From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The implication was that he wouldn't be able to ask his cousin for advice anytime soon.

"That's it."

Lin Jiu planned to take Wen Cai along to test his abilities.

at this time.

Jiang Liu walked over and said to Lin Jiu, "Uncle Jiu, I have some insights, would you like to hear them?"

"Appreciate further details."

Lin Jiu had also heard about this kid's performance at Wang Yaozu's withdrawal ceremony from Quanxing, and after meeting him yesterday, he personally experienced his eloquence.

"Foreigners are people too. I saw that Western-style teahouse yesterday. There were a lot of desserts on the counter, so they must like sweets. I guess the tea is either sweet or bitter, but they use sugar to neutralize it."

And since everyone has different tastes, the differences shouldn't be too great. If it's too bitter, add sugar; if it's too sweet, add water, then stir it up—it's that simple.

Thinking of the scene in "Mr. Vampire" where they drank Western tea, Jiang Liu knew perfectly well that Ren Tingting, who had returned from the West, wanted to tease the master and apprentice, while Ren Fa looked down on them from the bottom of his heart.

As the wealthiest man in Renjia Town, how could Ren Fan not know whether Lin Jiu had ever drunk coffee?

If Ren Fa truly wanted to invite Lin Jiu for tea, he should have prepared coffee for Lin Jiu and Wen Cai upon their arrival, instead of watching them make a fool of themselves while pretending nothing was wrong.

Hearing Jiang Liu say this, Lin Jiu suddenly realized, then wondered, "Adding sugar when it's bitter, adding water when it's too sweet, and stirring it—isn't this the kind of trick used to coax children into drinking herbal medicine?"

Are foreigners really that naive?

What if this method were applied to "tea drinking"?

"Uncle Jiu, although we are behind the West, foreigners are far superior to us in terms of food."

Jiang Liu said confidently, "If you're drinking Western tea, just drink the sugar water the same way you would drink tea normally. Besides, drinking tea isn't your main purpose, is it?"

"Yes!"

Lin Jiu slapped his forehead, then remembered.

He went to have Western tea with Ren Fa in the afternoon, but it was to discuss the specifics of the relocation of the grave, not to actually drink tea. Now, in order not to lose face when drinking tea, he even came to ask Lu Jin and Jiang Liu for advice, showing no spirit or energy of a cultivator at all!

"Thanks for the reminder, young man!"

Lin Jiu finally understood why Ghost Hand King had left Quanxing for this child; he was truly a promising talent for cultivation!

And he sees things very clearly!

"Uncle Jiu, why thank me? If you hadn't taught my master a lesson back then, he might not have realized his mistake and decided to leave Quanxing."

Jiang Liu flattered, "Besides, why should a cultivator express gratitude? We are the same person!"

"Absolutely!"

Lin Jiu, flattered, became smug again. He took Jiang Liu's hand and said, "Speaking of which, I'm acquainted with that Ghost Hand King. Why don't you come with me for some Western tea?"

"Forehead···"

Jiang Liu refused, suggesting that he should bring Wen Cai along instead. After all, what kind of master goes for tea without bringing his disciple, but instead brings an outsider along?

Even if Wencai didn't say it, he must have had opinions in his heart.

Hearing Jiang Liu's words, Lin Jiu finally realized what was going on, but admired Jiang Liu even more, and suddenly asked, "You haven't joined the Sanyi Sect, have you?"

"Although I obtained the method of reversing life, I did not actually become a disciple."

Jiang Liu knew Lin Jiu's thoughts, so he continued, "However, I want to travel all over the country and see the world with my own eyes."

Lin Jiu understood the implication, sighed, and smiled, "Thank you for your guidance this time, young brother. After discussing the time for relocating the grave with Ren Fa, I will go to that area to take a look and see if there are any traces of a feng shui master."

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Uncle Jiu."

Jiang Liu bowed in return, expressing his gratitude.

After seeing Lin Jiu off, Lu Jin asked curiously, "Brother Jiang, do you really know how to drink Western tea?"

"Of course I will."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Liu, like Lin Jiu, revealed his vanity. His mind raced and his thoughts wandered. He released Jin Gong and waved his hand, saying, "After you finish your morning exercise, I'll take you to drink Western tea."

"I've never tried Western tea before. I wonder what it tastes like compared to traditional Chinese tea?"

Li Muxuan also had high hopes. After all, the area around Sanyimen was quite traditional and there were no Western-style shops. If the Western tea tasted really good, he might be able to buy some to take back to Master Zuo and his father to try.

Lu Jin had similar thoughts.

"Taste? Didn't I already say? It's bitter and sweet," Jiang Liu said.

"Are there any sour or spicy ones?"

Li Muxuan rolled his eyes. "Drinking Western tea and contemplating a person's life, you're something else! You've got a whole bunch of grand theories to back you up!"

"They're all the same."

Jiang Liu smiled and didn't argue. After finishing his morning exercise, he stopped practicing, calmed his breathing, and further improved his combination of the Eight Directions Reversal and the Ninefold Rebirth.

For him now, these two techniques, along with the innate talisman diagram, are fundamental cultivation methods. Once the five spirits are gathered, and he uses the mystical arts within him to calculate and simulate, he hopes to integrate these three techniques into one…

# Chapter 79 The Moon Is Rounder Abroad

"Brother Jiang!"

