An Ran rushed up: "Old Tao is urging."
Qiu Shui called out "Tao Mo is gone", and the two supported Tao Mo to sweep down together.
Being supported by two people is obviously more like flying than being thrown around by Qiu Shuining, but Tao Mo was not pleased, nor did he say any words of thanks.
Qiu Shuining was puzzled, but also felt embarrassed to ask, so as not to hurt An Ran's face.
Before Tao Mo got into the car, he heard the rumble of the car and rushed towards him from nowhere.
Tao Mo retracted his foot that was about to step on the footstool, and looked around.
Old Tao urged: "Young Master, get in the car! Don't be seen leaving Danyang."
Tao Mo shook his head: "It's Gu She's carriage."
Qiu Shuining was puzzled: "I saw that he was still at the cemetery just now, so it can't be so fast."
Old Tao also said: "Isn't the sound of carriages like this?"
Tao Mo murmured: "I don't know, but this is the sound of Gu She's carriage."
The carriage was approaching, it was indeed Gu She's carriage. Gu Xiaojia drove the car very fast, like flying.
Tao Mo's brows were filled with joy, and he went forward to meet him: "Gu She!"
Gu Xiaojia hurriedly reined in the horse so as not to hit him.
"My son is not in the car, he asked me to pick you up to meet someone."
Tao Mo didn't wait for Gu Xiaojia to put down the footstool, and climbed into the car.
Old Tao rushed out of Tao Mo's carriage and grabbed Tao Mo: "Mr. Gu asked my young master to meet someone?"
Gu Xiaojia wondered: "This - you will know it when you see it."
Lao Tao frowned and did not let go.
Gu Xiaojia said again: "Please invite Miss Qiu to go with me."
Lao Tao looked back at Qiu Shuining, and let go of his hand.
He deliberately didn't go up the mountain with Tao Mo just now, because Huo Chuxiong needed to be watched, and the two created opportunities for Tao Mo and Qiu Shuining to be alone.
During the days when he and Qiu Shuining tracked down Huo Chuxiong, Qiu Shuining told him that he would not consider marriage matters for the time being, but these days after he came back, he felt that Qiu Shuining seemed to be interested in Tao Mo.
Gu Xiaojia did not take Tao Mo to the cemetery because Gu She rode a horse and waited at the intersection.
Seeing the carriage coming back, he jumped off the horse and came to help Tao Mo.
Qiu Shuining stood aside in amazement: "He is so tall, does he still need your help? He jumped out of the car just now, and he jumped so nimbly!"
Tao Mo blushed, so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say.
Gu She ignored Qiu Shuining, and only said to Tao Mo: "The woman just now is Princess Jing. The princess came to Danyang to investigate a matter, and she needs the help of the county government."
As soon as Tao Mo heard it, he knew that he couldn't leave today, so he could only look at Qiu Shuining apologetically.
Qiu Shuining pursed her lips: "What kind of broken princess, she can just check it out by herself, why are you dragging Tao Mo!"
Having said that, he got off his horse and followed Tao Mo.
Gu She led them to the grove by the side of the road, the curtains of the carriage had already been set up, and the woman from just now was sitting in the carriage drinking tea leisurely. In this wilderness, she didn't know where she got the hot water, and the tea in her hand was just brewed, exuding a pleasant tea fragrance.
Gu She saluted the woman: "Princess Hui, this is Tao Mo, magistrate of Danyang County, and this is Miss Qiushui Ningqiu, the adopted daughter of Kuang Zhengyi and Mrs. Lin."
When Tao Mo heard that this was the princess, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed. Qiu Shuining lived in seclusion for a long time and didn't understand these etiquettes. Seeing Tao Mo kowtow, he knelt down and kowtowed. After kowtowing twice, I suddenly thought: This seems to be worshiping Gaotang.
His face turned red involuntarily.
After three kowtows, she stood up. Who knew Tao Mo was still kneeling when he stood up, and he quickly knelt down again.
Princess Jing smiled and said, "Look who restrained these two young people. Get up!"
Gu She helped Tao Mo up.
