Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2499 (Two Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety-Nine) Itself

Tie Wandao looked at Li Pingrun at this moment, and asked Tie Jinjue: "Then what?"

"I asked him if he thought the sun I painted looked like it had just risen in the morning, or at noon, or before it set. After I heard him say that I didn't paint a cactus, I asked him this because I wanted to know if the sun I painted was really the sun in his eyes, and what it looked like."

Tie Wandao asked: "How did he react?"

"He actually said in surprise: 'The sun?'" Tie Jinjue replied.

"Does he mean he didn't see it?" Tie Wandao asked.

"That's true. When I asked him, he said he didn't see it. He also asked me if I had deliberately asked him about the sun as a joke because my subordinates had mentioned 'cactus in the sun' before." Tie Jinjue said, "When he said this, his expression was full of surprise and confusion."

Tie Wandao asked: "What did you say?"

"I said I was not joking, and told him that my subordinate said that because he saw the sun I drew. I also said: 'Are you kidding?'" Tie Jinjue said.

"What was his reaction now?" Tie Wandao asked.

Tie Jinjue recalled and said, "He smiled awkwardly and told me where the sun was on the paper."

Tie Wandao asked Li Pingrun: "Did you really not see the sun in the painting drawn by Elder Tie?"

"Yes, I didn't see it." Li Pingrun replied.

Tie Wandao thought: He seemed quite honest when he spoke. Elder Tie said that the sun was painted, and his subordinates also mentioned the sun. Why did Li Pingrun say that he couldn't see it? Could it be that the scene he saw in the painting was really different from that of others?

He asked Tie Jinjue: "What did he see? Did you ask?"

Tie Jinjue replied, "I pointed to the place on the paper where I drew the sun and asked him what it was." Tie Wandao frowned slightly and asked, "What did he say?"

Tie Jinjue said: "He said there was nothing, and then he said: 'If you insist on saying there is something, this place should be the sky, right?'"

Tie Wandao asked Li Pingrun: "Why do you say it's the sky?"

"Because that position is blank and nothing is drawn on it, but that position in the painting should be the sky," Li Pingrun replied.

Tie Wandao looked at Tie Jinjue with a puzzled look.

Tie Jin Jue Tie Wan Dao said: "I asked him what color that place was, and he told me it was the color of the paper itself. I really didn't understand, so I told him that I was asking seriously and I wasn't joking at all. He said that he was answering seriously and he wasn't joking either."

Tie Wandao thought: So, the scene in the painting that Li Pingrun saw was really different from what others saw? How could this be?
"You only feel something wrong when you look at paintings?" Tie Wandao asked Li Pingrun.

"Chief, I didn't feel anything wrong when I looked at the painting. It's just that what others said they saw in the painting was not the same as what I actually saw." Li Pingrun said.

Tie Wandao said, "But what's the difference between looking at other things besides paintings and what others see?"

"That should be the case." Li Pingrun replied.

Tie Wandao asked Li Pingrun about what he saw in the room of Bakong Palace at that moment. Li Pingrun answered truthfully. Tie Wandao found that what he saw was indeed the same as what everyone else saw.

Tie Wandao then asked Tie Jinjue: "Did you say anything to Li Pingrun afterwards?"

(End of this chapter)