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

Chen Hao walked through the front of the convenience store and into the kitchen at the back.

The kitchen is small, about ten square meters. The floor is cement, the lower half of the walls are covered with white tiles, and the upper half is painted white. Some areas have been yellowed by cooking fumes.

A clay stove was built against the wall, taking up nearly a third of the kitchen space.

The earthen stove was built with red bricks and cement, and the surface was covered with white ceramic tiles. Several iron pots of different sizes were placed on the stove, and the lids were made of wood, which had turned dark brown over time.

The earthen stove has two fireboxes, one large and one small. The large one is used for stir-frying, and the small one is used for boiling water or stewing soup.

The stove opening is square, with a sheet metal baffle on the outside. You can pull it open to add firewood.

Next to the earthen stove was a liquefied gas stove, the cheapest single-burner kind, bought for a little over a hundred yuan, for emergency use.

But Chen Hao knew that his mother, Meng Meiling, was used to cooking with a traditional earthen stove, saying that dishes cooked with liquefied gas were not as fragrant as those cooked with firewood.

On the other side of the kitchen is a double-door refrigerator, which Chen Hao bought online last year during Singles' Day. When it was delivered, Chen Bingzhong kept nagging about it for days, saying it was too expensive and a waste of money.

But after using it, the elderly couple both thought it was good.

It has a large capacity, excellent preservation effect, and can also be used for partitioned cooling. It is many times better than my old single-door refrigerator that I used for more than ten years.

Chen Hao washed his hands first, then walked to the rice cooker.

The rice cooker is the most common mechanical type, with only one button. You press it to start cooking, and it's done when it switches off.

He opened the rice container, scooped out two cups of rice, put them into the inner pot of the rice cooker, and turned on the tap to rinse the rice.

His fingers stirred among the rice grains, the water carrying the white rice paste flowing through his fingers, the movements were very gentle, as if he were massaging the rice grains.

[Ding! Rice washing completed. God-level cooking skill experience points +52!]

Chen Hao ignored the instructions, poured out the rice water, and added some more water, bringing the water level to about one finger joint above the rice and noodles.

He wiped the water stains off the bottom of the inner pot, put it in the rice cooker, and pressed the switch.

With a "click," the switch popped open, and the rice cooker started working.

As he opened the refrigerator to rummage for ingredients, he started a live stream in his mind.

As soon as the live stream started, the number of viewers began to rise.

His live streams yesterday and this morning garnered him a lot of followers. Although he has only been streaming for two days, he already has more than 600 followers.

In less than a minute, more than a hundred people flooded into the live stream room.

"It's live! The streamer is broadcasting!"

"Hao-ge, are you settled in? Have you arrived at your hometown yet?"

"Where is this? The kitchen?"

"An earthen stove!!! I saw an earthen stove!!!"

Chen Hao used his mind to pin a message to the top of the live stream: "Arrived at my hometown, getting ready to cook a meal for my daughter."

"Ahhh, I can't wait!"

"The streamer can even cook? That's amazing!"

"An earthen stove! My grandma's house had one of these when I was little!"

"Seeing the earthen stove reminds me of my grandma. Her firewood-cooked meals were so delicious."

"This stove looks so familiar, full of the warmth of home cooking."

Chen Hao watched the comments on the screen while rummaging through the refrigerator.

The upper part of the refrigerator is the crisper compartment, where various ingredients are stored.

A few tomatoes, a bunch of greens, two cucumbers, a piece of pork belly, two crucian carp kept in a plastic bag filled with water, and eggs, tofu, scallions, ginger, garlic, and the like.

The bottom shelf of the refrigerator is the freezer compartment. He opened it and took a look. Inside were frozen chicken legs, frozen ribs, frozen dumplings, and a few popsicles.

He stared at the ingredients for a few seconds, already deciding what to cook: braised pork, steamed crucian carp, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried vegetables with garlic, and a tofu soup.

A meal consisting of four dishes and a soup, including both meat and vegetables, fish and meat, is nutritionally balanced and suitable for children.

He first took the pork belly out of the refrigerator and placed it on the cutting board.

The pork belly weighs about a pound, with alternating layers of fat and lean meat, and the skin still has a few pig hairs on it.

He took out a pair of tweezers from the drawer and plucked the pig hairs one by one. Then he used a knife to scrape the skin a few times to remove the dirt on the surface.

Then he cut the pork belly into evenly sized cubes, each about three centimeters square.

The moment he moved his knife, the viewers in the live stream were stunned.

The sound of the blade striking the meat was soft, a steady "thud, thud, thud," like a simple percussion piece.

His left hand pressed down on the piece of meat, his fingers bent, the tips slightly curled inward, his knuckles against the blade, the blade cutting along his knuckles, each cut landing precisely in the same spot.

The cut surfaces of the meat pieces were smooth and even, without any messy or watery marks. The boundary between the fat and lean meat was clear and distinct, and each piece was almost exactly the same size, as if it had been measured and cut with a ruler.

[Ding! Precise cutting and preparation completed. God-level cooking skill experience points +134!]

Holy crap!!!

"That knife skill???"

"Are you a chef by trade, host?"

"That knife skill is amazing! The pieces of meat he cut are all the same size!"

"I checked it three times, and every piece of meat is the same thickness. This is outrageous!"

"No way, a programmer has this kind of knife skill? You're kidding me, right?"

"Is this the level of chefs at five-star hotels?"

Chen Hao did not reply to the comments and continued to process the other ingredients.

He took the crucian carp out of the plastic bag and placed it on the cutting board.

The two crucian carp were not large, each weighing about three or four ounces, and their scales shimmered silver under the light.

He first tapped the fish's head with the back of the knife, and the fish stopped moving.

Then he used the blade to scrape the fish from tail to head, and the scales flew up with a "whoosh" and landed next to the cutting board.

After scraping one side, he flipped it over and scraped the other side, his movements clean and efficient, removing all the scales and leaving no scratches on the fish skin.

After scaling the fish, he used the tip of his knife to make an incision in the fish's belly, took out the internal organs, removed the gills, and then rinsed the fish's belly inside and out with clean water.

Finally, he made three cuts on each side of the fish with a knife, the cuts being of equal depth and evenly spaced, slicing diagonally into the fish meat, the depth just reaching the fish bone.

[Ding! Fish processing completed. God-level cooking skill experience points +156!]

"This fish-killing technique is so professional!"

"The cuts should be of consistent depth and even spacing; this is a chef's basic skill."

"Host, tell me honestly, are you a chef from a five-star hotel who switched careers to become a programmer?"

"Watching the livestreamer prepare ingredients is a pleasure; they're so smooth."

"I've been cooking for ten years, and I'm truly impressed by this knife skill."

Gifts started floating on the screen—