Chapter 742

"Kid, don't bury your nose in books. If you learn according to the Cheat Sutra, you won't learn a damn thing. Let me teach you—those of us in Sitting Forgetting Dao can't deceive people."

Sitting in the teahouse, Li Huowang drank his tea as he watched Six Wan say these earth-shattering words.

"Deceiving people is forever the lowest-grade method. If you want to deceive them, you have to make them deceive themselves." The rat-eyed man with an eight-shaped mustache continued explaining to the youth before him.

"As long as you can make them deceive themselves, no matter how absurd the lie is, they'll believe it's true."

Just then, an exceptionally haggard old woman carrying a vegetable basket passed in front of the teahouse.

"Look at this Liu Shi. Her husband was conscripted as a common soldier. It's been over ten years and he still hasn't returned. Anyone with half a brain knows he isn't coming back, but she refuses to believe it. She always thinks her husband can return."

"That's deceiving herself. You don't even need to know what her husband looks like. The more someone can't move on, the easier she is to deceive. Just watch."

After Six Wan spoke, he wiped a hand across his face. Before Li Huowang stood a white-haired, rag-clad old beggar.

With a clang, Six Wan knocked a chip into the bowl in his hand, then trembled his way toward the old woman.

Because he was too far away, Li Huowang couldn't hear what was being said. He only saw Six Wan tentatively say a few words to the old woman. Then her hand loosened, and the vegetable basket immediately fell to the ground. She threw herself at him in excitement and burst into howling sobs.

Reunited after a long separation, the two wept