Chapter 817 - The Alcohol Tonight Isnt Intoxicating (1/2)

Mug after mug of beer was downed by Yuan Zhou.

In a short while, Yuan Zhou finished the three mugs of beer. The more he drank, the more bitter he felt. However, he wasn’t the least bit intoxicated.

He went to the bar and got two additional mugs. Five mugs of draught beer were the maximum limit he had set for himself. After all, it was unhealthy to drink too much.

The two mugs did not last long. In a few minutes, they were finished by Yuan Zhou as well.

“Has my liquor capacity increased along with my cooking skill?” Yuan Zhou muttered as he stared at the empty mugs with a tiny layer of foam at the bottom.

In the past, after five mugs of beer, he would start getting giddy. Although he wouldn’t be so drunk that he would lose consciousness, he had never been a person with good liquor capacity.

It would seem like Yuan Zhou had inherited none of his father’s liquor loving DNA. When he thought of his father, he recalled how his father used to enjoy a drink or two every day after the restaurant was closed.

Today, Yuan Zhou felt like his hidden talent for liquor drinking had awakened. He was still sober, even soberer than he usually was. All his senses were feeling extremely sharp.

With his eyes, he could see a father and daughter preparing to close their BBQ stall after a night of work.

With his ears, he could hear a husband and wife scolding their son who had gotten a bad result at school.

With his nose, he could smell a dense fragrance of liquor and bamboo leaves.

His elbows rested on the stone table, but none of the chilly sensations of the stone table could be felt as his body temperature had warmed the spot where his elbows rested.

As he thought of this, Yuan Zhou suddenly smiled proudly. Although the tables and chairs were all provided by the system, the layout and positioning were a result of his hard work.

After he finished the five mugs of beer, he went and took five additional mugs. The liquor tonight did not seem intoxicating.

From this, one could see how good it was to be the boss. He could drink as much as he wanted and nobody could do anything about it. Yuan Zhou only needed to pay the system and the system would not say anything.

Yuan Zhou drank much slower this time. Although the beer was not intoxicating, it was still very filling.

He could finish a mug of beer in about seven or eight chugs. Of course, just drinking was quite boring. Therefore, Yuan Zhou would occasionally keep the beer in his mouth and only swallow it after the beer was warm.

And with how he was drinking, the beer felt even more bitter.

“It has been a long time since I have gotten to see the sky filled with stars in the city,” Yuan Zhou raised his head and gazed at the night sky after his eighth mug of beer. The sky was a curtain of black with only a moon hanging there.

The sole moon did not give off a desolate feeling. Rather, it looked pretty. Even without any stars on the sky, there was still a moon to be gazed upon.

A few days ago, Yuan Zhou received news that Taoxi Road was going to be demolished. But due to the existence of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, the plan had been postponed.

Suddenly, Yuan Zhou had an amusing thought. The system had wrapped the underground with steel. He wondered if the demolishing squad would be able to do anything about that.

While he mused of random subjects, Yuan Zhou finished the final two mugs.

In a single night, he alone finished 10 mugs of beer. Finally, he understood one thing. It was not scary to be drunk after drinking, it was scary to be soberer the more one drank.

Yuan Zhou wanted to continue drinking, but he did not do that. He muttered to himself, “I can’t keep drinking, lest I have a hangover tomorrow. I still need to open the restaurant tomorrow.”

He could no longer drink, yet he did not feel like going to his bedroom. Therefore, he took his mobile phone out. He was bored out of his mind and was thinking of calling someone for a chat.

He had a lot of numbers in his contact list. But after scrolling up and down, he could not find anyone he could actually talk with.