I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

For a long time, the lips are divided.

Zhao Chuyi's cheeks flushed, her little chest heaved, and she rolled her pretty eyes at Li Mu, clearly dissatisfied with what Li Mu was doing.

She clenched her jade hand into a fist, punched Li Mu on the chest, and ran away, but the words she left behind stunned Li Mu.

"Father only told me not to delay, but the horses need to rest when we pass through Yanshan City. I think father won't say anything if we rest for three to five days."

Shanshan looked at Li Mu, her eyes full of reluctance and her arms on both sides were a little restless.

Li Mu smiled, took the initiative to open his arms and walked towards Shanshan.

Seeing this, Shanshan was no longer reserved and pushed Li Mu into her arms.

"Shanshan, it's ok. I'm a little out of breath. I feel like my ribs are going to break."

Hearing Li Mu's words, Shanshan hurriedly let go of Li Mu.

Li Mu took two deep breaths and muttered,

"Oh my god, this is what it feels like to be hugged by me on the first day of the new year."

Shanshan knew that Li Mu was teasing her on purpose, so she tried hard to hold back the tears in her eyes and said angrily,

"Master, is that so exaggerated?"

Li Mu looked at this apprentice whom he had actually taught nothing to, and said with a smile,

"Take good care of Chuyi."

"Don't worry, Master. I will definitely take good care of Her Royal Highness the Princess even without you telling me."

Shanshan nodded vigorously and patted her chest to assure him.

"Take good care of yourself."

Shanshan was stunned for a moment, and the tears in her eyes burst out, like pearls that had broken off the string, falling from the corners of her eyes.

She wanted to hug Li Mu's hand again, but paused and then put her head closer to Li Mu.

Seeing this, Li Mu raised his hand and rubbed Shanshan's hair, then wiped away the tears from her face.

"Shanshan, let's go!"

At this time, in the carriage in the distance, Zhao Chuyi stuck her head out of the window and shouted at Shanshan.

Shanshan quickly straightened up, said goodbye to Li Mu again, and left in a hurry.

. . .

In the carriage, Zhao Chuyi looked at the unhappiness written on Shanshan's face and said jokingly,

"If you are so reluctant to let me go, why don't I just give you to the young master, and you can go to Yanshan City with the young master."

Hearing this, Shanshan waved her hands hurriedly.

"I promised Master that I would take good care of the princess."

Zhao Chuyi had no reaction to this, but when Shanshan said this, there was a hint of happiness in her eyes, so she tried to test him.

"anything else?"

Shanshan has always been a person who can't keep things to herself. When she heard Zhao Chuyi's question, she said directly,

"And I have to take care of myself."

As she said this, she covered her face with her hands shyly, and her body began to twist in the carriage like a giant worm.

The entire carriage swayed with Shanshan's movements.

Zhao Chuyi subconsciously reached out to hold the window edge of the carriage, and said angrily,

"Be normal. Do you miss me? When we get to Yanshan City, I'll arrange for you to watch the horses outside the city!"

Hearing this, Shanshan immediately stopped what she was doing, knelt upright in the carriage, and explained with her head down,

"It's the first time someone cares about me, I'm happy."

Zhao Chuyi narrowed her eyes slightly and pretended to be angry.

"Doesn't this princess treat you well and not care about you?"

"No, no, of course the princess treats me well, but, but..."

Shanshan understood Zhao Chuyi's personality and knew that she was not really angry, but she still tried to explain. However, she didn't know how to describe the feeling halfway through.

"Because the person who cares about you is the young master."

"Yes!"

Shanshan nodded vigorously, then hesitated and said,

“It seems not entirely.”

"Because you are a man."

Zhao Chuyi said with a smile.

Hearing this, Shanshan thought for a moment and nodded again.

"Because, sir, I care about you not because of me, nor because of others, but just because of you."

"Yes, yes. Although Master often teases me, he has never really shown the slightest contempt or disgust for my appearance."

