"Well, it's getting late, so you'd better finish carving the orchid so that we can eat. Otherwise, the food will get cold later," Sydney said while adjusting her hair which was rumpled up by Julien.
Now Julien knew why she came out of his arms.
He had thought she was tired of his embrace.
"Well, I'll be quick," Julien nodded his head slightly and turned around. Then he picked up the pumpkin and carving knife he had just put down to continue to carve.
Sydney stood back to his side and looked at him carving, "I didn't expect that you would learn how to carve a Buddha out of gem, and now I find you even can carve orchids out of pumpkins."
Julien smiled, "The Buddha I wanted to make was big and had many details, so my teacher didn't approve of me carving the Buddha directly. Although I had money and didn't care about wasting jade, my teacher cared, so he let me start with some simple small objects with scraps of jade. Orchid was one of my choices. After I had learned some carving techniques from carving small objects and was almost skilled, he taught me to carve a Buddha."
"I see," Sydney nodded, "But that was so long ago. I didn't expect you would still remember and be so skilled. If I were you, I would be a novice again."
Julien's eyes flashed, and he did not say anything.
Sydney didn't realize anything was wrong, and her eyes glittered when she looked at the pumpkin in Julien's hand.
At first, the pumpkin she carved didn't look like an orchid and even didn’t look like anything at all. It was so ugly that Sydney didn’t want to see it.
However, with Julien's efforts, it began to have the appearance of an orchid. Now she could tell that it was indeed an orchid at a glance.
Sydney exclaimed, "Awesome. You save it. Julien, you're amazing!"
Hearing her praise, Julien was extremely happy. He smiled widely and even lifted his chin a little higher than just now.
Obviously, he was very pleased with Sydney’s praise, so now he was somewhat complacent.
But he pretended not to care and replied calmly, "It looks fine."
Sydney did not know that he was pretending to be modest. Hearing his so indifferent answer, Sydney was a little displeased. She pouted and said, "Just fine? It's great. I can't believe you are so good at carving. I've never heard you say it before."
Then she looked at Julien adoringly.
Julien became a little shy because of the way she looked at him. He coughed and pretended to be calm, "It's not an important thing, so I never told you. I wouldn't even remember this skill if you hadn't carved an orchid tonight."
As he spoke, he lowered his eyelids to cover a flash of glint in his eyes.
Sydney did not see it but showed a smug face, "You mean I rediscovered your skill?"
Looking at her proud look, Julien scratched her nose gently, "Yes."
Sydney smiled more brightly, "It seems that I will have to do something I've never done before so that maybe we will know you have other skills."
Hearing this, Julien raised her eyebrows.
Sydney was right. Julien did have some skills that he had not told her, nor had he shown them to her.
After all, from the moment Julien was born, he became the heir of the Flint family, so he naturally had to learn many skills.
It could be said that Julien could do many things even if he was not proficient in all of these skills.
In short, now he did not know what skills he had.
"Well, I expect you to rediscover all my skills," Julien said with a doting face.
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