"I want to be your assistant. You will give me 70 seashells every week, right?"
The girl looked at herself expectantly.
Tina also looked at the little girl in front of her.
She is about 1.4 meters tall, and should be around thirteen or fourteen years old. The eyebrows on her cheeks have not yet fully grown, she has clear eyes like a small animal, and her chestnut hair is hidden in a hood.
The girl's young and thin body looks malnourished. She is wearing a rough and ill-fitting brown linen robe. She is definitely not a child of the local Yao ethnic group.
"Do you know what my assistant is going to do?"
Tina crossed her legs and continued to read the newspaper of the day in her hand.
She has no prejudice against children from other places, but there are many things to teach. She just wants an assistant who can help, not an apprentice who has to waste a lot of her time teaching.
The thin girl said: "I heard them read the notice board outside, saying that you want to hire an assistant to make models for you. I can do it, I can make wood carvings, make pottery, build stones, repair houses, and
Make bows, stools and tables."
Tina looked at the other party: "Do you know what applied mathematics is?"
"have no idea."
"To be honest, you have seen the table in the corner. It was my former assistant's workbench. There were wood, clay, bamboo pieces and some metal parts piled on it, as well as some chisels, hammers, rulers and other small tools. Now you
Go there and make me a model hut that is 10 centimeters high and 8 centimeters wide. It should have two bedrooms, facing south and north, and it should also have a bathroom and don’t seal the roof."
Tina took out the silver-plated mechanical pocket watch in her pocket: "The time is 2 hours. This is the test for you to be an assistant."
The kid heard it and immediately took action.
Tina drank honey water and read the newspaper, taking a few leisurely glances.
The girl's fingers were nimble and steady. She quickly collected the materials one by one, screened out the useful parts, and then started making. She retained the longer nails of her thumb and index finger and used them as marking tools by scratching them.
It does have the style of an old craftsman.
If you look closely, you can see that there are many small wounds on her fingers, which are rough and strong. They are the hands of a worker who has been working with various tools for a long time.
Tina likes it very much.
Two hours later, the girl completed a house model made of clay and bamboo.
It is not exquisite and beautiful, but it meets the actual living needs. For example, she specially made the foundation, and used thin bamboo slices to be woven into the walls as internal supports, which has good earthquake resistance and support effects.
From this alone, it can be seen that the other party does have actual construction and construction experience.
He is obviously just a child of thirteen or fourteen years old.
Tina adjusted her glasses and looked at the anxious and embarrassed girl: "What's your name?"
"Vilia, Miss, my name is Vilia."
"From now on, call me Teacher Tina."
"Yes, Teacher Tina...ah? Am I hired?"
"certainly."
Tina smiled: "Welcome to join, Vilia."
She raised her slender index finger: "My rules here are that the assistant's salary is 70 seashells per week, which normally lasts 3 to 4 months. I am engaged in the teaching and design of architecture in applied mathematics, so I need to make
It is your job to produce a large number of models for verification, most of which are yours. The working hours are from 8 am to 8 pm every day. It is very hard. Is it acceptable?"
"Yes!" Vilia seemed to be relieved, with a grateful smile on her face: "Thank you, Teacher Tina!"
Tina is an ordinary lecturer at Yancheng's [College of Engineering and Architecture]. Although the school sounds similar to the famous [College of Engineering], it is completely different.
[School of Engineering and Architecture] is just a very small new school, built in a wasteland outside Yancheng. The number of students it can receive is actually relatively poor. The only advantage is probably that the infrastructure is pretty good, even the offices of ordinary lecturers are
Independent single room.
Tina pointed to the water ring next to her and motioned to Vilia to wash the mud and sawdust on her hands.
The girl didn't know how to use it, so she was a little embarrassed standing next to the small square platform.
While Tina was washing her hands, she told her: "This thing uses the water element to atomize and rotate. You can think of it as a soft miniature tornado. Pull the lever on the side to form it. This is also a part of the [Spell Box Court]
These daily applications are related to our architectural design, and the water pipes they require must be designed."
The girl put her hand in the pool and saw the water mist slowly rotating and taking away the stains between her fingers. She was slightly surprised on her face: "It's amazing."
Tina asked her: "Where are you from? Does the family know that you come to work as my assistant?"
