His first meeting with Dr. Lan

These scholars would get to know the bio-data of everyone who came to them, and if the details were of interest to them, then a whole spate of demands and requests for favors would follow. And they would use thebio-data to impress others, to tell them what important person had come to them and when; who had benefited from their audience and how; which important person was for ever fawning over them; who had invited them home and how respectful and how deferential they had been. The scholars he had been to till now, he had never visited again and here Song Xing Xu was dragging him to another such person. They had traveled to one of the good areas of the city. The locality was respectable but not posh. There were already a lot of cars parked on that street.