A Billionaire CEO Brings His Child Home: The Awakening of the Stay-at-Home Dad System

Chen Hao walked into the bamboo forest, patting this bamboo and tapping that bamboo.

God-level bamboo weaving skill automatically triggers —

He could clearly tell the age, moisture content, fiber toughness, and whether there were insects in each bamboo stalk.

This bamboo is three years old, with even nodes and moderate wall thickness, making it suitable for making wheels for diabolo.

That bamboo stalk is two years old and has good toughness, so it can be split into strips to make a frame.

[Ding! God-level bamboo crafting skill triggered - Bamboo identification: Three-year-old bamboo, internode spacing 40cm, wall thickness 8mm, moderate moisture content, good fiber toughness, no insect infestation, suitable for making diabolo wheels.]

[Ding! Constitution enhancement effect triggered - Strength +0.1, Current Constitution: 16.1.]

[Ding! Bamboo harvesting completed. God-level bamboo craftsmanship experience points +124!]

Chen Hao selected four moso bamboos and two light bamboos.

He told Tingting to step back a few steps, squat down, and roll up her sleeves.

Pick up the saw and cut the bamboo root.

The base of the bamboo is the hardest part, making it difficult to saw, but he had strong hands and pulled the saw blade back and forth, cutting it in no time.

The bamboo fell down with a crash, causing the surrounding bamboo to sway and rustle.

Remove the bamboo tips and trim off the branches and leaves.

The bamboo-splitting knife was very sharp; with one stroke, the bamboo branch snapped off at the root.

He chopped very quickly, the bamboo branches falling to the ground one by one.

Shen Xiaoting squatted down beside her and watched, then picked up a thin bamboo twig that had been cut off and shook it in her hand.

"Daddy, can this be used as a whip?" she asked.

"Yes, but you can't hit people," Chen Hao said.

"I don't hit people, I hit the grass," Shen Xiaoting said, taking a bamboo stick to whip the foxtail grass next to her.

Chen Hao bundled the chopped bamboo into a bundle and carried it on his shoulder.

The bamboo was very long, more than five meters, dragging on the ground and making a rustling sound when you walked on it.

Shen Xiaoting followed behind, her little hands holding onto the end of the bamboo, helping her father drag it along.

Back at the old house, Chen Hao put the bamboo down.

Shen Xiaoting squatted down next to the bamboo, touched the smooth bamboo joints, and smelled the fresh fragrance of the bamboo.

"Dad, the bamboo smells so good," she said.

Chen Hao picked up a bamboo-cutting knife and began processing the bamboo.

First, use a bamboo splitter to split the bamboo.

Align the blade with the center line of the bamboo and cut it in two.

The bamboo split along its grain, making a crisp "snap" sound.

Then divide the half bamboo into four parts.

The knife follows the grain of the bamboo precisely, resulting in bamboo slices of uniform width and thickness.

The split bamboo strips with the green skin are called "green bamboo strips". They are bright green in color, tough and suitable for load-bearing parts.

The bamboo without the green skin is called "yellow bamboo". It is yellow in color and slightly brittle in texture, making it suitable for filling.

[Ding! Bamboo splitting completed. God-level bamboo craftsmanship experience points +132!]

He picked up a piece of bamboo strip and used a bamboo knife to scrape off a layer of the outer skin.

When scraping, the blade should be angled and the force should be light; scraping too hard will damage the fibers.

After scraping, touch it with your hand; it's smooth and flat, and doesn't feel rough.

Then split the bamboo strips—split the bamboo strips into thin, long strips.

Hold one end of the bamboo strip with the bamboo knife, and pull the bamboo strip forward with the other hand. The bamboo strip splits along the grain and becomes thin strips.

It is three millimeters wide and less than one millimeter thick, as thin as noodles.

The bamboo knife was very steady in his hands; he moved the knife forward, backward, and back in one smooth motion.

When he splits bamboo, he doesn't look at the knife, but at the grain of the bamboo, and his hand follows the grain.

[Ding! Bamboo strip splitting completed. God-level bamboo craftsmanship experience points +138!]

