Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2878 (Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Eight)

"Yes, clan leader." Li Pingrun said. He immediately looked at Tie Wandao, and just as his eyes met Tie Wandao's, he turned his head again, so that his eyes would not meet Tie Wandao's.

Tie Wandao said: "Why are you hiding?"

Li Pingrun turned his head back, but he still didn't dare to look Tie Wandao in the eye, so he lowered his head slightly and said, "Sorry, Patriarch!"

"What are you apologizing for?" Tie Wandao asked, "Let me ask you, are the things you just said to me true?"

Li Pingrun immediately nodded and said, "Yes!"

He thought: Did the clan leader suspect me? Yes, my behavior was too strange, it would be strange if he didn't suspect me! Why did I let him see it just now? But it was really hard for me to control myself. I wanted to stop, I didn't want to continue doing those things...

Tie Wandao said: "Why are you lowering your head? Aren't you afraid to look at me?"

Li Pingrun said: "I felt sorry for the clan leader, so I lowered my head, not because I was afraid to look."

Tie Wandao said: "Sorry for me? Could it be that there is something untrue in what you just said to me?"

"No!" Li Pingrun said, "Definitely not. Everything I said to the clan leader is true."

"Then why don't you dare to look at me until now?" Tie Wandao asked again.

Li Pingrun thought: I must watch the clan leader! I must! Don’t anger him, don’t anger him!

Li Pingrun then raised his head and looked at Tie Wandao.

Tie Wandao said, "Why are you still frowning? Didn't you just say that you were thinking about something related to the ritual? Are you still thinking about it now?"

"I..." Li Pingrun didn't know how to answer. Before he could say anything, he forced his brows to relax. However, his expression looked even more unnatural.

"Honestly, in my impression, you are a person who likes to tell the truth." Tie Wandao said.

Before he finished speaking, Li Pingrun nodded quickly.

Tie Wandao continued, "Logically speaking, I don't need to doubt you, but your expression now makes me doubt you."

Li Pingrun said, "Patriarch, I am telling the truth. No matter what my expression is, I have never lied to you."

"Then you are not planning to tell me a lie, but you haven't said it yet, right?" Tie Wandao asked.

"No, Patriarch!" Li Pingrun said, "I have no intention of lying to you."

Tie Wandao said: "Did you say something you didn't want to say?"

Li Pingrun didn't know what to say.

"Did I guess it?" Tie Wandao said, "It's not new. Some people may not want to say anything to me, but they have to say it in front of me because I'm the clan leader. It's okay to say it. Sometimes I want someone to do something, and that person has to do it even if they don't want to. I know all this very well."

In fact, Tie Wandao only mentioned this phenomenon, and did not say that Li Pingrun had to do something even if he didn't want to. However, when Li Pingrun heard these words, the meaning was different.

Li Pingrun was even more frightened, thinking: The chief saw that I didn't want to do it but had to do it? How did he see that? Would he punish me for seeing that? I haven't said anything or done anything excessive, right? The chief wouldn't punish me immediately just because he saw that I was like this, right? Don't do that!
Tie Wandao looked at Li Pingrun with sharp eyes.

(End of this chapter)