Love is More than a Word, Chapter 19: Misfortunes come in pairs (1)...

Love is More than a Word《识汝不识丁》Shi Nu Bu Shi Ding
Love is More than a Word, Chapter 19: Misfortunes come in pairs (1)...

Tao Mo ran two blocks, indeed without a head rattling, even asked a few people to answer any of them. He had no choice but to go back to his home and look for an official, but that was when he heard a footman rushing over loudly, screaming: "Dead man, dead man... "


Tao Mo was so distraught that he drew his feet and ran towards where he came from.

There are ponds in the county, long deserted, small but deep.

At the moment there were dozens of people around the pond, Tao Mo squeezed twice and could not get in, and when he heard the sound of water inside, he shouted anxiously: "I am the county official, everyone get out of the way!"

It worked.

The wall of people, which was still tightly packed, suddenly separated on both sides, revealing the passage.

Tao Mo immediately squeezed into the full head, but saw Cai Fengyuan lying dripping with water on the ground, looking at the stiff body, it was lifeless. A footman sits beside the body, shivering and panting, trying desperately to get dressed, and shouting misfortune from his mouth.

"What the hell is going on?" It took Tao Mo half a day before these words popped out, and his face was already green with color.

The footman had intended to go home, but when he saw him asking about it, his eyes lit up, and not caring about the cold, he stomped his feet and described the story with trembling lips.

It turns out that when Cai Fengyuan found out the truth, he was no longer interested. He ran wildly from the Tong Family, originally to vent his anger, but then he had a death wish, saw the pond and simply threw himself away. Fearing that he would not die, he embraced a stone boulder as he jumped. According to others, even an ordinary butcher or blacksmith may not be able to hold such a large stone, but he, a scholar without the strength of a chicken, not only picked it up in one go, but also did not let go of half a point after falling into the water, which shows how hard his death wish was.

The footman finished speaking and looked at Tao Mo with bewildered eyes.

Tao Mo was embarrassed by the look and hastily praised, "Thank you for your righteousness."

A man of righteousness?

The footman's frozen face became even greener and froze before laughing dryly, "You're joking, my lord."

"No, I'm not kidding." Tao Mo said seriously, "With such cold weather, not everyone is willing to go into the water."

The spectators were all ashamed.

The footman cried out darkly in his heart: he had saved the man out of a desire to repay his kindness, not wanting him to die after all the trouble he had taken to pull him up. Originally, I had expected Tao Mo to give a slight reward for his heroic rescue, but now, it seems, it's just delusional.

Tao Mo crouched in front of Cai Fengyuan's corpse, feeling his pulse and probing his nostrils, but it was impossible to bring him back from the dead, even with a thousand means.

The crowd on the sidelines was hesitating whether or not to leave, when a shout was heard, and then Cui Jiong was seen hurrying over with an officer.

"My lord?" Cui Jiong was startled.




Tao Mo stood up and said softly, "Dead."

Cui Jiong's gaze glanced towards the body on the ground and his brow furrowed several times imperceptibly. Another murder! Before the after-effects of Tong Yinghong's case had passed, another human life was caused. Seeing the New Year approaching, the frequency of homicides was giving him a headache. And what was even more of a headache was that he found that Tao Mo's figure seemed to be visible in both of the recent murders. Whether directly, or indirectly.

"My lord, please forgive me for overstepping my bounds." Cui Jiong said and waved a wink at the Magistrate in the back.

Few remained at the scene at this time, but the facts described were more or less the same.

Cui Jiong was still not satisfied and asked one of them, "Where is the footman you mentioned in your mouth now?"

The man said, "Mostly back home. The man went down into the water and soaked his clothes and shivered from the cold."

"Exactly. I can testify." Tao Mo's head poked out from behind the man.

Cui Jiong was taken aback and said, "My lord, this matter... just hand it over to my junior."

"As a parental officer on one side, it's natural for me to..." before Tao Mo's words could drop, he heard Gu Xiaojia calling out to him from the other side of the street.

Cui Jiong saw Tao Mo, who was warm and swallowed like a turtle in his heart, turn into a little white rabbit in one fell swoop and rushed across the street.

"You, you guys came here?" Tao Mo was a bit incoherent. I'm not lucky to have been shot twice in one day.

Gu Xiaojia pouted in the direction of the crowd of errand boys, "Dead man?"

"It's Cai Fengyuan." Tao Mo's expression was gloomy.

Gu Xiaojia was curious, "Who is Cai Fengyuan?"

