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

Snowflakes were flying in the sky, and the further northeast one went from Xingchao, the heavier the snow became.

However, Liangdu's figure did not stop at all because of the obstruction of wind and snow.

I don't know how long I ran.

Walk on snow in the morning and walk on the moon in the evening.

After several sunrises and sunsets, I finally saw the gate tower of Yanshan City.

He was still wearing the thin Taoist robe made of coarse cloth, standing in the deserted snowy field, his figure looking a little hunched.

...

Yanshan City.

In the pavilion in the center of the lake in the inner courtyard of Prince Yan's Mansion.

Xu Youzhi held her hands in front of her, breathed in deeply a few times, and rubbed her red, frozen face against her moon-white fox fur cloak.

At this moment, a soft snowball hit her shoulder squarely.

The force was very light, and the moment it touched her, the snowball broke apart.

"Youzhi, come down quickly, look at me, everything is fine!"

Li Ling'er stood on the frozen lake surface, making a snowball in her hand, and shouted to Xu Youzhi.

Seeing this, Xu Youzhi rubbed her face with her hands, jumped carefully onto the ice, and swung her arms quickly in the air several times before she managed to stand firm.

Not willing to be outdone, he bent down, grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, clenched it with both hands, and then threw it at Li Linger.

With a bang, the snowball exploded in Li Linger's chest.

This made Xu Youzhi giggle.

Li Ling'er spat twice and ran towards Xu Youzhi.

Seeing this, Xu Youzhi turned around and ran away, holding another freshly made snowball in her hand.

On the ice, Li Linger's steps were light and agile like a fairy.

Xu Youzhi, however, swayed with every step like a penguin.

But the strange thing is that Li Ling'er can never catch up with Xu Youzhi, and her bright red dress is covered with traces of snowballs thrown by Xu Youzhi.

At this moment, Xu Youzhi slipped and was about to fall.

While exclaiming, he subconsciously closed his eyes.

Unexpectedly, Li Ling'er's vicious voice came to my ears: "I caught you."

Feeling herself being embraced by a warm body, Xu Youzhi opened her eyes and looked at Li Linger, laughing:

"Okay, okay, I give up."

"That's pretty much it."

Li Ling'er had a proud look on her face and she put her arms around Xu Youzhi's waist and hugged her tighter.

Then he bent his legs slightly, leaped back into the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

At this time, a female guard in armor ran out from a corridor in the distance and came in front of the two of them.

"Miss Third, Miss Youzhi, the prince has sent a letter."

The female guard saluted to the two of them and said respectfully.

Li Ling'er nodded slightly and signaled the female guard to retreat.

Then he turned his head and looked at Xu Youzhi.

"Go change your clothes and ask Auntie to have breakfast."

There was a hint of ambiguity in Xu Youzhi's eyes. She glanced at Li Ling'er, snorted softly, and turned to walk towards her room.

However, his steps were brisk and the little tune he hummed was like the chirping of a yellow oriole.

Soon he returned to the door of his house.

She reached out and gently pushed the door open. As her feet under her skirt stepped over the threshold, what she saw made cold sweat break out on her forehead.

Xu Youzhi paused slightly, then quickly entered the room, looked outside, and after confirming that no one was there, she carefully closed the door and bolted it.

Looking at the jade bottle on the table, Xu Youzhi frowned tightly.

After hesitating for a long time, he picked up the jade bottle, slowly opened the stopper, and sniffed it.

His body trembled slightly, and he replaced the cork in the bottle and kept the jade bottle close to his body.

He walked quickly to the window of the inner room, looked out at the situation outside, then climbed out of the window skillfully and walked towards a woodshed behind the yard.

...

In the woodshed.

Liangdu clenched his fists, his face showing a slightly anxious expression. When he heard footsteps outside the house, he quickly leaped onto the beam.

The next moment, Xu Youzhi pushed the door open and walked in. After closing the door of the woodshed, she walked directly to the center of the woodshed, slowly closed her eyes, and said:

"Does the master have a new mission?"

