Chapter 15: Carving the Eyes of the Snake
Ten-year-old Nanqing was still dreaming, dreaming that he was sitting in the boudoir to be married and combing his hair, and when he combed his hair, he saw a bird outside the window announcing good news to him, which turned out to be a magpie and chirping. When he was eighteen years old, he heard this bird call, and he desperately wanted to enter the palace to marry Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and asked someone to make a belt of various materials for himself to tie around his waist, and he waited for his father and mother to come to tell him about his family affairs every day.
Liu Bang first killed the White Snake, and then Taoyuan Sanjieyi, and looked at the thatched cottage to find Zhuge Liang out of the mountain to help him fight the world. Although everyone says that Liu Bang is good, he is also thinking of marrying Liu Bang as a concubine. Moreover, in order to stabilize the Han dynasty, the army seized a lot of construction site workers to build a palace for Liu Bang, and the palace was brilliant and majestic, and it was very magnificent. That is the place where Nanqing's seventeen-year-old life ended in the previous life, and in that place where he couldn't laugh, everyone's fastidious master looked at everything he did with the most vicious eyes.
Every time I dream of this, I dream of the palace with carved beams and paintings, and I clearly dream of the splendid curtains. Nan Qing suddenly woke up, afraid that he would really return to that antique bed. Liu Bang in the dream, wearing a crown feather, wearing a red Han royal suit, has a pair of terrible eyes, staring directly at himself.
The young self didn't understand the meaning of that look, but felt endless fear. Now at the age of ten, I finally understood the meaning of that look, which was full of hatred for the South Vietnamese people, as if there was an extra burden to myself. Who is willing to provide so many benefits to themselves without asking for anything in return, who is not relying on their own hard work to earn benefits, there is no free lunch in the world, there is just a greedy heart.
Every time he was awakened by a nightmare, Nan Qing would touch the pillow, which was sewn up by his mother Zhao Feng with a needle and a thread, although it looked very beautiful, and a cross-stitch snake was embroidered on it. The appearance of this snake is a small snake embroidered in the shape of the White Emperor White Snake, with a pair of big eyes and pointed teeth. It is said to be a ten-year-old gift that can bless Nanqing for the rest of his life, and Nanqing is usually reluctant to use it.
I only hugged it when I had nightmares, and I thought to myself, little snake, little snake, you bless me. There was no movement in the South Vietnamese Kingdom at night, and he carefully turned over and straightened his loose hair. Nan Grandma next to her didn't come back for several days, and she felt empty, and only the sound of her own breathing and heartbeat was left in the room. Today is a special day - Qingming Festival, thinking of a family member who has just passed away in the family, General Nan, the father of General Nan, lit a beeswax candle, and the faint light instantly lit up the room. He took out a small carving knife and put down his own pillow snake on a piece of bamboo for a moment.
The squeaky sound woke up Nan Dongliang, who was sleeping next door, and Nan Dongliang listened to the sound and arrived at the door of Nanqing, without pushing the door and going in to take a look. Instead, listen to what my sister Nanqing is doing, probably carving, there is no other sound in the April weather, and I can't even hear the sound of birds. But in May, you can hear the sound of insects on the big trees in some of the fields, and the little burrs of the pimples are all cleaned by themselves. Only the carving of the snake's eyes remains, and it is like the finishing touch to the story. The most difficult thing to carve the snake's eyes is to use a single stroke to carve out the snake's lines and the ferocity of the snake.
These snake eyes reminded her of Liu Bang, who was the emperor, and it may be because the White Emperor who lost his life that he parasitized his snake eyes that lost their light on Liu Bang.
So when others saw Liu Bang, they were always afraid of his angry eyes, and the kind of eyes that killed the enemy were full of snake power.
The snake has been a mysterious creature since ancient times, without the restraint of limbs, with a free body, and has become a creature worshiped by many people. The venom of the snake once made many people stop, just like people's fear of the sky, a few tons of clouds can fly freely under the nose of the sky, people only weigh dozens of pounds, but they are firmly held by the ground, and they can't move.
