Chapter 376: Brother
When she pushed the door open, Cheng Luo, a fox and others were sitting under a tree chatting.
Cheng Wuchou smiled and said, "Are you done?"
She replied, “Almost.”
As she spoke, Tao Zi's eyes fell on the ravaged little fox. She tutted and said, "Master Cheng, can you let go of my demon pet?"
Cheng Luo handed the little fox over and said with a smile, "This fox feels good."
She casually responded, "It's good."
The little fox looked at her resentfully. She stroked its fur and continued, "But it's not yours after all. It's not good to act so recklessly."
Cheng Luo laughed and pointed to a chair beside him: "Sit down."
She sat down.
"Your name now is... Tao Zi?"
Tao Zi replied calmly, "Yes, I hope Senior Brother Cheng doesn't let anything slip."
He smiled and said, "Not really. I still have some reflexes. But I never thought you could survive."
She said directly: "I thought you would be surprised that I was framed."
Hearing this, Cheng Luo's smile suddenly revealed a bit of strangeness, and he said: "It is a bit unexpected, but the surprising thing is that you didn't go along with it."
Tao Zi looked over in surprise, and within a few seconds she figured out what was going on. She asked, "Do you know about Qing Lan and the alien race?"
"I know a little bit."
She changed her sitting position in silence before asking, "Do the other two sects and four schools know about this?"
Cheng Luo nodded and said, "Only a few people know."
Tao Zi clenched her fists, thinking of those people who accused her that day, and said, "Wang Xu doesn't seem to know."
He paused and said, "Wangxu is too clear-headed and pedantic. How could the Sword Sect tell him? In fact, there are only a few people in the three sects and four gates who know this."
She didn't know what she was thinking of, so she burst out laughing and said, "So in the eyes of those people, I am in cahoots with Qinglan?"
"I don't know how much they know, but in my eyes, it's true. When your story got out, I thought you were accidentally discovered and you were pushed out as a discarded pawn."
Tao Zi laughed sarcastically and said, "I used to think I had a tight rein on the Ming Lan Sect, but I never imagined something like this would happen right under my nose. How ridiculous."
Cheng Luo smiled and said, "Not really. You really control it very strictly, otherwise he wouldn't have died."
She raised an eyebrow and looked over: "Hmm?"
"Ever since you told me, sir, I've done some research and discovered that in the years since your death, the Minglan Sect has experienced more than five times as many unusual incidents as when you were alive. Simply put, they've become more frequent. Sir, I suspect they're framing you out of fear that you'll discover something's amiss, and because they're disgusted with you for trying to stop them."
Cheng Wuchou snorted and said, "The Minglan Sect is truly cowardly, and Qinglan is truly foolish, actually collaborating with a foreign race."
Cheng Luo had just taken a sip of tea and choked when he heard this.
Tao Zi's eyes were strange for a moment, and she said, "You, Xujiamen... huh?"
He immediately said, "I cannot coexist with alien races!"
She smiled and jokingly said, "I didn't deny it."
Cheng Luo coughed and said seriously, "Sister Wuyou, you should focus on Minglan Sect."
Cheng Wuchou poured a cup of tea and reminded her, "She is my sister, yes, but she is older than you. You should call her Sister Wuyou."
He stared at Tao Zi for three seconds, thinking of the years of fighting, and said decisively: "Dream on!"
Tao Zi smiled and said, "It's okay, Brother Cheng. I understand why you're unhappy."
Watching Cheng Luo walk away in a huff, Cheng Wuchou asked in confusion, "Is the hatred between you and him so deep? But didn't you have a good chat just now?"
She took a sip of tea and said, "It's mainly about the address. The friendly atmosphere just now was purely because I called him Senior Brother Cheng."
"Um?"
"The senior brothers and sisters of the three sects and four schools all call each other Senior Brother, Senior Sister, or Fellow Daoist. People like Wangxu simply call the Young Sect Master, and only when there's a huge gap in strength will they call each other Junior Brother or Junior Sister. I called him Senior Brother Cheng. Logically, he should also call me Senior Sister Yue or Fellow Daoist Yue. But he refused to do so and insisted on calling me Junior Sister. Later, when his strength improved, I beat him up every time I saw him, and still called him Junior Brother Cheng. It can be said that the Xujia Sect and the Minglan Sect have both public and private hatreds."
Cheng Wuchou's mouth twitched as he said, "Brother Luo really deserved a beating when he was young, but he's much better now."
She nodded in agreement: "Indeed, but the feud has already begun."
He held his forehead and laughed, saying, "It's okay, he will call you Senior Sister obediently in the future. If he refuses, I will make him call you Sister."
Tao Zi was surprised and asked, "Will he listen to you? Won't the leader of Xujia Sect have any objections?"
Cheng Wuchou said casually: "Outsiders all think that Cheng Luo is the next leader of Xujia Sect, but they have never thought about why Xujia Sect has not yet announced him as the young leader."
She was dazed for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at him in shock.
He smiled and said rather subtly, "I've never been interested in these things, but my position beside the Master is much higher than Cheng Luo's, and the Sect Master has always been respectful to the Master."
Tao Zi looked at him with a complicated expression, and finally said, "Could this sect leader also be from the Cheng family?"
Cheng Wuchou nodded with a smile and said, "Both the Sect Master and Cheng Luo are from the Cheng family, but they are not from the same branch as you and I."
"Is it the main branch of the Cheng family?"
He faded his smile and said, "The Cheng family has been destroyed too many times, and there is no real main branch anymore. The branch in the center of the continent is called the main branch because they were the only ones found back then."
Tao Zi hesitated and asked, "The Cheng family has been destroyed so many times, was it an accident?"
"Every time it seems like it's an accident or bad luck, but we always feel like something is wrong. We searched and searched, but couldn't find the answer. It wasn't until you told us that time that we finally had a clue." Cheng Wuchou looked up at the sky and said, "Xujia Sect has been hiding its relationship with the Cheng family for years, and few people know the true origins of the Cheng family."
The little fox suddenly said, "Would it be helpful if the relationship between Xujiamen and the Cheng family was made public?"
He sighed and said, "Impossible. Xujia Sect has many enemies. The Cheng family will be safer if they hide behind them. What's more, the one who wants to attack the Cheng family is..."
Cheng Wuchou concealed the rest of his words. The other man and the fox also knew what he meant and remained silent.
The little fox muttered, "It's really interesting that they didn't touch the Xujia Sect, but instead touched a small family."
He casually replied, "Asahi Kamon isn't that easy to move."
Tao Zi narrowed her eyes and slowly said, "Don't tell me that it can't move the Xujia Sect, so it will move the Cheng Family. That's impossible, right?"
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