Siberian wood bone

The fingertip was scratched by the carving knife, and blood beads slowly poured up.

"Hiss..." I belatedly felt the pain.

Hearing my voice, the person who was taking a nap opposite opened his eyes and looked over. When his eyes touched the bright red on my fingertips, he frowned dissatisfiedly, "Absent, what are you thinking?"

"I didn't think anything..."

I was responding, wiping the blood from my fingertips, and was about to explain a few more words to confuse the matter, but when I looked up, was there anyone on the other side?Looking down again, the wound on the fingertips was gone.

...It turned out to be a bad memory.This has happened before.

I stroked the uninjured fingertips, and the scenes of yesterday resurfaced in my heart.

The master asked me to accompany him often, and also called me Haitong... This is a name that has nothing to do with the master, but when it was called out by the master, it made me feel inexplicably that the wooden bone that strayed into Qiyue City was different from the name Qi Haitong of Yangcheng was connected together at that moment, the time flow was wrong, and the time that seemed to be wrongly placed in my life was found to be the exit.

The spring is in full bloom outside, and the flying flowers are blooming.Ning Fei was followed by a person walking through the corridor.The man seemed to sense that someone was looking at him, so he also looked this way.

I quickly hid back in the window, my chest pounding.

"Master, Mr. Xi Lan has come to look for you."

Xilan was brought back by Qingming that day, he was indeed a friend, but these days he often treats minor ailments for the servants at home, he is quite popular, everyone in the house knows his medical skills, so they call him Mr.

At this moment, I am separated from Master by a wall, and my heartbeat is already beating as if I want him to hear it.

"Come in, come in."

I agreed, and turned to look at the scattered things on the case by the window, and my heart was suddenly confused.Hastily collected the room, the sound of the door opening was heard behind him.

"Wait a while!" I subconsciously said.

The movement behind him stopped, and then there was the sound of the door closing.

Footsteps sounded softly, approaching step by step.

I covered the faceless puppet in my hand, put it behind my back, and when I turned around, the person who came was already approaching me.

"..." Knowing that Master could not see anything, I was still extremely nervous.When I came back from his place last night, I did some work casually in order to calm my mind, but when I was doing the work, my thoughts always drifted to him unconsciously. When I came back to my senses, the wood in my hand had already carved a human shape , although the face has not been cut, but the body has been revealed, in my eyes, it has a complete face and is the appearance of the master.When I held it, I felt it was very hot, as if all the shameful thoughts in my heart were exposed in this way.

"You also like these things?" Master stood still in front of me, his hands crossed my waist, and stretched behind me.

Unconsciously, I took a step back and reached the table behind me.

"..."

I stop breathing--

too close.

However, in a single thought, it proved my self-indulgence - the master didn't intend to do anything to me, he just picked up a small wooden lantern from behind me, held it in front of my eyes, and praised: "This lantern is quite well done. What a coincidence." After saying that, he backed away, only holding the wooden lantern in his hand to look at it.

I froze by the desk alone, still somewhat unable to recover.It seems that the residual heat from the warm breath on my cheeks just now has not dissipated, but he has already stepped back a step away.

"My leg still hurts, can Haitong ask me to sit down first?"

"...Sit down quickly." I hastily put down the things in my hands, walked quickly to the table, and poured tea for him, "Drink tea..."

When I turned my head, I saw him looking down at the thing I put down just now, and picked it up, "What is this?"

My heart tightened, and I was afraid of his clues, so I hurried to snatch it away, "...it's nothing, I can do whatever I want."

"Oh." Fortunately, he answered, and he was no longer curious.

But I didn't sit where I wanted, instead I sat down on the stool I was working on.I wanted to speak out to stop it, but I was a step too late.

My carving skills are originally learned from my master, and the small objects scattered all over the table at this moment appear rough under his scrutiny.

"You did all this?"

"...Well." I forgot again, he doesn't remember things now, so I don't know how much he still remembers.

"Can I try?"

I nodded, fearing that he would forget and hurt myself, and said: "...then you should be careful."

He nodded in agreement, then took my materials and started to do it himself.

Master only focused on the things in his hand, and didn't pay much attention to me.I stood aside and watched for a while, and gradually became quiet.I couldn't help but wonder what he was doing, hesitated for a while, and sat down opposite him.

However, after watching for a while, he still couldn't guess his intentions, so he had to admit defeat: "What are you doing?"

Master looked at the wood in his hand, smiled, but didn't answer me.

I waited for a while, and found that the master really didn't plan to explain my doubts for me, so I couldn't help but feel depressed.Suddenly remembering that I still don't know his reason for coming, I muttered in my heart: I forgot to ask, but did he also forget to explain?

I sat opposite him for a while, seeing him getting more and more interesting, but because I had something in my heart, I couldn't hold back: "You are looking for me... is there something important?"

"It's nothing important." Master didn't lift his eyes, still concentrating on the wood in his hand, "I'm just here to find you."

I couldn't help but wonder: "...Looking for me?"

"Didn't I tell you before that I'm bored by myself, I hope you will come and accompany me more often."

"But... this didn't happen yesterday? You came today..." I was at a loss for words, and hesitated, "How do you know..." I won't look for you.

"Then you will?" He finally glanced at me, and he saw through my guilty conscience with just one glance.

"..."

"If you don't come, I have no choice but to come looking for you." He lowered his eyes again, "My leg injury is not healed, so I can't go far, Haitong is just right here."

After the master said this sentence, he stopped talking.I couldn't think of any words to respond, so I fell silent.After sitting like this for a while, Master looked at and made up his mind to spend time with me.In order to prevent myself from continuing to think wildly, I also picked up the unfinished small materials on the side and polished them.Before that, I sneaked a sideways glance at the master's wooden sculpture, which I deliberately pushed to an inconspicuous corner of the desk, to confirm that it was still in place and would not be seen by the person opposite, and then I was relieved.

"I'm going back."

Master bid farewell to me outside the courtyard.His leg was inconvenient, so I sent him off, and then I called Ning Fei, and asked him to send the master back.

Although today is also alone, but after all, it is in my room, so it will not make me too nervous.But if I want to send him out, it will be different.I still dare not get too close to him.

Back in the room, I took the thing that the master had carved and polished in my hand and looked at it carefully for a while, but I didn't see any tricks.When he said goodbye to me earlier, he didn't say what he was doing, but he just left this unfinished object with me, and even made an appointment with me for another day.

It's just that there are thin and long strips around the outside of this thing, and I vaguely feel that it is a coil, as if it is entangled with something in it.But the one inside has not yet formed, can't tell what it looks like, and I don't know what it is... It can't be a Xuanwu look, right?

I looked at it for a while, but still couldn't recognize the real body of this strange thing, so I had to gather it carefully.