"I... come from Oak Town in [Dagos]. My mother was sick and could only lie in bed and couldn't walk, so my brother carried her all the way to the Yao Clan World for medical treatment. I also came here with my brother. Yao City
The nursing home over there was full of people, so we came here...My brother knew that I came to work."
Vilia told her own situation.
"Yeah. It's not easy. Do it well, Vilia. The doctors in Yancheng are no worse than those next door, but their reputation is just not as good as theirs."
Tina suddenly thought: "Well, Vilia, haven't you read the book?"
"No, there is no school in Oak Town..."
Vilia quickly added: "But I have learned from many old hunters and craftsmen, and I will definitely be able to complete the job you gave me."
Tina gently touched her long hair with her hands.
She just felt sorry.
It is a pity that a child with such strong hands-on ability has not learned the relevant basic knowledge.
"You can read the books on my bookshelf here, but you can't take them out - but some of the books are in the Yao language, and some are in the language of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom, the ghost world... Xingnao Mint can't help you."
"Thank you! I can look at pictures. I can understand by looking at pictures!"
Tina nodded. She walked to the door and grabbed the coat on the hanger: "Let's go, get to work, Vilia."
"is teacher."
After leaving the house, Tina took Vilia and drove all the way to a small town in the north, stopping next to a construction site where work was being done.
She grabbed a helmet from the back seat of the car and put it on, and then took a small one for Vilia to put on.
"This is also part of the job. How can you know what model to make without being on site? It's just a bit gray, so just get used to it."
Vilia looked excited.
Tina saw that the girl's eyes were fixed on the tall and heavy white-bone pallet truck - the device held up the elevated frame, slowly lifted the stones and wood below, and then placed and docked them...
"It's amazing...a city of the Yao people." The little girl's face was full of envy: "It would be great if there were cars like this in our town, then everyone would have a house to live in."
Tina put her hands in her pockets: "It should be soon. The biggest trouble in [Dagos] is that there are many magic wells. It needs to be comprehensively investigated and eliminated, otherwise it will not dare to carry out large-scale construction. The Yao people are dealing with it.
...Sooner or later."
There was a sudden bulging and chill in the pocket.
She grabbed a crystal wrapped in a copper shell and hung it on her ear like an earring: "What's wrong?"
The annoying voice of the dean came from over there: "Tina, why do you want to fire your assistant again? Even the students in the school can't stand you. If you are so demanding, who would be willing to be your assistant? Just be patient.
Young people need to get used to it."
"Did that guy come to you and cry?"
Tina said nonchalantly: "You can't keep speaking for him just because he is your nephew, right? He sends me flowers every day, says some weird things, and is dressed like he is going to a construction site... I can't
I don’t have time to deal with a layman. I said I’m only interested in construction and making money.”
"..."
"Okay, I'm busy."
Tina put away Feng Mu and looked at Vilia next to her. The girl assistant was still concentrating on watching the rise and fall of the skeleton truck, digging, turning and moving, which reminded Tina of her childhood.
No.
When I was this big, I wasn't as trouble-free as Vilia.
At that time, I was still looking for vampires, dark descendants and dragon descendants to fall in love with.
It's just those short-term lovers who can't stand Tina's dating hobby of visiting construction sites, making models the same height as them and putting them at home, and watching big trucks being constructed.
whispering sound.
They are all tasteless guys.
…
Tina admires Vilia as her little assistant.
She is conscientious, careful, hard-working, never cuts corners, and strives to be strong and reliable enough for every model she makes.
It just doesn't look good in an aesthetic sense.
Vilia said: "There are frequent earthquakes and magic well eruptions in Dagos, so whether it is built on a tree or on the ground, the house must be stable first. This has been the case for Dagos builders in the past. I don't know how to change it.
…”
"It's okay, just leave it like this. Dagos's style is not bad either."
But Tina still needs to repair it later.
The world of the Yao people is not that of Dagos, and the people of Yancheng are notoriously picky about their houses. If the designed model model does not look good, neither the builders nor the buyers will be satisfied.
If you can't sell it, you can't get paid for architectural design, and it's all meaningless.
