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

Xiao Zhao looked puzzled, but still walked towards Li Mu obediently. She felt uneasy, wondering what Li Mu's intentions were.

Just as he turned the corner of the table, he accidentally tripped over the table leg and fell towards Li Mu.

Li Mu was quick-witted and quick-handed. He held Xiao Zhao in one hand and held her in his arms. He caught the bamboo slips with the other hand and slammed it on the table with a snap.

"Son!"

Xiao Zhao screamed, feeling the heat from Li Mu's body. Her cheeks felt hot, but for some reason she did not resist and let Li Mu hold her like that.

Li Mu glanced at Xiao Zhao in his arms, slightly surprised, but quickly reacted, twisting his body a few times, and changing into a position that was both comfortable and allowed him to see the words on the bamboo slips clearly.

He put his mouth close to Xiao Zhao's ear and chuckled:

"let's start."

Xiao Zhao felt itchy because of the hot breath from Li Mu's mouth. She shrank her neck slightly and looked at the words on the bamboo slips. After hesitating for a moment, she finally opened her lips slightly and began to read in a sweet voice.

The voice was a little trembling, which made people think a lot.

Fortunately, Li Mu was completely focused on the words on the bamboo slips. Even though he had a beautiful girl in his arms, he didn't do anything else.

Before long, Xiao Zhao was no longer as shy as she was at the beginning, and her voice gradually became calmer.

Maybe she felt tired of keeping the same posture, so she twisted her waist and snuggled into Li Mu's arms, changing to a more comfortable posture.

I don’t know if it was because of the content on the slips, or the close proximity between the two of them, but before I knew it, I had read most of the slips on the table.

However, Li Mu was not very satisfied with the contents of the bamboo slips.

"It seems that wanting to understand the world from books alone is too simple. For example, the current dynasty is called Xing Dynasty, who is the founding emperor, and how many states and counties are under his rule. These are completely useless to my current situation."

"Is it that Xiao Zhao didn't find a book about martial arts level, or is it that ordinary books don't write about these things at all? It seems that I need to work harder in other places."

After feeling that it is impossible to obtain more useful content from the bamboo slips.

Li Mu began to actively read the contents on the bamboo slips to check his literacy achievements.

After reading several bamboo slips in succession, Li Mu felt that he could read most of the texts fluently.

Xiao Zhao saw that Li Mu clearly didn't want her to continue reading, but still hugged her, and her face unconsciously turned red again.

Immediately, he felt something strange behind him, twisted his body, and reached out to touch it.

Li Mu was looking at the bamboo slips when he suddenly realized that the reins of his destiny were held in someone's hand. He looked at Xiao Zhao in his arms with a strange look.

"Sir, Xiao Zhao didn't do it on purpose. It's just that it suddenly appeared when it wasn't there before. Xiao Zhao was a little curious. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Xiao Zhao won't dare to do it again."

When Xiao Zhao saw Li Mu looking at her, she withdrew her hand in panic and hurriedly explained.

Li Mu struggled inwardly for half a second, smiled and shook his head, then grabbed Xiao Zhao's hand, let it go, and said seriously:

"It's okay, you can touch it if you want."

Xiao Zhao looked puzzled, but when she saw that Li Mu was not angry, she breathed a sigh of relief.

But she didn't dare to be as presumptuous as before. She pinched and poked it gently with her little hands, and groped it up and down for a long time, but she still couldn't figure out what the object was.

He raised his head to look at Li Mu, who was reading a book seriously. His big black eyes rolled around and he secretly put his hand into Li Mu's lapel.

Li Mu felt Xiao Zhao's smooth and cold little hand, swallowed hard, and then trembled his arm around Xiao Zhao, and then slowly moved it upwards.

Just then, there was a bang from outside the door.

Li Mu, who was about to reach the top, suddenly froze.

Then Li Ling'er, dressed in red, rushed into the study in a panic.

The look in his eyes changed from eagerness to joy, then to surprise, and then slowly to anger.

"Asshole, villain, pervert, useless as a piece of crap, go die, it's best if you die!"

Li Linger cursed Li Mu in her heart, but she said sarcastically: "Second brother is really hardworking."

