flstandardbreds Chapter 106
Chapter 106
"But Lao Sun, what I sent you wasn't a 3D print or a figurine, but sugar art."
"Sugar art?"
Sun Ming was taken aback, then sneered.
"Wang Yuquan, have you forgotten what I do for a living?"
"He's the head of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Bureau."
Wang Yuquan shrugged, somewhat disdainfully.
"Therefore, I know sugar art, this intangible cultural heritage, better than anyone else. In the entire country of China, there is only one person who can make sugar art to this level."
"Mr. Chen."
Wang Yuquan answered quickly.
"You know it's Old Chen. He's quite old now, and he rarely leaves his post except for important occasions like state banquets."
Seeing Sun Ming's aggressive demeanor, Wang Yuquan smiled smugly. He was eager to see Sun Ming's expression when he sent him the screen recording of Su Yu's live stream.
"Just wait to be proven wrong."
Wang Yuquan retaliated, saying he decided to wait until Sun Ming had finished speaking before sending the video!
It's worth noting that during this period, Sun Ming scrapped a total of five souvenir designs for the panda nursery.
Paper cutting?
That's so cliché!
……
Wood carving?
The construction time is too long, so it's not suitable for widespread adoption!
……
Sand painting?
Too low shelf life!
……
"Wang Yuquan, this is your last chance. If you still can't come up with a good plan in two days, then we'll have to give this opportunity to other zoos."
Sun Ming issued an ultimatum.
Wang Yuquan pouted: "Old Sun, can't you have sugar art skills like Old Chen's?"
Sun Ming took it as Wang Yuquan making excuses and snorted coldly: "Anyone who can make sugar art to this level must be at least a grandmaster. In the entire Dragon Kingdom, only Elder Chen can reach this level of skill."
"Not always."
Wang Yuquan patiently guided him.
"Hey, you're getting excited, aren't you?"
Sun Mingzhen is really angry.
"I'm not just being dramatic; I'm just making a reasonable guess based on the facts. Besides, I saw someone make this panda out of sugar with my own eyes."
Wang Yuquan was not to be outdone.
"Alright, since you say you saw it, bring the person over here. If someone can make sugar art so skillfully, our Intangible Cultural Heritage Bureau should just enshrine him."
Sun Ming simply refused to believe it.
It's not that he's confident; it's just that those arts that can be included in intangible cultural heritage are either difficult to learn, or there's no one to teach them, or both.
If you want sugar art to reach the level shown in the photos Wang Yuquan sent, it would take at least ten or twenty years of practice to achieve.
"Do you think I'm stupid? I wouldn't recommend someone to you for free."
Wang Yuquan, with a cunning look on his face, seized the opportunity to propose conditions.
"Want to know who it is? No problem, but you have to agree to one condition: give priority to our center for cultural and creative projects next quarter, and increase our budget by 10%."
Sun Ming sneered and readily agreed: "No problem? But if this person doesn't exist, your center can just wait."
What kind of cultural and creative project is this?
What budget percentage!
All of them are gone.
"I've sent you the video."
Wang Yuquan sent the video with a smug look on his face. Sun Ming opened the video and saw Su Yu sitting there making sugar.
only……
"It looks so perfunctory."
Sun Ming sighed.
He was boiling sugar with one hand and playing games with the other.
It reminded him of his youth, when he was sent to the countryside and the village committee ladies cooked meals together in a communal pot.
Sun Ming continued watching and discovered that whether it was boiling sugar, coloring...
Every step was done very roughly.
What Sun Ming didn't expect was that each seemingly perfunctory step resulted in a perfectly finished semi-finished product.
There are only two reasons for this situation.
— I was lucky.
—Or perhaps, the person in the video has reached a point where they can create such perfect finished products from any random sugar art piece.
"If it's the second one."
Sun Ming murmured.
Immediately, he called Wang Yuquan.
"Quickly, tell me who this person is!"
Sun Ming said anxiously.
Wang Yuquan grinned smugly and said sarcastically, "Oh my, who is this? Could it be Director Sun, the head of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Bureau? No way, no way, Director Sun would actually contact me!"