies and Kittens
"Actually, I originally wanted to come here to play when we all had dinner yesterday."
Tired from playing games, Ying Chanxi rested in Li Luo's arms and heard Li Luo squeezing her little hand and playing with it while speaking in her ear.
"But after thinking about it, it's better to take you here to play alone. The plan to come together with more people can wait until later."
"Yes." Ying Chanxi nodded gently in his arms, closing her eyes and enjoying the peace of the moment. No matter what Li Luo said, she felt it was right.
Of course, if Li Luo really brought them all to play by the golden lake yesterday, Ying Chanxi would be very happy.
After all, as long as Li Luo is here, other things don't matter that much.
It's just that today's experience of dating alone made her even more surprised and happy.
They had lunch early and finished it at around eleven o'clock. After playing upstairs for almost two hours, Li Luo finally received a message from the proprietress of the handicraft experience center, reminding him that the embryos in the morning had been baked. complete.
So Li Luo patted Ying Chanxi on the head and whispered in her ear: "It's time to set off. The cups over there have been burned. We still have to color them."
"Yeah." Although it was quite comfortable to lie here, Ying Chanxi still stood up from Li Luo's arms obediently and put her little hand into his palm.
The two of them returned all the way to the first floor, separated again at the entrance to the men's and women's baths, and returned to the dressing area to change into their own clothes.
Li Luo changed his clothes first and came out. After Ying Chanxi also came out, he took the card from her hand and handed it to the front desk to pay.
The basic bathing fee for two people is not expensive, but after ordering some dishes in the restaurant, we ended up spending seven to eight hundred.
It was naturally not expensive for Li Luo, but it was very expensive for ordinary high school students. It is estimated that not many high school students would come to this place to play.
The two people left the golden lakeside and spent a few minutes returning to the handicraft experience center in the alley.
The proprietress had been waiting here for a long time. She welcomed them in with a smile and took them to sit down at another wooden table.
There are two clay cups on the table now, and it seems that the firing has been completed.
After Ying Chanxi sat down at the table, she politely asked if she could touch it. After receiving a positive reply, she carefully reached out and touched the cup.
Different from the sticky feeling before, although the raw embryo in front of me still feels rough, slightly grainy and not smooth, it no longer has the random kneading quality before.
"After the blank is fired, we can use glaze to color it." The proprietress clapped her hands, motioning for the two of them to look over, and then pointed to the rows of paint buckets on the shelves beside the wall.
"I'm used to painting the base color on the cup first, and then using a thinner pen to outline the pattern."
"So you can choose the background color of the cup first, then dye it and set it aside to dry."
"Then try out the pattern you want to draw on the paper first, and then draw the pattern you want to draw on it after the background color of the cup is initially dry."
"After completing these two steps, fire the mug again to allow the glaze to fully adhere, and the mug is ready."
Li Luo listened quietly and compared it with his previous life's experience. He found that although this store was still small now, it provided a full range of services.
It probably has something to do with the relatively small number of guests.
After all, if something like firing a cup needs to be fired twice, many customers won't have the time to wait.
Therefore, the store usually directly provides the raw material that has been fired once and gives it to the customer for coloring.
It may only take one or two hours to experience.
How can it be like now, where the landlady only serves their two customers throughout the day?
Ying Chanxi was quite interested in coloring. She got up and walked around in front of the paint bucket, and asked the landlady to let her see the specific color effect of the finished product.
Finally, I finally decided and picked out a white and black paint bucket from the shelf.
"Just choose these two?" Li Luo asked.
"Yeah, the cup you made is white." Ying Chanxi said, "The cup I made is black."
"I didn't expect you also like black?"
"What are you thinking about?" Ying Chanxi rolled her eyes at him, "Of course the cup you made is for me to use. I made it for you to use, so you use the black one."
"...I was mistaken."
Of course the boss lady knew that the two wanted to make a couple's mug, but she didn't expect to choose black and white.
"Why don't you choose colors like red and blue?" the landlady asked curiously.
"There are already a lot of red and blue at home." Ying Chanxi obviously thought of something and shook his head repeatedly, just to make a distinction.
But the landlady thought they had bought a lot of red and blue couple's items before, so she didn't think much about it and nodded with a smile.
"It's quite simple to paint the base color on the cup. Use this tool to hold the cup and slowly put it into the paint bucket for dyeing. After confirming that it is all dyed, just take it out and place it on the tray here."
Ying Chanxi and Li Luo sat aside, first watching the proprietress take another unused embryo, clamp the mouth of the cup with a special thin clip, slowly put it into the paint bucket, and after a while, brought it up again.
The operation is indeed much simpler than in the morning.
Ying Chanxi and Li Luo quickly dyed the cups in their hands with black and white background colors and handed them to the landlady to put aside for drying.
The two of them sat down at the wooden table, took out two pieces of white paper from the side, picked some paint, then picked up a slender paint pen and wrote and drew on the white paper.
Before Li Luo could think about what to draw, he turned his head and glanced at the Yingchan River. Seeing that she was sketching something very seriously, he went over to take a look with curiosity.
