Saturday evening.
On the coast of the Sea of Sea, the city of Tillis.
After finishing his day's work, Piero Colt had an early dinner at an outside restaurant and returned to his residence in the port area.
He lit the fireplace and sat on the sofa in the living room to rest and wait. Not long after, just after seven o'clock, the expected visitor rang the doorbell.
At the same time, Valeela had just arrived at the dock area, and her speech at the Workers' Union Tavern had not yet begun.
"Good evening, Mr. Ladd."
After opening the door, Piero greeted the visitor politely, moved out of the way, and led the visitor to the living room while asking:
"Just coffee, okay?"
Ladd stopped by the sofa without sitting down, waved his hand, and said with a smile:
"No, no, it's business. You know, I'm in a hurry to get home for dinner. I can't keep my family waiting too long."
"That's true." Piero did not insist, and guided his right hand to the stairs not far away. "Then go upstairs and have a look. Although I am confident that you will be satisfied, but to be on the safe side, I haven't taken down the canvas yet."
"Okay, okay." Ladd nodded repeatedly, obviously very satisfied with Piero's attitude.
The two went up to the second floor and came to a vacant bedroom.
The furnishings in this room are quite messy. Painting tools such as picture frames and drawing boards are scattered on the bed board. Drafts are also stacked on the desk by the window. There are also some strange wooden or iron parts. Even the corners are full of It's debris.
"It's a bit messy..."
Piero touched his nose, moved the painting stool, and turned the easel to face Mr. Ladd:
"Look carefully. If there are no problems, I will install the watch for you."
Ladd took careful steps and walked closer to admire his portrait.
A moment later.
"The painting is very good, I am very satisfied," Mr. Ladd couldn't help but admire, "Although I don't know much about painting, I still think you should be more famous.
"I'm curious, why did you choose the University of Engineering here instead of studying at the University of the Arts in Trier? This seems a bit... um..."
He was at a loss for words.
"Some are a waste of talent, some are not doing their job properly?" Piero added with a smile.
Seeing that Piero's expression was not sulky, Ladd also smiled and affirmed, "I feel a little bit."
Piero shook his head indifferently and said while dismantling the canvas:
"You think the same as my father.
"Haha, but actually for me personally, painting is not my real job. If I don't need money recently, I don't want to waste my time on painting.
"It's because I like machinery that I chose to study at Tillis Engineering University. "Machinery is a man's romance." Don't you think so, Mr. Ladd? "
[In view of the general environment,
Facing this question, Ladd said "hmm" slightly awkwardly.
In the current context, as the manager of a machinery processing factory, he cannot say that he chose this job just to make money to support his family. In fact, he has no interest in machinery manufacturing at all.
"Hey, I remember that you seemed to believe in the "Eternal Blazing Sun" instead of the "God of Steam and Machinery"? ” Ladd tried to change the subject.
"Yes," Piero nodded, "but there doesn't seem to be any problem, right?"
"Well, that's true." Ladd felt even more embarrassed.
Fortunately, Piero just answered casually and didn't notice his reaction.
Ladd simply stopped talking. When Piero started looking for a suitable frame, he walked to the desk and looked at the drafts and parts on the table casually.
Skipping the design sketches and calculation drafts, he suddenly saw a rather neat and formal document with the title——
"An improved combination lock
Design of small safe
Is this an invention patent pending? Ladd's heart moved, and he wanted to open the upper cover of the draft to find out, but he forced himself to hold it back.
"Hey, finally done."
Ladd turned around following the sound and saw Piero standing up with the completed oil painting in hand.
He took the portrait of himself, checked it over, and found no problems, so he took out his wallet and happily paid the balance of 200 Filkin.
After sending Mr. Ladd away, Piero sat back on the sofa in front of the fireplace, and his mind unknowingly drifted back to his hometown in the small town in the northern province of Leiston.
My current savings is almost 4,000 Filkin, plus the patent that is about to be reviewed, I can start to purchase the main materials for the "Hunter" potion at extraordinary gatherings...
There is a show tomorrow, you can try your luck...
Alas, I hope that the "Hunter" potion can really help my sister greatly improve her painting skills to the point where her father is satisfied. In this case, the relationship between me and him can be eased a lot...
…
Piero's father was a locally famous painter.
He had always hoped that his son could inherit his career and take the painting path higher and further. He had always aimed at this and gave Piero strict instruction since he was a child.
But unfortunately, this seems to have the opposite effect.
Although Piero did show a considerable degree of artistic talent, he was more interested in machinery and gears... When choosing a university, he had a fierce argument with his father, and finally almost broke up, forcing him to choose a university that was more to his liking. engineering university.
From then on, his father became extremely indifferent to Piero and devoted more of his energy to his sister Delaila, who was five years younger than him.
Delaila also loved painting from the bottom of his heart.
This should have been a happy outcome, but fate seemed to have played a joke on their family——
Delaila is not really talented in painting.
No matter how hard he taught, their father had to admit in the end that Delila could not even catch up with the rebellious Piero, let alone enter the University of the Arts in Trier.
This deepened the gap between Piero and his son.
Piero had originally lost hope in easing the relationship between father and son and regarded it as the price of pursuing his ideals. However, the extraordinary power he came into contact by chance allowed him to find another possibility.
Now, he has almost completed all the preliminary preparations.
As long as everything goes well, he should be able to return home and spend a harmonious New Year with his family this year.
…
late at night.
While Valeera was creating her own ritual, Piero woke up from his sleep and found two more malicious intruders in the house.
He even knew one of them!
"Yinzate, what are you doing here?
"Also, who is he?!"
Piero asked nervously and cautiously, panicking but not panicking, because Yinzat was a non-staff member of the "Dawn Breaker" in his charge and had signed a "notarial certificate", so he could not harm him.
He was still very confident in the "notarization" of captain Tullius.
"Don't worry, it's a good thing, my brother, as long as you..."
"Hunter" Yinzate had an indifferent smile on his face. He took a few steps forward, easily parried Piero's attack, knocked him unconscious, and added the last half of the sentence:
"As long as you get some sleep first."
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