The Card Apprentice

The blade-like nib gently slipped over a turquoise card. Blue slender lines run smoothly from under the nib. The light blue lines on the slap card keep increasing, and gradually, a complex mysterious pattern continues to become more perfect as the pen tip slides.

Chen Mu's eyes stared at the card intently, breathing slowly, as if he was afraid of something. If you look closely, you can see that his right arm did not move at all from start to finish, only his wrist moved. His right wrist was as flexible as a snake, soft and boneless. Gently turn the nib and an elegant arc appears on the card. Suddenly the pen tip was heavy, changed the lightness just now, and then a sharp side hook suddenly, the pen hook was like a blade! The graphics on the card suddenly lighted up, and then quickly dimmed and resumed as usual.

Chen Mu casually put it into a pile of cards stacked on the table. His movements were skilful and natural, and there was no sign of stagnation. His face was still focused on completing this card. He has now completed fifteen cards, and there are still ten cards left before his mission. He is currently making a one-star energy card. As the lowest-level energy card, it is one of the most widely used cards and one of the most consumed. Just then, the room was suddenly dark.

"Damn, the energy is exhausted again!" Chen Mu muttered a few words, and with his left hand pulled an energy card from the card stack, and then lightly pressed on the right wrist, and the meter worn by the right wrist emitted a bright beam. With the help of the light beam, Chen Mu carefully walked to the corner, the room was too cluttered, and he didn't want to knock over something. There is a square meter on the wall in the corner of the room, there is a slot under the meter, and Chen Mu's energy card is inserted into the slot of the meter.

As soon as the energy card is inserted into the card slot, the room returns to light. The number one hundred is displayed on the meter. I didn't expect to run out of energy, it seems that today's task will add another one. Back at the table, Chen Mu quickly went to work, and all his sources of life depended on the most paper-level cards. Since he learned to make this kind of energy card three years ago, he has never interrupted the workload of 25 cards a day.

Chen Mu's room is very small, less than forty square meters, with a semi-used work table inside. In addition to the clean work desk, the rest of the room was piled with debris. These miscellaneous things are also various, piles of old books, various raw materials scattered.

Chen Mu lived in this humble place for three years. This is a special relief room provided by the federal government. A small room like this can be paid for only 150 euros per month. For poor people like Chen Mu, there is really no cheaper place than this. What's more, in his opinion, he was already considered quite good. He even saw the family of four squeezed into a room of the same size.

At five in the afternoon, Chen Mu finally completed today's work-twenty-five energy cards. After carefully counting the number of cards, and counting it twice, it was determined that there were no errors in the number, and then he carefully put the energy card into the card bag in his clothes.

On the street, the night was getting thicker. The colorful lights make people linger in the night, and the fireworks from the tail of the shuttle passing by from time to time drag the beautiful trails that are dangling away. Chen Mu tightened his jacket slightly and looked up at the sky. The cold is getting worse, it seems winter is coming. There is no extra thought to sigh about the passage of time, but it takes more time for heating in the winter, Chen Mu is thinking in his heart.

Passing in front of the back door of the Dongwei Academy, Chen Mu has walked this road for three years, but every time he sees the students who go in and out, he can't help but raise an inexplicable emotion. After reconciling, Chen Muchao walked quickly to a small shop next to the school. The shop is called "Dongwei Grocery Store"-there are at least twenty similar shops of the same name around Dongwei Academy. For three years in this small shop, Chen Mu has patronized every day. It's just that he didn't come here to buy things. Instead, he came to sell things.

As soon as he entered the shop, the owner noticed and said, "Amu is here!"

"Well, Uncle Hua." He answered the owner. The owner, Uncle Hua, is an old man in his fifties or so, and his years have left inconceivable marks on him. Fine wrinkles, half-white flower hair, and a pair of reading glasses.

"This is today's goods." Chen Mu carefully took out the card package from his arms, pulled out the stack of energy cards, and handed them to the owner: "Twenty-five."

Uncle Hua took the card from Chen Mu and didn't see it on the shelf. He smiled and said, "Fortunately, there is A Mu, you send the card every day, otherwise I will be short of supplies."

Chen Mu smiled slightly, but did not answer. He knew that what Hua Shu said was probably a joke. The one-star energy card is the cheapest energy card, but it is also one of the most expensive cards, not to mention here is located near the Dongwei Academy, where can only sell 25 energy cards a day?

