Shen Le: Insufficient Manpower, Overlong Schedule, Who Can I Find to Help Out? (Seeking Final Monthly Votes)

"Three months?"

Shen Le chuckled. He raised one eyebrow slightly, looked at Alloy Master, and gave him a look that said, "I'll let you figure it out yourself."

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Alloy Master paused for a moment, stepped back half a pace, examined the Buddha statue carefully, then turned his head to look at the scroll laid flat in the cabinet nearby, contemplating how much time they had spent restoring it.

The scroll had already begun to hum:

[Three months? How could three months ever be enough! Look at how many months it took to fix me! Look at me!]

"There, there..."

"Yes, yes, I remember now—I'm sorry, it's my fault. I kept you in such poor condition before, causing you so much damage—"

Alloy Master sighed, walked over to coax the scroll, offering comfort and sweet words. After fussing for a long time, he squatted back down beside the Buddha statue to study it for a while longer before offering a new estimate:

"A year should be enough, right?"

"A year might not even be enough." Shen Le sighed. He opened his laptop, quickly logged into CNKI, and downloaded a paper to show Alloy Master:

"Look, after the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, they conducted a survey of cultural relics in that region and determined that the Thousand-Hand Guanyin statue at the Dazu Rock Carvings required emergency restoration.

Then, the preliminary exploration lasted from 2008 to 2009, and various restoration trials ran from 2009 to 2013. Just the process of testing how to reapply the gold foil took three rounds alone.

By the time the restoration was finished, it was June 2015. It took seven full years from start to finish!"

As a side note, the big shot who gave the final approval to list the Dazu Rock Carvings restoration