Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 3133 Shackles

Tie Hongyan said: "Did your uncle tell him directly?"

"Yes." Tie Jinjue said, "As soon as I said the four words 'dark clouds', he burst into tears. He murmured 'dark clouds' and 'no wonder' and so on, intermittently. I asked him what he was thinking about, and he said that on the way out of the practice room, he heard someone say 'no wonder your sister died', and then he felt dark clouds gathering in the sky. I asked him who that person was and why he said that, and he said that he didn't say that to him. It turned out that he saw a Tiecang man push a shackled blue-armored man, and the pusher shouted that the blue-armored people were all trash, and then he said 'no wonder your sister died', and said that the man's sister was trash, just like him."

Although he had seen many cruel things, Tie Hongyan still felt uneasy when he heard this.

Tie Jinjue continued, "It was a sunny day, and when Li Fangshi said he felt dark clouds gathering, he wasn't just describing his feelings; he really felt that way."

"Is it related to his ability to perform rituals?" Tie Hongyan asked.

"He thinks it might be related." Tie Jinjue said, "He asked me what Li Gengmi said when he gave me the clothes, and I told him. He thanked me and asked me if the fact that he helped me many times before was also related to the fact that I saw that he looked like the person Li Gengmi told me about. I told him that it was true, and also told him what his sister said to me before she passed away, hoping that I could help her."

"Wouldn't he be curious about why his uncle decided to help his sister?" Tie Hongyan asked.

"I would be curious." Tie Jinjue said, "Of course I can't let him know that Li Gengmi had helped me with something, otherwise I would reveal something. I told Li Fangshi that I thought of my own deceased sister, and told him that this was a scar in my heart that would never heal. I said that before Li Gengmi passed away, I knew that there was another brother and sister in the world who would be separated forever, and the scar in my heart seemed to be opened and painful. At that moment, even if Li Gengmi asked me to help her with something difficult, I would agree to her."

Tie Hongyan said: "Although uncle didn't mention that Li Gengmi helped you, what uncle said is indeed true."

"Of course it's true." Tie Jinjue said, "But I only said part of it. As for the part related to the blue-armored people, I certainly can't mention it. Although I think Li Fangshi is a good person, he works for the clan leader, and he still has unfinished business. The kind of things we want to do, naturally, can't let Li Fangshi know. Li Gengmi told me before that he wrote in the letter he left for Li Fangshi that she did something beneficial to the blue-armored people, and told Li Fangshi the reason. I certainly can't tell Li Fangshi clearly that Li Gengmi worked for me, otherwise Li Fangshi would naturally think whether I was also secretly doing things that benefited the blue-armored people. The clan leader holds some information about Li Fangshi. If he finds out something from Li Fangshi, won't it be a big trouble? Of course, I don't think Li Fangshi will do something that is not good for me, but the clan leader holds his information. Although I haven't figured out how the clan leader can get things from Li Fangshi that Li Fangshi doesn't want to say, I always feel that someone like the clan leader who knows so many alchemists may have a way to get something from the people he holds information about."

(End of this chapter)