Tao Mo was hit hard, it was Gu She who picked him up.
Naturally, all the flower viewing and outings came to naught. He was placed in the abbot's quiet room, and Gu Xiaojia seemed to be driving a car to pick up Li Yuan.
Li Yuan couldn't come, but Gu Xiaojia picked up Kuang Dongyi after hearing from the staff at the clinic that he was going to other places to buy some precious medicinal materials.
As soon as Kuang Dong pressed Tao Mo's body back and forth, Tao Mo burst into tears, and Gu She punched him on the head of the bed.
Kuang Dong said with a sneer, "You have to see where the injury is."
Fortunately, although the tendons were injured, the bones were not broken. I'm bruised all over, I just need to rest for a while. As soon as Kuangdong prescribed the decoction for oral administration and the plaster for external application, Gu Xiaojia sent him back and picked up Hao Guozi by the way.
The porridge was brought from the temple, and Gu She brought it to Tao Mo, who shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry."
Gu She frowned: "I haven't eaten for so long, how can I not be hungry?!"
Tao Mo blushed and did not speak.
Gu She put down the porridge and asked, "Do you want to take a break?"
Tao Mo blushed even more: "I can wait for the fruit to come."
Without saying a word, Gu She went out for a while, brought in a brand new basin, and stuffed it into Tao Mo's bed: "Pee!"
Tao Mo said in embarrassment, "How can I make you—"
Gu She cut the mouth and said, "Piss!"
Tao Mo was so choked by him that he almost peed in his pants.
Gu She heard that Tao Mo had finished urinating, so he took off the quilt to get the basin, but Tao Mo protected the basin with both hands and refused to give it to him: "Wait for the fruit."
Gu She said: "I'll just take it out, the rest will wait for Hao Guozi."
Tao Mo let go.
Gu She did what he said, he really put the urinal aside and didn't care about it anymore. Tao Mo breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of Gu She carrying the urinal for him, and thinking of being hugged and snuggled into his arms by Gu She just now, my heart is sour and sweet, I don't know what it feels like.
Gu She went to get water to wash his hands, and then came to feed Tao Mo porridge, and after a few sips, Hao Guozi came, crying unseemly, and wanted to grab the bowl in Gu She's hand.
Tao Mo stopped him and said, "Go and empty the urinal first."
Hao Guozi looked at Tao Mo carefully again, and then poured it into the urinal with tears in his eyes.
Tao Mo and Hao Guozi rested at Guanyin Temple that night, while Gu She and Gu Xiaojia went back to the city.
Sleeping until midnight, when he heard the commotion in the temple, Tao Mo ordered Hao Guozi to inquire. Hao Guozi went away for a while, then came back and said, "I don't know whose house has flooded, but it will be gone soon."
Tao Mo thought to himself: The hard work of these days was finally not in vain.
Then the next day, he knew: things were not that simple.
Master Jin sent a servant to come up and say that the fire last night was ignited by the Kuang Mansion. The neighbors in the neighborhood went to put out the fire according to the mutual aid system established by Tao Mo, and then they all fell asleep. No one showed up! The gate of Kuang Mansion, which was usually opened early, was also tightly closed. When the farmers who delivered firewood and vegetables came, they all waited at the door and could not go in. Li Zheng felt that something was wrong, so he reported to the officials. After the people in the punishment room entered, they found that all 37 people in Kuang Mansion had died.
Tao Mo was so anxious that he asked Hao Guozi to help him up, grinning his teeth and getting into the carriage. Seeing that he was in severe pain, Hao Guozi asked, "Can the young master not go? Leave it to Mr. Mu and Master Jin."
Tao Mo shook his head and said, "How did this happen? I am the magistrate of a county, and I have to examine every corpse. I don't go to the scene myself. How can I redress the wronged person who died?"
Hao Guozi had no choice but to say, "I will carry the young master."
Before Tao Mo climbed onto Hao Guozi's back, the door curtain was lifted, and Gu She came in with a gust of cold wind. With a sweep of his hands, he hugged Tao Mo horizontally, Gu Xiaojia lifted the door curtain, and Gu She went out by himself.
Hao Guozi hurriedly chased him out, only to see Gu She's carriage parked at the gate of the temple. Gu Xiaojia ran out and opened the curtain again. The small table inside had been dismantled, and a small bed was installed with a thick mattress.
Gu She carefully put Tao Mo on the bed, and gently covered him with a thin quilt.
Hao Guozi chased after him and asked, "What should I do?"
Gu Xiaojia glanced at him: "You drive your broken carriage."
Hao Guozi returned to Tao Mo's carriage, and the yamen servant said, "I drove the carriage, let me drive it back! You go and take care of Master Tao."
Hao Guozi went back to Gu She's carriage again, Gu Xiaojia said, "You see, the inside is already covered with beds, and my son still needs to sit, where is there room?"
Hao Guozi cried pitifully, "Brother Jia."
Gu Xiaojia looked up at the sky helplessly, and stepped aside: "Sit on the shaft!"
