Tao Mo was restless and couldn't help feeling a little disgusted with her. The matter of Huang Guangde originally came because of her, and it was precisely because Huang Guangde wanted to get Tao Mo that Tao Zhengchun was implicated in Lianjian Shi Guangyao's case and died because of it.
Shang Lu welcomes and sees her off all the year round, and is good at observing words and expressions, and when she saw Tao Mo's expression, she knew that Tao Mo was tired of her, and her heart couldn't help but feel sad.
Gu She stood up: "Everything from yesterday has died from yesterday, and everything from now on has nothing to do with Miss Shang, right?"
Before Shang Lu could speak, Mrs. Xin's voice came from the door: "Master, the soup is ready."
Tao Mo was about to get rid of Shang Lu, so he hurriedly stood up after hearing this: "Thank you, aunt."
Shang Lu looked at Aunt Xin again and again, making Aunt Xin at a loss.
"Aunt Xin, right?"
Aunt Xin promised, "Yes."
"One hundred taels of silver is a lot! It's not enough to spend in this lifetime!"
Aunt Xin's face suddenly turned pale, and she stepped back.
Hold her with one hand and push her forward.
Aunt Xin looked behind and saw that Gu She blocked the door.
Aunt Xin tremblingly asked Tao Mo, "Master, what's the matter?"
Shang Lu asked her back: "In the box of Xianwei Building, who is that person who gave Mrs. Xin a hundred taels of silver? Poisoning the soup that Gu She brought, and blaming Gu She, what a brilliant idea!"
Aunt Xin screamed: "You are talking nonsense!"
Shang Lu sneered: "Then you drank this bowl of soup?"
Aunt Xin said: "This is the soup that Mr. Gu gave to my young master. I'm just a servant, how can I drink it? Besides, this soup came out of Gu's house and passed through many hands. Even if it is poisonous, how can it be my servant?" of?"
"I'm afraid you don't know. In that box, I just went to play the piano in front of me, and I left something in the box. When I went back to pick it up, I just heard you conspiring with someone! Your man said that Mr. Tao treated you two well, You still scolded him for being cowardly and hopeless, saying that one hundred taels of silver would never be spent in this lifetime! I hear every word!"
Aunt Xin couldn't hold it any longer and collapsed on the ground.
Tao Mo couldn't believe it: "Aunt Xin and his wife are both servants bought by Lao Tao years ago. They have always been honest and loyal. I also regard them as family members. How could..."
Gu She ignored him, and called the yamen servants to take Mrs. Xin down. Let Wu Zuo come to test this bowl of soup again.
"Wait!"
Shang Lu picked up the soup and drank it down.
Tao Mo was stunned for a moment before he realized: "Shang Lu!"
Shang Lu smiled slightly and said, "It's really meaningless for me to be alive. I used to think I still had you, but then I lost you. I finally found you, and now you hate me too. It just happened that I made you suffer Huang Guangde's humiliation, If you caused your father to die tragically, use this life to atone for my sin!"
Tao Mo stumbled anxiously: "How can you believe it? Huang Guangde didn't insult me!"
Hao Guozi and Gu Xiaojia went to work with An Ran, so Tao Mo had no choice but to call the yamen servant to call Li Yuan. Gu She stopped the yamen servant, wrote a post himself, and asked the yamen servant to take it.
Shang Lu smiled wryly and said, "Don't lie to me, he wrote you that fan in such an intimate tone. How can you write it without skin-to-skin contact?"
Tao Mo handed her the cup: "Drink your tea quickly, pick your throat, and see if you can spit it out."
Gu She asked: "You said this fan was written by Huang Guangde?"
Shang Lu pushed away the cup in Tao Mo's hand: "How can I not recognize his handwriting? He also wrote me a fan, and the signature is the owner of Qiuyuexuan."
Tao Mo suddenly realized: "So, that fan was written by Huang Guangde? But it's not my fan!"
A look of joy flashed across Shang Lu's face, but he still asked, "Is this fan really not yours?"
Tao Mo shook his head like a drum, and looked outside: "When will Li Yuan come?"
Shang Lu shook her body: "It's useless. This is so amazing! Can you hug me?"
Seeing that her face was like gold paper, Tao Mo could hardly stand up, his heart felt sore, he couldn't help but stepped forward and supported her.
Shang Lu looked at Tao Mo with nostalgia in her eyes: "Back then, I didn't want to tell Huang Guangde your identity, but he—" A trace of hatred flashed, but it turned into shame, "It wasn't him, it was me , I couldn't get through his torture. He stuck needles under my fingernails, and he—"
She quickly became weak, and Tao Mo already had to hold her in his arms.
