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The two little kids who had just committed a crime went back upstairs. Xiao Shu pushed open the half-open door of Room 202. Gu Qianjing had finished her shower and was throwing masks on her face. Lin Mingqi was replying to work emails. The room was very quiet.
Xiao Shu lowered his head and wrote on the writing board, “I just ate candy!”
Then he walked to Gu Qianjing with confidence and raised the writing board proudly.
Gu Qianjing patted the noble lady essence on her face and glanced at the words on the writing board. “Who gave you the candy?”
Xiao Shu erased the previous words and wrote again, “Grandpa Yang.”
”Oh.” Gu Qianjing said she understood, and slapped herself in the face, trying to slap the four-digit essence into her pores. Amid the slapping sounds, she said to Lin Mingqi, “Lin Mingqi, your son has made great progress. When he goes out to play, people give him candies.”
Lin Mingqi stared at the computer screen, reached back and gave Xiao Shu a thumbs up.
”Don’t run around. Your dad will take you to take a bath later.” Gu Qianjing looked at her fair face in the mirror with satisfaction. After thinking for a while, she reminded him, “Don’t eat anything given by a stranger!”
Xiao Shu turned around and looked at Xiu Ziheng, then spread out his hands. “How about it? I didn’t lie to you, did I?”
Xiu Ziheng’s mood was very complicated. He was so envious of his younger brother for having such good parents, but he was also sad that his own mother was not like that. Now he could only pin his hopes on the lucky clover, hoping that the grass fairy could make his real mother come back to find him soon.
After returning to the B&B today, Li Yunhua apologized to Xiu Ziheng for the pumpkin pie incident. Although his mother took the pumpkin pie away last night, Xiu Ziheng had already eaten the pumpkin pie today, so they had actually reconciled, but the child was still sad.
Xiu Ziheng returned to the room and put the four-leaf clover into his diary.
Li Yunhua walked out of the small living room and asked him, “What does my brother want to talk to you about?”
”He showed me his lucky grass.” Xiu Ziheng said, pinching a corner of the diary and thinking about whether to tell his mother that Xiao Shu gave him the lucky grass.
Li Yunhua curled the corner of his lips and said, “It’s so naive to believe in something like a lucky clover!” How could such a child support such a huge fortune of the Lin family?
When Xiu Ziheng heard what his mother said, he lowered his eyes and decided not to tell her about the lucky clover.
Xiu Ziheng stared at Li Yunhua’s face blankly for a while, but ultimately did not tell her that he had eaten candy in the garden. This was the first time he had hidden something from his mother.
After 7 days of study, the final day of competition came. The program team set up a temporary stage in the small square of the town activity center. There were 4 workbenches on the stage, and the mothers had to make a piece of silver jewelry on the spot.
There are judges’ seats and audience seats below the stage. Due to Mr. Lin’s sudden visit, the program team temporarily added a soft chair to the judges’ seats. Although he was sitting in the judges’ seats, Mr. Lin did not participate in the voting of the works.
The children did not have to go to school today. Led by teacher Guo, they sat in a special area and watched the mothers’ performances.
At 7 o’clock in the morning, the 10 judges invited by the program team arrived one after another. The judges were all veteran craftsmen in Ankang Town.
In the temporary backstage of the activity center, Huang Wei pointed at Li Yunhua through the window to the 10 judges, indicating that they should vote for Li Yunhua. After the voting, each of them could receive a reward of 10,000 yuan.
The residents of the town also came spontaneously to watch the female star doing handicrafts. Early in the morning, the activity square was crowded with people.
Everything was ready, and the mothers walked onto the stage one after another. Seeing so many audiences below, Gu Qianjing suddenly felt inexplicably nervous. With only her mediocre skills, she had to demonstrate them in public. It was simply a large-scale social failure scene. The program crew was so crappy, really.
She glanced at the judges’ seats. Lin Mingqi, who was sitting in the soft chair in the middle, waved at her leisurely.
How come this person is on the judges’ panel? And he’s in the C position!
You bastard!
It is indeed the power of capital.
The children were holding small red flags in their hands, and when they saw their mothers coming out, they all raised the small flags in their hands.
Gu Qianjing waved over there and saw Xiaoshu, whose face was flushed with excitement.
Honey, mom might embarrass you!
The mothers’ positions on the stage were also arranged according to the ages of their children, namely Li Yunhua, Gu Qianjing, Liu Zhizi, and Lu Yi.
Each workbench is equipped with a full set of silver jewelry making tools. The materials are placed on a shelf on the right side of the stage, and mothers need to get them themselves.
After the director team announced the start of the competition, the mothers stood up one after another and walked towards the material rack.
Gu Qianjing followed Li Yunhua and just took two steps, an old voice sounded in her mind, “Picking gold into silk, weaving it with skillful hands, inlaying jade and emerald, it is a unique work.”
The feeling of detachment that I had at the amusement park reappeared.
The old and hoarse voice echoed in her mind. Gu Qianjing felt as if she was floating in the air. She watched another self walk towards the material shelf, and that Gu Qianjing took out a piece of silver without hesitation.
It is actually very difficult to learn a skill in 7 days, so when teaching, Boss Liang directly skipped the “wire drawing” step and provided mothers with already drawn silver wire.
Gu Qianjing directly took the silver block, which meant that she had to demonstrate the wire drawing skills herself.
