Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 30: The flaw in the palm thunder video

"Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

When Gu Zhao opened the door of his house, he saw his father Gu Qi and mother Li Man sitting together watching TV.

Gu Zhao covered his eyes and asked, "Did I come back at the wrong time?"

Gu Qi turned around and said unhappily, "We are watching the news broadcast!"

Li Man stood up and looked behind Gu Zhao, "Did you really not bring back a temporary girlfriend?"

"Aren't I going to accompany you to Shu Province?" Gu Zhao replied, "I'm going to Shu Province to find a girlfriend."

"No way!" Li Man immediately refused. "Girls from Guangdong Province are still the best. There's no need to go far away."

Gu Qi nodded in agreement, "Yes..."

Just as he said a word, he saw Li Man turning around, so he immediately asked, "Ahem, have you eaten?"

"I said I didn't eat it. Is there any at home?" Gu Zhao asked.

Gu Qi looked at Li Man, who slammed the table and stood up, "You look down on your mother? Tell me, what do you want to eat?"

"Twice-cooked pork, fish-flavored shredded pork, and boiled pork slices." Gu Zhao immediately responded.

Li Man clapped her hands and walked towards the kitchen, calling out to the nanny who was resting in the side room, "Aunt Zhang, it's time to work!"

Li Man was able to eat Gu Qi to death, and her good cooking skills played a big role. Gu Zhao also grew up eating Sichuan cuisine and had developed the ability to eat spicy food.

On the other side, Gu Zhao put down his schoolbag, took off his coat, and sat next to Gu Qi.

"There is a trade fair in Lincheng this weekend, and I have to go there in person." Gu Qi said.

"My mom told me." Gu Zhao asked casually while lying on the sofa, "What kind of trade fair is this? Why is it in Lincheng?"

Gu Qi is in the Chinese furniture business. He is based near the port and has a furniture factory. He imports various types of rosewood from abroad and hires some skilled craftsmen to make and sell rosewood furniture.

However, the Gu family's several shops are all around Guangzhou, and the farthest is Shenzhen. Even if they participate in trade fairs, most of them are in the Pearl River Delta. Lincheng is the capital of Wu Province, so it is in the Yangtze River Delta.

"It's an exhibition of intangible cultural heritage furniture." Gu Qi said, "There are many wealthy people in Wu and Hai provinces, so it's held in Lincheng."

"Beijing hardwood, Shanxi furniture, Fujian classical furniture and Hai Province Ming-style furniture are all going. The fact that I was able to receive an invitation shows that I am the face of Guangdong Province's hardwood production!" Gu Qi was quite proud.

Although the Gu family's business is not big, it has a very good reputation in the industry. Gu Qi also apprenticed to a master carpenter in his early years. In addition to being a businessman, he is also a good carpenter.

What attracted Gu Qi to Li Man back then was her excellent Sichuan cuisine cooking skills, and the key to Gu Qi's winning over Li Man was that he personally carved a lifelike wooden statue of a beauty for her.

"Dad is awesome." Gu Zhao gave his dad a thumbs up.

But Gu Qi was obviously not satisfied, and even a little jealous, "You said it would be great if you could learn wood carving and furniture making from me, but you had to learn Taoism from your grandfather. Why, your grandfather's inheritance is an inheritance, but your father's inheritance is not?
Now, yours is still feudal superstition, but your father's craft has become an intangible cultural heritage that the country is vigorously promoting. If you learn from me, you might even be able to appear on the Spring Festival Gala. What a pity."

"The things that can be performed on stage are either atmospheric or rarely seen. I remember last Spring Festival Gala featured a large wood carving that created a miniature world carved directly from a tree. It was so stunning." Gu Zhao gestured around. "Our Ming and Qing furniture isn't considered rare art. Strictly speaking, my mom's Sichuan cuisine is also considered intangible cultural heritage."

Gu Zhao gave Li Man a thumbs up as she poked her head out of the kitchen, "Mom is an artist too!"

Li Man gave Gu Zhao a thumbs up and raised an eyebrow at Gu Qi.

Gu Qi, “…”

"You're right, but as someone who comes from a carpenter's family, you should at least have some common sense. You ended up making a short video with special effects and got the wood wrong. Isn't that embarrassing?" Gu Qi shook his head. "It's like making Sichuan cuisine with ketchup instead of chili."

Gu Zhao was puzzled. "What short video special effects?"

"It's the video of your palm thunder." Gu Qi said as he picked up his phone, opened Douyin and Kuaishou, and found Gu Qi's video.

It was the video that Gu Zhao marked as [Special effects production, for entertainment purposes only], but it was actually a video of the real display of palm thunder in another world.

"How do you have my Douyin account? I never show my face!" Gu Zhao asked in surprise.

As we all know, children will definitely block their parents from their circle of friends, and they generally don’t let their parents know about their Douyin and Kuaishou accounts.

My mom knows my computer password, and my dad found his short video account. They are not actually cooks and carpenters, but agents with hidden identities!
"Zhang Hang's dad and I are good friends, so I came across Zhang Hang's video. He showed his face." Gu Qi said nonchalantly, "Then I followed him and found you."

Okay, logic, but...

"Why is there something wrong with my special effects?" Gu Zhao couldn't help but ask.

Others don’t know, but you don’t know what this video is about?
It really couldn’t be truer!
"Your special effects are quite good. Whether it's the lightning strike, the fire, or the broken tree, the details look very realistic." Gu Qi commented and asked, "How much did it cost? And did you use AI to do it?"

Gu Zhao rolled his eyes, "Just say that but!"

"Okay, but!" Gu Qi laughed and emphasized, "Where did you get the pictures of the trees in this forest? You could have used pine trees, fir trees, birch trees, camphor trees, etc., but why did you choose this one?"

Gu Zhao looked at the small tree that was struck by lightning in the video, as well as the trees around it.

Although he didn't recognize them, they seemed like ordinary trees, nothing special about them.

"What's wrong with these trees?" Gu Zhao asked.

"What's wrong with these trees?" Gu Qi asked back. "There's a whole forest of small-leaf red sandalwood trees, and you chopped off a tree as thick as your thigh in one blow. What do you think happened?"

Gu Zhao was stunned. "What? Small-leaf red sandalwood?"

"Yes, small-leaf red sandalwood." Gu Qi nodded and glanced at Gu Zhao. "The one you chopped off in the video is at least a hundred years old. It's worth three or four hundred thousand."

Gu Zhao:_
Although his family runs a furniture factory, the wood shipped to the factory is already roughly processed raw materials. He grew up in the city and apart from recognizing the most distinctive trees such as pine, willow, ginkgo, etc., how can he distinguish between different types of trees?
In his opinion, the trees in the forest behind the village were neither thick nor tall, but sparse and ordinary. They were just the most common trees.

So it turns out to be the best quality wood?
Gu Qi concluded, "You just don't have many fans. If there was an expert, they would have pointed it out to you in a minute."

(End of this chapter)