Chapter 190 (One Hundred and Ninety) Choice
Tie Hongyan had seen how the Tiecang people oppressed the Lanjia people since she was a child. She had witnessed with her own eyes the killing of several of her closest relatives by the Tiecang people, so she hated the Tiecang people deeply in her heart. In the three months since she returned to the Tiecang tribe, she had seen too many cruel things. She knew in her heart that Tie Wandao forced her to practice martial arts in the hope that she would do the same things as the adults in the Tiecang court when she grew up and oppress others. She was kind by nature, and her experience made her full of hatred for the people of the Tiecang tribe. In her heart, if she became a person who bullied others like the adults in the Tiecang court, it would be a huge pain. She didn't like being forced to learn martial arts. On the one hand, it was indeed because of the nature of children who wanted to play freely and didn't want to be controlled by adults, but on the other hand, the hidden reason was that she didn't want to do those cruel things under the control of the adults in the Tiecang court after learning martial arts. However, she usually kept the latter reason in her heart, and she didn't have much chance to say it, and she couldn't think of how to express it clearly. At this time, when Tie Wandao asked, she actually expressed it clearly.
Tie Wandao didn't expect Tie Hongyan to be able to tell him the key reason why the adults wanted her to learn martial arts. Hearing her say this, he felt a little relieved and said, "You even understand this, so you should want to learn it even more! This is Dad's painstaking effort. Isn't this for your own good?"
"I don't want to!" Tie Hongyan said bluntly.
"Hongyan, you are too young to understand things, but there are some things you will understand sooner or later. Dad might as well tell you a truth now, so that you won't suffer because you understand it too late in the future - there are only two kinds of people in this world, one is the one who bullies others, and the other is the one who is bullied by others." After Tie Wandao finished speaking, he asked Tie Hongyan: "Which of these two kinds of people would you like to be?"
"I don't want to do any of them!" Tie Hongyan said without hesitation.
Tie Wandao originally thought that Tie Hongyan would say that she was willing to be the one who bullied others. Her answer surprised him a little, but he thought that this was just a child being angry on purpose. He knew without thinking that she must want to be the former, so he said, "How is that possible? Don't think that Dad doesn't understand what you actually think. Normally, even when Dad disciplines you, you say that I am bullying you, and you always resist. This is enough to prove that you don't want to be the kind of person who is bullied by others. Hongyan, you have to know that only by listening to Dad can you become another kind of person - a bully." Tie Wandao said seriously.
"I never want to be a bully! I don't want to be bullied by others, nor do I want to bully others!" Tie Hongyan expressed his meaning.
"Haha!" Tie Wandao laughed when he heard this naive and childish idea, and said, "You are still too young, it is normal for you to be ignorant. You will understand it in the future, sooner or later."
"Put me down! If I'm forced to learn martial arts when I go back, I'd rather starve to death in the mountains!" Tie Hongyan said sadly while struggling.
When Tie Wandao heard this, he felt that even if he took her back and forced her to learn martial arts, she might not be willing to learn. She might do something unexpected again, which would make people even more worried. So he asked, "What do you want to do to be willing to go back with Dad?"
(End of this chapter)
