Since the case is from a neighboring county, they naturally don't want to go overboard and take it on their behalf. Master Jin and Cui Jiong hurriedly collected the evidence and handed it over to the neighboring county.
Tao Mo breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a little uneasy.
Hao Guozi's words seem to be unconstrained, but in fact, when you think about it carefully, there is some truth to it.
Back at the county government office, Hao Guozi told Lao Tao about the matter, and Lao Tao also thought there must be something strange about it. However, the spies who went to Qunxianglou to inquire have not yet returned, and the matter is still unclear. He thought for a while and said: "Since Feng is familiar with Yi Yu that night, we should both inform him."
Hao Guozi glanced at him, seeing the light in Lao Tao's eyes, he felt certain. Compared to Mu Chun who came out halfway, he naturally believed in Lao Tao who had gone through ups and downs all the way.
Tao Mo had also planned this way before, and said, "Alright, I'll go with Master Jin."
"Master Jin has gone to a neighboring county. I'm afraid we won't be able to make it in a short while, so why don't we go by ourselves." Lao Tao said, "After all, this matter has nothing to do with Yiyu, and we are only going to let you know, there is no need to mobilize the crowd. .”
Tao Mo thought it was reasonable, so he let Hao Guozi drive the carriage, and he and Lao Tao walked slowly towards the door.
Walking to the gate of the yamen, I happened to see Gu She's carriage approaching from the street. After his carriage was stolen, no one else dared to get close to him, and they ran away one after another, all of them staring at him.
When he got close, Gu Xiaojia saw Hao Guozi approaching with a carriage, and said, "Put away your broken carriage, it's really embarrassing."
Hao Guozi originally had a slight liking for him because of his rescue this morning, but now he robbed him of his whites for a while, and he couldn't help but sneered, "Don't you say that I'll goug out your eyeballs, and you can't see them for nothing?"
Tao Mo was afraid that the two would quarrel, so he hurriedly asked Gu Xiaojia, "Is there something wrong with you at the Yamen?"
Gu Xiaojia wanted to reply that he couldn't come if he had nothing to do? But thinking about it, Gu She was listening in the carriage, not daring to make a mistake, and said in a low voice: "Young master is here to take Mr. Tao back to the mansion."
Tao Mo was overjoyed, and all he could think of was the phrase "Young master is here to take Mr. Tao back to the manor", until Lao Tao coughed beside him, and then he woke up and said, "I'm going out."
"Go out? Where are you going?" Gu Xiaojia asked curiously.
Hao Guozi said angrily, "Since when will my young master have to go through your permission, Mr. Gu?"
Gu Xiaojia said: "I have good intentions. Your carriage is too broken, and it would be embarrassing wherever you go. You might as well walk on two feet."
Tao Mo hurriedly stopped Hao Guozi who didn't have any good words to say, and said to Gu Xiaojia, "We're going to Mr. Yiyu's house."
"Yiyu?" Gu Xiaojia suddenly raised his voice.
Tao Mo didn't think much at first, but he couldn't help but feel guilty when he shouted so ostentatiously, and stammered to explain: "We are going to inform him."
"Notify?" Gu Xiaojia rolled his eyes, "Could it be that he is not allowed to pester you in the future? Then you might as well bring more people, and bring the two together at the gate of the yamen."
Lao Tao listened silently. If Gu Xiaojia's opinion is Gu She's opinion, then Gu She obviously doesn't want to see Yi Yu. Maybe with him around, it will get twice the result with half the effort. Thinking of it this way, without waiting for Tao Mo to deny it, he took the initiative to invite him and said, "It's rare that Mr. Gu is so enthusiastic, why don't you come?"
Gu Xiaojia knew that the Mr. Gu he was talking about was caring about this and not the other, so he didn't dare to agree without authorization, and turned his head to look at the carriage.
Sitting in the carriage, Gu She answered without disappointment: "That's fine."
So Tao Mo and Lao Tao got into Hao Guozi's carriage and led the way, while Gu Xiaojia followed behind in the carriage.
Sitting in the car, Tao Mo lifted the curtain to look back from time to time, and asked Hao Guozi, "Do you know where Yi Yu lives?"
Hao Guozi said without turning his head, "I should have inquired about it earlier. I understand why monks can't escape temples if they can escape."
Tao Mo: "..."
The house that Yiyu bought was not too big or too small, with three rooms in one courtyard. There was no hall in the house, so the group had to sit around the stone table in the yard.
The cold air brought over from the twelfth lunar month has not completely dissipated, buttocks stick to the stone bench, and the coldness rushes into the body.
Peng Xiang and Gu Xiaojia each took out a heater.
Pengxiang handed it to Yiyu, and Yiyu passed it on to Tao Mo. Tao Mo took it and gave it to Lao Tao. Lao Tao is a martial arts practitioner, to him this kind of coldness is just a breeze blowing on his face. He declined.
