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

Ge Peining frowned, with an angry look on his face.

"Don't say such things again."

"But if it weren't for marrying Dad, Mom wouldn't be so depressed all day long."

The girl jumped out of Ge Peining's arms and argued.

"When did mother become depressed?"

Seeing that Ge Peining was stubborn, the girl pointed to the sky and shouted:

"Mother has been looking at the sky all day for hours. Isn't it..."

Ge Peining shook her head, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, she took the girl's hand and said:

"Mom just felt that your dad was watching over there, so I could see him this way."

"That's not yet..."

Although the girl was still a little unconvinced, her tone was much softer:

"The villagers said that my father snatched my mother away at the wedding. If it had been so..."

"Si Mu!"

Ge Peining shouted, pulled the girl's hand, and motioned for her to sit to the side.

"Mother has never thought of marrying anyone else. From the beginning, the only person I wanted to marry was your father. Mother also knows that your father has his own things to do. Mother has never regretted it. The few months I was married to your father were the happiest days of my life."

Li Mu felt a little complicated when listening to Ge Peining's words. She shouldn't have gone through all this. It was all because of him...

I turned to look at Qiu He, only to find that he was also looking down.

"This is what Senior really wants to see, right?"

"Why, why did you make such a decision? Why don't you care about the girl's future life?"

Qiu He's voice was a little hoarse, and Li Mu felt that the space around him was shaking slightly.

"Senior! I'm not dead!"

Li Mu said seriously.

Qiu He was stunned, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Boy, I forgot that words don't work on you."

Seeing Qiu He's emotions stabilized and the space around him no longer shook, Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief and bowed, saying:

"What you have thought and what you have ruled are not wrong. Moreover, you have sacrificed yourself to protect the peace of the human race, which is a model of a saint."

"You are not being honest, I want to hear the truth."

Qiu He said.

Li Mu glanced at the area below and gritted his teeth, "Senior, could you please break this spell first? I am willing to take Sister Ning'er's place."

"You can't replace me!"

Qiu He glanced at Li Mu, as if he was looking at an ignorant bumpkin. After thinking for a while, he explained:

"This will be good for the girl, you don't have to worry."

Li Mu was stunned. Although he didn't believe it, he had no choice but to nod and said against his conscience:

"Junior would like to thank Senior on behalf of Sister Ning'er first."

Although the tone was respectful, it was somewhat sarcastic.

Qiu He chuckled and waved his hand: "No need to thank me, this is the good fortune you gave her, and it's up to her to do it later."

Then he looked at Li Mu with some unfriendly eyes and said lightly: "Speak!"

Li Mu pondered for a while and said:

"In fact, what I said before was not false, and I don't think that what you did was wrong."

"But you made a different choice."

"Seniors are seniors, and I am me!"

"So, you also think that what you did was wrong?"

"Since I did that, I certainly felt I was right."

Qiu He frowned and looked at Li Mu, as if thinking about something.

Li Mu felt as if he had opened up his mind. Without waiting for Qiu He to ask any more questions, he said directly:

"The choices made by my predecessors and me are right for ourselves, but not necessarily for others."

Li Mu paused and observed the changes in Qiu He's expression. If he showed any signs of getting angry, Li Mu would quickly shut up.

"Go on."

"I am just luckier than you. Sister Ning'er's thoughts just happen to be the same as mine. It's not that I am better than you."

Qiu He slowly closed his eyes and asked, "If you were me, would you leave or stay in the palace that day?"

Li Mu frowned and thought for a while, then said:

"Since I'm going to die, of course I should be more accommodating to those who are still alive. If she's happy, I won't suffer any loss."

"Hahahaha, good boy, even though these are all twisted logic, but... you are better than me!"

Hearing Li Mu's shameless and vague remarks, Qiu He laughed out loud and nodded.

"Thank you, Senior. Look...my younger brother and I have mistakenly entered here. Could you please let us out?"

Seeing this, Li Mu immediately climbed up the pole.

Li Mu didn't expect that these words, which were as good as nothing, would actually work.

In fact, Li Mu does have his own ideas, the ideas of a time traveler.

But good advice hurts, Li Mu didn't want to gamble, nor did he dare to gamble.

Unexpectedly, Qiu He shook his head and said, "I can't get out."

