However, perhaps because the incident had not faded a few days ago, Meng Huo's first glance at Ling Shuang was not surprised by her growth rate, but suddenly realized that so many years had passed.

Meng Huo, who has always regarded Xia Chuanzhen as a little girl, realized when she saw Ling Shuang who grew up, that Xia Chuanzhen was already a mature woman.

She is older than Ling Shuang, but perhaps because she often sees her figure on TV, Meng Huo did not have a particularly deep understanding of her growth until Ling Shuang appeared in front of her.

This guy who was a girl a few years ago has grown into a young girl, and it may not be surprising that she is a woman. Women are all good at showing off themselves. When they are in their twenties, they are actually similar to girls of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Ling Shuang is obviously not the kind of young girl. She is already very good at dressing up at the age of seventeen. Her clean dressing brings Meng Huo the feeling that if she and Shen Jie are put together, it is not surprising that others mistakenly think they are peers.

She seemed to have deliberately used makeup to eliminate her childishness. If Meng Huo had not had the memory that was beyond ordinary people, he would have been unable to recognize the child in a short time.

"Ling Shuang, you haven't seen each other for a few years, you have grown up so old." Meng Huo said.

Ling Shuang was so happy that Meng Huo was able to recognize him as soon as possible.

"I knew that Brother He Xi, you can remember me!" She habitually hugged Meng Huo, and the bulging iong clamped his arm, making Meng Huo frown slightly. This little guy really grew up.

He calmly pulled his hand away and asked, "How did you become a cartoonist?"

"Because I like comics!" Ling Shuang saw Meng Huo's movements, pouted slightly, then unbuttoned her bag and said, "Brother He Xi, I have brought you a lot of desserts, but it's still hot, so you can eat it quickly!"

She opened her bag, filled with carefully packaged desserts and biscuits. Meng Huo could smell the fragrance of these things while standing. If Qin Ya smelled it, she would have to drool.

"Is this the reason why you are late?" Meng Huo frowned. He could smell it from the fragrance. These desserts were just made and it seemed that the heat had not dissipated.

"Yes." Ling Shuang nodded: "I got up early this morning and prepared, but the store is very busy and there is no place to make it for me, so I spent a little more time."

After she learned that Meng Huo would come to the studio today a few days ago, Ling Shuang kept trying to give him a surprise and prepared the ingredients. She made these desserts one by one this morning.

"Hurry, Brother He Xi, sit down quickly... These ones need to be hot to eat." Ling Shuang sat down with Meng Huo. Then he put the desserts on the table one by one and said proudly: "I learned my mother's skills. I made the best desserts in the store."

Her movement attracted the attention of other assistants, and Bai Han looked here with a gaze: "Ling Shuang, can I eat one?"

"No, all these are for brothers!" Ling Shuang refused immediately. Meng Huo looked at Bai Han in surprise. She rarely said such words, especially strangers. It seemed that she and Ling Shuang should be very familiar with each other.

However, she may often follow Qin Ya to Hexizhijia dessert shop, and it is not surprising that the two know each other.

Meng Huo did not eat desserts, he looked at these things coldly: "Ling Shuang, this is not the reason you are late."

Ling Shuang was stunned, then lowered her head and apologized weakly.

"I was late on the first day, and I don't want such an assistant." Meng Huo asked: "You said, what should I do with you?"

"Just scold me..." Ling Shuang shrank his head and said, "Teacher He Xi, you can't be so stingy, right? Just fire someone because you were late. That's too unfair, at least twice!"

Meng Huo originally wanted to drive away Ling Shuang's trouble with the reason of being late, but after Ling Shuang said this, it seemed a bit arbitrary, and the girl actually said it twice, so it would be better to go with the flow.

"Twice, right, that's OK, I'll forgive you this time, but if there's another time... you won't use it here."

Ling Shuang breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't believe she had a second time!

However, Meng Huo did not finish his words, and he continued: "What I said twice was two mistakes. Being late is considered once. If you make another mistake, no matter whether you are late or not, you have to leave here."

These words made everyone around him quiet. Tomato and Bai Han were both puzzled in their hearts, "Why is Teacher He Xi, who is usually easy to talk to, so cold today?"