Tao Mo turned his head, his eyes inadvertently touched Gu She who was sitting on the right, his hand holding the stove trembled slightly, and immediately returned it to Yi Yu.
Yi Yu took the stove, and her slender fingers lightly brushed the back of Tao Mo's hand.
Tao Mo shrank his shoulders and hurriedly put his hands under the table.
Qi Yu smiled lightly and said, "What kind of wind is it that brought you here today?" He asked as if no one else was around, as if he couldn't tolerate other people in his eyes.
Tao Mo said, "There was a murder case this morning."
The corners of Yi Yu's eyes twitched slightly.
Tao Mo said, "I've identified it, it seems to be Wanfeng."
Qi Yu asked in surprise, "Night Breeze?"
Tao Mo said: "It floated down from the upper reaches of the Yutiao River. The crime occurred in a neighboring county. The case has been handed over to the magistrate of the neighboring county. I think you and Wanfeng are old friends, so I came here to let you know."
Yi Yu drooped her eyes in silence for a while, then raised her head, shedding tears. "Qunxianglou, only Wanfeng is my friend."
Tao Mo sighed lightly.
Qunxianglou, the place of fireworks. As the saying goes, a whore is ruthless, but how can a client be righteous? One is forced to smile, the other is looking for fun, coming and going is just a joke. Even between Xiaowan and Xiaowan, it is difficult to have a long-term friendship. Friends there are indeed hard to buy.
Peng Xiang also sighed and said, "Master Wanfeng is such a good person, how could someone kill him?"
Old Tao said, "How do you know he didn't commit suicide?"
Peng Xiang was stunned for a moment, and said with a dry smile: "What do you do for a good-looking person to commit suicide?"
Yi Yu wiped away her tears with her sleeve, and said to him: "The tea is cold, why don't you change the pot?"
Peng Xiang hurriedly responded.
Gu She said: "You are a tea lover."
Yi Yu forced a smile and said, "Why did Mr. Gu say that?"
Gu She said lightly: "If I am sad, I will never care whether other people's tea is cold."
Yi Yu's smile collapsed.
Lao Tao looked at it calmly, feeling very satisfied in his heart. It seems that inviting Gu She to come to this chess game is the right move.
Seeing that Yi Yu's face was gloomy, Tao Mo comforted him and said, "You can't be brought back to life after death, you are so sad. If Wan Feng has knowledge under the spring, he must also hope that you can live well."
Yi Yu said, "I wonder if the murderer has been found?"
Old Tao said: "The case in the morning, unless the murderer turns himself in, how can we find it so quickly."
Yi Yu pondered for a moment, and said: "Wan Feng is a cautious person, and will never make enemies with others. Could it be a robber?"
Old Tao asked, "When was the last time you saw him?"
Yi Yu said: "Two months ago. I saved up enough money to redeem myself, so I wanted to find Tao..." He looked at Tao Mo speechlessly, with the meaning that there was no need to say what he said, but he meant it without saying anything.
Tao Mo felt restless when he thought of Gu She beside him.
Old Tao coughed dryly and said, "Then do you know if Wanfeng had any plans to leave Qunxianglou at that time?"
Yi Yu said: "Who in Qunxiang Building doesn't want to leave? It's a pity that I don't have enough energy to spare, otherwise I must leave with him. Alas, if I knew today, I should have stayed in Qunxiang Building. Maybe he wouldn't have met Poisonous hands."
Gu Xiaojia said: "Why do you talk so inconsequentially? One moment you say it was done by the robbers, and the next moment you say that if you were here, you would not have been murdered. Is it possible that you can beat the robbers back with your bare hands?"
Yi Yu said: "If I were in Qunxianglou, he wouldn't be on the road alone..."
Gu She cut him off and said, "Why did he go on the road alone?"
Yi Yu was startled and said, "Could it be that he is accompanied by someone else?"
Gu Xiaojia also recalled it, and asked: "You have a little follower by your side, why isn't he by his side? How do you know that he isn't by your side?"
Yi Yu sighed slowly and said: "Originally there was indeed a servant by his side, but he left not long ago. He has a deep relationship with that servant, and he once said that he didn't want to recruit another servant, so I thought... Isn't it ?”
Old Tao said: "There is only one corpse, whether it is or not is still unclear."
Yi Yu looked at Tao Mo, with tears in her eyes, "Master Tao, please pay more attention to this matter."
Tao Mo nodded and said, "Don't worry."
"I have no one to rely on in Tanyang County, only Mr. Tao... I am a friend." He said the word "friend" very vaguely.
Gu Sheshi calmly said: "Everyone is in Tanyang County, Master Tao will naturally treat everyone equally."