Hearing this, Xiao Zhao came back to her senses and quickly jumped out of Li Mu's arms. She stood aside obediently, lowering her head and keeping silent.

Li Mu was naturally unhappy about having his good deeds interrupted, but thinking of his current situation, he could only grit his teeth and endure it. When his magical powers were perfected and he could leave this broken palace, he would be able to fly freely in the sky.

"Sister Ling'er is so anxious, I wonder what she wants from me."

Li Mu was also very thick-skinned. He pretended to be nothing happened and looked at Li Ling'er at the door.

Li Ling'er also remembered the business, looked at Li Mu suspiciously, and asked tentatively: "You didn't have breakfast?"

Hearing this, Li Mu frowned slightly.

"What does she mean by that? Is she surprised that I'm not dead? No, the anxiety in her eyes just now clearly shows that she's afraid something might happen to me."

Thinking of this, Li Mu pointed to the tray in the corner of the door and motioned Li Ling'er to look there.

Li Linger followed the direction Li Mu pointed and saw the food on the tray was untouched. She suddenly realized something, then became confused.

"This pervert knew the food was poisonous, so he didn't eat it? Or is it just a coincidence?"

Li Ling'er was about to ask, but after looking at Xiao Zhao beside her, she gave up the idea.

"The person who set the fire behind your house last night has been found. Come with me."

Li Linger left a few words lightly, and without waiting for Li Mu's response, she turned around and walked out of the house.

Hearing this, Li Mu did not hesitate and looked at Xiao Zhao, who was standing aside with her head down and daydreaming like a little girl who had made a mistake.

He raised his hand and patted her on the perturbation of her waist, motioning her to follow him, and then chased Li Ling'er out of the study.

Xiao Zhao seemed to have just come to his senses. He looked around at a loss and hurriedly chased after him.

. . . . . .

In the side hall of the palace.

Li Mu looked at the boy in front of him, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, and was completely confused.

"Didn't they say they caught an arsonist? Could it be a juvenile delinquent? Look at his clothes, he looks like a scholar, he is definitely not a servant in the mansion."

Li Mu cast a questioning look at Li Ling'er, indicating

"What do you mean? Explain it, sis."

Li Ling'er ignored him and told Xiao Zhao and the other servants in the hall to leave. Then she said to the young man in a dignified tone:

"Why don't you admit your mistake to your second brother!"

When the young man heard Li Ling'er's words, he hurriedly took two steps forward, without even looking up at Li Mu, and shouted loudly:

"Brother, I was wrong. Please punish me."

Seeing this, Li Mu was even more puzzled. He stretched out his little finger to pick his ear, complaining in his heart,

"Why are you shouting so loudly? You scared me!"

Li Linger saw Li Mu's confusion, reached out and lifted the boy by the back of his collar, stepped back a few steps, sat on the armchair behind her, and placed the boy next to her.

He signaled Li Mu to sit down with his eyes, and then slowly said:

"This is Xiao Wu, the fourth child. He was not yet born when the second brother went up the mountain. He was the one who set the fire in the woodshed behind your house last night."

As she spoke, Li Linger kicked the boy's calf, signaling him to explain the reason himself.

Only then did Li Wu look up at Li Mu with a guilty look on his face.

"I came back from school yesterday and heard from the housekeeper that as soon as my second brother came home, he asked my third sister for a hammer to serve him. My third sister disagreed at first, but my second brother hadn't been home for many years, so I couldn't let him down."

At this point, the boy seemed a little excited and spoke faster.

"Later, I heard from a few servants that the second brother had been in the mountains for a long time and had not seen a woman. I'm afraid he has a fetish for that. Tieba... He is still young and should not be able to stand the second brother."

As he spoke, the young man knelt down in front of Li Mu.

"I went to ask my second sister about it, and she said it was not true and asked me not to disturb my second brother. I thought she was protecting my second brother, so I had no choice but to secretly run to my second brother's yard and set fire to it."

The more Li Mu listened, the more speechless he became. By the end, his face was filled with black lines.

I thought we caught the big boss behind the scenes, but it turned out to be just a naughty kid.

Then Li Mu's heart moved, he realized something was wrong, and looked up at Li Ling'er.