Love is More than a Word, Chapter 49: People with ulterior motives (4)...

Love is More than a Word《识汝不识丁》Shi Nu Bu Shi Ding
Love is More than a Word, Chapter 49: People with ulterior motives (4)...

The sound of footsteps faded away, and the house returned to its former quiet and deserted state.

Gu She was silently plucking the stamens of the wax plum and slowly crushing them before his index finger and thumb.

His mother loved this flower. No matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, she always put it by the window sill. She said that this flower was the most graceful and proud of the snow and cold. She was born into an Army General's family, a true tiger's daughter. However, since marrying into the Gu family, she has put aside her golden weapons and concentrated on household chores.

His father loved the pines, and thought them steady and graceful, with moderate progress and firmness of heart. He was like a pine. He was never a womanizer, only a womanizer with his mother.

Everyone thought they were a golden couple. Even they themselves thought so. Had it not been for the uncle's accidental killing of the Minister of State's son, perhaps this belief would have lasted until their deaths.


A tale of a hero saving a woman's life turned out to be a tragedy in which the hero is buried with the bully.

He remembers the morning of his uncle's execution, the wind was cold as a knife. After being refused entry to the palace by his father to plead with the emperor, his mother, wearing a thin plain dress, led him out to her mother's house.

The once gated General's residence was deserted and desolate. The government had put on sackcloth up and down and decorated the hearth.

The mother did not enter the chapel, but knelt silently outside.

Until the bad news came.

She held up the room and howled.

He looked into his mother's eyes and cried horribly.

The monk priests who had already been invited to the temple began to chant the sutra and perform the transcendence.

His mother stood up slowly and took him back to the house one step at a time. That was the last time he remembered his mother stepping through the door of his mother's house.

Later, the father was promoted to the position of prime minister under one man.

Later, the mother fell ill.

Gu She still remembers standing before her bed, my mother's eyes were as dim as the stars in the morning, her once beautiful face now disappeared into thin air, and he could no longer enjoy the plum blossoms with her. The waxing plum crosses the wind. She grabbed his hand and asked faintly, "Do you think your uncle deserves to die?"

"No." He answered without hesitation. Saving lives is the natural thing to do.

His mother said: "But he's dead."

He said, "I'll study poetry diligently, get a gold medal, and become a great official who can keep the likes of my uncle alive. I will never stand idly by like my father."

The mother was silent for a long time and said slowly, "Your father did nothing wrong in killing people to pay for their lives."





"Does the mother think the uncle is wrong?"

"And he was right..." She sidestepped him, "Perhaps the wrong one, is heaven, is fate. A thousand wrongs, and the wrong should not be that I am a short-sighted and shallow protector of his heart, and that he should not be a rare fair and just man in this world."

Even though the mother says that the father is right, Gu She can hear the unresolved resentment in her heart.

"A-She." Her fingers tightened as if she wanted to nail her next words into his heart one word at a time, "Remember. A love match is more than just two lovers; Mei and Pine seem to be similar, but in fact, they are also south and north of the border. You should remember that if you are a selfless person, you should never look for a narrow-minded, protective wife like me. If you're a short-sighted person like this mother of your, then don't look for a narrow-minded, protective wife for you. Then don't look for a righteous husband like your father, who does not recognize his related relatives. Do you remember that?"

He remembers.

The pain and his mother's words then, he remembered the words vividly.

Now that he thinks about it, although Tao Mo and his father have different personalities, they are even more truly impartial and selfless people. In his father's eyes, there is still the emperor and his future which are the only things he cares about, but in Tao Mo's eyes, there is only justice, right?

Why is he so upset about this?

Tao Mo was an official, though not smart enough or flexible enough to be an upright official. In today's dark bureaucracy, it should have been a cause for celebration to see such an official exist. But why is he nagging at him?

From the moment Tao Mo sentenced Qiu Liang to marriage, he felt stifled in his heart, but now that he thought about it, it wasn't because he lost the case.

Hmmm

He frowned.

The stamens fell silently from between his fingers.

Tao Mo was sitting in the flower hall waiting, and when he saw Gu Xiaojia come out, he immediately stood up and looked behind him.

Gu Xiaojia said, "There's no need to look, the gentleman is resting in his room."

Tao Mo couldn't hide his disappointment and laughed dryly, "After running around all day today, Mr. Gu must be very tired."

Gu Xiaojia said: "Didn't you say the carriage was found? I'll check it out."

Tao Mo wilted.