Nan Qing raised the bamboo piece and looked at the carved white snake at the beeswax candle, but he was in a dilemma, how could he carve a pair of snake-like eyes. As if feeling his sister's troubles, Nan Dongliang knocked on the door. When I opened the door, I saw that it was my younger brother Nan Dongliang, who had been woken up, standing at the door. So I asked him, "Brother, do you have something to talk to me?" The younger brother grabbed the semi-finished bamboo pieces on the table and said: "Sister, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, and I still want to carve a white snake." Look at this white snake with eyes and beads, it is indeed missing a pair of warrior eyes. After that, he picked up his own spinning top and quickly carved two white snake eyes on the bamboo piece, this small iron spinning top is a hidden weapon spinning top that he carries with him.
The small iron top is the bottom of the cross knife, which can open all kinds of wine jars, and it is a little heavy to hold in your hand. Nan Qing looked at the eyes of the white snake by the candlelight, it was indeed like a snake being angry, the two pairs of eyes were marked by countless sharp knives, firmly swearing the sovereignty of the white snake, sometimes although the spinning top is fast, it can be faster than the wind and rain, and it can also be slower than the clouds and slower than the growth of a seed.
If you say something wrong, you will kill your head, and if you do something wrong, you will kill people. Only what is destined is an irreversible opportunity, just like a person will say to the emperor: there is stillness in movement, and there is movement in stillness. But the emperor said: It doesn't hurt to kill the head, and the pain doesn't kill the head. This person is General Nan, who died on Qingming Day, and when he is fine, he will accompany the emperor to hunt and talk about the mistakes made by the people of South Vietnam and how this year's harvest was. Such a nagging personality is very unpopular with the emperor and nobles, and every time he says these words, the emperor will go home and tell his daughter Zhao Feng and son-in-law Nanheng.
It's a big deal to learn from the White Snake and the White Emperor to dream all day long, where to dream is where it is, and it's a big deal to learn from the princess of Nanqing to farm all day long, and what she sows is nothing. I heard that the Southern Qing Dynasty had carved the bamboo pieces of the White Emperor, and I wanted to see how the princess's homework was doing. Emperor Zhao Tuo personally put on the most ordinary clothes of the Nanyue people, and drove the ox cart to Nanheng's mansion to find the princess of Nanqing, since the princess used wild eucalyptus leaves to treat allergies last time, she has not met again, I heard that the princess of Nanqing also went to the Black Snake Principality, and the whole person became beautiful after coming back.
When I arrived at Nanheng Mansion, I saw the bamboo piece hanging on the princess of Nanqing, and I felt very shabby. But if you look closely, the white snake carved on the shabby bamboo piece has a pair of eye-catching eyes, and it is a little dizzy after looking at it. Seeing that Emperor Zhao Tuo arrived in an ox cart for himself, he felt very grateful and knelt on the ground and made a big salute. Only his father Nan Heng and mother Zhao Tuo were preparing meals at home, and his younger brother Nan Dongliang took a solar perpetual motor car to the mountains to train spinning tops.
When eating, he first waited for the emperor to finish his lunch and brewed a cup of old tea for the emperor. At this time, Nanheng's family sat together and had lunch, and when eating, it was inconvenient to bring bamboo slices, so Nanqing took off the bamboo slices and put them in the clay dishes on the side. The emperor picked up the bamboo piece and looked at the sun, only to find that the snake eyes were not carved by the Southern Qing Dynasty, and guessed that they were carved by Nan Dongliang's cross knife and top. I was secretly surprised in my heart, I didn't expect that Nan Dongliang, this kid, was careful and serious, and he didn't make any mistakes. The spinning top is also very good, I remember a hunt, holding Nan Dongliang to watch the shooting of small animals, who knows that the small animals jumped away. Nan Dongliang cleverly flew out of his iron spinning top, killing the head of the small animal, and the bright red blood stained the white fur.
Hunting is an instinct, natural enemies face to face, and there will always be one who will be defeated. It's time to show true strength, and Nan Dongliang's gyroscope is a new weapon that Zhao Tuo didn't expect.
However, because the emperor has the emperor's hunting forest, ordinary people can't see such a scene, only General Nan saw it, and was secretly surprised that his apprentice had such skills.