Chapter 110: Naughty Butterfly.
Leo returned home, and before heading inside, he took a look inside the garden, as expected, he found a couple of daisies and white heather fallen on the ground, he carefully picked them up and then he went inside the house.
Lily was practicing Piano, Anastasia was standing beside her with a faint smile on her face. The young man asked, "Where is Snow?"
Anastasia replied, "In the kitchen."
Leo nodded, and walked towards the Kitchen. He found that Snow was cooking something and she had her earphones on. Peeking from the side he found her watching a video on the foreign trade market analysis.
He embraced her gently from behind and she turned to the side and pecked his cheek as she said, "Go wash up, the food is ready."
Leo sighed, he kissed her cheek and then said, "You have changed so much Snowie, at first, you couldn't help yourself from tearing my clothes and now you are telling me to go away. Ugh, women."
The lady rolled her eyes at him and said, "Are you sure you want to play a hooligan with Lily at home? She catches everything and will someday say it before other people. Then don;t come crying to me that your image in the public is gone."
Leo realized that he couldn't tease Snow, and left the kitchen but not before giving her perky butt a hard squeeze, causing Snow to suck in a deep breath.
The young man took a quick shower and put up a casual blue t-shirt and white lowers before he came to the kitchen. He held the small flowers from earlier, and found a small Mortar and Pestle.
Snow looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"
Leo shook his head and said, "Trying something for a new ceramic work."
The young lady watched him put the four dried flowers inside the mortar and then use the pestle to grind them into fine powder. The process didn't last long, the cold wind had caused the flowers to wilt and they were drying fast.
After he was done with the grinding, he took the mortar to the garage. Snow asked, "Don't be late for dinner."
Leo nodded and came to his work table inside the garage. He located the box of transparent glaze on the ground and poured in the powder before giving it a good stir. He went back inside to have dinner, and Snow asked, "Baba, what are you going to make this time?"
Leo smiled and said, "It is a surprise for you, and Ma. None are allowed to enter the garage."
Lily tilted her head and asked, "What about grandma? Will you not make anything for her?"
Leo had expected something like this but he said, "I will, when the time comes you will know."
The young lady nodded, and just as Leo was about to take a sip of his soup, he heard the system's sound, 'Ping: Host, create a gift for Anastasia Merlin, your daughter wishes for you to give her so that the relationship of the family can grow stronger. Reward: Empress Ring.'
Leo wanted to ask what the Empress Ring was, but he decided to find out about it after completing the task. The dinner was quick, and Leo decided to finish the Heather & Daisy defense armament tonight only. He had been given the blueprint but it was nothing complex. The main parts of the armament were the two flowers that he would be making.
Thinking about it, he decided to make the flowers first and then decide if they would be pendants or rings or something else. Leo turned on the streaming channel, and began to knead the clay as he said, "Tonight we would be creating a ceramic wearable piece."
The viewers joined quickly and Leo began to guide them about the piece he wanted to make.
Viewer A: Host, what is the idea behind selecting these two flowers?
Viewer B: Yes, Host, same question.
Leo looked at the questions and said, "White Heather is a symbol of protection and Daisy is a symbol of purity and innocence."
The people nodded, and Leo told them what he was going to do before he divided the kneaded clay into small portions and then he sculpted the two flowers as close to the real flowers as he could and then placed them on the side under a small plastic tarp like greenhouse he made in the past.
Then he went on to make twenty small flowers all as big as a Yuan Coin. If someone was to wear them, nobody might even notice until they were really close, that it was a piece of ceramic jewelry. Leo was very patient through the process, but what he didn't know, his surprise was not actually a surprise.
Leo calmly sculpted the flowers, and spent a couple of hours inside the garage. The guards on duty saw him and were impressed, the ferocious tiger who would brave dangers to save his family also had the calm that was needed to handle clay so delicately.
After Leo finished his work he went back inside the house, in his room, where he was planning to sleep, he found Lily sprawled on the bed, with a mobile in her hand. She was looking at Snow, with her back towards the gate and said, "Baba made flowers with the clay."
Leo froze just when he was at the threshold of the room. Lily continued, "Ma, what do you think he wants to make? A vase? A cup?"
Snow could see Leo, but she didn't tell Lily, and said, "How would I know? Baba told you that it would be a surprise, right?"
Lily replied, "It will be a surprise, I will act like I am surprised when he gives those flowers to me. But what does he want to make?"
That said, she buried her head in the pillow and Snow looked at Leo with a gaze that seemed to be saying. 'See, this is your lovely butterfly. See how naughty she is, planning to fool you.'
Leo turned his head away as he defied logic and said, 'She is caring about how I would feel, she is not fooling me. Hmph!'