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

The words remained unspoken.

Li Mu suddenly stopped and was slightly stunned when he saw the smile on Xu Youde's lips.

He immediately grabbed Xu Youde's throat and said in a cold tone:

"What did you do!"

Xu Youde's smile remained unchanged, and his hoarse voice was slightly mocking:

"The prince has not yet answered my question."

"will not!"

Li Mu said without hesitation.

"Hahaha, good!"

Xu Youde laughed out loud, as if this was the answer he wanted.

But after laughing, his expression changed and his voice sounded like the roar of a wild beast:

"I can tell you everything I know, as long as you are willing to stay and listen, hahahaha!"

"Say!"

Li Mu pushed Xu Youde away, his voice was cold, but there was a hint of worry in his eyes.

Xu Youde’s previous question made him a little uneasy.

"Your Highness, aren't you asking what we did?"

Xu Youde paused for a moment and smiled smugly.

"In fact, he didn't do anything. His Excellency just wanted the prince to enter the third floor, that's all."

"You fool me?"

Li Mu frowned, a hint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

However, Xu Youde was not afraid at all. He stiffened his neck and looked at Li Mu:

"It was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who played tricks on me first."

Then he smiled faintly and said:

"That's fine. I am very satisfied with your answer, but there is one small matter that I need to inform Your Highness in advance."

Li Mu frowned and said nothing, looking at Xu Youde quietly.

"Ge Peining from the medical school just took hundreds of disciples from the medical school to settle accounts with those two gamblers on behalf of the prince."

Xu Youde looked at Li Mu, as if he wanted to imprint his appearance in his mind, his voice full of mockery.

"Afterwards, one person went to the Saint's Residence and should have entered the third floor by now!"

"Fuck you!"

Hearing this, Li Mu raised the Zhishui in his hand and smashed it hard on Xu Youde's head.

There was a huge roar in the air, like a dragon's roar or a tiger's howl.

However, Zhishui stopped above Xu Youde's head.

Li Mu looked up into the distance and heard the old and lifeless voice of the Confucian teacher:

"Wait a minute, Your Highness. You cannot trust everything this man says. You should ask him something. It would be unwise to kill him just like that."

The veins on Li Mu's forehead throbbed slightly, and after a slight hesitation, he retracted the water.

Then the Confucian master stopped moving, but he was already in front of Li Mu:

"Before I left, I told my disciples to stay in the hut and not allow anyone to get close to the dry well. Besides, the entrance to the third floor should not be known to outsiders."

Hearing this, Li Mu nodded, his heart slightly relieved, then he turned to look at Xu You and asked:

"Ning...what is Ge Peining doing on the third floor?"

In fact, Li Mu had some guesses in his mind, and it was because of this guess that he was so excited just now.

Mostly it has something to do with her natural charm.

However, Xu Youde's words left Li Mu stunned for a long time:

"Of course I'm going to look for the prince. What else could a woman do to take such a risk for a man?"

"Because of me?"

To be honest, Li Mu found this answer a little bit unbelievable.

If Ge Peining wanted to go to the third floor to find a solution because of her natural charm, Li Mu could understand it.

But when he said it was because of him, Li Mu didn't believe it at all.

But I have to believe it.

Li Mu immediately thought of what Xu Youde had said before and asked:

"Who is the lord you are talking about? Did he go to the Saint's Residence?"

"You are an adult, and as for where you have gone, how can I know?"

Li Mu narrowed his eyes and asked, "The lord you are talking about is a Taoist priest?"

However, when Xu Youde heard Li Mu's words, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes, and then he grinned and said:

"Does the prince really want to listen?"

Li Mu frowned, looked at the Confucian teacher beside him and said:

"Senior, I want to go to the Saint's Residence first."

The Confucian teacher glanced at Li Mu, nodded slightly and said:

"Your Highness, please do not act on impulse. I have something else to do and cannot go with you."

Li Mu clasped his fists and saluted, then glanced at Xu Youde and Niu Sanbao, and then heard the Confucian teacher beside him speak:

"I will ask my disciples to bring these two people back to the Saint's Residence, and you can come and get them later."

Seeing this, Li Mu didn't say anything more.

It disappeared from the spot in an instant.

Even if Li Mu didn't want to believe it, Ge Peining would break into the third floor just to find him.

