Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2515 (Two Thousand Five Hundred and Fifteen) Blame

"Why didn't you tell me to go in the direction of Hongfeng Palace as before?" Tie Wandao asked.

"I thought at the time that if that happened, the clan leader and Elder Tie would have to walk a lot more distance, and I thought it would be almost the same if they walked in the opposite direction, so..."

"Isn't it almost the same? Then what's going on now?" Tie Wandao asked.

Li Pingrun said, "I think that was pretty much the situation at the time. Some things feel one way before you do them, and another way when you actually do them. Only after you do them do you realize they won't work."

"It would have been better if you had just walked in the direction you came from!" Tie Wandao said.

Li Pingrun said, "Chief, if I had asked you and Elder Tie to go to a place first and then walk with me in the direction I came from, wouldn't you think it was a waste of time and blame me?"

Li Pingrun had thought about suggesting that they walk back the direction they came from, but he felt that if he said that, Tie Wandao would not likely agree and would even blame him.

After listening to Li Pingrun's words, Tie Wandao thought: What he said is true. If he had told me that Elder Tie and I should walk to a place with him first, and then walk along the road he had walked to Hongfeng Hall, I would definitely not agree, after all, I would have to walk a lot more. But now that he has said "Will you not blame me?", I naturally cannot tell him that I would blame him if that happened, and I cannot make it seem like it was because I made him afraid to speak that this happened.

Tie Wandao said, "If you had just told me straight out, why would I blame you? I remember that you are always very courageous. You would tell me whatever you want to say. Why didn't you dare to tell me directly this time? I don't think you didn't tell me because you were afraid of me. I guess you were too lazy to walk such a long way. If you were really afraid of me, you wouldn't have told me now."

Li Pingrun thought: I don't believe that if I said this at that time, the clan leader would not blame me. The situation now is different from before. I also proposed to walk back in the direction I came from after I tried to walk backwards and it didn't work. If I hadn't tried it, I really wouldn't dare to mention it easily. The clan leader said this now, maybe because Elder Tie was present, and the clan leader didn't want Elder Tie to think that my proposal to walk back now had anything to do with him? Then... I can't easily deny the clan leader's words.

Li Pingrun looked at Tie Wandao and said nothing.

Tie Wandao said, "You have nothing to say, right? If that's the case, don't say anything. Just answer my question directly. If you walk back in the direction you came from, can you guarantee that the road you walk is the same one you walked on the way to Hongfeng Hall today?"

Li Pingrun heard Tie Wandao ask this and felt that he seemed to agree to start over, but he didn't know if he understood it correctly. He said carefully: "I can only try my best. After all, walking from that place to Hongfeng Hall is not the same as walking back from here. The clan leader and Elder Tie must be more familiar with the way to Hongfeng Hall than I am."

Tie Wandao said, "What's the point of us being familiar with it? We just know how to get to Hongfeng Palace, but there is more than one way to get there. If we tell you how to get there, doesn't that mean you're following us? What if the road we three take is not the same road you took?"

Li Pingrun didn't know what to do, so he thought about it and didn't speak immediately.

(End of this chapter)