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

"Your Highness, please do not rush to make a decision. Since yesterday, seventeen people have entered the building, and none of them have returned yet."

The Confucian teacher walked slowly towards the hut and said without turning his head.

Li Mu was slightly startled and followed the Confucian teacher to the thatched cottage.

I found that there were traces of life everywhere, and it was obvious that someone lived here:

"Senior lives here?"

The Confucian teacher neither admitted nor denied it, as if he was too lazy to answer such a question.

"He's guarding the entrance to the third floor?"

Immediately, Li Mu had a guess in his mind, but he was even more confused, so he immediately asked:

"Since you don't want anyone to enter, why do you want to open the third floor to the world?"

This is actually the most difficult thing for Li Mu to understand.

If it was only open to the Confucian community, Li Mu could still understand it.

After all, although it is dangerous, risks and benefits coexist. Isn’t Mu Zhen a good example?

But Li Mu really couldn't understand the operation of opening it to people all over the world.

According to what Mu Zhen said before, anyone who wants to come can come, and there is no entrance fee.

"trouble."

However, the Confucian teacher just uttered two words lightly.

Li Mu savored it carefully for a long time before he roughly figured out the taste.

"Do all these big guys like to talk like this?"

After secretly complaining a few words, Li Mu could roughly understand some of it.

The seventeen people who had entered the third floor mentioned by the Confucian master before should be the ones who pushed for the reopening of the third floor.

In the past, it was fine for Confucianism to close off the third floor, but now it has been reopened.

It will definitely be coveted by other forces.

So we just opened it to everyone in the world. If you are not afraid of death, come and it will be a great achievement if you can come out alive.

Li Mu could understand this mentality, but he did not expect that the leader of Confucianism would be such a sinister character.

Sure enough, scholars’ stomachs are full of ink, and so are their hearts.

After thinking this through, Li Mu wanted to ask some more questions, but he saw that the Confucian teacher was obviously not interested.

So I didn't bother myself anymore.

After paying his respects to the Confucian teacher, he walked towards the back of the house.

"I can pass on my life's learning to the prince, and restore the Confucian noble spirit, and perhaps the abnormality in the prince's eyes can be eliminated."

At this time, the Confucian teacher behind Li Mu suddenly spoke.

Li Mu was stunned, turned around and looked at the Confucian teacher with some confusion. After a long silence, he bowed and said:

"Thank you for your kindness, Senior. This is not what I am here for."

Hearing this, the Confucian teacher's calm face suddenly showed a strange color. He looked Li Mu up and down with a serious look in his eyes and said:

"I heard that the prince is looking for a woman?"

"My son and daughter's love affair has made me laugh at you, Senior."

Li Mu bowed.

"I know that girl. If the prince is looking for her, I can..."

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Li Mu's face changed, but soon recovered, clasped his hands, and interrupted the Confucian teacher's next words:

"Senior! I want to find the answer myself."

The tone was sonorous and the words were firm.

The Confucian Master looked thoughtful, and then he seemed to have figured something out, and asked, "Is it worth it?"

Li Mu once again bowed to the Confucian teacher like a scholar, then raised his head slightly, put on a heroic look, and chanted loudly:

"Ask the world, what is love, that makes people pledge to be together through life and death..."

The Confucian teacher was stunned and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Li Mu thought about it and was about to speak when he was interrupted by the Confucian teacher:

"No hurry, come back and talk about it!"

Li Mu smiled: "Then..."

"I will ask someone to tell you about your entry to the third floor, so you can go there with peace of mind."

"Thank you, senior!"

Li Mu walked towards the thatched cottage and saw an old dry well from a distance.

The radius of the wellhead is less than one meter.

Li Mu came to the well and jumped in without thinking.

...

In front of the hut.

The Confucian teacher turned his head and looked into the distance.

After a while, an old man in an indigo Confucian robe appeared in front of the Confucian teacher.

"Why are you still here?"

The Confucian teacher's voice was lifeless and gave people a bone-chilling feeling.

"Brother, what do you mean? Why can't I be here?"

