The matchmaker talked tirelessly for nearly half an hour, but in the end it was Lao Tao who felt sorry for the tea in the mansion, and invited her away anyway.
But even though she left, the echo stayed for a long time, endlessly.
Tao Mo covered his forehead, and asked Old Tao pitifully, "Do you know who Miss Xu is?" At first Miss Xu asked a matchmaker to come to her door to propose a marriage. Unexpectedly, this Miss Xu really seemed to have her eyes on him, and she rejected one and invited another, again and again, and there was a tendency of getting more frustrated and more courageous, which really puzzled him.
"Miss Xu is the eldest lady of Fanxing Silk and Satin Village." Master Jin suddenly appeared with a smile on his face, "I heard that although she was born in a merchant, she is knowledgeable and sensible, and she is as beautiful as a flower. She is a rare beauty."
Tao Mo said in a daze, "Then why did she fall in love with me?"
Master Jin laughed and said: "Why does my master belittle himself? After all, you are also a seventh-rank county magistrate of the imperial court. You are in charge of the government of a county. You have no wife in the court and no name. You are a rare good son-in-law."
Tao Mo started to sweat again.
"A beautiful woman matches a beautiful son-in-law. In my opinion, this marriage is simply a match made in heaven. It will be passed on in the future. It is also a good story. Why does the master blindly reject people thousands of miles away, in the name of being incomprehensible?"
If it wasn't for Master Jin being a man, Tao Mo would have suspected that he was the fourth matchmaker. He looked at Lao Tao as if asking for help.
Old Tao said slowly: "Young master, you know what the master is thinking."
Tao Mo's heart sank.
Lao Tao said again: "You also know my thoughts."
Tao Mo shrugged.
"But it's about your lifelong happiness, you'd better make up your own mind." Old Tao sighed and walked out.
Master Jin was stunned. He thought that Lao Tao would be eager to match up with such a good offer, but he didn't want to let him make the decision.
Before Lao Tao left, he suddenly turned to Master Jin and said, "Master Jin is familiar with the Xu family?"
"Of course," Master Jin suddenly came back to his senses after blurting out, and said dryly, "It's from my hometown."
Lao Tao smiled, stepped out of the door with his hands behind his back, and walked towards his room instead.
It was still daylight, but the doors and windows of his room were tightly closed.
He opened the door and entered the room, and a young man in common clothes was already standing behind the door waiting. Seeing him coming in, he hurriedly saluted and said, "Elder Lu."
Lao Tao nodded and said, "You did a good job in this matter."
The young man smiled implicitly, "I'm just following orders."
Old Tao said: "I didn't expect you to be able to ask Mr. Jin to speak."
The young man said: "Master Jin didn't ask me to move, but Mr. Xu invited him. He said that since it's an act, it must be realistic."
A smile appeared on Lao Tao's face, "It seems that your future father-in-law is really very open-minded."
"Master Xu wouldn't be where he is today if I hadn't taught him to help me when I was in danger. He remembered it in his heart and dared not forget it."
Old Tao said: "When this matter is over, I will ask the young master to witness the marriage for the two."
The young man showed a look of embarrassment.
Lao Tao smiled and said, "Of course there is me."
The young man said gratefully, "Thank you, Elder Lu." To them, a county magistrate is nothing to witness the marriage, and it is respectable for the elders of the Devil's Cult to witness the marriage in person.
Old Tao said: "But before that, Miss Xu has to be wronged for a few days."
The young man hesitated and said: "I don't know if I should say something or not."
"speak."
"Who exactly is Mr. Tao looking for? Why do you use such methods to test? In fact, it is normal for a man to marry a woman. Your lord can send a matchmaker to come to propose a marriage." What he wondered in his heart was why such a dignified man like Tao Mo didn't Dare to come to propose marriage, but want a woman like his fiancée to sacrifice her boudoir reputation to fulfill him.
Old Tao patted him on the shoulder.
The young man hurriedly lowered his head and said, "This subordinate is talkative."
Lao Tao hinted vaguely: "If you don't have anything to do, get in touch with the helper more." Especially the two leaders of the Demon Cult.
"...Yes." Apparently, Tao Tao's hint was too vague and tortuous, and the young man didn't feel it.
One hour to practice calligraphy and one hour to play chess.
Because he was still thinking about Miss Xu, Tao Mo was defeated like a mountain.
Gu She was relentless in attacking the city, and in just one stick of incense, the mountains and rivers were set.
Tao Mo dangled the sunspots on the chessboard for a while, then gave up and said, "I lost."
