Chapter 211: The Zhang Family Searches for Someone

Tao Zi listened to her talking about family stories, but was thinking about other things.

The grandfather that Cheng Anran mentioned should be about the same age as Grandma Huang. So, why didn't Cheng Wuchou go to find Grandma Huang back then, but directly chose someone from other branches?

She asked casually, "Has your family always been arranged according to the character 'An'?"

"Yes, my older sister's name is Anping, and my older brother's name is Anjing."

Tao Zi knocked on the table, and out of consideration for the monk in the dark, she did not continue asking.

After dinner, she asked persistently, "Sister Tao, are you really not interested in my brother?"

Tao Zi smiled and said, "I'm a cultivator and won't get married easily. An Ran, have you told your second brother about your attitude?"

When Cheng Anran mentioned this, she became listless: "I did, but my second brother told me not to make a fuss."

Tao Zi listened patiently to her talk. After Han Yueshan's crazy hints, she finally signaled An Ran to calm down and said, "An Ran."

"Hey! Sister Tao, have you changed your mind?" Cheng Anran looked at her with bright eyes.

Under her delighted gaze, Tao Zi remained calm and said, "No, I heard there was an auction recently. Do you know what it is?"

She felt lost for a moment, then cheered up and said, "That was held by the Li family. It is said that there are many treasures and even spiritual weapons."

Tao Zi asked, "Are there any techniques or skills?"

Cheng Anran said without hesitation: "Yes, there must be, but I don't know what level it is."

She smiled and said, "Okay, thank you very much."

Han Yueshan wanted to speak more, but was stopped by the look of his senior sister. After Cheng Anran left, Li Xiu used a soundproofing device and said, "Sister Tao, do you have any plans?"

"Yes." She nodded. "Yueshan and the others will need some skills after they enter the Foundation Establishment Stage. We'd better prepare them as soon as possible."

The Flower Monk was stunned: "Didn't your master teach you the technique?"

"No, I only gave him a book of techniques."

This technique even has some mistakes, Tao Zi complained in her heart.

Li Xiu immediately realized a problem: "You don't have any skills?"

Tao Zi nodded calmly: "That's right, I didn't use any skills."

Looking at the dazed expressions of the two people in front of him, the little fox asked, "Is the human race's skills important?"

"Let me give you an analogy," Flower Monk said. "Without a technique, the spiritual energy you absorb will overflow and won't be able to gather in your dantian. With a technique, not only will the speed of spiritual energy absorption increase, the spiritual energy will circulate more regularly, and it can also improve its condensation."

Han Yueshan blurted out: "But Senior Sister is a physical cultivator."

"There is no difference. In fact, physical cultivators need better techniques because their spiritual veins are usually not as good as those of ordinary cultivators."

Li Xiu said quietly, "This is the first time I've heard that a cultivator without any cultivation techniques can advance."

Everyone looked at Tao Zi with complicated expressions, and she smiled calmly.

Xi Jing praised without thinking: "Senior Sister is Senior Sister, ordinary people can't compare to her at all."

The other two brothers followed.

Li Xiu thought of another problem: "But the technique consumes a lot of spirit stones."

Han Yueshan pondered, "What do you think? Can we cheat... No, I mean, can we get the second daughter of the Cheng family to help us out a little?"

Zhao Xue hesitated to speak: "Brother, you are too..."

"But we have no money, and Senior Brother Li has spent all his money." Han Yueshan said helplessly, "We can see if there is anything we can exchange."

"For example, I can copy down one or two of my talisman books and exchange them for spirit stones." Xi Jing's eyes sparkled. "It's so rare not to make some money when you finally meet a rich man."

Tao Zi stopped Xi Jing's idea: "No need to do that, I have spirit stones."

Everyone looked over, Li Xiu's gaze was the most deadly.

She calmly explained, "I met a good friend on the road. She's very rich and told me to tell her if I have any money."

Xi Jing asked suspiciously, "Senior Sister, are you sure you're not talking about Senior Brother Li?"

Tao Zi smiled and said, "That can't be the case. An Ran said that the auction will be held in ten days. My friend should have time to send the money."

"Your friend..." Li Xiu hesitated to speak.

"What's wrong?"

He shook his head: "Nothing."

Tao Zi changed the subject: "Brother Xiu, where is your master? Any news?"

Li Xiu blurted out: "I almost forgot about his existence."

Everyone: ...

Looking at everyone's expressions, he touched his nose and said, "I'll go out and look for news tomorrow. If there's nothing, forget it."

Xi Jing was shocked and said, "Didn't you come here to see your master? Why did you just let it go like this?"

"Well, I found something more interesting than looking for a master. Besides, I guess the master is too lazy to pay attention to me as his apprentice."

For a moment, they didn't know whether to sympathize with his master or with him.

Tao Zi said: "Then let's go out and take a look tomorrow."

"OK."

As they were talking, Han Yueshan suddenly said, "Senior Sister, do you think these brother and sister look a bit like you?"

Tao Zi looked over in surprise: "What do you mean?"

He said, "The outline of Cheng Anran's face and Cheng Anyue's eyebrows, especially those eyes, are really similar to Senior Sister."

Zhao Xue and the others thought about it carefully and said, "It's true. They look a bit like each other."

Xi Jing added: "But none of them are as pretty as Senior Sister."

Li Xiu and Hua Seng looked at each other and chose to remain silent. After all, neither of them had seen Tao Zi's true face.

Tao Zi didn't take this matter to heart. After all, there were many people who were somewhat similar to her, and she had met many of them in the past two hundred years.

She laughed and said, "It's just a coincidence."

Li Xiu asked hesitantly, "Tao Mei, do you have any family?"

She was stunned, trying to recall what happened before she met Qinglan Tianzun, but everything was vague. She only remembered that her parents died early and her only brother also died.

Finally, she said calmly: "I am an orphan."

Li Xiu and the others exclaimed, but didn't say anything else.

The next day, they clearly felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the Cheng Mansion.

At noon, Cheng Anran hurried over and said, "One of my ancestors came back, so I couldn't take care of this side."

Li Xiu smiled and said, "It's okay. We went out for a walk this morning. I don't know what happened."

Cheng Anran smiled and said, "One of my ancestors came back to add makeup to Big Sister, and now he's gone again."

Tao Zi became interested: "Ancestor?"

"Yes, he is two hundred years older than me and is a monk."

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

"The ancestor is either cultivating or searching for someone. He had a younger sister who went missing two hundred years ago." Cheng Anran sat down on a chair and changed the subject. "By the way, the Li family sent over a list of items that will appear at the auction. Would you like to see it?"

Tao Zi smiled and said, "Look, An Ran has worked hard."