Gu Xiaojia finally couldn't hold back his laughter.
Tao Mo stared at him blankly.
There was no movement in the carriage.
Gu Xiaojia said: "You really miss my son like crazy."
Tao Mo blushed.
Gu Xiaojia opened the curtain and said, "Look, where is my young master?"
Tao Mo didn't dare to look at it at first, but after hearing that there was really no movement inside, he took a tentative look inside.
Sure enough, no one.
"Xianzhi didn't come?" He was indescribably disappointed.
Gu Xiaojia said: "Although the person didn't come, but..." He compared it with his fingers.
Tao Mo leaned in and saw a long case made of silver satin, inside which should be a scroll.
Gu Xiaojia reached out to take it out and handed it to him.
Tao Mo took it over, took off the cover, and slowly unfolded the scroll—
A cold and aloof Gu She vividly appeared on the paper. He stood under the old Panasonic, half-turned his body, his eyes looked here, lifelike.
Tao Mo felt in a daze that he really seemed to come alive from the painting, and was staring at him.
"Hey, young master." Old Tao gently bumped him who was sluggish with his elbow.
Tao Mo came back to his senses, and when he looked up, he saw that Gu Xiaojia was holding back a smile desperately. "He, what else did he say?"
Gu Xiaojia spread his hands and said, "It's gone."
Tao Mo fondly touched the scroll.
Gu Xiaojia murmured, "I really don't understand. We're going to get married in a day, so what's the point of sending a painting?"
Tao Mo said: "With paintings, this day will not be so long."
Gu Xiaojia shook his shoulders, "I'm going back, do you have anything to say?"
Of course there is. And it's a thousand words. But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't utter a single word.
Gu Xiaojia saw his hesitation, shook his head and said: "If not, I will leave."
"Hey." Tao Mo said anxiously, "Just say, I, I, look forward to that day."
"What day?" Gu Xiaojia blinked pretending not to understand.
Old Tao said behind Tao Mo: "Just because you don't understand, doesn't mean Mr. Gu doesn't understand."
Gu Xiaojia twitched his lips and drove away in the carriage.
Tao Mo looked at the painting again and again, and then reluctantly put it away.
Old Tao suddenly said: "Cui Jiong is here."
Tao Mo raised his head, and saw Cui Jiong hurriedly walking over, with a disgusting stench on his body, "Report to my lord, Miss Wu's body has been found."
Tao Mo and Lao Tao exchanged glances, followed him quickly back to the yamen.
After being reprimanded by the magistrate of Tancheng, Tao Mo knew that he had to be by his side for the autopsy, so he went to the autopsy room.
Wu Zuo was afraid that he would get smoked, so he picked up the saponins and cangzhu early, and handed him a piece of ginger to stuff in his mouth.
Even so, the stench of corpses still poured into Tao Mo's nose one after another, making him want to gag.
Wu Zuo looked at Tao Mo and said, "Master Tao, can we start?"
Tao Mo nodded.
Wu Zuo walked to the corpse and slowly put his hands on the corpse.
Due to the dimness of the room, Tao Mo was not very clear about every movement they made, so he could only guess the result from the length of his movements.
for a while.
Wu Zuo said, "I'll take off her clothes first."
Tao Mo was startled, and said, "She's a woman."
Wu Zuo said: "In my eyes, she is just a corpse covered with grievances."
Tao Mo knew he had made a slip of the tongue, so he shut his mouth tightly and dared not speak again.
"My lord." Cui Jiong suddenly stood outside and called.
"What's the matter?" Tao Mo stood up.
Cui Jiong said: "The Wu family will come to watch."
Tao Mo said: "Is it possible?"
Cui Jiong said: "It should be agreed."
Tao Mo said, "Just bring them in."
"Yes." Cui Jiong took the order and left.
Wu Zuo suddenly said: "Don't you think it's strange?"
Tao Mo said, "What's so strange?"
Wu Zuo said: "I heard that Wu Youcai took Mr. Cui to rummage around the mass grave for a long time before they found this corpse. Since the Wu family loves their daughter so much, they don't hesitate to fight against Shi Taishi's nephew. How could she be thrown away in a mass grave at will?"
