Love is More than a Word, Chapter 89: The First Comes First (8)...

Love is More than a Word《识汝不识丁》Shi Nu Bu Shi Ding
Love is More than a Word, Chapter 89: The First Comes First (8)...
The moon is over.

The light falls on the branches, tangled.

Gu Xiaojia fetched a cloak and placed it over Gu-She's knee, “Young Master, it's late at night.”

Gu-She rubbed his fingers lightly over the glass.

“Young Master.” Gu Xiaojia looked several times towards the eaves of the house, “I thought I heard you talking to someone just now?”

“Yeah.”

Gu Xiaojia stared, “Who?” Ever since Gu-She took the beating, he's been a bit desperate, afraid that in the blink of an eye, Gu-She'll get hurt again. More than once he's proposed to invite a few guards to sit on the grounds but Gu-She's dismissed them all. Now that there are people coming and going in the middle of the night, there's no choice but to invite them.

Gu-She asked instead of answering, “How's the ship going overseas?”

Gu Xiaojia was dumbfounded: “Once in a while, a little business is not too far away. As soon as the Young Master gives the order, we can set sail.”

Gu-She touched the glass with a finger.

Gu Xiaojia probed, “Could it be that the Young Master is planning to go to sea?”

Gu-She was silent for a moment, then shook his head.

Gu Xiaojia had rarely seen Gu-She so disturbed, as if she was distracted by something.” When he saw that Gu-She didn't retort, he asked further, “Is it something to do with Tao Mo?”

In the meantime, Gu-She's brows were knit.

Gu Xiaojia's eyes turned: “Is it the matter of Miss Xu inviting a matchmaker to your door?”

“What do you think of the marriage?”

Gu Xiaojia looked at Gu-She's face and deliberated: “Miss Xu's family background and Tao Mo's family are also a good match. However...”

Gu-She looked at him sideways.

“I don't think Tao Mo will agree.” Gu Xiaojia.

Gu-She said: “Why?”

“Hasn't Young Master noticed that Tao Mo...” that Tao Mo's... As if remembering something, Gu Xiaojia turned pale and laughed, “I mean, if Tao Mo had said yes, he wouldn't have sent Miss Xu back to the matchmaker's house so many times. It's all over Tangyang County and if Tao Mo doesn't marry his, I'm afraid Miss Xu will have to marry far away from here.”

Gu-She said, “That's not what you wanted to say.”

Gu Xiaojia's eyes wandered, “So, so what did Young Master say I wanted to say?”

“Tao Mo has a fetish for gay men, not for women.” Gu-She said matter-of-factly.

Gu Xiaojia choked, his face flushed red. A thought flashed in his mind but he didn't dare to think about it.” The fetish of gay men and splitting peaches is forbidden by the world. Tao Mo is still an official and I don't think he'd dare... to be too blatant?”

Gu-She said, “Do you have a penchant for gay men?”

Gu Xiaojia jumped up, “Naturally not! Young Master, why would you ask that?”

“How do you know?” Gu-She asked frankly, without any bashfulness.

Gu Xiaojia gulped, “Of course not. I blush at the sight of a beautiful woman, how could I have a fetish for gay men?”

Gu-She was silent.

“Young Master, are you okay?” Gu Xiaojia secretly regretted having started this topic.

Gu-She said, “I have no feelings for women.”

Gu Xiaojia said in a hurry: “That's because the Young Master hasn't met anyone suitable.”

Gu-She looked clouded: “So you are like Tao Mo.”



“...” Gu Xiaojia froze and couldn't think for a while.

Gu-She lifted his cloak and got up.

Gu Xiaojia suddenly shouted, pointing at Gu-She, his fingers shaking like a sieve, “Young Master, you you you you... How, how could... Right, right, right...?”

“Didn't you already know that?” Gu-She was calm.

Gu Xiaojia was staggered. Although he felt something was wrong, he had never thought about it that deeply. But seeing that Gu-She was relaxed, as if she had expected it, he asked, “Young Master, when did you...? When did you learn of this?”

Gu-She said: “Before.”

...

Of course he was before. Now that you've said it, why not after?

Thinking about it, Gu Xiaojia didn't dare to say but could only say, “What is Young Master's plan?”