Today is March 1st, there are a lot of men and women offering incense in the Guanyin Temple, and everyone is talking about Mr. Gu carrying Mr. Tao out.
The yamen servant said: "Master Tao was knocked down by the earth wall in the temple yesterday and was seriously injured. He has to go to Kuang Mansion to investigate the scene of the murder in person. Young Master Gu is Master Tao's teacher, so he came here specially to pick him up."
Everyone who heard it said it was so! Master Tao is really a good official.
The bed that Gu She made for Tao Mo was very soft and thick, but after the carriage moved, Tao Mo still broke out in cold sweat from the pain.
Gu She sat beside him, gently wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Tao Mo felt Gu She's gentle movements, and felt that the blow was really worth it.
In order to save Tao Mo from suffering, Gu She asked Gu Xiaojia to drive the carriage directly to Kuang Mansion. Mu Chun and Master Jin are already waiting there.
Seeing Tao Mo, Mu Chun expressed apologetic expression: "I thought you and Gu would shoot out, so I don't have to worry about it. I didn't expect you to get hurt."
As he spoke, he glanced at Gu She with a worried face.
Tao Mo hastily defended Gu She, saying: "Gu She and the abbot had some important business to discuss, and I was the one who told me to walk around the temple, but I didn't listen, and ran to the earth wall that had already collapsed in a corner, and was smashed by the wall. gone."
Mu Chun frowned and said, "The earth wall collapsed, didn't you hear the sound? Didn't you have time to dodge beforehand?"
Tao Mo heard the noise, originally the earthen wall couldn't hit him, he was hit to save Yang Liu'er, but how could he say that? I had no choice but to stammer and say: "Those who hear the noise, have time to avoid it in the future."
Gu She suddenly asked: "Who moved some of the adobe?"
Tao Mo was startled. When Gu She and Gu Xiaojia arrived yesterday, there were still some adobe blocks pressing him down. Gu She and Gu Xiaojia worked together to move the adobe away. Gu She immediately picked him up and took care of him, without asking why he was smashed. He thought that Gu She didn't think of this verse, so he just revealed it, but he didn't want to ask it now.
After Mu Chun heard this, he immediately looked at Tao Mo with a questioning expression.
Tao Mo was not good at fakes, so he had no choice but to say: "A girl."
"Where's the girl?" Without waiting for Gu She to ask, Mu Chun took the lead to ask.
"gone."
"Why?"
"Girl... innocence is important."
"Did you get knocked down just to save that girl?"
Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Tao Mo could only nod his head. But immediately said: "Don't ask who that girl is, she doesn't want to marry me, don't delay her future."
Mu Chun sighed: "Silly young master, you always only think about others, not yourself."
After Gu She's words caused Mu Chun to question Tao Mo repeatedly, he stopped talking. At this moment, he just brought water to Tao Mo's lips, and fed him water.
Mu Chun said again: "Fortunately, you were lucky enough to meet me. My family has practiced martial arts and medicine for generations, specializing in treating poisons and various internal and external injuries."
He cut Tao Mo's pulse and said, "Fortunately, the lungs and viscera were not injured. You only need to take two Huayun pills. If you hurt the lungs and viscera, you can't take Huayun pills, you have to take Yangxiu Dan." .”
He got out of the carriage, called An Ran, whispered a few words, and An Ran went.
The yamen servants removed the bed boards and carried Tao Mo into Kuang's mansion. Tao Mo saw that there were several corpses scattered beside the door, but there was no blood or injury, and he was very puzzled.
Mu Chunyan looked at it for a moment, then frowned and said, "All of them died by breaking their heart veins with one palm. The murderer has practiced martial arts."
The yamen servants carried Tao Mo all the way, and saw all the people they met when they came to Kuang Mansion to rectify the fire prevention on February 2. Kuang Dongyi, who just showed Tao Mo his injuries yesterday, was lying on his back on the bed as if he had fallen asleep. His wife and child lived in another courtyard. Mrs. Kuang held the child in her arms and fell to the ground facing the door.
Wu Zuo said: "My lord, Kuang Dongyi was the first to be killed among the 37 members of his family, followed by Mrs. Kuang and the young master. Next, the murderer went out from Mrs. Kuang's residence, killed at the gate, turned around again, and Find out all the people who are hiding, and kill them all.”
Tao Mo shuddered: "It's so cruel!"
Master Jin said from the side: "37 people in a family of masters and servants were killed. This is a serious case, and the adults have to report it to the magistrate's yamen before it is done."
Tao Mo smiled wryly, "Master Lao is the only option."
When the group returned to the county government office, Gu She pushed away the crowd and carried Tao Mo to the bed.
Hao Guozi couldn't help looking at Mu Chun, but seeing that Mu Chun didn't think anything different, he thought to himself: "Mr. Mu is a man with a wife, I don't know that men and women are also guarded."
After putting Tao Mo on the bed, Gu She sat down next to Tao Mo's bed and ordered Hao Guozi: "Serve tea."