As he walked, Gu asked, "Have the carriage thieves been found?"

Tao Mo shook his head, "The carriage was abandoned outside the city, and no one was seen."

Gu Xiaojia said, "He must have taken all the valuable things in the carriage before abandoning it by the side of the road. But he didn't know that the carriage itself was actually worth a lot of money."

Tao Mo sighed, "If I'm not mistaken in my inventory, there's not a thing missing from the carriage."

Gu Xiaojia sneered, "Surely you thought of the wrong one. You know there are quite a few valuable little things in this carriage." He said, climbing into the carriage on his hands and knees.

Tao Mo was waiting outside.

After a while, Gu Xiaojia got off the carriage with a puzzled look on his face, "If he didn't steal anything, why did he take the carriage away? Is it to tease us?" This fun was all amusing. He immediately thought of Lin Zhengyong's protégés. Thinking about it, they should be the only ones in the entire Tangyang County who dared to tease his Young master like this. He never thought that the Young master would let people bully his head like this just because he had lost the lawsuit against Master Qiu. He couldn't help but stare at Tao Mo fiercely as he thought about it.

Tao Mo was baffled by the stare.




Gu Xiaojia said: "Although the carriage has been recovered, I don't know who has sat on it during this time, but I will first go and have it cleaned inside and out. Clean is good."

Tao Mo watches him walk away on his own, hesitating in place, not knowing what to do.

Hao Guozi, who had been interrupting for the interruption, couldn't help but say, "Where's Gu She?"

Tao Mo's face was tight, and he smiled wryly for a long while before saying, "Mostly retired inside."

"So are we going back to the magistrate's office or staying at the Gu residence tonight?" If Tao Mo had been willing to move back to the magistrate's office, Hao Guozi would have gladly accepted. But now there's an eagle eye Yiyu outside. He doesn't want his dull young master to get out from under Gu She's umbrella so soon....

Tao Mo, however, always thought contrary to him, "We go back. It's not good to bother him all the time."

It's just as well that it wasn't lived in the first place. Hao Guozi thought about it, but in the end didn't go against his wishes and went to the Yayi Pavilion to casually pack their things and went back to the magistrate's court with him.

The magistrate's court is deserted with the absence of Lao Tao and the absence of Mu Chun, and Master Jin has returned home.

Hao Guozi made Tao Mo's bed while muttering, "How come it's not even night yet and all the people are gone."

Tao Mo knew he was talking about Master Jin and said, "It's cold outside, it's dark early, it's good to go home early."

Hao Guozi said: "Fine, I'll stay and talk with the young master."

Tao Mo said: "Say what?"

"Anything." Hao Guozi sat down next to him, "Why don't, tell us about the young master's walk with Gu She today?"

Tao Mo said: "There's nothing to say."

Hao Guozi said, "Also. Gu She cherished words and was only bored."

"He's not boring." After Tao Mo refuted, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Have you ever heard of Gu Xianzhi?" He had always felt familiar but couldn't remember where he had heard of it, so he wanted to take a chance and ask Hao Guozi.

Hao Guozi was surprised, "How could the Young Master ask about him?"

"He?"

"Of course." Hao Guozi was about to cheer up with an impassioned introduction when the gateman said outside, "His Excellency, the Gu Residence carriage is outside the Waiting."

Hao Guozi stood up in confusion and opened the door, "What are they doing here at this time of night?"

The gate man said: "Says he's picking up His excellency for a game of chess over at the house."

Hao Guozi said: "It's too late tonight, let them do it tomorrow"

Before he could finish his sentence, Tao Mo scampered out.

“...” Hao Guozi turned and picked up the bundle he hadn't had time to open, closed the door, and ran after it."

The carriage is still the same one that had been stolen.

The one driving is Gu Xiaojia.

When he saw Tao Mo come out, he reluctantly complained, "Why did you run back to the magistrate's office when you're living so well? Is the roof fixed?"

Tao Mo smiled dryly, "Not yet. But when Master Mu left, I wanted to go to this house to make it up so as not to dawdle."




"What does it look like for the County Master to live in the Master's house?" Gu Xiaojia nodded in satisfaction as he saw Hao Guozi carrying the baggage out, "Anyway, we have a lot of everything, so naturally we're not short of a house or two.." He'd rather not have to sleep in the kitchen without lacking a house.

When Tao Mo heard him say that, he thought it must be Gu She's idea and couldn't help but get on the carriage with joy.





~ Love is More than A Word ~



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