Love is More than a Word, Chapter 52: People with ulterior motives (7)...

Love is More than a Word《识汝不识丁》Shi Nu Bu Shi Ding
Love is More than a Word, Chapter 52: People with ulterior motives (7)...

Tao Mo muttered to himself, "I never heard of a recent murder."

Gu She, "I was just asking a casual question."

Tao Mo sweated, "Actually, regarding the laws of our dynasty, it's still Master Jin who is proficient in them. I'm just making things up as I go along."

Gu She said: "Sentencing Sang Xiaotu to serve as a servant in my house is also Master Jin's idea?"

"That's not true." Tao Mo repeated what Master Jin had told him at the time before sighing, "What he said, think reasonable, there is no mention of how to judge the case, I had to blindly think of one myself." He saw that Gu She had been slightly raised at the corners of his mouth from just now until now, and wondered, "Does Mr. Gu feel that my method is childish and ridiculous?"

Gu She, "Have you ever seen a little child playing with mud?"

Tao Mo thought he was concerned about his face and didn't want to admit it directly before pulling the subject away, so he replied obediently, "I've seen."

"Don't you find that childish and ridiculous?"

Tao Mo said: "It's childish, but not ridiculous."


"It is evident that the world to the child is not ridiculous when it is childish. Sometimes childishness can be respectable." Gu She said slowly.

Tao Mo couldn't turn the corner for a moment of thought.

Gu She looked at the sky, "It's late. Why don't we have supper first?"

“Very well." Tao Mo nodded giddily, following him as he turned and went out, all the way down the hall.

It wasn't until they were seated and Sang Xiaotu, his head plastered with poultice, followed behind Gu Xiaojia to help them serve the food that he suddenly realized that Gu She just spoke for him now... Is that an honorable compliment? He looked at Gu She's calm side face, not sure if he was wrong or if Gu She really meant it.

Gu She suddenly reached out his chopsticks and put a piece of meat in his bowl.

Tao Mo was flattered.

Gu She said faintly, "Eat."

"Yes." Tao Mo lowered his head and picked up the meat but instead of eating it in one whole piece, he took a small bite to go with a large bite of rice. In one meal, he actually ate an entire bowl of rice with one piece of meat.

Gu Xiaojia wanted to laugh as he looked at it.

Hao Guozi couldn't help but stare at him.

Gu She put down his chopsticks, "A game of chess?"

Tao Mo was busy putting down the bowl, nodding his head repeatedly.

By the way, he hadn't played chess since that day when he went to Lóng Mountain to walk. Thinking about that game of blind chess, for the first time, Tao Mo's interest in playing chess was piqued by the game itself, not just because the opponent was Gu She.

Gu Xiaojia set up the chessboard and pulled Sang Xiaotu out.

Tao Mo suddenly turned around, "Has your father been buried?"

Sang Xiaotou stopped abruptly, bent his legs, and knelt down to kowtow again.

Gu Xiaojia and Hao Gaozi were busy tugging at him.

Sang Xiaotu said: "His excellency and Mr. Gu's great kindness, Xiaotu will definitely be an ox to repay it."

Tao Mo awkwardly said, "I just wanted to ask if your father is buried, if you want me to help."

Sang Xiaotu wiped his tears and said, "Thank you His excellency for your concern. The village chief and villagers got together some funds to help before, and he was buried yesterday." Saying it was a burial, while it was actually buying a coffin and getting a few people to carry it to Yunlin Mountain to bury it.

Tao Mo nodded.

Gu She suddenly said, "From now on, you'll work for Tao Mo."

Sang Xiaotu's body trembled. It wasn't that he was reluctant, but the first time he heard this Tangyang County excellency favorite speak, he was nervous and said, "Thank you! Mr. Gu, thank you Lord Tao."

Gu Xiaojia pulled him up and said, "Don't disturb the gentleman's chess mood here. I'll take you around the Gu residence to look around, so you won't get lost later."

Hao Guozi muttered, "Why didn't I see you being so nice when I came?"

Gu Xiaojia said with a smiling face: "Sang Xiaotu is a servant of my Gu residence, it's only natural that I bring him to be familiar with the Gu residence, I don't know how Hao Guozi and His excellency are in my Gu residence?"

Hao Guozi was too blocked to speak.




Gu Xiaojia was so proud of shutting Hao Guozi that he worked extra hard to introduce the Gu residence with Sang Xiaotu.

Hao Guozi followed behind him without saying a word. When Tao Mo played chess with Gu She, he only followed Gu Xiaojia to pass the time at the Gu residence.

After the three of them had strolled around the Gu residence, Gu Xiaojia calculated that the hour was about right before taking them back to the hall, and was about to enter the courtyard gate, but just in time to see the gateman come out from inside. Gu Xiaojia was startled, "A visitor from the house?"

A gateman said: "It's to find Lord Tao."

