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

Under the dim firelight, Li Mu could clearly see that in front of him was a stone statue as tall as a person.

He was wearing a Confucian robe, holding a sword in one hand and a bamboo slip in the other.

Li Mu was very familiar with the face of the stone statue.

"Senior Qiu?"

Hearing Ge Peining's words, Li Mu nodded slightly.

"Is this the core of the formation? So sloppy?"

"Husband, I think I've seen this stone statue somewhere..."

Ge Peining stared at the stone statue with her beautiful eyes and said uncertainly.

"what?"

Li Mu turned to look at Ge Peining, and saw a gleam in Ge Peining's eyes, and said:

"It's the stone statue on the Street of the Icons in the capital. It's very similar to this one."

Li Mu was a little surprised and asked, "Is it also Senior Qiu?"

Hearing this, Ge Peining's expression froze:

"Of course not. That stone statue is of the Emperor."

"Emperor? Which emperor?"

Looking at Ge Peining's expression, Li Mu guessed that this was probably common knowledge known to everyone.

"The Sixth Emperor is rumored to be the first emperor to unify this land. All emperors of previous generations would keep the stone statue and even keep it under strict protection."

Ge Peining's eyes narrowed into slits, and she spoke to Li Mu seriously with a smile on her face.

Li Mu frowned. He had read the history of the past two hundred years and saw that there had been a total of nine emperors.

The shortest reign was no more than two months.

The longest is only sixty years.

Isn't there anyone who thinks he is the best in the world and smashes the statue of the emperor of the previous dynasty?

"The royal family should know something"

Li Mu said with certainty.

Ge Peining blinked her seductive eyes, revealing a hint of clear stupidity very appropriately, giving Li Mu enough face.

Li Mu's desire to express himself reached its peak, and he was about to show off his smart brain in front of Ge Peining.

At this moment, there was a loud noise suddenly coming from above, and then the whole dark room shook.

Li Mu clearly saw that the bamboo slips in the stone statue's hand emitted a faint white smoke, which floated into the crack between the statue's eyebrows.

Li Mu's expression was dazed for a moment, and he felt that he seemed to have some connection with the bamboo slips.

"This is Xun Meng!"

Thinking in his mind, he slowly approached the stone statue.

However, the closer they got, the clearer the connection became, and the more certain Li Mu's guess became.

Only when he reached the stone statue did Li Mu raise his hand and touch the bamboo slips.

But the moment my fingertips touched the bamboo slips.

The entire bamboo slip instantly turned into white smoke and sank into Li Mu's hands.

Li Mu frowned and quickly withdrew his hand, and saw a thumb-sized bamboo slip pattern appear on the palm of his hand, and then disappeared in an instant.

Li Mu was sure that he was not mistaken.

Close your eyes and feel it.

But at this moment, the true energy in Dantian uncontrollably flowed to the palm of the hand.

The pattern of the bamboo slips appeared again in the palm of the hand.

Without waiting for Li Mu to wonder, the true energy gathered in his hand shot out from the pattern on the bamboo slips and flew towards the crack between the eyebrows of the stone statue.

Then the crack began to repair itself at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In an instant, the crack disappeared.

"Oh my god! I got tricked!"

Li Mu felt his qi sea being drained and staggered back a few steps.

"Husband, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing this, Ge Peining hurried forward and supported Li Mu's shaky body, her eyes full of worry.

Li Mu raised his eyes, looked at the stone statue, smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay, it's just that the sea of ​​qi has been drained."

"what!"

Ge Peining's face turned pale immediately and she reached out to feel Li Mu's pulse.

"Don't worry, it's not the first time."

Li Mu leaned his head on Ge Peining's shoulder and sniffed hard.

“It smells so good…”

"It's such a time, and you're still so frivolous. A warrior's sea of ​​qi is exhausted and he could die at any time!"

Ge Peining glared at Li Mu unhappily. Although she tried to keep calm on her face, her body couldn't stop shaking.

"It's really okay. This should be under the dry well. Let's find a way out. As long as Sister Ning'er is here, I won't die."

As Li Mu spoke, he put his head close to Ge Peining's ear and was about to speak.

Then Ge Peining picked him up horizontally and said with a frown:

"I can't! But I know someone who can!"

Li Mu was stunned. "What and what? Isn't my meaning obvious?"

"I mean, Sister Ning'er just wants..."

However, before he could finish his words, Li Mu felt a chill on his neck and looked at Ge Peining in surprise.

