Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 5991 (five thousand nine hundred and ninety-one) One Hammer

The Gray Hand asked, "It's like this. When he makes some small requests to us, whether or not that thing counts as a real mission is determined by him. If he says yes, it's yes. If he says no, it's no. So you can't decide this privately while you're talking, or he'll find another reason to punish you."

The Brown-Handed Man said, “That’s exactly what happened, but even though I said that, I still couldn’t escape his questioning.”

"What did he ask?" asked the Gray Hand.

"Ask me what I mean by 'move'." said the brown-handed man.

The Gray Hand said, "How do you answer?"

"I mean what he thinks it means," said the brown-handed man.

"Will he misunderstand you if you say that?" asked the man with gray hands.

"After I said this, I was worried that he would misunderstand me, even though my tone was very respectful." The brown-handed man said, "In the end, he misunderstood me."

"How did his reaction let you know that he misunderstood you?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

The brown-handed man laughed and said, "He asked me, 'Do you mean to just throw the question to me casually? It's none of your business, right?'"

"Is that the way you're talking to me now?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

"It sounds more... more serious than this," said the brown-handed man.

"I see." The Gray Hand said, "He has done the same thing to me before. How do you answer?"

"I quickly explained that this was not what I meant," said the brown-handed man. "Before I could finish my words, he asked me if he was wrong."

The Gray Hand said, "It's really hard for you to answer this question. You can't just say he's wrong, right?"

"Of course I didn't dare to say he was wrong," said the brown-handed man, "so I quickly explained that it was my own imprecise wording that misled him."

The man with the gray hand said, "What about him?" "He asked me if I thought he was someone who could be easily misled," said the man with the brown hand.

"Another hammer." said the man with gray hands.

"You are absolutely right. At that time, I felt as if a hammer had suddenly hit me." The brown-handed man said, "But fortunately, I only felt that I was hit by a hammer, not that it was the final blow."

The Gray Hand Man said, "It seems that this time he didn't decide to punish you directly because of what you said."

"Yes." The brown-handed man said, "But then again, this blow was enough for me."

The gray-handed man said, "I get hit by him a lot."

"But every time, the people who get hit by him still find it hard to accept it, right?" asked the man with brown hands.

“Yes, just because it happens many times doesn’t mean you can get used to it.” said the man with gray hands.

The brown-handed man laughed and said, "If this kind of thing is a habit, what kind of person is it?"

"It's hard to say who it was. I just knew that I was a tool at that time, and I wasn't used to it." The Gray Hand said, "How did you respond to him?"

The Brown-Handed Man said, “I told him that he is not someone who can be easily misled. It’s just that my wording was too imprecise before, and it was too easy to mislead. If I didn’t have a serious problem, I wouldn’t be able to mislead him at all.”

The Gray Hand asked, "Now that you've explained it this way, he won't continue to question you about what you said, right?"

"I didn't get the point of this sentence, but I asked something else." said the man with brown hands.

"Which one?" asked the Gray Hand Man.

"My next sentence," said the Brown-Handed Man, "was when he asked me if I was being so loose with my words because I had other ideas. I told him I was just doing what I was told."

(End of this chapter)