But if he couldn't see it with his own eyes, Li Mu would always feel uneasy.

"Tiger girl, don't really go in there to look for me!"

...

Li Mu cursed all the way, but his movements were not slow.

It only took a cup of tea to reach the thatched cottage in the open space.

However, there was no one around to watch over the disciples as the Confucian master had said.

Li Mu's mood became more and more solemn.

Originally, he had just planned for the worst, coming here to take a look, and then going back to the inn to find Ge Peining, but his thoughts disappeared in an instant.

I closed my eyes and listened carefully, and discovered five faint breathing sounds in the hut.

Although the breathing was weak, it didn't sound like he was injured. It sounded more like... asleep?

Li Mu dodged and entered the thatched cottage.

There were three men and two women lying on the ground, hugging each other.

Li Mu frowned. This man was obviously not a Confucian disciple, as he was not opening a silver pot in the former residence of a sage.

It was obvious that he was knocked unconscious and deliberately put himself in this position.

"Sister Ning'er shouldn't have such bad taste!"

Li Mu thought about it and poked a few people's bodies with Shisui, trying to wake them up.

Then, two women screamed and three men explained in confusion and panic in the room.

"I didn't expect my senior brother to be such a person!"

"Junior sister, listen to my explanation!"

"What else is there to explain? Where were your hands just now?"

"Even if I have feelings for my junior sister, I won't do it in front of other junior brothers."

"You admit that you have done something bad to me?"

Li Mu pinched his brows. He never expected that things would develop like this. Just as he was about to speak to stop it, he heard the handsome man who had been silent all this time said:

"Shut up! It's not embarrassing enough!"

After saying this, seeing that the other four were silent, he bowed to Li Mu and said:

"I am Bai Hao. Thank you, His Royal Highness, for saving the five of us brothers."

Li Mu waved his hand and said calmly:

"You were fine. When I came here, I saw you lying here... uh...."

Thinking of the scene just now, Li Mu decided to skip this topic.

"Brother Bai, do you know who knocked you out?"

Bai Hao lowered his hands, thought hard for a moment, and said uncertainly: "It seems to be a woman!"

"Girl? Brother Bai, can you see her face clearly?"

Li Mu's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself, could it really be Sister Ning'er?

At this time, the girl in green skirt who had shouted the loudest before questioned: "It's not a woman. I remember it was an old man with a green face and fangs. He was scary."

"Green face and fangs?"

Li Mu looked at the girl in the green skirt and thought that maybe this girl was touched by someone... and became confused in her sleep.

But when the girl saw Li Mu's dark eyes, her expression suddenly changed and she screamed, "Prince, your eyes..."

"Shut up!"

However, before he could finish his words, he was stopped by the woman in white beside him.

The meaning in his eyes is obviously saying, everyone has eyes and can see it all, so you just have a mouth?

The woman in white was obviously older. After scolding the girl in green, she bowed to Li Mu and said:

"Your Highness, the person who knocked us out is probably not the same person."

Li Mu remembered that this girl was riding on the man named Bai Hao when she fell asleep just now, with drooling from her mouth.

At this time, the others seemed to have come to their senses and said one after another:

"It seems so. What I saw was a middle-aged man."

"Yes, what I saw was a girl, wearing a white shirt and skirt, who looked a bit like my senior sister."

"Could it be that Sister Ning'er, along with the disciples of the medical school, knocked these people out?"

Li Mu was thinking this when he saw Bai Hao's frown suddenly loosen up and he said in a firm tone:

"Impossible, I remember that it was one person who knocked us out. Even though it was only for a moment, I am sure it was definitely one person!"

At this moment, Li Mu's ears suddenly moved, and he turned back, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in surprise:

"Teacher, why are you here?!"

"Master guessed that you would come here, so I came here."

"The teacher is indeed very clever. The student's thoughts cannot be hidden from the teacher."

Li Mu immediately flattered him, then looked behind Mu Zhen and asked expectantly:

"Where's Sister Ning'er? Didn't she come with the teacher?"

Mu Zhen frowned and shook out a white silk embroidered handkerchief from his sleeve.

Li Mu recognized it; it was Ge Peining's personal belongings and he had seen it more than once.

Then he heard Mu Zhen's heavy tone and said, "Girl Ge left it at the inn, you can take a look."