Meng Huo has never been so angry because of others' lateness. Although Ling Shuang was late this time, his reaction was not like the usual reaction.

Ling Shuang looked at Meng Huo blankly, her eyes a little angry: "Brother He Xi, you want to drive me away, right?"

"No." Meng Huo denied it.

"Then this is too much!" Ling Shuang shouted, then stretched out three fingers and said, "If you want me to leave, you will have to be late twice and make mistakes three times, and you cannot be less than this!"

Meng Huo was unhappy, but after he found that the cartoonists around him looked over, he nodded: "Okay, then it will be three times."

He always finds opportunities after making three mistakes. However, Meng Huo wants Ling Shuang to leave so much, not because he hates this girl, but mainly because she is quite difficult to deal with if she gets too close, it may be more difficult to deal with in the future.

After getting three chances of making mistakes, Ling Shuang's anger also subsided. She urged Meng Huo to sing her dessert. Meng Huo couldn't stand her enthusiasm, so she picked up a piece of soft cake and put it in her mouth.

"How is it?" Ling Shuang looked at Meng Huo expectantly: "Is what I cook very delicious?"

"...It's better..." Meng Huo said reluctantly. Although he didn't want to admit it, the soft cake made by Ling Shuang was even more delicious than the soft cake he bought at He Xizhi's dessert shop before. She said that she inherited the skills of the boss's wife, it seems that she is not a lie.

"If you have this kind of craft, why do you still draw comics?" Meng Huo asked.

"Didn't I say it, I like comics." Seeing Meng Huo likes the desserts she made, Ling Shuang was full of joy and was very happy since she was a child. Her skills were naturally not bad.

"But I think you are more suitable to be a dessert chef." Meng Huo couldn't help but eat another piece of soft cake: "If you don't inherit the family business, your mother will definitely be sad."

"I will inherit the family business. Being a cartoonist is too tiring." But to his surprise, Ling Shuang suddenly said this.

Just when Meng Huo was surprised, Ling Shuang added: "But I don't need to make snacks by myself if I inherit the family business. My mother has many apprentices, and they do the work in the store. I just need to be the boss in the future."

Meng Huo was surprised: "Then can you still take care of comics?"

"...I'm not going to be a cartoonist, what I want to be a comic assistant!" Ling Shuang said happily: "I want to be your assistant to Brother He Xi, help you draw. You don't need to think about the story yourself so that you can take care of both."

Meng Huo was shocked. He didn't expect that Ling Shuang was trying to do such an abacus.

"But the comic assistant is also very tired..."

"Are your assistant brother, aren't you tired?" Ling Shuang shook her head. She was smart and had already investigated the matter clearly. Being He Xi's assistant would definitely not affect her inheritance of the family business.

"Besides, I'm not afraid of being tired. My mother is still here!" She said this, Meng Huo already understood. Ling Shuang's mother is still young now, and there is no need to worry about the problem of the dessert shop. Just like when the old lady was there, Meng Huo ignored the Meng family. Ling Shuang had many choices.

Although cartoonists cannot be said to be a youthful life, there are very few people who can be a lifelong life. Even Ling Shuang has been in this industry for twenty or thirty years. In the end, there is enough room for her to go back and inherit her family business.

"Do you really like comics?" Meng Huo suddenly asked again: "Or are you coming here for other reasons?"

"There are other reasons, but I like the comics, brother He Xi, don't you know the best?"

Ling Shuang's words silently made Meng Huo silent. Indeed, he knew that Ling Shuang was reading comics when she was very young. It is impossible to deceive people if she likes comics. Since she likes comics, no matter whether there are other reasons or not, Meng Huo will not easily erase her dreams.

He changed his mind. Meng Huo planned to deliberately find Ling Shuang's two mistakes to let her leave early, but if the other party really likes comics and comes to be a comic assistant, then he can't do this.

Meng Huo likes comics, and because of this, he is not qualified to deny others' likes. He gave up the idea of ​​"intentionally" driving away Ling Shuang, and decided to treat her and other cartoonists equally.

