Love is More than a Word, Chapter 90: The First Comes First (9)...

Love is More than a Word《识汝不识丁》Shi Nu Bu Shi Ding
Love is More than a Word, Chapter 90: The First Comes First (9)...
In the four-square door, stood a cool figure, comparing all the colors around.

Tao Mo's footsteps slowed down, desperately trying to adjust his breathing.

Gu-She suddenly turned around.

Tao Mo steps, looking at him expectantly and nervously.

“Come here.” Gu-She hooked his finger.

Tao Mo's face lit up with a big smile and he ran over to his.

Gu-She stepped onto the carriage, looked at Tao Mo who was standing dumbly by the carriage and said, “Get on.”

Tao Mo didn't hesitate to sit on it.

“Where to?”

One question, two voices.

Tao Mo and Gu-She look back at Lao Tao coming out of the door.

Gu-She said, “Your question, I already have the answer.”

“Oh?” Lao Tao looked calm, “What answer?”

Gu-She smiled slightly, stretched out his arm, crossed over to Tao Mo, lowered the curtain, turned to Gu Xiaojia on the carriage shaft and said, “Let's go.”

“Yes.” With a shake of Gu Xiaojia's reins, the carriage moved forward slowly.

“But Lao Tao...” Tao Mo couldn't help but raise the curtain a little but instead of being as angry as he thought he would be, Lao Tao found himself looking at him with a smile on his face and even waved his hand at him. He lowered the curtain and looked at Gu-She carefully for a moment to make sure he didn't take yesterday's incident to heart, then he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, “Where are we going?”

“Xu family residence.”

Tao Mo was on edge, “Which Xu residence?”

Gu-She said calmly, “Do you know many Miss Xu?”

“Why?” Tao Mo jumped up, forgot he was in the carriage, hit his head on the top of the carriage and bounced back into his seat.

Gu-She saw him press the top of his head, holding back tears and the corners of his mouth turned up, “You are that happy?”

Tao Mo looked at him dumbfounded and for a moment, the pain was far away, Miss Xu couldn't remember and almost his whole body was caught up in the smile on his lips.

Gu-She lifts his finger, taps his forehead, “The face will age.”

Gu-She's fingers were cold but his forehead was on fire from the touch. Tao Mo looked at him, swallowed and said, “You will always be beautiful in my heart.”

“Oh? In old age too?”

Tao Mo nodded gravely.

“Disfigured too?”

Tao Mo was stunned, shaking his head abruptly.

In the meantime, Gu-She is obviously not happy with the answer.

Tao Mo said: “I will never let anyone hurt you!” Never again! He made up his mind.

Gu-She put his hand on the top of his head.

Tao Mo stared at him and realized he was actually rubbing the spot where he'd bumped his head.

“Gu-She?”

“Uh?” The tone is faintly unpleasant.

“Xianzhi?”

“Yeah.”

“Xianzhi...” Tao Mo lowered his head, his eyes slightly moist. That's good enough. Even if one day, Gu-She will get married and have children and I will have to give back a little time to his future family. At least I was this close to him, at least he had his shadow by his side.

Gu-She's hand suddenly stopped and left.

Tao Mo didn't have time to collect his feelings of loss, before he felt a hand lift his chin.

“Are you crying?” Gu-She frowned at him.

If he didn't ask, Tao Mo would have been able to endure and when he opened his mouth, his tears snapped and fell on Gu-She's hand, hot. Tao Mo sniffed his nose, quickly raised his hand to wipe away his own tears, only to find that Gu-She had put his hand back.

“I...” He raised his hand to wipe the tears from Gu-She's hand but Gu-She avoided it, holding it in his palm instead.

It's a simple gesture but Tao Mo's heart was pounding.

Gu-She held his tears in his hands and looked away but never let go of his hands.

Tao Mo was annoyed with himself for crying like that, which would have displeased Gu-She. The more he thought about it, the more he dared not speak. The two of them were bored all the way to Xu residence and Tao Mo didn't speak until they got off the carriage and were greeted by a member of Xu's family.

The servants didn't know about the secret dealings between Master Xu and Lao Tao, so they took it as a sign that the future prince was coming to the door and they all welcomed him to the flower hall to wait.

