the rise of otaku
Finally, Zhou Yu was able to make Zhou Shuyu happy. Soon, she left with He Yuanyuan to start her “business”. Those toys had also been seen by Zhou Hao and other kids. Their eyes were wide open when they saw the toys. They all pretended that they wanted to help and took the opportunity to play with those toys. However, to Zhou Shuyu, those models were important goods, she did not want those kids to touch them at all. What if they scratched the models, then the price would go down.
Having been kicked out by Zhou Shuyu once again, Zhou Hao said gloomily, “brother Yu, that’s not fair, you hid so many toys from us and did not give us a chance to play them.”
It was actually understandable, boys just liked this type of toys, so all of them were drooling over the toys that Zhou Yu made.
Thinking that the old village chief was always looking after him, Zhou Yu decided to give something in return, “okay, as long as you can help me to remove the wild weed in my yard, I will make one for you.”
Because he was lazy, so the yard was very messy. There were some areas had already grown many wild weeds. So this was a great opportunity for him to have someone to help him to clean the yard.
Hearing what Zhou Yu said, Zhou Hao thought for a second and quickly left the house. When he returned to the yard, there was a group of other kids with him. “We are all going to help you, can you make one for each one of us? We promise that we will only play the toys here, we will not take them away,” said Zhou Hao.
The kid was smart, and he was not selfish, no wondered that he was the leader of the kids in the village. It would only cause a few Moe coins, the little Niannian’s contract had given him 5000 of them, so Zhou Yu did not mind about this small amount of coins. He just happily agreed. In the children’s happy cheers, he wrote down the toys that each one of the kid wanted.
“I want an airplane!”
“I want a tank!”
“I want a submachine gun!”
The children shouted one after another, fearing that they would not get one when it was finally their turn to ask for a toy. While Zhou Yu was recording, he looked at Zhou Hao curiously, ‘Why did this brat did not ask for any toys?’ But soon, the puzzle was solved. When there was only one left, this brat looked around and said loudly, “I want an aircraft carrier!”
Damn, this kid really lived up to his leader’s name, even the toy that he asked was also the leader’s level. But since he had already agreed, then he could not take the words back. He just simply let this kid go this time.
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Zhou Shuyu was very busy these two days. Because of this, He Yuanyuan did not dare to come to visit Zhou Yu alone. After all, it was not appropriate to have a young woman staying in a room with a young man alone.
Taking the photos of those models separately, uploading them to her online store, and writing the description, it was extremely tiring. Moreover, Zhou Shuyu had to go to many military enthusiast’s sites to advertise her shop. She couldn’t just take the share without doing anything. Besides, she wanted to take this summer holiday, to earn some extra money. This was the ‘business opportunity’ she had been waiting for.
She had to admit that the quality of those scale models was very high. With the pure handmade tag, it instantly attracted many people’s attention. Meticulous design, beautiful craftsmanship, perfect details and most importantly, it was very realistic. No one knows which carpenter would make the scale models beautiful to such an extent.
The photos of those models soon became widespread. Zhou Shuyu’s small shop also gained quite a popularity because of this. What surprised her, even more, was that, within just a few days, all the models were sold out, there were even some people commented that if she had more models, inform them at once.
People with skills truly could make money easily. Earning several thousands of Chinese Yuan just like that. It was no wonder that he wasted such precious wood just to make some models.
After collecting the money from the bank, she went to Zhou Yu’s house immediately. Upon arriving, she was immediately shocked by what she saw.
Under the big banyan tree, there was a workbench with many model parts placed on it.
A large ship with a length of humans height had already been assembled halfway. Upon a closer look, Zhou Shuyu noticed that it was actually a domestic aircraft carrier model. Zhou Yu, who was wearing a workshop uniform, skillfully assembled the carrier carefully with different types of tools, and a group of kids was surrounding the workbench, looking at what Zhou Yu was doing while their faces were filled with admiration, and letting out audible surprised gasps from time to time.
‘Holy cow… how much is this worth?’
The first thing that flashed in Zhou Shuyu’s mind was the price of this model.
Originally, it would only take an evening to make the aircraft carrier, however, those kids, especially Zhou Hao didn’t have any patience, they wanted to see how it was made. So in the end, Zhou Yu reluctantly asked the beaver to finish half of the carrier first. Then Zhou Yu would personally finish the other half. Of course, he would not able to craft any small parts of the carrier. But those big parts, he was able to finish them under the beaver’s instruction. This was why everyone was watching how the aircraft carrier was being made.
Only when he needed to do it personally did Zhou Yu realized that how skillful the beaver was. He had often thought that woodworking was as easy as building blocks, however, when he needed to do it, he realized how difficult it was. If it weren’t for the fact that the beaver was constantly correcting his mistake, he would’ve probably made a big mess.
The noisy yard had also attracted some adults as well. Some were there to look for their kids. It was already the time for lunch, but those kids still didn’t want to go home, so there would definitely be many brutal ass smacks later on.
However, the attention of those adults was soon attracted by the aircraft carrier as well. Seeing the magnificent aircraft carrier slowly formed its shape, they were all amazed by the skill that Zhou Yu suddenly had. Comparing the work done by the old man Zhang, whose job was to repair the broken furniture in the village, the beautiful work that this young man did, was completely on a different level.
Zhou Shuyu could only wait patiently on the side, while using her sharp eyes to scan this aircraft carrier. At the same time, she was trying to estimate the price of this carrier.
However, she had a vague feeling that she would not be able to sell this ‘treasure’. With two meters long in length, it was too big! It would be a problem for shipping.
Only until Zhou Yu’s stomach started to make hungry noise did he finally stopped assembling the parts. He was not a stranger to the scale models. It was just that since he started to live on his own, he didn’t have any spare money to support him to build any.
Now that he had this aircraft carrier, it was a great opportunity for him to relive the good old days. Although it might be dull and cumbersome, Zhou Yu decided to finish the carrier by himself, even if it meant that the final product would not be as good as the product that made by the beaver.
“Hi, the great artist, do you want to sell this model? The miniature models you gave me have already been sold out. I was thinking about asking you for the next batch.”
After Zhou Shuyu took her share of the profit, she gave Zhou Yu the rest of the money, that she had earned in the past few days. She then tried to persuade Zhou Yu to sell the carrier. Of course, she knew that the possibility would be very low.
And as she had expected, after Zhou Yu took the money, he just smiled while shaking his head. Then he returned to his house to make his lunch. The kids that surrounded Zhou Yu were instantly relieved. Such a good toy, of course, they preferred to play it.
Zhou Yu might look very calm, but after he took several thousand Chinese Yuan, he also felt as if he was on cloud nine. As soon as he returned to his house, he immediately started to count the money.
As the bottom-level writer, who only relied on the bonus of releasing the chapters every day, having suddenly earned several thousand Chinese Yuan made him felt like he just hit the jackpot.
Originally, he thought that he was only able to make money when the comic studio or the game company came out, but he didn’t expect that he was able to solve his income problem this quick. However, this type of business still wasn’t the best, he shouldn’t waste all the Moe coins on making those models.
Having thought of this, he remembered the 5000 Moe coins he had received. He had hesitated for several days now. But he still couldn’t decide which one he should make first.
Comic studio? The animation base? Or the game company?
Or all of them at the same time?
…note…
As usual, no update next week.