Chapter 2386 (Two Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty-six)

Tie Wandao said: “I wouldn’t easily speak nonsense. But if the Taoist priest is unsure about something, such as not knowing what a person is doing there… then it is easy for others to guess what the actual situation is.”

Li Pingrun thought: I have said everything I can say, and I cannot say anything I cannot say. As for some things I cannot say for sure, I did not give a definite answer. In such a situation, if others make random guesses because they do not know the actual situation, that is their business, and they cannot blame me. But I cannot say this to the clan leader, because it would be like I am blaming the clan leader for his own random thoughts.

Li Pingrun simply said, “In short, a Taoist priest must be honest. I will be honest to the clan leader.”

Tie Wandao felt that he had satirized Li Pingrun before, and he didn’t want to do any more now, so he said, “Everyone must be honest in front of the clan leader, no matter if they are alchemists or not.”

Li Pingrun felt that Tie Wandao had finally stopped mocking him, so he said, “Yes. You must be honest in front of the clan leader.”

Tie Wandao glanced at Li Pingrun and said, “Then tell me honestly what happened after the girl left.”

Li Pingrun said: “Nothing happened.”

“Didn’t you say to be honest?” Tie Wandao asked.

Li Pingrun thought: The clan leader doesn’t believe me? I’m telling the truth!
“Yes.” Li Pingrun said, “I am speaking honestly.”

Tie Wandao glared at him and said, “The passage is already like this, and you still have the nerve to say that? Nothing happened? The fact that the passage is like this doesn’t mean something has happened, right?”

Li Pingrun quickly explained: “Chief, I don’t mean to say that nothing actually happened here after the girl left…”

He was interrupted by Tie Wandao, who said, “Do you mean that what you said is not true?”

“No…” Li Pingrun said. He wanted to say “That’s not what I meant”, but was interrupted by Tie Wandao before he could finish his words. “How dare you say ‘No’! How dare you tell me something that’s not the truth?” Tie Wandao said immediately.

“I’m telling the truth.” Li Pingrun said, “What I wanted to say just now was ‘that’s not what I meant’.”

“Then what do you mean?” Tie Wandao asked immediately.

Li Pingrun quickly explained: “What I meant is… I wasn’t talking about whether anything actually happened here after the girl left. I was only talking about what I saw from the Guanji fan.”

“Isn’t what you see in the Guanji Fan the truth?” Tie Wandao asked, “Then what is this Guanji Fan of yours?”

Li Pingrun explained: “What I saw in the Fan must be the truth! But later, something went wrong with the records, and I can’t see the facts later with the Fan.”

Tie Wandao said, “You didn’t see any scene related to the opening of this passage in the Guanji fan?”

“Yes.” Li Pingrun said, “I didn’t see it at all.”

“In the scene you saw with the Guanji Fan, there was something blocking the entrance to the passage. Now that we come here, we can see that the passage has been opened. Apparently, the passage was opened after the things that could be seen with the Guanji Fan.” Tie Wandao said.

Li Pingrun nodded repeatedly and said, “Yes, I was just about to tell the clan leader this, it’s really like this, I guarantee it happened later! I’m sure! This is absolutely not wrong!”

(End of this chapter)