Shen Xiaoting squatted down beside him, watching her father turn a thick bamboo into a pile of thin bamboo strips. Her little mouth was open and her eyes were wide open.

"Dad, this bamboo strip is so thin, even thinner than noodles," she said.

"These are called bamboo strips," Chen Hao said. "The diabolo is made by weaving these thin bamboo strips."

He began making the wheels of the diabolo.

A diabolo consists of two wheels connected by an axle.

The wheel is round, about twelve centimeters in diameter and four centimeters thick, about the size of an adult's fist.

He used bamboo strips to weave the frame of the wheel.

Warp and weft weaving method – alternating and interweaving of longitudinal and transverse strips.

The longitudinal strips are the warp threads, arranged vertically; the transverse strips are the weft threads, strung horizontally.

One vertical strip, one horizontal strip, one vertical strip, one horizontal strip, like weaving cloth, the strips fit together tightly with even gaps.

After the frame is woven, it is wrapped with finer bamboo strips layer by layer to fill the wheel.

Apply a layer of bone glue after each layer is wrapped.

Bone glue is yellow and hard after it solidifies. It binds bamboo strips together to form a sturdy wheel.

[Ding! Diabolo wheel completed. God-level bamboo crafting experience points +142!]

The two wheels are finished; they are the same size, have a regular shape, and a smooth surface.

He picked it up and held it up to the light; the two wheels were exactly the same roundness.

A square hole was left in the middle for the shaft to pass through.

The shaft is a round wooden stick, carved from bamboo.

He took a piece of bamboo, shaved it into a circle, one centimeter in diameter and ten centimeters in length.

When shaving, use a bamboo knife to scrape slowly until the thickness is suitable. Then, pinch it with your fingers and rotate it to check if it is round.

He shaped both ends of the axle into squares, so that they could fit perfectly into the square holes of the wheel.

Apply bone glue, insert it, and press it firmly.

It won't loosen or rotate.

[Ding! Diabolo shaft completed. God-level bamboo crafting experience points +128!]

Finally, we worked on the sound effects for the diabolo.

The diabolo has several slanted air holes on the side of its wheels. When it rotates, air enters and exits through these holes, creating vibrations and producing a "buzzing" sound.

The position and angle of the vents are very important; if the position is off, the sound will be wrong, and if the angle is crooked, the sound will be weak.

He used a knife to make four evenly spaced diagonal holes on the side of the wheel.

The knife tip went in and dug at an angle, creating a slanted passage.

All four holes have the same angle, size, and depth.

[Ding! Hole-drilling completed for the diabolo speaker. God-level bamboo craftsmanship experience points +126!]

Viewers in the live stream were amazed to see Chen Hao skillfully splitting bamboo, slicing bamboo strips, and weaving bamboo frames.

"The livestreamer even knows bamboo weaving? This is a craft that's almost lost."

"Look at the way he splits bamboo strips; you can't do that without ten years of practice."

My grandfather was an old bamboo craftsman; he split bamboo his whole life, and his technique was similar to that of a livestreamer.

"Many old bamboo craftsmen in rural areas don't know how to make diabolo anymore, but the anchor can."

"The key is that the host does it quickly and well, finishing in just over an hour."

"What can't the streamer do? Carpentry, bricklaying, electrical work, cooking, martial arts, painting, bamboo weaving—he's an all-rounder."

I counted, there are seven items.

"Seven items? More than that, there's also the swimming coach."

"Yes, yes, that's eight items."

Gifts started floating on the screen.

[A "Bamboo Weaving Craftsman" has given away one Carnival gift!]

[“Old Li the Bamboo Craftsman” gave away a helicopter!]

[Tingting's sister-in-law gifted a Porsche!]

The diabolo is finished.

Chen Hao picked up two bamboo sticks, each thirty centimeters long, a little longer than chopsticks.

A cotton rope, about 1.2 meters long, was tied to the end of the stick.

He looped the diabolo onto a string, and then wrapped the two ends of the string around the diabolo's axis twice, tightening it.