Hao Guozi was surprised as asked, "Could it be that Lao Tao is back?"

The gateman said, "It's Mr. Yiyu."

Hao Guozi's face went cold, "What's he doing here?"

The gate man said: "Want to give something to Lord Tao."

Gu Xiaojia also frowned, "Where is everyone? Sent away?" From the last time Gu She had a conversation with Young master Yiyu, he knew Gu She didn't like him, so he didn't want the gateman to disturb him by letting him in. so he told the gateman to not let him and he will go personally to see to it.

The gate man said: "He dropped his things and left."

Hao Guozi said: "Where's the stuff?"

The gate man said: "It has been delivered to Lord Tao."

Hao Guozi turned and headed inside.

Gu Xiaojia and Sang Xiaotu immediately followed.

Hao Guozi entered the room and saw something being placed on the table, although it's not opened, but looking at the appearance, it should be a ready-made garment. Tao Mo's ears were a bit red, and Gu She still has a cloudy look.

"Young Master?" He tested the waters.

Tao Mo was shocked, then relieved, "You can put these things away."

Hao Guozi responded and was about to take it back to the house when he heard Gu She calmly, "Don't you want to open it and see?"

Hao Guozi looked at Tao Mo.

Tao Mo's ears reddened purple, and only a long while later did he say, "It's good to open it and take a look."

Hao Guozi had to remove the outer oil paper, and it turned out to be a ready-made garment. It was sky blue, with faint cloud patterns, and a white jade buckle belt that was worth a fortune at a glance. He peeked at Tao Mo.

Tao Mo opened his mouth and sneaked a glance at Gu She.

Gu She stared fathomless.

"Without merit in the game, I think I'll go back tomorrow." Tao Mo said. It wasn't that he was trying to please Gu She for saying this, but he truly felt that he really didn't have such a friendship with the likes of the two of them. The original invitation to stay at the magistrate's yamen was just to remember the love of acquaintance, but in the end, it was fate that they met in another hometown. As for the rest of the friendship between the two, it was broken off when he burned the towel back then....

Gu Xiaojia said, "The texture of this material is good, I'm just afraid it's not something that can be bought in Tangyang County."

Snap.

The fallout was crisp.

Tao Mo scrambled back to his senses and refocused his attention on the chess board. Only his eyes returned, but his mind was still in a trance, and the hand holding the chess piece shifted on the board for a moment before he peeked at the position.




Snap.

Different crunching noises were heard.

Tao Mo looked up in a daze, but he saw Gu She up and heading inside.

"Chess...” he said hesitantly.

Gu She without turning back, "If you don’t have the intention, why hang around."

Tao Mo looks back at the chess game and dumbly repeats, "If you don’t have intention, why hang around?"

If you don't have intention, why hang around?

Brush.

Hao Guozi rolled over and sat up, pressing his forehead with a headache, and couldn't help but say, "Young Master."

"Huh?"

"I've been hearing those eight words all night." So much so that now even if Tao Mo doesn't say those eight words, they automatically keep circling back and forth in his mind

Tao Mo.

Hao Guozi said: "Perhaps he saw that the young master had no intention of playing chess? Or perhaps "is a reference to the young master's attitude towards Mr. Yiyu? He was stunned, then shocked by this thought of his own. What does it matter to Gu She what Young Master's attitude is towards Young master Yi or his undivided attention? He's never jealous, is he?

I don't think so.

Tao Mo listened to Hao Guozi only say half a sentence, then didn't pick up on it and asked after it, "Or maybe?"

Hao Guozi desperately shook the thoughts she had just had out of her head and said, "Gu She's mind is unfathomable, who could guess."

Tao Mo rolled over and put his palms to his ears, continuing to chew the eight words over and over again with annoyance.

Hao Guozi said: "Why does the young master care so much about what Gu She says? He's probably just saying it off the cuff."

Tao Mo didn't answer immediately.

Hao Guozi, thinking of Tao Mo's thoughts on Gu She, both wanted to splash cold water and couldn't bear to splash cold water, so he could only grudgingly say, "Lao Tao will be back soon, It's better for you and Gu She not to get so close, young master."

Mentioning Lao Tao, Tao Mo's thoughts finally drilled out of these eight words. His respect for Lao Tao wasn't just because the other party looked out for him in every way and took care of him properly, but also because Lao Tao had in many cases taken the position where his father should have stood. There were things he didn't have to say, things he didn't have to think about, but he said and thought about them, not because he was his young master, but because that was the last words of Tao Mo's father on his deathbed.

Father

The hand against Tao Mo's cheek was suddenly moist.

When he went out in the morning, there was moisture floating in the air.

Tao Mo rubbed his somewhat stiff hands, his eyes drawn to the carriage on the side of the road.

Peng Xiang sat in the carriage with his eyes half-lidded, as if he were napping.