Gu Shedao: "It is also a beautiful thing to lose a chess game and win a beautiful lady."
Tao Mo shook his hand, and the black chess fell on the board, disturbing the layout and disturbing the restless spring water in his heart, "Have you heard that too?"
Gu She leaned back in his chair and slowly sipped his tea.
Tao Mo said in a low voice, "I don't know what to do either."
"I don't know how to hire?" Gu She asked.
Tao Mo hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Of course not. Me, how could I marry her." He was born with broken sleeves, and marrying a woman is to harm her.
Gu She said: "What's the problem? Just refuse."
"But she is a woman, such things will damage her boudoir's reputation to some extent." It is hard for a woman to say when she comes to propose marriage, not to mention being rejected one after another.
Gu She looked at him silently.
Tao Mo said: "Comparing my heart to my heart, if I were her, I would definitely be very sad."
Gu She looked at the tea leaves sinking at the bottom of the cup, shook the teacup, saw the ripples on the water surface, and put it down again, "You haven't met her before, so you think she has a deep love for you, why don't you marry me?" ?”
Tao Mo said awkwardly, "I don't mean that."
"Have you ever heard a saying. If you don't have anything to show courteousness, you can either rape or steal."
Tao Mo frowned unconsciously, "You can't say that."
Gu She glanced coldly.
Tao Mo bit the bullet and said, "It's okay for you to call me, but she is a woman, and this sentence is too mean." His words became softer and softer, but they still reached Gu She's ears verbatim.
"Mean?" He pursed his lips.
Tao Mo waved his hands hastily, "That's not what I mean. I just think that what I said just now is a little, a little, inappropriate."
Gu She stared at him for a while, then got up and walked out. After recuperating for so many days, the injury is almost healed. Although it is still a little itchy sometimes, as long as the normal walking is slow, it will not be a big problem.
As soon as he stood up, Tao Mo also stood up.
Gu shot across the threshold without looking back, "seeing off the guests."
Tao Mo chased to the threshold and stopped, watching his figure getting further and further away, feeling overwhelmed and uncomfortable. He didn't regret the rebuttal just now, only regretted that he hadn't read the book, his words were not tactful enough, and he knew that Gu She was doing it for his own good, but he made him angry.
He didn't know how he got back to the Yamen, he just lay on the bed and didn't want to move when he entered. In the evening, when Hao Guozi brought dinner, he curled up and hid under the quilt and could not come out.
Hao Guozi asked several times to no avail, and Lao Tao came again.
Lao Tao didn't enter the door, but just looked at him silently at the door. He set up this game because he wanted to cut through the mess quickly. Love is a thing that hurts people not shallow, it will only get deeper and deeper. Rather than waiting for Tao Mo to face all kinds of difficulties in the future when Tao Mo cannot extricate himself, it is better to distinguish everything clearly now. If Gu She also has the heart, then he has nothing to say, and he just wants to help them. If not, even with golden swords and silver knives, he will cut them clean!
The moonlight is graceful, the courtyard is full of sparse shadows, and the ground is clear and bright.
Gu She sat alone on a soft seat padded with several layers of cotton, with a pot of sake beside him, and he poured himself a drink.
"Young Master Gu is very elegant." Old Tao jumped down from the eaves, "toast to invite the bright moon alone."
Gu Shedao: "The same is true for Mr. Tao. He stepped on the moon in the middle of the night to find the fragrance, but he seems to have found the wrong place."
Old Tao coughed dryly and said, "I'm here to look for Young Master Gu."
Gu She drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
"I would like to ask Mr. Gu for a favor." Old Tao said, "Recently, a Miss Xu asked a matchmaker to match her with the young master. I have searched for someone. This Miss Xu is young, beautiful, well-educated, and has a family member. It's a rare good marriage. It's just that my young master is shy and has never considered the matter of men and women, so it is inevitable to be vacillating. I want to ask Mr. Gu to meet with the young master and persuade him."
Gu She put down his glass, "You didn't come to ask me to talk."
Lao Tao was taken aback.
Gu She said slowly: "If you really want Tao Mo to agree to this marriage, you won't come to me."
Lao Tao's face remained unchanged and he said, "How can you see that?"
Gu She said: "You know very well, I will never agree."
Old Tao said innocently: "I don't know."
Gu She said calmly, "Then you know now."
Old Tao said: "May I ask the reason."
"No." Gu She said.
Old Tao looked at him, his eyes full of inquiry.
Gu She looked calm, and said after a while: "Because I haven't figured it out yet."