Chapter 34: The Gift

On the second day, Wu Yan just got up, and as soon as he pushed open the door, he saw a wooden box resting outside the door. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info wooden box about a seven-year-old child's arm length, seven or eight fingers wide, the whole body is jet black, extremely beautiful, the middle of the box is a hollow carving, take a closer look, it turned out to be a painting. β€”β€”A pool of turquoise lotus leaves is carved on it, and only the pavilion lotus flowers are seen in the lotus leaves, and the flowers are still flower bones, as if they want to be released. There is a pavilion standing by the pool, there are still words left on the two pillars of the pavilion, each has seven characters, although the handwriting is small, but it is very clear, at a glance you can see that it is written two lines of poetry,β€”β€” "the lotus leaves are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers are different red".

The carving of this pattern was extremely delicate and lifelike, and Wu Yan looked at it for a long time, and suddenly thought that this wooden box was placed outside her door, could it be a gift for herself? She checked the wooden box with her hand, it was very heavy, and it was a little difficult to hold it with one hand, so it was easy to hold it with two hands.

She looked left and right, only to see that the sky was clear, the finches were crying early, the eagle kite was dozing under the eaves, and a gray horse in the court, presumably the one that was ridden out by herself last night, but she didn't know how it came back, and was eating grass leisurely in the court at the moment. As for the others, there are no voices, and there are no figures.

Wu Yan squatted down and slowly opened the box, and when she saw the contents of the box for the first time, she let out a small scream that she couldn't control. But it was a quiet morning, and the cry was abrupt. Afraid that his movement would be too big, Wu Yan covered his lips and glanced around again, but unfortunately only Xiaobai raised his head and glanced at himself, the gray horse was indifferent, still bowing his head and grazing, and the others were still the same as before, and even the next door had always been awake and did not make any movement.

Wu Yan closed the wooden box, stood on the ground and just wanted to enter the house with the wooden box, but she still couldn't help but stand silently at the door for a while, and finally, before entering the house, she still couldn't help but glance at the door of the room, but it was still as quiet as before, so quiet, so quiet, the joy that made people's hearts rise a moment ago was like a stone sinking into water, and suddenly dissipated silently.

But he couldn't help but wonder if it was because this gift was given by Ying Qi, so he deliberately was so quiet, did he want to surprise himself? But this thought was only for a moment, and it immediately burst like a bubble.

β€”β€”The things contained in the wooden box in his arms are not heavy, the heavy is this wooden box, the wood grain is not clear, there is a faint fragrance, the wood is heavy, it must be extremely valuable wood, not to mention such a delicate carving, I am afraid that the price is expensive, how can he have such a valuable thing. That is the case, this gift is definitely not given by Yingqi.

Wu Yan opened the wooden box while disappointed, and there was a silver whip lying in the wooden box, with a soft luster like water light all over its body, as if it was not a whip lying down, but a warm fish. Wu Yan stretched out his hand and carefully stroked the whip, only to feel that the tentacles were as cold as water. Wu Yan held it in the palm of his hand and looked at it, the sun was gradually dewning, the whip reflected silver light in the daylight, and there seemed to be one or two traces of colored light, but if he looked closely, he couldn't find it, as if it was just his own illusion. There are no flaws around the whip, but unfortunately I don't know what material it is made of, only that the whip body is soft, like a soft lover's little hand. Wu Yan wrapped it around her wrist, and found that it was more slender than the whip she used before, and it looked a little abrupt in her sleeve, she stood in front of the bronze mirror, and suddenly a thought flashed, and instead wrapped the whip around her waist, which was just right, perfect.

There was a letter lying at the bottom of the wooden box, the letter was not sealed, she took out the letter, only to see the handwriting on the letter paper, a line of words written in the flowing water, naturally it was not the handwriting of the chime,β€”β€” "See the letter, please come to Wangheting to talk about it." ”

He must have been the only one who can have such a precious wooden box and whip, right? Because he broke his own whip, is he planning to pay for his new whip now? Wu Yan thought about it, and looked at the letter carefully, there was no payment on the letter, and there was not a word on the envelope, so polite, low-key and cautious, it seemed like he would do it. Wu Yan smiled slightly, put the letter back into the box as it was, then carried the wooden box to the bed, covered the soft quilt on it, turned around and folded the two washed handkerchiefs and put them in his sleeves.

But before leaving, she still couldn't help but be in a daze at the door of Ying Qi's room, her hand was raised in front of the door, she just couldn't make up her mind to knock, she made such a big move last night, but she didn't know what Ying Qi thought in her heart, so that she was so afraid at the moment, but what was there to be afraid of? Looking down and not looking up, Wu Yan made a grimace at herself in her heart, and laughed at herself for a long time, and then she mustered up the courage to knock on the door.

No one answered her, she pursed her lips and knocked three more times, but there was no movement in the room. She raised her feet without confidence and wanted to go, but was dominated by hesitation, she sighed and turned to lean against the door, what she never expected was that the door was hidden, how could she be restrained from leaning on this, so that her body suddenly fell back, and she wanted to stand firm under her feet, but she was mixed by the threshold, "ouch", Wu Yan remembered the gift she had just received, and immediately pulled out the whip on her waist, and threw it horizontally, wrapping around the palace pillar outside the door, before she would make intimate contact with the ground, she stabilized her backward body.

"It's good to have a whip. Wu Yan was a little frightened, only to find that the room was empty, so early in the morning, the beds were all made clean, did you go out?

There was a sudden creak next to the bed, Wu Yan took a look, and saw that the mahogany window was swaying slightly, and on the osmanthus tree behind the window, with a flap of wings, a few birds had just flown away, leaving a slight movement of empty branches. Wu Yan looked out the window, and saw that it was quiet, and there was no movement, she couldn't help but mutter, "I didn't expect that people who do things steadily on weekdays have to close the doors and windows meticulously every time they go out, but I didn't expect that I would forget to close the windows today." ”

As he spoke, Wu Yan reached out and closed the window, sat on the edge of the bed again, looking at the empty room, and couldn't help but feel a little lost. But thinking that Ying Qi might have something important to go out temporarily, and he didn't deliberately ignore her, thinking about it like this, he couldn't help but feel some comfort in his heart, and his original mood of falling to the bottom of the valley also recovered a little.

She walked to the outhouse, and saw herself in the mirror in the room, gray coarse cloth clothes, dull without any color, and the picture was simple and long hair tied behind her head, which was indeed casually a little boyish. She thought about it, raised her hand to remove the hairband, took the comb of the chime, and wanted to comb a girl's hair in a proper manner, but in the end, after tossing for a long time, she just changed her clothes, tied her long hair behind her shoulders, and went out.