Hao Guozi felt a little uncomfortable when she saw that Tao Mo was about to speak, but Gu She preempted her. After all, Tao Mo is the owner of the county government office, and Gu She turned against customers. Firstly, he disrespected Tao Mo, and secondly, it seemed that Tao Mo did not treat guests well.
But Tao Mo didn't care, he just told Hao Guozi, "Bring boiled water to Gu She and Mr. Mu."
Gu She's always tense face immediately relaxed a lot.
Mu Chun said: "There is only one murderer, all of them used the method of smashing the heart with one palm."
Gu She said: "It's a vendetta."
Tao Mo asked suspiciously, "Who does Kuang Dongyi have a grudge against?"
Everyone said in unison: "Li Yuan?"
Gu She shook his head and said: "Li Yuan and Kuang Dongyi are just rivals, if they really have a grudge, just kill Kuang Dongyi, instead of killing all 37 people in the whole house."
"Who would that be?"
Gu She asked Wu Zuo: "How long was the interval between the murder of Kuang Dongyi and Mrs. Kuang?"
Wu Zuo said, "It's less than a stick of incense."
Gu Shedao: "The murderer's intention is obvious, he wants to silence him. There are 37 people in the Kuang Mansion, and none of them will be kept. Maybe the murderer came to the Kuang Manor and did something he didn't want people to know."
Master Jin couldn't help asking: "Although Kuang Dongyi and his wife were both servants in the palace, but Kuang Dongyi resigned from office and returned to Danyang eighteen years ago. If we say that we kept our mouths shut...why did we wait until today?"
Gu She said leisurely: "Then we can only ask the murderer."
Mu Chundao: "There are not many kungfu techniques in the martial arts that can shatter the heart with one palm, I'll go and find out."
Gu She continued: "The murderer then set fire to the first residence of Kuang Dong, Mrs. Kuang's residence, the kitchen, and the gate, in order to turn the murder case into a fire. It is obvious that the murderer is either a habitual offender or Instigated by someone."
Master Jin said: "It's thanks to Young Master Gu and Master Tao that they turned Danyang into a city where fires stopped. If it wasn't for this, the 37 people in Kuang Mansion would have died as a result of a fire, and the grievances would never be settled."
Gu She glanced at Tao Mo, but said nothing.
Tao Mo said: "It's because Master Jin and everyone in the yamen have made effective orders that they can achieve today's effect."
After some more discussions, there was no further progress. In the end, it was Mu Chun who started from the rivers and lakes to find out the origin of the murderer. Master Jin and the others went to inquire about the recent changes in Kuang Mansion.
I thought it would take some time to investigate this case, but I didn't expect that on March 3rd, only two days before the incident, the magistrate came to Danyang County.
Tao Mo was helped up by Hao Guozi and Mr. Jin from left to right, and the prefect said with great pity, "Since you are injured, I won't delay any longer. I will leave after finishing the business. You reported the case of killing the family in the Kuang Mansion the day before yesterday." , I caught the murderer here, and I will send it to you now, and you can close the case."
As they said that, a few policemen quickly escorted a man in his fifties, who kept his head down, entered the study, and knelt obediently.
Tao Mo was so shocked that he asked, "Where's the evidence?"
The magistrate said: "There are witnesses." Looking back at the arrester, the arrester went out, and an old man came in after a while, with white beard and hair, and his head was always bowed.
The magistrate said: "This man is an old servant of the Kuang family, named Kuang Si. He was the one who witnessed Hao Yi's murder that night."
Tao Mo doubted: "A total of 37 people in Kuang's mansion died unexpectedly that night. This Kuang Si..."
Kuang Sidao: "The old servant has never been in the mansion, but waited outside the mansion. Occasionally went back to the mansion that night, but happened to meet this man who killed someone."
Tao Mo asked, "Where have you been serving?"
Mu Chun's voice sounded from outside the door: "Silly young master, the magistrate must have judged before handing over the criminal to you. Why do you have to ask clearly at this time? After the magistrate leaves, just read the file slowly .”
The magistrate saw Mu Chun coming in, his face turned blue: "This person is—"
Tao Mo hurriedly said: "This is the butler of the lower official. If you overstep, the lower official is here to apologise."
The magistrate sized Mu Chun up and down, no matter how he looked at him, he looked like a son of a family, how could he be Tao Mo's housekeeper? But he didn't ask any more questions, but nodded and said: "You can't rest even if I am here, I will leave the file to you, you can read it slowly." He stood up while speaking.
Tao Mo hurriedly sent him out. After walking two steps, Tao Mo called out, "Wait a minute!"
The prefect suddenly turned around, and everyone looked at Tao Mo.
Tao Mo said: "Since Kuang Si is a witness, he must stay here until the case is closed."
"This—" the magistrate hesitated.
Kuang Si knelt down and cried, "It is Kuang Si's responsibility to avenge the master of the house. Kuang Si is willing to stay here and wait for the case to be concluded."
The magistrate hesitated to speak, turned around and left.