She tried to raise her hand, and Tao Mo saw black and blue scars on her fingertips, between the nails and the flesh.
Tao Mo couldn't help but gasped. That day when Yang Liu'er pricked a bit of wheat straw with her fingertips, her whole body convulsed in pain, Shang Lu's ten fingers were more than ten times worse than Yang Liu'er's
He was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, he looked at Gu She for help. But he saw Gu She standing on the side coldly, showing no sympathy or help.
The yamen servant hasn't returned from looking for Li Yuan, so he can only focus on Shang Lu's face in his arms again. Shang Lu's face gradually hardened like metal.
"Do you know how he still tortured me? He stuffed pig hair under me. It hurts... still itches... still dirty..."
Tao Mo couldn't help shivering, Huang Guangde is really too vicious. Shang Lu was also very favored by him at that time, and he was able to torture her in such a way.
"I have always thought that I love you. How can anyone make me obsessed like this? But in the end, when I said the six words 'Zuixianglou Taowuwen', I realized that the one I love the most is myself .”
"You are the one you love the most, so you don't have to blame yourself." Tao Mo said softly. He already saw that even if Li Yuan arrived now, it would be useless.
Shang Lu's slack gaze tried to gather a little light, focusing on Tao Mo's face: "Then you, forgive me?"
"..." Tao Mo was not good at lying, so he choked for a moment. Understanding is one thing, forgiveness is another, after all Tao Zhengchun died because of it.
Shang Lu didn't wait for Tao Mo's answer, and shed tears in disappointment: "I knew it. I regret...the small farm at the foot of Nanshan..."
Tao Mo's tears fell unexpectedly and dripped on Shang Lu's face. This is the first person he has loved, and he has used all his heart to love her. Now that she was dying, he suddenly felt sad. She loved him, and still loves him. Although I once rejected him because of my vanity, I still love him fundamentally.
Although he doesn't love her now, but she is going to die, he still feels unspeakable heartache and discomfort. The first love that was so beautiful... the whole three years of life, it was her. All the good things in those three years were brought about by her. And now, the person who had brought him happiness was about to die.
Tao Mo said softly to Shang Lu, "My father's death was caused by Huang Guangde."
Shang Lu's voice became lower and lower: "Under Nanshan... Xiaotianzhuang..."
Because Shang Lu's body was getting heavier and heavier, he used both hands to hug her, but he couldn't spare his hands to wipe his tears. At this time, a clean and soft handkerchief came over, gently wiped his face, and pinched his nose to wipe away the snot.
Tao Mo glanced at Gu She gratefully, but Gu She turned his head as if nothing had happened.
Tao Mo moved closer to Shang Lu's ear, and solemnly choked up, "The small farm under Nanshan will always be yours."
Shang Lu's face glowed brightly, as if a drowning person was finally saved, and he closed his eyes in peace.
When Li Yuan came, Shang Lu was already cold.
Gu She asked Gu Xiaojia to buy a coffin and contact the people in Yizhuang.
"Let's be cremated!" Tao Mo's eyes were red, "I promised her that the small farm at the foot of Nanshan will always be hers. I will bury her ashes there."
Gu She pursed her lips and motioned for Gu Xiaojia and Hao Guozi to come and take Shang Lu's slough away from Tao Mo's arms.
Before Mrs. Xin came, Lao Tao had been cooking. Now that Mrs. Xin is locked up and Lao Tao is not around, the county government can no longer even eat.
Gu She said: "Follow me to Gu's mansion!"
Tao Mo shook his head.
Gu She pulled him up: "Then go eat first, and come back after eating."
Aunt Xin's husband, Uncle Xin, knelt in the yard, not daring to lift his head.
Gu She pulled Tao Mo past Uncle Xin without stopping.
Tao Mo shouted, "Uncle Xin, get up!"
Gu She stopped and glared at Tao Mo.
Tao Mo couldn't help shrinking back, but still said: "It was Aunt Xin who wanted to kill me, but Uncle Xin didn't."
Gu She asked: "Then did he stop it?"
"Uncle Xin has always been afraid of internal affairs, so he should not dare."
"Then did he tell you?"
"Tell me, didn't you just kill Mrs. Xin?"
Gu She said word by word: "That's not the reason for him to be an accomplice!"
Turning around, Gu She said to Uncle Xin: "You kneel here honestly, otherwise, I will let you know what life is better than death!"
Tao Mo saw that his face was ferocious, without his usual unrestrained demeanor, so he was too scared to speak.
An Ran followed the carriage on horseback, not daring to take a step away.
