After Jiang Li said so, the old man couldn't save face, so he decided to give her a chance.

With previous experiences, Jiang Li's hands and heart stopped beating in this portrait, and his speed also kept up.

The old man made a good pose and told her to follow this, so that the painting should be exactly the same.

The young man also deliberately took a mirror to show the old man and remembered his current appearance before letting Jiang Li start.

Jiang Li spread out the drawing board and began to outline the lines at an extremely fast speed.

There are ready-made models here, and with a calm heart, the speed of Jiang Li's portrait is very fast.

Half an hour later, the old man's neck was already sore, and Jiang Li also put down his brush.

"Grandpa, I've finished drawing."

Jiang Li took the initiative to turn the drawing board, and the old man looked at himself on the drawing board and was so excited that he couldn't speak.

"Hurry up, hurry up, get out my mirror! I want to take another look!"

The old man is getting old and his memory is not very good, he just saw his face just now and now he forgot.

The young man quickly brought the mirror, and the old man looked in the mirror.

Hey!It's amazing, the self in the mirror is exactly the same as the self in the portrait!

"I'm not satisfied!" The terminally ill old man suddenly yelled angrily, Jiang Li was startled, and the young man hurriedly asked: "Master, the painting is obviously very similar, why are you dissatisfied? "

"The painting is too similar! The painting is too old! So I am not satisfied!"

There is no reason for this, Jiang Li was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time, it is too difficult to draw a portrait, it is not good to draw too much, and it is not good to draw too ugly.

It seems that the painting has been completed according to the old man's request, and now the old man says he is not satisfied, so why don't he draw another one for nothing?

Jiang Li was a little embarrassed, the old man asked again: "How much is a picture?"

"Grandpa, five yuan!" In order to stop the old man from being unreasonable, the young man decided to use his nirvana.

The old man is stingy and reluctant to spend money, so if he paints a picture for five yuan, he will not be a demon, right?

"Okay, I'll pay ten yuan, and you can draw me a young one with a smile on his face, and put me in a military uniform. I was born and died on the battlefield when I was young, and I have to wear it when I am old." Uniform died."

The old man's voice was full of sadness, and the young man felt a little uncomfortable.

"Okay, then I'll draw another one for you."

With the previous foundation, Jiang Li drew faster this time.

It only took more than 20 minutes to draw a smiling portrait of the old man.

The old man on the paper smiled brightly, the wrinkles on his face were much less, and he was obviously ten years younger. He was wearing a solemn military uniform.

When the old man saw this portrait, he was so excited that he burst into tears.

This is the portrait he wants, young, healthy, happy and full of vigor!

"Good good good good good good good good good good good good good! You girl really did not disappoint me, the portraits you drew are superb!"

The old man gave Jiang Li a thumbs up, took out another 10 yuan from his pocket and handed it over.

Jiang Li refused to reach out to pick it up, but the old man kept sending it over.

"Take it, take it, you helped me paint the portrait so well, you deserve it!"

The young man sighed heavily, and although his flesh hurt a little, he secretly nodded towards Jiang Li.

Jiang Li took the money and put it in his pocket, while the old man kept praising her for being a good child.

Jiang Li came to another family for a portrait. This old man's request was very simple, that is, to be exactly the same as the old man's request just now.

It turned out that this was also an old man who retired from the battlefield. The two served as soldiers together when they were young, and supported each other on the battlefield until the end.

There were so many people from Lijia Village who went to serve as soldiers together, only the two of them came back in the end.

There is a revolutionary friendship between them, so even the houses are built together.

Unexpectedly, when they die, their bodies will deteriorate together, and they will have to prepare a portrait together, and maybe they can be buried together.

Coincidentally, it was the same person who painted the portraits of them, and the style of the paintings was exactly the same.

"Okay, I'm very satisfied!"

This old man has a refined personality and is much easier to talk to than the last one. In addition, the portrait was painted according to the requirements of the old man, so he is naturally satisfied.

After Jiang Li finished his task and left, the two young men hurried after him.

"I'd better return the extra money to you."

Just as Jiang Li was about to take out his pocket, the two stopped him at the same time.

"Grandpa is very satisfied with how you painted it. This is the money grandpa gave you, and I have no right to take it back."

"We are here to send you off. Thank you very much for making the old man smile from the bottom of his heart before he dies."

Jiang Li wanted to return the money several times, but the two kept refusing.

With 10 yuan in his pocket, Jiang Li returned to the village beaming.

It took a total of three hours to go out and the time spent on the road, and I earned 10 yuan together.

At the beginning, I earned 20 yuan by selling my younger siblings. This 10 yuan was equivalent to half a month's salary of an ordinary family in the 70s.

Although the old man has a weird personality, he is still willing to spend money on something that suits him.

When Jiang Li returned home, the two babies were still sleeping honestly. Yao Qiaoyun greeted her enthusiastically when she saw her back.

"How is it? Is this trip going well?"

"Smooth, very smooth, the old man was very satisfied with the portrait I drew for him, and gave me 10 yuan as a reward."

Jiang Li told what happened, and Yao Qiaoyun patted Jiang Li's shoulder excitedly.

"Oh, oh, Jiang Li is promising! You can earn 10 yuan for a trip! At the beginning, I gave you two yuan less, but I didn't expect you to only charge one yuan. Thinking about it now, I'm really embarrassed!"

Yao Qiaoyun went to take out her wallet while talking, Jiang Li hurriedly pressed her hand.

"Auntie, without your help, I would have had a difficult labor when I gave birth to my first and second baby. Later, you even helped me confinement and let me eat and drink for free at your home."

"You don't know how much time and energy you have spent on me during this period. If you really think about it, I can't even pay you 20 yuan!"

Jiang Li handed over the 10 yuan while talking, and Yao Qiaoyun quickly pushed it back.

"You silly boy, your own family is not rich, and you want to give it to others when you earn some money. Do you want to live in your family?"

"I'm just grateful to my aunt. I just made some money today and thought of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha."

"I don't want it, I don't want it, you should collect the money quickly, and buy more meat and vegetables to make up for it later. People gained more than ten catties after confinement. Look at you, you have returned to your pre-pregnancy weight so quickly. It's all caused by lack of nutrition!"

Yao Qiaoyun took Jiang Li's hand and looked it over carefully. It was obviously a pair of calloused hands, which looked nothing special. How could he be so good at drawing and combing his hair?

The two were talking. The baby woke up. They were probably hungry. They waved their little hands and feet together, closed their eyes and cried loudly. The two moved in unison, crying one after another.

Jiang Li and Yao Qiaoyun each carried a baby, carried it directly to the door and began to urinate, the diaper had just been pulled out, the two brothers seemed to be in a competition, one urinated farther than the other.

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