Just as the three of them left the Ren residence and were about to head to the Western-style teahouse to sample some Western tea and inquire about the feng shui master from the other people in town, Jiang Liu's ears twitched as he heard a voice coming from behind him.

It's Ren Jiating.

Beside him followed a woman dressed in a Western-style dress with a lapel, off-the-shoulder design, and high heels. She was also carrying a small white umbrella, and her delicately made-up face made her look like a life-size, moving doll.

Without a doubt, this is Mr. Ren's other daughter, and also Ren Jiating's younger sister: Ren Tingting.

Hello.

Ren Tingting walked gracefully to the three of them, put away her umbrella, lifted the hem of her skirt on both sides, and squatted down slightly towards them.

"Hello, Ms. Ren!"

Jiang Liu clasped his hands in a fist salute.

Lu Jin had never seen anything like this before. Not knowing how to return the courtesy, he could only imitate Jiang Liu's manner.

Li Muxuan was the same.

"You're the magician Dad was talking about?"

Ren Tingting looked Jiang Liu up and down to make sure he was just a teenager. She then glanced at Li Muxuan and Lu Jin, paying particular attention to Lu Jin.

Simply put, these days, a child with naturally gray-brown hair and delicate features is truly rare.

“Miss Ren, I am indeed a magician. At your birthday banquet, I will perform a magic trick called ‘Reversing the Eight Directions,’ which will definitely delight you,” Jiang Liu said with a smile.

"Really? Hopefully it can rival Western magic."

Ren Tingting was slightly surprised by Jiang Liu's confidence, but she nodded slightly, indicating that she would look forward to it.

"Western magic? I've heard of it, but it mostly relies on props and techniques, which are completely different from the magic tricks I perform."

Jiang Liu replied calmly, then asked Ren Jiating, "How is Aunt Xiuhua Bai?"

"My cousin? She's already found a job. She's quite an extraordinary woman, with a stronger will than many other people with unusual abilities."

Speaking of Xiuhua Bai, Ren Jiating has to admire him.

If she were captured by bandits, forced to become their wife, and even had a child, she couldn't guarantee that she would regain her former spirit after being rescued.

But what about her cousin?

She had already recovered most of her health back in Goose City, and now that she's come to the Ren family, she's even less willing to freeload off them. Plus, she's good at accounting, so this morning she went with her father to one of the Ren family's properties to work as an accountant.

"She is truly a resolute and extraordinary woman."

Xiuhua Bai's mentality is just like Baihua Xiu in "Journey to the West". Even after being oppressed and having a child, she still refuses to truly accept her fate.

But ultimately, art must originate from life.

"My aunt is really something. She's suffered so much, and Dad can support her, yet she still has to find a job," Ren Tingting complained.

Originally, she had planned to take her cousin to visit a newly opened Western clothing store in Renjia Town this morning, but she didn't expect that her cousin would get up early and ask her father for a job as an accountant.

So, she decided to settle for second best and try to find her older sister, whom she hadn't seen for many years.

Unexpectedly, her eldest sister had no interest in shopping for clothes. Like Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, and Li Muxuan, she got up early in the morning and practiced kung fu in the open space outside the room.

Besides being boring, she also thought these skills were useless, outdated, and should be thrown into the dustbin of history.

However, she was also worldly-wise and knew that these words should not be said in front of others. But having studied abroad, she looked down on her fellow countrymen to some extent.

Including her sister, whom she hadn't seen for many years: Ren Jiating.

The latter felt that she, as the older sister, couldn't connect with her younger sister who had studied abroad, and they didn't share any common interests. Feeling extremely helpless, she thought that Jiang Liu and the others would stay until after her sister's birthday, so she decided to have them take care of Ren Tingting.

"Let's not talk about that."

Ren Jiating said, "Little sister, we haven't been back to Renjia Town for many years. The town has changed a lot. I bet you wouldn't recognize it. Let's take a good look around today! Jiang Liu and the others are my friends. They'll come with us. If we encounter any trouble on the way, they can help us out."

"I feel the changes are quite minor."

Ren Tingting complained, then started talking about what she had seen and heard abroad, "Compared to foreign countries, we are so backward here. The houses are short, and the clothes are cheap. The houses abroad are so tall, there are buildings over fifty or a hundred meters tall everywhere. And there are foreigners, those working people, all wearing suits and ties. There are cars on the road. Here, you can only often see bicycles in larger cities..."

Throughout the journey, Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, Li Muxuan, and Ren Jiating all listened to Ren Tingting's complaints and nitpicking.

However, she only complained verbally; in reality, she was quite willing to go shopping with her sister, whom she hadn't seen for many years.

Walking behind the two women, Li Muxuan muttered under his breath, "Ren Tingting looks to be only around twenty years old, why is she so gossipy? Is the moon really brighter in foreign countries than here?"

"Can't you?"

Lu Jin wasn't sure either. "There's only one moon in the sky, the same in the East and the West. How could the moon be rounder in a foreign country? It must be just as round."

"This is not a question of whether the moon is round or not."

Hearing the two boys actually discussing how many moons there are in the sky, Jiang Liu laughed and reminded them, "They are yearning for a more developed and advanced world."

Bicycles, cars, skyscrapers, traffic lights, and so on—you two, one from the Lu family and the other studying at a school in the Sanyimen area under the tutelage of the learned Mr. Dongshan, must have learned about them in the book.

But this second young lady of the Ren family had witnessed it with her own eyes!

I've also experienced life abroad!