Nowadays, the "Tombstone City" in [Ghost Realm] is the first choice for undead residents to choose to build houses. They have also begun to further develop and challenge the living market. The core black tombstone technology and cemetery they have mastered can be easily transformed into various
This style of single-family houses and gardens has brought tremendous pressure to construction companies everywhere.
As an architect, Tina must consider what is practical.
…
The project is not progressing smoothly.
Tina squeezed the clay in her hands and rubbed it, which made her relax a little.
The cooperative firm's goal this time is to build high-quality houses, targeting some wealthy groups, so they have very high requirements for house construction.
The key is that there is not that much flat terrain available around Yancheng. The plot of land they obtained is already adjacent to the mountains to the west, and they need to build according to the mountains.
Tina had already scolded her countless times in her heart.
In order to save money, this bastard businessman got cheap construction land, and put all the pressure on himself. The requirements include: giving the homeowners a new look, making them think that it is deliberately leaning against the mountains and getting closer to nature, but it must also have its own logo.
And style, don’t feel cheap...
"If it's Miss Tina, she can definitely do it." They said with a smile.
Tina scratched her hair, feeling a little irritated.
She inadvertently noticed that there was a strange house model on Vilia's workbench.
The model is a tree house. Different from the usual light and simple tree houses in the forest, this tree trunk is extremely wide and can support a spacious tree house with a large area. The house looks like it is carved out of the tree.
Only the unique environment of Dagos, with its mountain-like giant trees, can build such a building.
Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in Tina's mind.
Yes, you can completely transform that half of the mountain into a giant tree!
In this way, the original barren mountain has been transformed into a new high-end environment, and a treehouse-like natural wonder mansion is built around the hillside, which is completely Dage-style, and the surrounding land can further appreciate in value.
Tina considered it carefully and confirmed that there was no problem.
She immediately communicated with the trading company through [Feng Mu].
The big businessman said in that hypocritical and exaggerated tone again: "As expected of Miss Tina! We are going to have a big sale this time! Please hurry up and make the drawings and models! I'm waiting for your good news! When the time comes
I will celebrate your success with the best mead and banquet!”
Let go of the wind mother.
Tina took a sip on Vilia's face: "Good job, Vilia! Let's go, I'll take you to eat barbecue!"
The girl assistant who was making the clay figurine didn't react. When she saw the teacher grabbing her clothes and walking out, she quickly wiped her hands and followed.
…
"Yancheng's signature Solitaire Beast barbecue, plus some seaweed powder, is a delicacy that must be tasted. Solitaire Beast is also working here now. After all, it is the gravity of Lord Yao Shen."
Tina used a clamp to flip the meat on the back of the single-furnace beast. The metal monster lay quietly and tamely, opening its mouth to chew on the hay and charcoal in front of it.
She handed the roasted meat to the other party: "Sprinkle a little more coarse salt produced in Yancheng and have a taste."
Vilia took a small bite of the sizzling and oily meat, and then swallowed it all: "It's so delicious..."
Tina smiled and said: "This plate of high-quality beef costs 120 seashells."
"!"
The girl assistant was shocked: "It's so expensive!"
"It's okay, I'll treat you and eat more." Tina waved her hand generously: "You have been a big help this time. After the plan and design are implemented, you will get a bonus, which I will not withhold."
"Thank you, teacher, you are such a good person..." Vilia looked grateful and whispered, "Can I pack some barbecue for home?"
"Of course you can, but let's bake it at the end. It tastes better when it's hotter."
Tina then said: "I see you have been making puppets before. Do you like making people?"
"Yes, you can still make money by pinching people!" Vilia said happily: "As long as they are baked in a magic bottle, and a little rune text is added... the potters can even wield swords, many of them
People like it very much, and one doll can be sold for 3 seashells!”
A potter wielding a sword?
Tina said casually: "Then show me when you get back."
"good."
At this time, Tina had no idea that it was completely different from the Tao Ren she had imagined.
…
In a small house piled with clay, branches and bamboos, stood a pottery doll as tall as Vilia. The pottery doll's body was composed of pieces of pottery shards. It gently waved the wooden sword in its hand, and the movements were mechanical and repeated.
.
Tina realized immediately.
There's something wrong with the pottery doll in front of me.
It is composed of parts, and wielding the wooden sword is a manifestation of extraordinary power.