Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2573 (Two Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy Three) Take a Close Look

"Yes, clan leader." Li Pingrun said, "If it wasn't such a coincidence, I wouldn't have been wrong."

Tie Wandao glanced at Li Pingrun with dissatisfaction and said, "From what I remember, you have always been quite honest with me."

Li Pingrun thought: What does the clan leader mean by this? Does he think I am being dishonest this time? Does he think I am lying?
Li Pingrun quickly said, "Yes, I have always been honest with the clan leader."

"Will someone who is always honest lie because he is afraid of being blamed?" Tie Wandao asked.

Li Pingrun wanted to say "No" directly, but he immediately remembered what Tie Wandao had just said to him, "No matter what it is, you have to think it through before telling me." So he said, "I don't know if others would do the same, but I know I didn't lie to the clan leader."

Tie Wandao looked at Li Pingrun and felt that his eyes were sincere, but he also felt that the tree thing he said was too coincidental. He said, "You just said that the scene you saw when you came here this time was different from the last time you came. Did you look carefully at the two roads when you came last time?"

"Yes." Li Pingrun said, "The last time I came to this fork in the road, I looked at the two paths from the main road and saw two trees on each path."

"So what did the tree look like on the road you walked on last time you came here?" Tie Wandao asked.

"When I saw it, the tree looked just like an ordinary tree. The branches and the trunk all looked very normal," Li Pingrun replied.

"Go on, what happened next?" Tie Wandao said.

"Later..." Li Pingrun said, "Is the clan leader asking about what I saw when we went there just now?"

"Yeah, what else could it be if not this?" Tie Wandao said.

Li Pingrun thought: Didn't the clan leader also see what I saw just now? Why is he asking me this? No matter what, I'll answer it first.

Li Pingrun replied: "Later, I saw the branches on the ground."

"Is that branch the one you saw when you came here last time?" Tie Wandao asked.

"That should be it." Li Pingrun said. "Are you sure?" Tie Wandao asked.

"I dare not say for sure directly, but I feel it should be the case." Li Pingrun said.

"Don't you remember whether they look the same?" Tie Wandao asked.

"This... I didn't remember what the branch looked like when I first saw it." Li Pingrun said, "So I don't have a deep impression. I can even say that I have no impression at all."

Tie Wandao asked, "You didn't have any impression when you saw it for the first time, but you saw it again just now. Do you have any impression of what you saw just now?"

"Yes." Li Pingrun said.

"Is it impressive?" Tie Wandao asked.

"It's okay." Li Pingrun replied.

Tie Wandao said: "Describe the branch you saw."

"Describe what I just saw?" Li Pingrun asked.

"Yeah, that's nonsense!" Tie Wandao said, "Didn't you say you didn't have any impression of it the first time you saw it? Then what I asked you to describe is naturally what you remember. Just describe what it looked like the second time you saw it just now."

Li Pingrun gave a description.

At this time, Li Pingrun thought: I guess why the clan leader asked me this even though he had already seen it. He probably wanted to know whether the scene I saw was consistent with what he saw. Although the actual scene I saw before was consistent with what he saw, there were cases where the content of the painting I saw was different from what he saw.

(End of this chapter)