Early the next morning, a bus from the city slowly stopped outside the Breeder Association.
Three figures stepped out.
They were none other than Su Ping, Dong Muyun, and Li Shu, who was accompanying them.
Upon seeing them, a voice rang out:
"It really isn't easy getting you to ask for help!"
Yang He smiled at Su Ping. Two other figures stood beside him,
a young married woman in her twenties, not yet thirty, and a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties wearing glasses.
All three were smiling.
Su Ping chuckled too. "I had no choice. You're the only expert I know who has even a passing connection to Plant Element breeding, Brother Yang..."
Yang He hurriedly waved his hands. "No, no, no. In front of Mr. Shangguan, I don't qualify as an expert in the slightest! Come, Su Ping, let me introduce you."
He pointed at the smiling, bespectacled, scholarly-looking man in the middle.
"This is Mr. Shangguan Ye, a Senior Breeder specializing in tree-type plants, and currently the only Plant Element Senior Breeder in all of Jianghai!"
A Senior Breeder.
Su Ping's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly extended both hands.
"Hello, Mr. Shangguan. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to come. Sorry to have kept you waiting."
Shangguan Ye merely shook his head with a smile and extended his hand.
"Yang told me about your situation. I've heard of that large forest farm in the western outskirts too, but I've never had a chance to see it myself. Now that I can ride the favorable winds you and Miss Dong have brought and satisfy my curiosity, I should be thanking you."
Clearly, Senior Breeder Shangguan was refined, courteous, and very warm. Without waiting for Yang He to speak again, he took the