Tao Mo took the tarp wrapped in clothes from Hao Guozi and walked towards him.

About to fall into a dreamy sleep, Peng Xiang was gently pushed by someone, woke up with a start, saw Tao Mo, and busily rubbed his eyes, "Tao, Lord Tao?"

Hao Guozi didn't have the good grace to say, "What are you doing here so early in the morning?"

Peng Xiang said: "The Young master asked me to take His excellency to the magistrate's office."

Hao Guozi said, "The magistrate's court is full of carriages, so there is no need to bother you."

Peng Xiang asked rhetorically, "Where's the carriage?"

Hao Guozi choked on his words.

Yesterday, when he came down from the courtroom, Tao Mo came on foot, but never drove a carriage.




He looked suspiciously at Peng Xiang, "How do you know the young master didn't drive the carriage?"

Peng Xiang said: "I'm just here to try my luck. Since Lord Tao really doesn't have a carriage, why don't you let me give you a ride?" He was smiling at Tao Mo. Anyhow, he has been in the Qunxiang Building for so many years, how can he not get a little rouge on his body. . Just by smiling like this, he has gotten 70% to 80% of the charm of those grooms when they were seducing people, which is both charming and tender.

But Tao Mo did not take the words, but handed him the oil-paper packet in his hand: "Without merit, your young master's things are not needed... " he A quick glance at Hao Guozi

"Returning something intact back to its owner." Hao Guozi answered loudly.

Peng Xiang doesn't take it, but instead feigned confusion, "Could it be that Lord Tao isn't dressed appropriately? But my young master said that he would never be ashamed about Lord Tao's figure."

Tao Mo said: "This gift is too heavy for me to accept."

Peng Xiang hung his head and sighed, saying, "Why should Lord Tao turn people away. To think that the silver payments which Lord Tao spent on my young master was more  worth than just this one garment. Now my young master is just throwing in his peach and plum in return." He softened his tone, "Lord Tao can understand what my young master is thinking."

"Who can understand the heart of a tiger or a wolf?" Hao Guozi's anger was unbearable when he remembered what happened back then.

Tao Mo still pushed back: "The peach and plum and Qiong Yao of that day have been cleared up. Please don't take it to heart, Mr. Yiyu."

Peng Xiang said: "Why does Lord Tao have to hurt people's feelings like this? Although Young master never says so, I know he actually came to Tangyang County this time to find Lord Tao."

"Ha! Finally telling the truth, right?" Hao Guozi sneered, "Surely it's because you didn't hurt my young master enough in the past, so now you're rushing over to make up for it."

Peng Xiang raged, "You're using a villain's heart to judge a gentleman!"

"A gentleman? Where is he?" Hao Guozi said, "If you hadn't colluded with Huang Guangde, how would my young master have ended up in this situation?"

Peng Xiang said, "My family Young master is not in a position to do anything. He's in the Qunxiang House, taking on business, customers! It was Huang Guangde who shoved the money at his doorstep, how can he refuse?"

Hao Guozi's throat choked back on his words.

Tao Mo said: "I mentioned paying for him at first." Back then, he had been hurt and moved by the words from Yiyu, but now he spoke of it again, it was without any emotional turmoil, only a matter-of-fact.

Peng Xiang's voice weakened, "There's nothing you can do. Even if Lord Tao was willing to pay silver to redeem his life, but the deed of sale was pinched in the hands of someone surnamed Zhang, who is like a mouse meeting a Cat when you mention Huang Guangde, where would you dare to let my young master go."

Hao Guoguo was right, and then he thought about it, but felt that it was wrong, "Why didn't your son tell the young master about this? Even then why decide to hang on to him as if he were?"

Peng Xiang said: "Young master is also a human being, and there is always selfishness in a human being. What's wrong with him not wanting to be separated from his sweetheart?"

"A sweetheart?" Hao Guozi sneered. If he was really a sweetheart, how could he just stand by and watch Young master Tao step into danger and turn a blind eye?

Gotta go.

In the morning fog, the sound of horses' hooves and wheels rolling axles from far and wide.

The heated debate was thus slowed.

The carriage broke through the fog, and Gu Xiaojia sat on the shaft, his hands on the reins, looking lazy.

Hao Guozi had never found his face as lovely as he did now.

Gu Xiaojia drove the carriage and stopped beside Tao Mo.

The carriage curtain was lifted from inside by Sang Xiaotu, revealing Gu She up against the fox fur blanket.

Gu She said, "Get in the carriage.”

Then Peng Xiang saw Tao Mo hurriedly shove the oil-paper packet into his hand and get into the carriage without looking back.

Hao Guozi jumped onto the shaft and sat next to Gu Xiaojia.

Gu She drove off with no one by his side.




Leaving Peng Xiang alone in a daze in the damp morning mist.





~ Love is More than A Word ~



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