"Master." Old Tao lowered his voice.
Tao Mo quickly got up from the mat, ran to the iron gate in three steps at a time, and lowered his voice, "Why are you here?"
"I'm here to see the young master." Lao Tao looked at the environment in the cell, frowning deeply. Needless to say, it was dark and damp, and there was no bed, only a mat that had been stepped on by countless people, and only a dirty, thin and small quilt was spread on it. "I'll save the young master!" At the beginning, because he was afraid of wolves and tigers later, he was so indecisive that Master Tao died unjustly. Now, he will never make the same mistake again.
Tao Mo shook his head and said, "I won't go."
"Master!" Lao Tao raised his voice slightly.
Tao Mo hastily made a booing gesture, "I cannot escape the responsibility for the crimes listed by the magistrate, and I should have been punished."
Old Tao said: "The magistrate deliberately targeted you."
Tao Mo said: "If I wasn't riddled with wounds, how could he target me?"
"Full of wounds?" Old Tao didn't bother to study whether he should use riddled with wounds at this time, and said, "Did the young master forget how the master passed away?"
Tao Mo turned pale, bit his lip, shook his head vigorously and said, "It's because I haven't forgotten, so I can't leave."
"The prefect has no right to detain the young master."
"I don't even have the right to escape from the prison." Tao Mo said, "Wouldn't it be a big mistake if I knew that others made mistakes and added to my own mistakes?"
For the first time, Tao Mo found out that Tao Mo could be so eloquent, "If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about no firewood. Why don't you follow me back to the inn first, young master, and then we can discuss long-term plans. With Master Jin... and Gu She here, you don't have to worry about it." Can't get past the law."
Tao Mo said: "Even if the law makes it passable, I can't pass it myself. This time, I was at fault. If the magistrate hadn't said that the county magistrate must be present for the autopsy, I didn't even know there was such a regulation. As a A dignified parent and official should fulfill the responsibility of educating a county, but in the end, I am not as familiar with the law as the master and the litigator, so how can I openly ask to get out of this prison?"
Lao Tao was silent for a while, then said: "Master, this matter is probably related to Huang Guangde."
"Let's talk about the facts. If I am wrong, I am wrong, so what if it is related to who or not? Even if it is really Huang Guangde, at least in this matter, he is right and I am wrong." Tao Mo said, "Since it is wrong , I should be punished, and I deserve it.”
Seeing that he had made up his mind, Lao Tao sighed and said, "I will send someone to protect you secretly. If something happens, remember to call it out. I mean, in case they abuse the lynching."
Tao Mo nodded and said, "Take care too." If Huang Guangde is really the person behind the scenes, then he will definitely not let it go. I'm afraid Lao Tao, Master Jin, and Gu She will be in danger at that time.
Lao Tao took off his jacket and stuffed it through the iron grille, "It's cold at night, you just recovered from your illness, and you can't bear the cold."
Tao Mo wanted to refuse, but the old Tao seemed to have known what he was going to say, so he turned around and left after stuffing his clothes, so fast that he didn't even have time to shout, so he could only lay down on the mat silently with his jacket in his arms.
But he said that Lao Tao gave Tao Mo his clothes, and was so cold that he finally returned to the inn, and was about to get into bed when he saw Gu She standing at the door. Judging by his appearance, he should have been waiting for a long time.
"Young Master Gu." Lao Tao opened the door, thinking about how to issue an order to evict the guest, but Gu She had already stepped into the room before he pushed the door open. Old Tao said displeased: "In the middle of the night, I don't know what advice Mr. Gu has?"
Gu She didn't go around in circles, and said straight to the point: "How is he?"
Old Tao heard that he cared about Tao Mo, his depression faded away, and he sighed, "What can we do with that kind of place?"
Gu She pursed her lips.
Thinking of Gu She's family background, Lao Tao's eyes lit up, "I want to rescue the young master, but the young master doesn't want to. Unless the magistrate can forgive him and personally allow him to be released."
Gu She was silent.
Lao Tao felt a little impatient in his heart, so he simply said directly: "Mr. Gu, would you like to contribute?"
"In your opinion..."
"Gu Xiang has a lot of people in the world, so trivial matters shouldn't be a problem?" Old Tao secretly scolded him for putting on airs, asking questions knowingly.
Gu She said indifferently: "Gu Xiang has peaches and plums all over the world, what has he to do with me?"
Old Tao frowned. It sounds like he doesn't want to intervene.
Gu She said: "Do you know why he doesn't want you to rescue him?"