The old man was dressed very decently, wearing a Confucian cap on his head, holding a folding fan in his hand, and a Confucian robe with not a single wrinkle visible from head to toe.

Hearing the Confucian teacher's words, a hint of confusion appeared in his eyes.

"In the beginning, it was you who pushed hard to reopen the third floor."

The Confucian teacher raised his eyelids, his eyes were slightly empty.

"Now that those old guys have gone in, why are you still here?"

"Brother, what are you talking about? Reopening the third floor is everyone's idea. After all, who doesn't want to live a few more years?"

The old man's name was Wei Li, with the courtesy name Bo Xi. Like the current Confucian teachers, he was a disciple of the previous generation of Confucian teachers.

The Confucian teacher did not refute Wei Li's words, nor did he react at all. He just opened and closed his mouth slightly and said:

"Since you haven't made up your mind yet, go and pass on the message."

"Brother, just follow my orders!"

Wei Li bent his body and kept a very low profile.

"Tell Zhu Ting that the Prince of Yan has entered the third floor."

"What? Why didn't you stop him, brother?"

Wei Li looked surprised and his tone was full of anxiety.

However, the Confucian teacher did not say anything else. He supported his knees with his hands, stood up from the chair with force, turned around and walked towards the hut.

"Brother!"

"..."

The news that Li Mu entered the third floor spread throughout Qiuzhou City in just two hours.

Most people have never heard that the saint’s study has a third floor.

Ordinary people just thought it was a place where precious Confucian books were kept.

Those who are a little more knowledgeable thought that the third floor was some kind of Confucian inheritance test.

But only a very small number of people know what the third floor really means.

At this time, Li Mu was staying in the inn.

Ge Peining seemed to have lost her soul and pushed open Mu Zhen's door forcefully:

"senior!"

"I know everything."

Mu Zhen was sitting in his wheelchair, apparently getting ready to go out.

The kind smile that usually graced his lips was long gone.

His expression was replaced by a sad one, and he looked much older.

"Senior, did he really enter the third floor?"

Ge Peining's eyes were slightly red, and her sad tone would make anyone who heard it feel a little pity.

"Sister Xiaohua, who made you sad? Tell me!"

At this moment, Li Wu, who had been stealing glances over here, suddenly froze in his tracks, frowned, and spoke seriously.

Mu Zhen, who was about to raise his head, paused when he heard this, gathered his true energy, and shouted:

"Ge girl!"

Ge Peining blinked and shook her head vigorously, only to find that for some reason, she was unable to suppress the leakage of the aphrodisiac.

With a gentle wave of her jade hand, two silver needles as thin as hair appeared at her fingertips and pierced into her neck without hesitation.

"Sister Xiaohua?"

At some point, Li Wu had already run to Ge Peining's side and stood about one meter away from her.

He looked a little embarrassed and seemed a little at a loss.

Ge Peining glanced at Li Wu and snorted coldly.

Immediately, a hint of confusion flashed across Li Wu's eyes, and then turned into shock.

Her face turned red, and she turned around quickly, trying hard to say:

"Sister Ge, don't worry. Second brother told you to stay at the inn and wait for him, saying that he will be back soon."

Hearing this, Ge Peining was slightly stunned and asked anxiously: "He, what did he tell you?"

"No, no. That's all my second brother told me."

Ge Peining's willow-leaf eyebrows knitted together, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Mu Zhen beside him scolding:

"Zicheng, what do you know?"

Li Wu couldn't help but shrink his neck after being scolded by Mu Zhen, and stammered as he told Mu Mu about his encounter with the two idle knights during the day.

"Second brother said that he would bring the girl back so you don't have to wait for him to eat."

After saying that, Li Wu secretly took two steps back, lowered his head, and glanced at the two people's reactions.

"This is obviously a trap. This guy's mind is all on the girl, but he can't even see it's so obvious!"

Ge Peining spoke angrily, and then a look of determination flashed in his eyes.

He immediately stood up and walked out of the house.

Mu Zhen frowned, staring at the floor in front of him with lifeless eyes, tapping rhythmically on the armrest of the wheelchair with his fingers.