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

Chapter 698 Duan Tingshuang.

Once Xiao Zhao opened her mouth, she couldn't stop crying.

Li Mu frowned, stood up, hugged Xiao Zhao around the waist, and walked into the house.

Duan Zheng's body trembled, and she stood up, but before she put her foot down, she heard Li Mu's angry voice.

"Patriarch Duan, please stay!"

"Shuang'er..." Duan Zheng wanted to say something but stopped herself. Her body softened and she fell to her knees on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Zhao's heart couldn't help but feel bitter. He bit his lower lip hard and whispered,

"Sir, wait a moment."

Li Mu tilted his head and looked at Xiao Zhao, then nodded slightly and turned to look at Duan Zheng.

"You, are you the mother of that Shuang'er girl?"

Xiao Zhao opened her mouth. The palpitation she had just felt only lasted for a moment, and most of it was gone the moment she was picked up by Li Mu.

"No, it's not."

Hearing Xiao Zhao talking to her, Duan Zheng seemed to regain her strength and quickly stood up to explain.

"Shuang'er is the youngest sister in the family. I am Shuang'er's elder sister, the fourth elder sister."

Duan Zheng looked at Xiao Zhao with hope in her eyes, but her words were spoken cautiously.

Xiao Zhao's words just now made her realize that Xiao Zhao obviously didn't remember her, and she couldn't provoke Xiao Zhao anymore.

"Sister?" Li Mu repeated in a low voice. At first he also thought it was his mother who invited her.

"Young Master." Xiao Zhao put her lips close to Li Mu's ear and called softly.

"Yeah." Li Mu responded and hugged the girl in his arms tighter.

"Xiao Zhao is fine. Xiao Zhao wants to hear about the story of Miss Shuang'er."

"Okay, I'll listen to Xiao Zhao."

Li Mu nodded, hugged Xiao Zhao and sat back on the rattan chair, but this time he did not let Xiao Zhao go, but held her tightly in his arms.

When Duan Zheng heard this, she wisely sat back on the stone bench, with her legs tightly together and her hands on her thighs, as if she wanted to express her attitude in this way.

"Patriarch Duan, don't do anything unnecessary. Just answer whatever Xiao Zhao asks."

Li Mu's reminder was more of a warning.

Duan Zheng nodded repeatedly, then looked at Xiao Zhao with a gentle gaze and asked carefully,

"Shuang'er... No, Xiaozhao, Xiaozhao, whatever you want to ask, just ask. Sister, I'll tell you everything."

"Has Chief Duan's younger sister also been sold to the traffickers?"

Xiao Zhao did not address Duan Zheng, and followed Li Mu in calling him Patriarch Duan.

Duan Zheng's disappointment had not yet reached her eyes, so she quickly explained,

"No, Sister didn't sell Shuang'er. Shuang'er was taken away by that vicious woman. Sister's fault was that she failed to protect Shuang'er."

Thinking of the past, Duan Zheng's tears unconsciously rolled down the corners of her eyes.

Xiao Zhao pursed her lips. For some reason, she felt a little secretly happy. After thinking for a while, she asked again,

"I wonder how old Miss Shuang'er is now?"

"She disappeared when she was two years old. So she should have just turned eighteen this year."

After Duan Zheng finished speaking, she stared at Xiao Zhao without blinking, afraid to miss any expression on her face.

Xiao Zhao's expression froze for a moment, and then his voice became hurried.

"Then, what is her full name?"

"Duan Tingshuang, it's the name my father gave me."

Hearing this, Xiao Zhao's eyes darkened, and then he seemed to remember something, and asked tentatively,

"Is Patriarch Duan from Yunzhou?"

"The current leader of the Manwu clan in Yunzhou, Southern Region, and the second daughter of the Duan family, Duan Zheng."

Duan Zheng told all the relevant information about herself in one breath, just like reporting her household registration book.

Hearing this, Xiao Zhao's eyes became even more disappointed. She then turned around and looked at Li Mu with drooping eyelids, not knowing what to say.

Li Mu reached out and touched her fluffy head. Although his words were joking, his tone was full of doting.

"Little girl, don't you care? Don't tell me, Zhaodi may not be your real name."

