Chapter 1714 A Short Birthday Interlude (3)
Chapter 1714 A Short Birthday Interlude (3)
“Brother Long?” Nan Hua asked, her tone contained question and confusion.
“I was just thinking about a few shapes that might be easy for you.” Long Qian Xing coughed. He definitely wouldn’t admit to Nan Hua that he wanted her to make a dog shaped carving.
It would be a bit embarrassing.
Not to mention, he wouldn’t be able to explain his obsession with this animal if Nan Hua asked.
Nan Hua blinked her eyes, perceiving that Long Qian Xing seemed to be touching his necklace but put it down again. That was the jade shaped pig carving that she made a long time ago for Long Qian Xing.
At that time, she felt a bit mischievous and chose to make that shape for him because she knew that his real zodiac was different.
In the novel, he lamented this matter during one of his lonely birthday.
Zodiac.
Dog?
Nan Hua looked at the wooden block in front of her, a bit tangled. Pig shape was relatively easy because it was mostly round. On the other hand, dog had a lot of fur and Nan Hua was not sure that she would be able to carve the shape well.
After all, she was not like Long Qian Xing who had learnt carving for a long period of time. The only reason why she carved back then was because he asked her for one.
Maybe, she could just make a simple shape that was quite similar to that of a dog?
Furry dog was definitely a big no.
She wouldn’t be able to carve it and might end up destroying the entire sculpture with her… zero sense of art.
“I want to try something,” Nan Hua said quietly.
“Feel free to try. If you fail, there are more than dozens of wooden blocks that have been prepared.” Long Qian Xing grinned.
Dozens of wooden blocks?
Nan Hua: “…”
She looked at Long Qian Xing quietly, wondering whether Long Qian Xing was doing his job as a general properly or not. With so many wooden blocks, she was sure that Long Qian Xing prepared it for himself rather than for her.
Perceiving Nan Hua’s gaze, Long Qian Xing quickly explained, “I didn’t carve all the time. It’s considered as part of my method to relax. Staying on the battlefield all the time is very tiring mentally and carving is one of the few methods that can allow me to diverge my attention and relax.”
Real battlefield was cruel and bloody.
For Long Qian Xing, having to stay in this state for a long period of time, it was hard not to go insane. This was also one of the reasons why the soldiers liked to gather together to eat and have a small feast when they won some battles and celebrated it together.
Because no one could stand the condition where their nerve and body was completely tense all the time.
Long Qian Xing didn’t really like drinking.
It was even more so when he first participated on the battles when he was still underage and didn’t want to destroy his young body by drinking so early.
The method he could think of was to do other things. In the end, he turned to carving and made these after wars to relax from time to time. There were already many failed carvings that he threw away because they were useless.
After he reached adulthood, he started to join his soldiers more and rarely carve again. And when Nan Hua became part of his army temporarily, he basically didn’t touch the carving nor the wine at all.
Staying with Nan Hua is the best relaxation that he could ask. “It’s a good hobby,” Nan Hua said seriously.
Long Qian Xing heard Nan Hua’s words and smiled. “Shall we start?”
“En.”
Taking one of the knife, Nan Hua silently draw the layout on the side. Her mind was thinking about Long Qian Xing’s words of relaxation in the middle of the war. Because these soldiers couldn’t stand it if they had to stay tense all year long.
Nan Hua lowered her eyes slightly.
When she was doing missions, she was naturally very tense and guarded. Just like these soldiers had break between their duties, she also had break between missions. But her break was completely different from them.
Because during her break, she still had repeated training, tests, competitions, and many other schemes and intrigues mixed together.
It was absolutely exhausting.
Many people who were in the same batch as her had long turned crazy because of the insane schedule.
If they wanted to survive, they had to enjoy the process.
But who could enjoy the process of killing, scheming, cruelty, and many other negatives emotions that was piled up in the many actions they had to do?
It was really hard to keep their sanity intact.
In regards to this matter, Nan Hua somewhat envied the soldiers.
Even if they were betting with their lives, they had clear goal and also able to enjoy their lives when they were on the frontline. They have break, they have celebration, they could joke around with their comrades during free time, and many others.
On the other hand, she had none of them.
At least, she used to.
Nan Hua blinked her eyes as she finished the layout of the dog sitting on the surface of the log in front of her. For some reasons, she kept on remembering her past lately as if there was something that bothered her.
But she didn’t know what it was.
‘Forget it. You’re no longer in that world, so you don’t have to think about those matters at all.’
Nan Hua slowly suppressed the thoughts and instead started to cut and shaped the log in front of her. It was a long process, but Nan Hua was technically very agile, so this kind of move didn’t really require an extremely long time like what ordinary people do. Soon, the overall shape of the sitting dog was done.