"Sister Ning'er, you..."

"Shut up! Get some sleep, and you'll be fine."

As he spoke, Ge Peining took out a few more silver needles and stabbed them into Li Mu's neck.

Li Mu naturally didn't know that his current situation was exactly the same as Su Yuwei's when she was seriously injured outside Yanshan City.

In the eyes of ordinary people, he is already a dead person with one foot halfway into the coffin.

...

At this time, the saint lived in front of the hut.

Liu Minglan held Li Ling'er in his arms, leaning against the shade of a tree in the distance, with a bitter look on his face.

"I can't even tell which side I am on. This sister is so pretty. I don't think the teacher will blame me."

As he spoke, he pulled the cloak covering Li Ling'er, as if he was afraid that she would catch a cold.

Looking at Mu Zhen and the others fighting in the field, he sighed slightly:

"I should have listened to the teacher earlier, that annoying guy would never have gotten out."

"Girl! Give the person to me."

Suddenly, Liu Minglan heard a man shouting angrily from behind, and immediately drew out the long sword beside him and pointed it behind him.

King Yan leaned back and barely dodged the sword. He was slightly stunned and asked with a smile:

"Hey, the girl from the Liu family?"

Liu Minglan frowned and snorted, "You knew it was wrong but you didn't stay away, you ugly bastard!"

"You are looking for death, why are you and..."

Wei Pingran, who was beside the King of Yan, heard that someone dared to disrespect the King of Yan, and reached out to touch the sword at his waist, but was glared back by the King of Yan.

"How can you be so tactless? Go and see if everything is ready!"

King Yan drove Wei Pingran away, turned to look at Liu Minglan, thought for a moment and said:

"Your name is Liu...Liu Minglu, yes, that's the name."

"Ming Lan! It's Ming Lan!"

Liu Minglan's cheeks puffed up slightly, and an angry look appeared on his face.

If he hadn't been holding Li Ling'er in his arms, the sword would have been placed on Prince Yan's neck to teach him how to read.

"Impossible. I gave you that golden locket as a gift. How could I possibly be wrong?"

King Yan looked at Liu Minglan suspiciously, as if he was doing nothing wrong.

"That old guy Liu Fangtong must have changed your name later!"

When Liu Minglan heard the other party calling her father's name directly, anger began to flare in her eyes.

But thinking of Li Ling'er in his arms, it was obviously not convenient to take action at the moment.

He raised his hand and touched the golden lock on his neck, rolled his eyes and said disdainfully:

"Ugly freak, you've hit the nail on the head today. My father said that this golden lock was sent to me from the border by my uncle, the Prince of Yan, when I was one month old. It's the only one of its kind in the capital. How dare you... pretend to be..."

However, the more he spoke, the smaller his voice became. Thinking of the person in front of him who had just called himself "the king", he almost fainted.

After a long pause, he dared to look at the smiling King Yan again, lowered his head and asked carefully: "Are you Uncle King Yan?"

No wonder Liu Minglan didn't react. Anyone who had seen Li Mu first and then the King of Yan would not believe that they were father and son.

The King of Yan had an expression that said, "You are a wise little girl." Just as he was about to speak, he heard Wei Pingran's voice behind him:

"Your Majesty, everything is ready. Where do we start digging?"

"You're an idiot. Look who they are! If you go there now, you'll lose your life."

King Yan kicked Wei Pingran in annoyance and started cursing.

Unexpectedly, a group of soldiers dressed as farmers behind them shouted in unison: "Your Majesty! We are not afraid of death!"

The King of Yan turned around and glanced at the soldiers, as if to say, "How could I, a wise and powerful man, bring out a bunch of fools like you?" He waved his hand and said,

"Wait for my order!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw thick black smoke rising from the direction of the study in the distance.

"coming!"

King Yan's expression brightened, and he immediately turned around and instructed Wei Pingran:

"Convey my order immediately. I suspect that a spy from Ran Nu has sneaked into the Saint's Residence and set fire. You must quickly mobilize people to search. Even if you dig three feet deep, you must find the person for me!"

King Yan emphasized the word "dig" very strongly.

Wei Pingran was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect that the King of Yan, who was always reckless, would be so roundabout in this matter.

Zhang Hanrui, who was in the field, also saw the thick smoke. He narrowed his eyes slightly and figured everything out in an instant. He snorted coldly and said to himself with some disdain:

"Youzhi? Stupid!"