Zhou Xiang looked at the paintings by his elder brother and then heard what Xie Zhuang said. Perhaps, when he had the conditions, he could hold a private art exhibition for his elder brother.

After the painting was finished, Zhou Niao handed it to Xie Zhuang. Unexpectedly, Xie Zhuang had another request, "Brother, please sign your name and write the date. Do you have a seal? Put one on it."

“My handwriting is ugly.”

"Don't worry, as long as I like it."

Zhou Niao signed his name in the lower right corner and wrote the date, "I don't have a seal."

Xie Zhuang looked at Zhou and thought, "Look, such a beautiful painting doesn't even have a seal?"

"Next time I go to the city, I'll carve one for my brother."

"But mine, mine lacks some feeling!" Xie Zhuang was dissatisfied.

Zuo Heng picked up his eraser and said, "Are you willing to give up this eraser? I'll carve one for you."

Zhou Xiang suddenly had an idea. "No, if you want to carve it, then carve a good one for Big Brother to use forever. It represents being different and special."

"I'll go get the carving knife." Zhou Hua ran into the yard.

"I'll go find some materials." Zhou Xiang also entered the yard, went to the room, closed the door, and went into the space warehouse to search.

What Zhou wanted to look through were the things he had 'taken' from his grandfather. With so many boxes, there must be something suitable for his eldest brother to make a seal.

After searching through almost all the boxes, I finally found a piece of black wood.

It's as long as my arm and as thick as the rim of the cup. Well, it must be a good thing if it can be hidden here, but it's too big.

Zhou Xiang dragged the wood out of the space, opened the door and called out to his brother.

"Brother, come and help."

Seeing that his sister asked him to saw wood, Zhou Niao went to the kitchen and found his father's hacksaw.

The brother and sister took great pains to saw off a small piece of 10 centimeters.

"Take it and ask Zuo Heng to carve it for you."

"Just Zhou Niao?"

Zhou thought for a moment and said, "No, carve 'Niao Niao Cui Yan'. Next time you sign your name, sign 'Niao Niao Cui Yan'. This will be your stage name."

"Okay, my sister is going to teach me how to write."

"Don't worry!"

Zhou Niao took the piece of wood and went out. Zhou Xiang put away the hacksaw and threw the wood back into the space.

Outside, Zuo Heng took the wood and said helplessly, "It's such a big piece, it's more than enough to carve four."

Zhou Xiang came out and said, "Then use a kitchen knife to split it open and carve four pieces for you, the eldest brother, the third brother, and me."

Zhou Niao quickly said, "I'll carve my stage name into Niao Niao Cuiyan."

Zhou Hua heard his elder brother say to use a stage name, but what about himself? My name is weird, how did he come up with it?

"Sister, what should my stage name be?"

"Three words?"

"I still have two more!"

"Then it's called three words and a thousand mouths."

"Three words, a thousand words? Isn't that still three words?"

"Think about it yourself! Never mind yours. Mine is not easy to come up with either! Big brother's is the best."

Li Li borrowed Zhou Xiang's idea and said, "Why don't you just call yourself Mu Muxin?"

"No, I want appearance to be determined by the heart."

Zhou Niao had already taken out a kitchen knife and split the wood, and Zuo Heng started carving for him first.

The carving knife flew quickly in Zuo Heng's hand, as if it were his arm. Everyone's attention shifted from Zhou Niao's painting to Zuo Heng's hands.

Zhou Hua was itching to carve his own, but he was good at carving animals but not seals or fonts, so he could only wait in line for Zuo Heng.

Zuo Heng worked very quickly. In just over half an hour, a fresh seal was produced.

Zhou Niao took it carefully, then looked at his sister. Zhou Xiang didn't care about the maintenance issue!

"Xie Zhuang, go borrow the ink pad."

Then he used a cloth soaked in rapeseed oil to wash the seal from head to toe.

After Xie Zhuang borrowed the ink, he asked his elder brother to try it on waste paper first. After trying a few times, he found it worked, so he stamped on Xie Zhuang's portrait.

"Okay, take it. Because of the trouble you caused, no one is studying anymore."

Xie Zhuang didn't care. He chuckled and said, "Hehe, I'll put it away when I get home. It's a stain on my life! I can't let anyone else see it."

However, Li Li was deeply fascinated by Zuo Heng. Not only was he a good student and hardworking, he also had special talents.

His slender fingers were flying around holding the carving knife, and his confident expression made her heart beat uncontrollably: This is him, my goal and pursuit.

Zhou Xiang didn't know that because of his sudden whim, the silly girl Li Li had completely fallen for him and had been chasing after Zuo Heng for more than ten years.

Wang Fang also looked at it with shining eyes, but was dragged back home by Wang Hua.

"Big sister!"

"He is not suitable for you. His heart is as hard as stone. He refuses to be approached by anyone except the Zhou family."

"How do you know?"

"Watch carefully. Big Brother won't allow it, so just give up on it!"

Wang Fang nodded dejectedly, "Sister, it's too early to talk about this now."

"It's not too early. You're already twelve. Five or six years will go by very quickly."

"Then I won't go to Zhou's pavilion to do my homework tomorrow."

"Go, you must go. You have to face it in person and feel the ruthlessness beneath Zuo Heng's gentle surface."

"Big sister is so cruel."

“If a man is not ruthless, he cannot stand firm.”

Wang Fang went back to the inner room with red eyes.

Wang Hua sighed. Zuo Heng was indeed a handsome and versatile man, but he always smiled at everyone with a sense of distance. Only the Zhou family could make him smile from the bottom of his heart.

My sister is too sensitive and is not suitable for such a cold-hearted person.

Li Li and Xie Zhuang did not leave until twelve o'clock, and Zhou wanted to keep them no matter what he did.

In the afternoon, Zuo Heng continued to carve. Zhou Xiang's "Appearance comes from the heart", Zhou Hua's "Three Words" and Zuo Heng's "Gong Huang" were all carved out.

Zhou Yu looked at them, each holding one, and kept muttering, "Where's mine? Where's mine?"

"Second sister, what are you going to do? We will all be painters, scholars, and sculptors in the future. What about you?"

"Me? I make a lot of money in business, what kind of family should I be?"

"Don't be so sure about what kind of home it is. Do you really want it?"

Zhou Yu nodded. Zhou Xiang looked at Zuo Heng and said, "Didn't you chop off a corner? Carve a small one for her and call it You'er."

Zuo Heng picked up a small piece of wood that was only half the size of an eraser and started carving.

Zhou Yu didn't think it was too small, and said with a smile: "Mine is the most unique."

The vertically arranged 'ear' seal came into her hands. She took the red-hot wire, drilled a hole in it little by little, and put it on the keychain.

Zhou Xiang thought that the four of them had put away their seals, but only the second sister had the strange idea of ​​keeping the seal on her body at all times.

On the 21st, Guan Tao brought two people to install the wardrobe, using a tractor's worth of wooden boards and strips.

Aunt Wang couldn't help but be curious, "Think about it, girl, what are you doing?"

"Wardrobe. There's a lot of small things in the house, so I need to pack them up."

"Then what's the use of this mess of wood cutting?"

"I don't understand, go and see for yourself!"

Did I explain it to you? You don't know anything about carpentry, and I don't know how many questions will be waiting for me later!

Aunt Wang actually followed in to take a look, and Zhou Yu also followed excitedly. Between the two wardrobes, one must be hers, right? Her skirt wouldn't have to be gathering dust outside.