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

Li Mu looked ahead in a daze, thinking about the scene that had just appeared in his mind.

"Others go and do your own things, Xiao Zhao stay here."

Li Linger's voice interrupted Li Mu's thoughts.

Seeing that everyone had left, only a woman who looked to be around fifty years old was left standing there.

Li Mu muttered in his heart, "At your age, calling someone by their nickname, I feel embarrassed even if you are not embarrassed."

However, Li Mu had just finished complaining when he saw a young girl walking out from behind the middle-aged woman. It was the pretty girl who had been following him in his mind.

The girl was about 1.65 meters tall, with her chin slightly tucked in, eyes lowered, and a small cherry mouth on her pointed face that was tightly pursed. Her delicate features and cautious expression made people want to protect her.

However, Li Mu suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and his hair stood up. The girl's pretty face could not dispel the weird feeling in Li Mu's heart.

The pretty girl walked past the middle-aged woman and came in front of the two men, but she did not dare to look up at them.

He just lowered his head, bowed slightly, and whispered: "Xiao Zhao greets the Second Young Master and the Princess."

Li Linger saw Li Mu staring at Xiao Zhao without blinking, with obvious dissatisfaction in his eyes, but he did not scold him.

He just told the middle-aged woman, "Aunt Liu, go and ask the kitchen to prepare some food and send it to my second brother's room."

After saying that, he glanced at Li Mu, motioned for him to follow, and then walked towards the main hall of the palace first.

"Xiao Zhao, you will follow your second brother from now on. I will talk to your aunt."

Li Ling'er didn't look back, but gave instructions to Xiao Zhao behind her as she walked.

Then he left on his own.

Li Mu and Xiao Zhao were standing in the main hall of the palace. Xiao Zhao couldn't stand Li Mu's gaze and spoke carefully:

"Second Master, Xiao Zhao will serve you from now on. If you have any requests, just tell Xiao Zhao."

Xiao Zhao spoke in a firm tone, her voice was soft and even had a hint of tears in it.

Li Mu shook his head. Looking at the weak girl in front of him who would cry for a long time after being punched, his mood calmed down a lot and he started to speak in a flowery way as usual:

"Can I tell you later? When a woman promises a man 'anything', it means seduction."

Although Xiao Zhao did not understand the meaning of Li Mu's previous words, she heard the word "seduce".

She knelt down immediately out of fear, crying, "Xiao Zhao dare not, Xiao Zhao did not mean that, please punish me, Master."

Seeing this, Li Mu was also stunned. The scene he wanted to see, the pretty maid covering her face and running away, did not happen.

Instead, the little girl was frightened. She hurried forward to help him up, explaining, "I was just joking with you. Look how scared you are."

Xiao Zhao felt Li Mu's hand grabbing her wrist. Her body stiffened slightly, but she did not struggle. She followed Li Mu's movements and stood up, but she did not dare to look up.

"Let's go."

When Xiao Zhao heard Li Mu's words, she felt as if she had been pardoned. She calmly broke free from Li Mu's hand and whispered, "This way." After Li Mu walked away, she followed behind him carefully.

In the distance, behind the screen at the corner of the hall.

Li Ling'er looked at the previous scene. Although she was angry, she also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

I thought to myself, "Fortunately, I'm not a real fool. I can't do anything else, but I'm very skilled at teasing maids."

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Inside Prince Yan's Mansion, in a long corridor leading to the back house.

Li Mu looked at the houses in front of him and recalled the scenes in his mind. He felt more and more solemn and his pace quickened a lot.

Just as he walked out of the corridor, Li Mu quickly looked back and saw a stone hitting the tiles above his head.

With a thud, a tile fell and hit Xiao Zhao on the head as he walked towards him with his head down.

Li Mu was about to stretch out his hand to stop her, but suddenly he remembered the scene in his mind. He changed the direction of his hand and grabbed the slender waist in front of him and pulled her into his arms.

