Chapter 2497 (two thousand four hundred and ninety-seven) just now
Tie Jinjue said: "After we talked some more, he told me that he originally felt sorry for getting lost, but he saw the 'thorny thing' I drew and remembered that he had lost his way on the way here. I’ve seen something similar to it, so I don’t feel so sorry.”
"What's so strange about the similarity? Many cacti look similar. He's really rare and strange!" Tie Wandao said.
Tie Jinjue continued: "At that time, I was very curious about why he called 'cactus' a 'thorny thing'. I even wondered if it was because I couldn't draw it like it, but I didn't think so. I also thought about whether it was one of their alchemists. It was not appropriate to say the word 'cactus' in a certain situation, so I used 'thorny things' to refer to cactus, but I felt that I had never heard of this before, so I pointed to the cactus in the painting and asked him: ' What did you call it just now? ' He told me that he just called it 'thorny thing'. I asked him if the alchemist couldn't just call it by that name, and he actually told me that if he knew its name, he would. Called the name, but he didn’t know what it was called.”
Tie Wandao said: "I don't even know Cactus, so he is pretending to be stupid, right? Not only does he think I have no brains, but he also thinks you don't have any brains either?"
"He smiled awkwardly at the time. It gave me the impression that he was a little embarrassed because he didn't know the name of the thing. From his expression, I felt that he really didn't know." Tie Jinjue said.
"How could he not know about cactus?" Tie Wandao asked.
"I'm very strange too!" Tie Jinjue said, "I asked him if he had never seen this kind of thing before. He said he had seen it before, and also said he had just seen it when he got lost today. I said I was asking 'before' ’ and asked him if he had seen this thing before when he was lost today. He shook his head and told me that he had never seen it before, and that he had only seen a limited number of things.”
"How is that possible? These words are too...you won't believe such words, will you?" Tie Wandao said to Tie Jinjue.
Tie Jinjue said: "I thought it was really strange at the time! After all, cacti are not uncommon in the Tiecang tribe. I thought he must have seen cacti at his age. But the way he spoke to me at that time really didn't look like he was deliberately lying. I I could see that he felt embarrassed. I asked him if he liked to joke with others, and he said to me with a puzzled look on his face: "Are you kidding?" I told him something related to joking, and then he actually said I said he also likes people who like to joke, but he didn’t joke. He also asked me why I said he was joking and whether he said something wrong.”
Tie Wandao thought to himself: Elder Tie said that he was joking, not that he was talking nonsense. He really gave him enough face, and he still didn't admit it!
Tie Jinjue continued: "I asked him to recall what he said before, and he asked me what the words he said made me think he was joking. I said it had to do with 'thorny things' At that time, he was stunned and told me that this was the first time he saw something with thorns. He didn't know its name. He also said something like, "It made Elder Tie laugh!" He had never seen it, so he really didn’t know, and later he said that sometimes it’s embarrassing to know so little. From his expression at that time, I felt that he really didn’t know the name of what he was talking about.” (End of Chapter)