Yi Yu bit her lower lip lightly with her white teeth, and stared fixedly at Tao Mo, seeming to be coquettish or coquettish.
Tao Mo looked left and right, "It's getting late, let's go back first."
Old Tao Yuan wanted to ask a little more thoroughly, but Yi Yu was obviously not an easy person, and he was prepared again, and he couldn't find out why if he asked again, so he echoed: "It's true that you have been bothering me for too long."
Tao Mo and Gu She stood up together.
Yi Yu's eyes couldn't help falling on the stove in Tao Mo's hand.
Tao Mo was taken aback for a moment, only to realize that the stove in Gu Sagittarius' hands had slipped into his hands at some point, his face turned red, he smiled naively, and left hastily.
Yi Yu looked at Gu She, but found that the other party didn't even pay her a glance, so she turned around and left.
After they left, Peng Xiang came out of the kitchen with his head shrunk. "My son, what should I do?"
Yi Yu stood up slowly, only then realized that her feet were shaking involuntarily, and she said after a long time, "Let me think about it."
Tao Mo came out of the Yiyu House with the stove in his arms, and subconsciously followed Gu She to get into Gu's carriage.
There was a heavy coughing sound behind him.
Tao Mo turned his head, but Hao Guozi was standing beside his carriage and winking at him. Lao Tao was behind him, his expression was unclear.
Tao Mo retracted his feet in embarrassment, stuffed the stove into Gu She's arms, and said with a dry smile, "Thank you, Mr. Gu, for the stove."
Gu She asked: "When will you return home today?"
He asked so naturally, as if Tao Mo had originally lived in the Gu Mansion, not a sojourner.
Tao Mo didn't dare to look at Lao Tao's face, so he said, "I'll be back after dinner, don't wait for me to eat."
Gu She nodded and got into the car.
Gu Xiaojia jumped into the carriage, grabbed the reins and said "drive", and the carriage slowly passed in front of him.
Old Tao said: "Everyone has gone away."
Tao Mo came back to his senses, lowered his head and got into the carriage.
Inside the carriage, Lao Tao looked at Tao Mo silently, but his mind was full of thoughts. This time, going back to Supan Mountain not only untied the knot between him and Mingzun, freed himself, but also allowed him to see the love between men from another angle. He had heard a lot of rumors about Xue Yihou and Ming Zun before, but at first he sneered at them, but after thinking about them a lot, he felt sad again. In his opinion, the reason why Mingzun committed himself to Xue Yihou should be to sacrifice his life for the Demon Sect, otherwise how could Xue Yihou easily let the Demon Sect go? But after seeing the two get along, he realized how utilitarian and superficial his previous guess was. Such two people will never be together unless they really like each other and confirm that the other treats them with the same heart.
It's just that Ming Zun and Xue Yihou are Ming Zun and Xue Yihou, and Tao Mo and Gu She are another matter. Although Ming Zun and Xue Yihou are in the Jianghu and the court, but it is undeniable that they are rare and strange men in today's world. The two of them admired each other, cherished each other, and it was understandable that they even fell in love with each other. As for Gu She, although he only met a few times, he should be regarded as this kind of person, except for Tao Mo...
Looking at Tao Mo's drowsy face, he sighed softly. He received Tao Mo's life-saving grace and lived with Tao Mo for more than two years, and he had long regarded Tao Mo as his nephew. From the bottom of his heart, he naturally hoped that he could find an outstanding person who was in love with each other. Tao Mo is interested in Gu She, he can see it. Gu She treats Tao Mo differently, he saw it with his own eyes today, and he has a bottom line in his heart. If Gu She was a woman, married and obeyed her husband, he would not be worried, not only was he not worried, he would do his best to make it happen, even though Gu She had a strong background. However, Gu She is a man, and he is a man with a proud heart, no dust in his eyes, and a stunning man. If Tao Mo had no clear relationship with him, I'm afraid he would only end up with bruises all over his body.
Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand to gently brush Tao Mo's sleeping hole, then opened the car door and said, "Go to the inn."
Hao Guozi was taken aback, "Which inn?"
"The ones that are close to the county government will make it easier to go back and forth in the future."
Hao Guozi felt something was wrong in his heart, and looked back at Tao Mo, but seeing him bowed his head and said nothing, thinking that he acquiesced, he had to obey.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon.
The tea is cold.
On the criss-cross chessboard, not a word was left.
Gu She's fingers unconsciously inserted into the chess bowl, lifted, inserted, lifted...
Gu Xiaojia and Sang Xiaotu came in from the outside, their faces pale with cold.
Gu Xiaojia rubbed his hands together, and said: "Master, it's so late, he probably rested at the Yamen, why don't you rest first?"
Snapped.
Gu She picked up a piece from the chess bowl and threw it back, "Go and prepare the carriage."
"Huh?... yes."