He stretched out his other hand behind his head and steadily caught another stone that was hitting him.

The girl's scream and the sound of tiles falling to the ground rang out at the same time.

Li Mu held the girl in his arms, feeling her softness, and a faint fragrance came from his nose.

Before Li Mu could savor the feeling, he felt a strong force in front of him, his eyes blurred, and he flew backwards.

When he looked again, he was already several meters away from the girl.

The moment Xiao Zhao pushed Li Mu away, she regretted it. As a maid in the palace, she had hit the Second Young Master. She was afraid that even her master, who was usually the easiest to talk to, would not forgive her.

Then his heart skipped a beat and he remembered the sound he had vaguely heard before, so he quickly turned around and looked behind him.

The broken tiles scattered all over the ground in front of her made Xiao Zhao react instantly. Her face flushed with shame and guilt.

He trotted towards Li Mu who was sitting on the ground in the distance.

"Second Young Master, I, I..."

He ran closer, knelt down heavily with a thud, and hit the ground with his forehead. He spoke in a crying voice and could not even finish his words.

"Young Master, please stop being silly." Li Mu looked at the trembling girl in front of him and said unhappily, "Help me up, and don't tell anyone else about this."

Xiao Zhao looked up in a daze. Seeing Li Mu smiling, her heart warmed and a blush appeared on her face.

Carefully helped Li Mu up.

After that, there was no conversation along the way.

Soon, the two came to a small courtyard.

Xiao Zhao frowned, then calmly let go of Li Mu's hand, walked quickly forward and opened the gate.

Hearing the noise, two servants holding brooms and rags ran out from the yard.

"Why are there only two of you? Where are the others? Come out and meet the Master."

Xiao Zhao changed from his previous timid attitude and held his head high with his chest held high. It was obvious that he should be considered a minor steward in the palace.

The servant holding the broom answered:

"Miss Xiao Zhao, the Third Miss just ordered that the Second Young Master has been in the Taoist temple for a long time and doesn't like crowds, so the servants in the courtyard have been evacuated. We will have to wait until the Second Young Master settles down and then go somewhere else to listen to his orders."

Xiao Zhao turned around and glanced at Li Mu cautiously. Seeing that Li Mu looked normal, he nodded slightly and said:

"Prepare some hot water and you can leave."

The two servants quickly replied that the hot water was ready in the room, and after getting Li Mu's approval, they hurried away.

Li Mu walked into the room, looked at the steaming bucket in front of him, took off his clothes, kicked off his shoes, and jumped into the water.

After a long time, in the small courtyard house.

"Comfortable!"

Li Mu closed his eyes and sighed softly.

"I really don't want to wear this dead man's clothes for even a second."

Li Mu recalled what had happened in the past few days, which was unbelievable.

But now that things have come to this, nothing else matters.

"The two bamboo slips in the carriage should be what this world calls cultivation techniques."

After Li Mu listened to the sword manual once, he felt a strange airflow in his body. However, when Li Mu wanted to investigate, he couldn't find the way.

As for the moves, Li Mu didn't understand the ones that Li Ling'er demonstrated at all, and he would have to think about them carefully later.

What made Li Mu curious was the book of divination. The first part of the book was exactly the same as what he remembered about fortune telling and marriage prediction on the streets. The only difference was that there were some deviations in the interpretation of the divination. Li Mu could not understand the meaning of it for a while.

The key point is the last line of conclusion written in simplified Chinese characters. Although its meaning is unclear, since simplified Chinese characters appear, the person who left the hexagram book must also be a time traveler.

"The image in my mind was indeed similar to what I experienced later, except that the injury on my butt instead of my hand was on my arm, and what I saw in the image were only tiles, but just now, another stone hit the back of my head."

Just as Li Mu was taking a bath and thinking with his eyes closed.

A pair of white, tender and smooth hands gently rested on Li Mu's shoulders.