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This person whom he loves so much that he doesn't know how to love him is still by his side, so treat him like this.

Maybe it was because today's events were too tragic, he was suddenly vulnerable to a single blow.

"Gu She, shouldn't I investigate this case?"

Gu She shook his head: "You said that you want to be a good official and not cause anyone to be wronged."

"But—" Tao Mo said sadly, "I don't have the ability to be a good official. It's been nine days, and not only have I failed to find out the real culprit, but I also let the real culprit drive Hao Yi to death, and Shang Lu's misunderstanding caused him to and die."

"Ability can be learned slowly, you and me."

"I—" Tao Mo stared blankly at Gu She, "I'm afraid I'll hurt you again."

"Because you are afraid of hurting me, are you planning not to investigate this case? Are you planning to disappoint Miss Qiu and leave?"

Tao Mo was taken aback, thinking of the red cloth that Qiu Shuining wrote in the Dragon King Temple, he shook his head frantically.

Gu Shewen said softly: "Don't be afraid, they dare not touch me. If you are still afraid, I will live in the county government these days and let Miss An Ran protect me, you should rest assured!"

Tao Mo looked at him bewilderedly: "But I'm still afraid."

Gu She took a step forward, stood in front of him, so close that the two of them were almost touching each other, raised his hand, and gently stroked his loose hair: "You have to trust me, who am I? It will be fine .”

yes! What kind of person is Gu She? Tao Mo settled down, bit his lower lip and nodded.

"Then—go to bed?"

Gu She's voice was gentle, and Tao Mo felt an indescribable comfort in his heart, and was inexplicably shy, bowed his head and nodded again.

Walking to the door of the room, Tao Mo turned his head to look at Gu She. Gu She stood at the door of the room, obviously waiting for him to enter the door.

Tao Mo only felt that in the twenty years of his life, he had never been as happy and satisfied as he was at this moment.

Finally fell asleep.

At breakfast the next day, An Ran kept covering her mouth and yawned.

Tao Mo asked with concern, "Miss An Ran didn't rest well last night?"

An Ran gave him a blank look: "Didn't the leader tell me to protect you?! It made me run around for you every day these days! Just ask why you didn't sleep last night?!"

Tao Mo's face flushed red, thinking how does she know I'm not sleeping? Lao Tao and Mu Chun have the ability to listen to music through a wall, do all martial arts practitioners have this ability? Didn't she overhear the conversation with Gu She last night

Gu She said indifferently: "How can there be mice in your county government?"

Tao Mo was startled: "No."

Gu She picked up a chopstick and put it into his bowl: "Then who listens to the corner?"

"..." Tao Mo looked at An Ran and then at Gu She, buried his head in the bowl, and dared not speak any more.

An Ran stared at Gu She, so angry that she couldn't eat, and after a while, she slapped her chopsticks on the table: "Gu She! If it wasn't for the leader to protect Tao Mo, I would ignore you!"

Gu She said leisurely: "This seems to be a meal sent by my Gu family, I don't seem to have called you, why did you come to eat by yourself?"

Tao Mo quickly put down the bowl and chopsticks, tugged on Gu She's sleeve: "Gu She."

Gu She saw that his expression was tense and beseeching, and his heart softened.

Seeing this, An Ran said anxiously: "Then you still let me eat?"

Gu She said indifferently: "I ate everything, and I still said there was no more. Eat quickly, who knows what will happen later!"

Gu She's words became a prophecy.

Not long after breakfast, someone beat drums and complained.

Tao Mo changed into his official uniform and was promoted to the hall. Standing in the hall was a rosy-cheeked girl who was pretty, like a newly bloomed azalea.

Tao Mo asked who was in the hall

The girl said crisply: "I am Feng Tuhu's daughter Hua Luoluo, I wonder if you still remember my father?"

Tao Mo nodded: "I met you during the Lantern Festival. But, why is your surname Hua?"

"My elder brother takes his father's surname Feng, and I take my mother's surname Hua."

"So, who are you suing?"

Hua Luoluo smiled slyly: "I will sue Tao Mo, magistrate of Danyang County."

"?" Tao Mo was confused, "What are you suing me?"

Hua Luoluo said loudly: "I told you that you promised to marry me, but you didn't keep your word!"

"What's the matter?!" Tao Mo was so wronged that he stood up straight away.

