Cloud Kun was too busy to spare any time, so Shen Le had no choice but to trouble Gu Yulin again—Gu Yulin, whom he had hounded into being run ragged, wishing he could grow three brains to think with and six arms to type and answer calls.
In any case, no matter how annoyed he was, he couldn't refuse Shen Le's calls. Even if smoke was coming out of his ears, he still had to patiently confirm every detail with Shen Le:
"You want teachers to teach you the history of the Three Kingdoms and the Wei-Jin period? One-on-one instruction? No problem. I'll submit the request, and the teachers will be in place within a week."
"You want to identify some Chinese medicinal herbs, as well as edible wild grasses?... All right, I'll submit that too and see whether there are teachers in pharmacy or botany willing to come teach."
"You want to learn... plowing? Blacksmithing? In short, the basic survival skills of an ordinary person during the Three Kingdoms and Wei-Jin period? All right... then..."
Shen Le could hear how drained he sounded, as though he were about to be squeezed dry. He hurriedly gave him some reassurance:
"I'll pay! I'll pay with Special Affairs Bureau points! One thousand points per class, how about that? Have the Special Affairs Bureau help me out—no matter who you find, put together a curriculum for me. I want to finish learning it within a month!"
Payment made everything much easier. Gu Yulin perked right up:
It wasn't that the Special Affairs Bureau couldn't afford the money. Rather, getting at least some points out of Shen Le's hands and preventing a huge pile of points from lying dormant in his account was one of Gu Yulin's tasks as well...
"No problem! Don't worry!—By