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

Li Mu frowned and thought,

"Running away now is a bit like trying to cover up one's own faults. Forget it, let's see what's going on. If someone from Prince Yan's Mansion comes looking for us, it won't be too late to run away."

Soon, three people approached.

The young officer in the lead bowed to Li Mu.

"Thank you for getting rid of this evil, young man. This is yours."

Li Mu took the bamboo slips handed over by the young soldier with a confused look on his face. Just as he was about to ask, he heard the "talented" brother behind the soldier speak,

"Young man, you went to our place before to eliminate evil and forgot this thing. We can't let good people suffer. I heard that you are here, so I brought it to you."

As he said this, he winked at Li Mu while the two soldiers were not paying attention.

Li Mu saw the expressions of the two officers and soldiers and secretly thought

"Obviously this 'talented' brother used money to bribe these two people just to give me this?"

Then he nodded calmly, thanked the two of them, and left Changping Village with Zhao Chuyi and Shanshan.

----

The three of them traveled for several hours before stopping to rest.

Li Mu sat on a big rock by the roadside and took out the bamboo slips from his arms. As soon as he opened them, his face became extremely strange.

At the front of the bamboo slips, there were four large Chinese characters written on them: "The Art of Face Reading".

Then Li Mu quickly read the entire bamboo slip, but the content was still written in the language of the Xing Dynasty.

Unlike the previous time when he learned divination, Li Mu basically did not encounter any obstacles when reading this time. The parts that should have been obscure and difficult to understand became easy because of Zhao Chuyi's previous help.

Li Mu discovered that the few hundred words on the bamboo slips seemed to contain thousands of pieces of information pouring into his mind.

"Yes, I didn't understand the contents of the bamboo slips before. It was Chuyi who told me little by little later, so I didn't realize it before. The same is true for the hexagram book!"

"Sir, why don't we quickly find a farmer or a Taoist temple, otherwise we will have to sleep on the street tonight."

At this time, Shanshan's voice sounded in Li Mu's ears.

Li Mu came back to his senses and looked up, only to see a faint purple aura surrounding Shanshan's head.

Li Mu thought he had seen it wrong, so he rubbed his eyes and looked again, only to find that the purple air had disappeared.

"Sir?"

Seeing that Li Mu didn't say anything, Shanshan became a little anxious, so she turned around and walked towards Zhao Chuyi.

Li Mu frowned, took a deep breath, and looked at Shanshan intently.

This time, one can clearly see that the purple air above Shanshan's head is thick and continuous.

"Is this the art of face reading?"

Li Mu found that this was completely different from what he knew, the 'full forehead and square chin', and he was a little bored at first.

Then he turned around and saw the pink smoke above Zhao Chuyi's head, and raised his eyebrows.

"This girl has a romantic relationship. She is about to meet her Mr. Right."

Li Mu's bad qualities as a man were undoubtedly revealed, and he felt a little jealous.

After he came to his senses, he cursed himself inwardly, looked down at the bamboo slips in his hand, frowned slowly again, hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked towards Zhao Chuyi. He had a vague guess that maybe he could give it a try.

Zhao Chuyi saw Li Mu coming over with a bright smile on her face. She stared at Li Mu with her big eyes flickering. But she was startled to see that Li Mu looked solemn.

"Could it be that my father discovered that I was not in the palace so quickly?!"

At this time, Li Mu handed over the bamboo slips in his hand.

"Do you want to learn 'face reading'?"

Zhao Chuyi was stunned for a moment, then she thought of Li Mu's amazing fortune-telling skills these days. She immediately became interested and nodded her little head desperately.

"Uh-huh!"

"Sir, I want to learn too."

At this time, Shanshan, who was standing aside, spoke in a pleading tone with a soft voice.

Li Mu subconsciously looked back and saw Shanshan pretending to be wronged. He shuddered and quickly stuffed the bamboo slips into Shanshan's hands.

"Learn, you learn together."

Then he looked at Zhao Chuyi,

"Look at this first, and ask me if you have any questions."

Zhao Chuyi snatched the bamboo slips from Shanshan's hand, moved closer to Li Mu, and began to read in a low voice.

Shanshan, who was standing aside, puffed up her cheeks, stood behind the two men dejectedly, pricked up her ears, and listened carefully.

In this way, Zhao Chuyi asked, Li Mu answered, and Shanshan occasionally interjected a word or two, and half an hour passed.

“I don’t want to learn anymore!”

Zhao Chuyi angrily stuffed the bamboo slips back into Li Mu's arms, then let out a long sigh.

Li Mu turned his head to Shanshan, and seeing that Shanshan was also shaking her head like a rattle, he asked tentatively,

"Would you like to try again?"

"I know I'm stupid, okay? I remember the beginning and forget the end. Once I turn my head, I can't remember anything."

Zhao Chuyi pouted her lips, her tone full of grievance. She turned her head away and didn't even look at Li Mu.

Li Mu became even more confused. At first she thought Zhao Chuyi was a poor student, but later she felt something was wrong. She read Su Shi's Jiang Cheng Zi to her, and she memorized it immediately, which was much faster than she could memorize poems when she was young.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Mu took out another bamboo slip from his pocket.

"Why don't you take a look at this? Maybe 'Face Reading' isn't for you. This is 'Divination', the same one as before."

As he spoke, Li Mu made a throwing and catching motion in the air.

Zhao Chuyi then turned around and looked at the other bamboo slip in Li Mu's hand. She had never seen a physiognomist, but she knew Li Mu's fortune-telling ability very well. Even the imperial teacher in the palace was not as accurate as Li Mu.

However, the half-extended hand stopped in mid-air, and looked at Li Mu with burning eyes.

"She is willing to teach me such a precious thing!"

Seeing Zhao Chuyi's hesitation, Li Mu thought she was going back on her word and didn't want to learn anymore, so he stuffed both bamboo slips into her hands, not giving her a chance to go back on her word, and spoke sternly.

"This is the capital for me to settle down and make a living. You must cherish the opportunity."

When Zhao Chuyi heard what Li Mu said, 'settle down and make a living', 'cherish the opportunity', she didn't know what she was thinking of, a blush flashed across her face, she no longer refused, nodded, said "yes", and ran away as if escaping.

Li Mu did not notice Zhao Chuyi's expression, but lowered his head to think. He felt uneasy until this matter was clarified.

The bamboo slips of divination were fine, but the bamboo slips of face reading were too strange. Li Mu was not complacent about the fact that he was the only one who could learn the technique that no one else could.

"Looks like I need to go find that 'talented' guy and ask him about it."

Thinking of this, Li Mu took out some silver from his waist. After a moment, his pupils shrank suddenly, a chill ran down his spine, and his voice trembled.

"Dead, dead?"

At this time, Shanshan carefully poked Li Mu's back with her finger, pointed at the setting sun in the west, and said:

"Sir, if you don't leave now, you'll really have to sleep on the streets."

Li Mu calmed down, threw the change in his hand to Shanshan, and said lightly:

"Let's deal with tonight first. Wangqing County is just ahead. Let's go into the city first. Leave the money to me."

After saying that, Li Mu caught up with Zhao Chuyi, thinking in his heart,

"Is it a coincidence, or is there someone behind this? What is his purpose? Maybe we should go to Qingfeng Mountain. No, after this trip, we should find a doctor to solve the problem of Qi Hai first."

Shanshan looked at the change in her hand and thought it would be better to save some money. She didn't believe Li Mu could earn money at all, unless he went to rob.

"Why don't we just get a room? The princess is happy with it anyway."

Then he caught up with the two and shouted:

"Sir, please calculate for me when I can get married."