“To be determined.”

Gu-She had his hands in the air and was walking back down the corridor.

Leave Gu Xiaojia alone and sigh at the shadow of the moon tree.

Gu-She wasn't being facetious when she said it was pending.

Before Tao Mo came along, he'd been lonely long enough to think that loneliness was the way to go.

He's known for a long time that he sees Tao Mo differently. Because of this, he was happy to see Tao Mo around him and even helped him out a little bit. The real surprise came at the Tang City Prefecture, when he learned of Tao Mo's arrest and his anger went through the roof.

It was more anger than he'd ever known and should never have been directed at someone he wasn't related to.

At this point, he had to admit that Tao Mo meant more to him than he thought it did. So he went to court alone, even to the point of torture, in exchange for Tao Mo's safe return. At that time, he was reluctant to see Tao Mo, not only because he didn't want him to see his weakness but also because he wanted to clear his mind of his feelings.

Friends, brothers, confidants, apprentices...

They could have had several relationships, nothing to do with love.

Gu-She believes that if he asked, Tao Mo will never refuse, even if he doesn't want to.

But when I met Tao Mo, I changed my mind a lot.

If the involuntary desire to be close to him can be interpreted in a far-fetched way as intimacy, then there is no way to justify the aversion to his marriage.

So, that's what love is all about?

Gu-She stepped, turned his head to look at the moon, which is silent and lonely in the night sky.

His face in the moonlight was as cold as frost but the smile on his lips was as warm as the sun.

When Tao Mo woke up this morning, both eyes were red.

When Hao Guozi saw that, he sighed a lot. I don't know what kind of misfortune has befallen him since he came to Tangyang County. No, I should say, not in the past year. Maybe he should tell the Young Master to find a temple with incense and get rid of the bad luck.

The more he thought about it, the more it made sense to him, so he mentioned it to Lao Tao.

Lao Tao said, “Fine.” He turned to Master Jin, who knew best about Tangyang County.

Sure enough, Master Jin said, “I don't know if it works or not but I know exactly which places are the most popular. One of them is the Guanyin Temple in the east of the city, where incense is very popular for seeking marriage. But in my opinion, the reason it works is not because of the Bodhisattva's blessing but because many maidens who are not yet married go there for incense.”

As soon as he says” marriage proposal, “Tao Mo thinks of Miss Xu and the fight he had with Gu-She yesterday.

“This second one is the Fuzi Temple, in the west of the city, where most of the scholars go. A lot of scholars stay there and occasionally they hold poetry sessions.” Master Jin said.

Hao Guozi scratched his head, “Isn't there anything more normal?”

Master Jin said, “What do you mean by abnormal? Nonsense!”

Hao Guozi, aware of his slip of the tongue, repaired, “I was looking for a temple to remove bad luck.”

Master Jin thought to himself, “There's also a Guanyin Temple in the west of the city, why don't we go there?”

“Well, well, Daoist Temple is the best. The Path is the same path.” Hao Guozi smiled.

Master Jin said: “Oh? Then tell me, what is the Path?”

Hao Guozi said, “Isn't it simple? It means that in order to get ahead, one must find another way to get ahead, not the usual way.”

Master Jin couldn't hold his face any longer and laughed and cursed, “Nonsense! If you don't take the usual path, how can you be a bandit in the mountains?”

The gateman shouted from outside, “Sir. Young Master Gu is here!”

Tao Mo stood up, waved his arms and ran out.

Hao Guozi wondered, “Why is Young Master running so fast?” he looked away, seeing Lao Tao's lips lift up in a weird way and asked, “Lao Tao, what are you smiling so weirdly for?”

“Weird?” Lao Tao lifted a hand to the back of his head, “I'm smiling, obviously.”

Lao Tao tells jokes? It's cold but it's still a joke! It's a little cold but it's still a joke! Hao Guozi looked at him dumbfounded.

“I'll go outside. You and Master Jin can discuss which temple to go to.” Lao Tao shrugged it off and went out.

...

Hao Guozi turned to Master Jin and said, “I see...”

Master Jin said: “The Path is good.”

Hao Guozi: “Just the Path.”

“Yeah.”


~ Love is More than A Word ~
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