Hearing this, the smile on Li Mu's face froze. After a long silence, he asked, "But is there anything else I have done wrong?"

"It has nothing to do with you. This place has long been a place where people can only enter but not leave."

"Isn't it because, Senior..."

Li Mu subconsciously wanted to say, isn't it because you are narrow-minded?

But when the words came to his lips, he gritted his teeth and swallowed them back.

Qiu He glanced at Li Mu, and obviously understood what Li Mu meant, and said calmly:

"I am just a trace of divine consciousness left by a remnant soul. I am not as powerful as you think."

Li Mu was not surprised by this.

After all, he knew that the senior named Qiu He was dead.

The person in front of him was either a residual soul or the spirit of a magic weapon or something like that.

But he didn't expect that the fact that he couldn't get out had nothing to do with him.

"Senior, where exactly is this place?"

Li Mu thought about it and asked tentatively.

"Xun Meng is a magical tool I had during my lifetime."

Before he finished speaking, the space around him shook again, and this time it was much more violent than the previous one.

"senior?"

Li Mu frowned and looked at Qiu He.

However, Qiu He's eyes lit up, and he nodded in praise, "This girl's talent is quite good."

Li Mu was stunned and quickly looked down.

In the small courtyard, Ge Peining was half lying on a bamboo chair. Although his appearance had not changed much, his expression was like that of an old man who was already in his twilight years.

"Mom, we're here to see you."

Outside the house, the woman led two boys and shouted loudly.

However, Ge Peining in the house seemed not to have heard anything and did not respond. She just stared at the roof.

"senior!"

Li Mu was anxious and reached out to grab Qiu He's arm, but his hand was empty.

"Don't worry, this girl was born with a body of sound illusion. After this transformation, she will have a great future..."

Qiu He paused as he spoke, shook his head slightly, and sighed.

Li Mu didn't care about the sound illusion body. His heart was in his throat and his eyes were fixed on Ge Peining.

At this moment, Ge Peining's body trembled slightly, and then a hint of confusion appeared in her eyes, which then became brighter and brighter.

In an instant, the feeling of old age disappeared, and he murmured softly:

"Husband."

"Sister Ning'er."

As if there was some kind of mysterious connection, Li Mu felt that he was really looking into the eyes of Ge Peining and couldn't help but call out.

"What are you still standing there for?"

Li Mu heard Qiu He's words and was about to speak when he felt someone push him from behind... No! Someone kicked him.

The next moment, he found himself in a house in the courtyard.

"Sister Ning'er."

Li Mu looked at Ge Peining and actually felt as if he was in another world.

"Qingyi!"

The confusion on Ge Peining's face suddenly turned into surprise. She jumped up from the chair and threw herself into Li Mu's arms.

"Are you a fool? You believe what these two scoundrels say. You are willing to risk your life for a woman!"

Ge Peining pounded Li Mu's chest with her pink fist, and her tears wet Li Mu's shirt.

Li Mu put his arms around Ge Peining's waist and hugged her tightly until Ge Peining's sobbing gradually subsided. Then he asked:

"Sister Ning'er doesn't remember anything?"

Ge Peining rubbed her head from Li Mu's chest left and right, then raised her head to look at Li Mu, as if recalling something:

"I remember I came to find you, but I didn't know where the entrance to the third floor was. Fortunately, a senior pointed it out to me. After I jumped down from the well behind the hut, I passed out. When I woke up, a man named Cao Jianyi wanted to marry me..."

Ge Peining murmured, and when she mentioned marriage, she immediately covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes full of panic, and she slowly lowered her head, not daring to look at Li Mu, and her tone became a little anxious.

"Later, later, later I don't know what happened, I just agreed in a daze, that day, that day!"

Ge Peining raised her head and looked at Li Mu, tears streaming down her face, but a smile appeared on her face.

"It was you! You entered the hall holding a sword, your clothes were stained with blood, and then we got married..."

"Husband...husband!"

Ge Peining's eyes became clearer and clearer. Although her words didn't sound logical, she obviously remembered everything. With red ears, she called out to Li Mu and turned around to run away.

"My husband must be hungry. I will go get him some food."

Li Mu pulled Ge Peining back into his arms: "No hurry, let me eat you first."