The tone of his voice was flat, without any emotion in it.

However, after waiting for a long time, she did not get any response. Just as she was about to leave, she heard a familiar but hollow male voice:

"Have you ever thought about betraying the Holy Church?"

It was impossible to tell where the voice came from. The voice was hoarse but contained an evil tone. It was obviously processed by Liangdu using special means.

Xu Youzhi frowned, but still said calmly:

"I have never neglected any of the tasks assigned by the Holy Church. I wonder why you have such doubts."

Hearing this, Liangdu, who was hiding on the beam, had a complicated expression on his face.

The fingers that were grasping the beam had already sunk into the wood.

After a long silence, he spoke again:

"The antidote in the jade bottle is the last one. There will be no more in the future."

Hearing this, Xu Youzhi, who had been very calm from beginning to end, suddenly opened her eyes and said in a lost voice:

"What do you mean, sir? But what have I done wrong?"

"Don't panic. The Holy Church has other arrangements. If everything goes well, you won't be controlled by this poison anymore."

However, Xu Youzhi was not happy about this and asked:

"If things don't go well, will I die?"

There was silence in the room for a long time, and then a word came slowly: "Yes!"

Xu Youzhi couldn't help but laugh, took out the jade bottle from her bosom, and murmured to herself: "Well, at least there is still a year, no, ten months, eight days and three hours."

...

...

...

Mexico City.

A small courtyard on the top of a mountain.

Mo Wuyan held a magic cube with six sides restored in his hand and howled to the sky.

"I am indeed a genius. In just two hours, I have learned Mo Tong's recovery method."

Then he looked at Li Mu with a burning gaze, his tone was full of temptation:

"Boy, my Mo family has another thing, which is made up of 9981 different pieces of wood. No one has been able to crack the secret in a hundred years. How about it, do you want to try it?"

As he said this, he pushed Mo Tong onto the table and said proudly:

"If you can crack the secret, I will pass the title of the Great Master to you."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Sanniang, who came out of the house with food in her hand, coughed twice vigorously, with a somewhat dissatisfied expression.

Li Mu's eyes sparkled, and he hesitated for a moment before asking:

"Senior, I dare not covet the position of the great man. If I am lucky enough to crack the secret, I wonder if the Corpse Sutra can..."

When Mo Wuyan heard the words "Corpse Sutra", his expression froze, and he immediately waved his hand with a nonchalant look, saying:

"The Nine-Nine Ink Lock is a legacy of my Mohist family. People who are not members of my Mohist family will never have the chance to see it. I was just talking about it casually."

Having said that, Li Mu clearly saw a flash of disappointment in Mo Wuyan's eyes.

"Qingyi, the records in the Corpse Scripture are truly vicious. Why are you so interested in it?"

At this time, Shen Sanniang walked up to Li Mu and asked with concern.

"Curious, just curious."

Li Mu smiled and passed it off.

It was finally figured out that this so-called "Corpse Sutra" should be the biggest taboo for the Mohist school.

After all, Mo Wuyan could even teach the "Self-control" which only the Mo family masters could practice, but he was not good at teaching the "Corpse Sutra"...

"Second brother!"

Li Mu was thinking in his mind when he heard Li Wu's childish voice coming from a distance.

As soon as I turned around, I heard a loud bang.

The entire mountain shook.

Li Mu frowned slightly, thinking that this kind of noise would scare the little kid Li Wu to death.

Unexpectedly, he was pushing Mu Zhen's wheelchair as if nothing had happened, with that excited look on his face at seeing Mu Zhen and Li Mu.

Li Mu turned his head and looked at Mo Wuyan with a puzzled look.

But his whole face was as black as the bottom of a pot. Shen Sanniang beside him smiled awkwardly and explained:

"It's Ying'er tinkering with her research again. It's okay, don't worry about her. If it weren't for this noise, I'm afraid I wouldn't have seen her for several days."

Then he looked at Li Mu and said softly, "What a coincidence, I get bumped into by Qing Yi every time."