After hearing what Zhao Chuyi said, Shanshan also figured out the reason and added what Zhao Chuyi said.

At this time, Zhao Chuyi seemed to remember something, burst out laughing, and joked,

"I remember the look in the Master's eyes when he first saw you. How should I describe it? Envy? Yes, envy."

Hearing this, Shanshan felt a little embarrassed. She lowered her head and said nothing, carefully wiping the heavy sword that Li Mu "gave" her.

Zhao Chuyi looked at the heavy sword in Shanshan's hand and couldn't help but sigh.

She was probably so bold because she saw the heavy sword and heard a story from her "best friend".

"You must thank her when you get back."

Zhao Chuyi thought to herself, and gradually her face was touched by the arrogance of Xing Chaoyun and the princess.

"So what if it's an arranged marriage? We're getting married soon."

----

In the blink of an eye, four days passed.

On a small road less than twenty miles away from Yanshan City.

Li Mu sat outside the carriage, looked up at the sky, and said to the inside of the carriage,

"Sister, it's time for a shift change!"

Not long after, Zhang Hanrui came out of the carriage with a veil covering her face.

She gave Li Mu a fierce look with her seductive eyes, as if accusing Li Mu of not being gentle and considerate to women.

He actually let such a delicate beauty like her drive the car.

Facing Zhang Hanrui's resentful eyes, Li Mu didn't care at all. He turned around and got into the carriage. As he passed by her, he gently patted Zhang Hanrui's perky breasts from behind.

Zhang Hanrui snorted softly, not caring about Li Mu's childish little action.

I just made a decision in my heart.

"Next time you come to me, I'll make you beg me for mercy."

As soon as Li Mu entered the carriage, he sat down cross-legged and started practicing "Nine Turns of Hun Yuan".

On the way back, Li Mu's "donkey cart" actually caught up with Zou Pu's team.

Only then did Li Mu realize that the horse in front of his carriage, which looked like a donkey, was actually a rare thousand-mile horse captured from the Ran Nu people.

The Rannu people called it the magic horse, which has some meaning of being from a demon legend.

However, Li Mu's magic colt is still relatively young. From the description, Li Mu judged that an adult magic colt would be about the size of a hippopotamus.

Therefore, Li Mu apologized to it specifically, and because most of its mane was gray, he named it Cinderella.

After catching up with Zou Pu's team, Li Mu once again asked about the Lin family's ancient books and the blood seal.

Lin Fuhai seemed to be frightened by Zou Pu's interrogation. He did not hide anything and told Li Mu all the connections.

The blood seal was indeed set up by "Nine Turns of Hunyuan".

Lin Fuhai didn't know why the description in the bamboo slips was so different from the actual practice.

But when practicing, one can indeed make rapid progress.

However, each person has limited true energy in their body, so if they want to practice, they must absorb the blood and energy of others.

If no "sacrifice" is prepared during practice, "Nine Turns of Hun Yuan" will even directly absorb the practitioner's own blood and energy to condense the pill.

Over time, this martial art was renamed within the Lin family to a more appropriate name, "The Record of Blood Coagulation".

The seal on the Lin family's ancient books can only be broken after the first turn of "Nine Turns of Hunyuan" is completed, that is, the pill is successfully condensed and broken.

This opened up Li Mu's mind.

As for the true qi, he had a shortcut. Every time his true qi was exhausted, he only needed to take a walk on the "Akina Mountain". Not only would it be restored to its original state, but even his qi sea would be fuller than before.

Therefore, he has been practicing hard these two days. As long as he feels that the Qi in his body has been condensed into a pill, he will let Cinderella go into the grove and start calling "good sister".

According to Li Mu's calculations, as long as he didn't slack off, she didn't surrender, and didn't wait until they reached Yanshan City, Li Mu would be able to open the ancient book of the Lin family and see what was written on it.