Uncle Hua also knew Chen Mu's temper and didn't talk nonsense. He asked directly: "Does Mu need cash or transfer?" "Transfer." Chen Mu replied succinctly, and then finished with a pale green Deca Handed it to Uncle Hua. After the settlement, Chen Mu Chaohua said goodbye and wanted to turn around and leave.

Uncle Hua suddenly called Chen Mu: "A Mu wait a moment."

Chen Mu stopped and turned to look at Uncle Hua with a little surprise: "Is there anything else? Uncle Hua."

Uncle Hua took out a goose yellow paper note from the drawer and looked at Chen Mu with a smile: "I almost forgot something. This is a lecture card for the cardmaker training class. It was the dealer when he received the goods yesterday. Included. It ’s a piece of waste paper when you put it with me. Take it, Amu.

Looking at the kind-hearted Uncle Hua, Chen Mu couldn't help but be moved. He knew how much the old man had helped him in recent years. If it wasn't for him, Chen Mu believed that the life now is also out of reach for him.

Three years ago, he just learned to make energy cards and sell them everywhere, but few people asked for it. No merchant was willing to buy it. The amount of one-star energy cards is very large, and merchants are more willing to buy in large quantities at one time. And Chen Mu can make up to 30 cards a day. For merchants, this is just a small number that is not even a fraction.

Fortunately, he met Uncle Hua. Uncle Hua agreed to buy his energy cards, but the purchase price of each card was 103 euros, which was two euros lower than the wholesale price of energy cards on the market. Nevertheless, Chen Mu was extremely grateful to Uncle Hua.

Four years ago, Chen Mu was still a homeless child. Once he met a card maker, a dying card maker. He used his accumulated food for five months in exchange for the life of the card maker and extended his life by seven days. In these seven days, he learned a skill, that is, making a one-star energy card. After the cardmaker died without leaving any relics, Chen Mu buried him in the desert. He didn't know the name of the cardmaker until now, but his fate has changed since then.

He spent a year doing his best to work as a short worker, during which he did six different kinds of short work. This year, he was twelve years old. Also in this year, he finally had a small savings, a thousand audi. This thousand Euros, he all bought the raw materials needed to make energy cards. The card maker once told him that the wholesale price of a one-star energy card in the market is 105 Euros, and the unified retail price is 110 Euros, and its cost is only 98 Euros. .

Every card maker of a one-star energy card will make it, but there are not many people who know the difference, and even if they know it, almost no one will think about it. One-star energy card is one of the simplest cards, and it has been fully realized in industrial production. Even a master cardmaker can only make 20 or 30 energy cards a day, and the output is really small. Moreover, for the card maker, the money earned from the difference is too lazy to pick up when they fall to the ground. But for Chen Mu, the money was enough to feed him.

He successfully made eight for the first time, losing almost two hundred Audis, but this gave him hope. But what surprised him was that he was hampered in selling energy cards. The merchants have no interest in the few energy cards in his hand. He ran for a whole day without eating, and at 8 pm he stepped into Uncle Hua's shop. His legs trembled a little when he entered the store, and he almost reached the edge of a coma all the time before Dimi entered.

Although the price of 103 Audi is lower than the wholesale price of 105, Chen Mu feels surrounded by great joy. I sold all the energy cards I bought, bought the cheapest food, and the rest of the money I bought the ingredients for the energy card.

Since then, Chen Mu's life has finally stabilized.

Twenty-five energy cards a day, he didn't interrupt for a day.

This time is three years. In these three years, he only made one kind of card-one-star energy card. In the second year, he was able to control costs at 97 Audi. Although it is only an Audi difference, it is a great encouragement to him. While making energy cards, he spent all his time studying how to reduce costs.

Finally, in the third year, the cost of the energy card was controlled by him at 95 euros. Each energy card can make eight euros. His daily income stabilized at two hundred euros. This was three years ago. I dare not imagine the numbers. The income of 6,000 Euros per month has allowed him to live a normal life, but he still lives in a relief room that only requires 150 Euros per month as usual.

Uncle Chen Muchao, who had returned to God, smiled, "Thank you Uncle Hua!" He took the certificate and carefully put it in the card bag in his arms.

