Chapter 160 - Chapter 157: Zhou Lian's Intelligence

For the next few days, Li Xiu was relentlessly carted around to meet several of his master's old friends. All of them were men of high status and great power. Perhaps others would have been thrilled, but Li Xiu only felt exhausted. Those old men were all sly old foxes on the same level as his master. If he hadn't lived for several extra decades, he really wouldn't have been able to handle them. It wasn't that they had a problem with him; it was that every single one of them wanted him to join the government. They didn't even think about it. He had studied under his master for ten years, learning everything he should and shouldn't have. But the crucial point was that he'd never attended a single day of school. His household registration said he had an elementary school education, but that was just for show. They couldn't just write "illiterate," could they? With a background like that, what kind of government job could he possibly get?