Chapter 964 - Somebody Is Planning Something. (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

“I don’t know if Boss Yuan knows about paintings. As far as I can remember, however, Shameless Wu’s paintings are not bought by Boss Yuan.”

“Of course they are not bought by Boss Yuan. That Shameless Wu pestered him, again and again, and insisted on sending them to Boss Yuan for free.”

“That’s right. That’s also what I remember. Boss Yuan was prepared to refuse them as there was no room in his restaurant. However, Wu Hai was way too troublesome, so Boss Yuan finally received them reluctantly and hang them on the ceiling.”

“According to your statement, these two paintings seem to be fairly valuable?”

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What the customers said was all true, but when it passed to Zhou Xi’s ears, it felt like a sudden lighting striking the flat ground. It was a little exaggerated to say his worldview was completely ruined.

But it was no problem to ruin his worldview. Zhou Xi looked at Zhou Shijie in disbelief. Judging from his meaningful glance, he prepared to let Zhou Shijie give him an “honest” answer.

“I don’t know about the second painting, but Wu Hai did buy back the first one by himself and then pestered Yuan Zhou, again and again, to hang it in the restaurant.” Zhou Shijie answered honestly.

However, this honesty wasn’t the one that Zhou Xi wanted. On hearing that, he straightforwardly became shocked.

Leaving This Is Life aside, the final price of People Passing by A Small Restaurant in the auction house was as high as an eight-digit number.

No kidding. It really was an eight-digit number and that was still the initial transaction price. If he were not too young and too junior, the chairman of China Oil Painting Alliance would have been him.

Zhou Xi could fully understand why Wu Hai bought back such a painting. Just like when the artist didn’t want their own satisfactory paintings to end up in someone else’s hands, he bought them back to keep them by himself.

But how was it possible that one would refuse to receive it when the other person insisted on giving it to him for free? Even if he gave it to an illiterate person, that person would receive it excitedly.

So how was it possible that nobody wanted it? The boss was even forced to receive it after Wu Hai had pestered him again and again to give it to him for free?

The only explanation was that Wu Hai had truly sent the paintings to the boss out of some unknown reasons. However, even the richest people in China wouldn’t be so generous to hang a painting worth eight-digit numbers somewhere randomly and carelessly.

To sum up, what they said was definitely untrue! Zhou Xi decided to find out the truth.

“When will Eaves Wu come to the restaurant to eat again?” Zhou Xi asked.

Zhou Shijie said, “As long as Yuan Zhou’s restaurant is open, he will eat every meal over here.”

“Good. Dad, let’s have lunch here, too. I must ask Eaves Wu about this painting personally,” said Zhou Xi.

This matter had almost come to an end, but Zhou Xi still didn’t want to leave. However, he found it inappropriate to continue staying here since the business time had ended.

Therefore, he went somewhere unknown and brought a telescope back. After that, he set it up on the street and aimed it at the ceiling. Seriously speaking, those who didn’t know about this matter must have thought that Zhou Xi was a pervert who wanted to peep at Yuan Zhou.

Yuan Zhou first tidied up the kitchen and then took a rest for a little while. After that, he began to prepare the ingredients for lunch. The conversation between Zhou Shijie and Zhou Xi just now was also heard by Yuan Zhou.

Yuan Zhou looked at the two paintings on the ceiling and muttered to himself, “The paintings turn out to be so valuable. When can I change them into money?”

Yuan Zhou felt more confident after owning the full series of Sichuan Cuisine. Actually, someone ordered a full table of All-Fish Banquet again yesterday to celebrate his child’s graduation from senior high school. It was an informal banquet called Teacher Appreciation Banquet.

Therefore, something must be prepared or arranged in advance.