Training courses, especially those for card makers, are one of the most flooded in the world. They often display extremely gorgeous advertisements. For example, in this course certificate, it is said that "Dongwei Academy admits academic qualifications" and "Dongwei Academy senior senior cardmaker authority speaks in person" Yunyun, in fact, what is it inside? Chen Mu Yiqing Er Chu. The organization that hosts this training course has only a slight relationship with the Dongwei Academy. This institution has to pay Dongwei Academy a fee each time as a price to maintain this nominally "jointly organized".

Chen Mu still plans to listen to what the training course is about. Business card is one of the most difficult learning. For so many years, he has not given up on self-study, but with little effect. It was not until last year that he understood what was going on. His foundation is too poor. For more than ten years of wandering life, he has not received any cultural education.

For a teenager without the slightest foundation, it is naturally more difficult to study self-taught cardiology, which is famous for its deepness and obscurity. However, he has no doubt about his IQ. He can learn to make a one-star energy card based on memory only within a week. The cardmaker once praised his talent.

Since then, he set aside this temporarily too high goal for him, and began to turn to the most basic theoretical study. No matter how tired work is every day, he will take time to learn these boring knowledge.

After bidding farewell to Uncle Hua, Chen Mu walked south along an alley. Today is Saturday and he has another job.

Crossing two streets and walking for about twenty minutes, he came to a second-hand used card acquisition station.

"Hey, man, here it is!" He was a black and thin bald head, and his name was Xiao Hei. He is also the owner of this acquisition station. Every Saturday and Sunday evening, Chen Mu will come here to work for three hours.

Chen Muchao nodded slightly, but his face was still faint.

Xiao Hei has long been accustomed to Chen Mu's expression. When Chen Mu came here to ask for a part-time job, Xiao Hei originally refused. This acquisition station has been taken care of by himself since his father, and it has also been taken care of by himself.

Hire someone? Xiao Hei can't afford that wage.

But when Chen Mu said he didn't want to work, Xiao Hei finally agreed. Of course, Chen Mu still gets paid. Generally Chen Mu will choose a few used cards to take away as his wages. Sometimes Chen Mu also picks out several unused energy cards from these waste dumps. Xiao Hei calculates a bill. Every month, he saves a lot of money on it. It's just that he is a little curious about the dumb Chen Mu. How does this guy know that there is still energy left in these cards?

But since then, every time he sees Chen Mu, he smiles.

Chen Mu squatted down and began to sort the stacked cards. There are many types of cards, including energy cards, item cards, mimicry cards, and even some relatively rare plant card animal cards. But the cards here are all useless without exception, all Chen Mu has to do is to sort these cards into categories.

The work went on quickly, and he could see that he was very familiar with the work.

Chen Mu flipped his wrist and threw a card at Xiaohei: "Oh, this card can still be used for a while." This two-star energy card has at least half of the energy in it. Why is the original owner of the card so wasteful. The capacity of a two-star energy card is one thousand, that is, there are almost five hundred energy in it.

"Hey, thank you, Brother Chen!" Xiao Hei looked at the two-star energy card in his hand, his eyes widened. Fart Fart ran to the energy meter, inserted the card in, and when he saw the "523" number on it, Xiao Hei laughed so much that his features were almost crowded.

Chen Mu ignored it, and he went through it wholeheartedly. Although there will also be some obsolete intermediate cards, such as Samsung four-star cards, the probability of appearing is quite high. But to him, it was of little value. The only thing he is interested in now is the one-star energy card.

Three years of production life, let him have his own understanding of this most common lowest-level card. There is more than one way to make a one-star energy card. Chen Mu has collected twelve different one-star energy cards from this type. These differently structured one-star energy cards inspired Chen Mu. It was because he borrowed some techniques from these cards that he successfully reduced the cost of making one-star energy cards to 95 euros. However, such good luck does not happen every day, so far, he has only collected twelve.

But luck seems to be good today.

Looking at the one-star energy card in his hand, from the surface texture, he is a one-star energy card that Chen Mu has never encountered in another new structure.

He set aside this energy card and continued to dig into it. There are too many one-star energy cards, but Chen Mu takes the trouble to check them one by one. His speed is extremely fast. Almost as long as he gently strokes from these one-star energy cards, he can know whether he wants them.

All this comes from his familiarity with the one-star energy card. This familiarity has been made without interruption for three years. He doesn't have to look at it. He can judge whether the card is a one-star energy card or a structure he has seen by himself. He was so familiar with them that they went into every detail.

The fingers swiping from the edge of the card stopped suddenly.

This card ...

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