"I understand."
Lin Ke nodded and smiled. "Our mothers were equally great."
It did not matter how someone earned their money.
When their children received it, all they knew was that it was money their parents had given them.
So what if they held prostitute status?
Lin Ke did not know what this accountant, who looked to be in his thirties, had been through.
But he could imagine how difficult it had been for Pei Qian to become a First Realm cultivator of the Eclectic School before the New Rites were promulgated.
Although he was only in the First Realm, he must have put in hundreds or thousands of times more effort than those in the Noble Registry who reached the same realm.
Unfortunately, choosing a steward was important. Lin Ke could not make his choice on sympathy alone; he still needed someone suitable.
For instance, the next candidate, the Fortune-Teller.
"What about you?" Lin Ke looked at the last man.
Since transmigrating to the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty, he had yet to meet a true Fortune-Teller.
He wondered whether the Fortune-Tellers here could discern his past.
"Fate decreed that I should be here," replied the Fortune-Teller, who held an eight-trigram disk, with a pure copper bell hanging at his waist and a wooden divination-stick holder strapped to his back.
Fate decreed it?
Lin Ke raised an eyebrow. "I would like to hear the details."
"Fate cannot be spoken of." The Fortune-Teller shook his head, then briefly revealed his aura.
The Third Realm!
A Third Realm Fortune-Teller of the Yin-Yang School!
Moreover, his aura seemed to have already brushed against the Fourth Realm. Perhaps he would break through before long!
"Master, you may call me Zhuge Li. I cultivate both the path of the Yin-Yang School and the fundamental Great