After Tao Mo settled down in the carriage, he felt that the atmosphere was very oppressive, and timidly turned his head to look at Gu She, but he was meeting Gu She and looking at him. The eyes of the two collided, and Tao Mo's heart skipped a beat: Gu She's brows clearly showed a lot of sorrow.
"You—what's the matter with you?"
Tao Mo raised his hand, really wanting to smooth the pimple between his brows, but he dared not retract it.
Gu She suddenly hugged him, pressed his head on his shoulder, and said softly: "If you still want to cry, cry."
Tao Mo heard that his voice was a little hoarse, and couldn't help but feel sad. He couldn't tell what was wrong, but the sadness that had just receded came back up again, and tears wet Gu She's shoulders in an instant.
"Gu She, why did she have to die?"
"For redemption."
"Why? My father died and she still had the cheek to come to me to get back together. Why did she misunderstand that the fan was written to me by Huang Guangde, so she was going to die! She told me that the soup was poisonous, so I just didn't want to drink it. Why does she want to drink it herself?"
"You fool." Gu She stroked the back of his head distressedly, "She has you so clean in her heart, how could she accept that you were humiliated because of her?"
"Why did Huang Guangde write such a fan to Kuang Dongyi? Why didn't he write Kuang Dongyi's name? Huang Guangde..."
He couldn't tell, he already hated Huang Guangde so much, he wished to eat Huang Guangde's meat and drink Huang Guangde's blood.
The fan that Huang Guangde wrote to Kuang Dongyi has Liu Yong's words written on it:
"In recent days, I have been tied to Kuangxin.
Among Luo Qi's clusters, at the feast of Shengge, there is a person who is happy.
Xie Yan made up a clever smile, taking the next word to be charming.
Know how many times, secret appointment Qin Lou drunk.
Still hand in hand, nostalgic for the fragrant quilt embroidered quilt.
Love is getting better.
After a good calculation, the rain in the evening and the clouds in the morning will be the spring of the Immortal Forbidden, the fragrance of the imperial furnace, and the Linxuan for a personal test. "
The inscription reads: "Write Liu Qiqing's words as a gift to my love, every word and every sentence, just like writing about you and me. —Master Qiuyuexuan."
They are indeed very intimate words and sentences. The person who wrote the fan and the person who received the fan obviously had the closest relationship, so they can "write like you and me". And in order to prevent anyone from seeing the relationship between the two in the future, the person who wrote the fan only left a name, and the person who received the fan called "My Love". Misunderstand.
Gu She said softly: "We want Huang Guangde to repay this debt."
"Gu She, will you help me?"
"of course."
After eating, Tao Mo went out first, Gu She said to Gu Xiaojia: "Go and see what other fabrics are left, and ask Aunt Chen to make another suit for Tao Mo according to the size last time. Don't want today's fabric, and don't follow suit." This is a similar color."
Gu Xiaojia nodded: "I will wait for the young master to go to the study first, and then I will go."
"No need." Gu She raised his foot and went out, "I'm going to sleep in the county government office tonight."
Gu Xiaojia was speechless: "Master!"
Gu She didn't turn his head back: "Pack up some daily things and send them to the west chamber of the county government office."
After he got out, Tao Mo and An Ran were waiting for him in the yard.
Gu She stepped forward: "You have to have a solid foundation in your heart first. The person who bribes Aunt Xin must not be a local, nor will he be the mastermind behind the scenes. I'm afraid you won't be able to ask anything."
Tao Mo nodded: "But I will definitely catch him."
An Ran said: "All disciples from all over the country of the Devil's Cult can help inquire about the news."
Tao Mo nodded gratefully to An Ran.
The one who helped to drive the car to Gu's mansion was Wu Er, the yamen servant. He was an old bachelor, and there was no one to cook for him when he returned. .
Gu Xiaojia and Hao Guozi had just sent Shang Lu's slough to Yizhuang, and they hadn't eaten yet, so they went to eat.
Back at the county government office, Aunt Xin and Uncle Xin were immediately called for interrogation, but as expected, there was no valuable news.
Tao Mo was tired all day, but couldn't sleep, tossing and turning on the bed.
This day is really too tragic. Hao Yi in the morning and Shang Lu in the afternoon, the suicides of two people in succession gave him too much shock.
Hao Guozi fell asleep quickly. He was also exhausted after a day of exhaustion.
Tao Mo got up, put on his clothes, gently opened the door, and walked out.
The first quarter moon hangs crookedly in the sky, indescribably deserted.
The door of the west wing also opened gently, and Gu She walked out.
Tao Mo looked at Gu She in astonishment, after midnight, Gu She's hair crown was still in order, and there was no sign of lying down.
He was suddenly moved: his father left him, Shang Lu left him, but Gu She was still there.