Tao Mo said, "It's Miss Tong's sweetheart."

Gu Xiaojia thought about it and said, ''Ah! Is it the one who ran away from the Tong Family?"

Tao Mo nodded.

"How did he die?" Gu Xiaojia asked.

Tao Mo said, "Threw himself into the pond and kill himself."

"Martyrdom?" said Gu Xiaojia in surprise. He hadn't expected that there would really be such a thing as life and death together.

"Get in the carriage." Gu She's voice came out from inside the carriage.

"Hold on." Tao Mo ran back to the body, muttered something to Cui Jiong, and immediately ran back.

At the moment he climbed into the carriage, Gu Xiaojia suddenly remembered something and tugged at his trouser feet, "Wait, did you touch the corpse?"

Tao Mo looked back at him and answered honestly, "Of course."

"Don't get in the carriage and touch our Young Master Gu!" Gu Xiaojia tried to pull him down.

Just as Tao Mo was about to cooperate, he felt a fan gently pressed against his shoulder. "No harm done." said Gu She said faintly.

"But... "Gu Xiaojia was still waiting to say something, but Gu She said coldly: "Drive."

Gu Xiaojia was helpless and could only watch as Tao Mo climbed into the carriage.

Tao Mo was also unsettled after getting into the car. Not only desperately trying to shrink his body into a ball, but also being careful to keep his hands from touching the interior of the compartment.

"Drink your tea." Gu She poured the tea.

Tao Mo was flattered to receive it.

"The one who died was Cai Fengyuan?" Gu She asked.

The eyes of Tao Mo, brightened by Gu She's thoughtful gesture, dimmed again, "Exactly." A man who was still alive a few moments before, he did not want to be turned into a corpse that did not know the love and hate of the world in a short time.

Gu She suddenly appeared, "He also got what he wanted."

Tao Mo said, "But if Miss Tong is underground, she must want him to live well instead of following her."

Gu She said, "Even if he lives, he will live in his own remorse. Instead of that, it would be better to die a hundred times for the relief."

"These words must not be so said." Tao Mo retorted with difficulty, "As long as you live, there is always hope."

Gu She saw him speak full of emotion and skimmed his mouth, but no longer argued.

The carriage wagon turned around.

Tao Mo looked at Gu She no longer saying the words, and he too just turned to slowly drinking tea, heart chagrin, regretting that he should not have argued with him, several times wanting to open his mouth to apologize, and do not know where to start, so he can only lift the curtain to see the window. Without looking, a glance at the pathway went to startle him, "Where are we going?"




"The Magistrate Court office." Gu She said, "I'll take you back."

Tao Mo's cheeks flushed, but his expression was one of joy.

The magistrate's office is not far away, and it won't take long.

Tao Mo has never hated the fact that the county office is so close.

He jumped out of the carriage with a fondness and turned his head to look at Gu She.

Gu She said, "Tomorrow evening, I'll pick you up."

Tao Mo froze, and was about to ask why, when the carriage was already speeding down the street, towards the other side.

When he returned to his room, he was about to change and prepare for his bath when he saw Hao Guozi mysteriously touching in and whispering, "My lord, do you know that Young Master Yi Yu has left Pingcheng?"

Tao Mo was stunned.

The name of Young Master Yi Yu was distant and familiar to him, close and unfamiliar. It took him a while before he settled down and said, "How do you know?"

Hao Guozi said, "It was in the letter sent to Lao Tao." He looked at Tao Mo staring at him, shrunk his neck, and whispered, "I saw it by accident, I didn't expect that Lao Tao would still be following the news of Pingcheng to this day."

Tao Mo sighed softly, "He did it for me."

"Where do you think that Young Master Yi Yu will go?" Hao Guozi said, ''Will it be a reversion? Or did he means to follow...."

"Guozi!" Tao Mo cut him off.

Hao Guozi knew he had lost his words in a slip of the tongue and his face was full of embarrassment, "Perhaps he has come to find the Young Master."

"No, he won't come." Tao Mo muttered.

Seeing that he was sulking and seemed to have fallen back into the memories he had once had, Hao Guozi hurriedly said, "It's hard to say, after all, he was once very good to Young Master."

Tao Mo was silent for a long time and said, "What is past, is in the past."

Hao Guozi was busy nodding his head repeatedly, ''Yes, yes, yes. Compared to Gu She, Yi Yu is a much worse man."

"Gu She." Tao Mo recited his name softly, but his thoughts drifted early to the appointment tomorrow evening.





~ Love is More than A Word ~




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