antique on the run

"Hey, look, this side needs to be dug out like this with a knife, and then this side is like this... this... okay! See it now! Take it and practice it yourself!"

In the blink of an eye, Mr. Seville has already hollowed out the lotus leaf pattern on half of the pottery plate.

"...No, I didn't understand." Saiwei put his hands behind his back and refused to take the pottery plate.

Although he didn't really want to admit it, he really didn't see anything clearly...

"Didn't understand?" The old man raised his eyebrows, but after a pause, he said kindly, "It's okay, it doesn't matter if you don't understand."

Sai Wei's eyes lit up, is the old man going to teach him again?He stared at the pottery plate intently, thinking that this time he had to see clearly, but...

The old man forcefully pulled out his hand hidden behind his back and stuffed the pottery dish into his hand.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, you will understand it after thinking about it."

Saiwei: "..."

You are too perfunctory a master!

He walked back to his seat sullenly and sat down, staring at the back of the old man depressedly.

stare--

Indifferent.

stare--

Turn a blind eye.

stare--

"mum?"

A small meow interrupted his gaze.

Qi Xiao didn't know when he jumped onto the low table and looked at him in confusion.

Didn't I tell you to practice carving by yourself? Why are you sitting here in a daze?

The brewing emotions were interrupted, and Sai Wei could no longer gather the resentment just now.He smiled helplessly, hugged the kitten on his lap, bent over to Qi Xiao's ear, and asked in a voice that only cats can hear: "Qi Xiao, did you understand just now?"

The warm gas from his mouth slid along the side of the ears, like a weak current, and the tip of the kitten's ears suddenly turned red.

——Although it is hidden under the fur and cannot be seen.

This is a physiological reaction, because cat ears are very sensitive.Although Qi Xiao felt that his ears were hot and uncomfortable, he didn't think much about it, and just turned his head slightly to the side.

He thought for a moment, then nodded at Sewi.

He basically understood.

So Saiwei felt relieved. He picked up the pottery plate with a hollowed out half from the table, held the bottom of the plate with his left hand, picked up a knife with his right hand, and said, "Please help me refer to it. I will dig out where I need to dig out."

Saiwei felt that it would not be a problem to dig things by his own ability. After all, he had dug so many small jack-o-lanterns during Halloween when he was a child.

Qi Xiao understood what he meant, raised a paw, and flicked out the tip of the claw hidden under the pad. The semi-permeable nails shone with a cold luster in the sun, and Saiwei felt a chill down his spine for no reason. .

The kitten's paws are very cute without the pointed nails, but after adding the pointed nails...

Sai Wei seriously considered whether to cut Qi Xiao's nails when he went back, otherwise, what if the kitten poked him with its nails when he grabbed the kitten's paws to take advantage of it?

Judging by the sharpness, a blood hole can be poked out in minutes!

Fortunately, Qi Xiao had no intention of poking him. He tilted his head and stared at his own sharp nails for a while, then retracted three of them, leaving only one outside.

The pointed nail pointed to a triangular blank space between leaves on the pottery plate. Sai Wei heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately dug it out with a knife.

... It's kind of ugly to dig.

It is obvious that Saiwei overestimated his ability and underestimated the difficulty of carving. Even with Xia Chuanqingquan's heaven-defying talent, he still dug out the triangle, and he did not follow the lines drawn by the ink pen perfectly. , the small half of the leaves on the side were dug up.

"Ah, I'm sorry, this knife is too fast, I didn't control the strength well." Sai Wei was a little embarrassed, and apologized to Qi Xiao in a low voice.

He waved the knife in his hand lightly, trying to find the right way to exert force.

"mum."

【It's ok. 】

Qi Xiao was unexpectedly easy-going, and didn't mean to blame Saiwei at all.

It is not easy to make pottery, let alone hollow out carvings. He may not be able to do as well as Saiwei himself, so what position does he have to blame Saiwei?

Practice a few more times!

The tip of the claw pointed to the next blank space, Saiwei carefully dug out that piece as if he was facing a big enemy...

This time it obviously went a lot better!

Sai Wei saved a little bit of face, and his expression relaxed a lot.He squeezed the handle of the knife hard and adjusted the position of his hand slightly.

"I seem to have found something, Qi Xiao."

The little kitten squatted on his lap, purring indistinctly, and there was a hint of relief and praise in the amber eyes. He quickly glanced at the clay plate, and pointed the tip of its claws to the next blank.

They just pointed at each other and dug one at a time, with a clear division of labor and a tacit cooperation. They were all engrossed in each other, and they didn't even notice when there was a person quietly standing behind them...

"Okay, it's done!"

Sai Wei breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the pottery plate in his hand, half of which was exquisite and smooth (produced by the old man) and half of which was pitted (produced by Sai Wei), he felt a sense of pride in his heart.

This is the first work he and Qi Xiao have completed together.

No matter how ugly it is, it means a lot!

He threw the knife aside, moved his fingers that were a little stiff from excessive force, and raised his palm towards the kitten.

"Qi Xiao, come, Giveme5!"

Qi Xiao gave him a sideways glance, originally he didn't want to pay attention to his boring behavior, but when he saw Sai Wei stubbornly stretching out his hand and waiting for him to respond, and seeing the smile on the corner of his eyes and eyebrows, he suddenly couldn't bear to refuse.

Forget it, just follow him this time.

