Baby Serendipity: The Whole World Fell In Love With Me
Chapter 527 - 526: The Little Mistress is About to Show Off Her Skills!

Chapter 527: Chapter 526: The Little Mistress is About to Show Off Her Skills!

After an hour of carving, Mianmian finally stopped.

What was originally an ordinary piece of wood had now become a Black Tortoise statue, a combination of a turtle and a snake.

It was small, just a little bigger than the palm of Mianmian, who was nearly four years old, but the details of the patterns were particularly clear. The turtle shell pattern and the snake’s scales looked just like the real thing.

Looking at the plastic bag filled with wood shavings, Mianmian was about to throw the plastic bag into the trash can when Hu Zhengguo had already picked it up, saying as he did so, "Little Auntie, you rest. Let me do this work."

After disposing of the trash, Hu Zhengguo trotted over to Mianmian’s bedside, crouched down, and put on an expression of wide-eyed innocence, "Little Auntie, can I put this video on the Official Blog? It’s okay if I say it was a carving of the Black Tortoise, right?"

A middle-aged man with a beard, yet insisted on speaking like a child.

The young masters of the Su Family who were around all frowned upon seeing this.

Su Chenfei said, "Director Hu, isn’t your act of pretending to be innocent going a bit too far? Take a look for yourself, will you?"

He brought his mobile phone up to Hu Zhengguo’s face and snapped a photo.

Hu Zhengguo, looking at his own image in the photo, found it a bit hard to face.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he said helplessly, "Little Auntie, is it okay, the thing I mentioned?"

Mianmian nodded, "Yes, yes, you go and post it. Mianmian is going to find a suitable place to contact Uncle Xuan Wu now!"

Among the Primordial Quartet Spirits, Black Tortoise was associated with the north. So, the position where she would try to contact the Black Tortoise had to be in the north to increase the chances of making a connection.

Mianmian took out a coin to divine, and after figuring out the position, she raised her arm to be picked up by Su Chenjin, "Great-nephew, let’s go set up an altar outside."

Hu Zhengguo hadn’t left yet. When he heard Mianmian mention setting up an altar, he hurriedly asked what items were needed.

Mianmian would say one thing, and he would note it down, sending people around the small Fishing Village to search and prepare.

Before long, the altar was set up.

Mianmian took out an incense burner from her small bag, stood on a small stool, and bowed three times sincerely towards the small Black Tortoise statue on the altar.

After bowing, she placed the incense into the burner and earnestly said, "Uncle Xuan Wu, Uncle Cui Yu said you’re in the Heavenly Court. Mianmian is all better now and you can come down and remove the Barrier. I hope you’re not angry for me contacting you suddenly."

Smoke from the three sticks of incense rose straight up towards the sky, not swayed by the wind around.

Seeing this scene, Mianmian breathed a sigh of relief.

Uncle Black Tortoise had accepted her prayer, but whether he’d be willing to come down, she did not know.

Actually, speaking to Black Tortoise made Mianmian uneasy. Previously when she asked the Black Tortoise for help, he would change his mind from one moment to the next, truly hard to predict.

"Little Auntie, is that all?" Hu Zhengguo asked nervously. "Did Lord Black Tortoise hear us?"

"He heard us, but..."

"In three days in the mortal realm, I will come down," the voice of Black Tortoise came from the statue.

Normally, when mortals pray like this, if the Fairy wishes to help, they would give a sign, usually something like a light breeze on the face to hint. It was rare for a voice to be conveyed through a statue like this.

But thanks to Black Tortoise conveying his voice through the Divine Statue, everyone heard it.

Hu Zhengguo no longer questioned but first bowed to the Divine Statue of Black Tortoise to express gratitude, then thanked Mianmian, and happily helped to pack up the altar before returning to his room.

Mianmian couldn’t yet roam about, so after the matter was settled, she returned to her room as well.

As she lay on the bed, her mobile phone chimed with a notification from Hu Zhengguo.

Hu Zhengguo had posted on Instagram quickly, with a very catchy title.

[Shocking: Famous Director Begs Craftsman for Rights to a Traditional Handicraft Video!]

Upon clicking, the first thing to catch the eye was a photo of Hu Zhengguo. He was a disheveled middle-aged man with a wet-eyed, extremely docile look in the photo.

Some netizens hadn’t even seen the content of the video next to the photo and were already eagerly typing, [Hu Haohao has really outdone himself with this prank, I literally lost my appetite seeing this photo.]

[What does ’Artists related to non-material cultural heritage’ refer to? I haven’t watched the video, they deliberately used a dark image as the cover, the craftiness of Hu Haohao is all too evident.]

[Can Little Auntie live-stream tomorrow? Tomorrow is the live-stream giveaway day, Hu Haohao can you help ask?]

These netizens posted their comments and then clicked on the video.

And then they completely forgot to reply in the comment section because their attention was immediately captured by the child leaning on the bed.

The warm orange light was already gentle, and the Little Bun sitting on the bed, with her plump little face also softened by this warmth. She held a piece of wood in one hand while the other grasped a mini brush, drawing lines on the wood.

The video’s individual comment section was filled with tens of thousands of comments already.

[Move aside, our Little Auntie is about to show off her skills! I know this craft, wood carving!!]

[Ah, how is it that Little Auntie knows this too? I’m not well-educated, so I can’t come up with any fancy praise, I can only say 666!]

[The netizens have such sharp eyes, I thought Little Auntie wanted to paint on the wood, how did you all know she was preparing to carve something?]

[Isn’t it obvious? There’s a tool bag next to Little Auntie’s bed, all full of small knives and stuff, those are carving tools. Don’t ask me how I know, and even if you do, I wouldn’t tell you, we do this kind of work in my family.]

As time ticked by, by ten o’clock in the evening, the video of Mianmian carving had been played 500 million times by netizens.

With a population of only over a billion in Dragon Country, nearly half of the people had now seen the video, attesting to its viral popularity.

Meanwhile, the hashtag #LittleAuntieIsANon-MaterialCulturalHeritageCraftsman# instantly shot up to number one on the trending searches.

The Country had always been supporting the preservation of non-material cultural heritage, hoping that the Craftsman would continue to pass the skills down. However, few young people now were willing to settle down and learn the requisite knowledge, mainly because it required time to master, and it wasn’t guaranteed to yield corresponding profits.

It was impressive enough that some people were willing to learn some non-material cultural heritage skills as a hobby amidst their busy work schedules.

Within these non-material cultural heritage crafts, wood carving was regarded as having the longest heritage. Historical records show that as early as the Neolithic age, people began carving on wood.

Such a meaningful technique, of course, Instagram would highly recommend it. And this had nothing to do with Mianmian being a trending little star, it was purely in response to the national call to action!

Under the strong promotion by Instagram, many experienced carving Craftsmen were recommended by their apprentices to watch.

After watching, these Craftsmen couldn’t help but want to leave a message in the video’s comments section.