When she picked up the silver bar and turned to leave, the other three mothers’ pupils dilated with shock.
Lu Yi pulled her back and reminded her in a low voice, “Qian Qian, did you take the wrong one?”
Gu Qianjing looked back at her, a gentle smile blossomed at the corners of her lips, she pulled her hand away, turned around and strode away.
Lin Mingqi sat in the judges’ seat and heard the judges talking about it.
”This girl is overestimating her own abilities. The competition only lasts for one day, and drawing the silk is difficult. She might as well just take the already drawn silk.”
”I guess she wanted to win too much…ah…young people nowadays are just competitive.”
Lin Mingqi’s eyebrows furrowed. Want to win too much? He would believe others, but Gu Qianjing? She was clearly a last-minute loser.
Before today’s game, Gu Qianjing was still giving herself and Xiao Shu a heads-up, “Let me make it clear first, my skills are terrible, you better be mentally prepared, and don’t think I’m embarrassing you when the time comes!”
Saying that she overestimates her own abilities? Lin Mingqi felt that Gu Qianjing had a clear understanding of herself.
The judges next to him were still discussing. Lin Mingqi coughed twice with a cold face. The judges turned their heads to look at this cold-faced devil. Suddenly they remembered what the director had said, that this devil was a big shot who could not be provoked. Now this big shot did not seem very happy. Forget it, they should just shut up and watch the competition carefully.
When Li Yunhua’s die-hard fans saw this scene, they were like their butts were on fire, and they all revived their enthusiasm.
[Gu Qianjing took the silver, which means she has to draw the wire herself. Is she crazy? ]
[I don’t understand what’s going on, please give me some scientific advice. ]
【Wire drawing is to put the silver block into a hand-drawn wire drawing plate for drawing. Do you see the alloy plate with many tiny holes on the stage? That is the wire drawing plate. The smaller the holes, the thinner the silver wire drawn. Hand-drawn wire drawing requires a lot of control. If you are not careful, it will break. It is very difficult.】
[I never saw Gu Qianjing do wire drawing when she was studying before. Is she crazy about winning? ]
[I’ve been so frustrated these past few days, and finally I can see Gu Qianjing’s online car overturn! ]
Gu Qianjing sat back at the workbench, placed the silver block in her hand into the largest hole on the drawing board, clamped the other end with tweezers, pulled out the silver block quickly and accurately, and then quickly put it into a smaller hole, passing the silver wire from large to small.
Her hands were no longer her original hands. They had become dexterous and powerful. It seemed as if she had been doing these things for hundreds of years. The silver threads that came out at the end were even thinner than hair.
The photographer took a super clear close-up, and everyone could see clearly the filament in her hand, a very thin one.
The old craftsmen on the jury stood up one after another, and some even took out magnifying glasses. One craftsman with completely white hair murmured,
”I have been engaged in filigree inlay for more than 50 years since I started learning the craft, and I have never seen anyone who can make gold and silver wires so thin.”
Lin Mingqi seemed to be frozen, with a look of empty confusion on his face. It was too mysterious. What was going on?
The hair strands, so thin that they are almost invisible, seem to have their own magical powers. The twisting, wire-pinching and wire-filling are all done in one go. When it comes to the welding process, the veteran craftsmen can’t control their excitement and rush onto the stage to watch this once-in-a-millennium spectacle up close.
Gu Qianjing herself was frightened by this scene. She thought to herself, that’s enough. If she continued, she would really be caught as a monster. However, her body was out of her control, especially her pair of white and slender hands. It seemed as if they had thoughts of their own and kept casting magic on those silver threads.
To create patterns on silverware thinner than a hair through welding is the most demanding moment for one’s skills; the slightest mistake will result in all the previous efforts being wasted.
But in Gu Qianjing’s hands, the solder and flames seemed to have become obedient little boys. Each flame melted the solder just right without damaging the silver wire in the slightest.
Gu Qianjing even felt that some of the old craftsmen next to her started crying with excitement, but she couldn’t stop at all. She had only one thought in her mind: it’s over, this time she will definitely be handed over to the country.
The live studio went crazy.
[Oh my god, is Gu Qianjing possessed by something? Why is she so awesome? ]
[After the “death shot”, Gu Qianjing went shark crazy again! ]
[Although I don’t know why this happened, I am really proud of my sister’s great excellence! ]
[I was so proud that I cried. My mom just came in and asked me why I was kneeling down to watch the video and crying so hard.]
At 8 o’clock in the evening, the activity center was brightly lit, but Gu Qianjing hadn’t drunk a drop of water. It was as if a switch had been turned on and she couldn’t stop. She could only sit on the stage, pinching, filling wires and welding like a perpetual motion machine.
Until Huang Wei called for an emergency stop, there was still only a small piece of semi-finished product on Gu Qianjing’s workbench, like a small fragment of a certain work, but some veteran artists had already noticed that
”This is the ‘Golden Silk Coiled Dragon Winged Goodness Crown’!”
Gu Qianjing raised her head in confusion, and heard Liu Zhizi’s voice in her ears, “How could you do this?”
She was very sure that it was Liu Zhizi’s voice, and her pronunciation was clear. Then Gu Qianjing felt very strange. Isn’t the most primitive reaction to such a supernatural event shock?
But Liu Zhizi said very calmly, “How could you do this?” It was as if she already knew that Gu Qianjing had this ability, but just felt that she shouldn’t do it.
So strange!
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