The little cat withdrew its exposed sharp nails, stretched out its paws hesitantly, and gently touched the man's warm palm with the soft cushion...

Saiwei grinned, grabbed the cat's paw decisively, pulled it to his mouth and kissed it.

Qi Xiao: "..."

He shouldn't be soft-hearted for a while!

Slapping Saiwei hard, the little cat turned away angrily and didn't bother to talk to him.

Although he was beaten again, but at least he achieved his goal, Sai Wei made a victory gesture in his heart, he smiled brightly, and was about to take the pottery plate to show the old man, but suddenly he felt the sound of breathing close at hand .

The smile suddenly stuck on his face, and Saiwei's breathing was stagnant, and he had a bad feeling.

He turned his head stiffly——

Sure enough, the old gentleman who was supposed to be making pottery bowls at another workbench was standing behind him with a smile.

Seeing him discovering himself, the old man smiled even more happily, "Oh, I was discovered by you."

Saiwei twitched his brows, "Old man, when did you... come here?"

Could it be that the old man saw that Qi Xiao helped him carve flowers together?

"I've been here a long time ago." The old man didn't seem to notice his uneasiness, he walked around him and lifted the pottery plate on the table to look at it carefully for a moment, then smacked his lips and said, "Well, it's the first time that the carving can be like this not bad."

Seeing that he kept silent about Qi Xiao, Se Wei calmed down a bit, thinking that maybe the old man came late and didn't notice the kitten.

Unexpectedly, the old man's next sentence completely changed his expression.

"Your cat is quite smart, give it to me?"

"..."

Saiwei's face turned cold for a moment.

"I reject!"

Just kidding, how could he give Qi Xiao to someone else!

Seeing that people were offended, Mr. Xiaoshichuan laughed loudly, waved his hands and said, "Don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously, I was just joking, don't worry, I won't snatch it from you."

In fact, because Qi Xiao squatted on Saiwei's lap, his whole figure was blocked by Saiwei. The old man didn't see how Qi Xiao pointed out to Saiwei the part on the pottery plate that needed to be dug out. What he saw was only the last part. Sewe stretched out his hand, and the kitten clapped his hands with him.

He bent down and looked at Qi Xiao carefully, "I didn't look carefully before, I didn't expect the color of the eyes to be so beautiful, the color of autumn leaves."

Seeing that Saiwei's face was still numb, old Mr. Xiaoshichuan scratched his head and muttered, "But you really treasure it. Looking at you like this, if you don't know, you might think someone is going to snatch your wife."

……daughter in law?

Severus blinked, then flashed a meaningful smile.

If possible, he really wanted Qi Xiao to be his wife.Such a capable and good-looking beauty who looks good on the outside and supports her family on the inside, who would not want it?

Lovingly stroking the furry cat's head, after being slapped as always, Saiwei smiled dotingly, raised his head and said to the old man: "Master, I don't want to practice the lotus leaf pattern anymore, change it for me tomorrow Bar."

"What do you want to change?"

"Hollow cherry pattern."

Mr. Xiaoshichuan raised his eyebrows, and all the wrinkles on his forehead were squeezed out, "Sakura pattern? Good boy, I didn't see it. Are you going to chase a girl?"

The lotus leaf pattern is a common pattern on pottery, but the cherry pattern is different. This kind of pattern rarely appears on the market, because it has a very clear audience-unmarried young women.

Therefore, the old man felt that if Saiwei wanted to learn the carving method of the cherry pattern, he would definitely not use it for himself, but probably give it to his sweetheart.

"more or less."

Saiwei passed vaguely and did not directly deny it.After all, the sakura pattern is so directional, he denied it, and the old man probably wouldn't believe it either.

"Old man, will you?"

"Of course I can!" Old Mr. Xiaoshichuan looked dissatisfied after being underestimated, "There are no patterns in this world that I can't carve yet! But the cherry pattern is much more difficult to carve than the lotus leaf pattern. If you don't pay attention It will break the connection between the blanks."

After a pause, he suddenly thought of something, and pointed at Saiwei tremblingly, "You don't know how to learn colored glaze after you finish carving, do you?"

Sai Wei showed eight teeth, and said innocently and harmlessly: "Oh, you guessed it?"

Old Mr. Xiaoshichuan: "..."

Can you guess that the cherry blossom pattern has always been complementary to the painting, after all, those official ladies like colorful things the most.

"Okay, okay, I really lost to you." He rubbed his forehead in frustration, "When you come tomorrow, I will teach you how to carve hollow cherry patterns, and I will teach you how to glaze after you learn. But I Speaking of which, colored glazes are not so easy to apply.”

Of course Saiwei knows that glazing is not easy to learn, but there is no way, who let Xia Chuanqingquan give the cherry blossoms the other half of the meow claw pottery plate is hollowed out and painted with cherry pattern patterns, he can't do it if he doesn't want to learn...

After returning home in the evening, Saiwei emptied the first floor of Xiachuan Qingquan's bookcase, and solemnly placed his and Qi Xiao's first work in the most prominent position in the center.

"It's a pity, it's really ugly, those jack-o'-lanterns were really white carvings when I was a child." He stared at the pottery plate in a daze, and sighed softly: "If it was you, you must be able to do better than me, Qi Xiao. "

Saiwei was originally just talking to himself, and didn't expect to get any response, but he suddenly heard a sound coming from behind——

"will not."