Hua Luoluo pointed to the white deer sachet on Tao Mo's waist: "I made this sachet! The token of love I gave you, you still wear it, how can you say there is no such thing?!"

Tao Mo took off the sachet and held it up for everyone to see: "This is the winning prize of your lantern riddle during the Lantern Festival. I wanted to buy it at the time, but your father didn't sell it. He said he would give it away for free if he guessed the lantern riddle. I can't figure it out, and I don't sell it for any price. Your lantern riddle is "Whether there is a mountain, or a doctor's word", I can't guess it. Later, Gu She guessed it and got your sachet. Look at me He really liked it, so he gave me the sachet again. At that time, no one told me that you made the sachet, and I didn't know that your father had a daughter!"

Hua Luoluo said aggrievedly: "It was said at the time that I will marry the person who can get the sachet. Why do you only want the sachet and not me?!"

Tao Mo saw that the girl was just cheating on him, so he was short of breath and couldn't speak.

Gu She turned around from behind the screen: "Girl, Gu She guessed the lantern riddle, Gu She won the sachet, why didn't the girl look for Gu She, only Master Tao?"

Hua Luoluo's eyes lit up, but then she said angrily, "That's not okay, I must marry Master Tao."

Gu She played it lightly: "Didn't you say that you marry the person who can get the sachet? Why don't you want to marry me when I get the sachet?"

Hua Luoluo twisted the beads on the earlobe: "In Guanyin Temple, he was smashed by the earthen wall and injured him so badly in order to save me. I was rescued by him, and my skin inevitably touched. How can I marry someone else?"

Tao Mo felt even more unbelievable, the one he saved was obviously Yang Liuer, when did he turn into Hua Luoluo

"I saved it, obviously it wasn't you."

"Who is that?" Hua Luoluo asked loudly, "Why did you save someone but not marry him? Do you know how important a woman's reputation is?!"

Tao Mo raised his head, took a deep breath, let it out again, and looked at Hua Luoluo squarely: "Girl, all of this is your one-sided opinion. I don't know why you insisted on me marrying you, but I really didn't." Your reason!"

"You—" Hua Luoluo stomped her feet, "It seems that I have no choice but to throw myself into the river to prove my innocence!"

Turn around and run out of the hall.

"Wait a minute!" Tao Mo slapped the gavel.

Hua Luoluo turned to look at him.

"You—you can't go like this." Tao Mo's head became two bigger, "My innocence is also very important."

Hua Luoluo smiled narrowly and said, "If you marry me, both of us will be innocent."

Tao Mo said seriously, "How can I deceive myself?"

Gu She interrupted leisurely: "When did the girl make this sachet? What kind of cloth is used for the lining of the sachet? What kind of spices were put inside?"

Hua Luoluo said firmly: "The lining is white muslin, and it contains myrrh!"

Gu She took the sachet from Tao Mo's hand, opened it, and everyone saw that the lining was made of rose-colored brocade, and it contained agarwood.

"Agarwood made of this material, I don't know if it can be exchanged for the butcher shop of the shopkeeper Feng."

Hua Luoluo was stunned: "You must have changed the lining and spices!"

Gu She said: "I got the sachet, and I gave it to Master Tao right away. The sachet never passed my hands at all, when can I change the lining and spices? Many students were in the Town God's Temple that night, and they can all testify. It's just what Miss Hua said, who can testify?"

Hua Luoluo stomped her feet: "What about the Guanyin Temple? What about his saving me?"

Gu She said: "So it was he who saved you. I thought it was you who saved him. This way of repaying kindness is quite special. Then I have to ask Miss Hua. After Master Tao saved the girl that day, since the girl planned to promise her with her body, Why didn't you call for someone to rescue Master Tao, but waited for Gu She and the little novice to go to the rescue? When Gu She, the little novice and others arrived, where was the girl?"

Hua Luoluo was tongue-tied.

Gu She turned to Tao Mo and said, "Master Tao, please call Li Yuan, Gu She believes that this girl is suffering from hysteria."

Tao Mo threw down a bamboo stick: "Tell Li Yuan!"

Li Yuan came tremblingly. After listening to the explanations of both parties, he shook his hands to feel Hua Luoluo's pulse, rolled his eyes countless times, turned around and knelt down: "My lord, this girl is indeed hysterical."

