Chapter 853

When Yang Shuxin saw the crowd’s reaction, he had imagined how Yuan Zhou’s Nine Dragon Sculpture would look like . He wondered if it would be a version that stuck closely to tradition like his or would if he would be innovative and sculpt the Nine Dragon Fish, a rather famous modern sculpture or even the Nine Lizard that was more popular among the youths . Any of these would not surprise Yang Shuxin as he was confident he could beat any of them .

He saw himself as an open-minded elder . Even the kids of his own family were only expected to fail less, instead of getting good grades like how other families would . Yang Shuxin was confident that not many parents could be as open as him .

Yang Shuxin was already mentally prepared to see anything, but the instant he laid eyes on Yuan Zhou’s work, his pupils shrunk as he was stunned right where he stood .

He was truly stunned as he blurted, “Cloud Dragon? You sculpted Cloud Dragon?”

Yuan Zhou nodded and did not say anything as his work spoke louder than words .

In China, many things were separated between the north and south . The same applied to the ice sculpting field . Cloud Dragon was a representative of the south’s ice sculpting, like what the Horned Dragon was to the north . Although Yang Shuxin was from the north, he still had long admired the reputable Cloud Dragon .

The south had a saying that “The Cloud Dragon resents being paired . ” The origin of this saying was the fact that it was extremely hard to sculpt two Cloud Dragons at once . Even sculpting one was extremely hard . But now, there were nine of these Cloud Dragons here .

“Nine Cloud Dragon Lines, one of the two grand ice sculptures of the south . I have finally gotten to see one with my own eyes today,” Yang Shuxin sighed repeatedly . Each of the dragons was amid the clouds . The dragons and clouds had clearly converged perfectly as well . When Yang Shuxin saw this, his confidence of victory vanished .

“Eleven points . “

Yang Shuxin gave Yuan Zhou 11 out of 10 points . In a sense, Yang Shuxin was victorious as well as he had managed to break through the self-imposed fetters on him . But in this competition, he felt like he had still been defeated by Yuan Zhou .

Strictly speaking, Yuan Zhou had performed far better than usual today . If he was told to sculpt the same thing again, the possibility of him failing would be extremely high .

The score Yuan Zhou had given Yang Shuxin’s sculpture was 10 points .

With complicated emotions, Yang Shuxin slowly kept his things away . He planned to carefully transport his ice sculpture away as well . To the side, Old Yan started to surreptitiously make a phone call .

As for Yuan Zhou, he had his head drooped down . For one, he was very exhausted . At the same time, he was inwardly pleased with himself as he had successfully tricked them all with his ice sculpture . There was one aspect of his ice sculpture that Yang Shuxin and the others had not noticed .

From the front, one could see three cloud dragons . From the left, there were two cloud dragons, and from the back, there were two cloud dragons as well . Finally, from the right, there was one cloud dragon . In total, there were only eight dragons . Yang Shuxin, the crowd, and even Old Yan and Old Gu had not noticed this .

Yang Shuxin had missed that because he was in a state of shock after witnessing a Nine Cloud Dragon Lines before him . As for the crowd, there were too many people for them to have a good look from all angles . Some of them were also too far away to even get a proper look .

As for Old Gu and Old Yan, both were too busy plotting their own schemes . And thus, the dragon consisting of a single line hidden amid the sculpture went unnoticed . In truth, apart from being known as Nine Cloud Dragon Lines, this sculpture could also be named The Nine Transformations of One Dragon Amid The Clouds .

Yang Shuxin had only found out about that in the future after an accidental exposure . At that time, he had an extremely complicated feeling .

In any case, that was in the future and was of no importance now . Yang Shuxin had gained a lot from this competition . For example, he realized that he should change his attitude towards his son .

And what would this new attitude be? Yuan Zhou would know more .

With the Queuing Committee keeping order, the large crowd started leaving . After everything settled down, Old Yan approached Yuan Zhou to discuss about something .

In a way, competing against a master was very satisfying . Yuan Zhou personally felt comfortable in both body and mind after the competition . At that night, it drizzled with light rain .

Night arrived .

Although Yuan Zhou was tired, he still needed to open the restaurant for dinner time .

It was extremely troublesome to preserve ice sculptures and Yuan Zhou’s restaurant did not have the facilities to do so .

And thus, earlier today, under Old Yan’s proposal, the Nine Cloud Dragon Lines was temporarily stored at Old Yan’s private museum .

As a renowned collector, Old Yan’s private museum was rather popular among those of that circle as well . The museum would only be opened to a select few people .

Old Yan had personally offered to help store this ice sculpture . In a way, this was an acknowledgment to the value of this Nine Cloud Dragon Lines . Apart from Yang Shuxin’s invitation, one of the other reasons Old Yan had traveled so far from the north was to increase the collection in his private museum .

This was the so-called “scheme” mentioned earlier . As for Old Gu’s scheme, it was not important for now . Old Yan had even offered to store Yang Shuxin’s Nine Dragon Sculpture as well . But as a famous ice sculptor, how would Yang Shuxin not have a place to store ice sculptures? And thus, Old Yan failed to get his sculpture .

As Yuan Zhou had also achieved his own goal with that ice sculpture and had even managed to have it properly stored, he was feeling rather relaxed . And thus, he started preparing the BBQ ingredients .

That’s right . BBQ would be served tonight since it was raining .

Fortunately, the system’s weather forecast was accurate . Yuan Zhou had already put up a notice that there wouldn’t be any liquor served tonight earlier in the morning .

At night, many customers arrived . All of them were here for the BBQ .

That’s right . Yuan Zhou had never sold both BBQ and liquor at the same time . When it rained he would be selling BBQ .

And when he was selling BBQ, he would not sell any liquor . This was the weird part of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant .

The customers were clear about this rule . But things were somewhat different recently . The restaurant had started selling beer, and the price of beer was something more people could afford .

With that, the number of customers drinking at night had increased .

Even Chen Wei was grumbling, “I feel like I have been drinking far less recently . “

But in truth, Chen Wei had actually drunk more . Each people were allowed five mugs of draught beer, but not everyone could finish them . Those who couldn’t finish would usually sell their remaining quota away .

In any case, Yuan Zhou did not prohibit people from sharing their quota with others since he only had that much liquor offered . When it was finished, it would be finished for the night .

Because of that, a small business activity had formed . Those who managed to get a number to drink at night would pay for the maximum quota allowed per person . Then, that person would drink one mug of beer before selling the remaining four mugs .

Of course, since three numbers would be given each day, this did not have too big of an impact . Nobody was intentionally marking up the price of their remaining mugs as well .

And thus, Chen Wei got to drink more instead of less . But since more and more people were fighting for the numbers nowadays, it had gotten harder for him to get one .

“Keep making up stories . Aren’t you the one here every single day pestering people for liquor?” Wu Hai countered without hesitation . “I can’t even be bothered to deal with someone like you . “

“Get lost, Shameless Wu . You dare say that I am pestering people for liquor? How about you pestering people for food?” Chen Wei said, feeling somewhat embarrassed when he was called out .

“That is my human nature,” Wu Hai replied . “There are things that when saw, my hand will go over automatically . I can’t help it . “

“Where’s your sense of shame?” Chen Wei was speechless .

“Now you are inviting criticism to yourself . How many times have I told you? I don’t know shame . I don’t know shame . Why do you keep asking me? Why are you forcing something I don’t need on me?” Wu Hai complained resentfully while rubbing his mustache and frowning .

“Fine, you win,” Chen Wei admitted defeat .