"Why did you draw a puppy?" Li Luo asked.
"This is you." Ying Chanxi said with a smile, "You are a dog." Li Luo: "...Swearing, right?"
"Why are you swearing? This puppy is so cute." Ying Chanxi snorted.
"Then I will also draw a dog."
"No!"
"Double standards, right?"
"It just won't work anyway." Ying Chanxi took his hand, then thought about it and suggested, "Then how about you draw a little kitten?"
"I am a dog and you are a cat?"
"Yes."
"Oh, that's okay." Li Luo remembered the pen pal letter Ying Chanxi wrote to him last time. The puppy and kitten suited the situation quite well, so he nodded and agreed and started practicing with the kitten on the white paper.
It was a rare opportunity to play with paint, and the background color on the cup over there took a long time to dry, so the two of them painted hard.
After the cats and puppies were almost done practicing, I also drew a bunch of other things.
The lady boss liked the interaction between the two of them very much, so she simply provided a few embryos free of charge so that they could try it out first, and it would be fine if the painting was broken.
Ying Chanxi held the cup enthusiastically and began to try painting, while Li Luo watched from the side.
For him, as long as he successfully draws a satisfactory pattern once and has the memory palace, there will basically be no problem of drawing mistakes. It is quite leisurely at the moment.
Accompanying Ying Chanxi to watch her draw pictures on the cup, Li Luo saw her occasionally succeeding and occasionally failing, and seeing the serious look on her face, he felt cute.
"Why do you keep looking at me?" Ying Chanxi felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by him all the time. He puffed his lips and said, "I can't even draw well when you look at me like this."
"You can't rely on me for this." Li Luo said with a smile, "If you keep looking at me, I can draw well."
"Hmph." Ying Chanxi punched him, then turned around and continued painting seriously, finally mastering the skill of painting puppies.
When the background color of their cups finally dried and they could apply other paint, the landlady came over with a tray and placed it in front of them.
"It's not an attempt this time. You have to be careful when you draw." The landlady smiled, "Of course, there are ways to remedy if you make a mistake, so don't be too nervous."
Li Luo would naturally not be nervous.
He picked up the tray, brought over the white cup he had made, and skillfully drew a little cat on it.
It looks very cute.
Ying Chanxi was much more nervous than Li Luo. He held the tray carefully, thought for a long time, and then turned to look at the countless puppies he had just drawn.
After a while, Ying Chanxi finally plucked up the courage, picked up the paint pen in his hand, entered a flow state, and immersed himself in painting with a serious look on his face.
Looking at the yellow puppy that finally took shape, Ying Chanxi finally breathed a sigh of relief and nodded with satisfaction.
However, such a black cup with a puppy pattern on it feels a bit too monotonous.
So Ying Chanxi turned the cup again, looked at the empty part on the other half, and asked the landlady: "Can I write here?"
"Of course you can." The landlady nodded and said with a smile, "Pay attention to keeping the strokes of the font as far apart as possible. You can write larger, which is safer."
"Yeah! I know." Ying Chanxi nodded, thought for a while, took a piece of white paper and wrote back and forth before finally deciding what to write.
However, after seeing Li Luo's head coming towards him, Ying Chanxi quickly stretched out his hand to touch his head to prevent him from peeking: "Oh, don't look at it yet. Have you finished the painting?"
"I have finished painting a long time ago."
"Then write another blessing. I have already thought about it. You should go and write it quickly."
"Let me see what you wrote."
"I won't show it to you!" Ying Chanxi pushed him away with a groan, and then said to the landlady, "Can I not show it to him after I finish writing? Give it to him after it is fired."
"Of course." The landlady looked at the interesting and cute interaction between the two, and the smile on her face never faded. She nodded and agreed, "When you finish writing, give it to me. I won't show it to him."
Li Luo looked at Ying Chanxi a little funny, not expecting that she could be so childish.
So he stopped peeking, returned to the white cup in front of him, thought for a while, then picked up his pen and started writing.
"Remember to write a signature." The proprietress suggested from the side, "Write the name of the maker of the cup and the date of production. This will make it more memorable."
Ying Chanxi's eyes lit up. Although she was not a puppy, she still liked this kind of marking behavior. She immediately followed the boss's advice and planned to add another touch.
After both of them finished writing, Ying Chanxi was very vigilant and blocked Li Luo's sight, preventing him from seeing what he had written.
Li Luo found it a bit funny and couldn't help but joked: "You have to let me see it."
"Then let's wait until it's finished firing." When Ying Chanxi said this, his eyes were secretly glancing at Li Luo's cup.
Li Luo saw through her little thoughts at a glance. He smiled and blocked it with his hands without showing her: "What are you looking at?"
"I didn't look at anything." Ying Chanxi snorted and turned his head to retract his gaze.
The landlady looked on with a smile, feeling the sweet taste in her mouth.
It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. The lady boss picked up the tray with two cups, and then said: "It will take an hour or two to bake. Do you want to take it away after it is finished, or do you want to pick it up later?"< br>
(End of chapter)