Although Xu's house was a business house, it was decorated in an elegant manner.

Gu-She looked at some random ones and there were two genuine ones.

“Master Tao.” Master Xu came through the door.

Tao Mo stood up in a hurry, “I beg Master Xu's pardon for this intrusion.”

“Why did Master Tao say that? Guests like Master Tao and Young Master Gu, I can't invite them even if I wanted to.” Master Tao smiled and took his seat.

Serving tea.

Gu-She looked him over in an unobtrusive way. With a businessman's savvy, a scholar's scholarly and chivalrous demeanor, he was a very special man.

Master Xu said to Tao Mo, “Master Tao has come to visit this time, could it be for a little girl's marriage?”

“Huh?” Tao Mo froze, quickly shaking his head, “This matter, this matter...”

“That's why I'm here.” Gu-She cut him off coldly.

Master Xu looked around at Gu-She with interest: “Could it be that Master Tao is asking Young Master Gu to play matchmaker?”

Tao Mo's heart trembled and only one thought flashed through his mind: he found out about my feelings for him and he's sick of me? Is he trying to ask me for a favor?

Master Xu was shocked to see Tao Mo's face turn white and blue and said, “What's wrong with Master Tao? Are you sick somewhere?”

Tao Mo shook his head dumbly and said, “If that's what he really wants, then I'll make a vow to never see him again. But I can't get married. I don't care but I can't drag Miss Xu into this.”

His mind was racing with ideas but finally he made up his mind and was about to politely decline, only to find that Gu-She and Master Xu were already chatting.

“It's a shame.” Master Xu looked at Tao Mo with sympathy in his eyes, “I never thought Master Tao would have such a hard time.”

Tao Mo was at a loss.

Gu-She said, “Master Xu, it would be most kind of you to forgive me.”

Master Xu sighed, “Master Tao is so homely, it is my daughter who is not blessed.”

Tao Mo was so confused, he couldn't help but go see Gu-She.

Gu-She winked at him.

Tao Mo's heart was pounding and he couldn't remember what he wanted to ask.

Gu-She talked to Master Xu for a while and then got up to leave.

Tao Mo was confused the whole time, not knowing why he came and why he left, until he got on the carriage and asked, “What did you say to Master Xu? Why did he suddenly change his mind?”

Gu-She smiled speciously, “You feel sorry?”

“Of course not.” Tao Mo said and added, “I just don't get it.”

Gu-She said, “I said you have had your fortune told, you were born to be a wife-killer, not suitable for marriage.”

“Huh?” Tao Mo stalled.

Gu-She looked at him askance, “You don't believe it?”

Tao Mo said: “No, I, I just didn't think you'd say that.” Well, that's a permanent solution. Otherwise, if there's no Miss Xu today, there'll be Miss Sun and Miss Ma tomorrow. If he's unfit to marry, the matchmakers won't come. After all, no one wants to gamble with their lives.

Gu-She said, “If you regret it, it's not too late. Just go back and tell Master Xu that what I said earlier was all a misunderstanding.”

Tao Mo shook his head, “I think it's so very good.”

A smile finally appeared in Gu-She's eyes.

“But, why are you helping me?” asked Tao Mo cautiously. He thought that after yesterday, Gu-She didn't want to worry about him anymore.

Gu-She said, “How do you know I'm not helping myself?”

Tao Mo looked at him puzzled.

But Gu-She didn't explain, “Been busy lately?”

“I'm not busy.” Tao Mo paused, also wanting to distract him with something to say and said, “Hao Guozi said it's been a bad time and he's going to go visit incense to get rid of bad luck.”

With a gleam in his eye, Gu-She asked, “Where are you going to incense?”

Tao Mo thought to himself, “It says there's the Guanyin Temple in the east of the city and the Fuzi Temple and Taoist Temple in the west.”

Gu-She knocked on the carriage wall, saying, “Go to the temple of the Goddess of Mercy.”

Gu Xiaojia called out from outside, “Why go to the temple of the Goddess of Mercy? The temple of the Goddess of Mercy is for marriage. It's bad luck to go there.”

Tao Mo's heart pounded at the sound.

Gu-She said without changing his face: “How do you know one doesn't care if you don't ask that person?”


~ Love is More than A Word ~
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