Of course, this does not mean that he would allow Ling Shuang to make two more mistakes and stay with her. What he said can no longer be taken back. If he makes a mistake, Ling Shuang will leave, but Meng Huo no longer plans to design a mistake for her.

The person Ling Shuang wants to replace is Bai Han to be more precise. She and another 30-year-old female cartoonist take over Bai Han's job.

"Put all the desserts, I'll look at your paintings." Meng Huo wanted to see Ling Shuang's strength. Ling Shuang looked at the desserts on the table and said, "After I put them away, Brother He Xi, you have to take them all back for food."

Meng Huo hesitated for a while, saw her persistent eyes, nodded and said, "Okay."

"Don't give it to others!"

"……good."

After Meng Huo agreed to these two conditions, Ling Shuang satisfies all the desserts, and then put them in her bag and handed them to Meng Huo. She seemed to have guessed that Meng Huo would not finish eating on the spot, so she brought two bags and another bag with the painter's tools.

"This is the album I drew." Ling Shuang took out a picture album and handed it to Meng Huo, then pulled him to his desk and asked Meng Huo to give him the painting.

"Then draw this studio in the form of comics, you can avoid drawing people!"

Meng Huo casually said a topic. After watching Ling Shuang start writing, he flipped up her picture album. He had read the works and live demonstrations of eight other cartoonists. Compared to them, Ling Shuang's paintings were not very good. Her paintings were a bit awkward, and they might be the most immature of these nine people.

But Meng Huo was still surprised because unlike others, Ling Shuang was a young new cartoonist, and these paintings were already very good works among newcomers, which basically meet his requirements for his assistants.

If the editorial department does not give priority to veteran cartoonists, but rather chooses assistants from the new group, Ling Shuang will definitely be among them.

"...Brother He Xi, the drawing is done!"

Not long after, Ling Shuang drew the studio in the form of a comic. Meng Huo picked up the painting. The quality was basically the same as in the album, and it took him not long.

Moreover, Meng Huo cared about Ling Shuang's paintings very much. Her awkwardness existed in the content of the painting, but it was no worse than others in terms of details that needed to be taken care of by the assistant.

"Wait..." Meng Huo picked up the brush, bent over and quickly drew a picture on it, then put it in front of Ling Shuang, and said, "Draw special effects for me, paint black and paste the dots."

He told Ling Shuang what specific effects and outlets needed, and then stood aside and stared at her. The result was as he expected in the work of the assistant, Ling Shuang was not worse than the other eight cartoonists.

"She's not like lying to be an assistant."

Meng Huo glanced at the calluses on Ling Shuang's fingers. They were different from those used by ordinary people. They were unique to cartoonists, which meant that she had indeed spent a lot of effort to practice drawing.

In this way, he was completely convinced of Ling Shuang's love for comics.

“…You’re qualified.”

So when Ling Shuang finished painting, Meng Huo nodded and agreed that the nine new assistants selected by her as her new assistant were of good quality, and he did not fire any of them.

"Qualified? Am I qualified?" Ling Shuang was stunned for a moment, then jumped up and hugged Meng Huo's hand: "I knew Brother He Xi would let me pass!"

Meng Huo pulled his hand back again. Although Ling Shuang pretended very much, this girl obviously knew that she could pass it. She must have compared her painting skills with the other nine people.

"Hehe..." Ling Shuang looked at Meng Huo's coldness and was not angry. She turned around and said to the others in the studio: "Everyone will go to my dessert shop for lunch, I'll treat you!"

The cartoonists naturally would not refuse, but Ling Shuang turned her head to Meng Huo again: "Brother, go too. In addition to desserts, we also have meals here."

Meng Huo didn't want to go there very much, but the things in that store were really good. He didn't dare to go there normally. Today, there were so many people who happened to go there together, so there would be no trouble.

"Okay." He agreed, but after he arrived at the dessert shop, he still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of Ling Shuang and her mother. In the end, except for this lunch, every meal during this holiday was solved at Hexizhijia dessert shop.

During the two-day holiday, Meng Huo spent the group of assistants, but when the new week arrived, he had no time to appear here again, so he could only let Bai Han and Tomato guide these new assistants themselves.
Chapter completed!