Chapter 2573 (Two thousand five hundred and seventy-three) Take a closer look
"Yes, clan leader." Li Pingrun said, "If it weren't for such a coincidence, I wouldn't have read it wrong."
Tie Wandao glanced at Li Pingrun with dissatisfaction and said, "In my impression, you have always been honest to me."
Li Pingrun thought: What does the patriarch mean? Did he think I was dishonest to him this time? Does he think I'm lying?
Li Pingrun quickly said: "Yes, I have always been honest with the clan leader."
"Would a person 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 thought of what Tie Wandao had just told him, "No matter what it is, you have to think carefully before telling me." So he said, "Will others I don’t know, but I know I didn’t lie to the patriarch.”
Tie Wandao looked at Li Pingrun and felt that his eyes were sincere, but he felt that what he said about the tree was too coincidental. He said: "You just said that the scene you saw when you came here this time was different from what you saw the last time you came here. Did you look carefully at the two roads when you came here last time?"
"Yes." Li Pingrun said, "The last time I came to this fork in the road, I looked at the two paths on the main road and saw two trees on each of the two paths."
"Then what was the tree on the road you just walked like when you came here last time?" Tie Wandao asked.
"When I looked at it, the tree was just like an ordinary tree. The branches and trunk all looked ordinary." Li Pingrun replied.
"Go on, what happened next?" Tie Wandao said.
"Later..." Li Pingrun said, "What the patriarch asked was what I saw when we went there just now?"
"Yeah, what else could it be if it wasn't this?" Tie Wandao said.
Li Pingrun thought to himself: Didn’t the clan leader also see what I saw just now? Why is he asking me this? No matter so much, let’s answer it first.
Li Pingrun replied: "What I saw later was that the branches were on the ground."
"Is that branch the same one you saw when you came here last time?" Tie Wandao asked.
"It should be so." Li Pingrun said. "Are you sure?" Tie Wandao asked.
"I don't dare to say for sure directly, but I feel like it should be." Li Pingrun said.
"Don't you remember if they look the same?" Tie Wandao asked.
"Well... I didn't remember what the branch looked like when I first saw it." Li Pingrun said, "So I didn't have a deep impression. It can even be said that I had no impression at all."
Tie Wandao asked: "I was not impressed when I saw it for the first time. Then you saw it again just now. Do you have an impression of what you saw just now?"
"Yes." Li Pingrun said.
"Are you impressed?" Tie Wandao asked.
"It's okay." Li Pingrun replied.
Tiewan Dao said: "Describe the branch you saw."
"Describe what I just saw?" Li Pingrun asked.
"Yes, you are talking nonsense!" Tie Wandao said, "Didn't you say that you had no impression when you saw it for the first time? Then what I asked you to describe is naturally what you have an impression of. Let's just describe the second one. The first time I saw it.”
Li Pingrun described it.
At this time, Li Pingrun thought: I guess why the patriarch 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 scenery I saw before was consistent with what he saw, there were times when the content in the paintings I saw was different from what he saw.
(End of chapter)