Tao Mo looked at Hua Luoluo, but Hua Luoluo didn't seem to care, and shook his sleeves: "So I have hysteria, forget it, I won't force you to marry me, I'm leaving."

Gu She said: "Falsely accusing the county magistrate is no small matter."

Tao Mo shook his head: "Let her go!"

Hua Luoluo looked at Gu Shetao Mo and smiled, then turned and left.

Returning to the bedroom dejectedly, Tao Mo lowered his head and sat on the edge of the bed: "That girl is said to have hysteria, and she doesn't know how to get married in the future?"

Gu She turned to look at him: "What? Distressed? Just go to Feng's butcher shop and look for her."

Tao Mo shook his head: "No, she framed me, I'm very angry."

Gu She's voice softened: "I just feel a little pitiful for her, don't you?"

Tao Mo nodded, then raised his head and asked, "Is the spice you changed for me expensive?"

Gu She shook her head: "It's not expensive. I just said it to scare her."

Tao Mo doubted, "I heard that agarwood is very expensive."

Gu She smiled lightly: "That's not Chen Xiang."

Tao Mo opened the sachet and sniffed it: "I didn't open it when you gave it to me, and I didn't know you changed the spice."

Gu She scoffed: "Dug out you from under the adobe wall, this sachet is already dirty. I took it back, but the servant said that the white lining is not resistant to dirt, so I changed the lining for you, and put it on again." Packed with spices."

Tao Mo lowered his head again: "Why are you always so kind to me?"

He blurted out this sentence at first, but immediately regretted it after asking. What if Gu She also felt that they were too close after hearing this sentence? Will you distance yourself from him in the future

Thinking of this, he raised his head to look at Gu She in panic, but saw Gu She looked puzzled: "What did you say? I didn't hear clearly."

"No, nothing."

He was relieved, but felt an unspeakable loss faintly.

In the afternoon, he went to Yizhuang to cremate Shang Lu. Tao Mo saw the coffins of the people in the Kuang Mansion, and thought that the weather was getting hotter and the real culprit had not yet been found out.

On the morning of March 11th, while eating breakfast, Tao Mo was still saying, "Why haven't we heard from Lao Tao and Miss Qiu?"

Around Sishi, Lao Tao and Qiu Shuining escorted Kuang Si back to Danyang.

"Kuang Si is just a pseudonym. His real name is Huo Chuxiong. He is a murderer hired by Huang Guangde."

Gu She and Tao Mo looked at each other, and Tao Mo couldn't help asking: "Since Kuang Dongyi is Huang Guangde's old lover, why did Huang Guangde kill him? Not only did he kill him, but also Kuang's family?"

Qiu Shuining stood up abruptly: "What did you say? The mastermind behind this scene turned out to be my adoptive father's old lover? Such a heartless and ungrateful person, why leave him? I will kill him now, and give my adoptive mother and Aishan revenge!"

"Miss Qiu!" Tao Mo stopped her, "It's important to find out the case first."

Qiu Shuining wanted to push him away, but withdrew her hand again: "Don't stop me, I have practiced martial arts, and my subordinates are not serious, so be careful not to hurt you!"

Tao Mo said: "Huang Guangde has his own law to punish. The first thing to do now is to find evidence of Huang Guangde's murder."

Qiu Shuining said eagerly: "Old Tao and I followed Huo Chuxiong and saw him and Huang Guangde's subordinates get rewards with our own eyes. Huang Guangde's subordinates even poisoned him and wanted to kill people to silence him. It was Lao Tao and I who rescued him! He has already Promise to testify against Huang Guangde!"

Tao Mo said: "Then there is no need for you to kill Huang Guangde. If you kill him, you are the murderer. You are wanted by the whole world, but no one knows the crime Huang Guangde committed. If it were me, I would make Huang Guangde a murderer." The person who was arrested, let his crimes be known to the world, let everyone scold him, and let him die in public under the disgust of the world!"

Qiu Shui was stunned.

Tao Mo said again: "Huang Guangde is also my father-killing enemy."

"Really?" Qiu Shuining raised her head to look at him, her eyes were clouded with mist, "Why is Huang Guangde so bad?!"

Tao Mo clenched his fists: "We want Huang Guangde to repay this debt."

This is what Gu She told him, and he told Qiu Shuining again.

Qiu Shuining nodded solemnly, holding back tears and said: "I listen to you!"