Tao Mo said: "Maybe they... are too poor?"
Wu Zuo said: "What's the difficulty in finding a broken mat to wrap it in?"
Tao Mo was questioned.
Wu Zuo said, "This corpse has frostbite on its feet."
Tao Mo said: "It's just after winter, so it's not surprising to have chilblains."
Wu Zuo suddenly picked up the oil lamp from the table and walked towards the corpse.
Tao Mo said, "What's wrong?"
Wu Zuo said: "Chilblains are not surprising, but what about hickeys?"
Tao Mo was stunned.
It happened that the Wu couple entered the door.
Mrs. Wu Guo said loudly: "The beast must have forced her to leave this trace!"
Wu covered the corpse with clothes, turned to look at the Wu family and said, "Is this really Miss Wu?"
Wu Youcai said: "Of course. Can I still admit my mistake to my daughter?"
Wu Zuo said: "This is what makes me strange. Why did the two daughters who kept screaming suddenly become... sons?"
Wu Youcai and Wu Guoshi's bodies trembled suddenly, their faces turned pale.
Wu Zuo said: "The two of you can't even tell whether your child is a boy or a girl, can you?"
The bodies of Wu and his wife trembled like a sieve, they did not dare to raise their heads.
Tao Mo came over, covered his nose and said, "You mean he is..."
Wu Zuo lifted the sermon covering the body, "My lord, please take a look."
Tao Mo took a look and was sure that the corpse belonged to a man. "You two, how do you explain this?"
Wu Guoshi looked at Wu Youcai in fear.
Wu Youcai grabbed her arm and forced himself to be calm: "She, she's been dead for too long, I just admitted my mistake."
Wu Zuo said: "Even my own daughter will admit her mistake, it is really a strange story through the ages."
Although Tao Mo really wanted to talk about the case, he definitely didn't want to talk about the case here. So after bowing his hands to Wu Zuo and thanking him, he asked the Yamen servant to see the two of them brought to court.
Re-opening the hall, but in two different moods.
The last time he was promoted to the hall, Tao Mo felt sorry for the two old men, white-haired and black-haired, who suffered such misfortune for no reason. But now, he couldn't help but disbelieve Shi Qianshan's words. If they didn't intentionally frame her, how could they even admit that their daughter was a man or a woman
"Wu Youcai. Are you still asking for it?" Tao Mo picked up the gavel and patted it heavily on the table.
Wu Youcai's body trembled, and she prostrated herself on the ground, "everything I said is true, sir."
"True?" Tao Mo said, "Do you still think that the corpse you found is your daughter?"
Wu Youcai said: "Your Excellency, I have learned a lot. I was in a trance after losing my daughter, and I confessed to the wrong person. Please forgive me, Your Excellency."
Tao Mo asked Wu Guo, "Are you also wrong?"
Mrs. Wu Guo looked at Wu Youcai, lowered her head and said, "Private women don't know, women don't know anything."
Tao Mo said: "Since you are seeking justice for your daughter, why don't you tell the truth? Or, as Shi Qianshan said, all this is just a well-planned trap?"
Wu Youcai said: "It was Shi Qianshan who killed my daughter! It was Shi Qianshan who killed my daughter!"
"What about Miss Wu's body?" Tao Mo asked.
Wu Youcai hurriedly got up and said, "I'll look for it. I'll look for it right away."
"Wait." Tao Mo quickly patted the table with his gavel, and said, "I haven't finished asking."
Wu Youcai plopped and knelt down again.
Seeing the man who is enough to be his father kneeling in front of him like this, Tao Mo couldn't bear it, and said in a slow tone: "As long as you recruit all of them truthfully, I will definitely seek justice for you."
Wu Youcai lowered her head and said nothing.
Wu Guo didn't raise his head from the beginning to the end.
Tao Mo couldn't help thinking of the benefits of Master Jin. If the master is here, he will definitely mention how to do it.
Just as he was thinking, he saw Mr. Jin walking in from the outside.