Old Tao said: "He said that he deserved what he deserved. But what kind of crimes are those two listed by Zhifu? If you really want to say crimes, it is a serious crime for him to detain an official ordered by the court without authorization!"
Gu Shedao: "He doesn't want you to save him because his reputation is not right. If I raise my father's reputation, will my name be right?"
Old Tao choked. It is true that Gu She is the son of Gu Xiang, but Gu She himself has no official position. According to the laws of the imperial court, not to mention the son of Prime Minister Gu, even the current prince, unless it is the emperor's decree or seal, he is not allowed to arrange local affairs without authorization. Asking Gu She to ask the magistrate to release Tao Mo in the name of Gu Xiang is not only unfair, it is simply bending the law for personal gain.
Gu Shedao: "If I do this, wouldn't it be more apparent that Tao Mo is guilty and the magistrate is selfless?"
Lao Tao was born in the Devil's Sect, wandered around in the rivers and lakes, and was used to solving problems in a straight-forward way. When he said this, he couldn't help but feel a little enlightened. But naturally he wouldn't say it out loud, "Then, in your opinion, what should it be?"
Gu She said: "Just follow the rules."
"Follow the rules? What rules?"
Gu She said: "Beat the drums to complain."
"..." Lao Tao sneered, "Although the magistrate is targeting the young master, as the young master said, after all, he made a small mistake first. If the magistrate wants to make use of it, there is nothing he can do. How to complain?"
Gu She said: "If he is right, try to make him make a mistake. If there is a small mistake, let him make a big mistake."
Old Tao said: "You mean..."
"It's a mistake to detain the court officials for no reason." Gu She said, "It's just a small mistake now..."
"No." Lao Tao flatly refused before he finished speaking, "Young master is weak, staying in that place for a day is already a torment, how can you stay for ten days and half a month?"
Gu She said: "How could I come up with such a simple method?"
Old Tao looked at him suspiciously.
Gu She said expressionlessly: "Since he is going to be wrong, let him be so wrong that he has to let others go, or even... betray him."
Early in the morning, there were very few pedestrians on the street.
Gu She wore a big cloak and went to the big drum at the gate of the yamen, and picked up the drumsticks.
Gu Xiaojia grabbed his arm and said anxiously: "Master, you, you really want to go to court?"
Gu She said: "Yes."
Gu Xiaojia said: "Master, you have never been to court, why don't you go back to Tanyang County and invite Mr. Yichui?"
Gu She said: "You don't believe me?"
"It's not that I don't believe it, it's just..." Gu Xiaojia said in a low voice, "As a young master, he really shouldn't be polluted in such a filthy place as the yamen court. If you really want to save Tao Mo, you might as well let me go and persuade the magistrate."
Gu She looked at him silently, his face sinking like water.
Gu Xiaojia was terrified by him, and slowly let go of his arm.
Boom!
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
…
The drums sounded like thunder, and the sound shook the sky.
The prefect hurried up the hall, glared at Gu She who was standing under the hall, and skillfully picked up the gavel and patted it, saying, "Who is under the hall?"
"Grassman Gu She."
"Why didn't you kneel when you saw me?" the magistrate asked.
Gu She said, "I'm here to avenge my grievances."
The magistrate said: "Since you have come to avenge your grievances, why don't you kneel?"
"Because it is Your Excellency that I am going to sue."
"Presumptuous!" The magistrate gave a heavy slap on the gavel, "You know that if the people sue the officials, they will be punished."
"What about the official suing the official?"
The prefect sneered, "What kind of official are you?"
Gu She said: "I'm not an official, but my employer is."
The magistrate had a vague idea in his heart, "Who is your employer?"
"Tao Mo."
The magistrate said: "Magistrate Tao has neglected his duties, corrupted the law, and I have taken it down. Are you here to avenge him?"
Gu She said: "It is to avenge him."
The magistrate waved his hand and said: "The evidence of his crime is convincing, and he has no grievances to avenge!"
Gu She said: "Since that's the case, please list all his criminal evidences one by one, so that we can be convinced."
The magistrate was furious, pointed at his nose and said, "Presumptuous! Since I dare to arrest Tao Mo, I have evidence. But who are you? Why should I show you?"
Gu She said: "I'm just a grassroots person. But since your lord said that Tao Mo was arrested, then the grassroots dare to ask, which law did your lord follow in order to detain him without the approval of the Ministry of Officials and the permission of the Ministry of Punishment?" The imperial order?"
Master Jin, Lao Tao and Hao Guozi, who had been standing in the outer hall listening to Gu She and the magistrate's spat, were all amazed. It was the first time they knew that Gu She could speak such a long sentence in one breath.