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

Gifts started floating on the screen—

[“Xiao Liu, a stay-at-home dad,” has donated 10 hearts!]

[“Mommy Loves Taking Care of Her Kids” gave away 5 lollipops!]

[“Tingting’s sister-in-law” gifted two pairs of sunglasses!]

[Received a donation: 10 hearts, gained 2 popularity points!]

[Received a donation: 5 lollipops, gained 9 popularity points!]

[Received a donation: 2 pairs of sunglasses, and gained 39 popularity points!]

Chen Hao began working on the second horse body.

Cutting, drawing lines, sawing wood—the movements were all done in one smooth motion.

He set the cut horse body blank aside and began making the horse legs.

The square timber of Scots pine was sawn into sections, each 25 centimeters long, and then the surface was smoothed with a plane.

[Ding! Horse leg crafting completed. God-level woodworking experience points +134!]

After Shen Xiaoting finished grinding one horse body, she stood up, stretched her fingers, and ran over to watch her father make the horse legs.

She picked up a planed horse leg, touched its surface, and found it as smooth as glass.

"Daddy, it's so slippery!"

"It's smooth because it's been planened." Chen Hao took the horse leg and began to chisel the tenon.

He used a chisel and hammer to carve a rectangular protrusion at the top of the horse's leg. Every cut was precise, and the resulting tenon was square and neat.

[Ding! Tenon work completed. God-level woodworking experience points +146!]

He turned the horse over so that its bottom was facing up and drew the positions of four mortises on it.

Then, use a chisel to carefully carve out the mortise—the depth should be the same as the height of the tenon, and the shape should perfectly match the tenon.

"Tingting, look, this is a mortise, and this is a tenon." He inserted the tenon from a horse leg into the mortise in the horse's body, and it fit perfectly.

"The mortise and tenon structure doesn't require nails; the wood holds itself in place."

Shen Xiaoting leaned over to take a look, and reached out to touch the connection. Sure enough, there were no nails or screws, but she couldn't pull it out.

"That's amazing!"

Chen Hao finished attaching the four horse legs and then started making the horse head.

He picked up a thick piece of wood and used a jigsaw to cut out the shape of a horse's head—

The horse's face, ears, and neck have smooth lines and harmonious proportions.

Shen Xiaoting watched from the side and thought that the shape of the horse's head looked particularly like a real horse.

[Ding! Horse head cutting completed. God-level woodworking experience points +138!]

"Tingting, bring the wood glue to Daddy."

Shen Xiaoting ran to the pile of tools, found the bottle of wood glue, ran back and handed it to her father.

Chen Hao applied wood glue to the connection between the horse's head and body, inserted the horse's head into the mortise and tenon joint, and secured it with clips, waiting for the glue to dry.

While waiting for the glue to dry, he began to make the saddle.

He cut the brown leather into an oval shape with scissors, applied glue to the back, glued it to the center of the horse's back, and then secured the edges with small nails.

Each nail was hammered in precisely, without damaging the leather.

[Ding! Saddle crafting completed. God-level woodworking experience points +132!]

The glue had dried, so he took off the clip and shook the horse's head vigorously, but it didn't budge.

Then we started installing the wheels.

He drilled a small hole at the bottom of each horse leg, passed the screw of the directional wheel through the hole, screwed on the nut on the other side, and tightened it with a wrench.

[Ding! Wheel installation complete. God-level woodworking experience points +128!]

Finally, it's polished and waxed.

He used fine sandpaper to sand the entire rocking horse from head to tail, making every corner smooth as silk.

Shen Xiaoting also wanted to help, so Chen Hao gave her a piece of fine sandpaper and asked her to sand the lower half of the horse's leg.

She squatted down, held the sandpaper, and carefully sanded for more than ten minutes. Beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, but she didn't complain of being tired.

[Ding! Fine sanding completed. God-level woodworking experience points +145!]

[Ding! Constitution enhancement effect triggered - Constitution +0.1.]

After sanding, Chen Hao dipped a brush in wood wax oil and evenly brushed it onto the wooden horse.

Wood wax oil seeps into the wood grain, making the wood color deeper and more lustrous, and the grain clearer.

After he finished cleaning, he put the Trojan horse in a ventilated place to air dry.

The first Trojan horse is finished.

Then came the second, the third, and the fourth.

Chen Hao was responsible for cutting, chiseling mortise and tenon joints, and assembling, while Shen Xiaoting was responsible for sanding, handing over tools, and applying wood wax oil.

After she finished each step of the process, she would run over to show it to her father:

"Dad, do you think I've polished it smooth enough?"

"Dad, do you think I've brushed it evenly?"

Chen Hao would carefully check each time, then pat his daughter's head and say, "Tingting did a great job."

[Ding! Second Trojan Horse completed, God-level Carpentry experience points +142!]

[Ding! Completed the third Trojan horse, God-level woodworking experience points +138!]

[Ding! Fourth Trojan Horse completed, God-level Carpentry experience points +145!]

Viewers in the live stream were amazed by the father and daughter's seamless teamwork, and the chat was flooded with comments.

"Tingting is so capable; she can help with carpentry at only three years old."

"This isn't just helping out; it's real work, and very serious work at that."

"The way the streamer educates her child is really worth learning. She involves her child and doesn't spoil or pamper her."

"Tingting will definitely be very independent when she grows up."

"My son is five years old, and he won't even help me hand something. But Tingting is only three years old and she can do such complicated tasks."

Gifts kept floating on the screen: hearts, lollipops, sunglasses, bunny ears, heart shapes with hands, confetti cannons, hot air balloons, helicopters, Porsches...

Various gifts were presented one after another, and the system notifications kept ringing in Chen Hao's mind.

When they got to the fifth wooden horse, Chen Hao was chiseling the tenon, and Shen Xiaoting was squatting next to him, helping him hold the wood.

Footsteps sounded outside the courtyard, followed by a man's voice.

"Hey, Hao Hao, doing woodworking again?"

Chen Hao looked up and saw Chen Zhenhua walking in from outside the courtyard, carrying his glass teacup.

He was wearing a gray polo shirt, his belly was slightly protruding, and he had a half-smile on his face.

"Third Uncle," Chen Hao called out in a flat tone, then lowered his head to continue chiseling the tenon.

Chen Zhenhua walked to the worktable, looked at the several finished rocking horses on the table, then at the one Chen Hao was making, took a sip of tea, and smacked his lips.

"Haohao, I heard from your dad that you're selling this online?"

"Um."

Chen Zhenhua shook his head, the smile on his lips widening even further:

"Haohao, let me tell you the truth, will anyone buy what you're making? There's nothing you can't find online these days."

"People would spend hundreds of dollars to buy a wooden horse like this? I doubt it."

Chen Hao's hands didn't stop; the chisel struck the tenon one after another, the sound steady.

Without even looking up, he said, "Whether anyone buys it or not is none of Uncle's concern."