After saying that, Li Mu looked up at Duan Zheng, thought for a moment and asked,

"What are the characteristics of your younger sister, Duan Tingshuang?"

"Son~"

As soon as these words were spoken, Xiao Zhao blushed immediately, and secretly cursed at the young master for being so bold. How could one ask about such a private matter of a girl so casually?

However, Duan Zheng's eyes did light up.

Then, as if he thought of something, he reached out and untied his belt.

As Li Mu and the other man stared in amazement, the two outer robes retreated to the waist in the blink of an eye, leaving only a bright red bellyband embroidered with gold.

Large areas of wheat-colored skin were exposed to the air.

Duan Zheng protected her chest with one hand and untied the strap behind her neck with the other.

As if afraid that the two of them couldn't see clearly, he simply stood up and lay on the stone table. He pointed his slender fingers at the bright red cinnabar mole on his chest and said in an urgent tone,

"This, this is the Wu Man Gu of my Duan family. Although I don't know where the cinnabar mole on Shuang'er's body is, this is proof of the Wu Man Gu, and it is different from an ordinary mole."

"Xiao Zhao, there must be something wrong with you, take a closer look."

"Gudong."

As Duan Zheng was speaking, she suddenly heard an extremely obvious sound of swallowing saliva.

Only then did he realize that Li Mu was staring at the spring scenery in front of him without blinking.

"Kid!" The fear of Li Mu seemed to have completely disappeared at this moment. Just as he was about to get angry, he heard Xiao Zhao say with some disappointment,

"Patriarch Duan, Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao doesn't have such a cinnabar mole on his body."

Xiao Zhao saw the cinnabar mole clearly. It was quite big... and blood red.

And the shape looks like a peach. If they are exactly the same, it can indeed be used as evidence to distinguish them.

But she was sure that she didn't have that cinnabar mole on her body.

She had bathed with Xiaofang before, and if she had such a unique mole on her back, Xiaofang would definitely tell her.

"How, how is it possible!"

Duan Zheng obviously didn't believe it, and reached out to grab Xiao Zhao, as if she was going to examine him personally.

"Impossible, it must be somewhere behind you. You, you can't see it yourself."

However, in her haste, the only piece of cloth that was originally blocking her body slipped off.

"hiss-----"

Li Mu inhaled, then leaned back and leaned directly onto the rattan chair.

"Patriarch Duan, Patriarch Duan..."

Xiao Zhao hurriedly reminded him, her face already red with embarrassment.

It was not because she saw a mind broader than her own, but because she easily sensed the dangerous signal in Li Mu's arms.

Duan Zheng reacted, her mind was confused for a moment, and then she quickly began to pack her clothes.

"Sir, do you want Xiao Zhao to leave first?"

Xiao Zhao's tone was both lost and bitter. Looking at Li Mu's unreserved eyes, she felt a little uncomfortable.

At this time, a bitter and resentful voice came from outside the courtyard.

"If I had known that my brother was busy, I would not have come here to get in the way... I have never had sisters who look so similar to me. I am afraid that I will lose favor with my brother, the prince, from now on."

Zhang Hanrui originally thought that Li Mu would definitely discuss such a big matter as the title of king with her as soon as he returned home.

Unexpectedly, she waited and waited but no one showed up. After asking around, she found out that a vixen with Xiao Zhao's face and Ge Peining's figure had come to the mansion.

She didn't want to come, but somehow she came anyway.

As a result, as soon as I entered the yard, I saw such an exciting scene.

"Now that the matter has been made clear, I will take my leave."

Duan Zheng felt mixed emotions at this moment. If the person in front of her was really her Shuang'er, she would have just let it go.

Now he had lost both his wife and his army. He gave Li Mu a fierce look with eyes full of resentment and turned to leave.

"Chief Duan, please stay!" Seeing this, Li Mu glanced at Xiao Zhao's lost expression and hurriedly tried to persuade him to stay.

"Boy, what else do you want to say?" Duan Zheng paused but did not turn around.

Li Mu's eyes were a little vague. After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "Xiao Zhao has a cinnabar mole on her body. It is as red as blood and shaped like a female peach. She should be your younger sister."