Princess Jing waved to Qiu Shuining, Qiu Shuining didn't know how to be afraid, so she walked over generously. Princess Jing clung to Qiu Shuining's hand, sized her up carefully, and said with a smile, "Are you Lin Xi's adoptive daughter? You are so beautiful, like her own daughter."
Tao Mo recalled Zhao Rui's words about Mrs. Lin and Princess Jing's siblings being quite friendly, so he couldn't help interjecting: "Mrs. Lin is buried below, the princess wants to see it?"
Princess Jing nodded and said, "Of course I'm going." She then asked Qiu Shuining, "How old are you?"
Qiu Shuining shook her head: "I won't tell you."
With a bang, a middle-aged man behind Princess Jing drew out his saber: "Bold! How dare you defy the princess!"
Qiu Shuining saw that it was a middle-aged man who inquired about the grave without a tombstone in Kuang's cemetery, and his expression changed: "What kind of villain are you? What do you want to do?"
Princess Jing raised her hand to stop the middle-aged man, and said to Qiu Shuining, "Your step-mother and I are also very close friends. Come with me to see your step-mother!"
Qiu Shuining was puzzled: "What? What refuge? Do you believe in Buddhism? Why didn't you hear from your stepmother?"
Tao Mo whispered: "Girlfriend, that's—"
Before he could say anything, Gu She pulled him away, and he stopped in doubt.
Princess Jing smiled and said, "It means that I have a good relationship with your stepmother."
Qiu Shuining didn't believe it: "How can I see that you don't look sad at all?"
Princess Jing smiled slightly, not embarrassed: "Sometimes, you don't put your sadness on your face."
Qiu Shuining was skeptical: "Then—alright. I have the right to trust you."
Princess Jing let go of Qiu Shuining's hand, leaned back, and someone came up and put down the curtain of the car, and sat on the shaft.
Seeing Qiu Shuining still standing in front of the car, Tao Mo didn't know that Princess Jing was leaving, so he hurriedly called out, "Miss Qiu!"
Qiu Shuining ran back: "Tao Mo."
Gu She pulled Tao Mo behind him: "The princess wants to see Mrs. Lin, and ask Miss Qiu to lead the way."
Qiu Shuining glanced at Gu She unhappily, got on the horse and left.
Gu She and Tao Mo fell behind the crowd, Gu She said softly to Tao Mo: "Stop dealing with Princess Jing, let her do whatever she wants."
Princess Jing's attendants almost all turned their heads to look at him.
Tao Mo thought that most of the people who practiced martial arts had relatively good hearing, so he couldn't help suspecting that these people were all masters. He hastily tugged at Gu She's sleeve and waved his hand lightly.
Gu She grabbed his hand, "Where did the blood come from?"
Looking at his torn hem again, he frowned.
Tao Mo explained in a low voice with guilt: "I just don't trust you."
Gu She just understood what he said, and said unhappily, "You are the most worrying person."
Arriving in front of Mrs. Lin's grave, Princess Jing did not stand there for as long as Tao Mo imagined, but took a look, then turned her head and asked Tao Mo: "Whose tomb does not have a tombstone?"
Tao Mo looked at Qiu Shuining, who lowered his head and kicked the clods on the ground: "I don't know."
The middle-aged man bent down and saluted: "Since Miss Qiu doesn't even know about it, why don't you dig it out and have a look."
Qiu Shuining's expression changed: "How dare you!"
The middle-aged man said: "Since it has nothing to do with Miss Qiu, why should Miss Qiu interfere?"
Qiu Shui choked.
Tao Mo said: "I'm afraid it's inappropriate to dig someone's grave for no reason."
The middle-aged man shouted: "The princess wants to dig, you, a little magistrate of Danyang, dare to stop it?"
Tao Mo said: "As the first emperor's daughter-in-law, the princess has a noble status, and she has always been well-nourished by the people. I have never heard that any dynasty or generation supports the princess. It is for the princess to dig the ancestral graves of the people to show her dignity and prestige."
Princess Jing looked at Tao Mo unexpectedly: "Looking at you just now, I only felt that his spirit was tired and his clothes were ragged. Unexpectedly, he was also eloquent."
"Princess's praise, my minister is ashamed. I just replied truthfully."
"What if—" Princess Jing looked at Tao Mo meaningfully, "I have a reason to dig?"
"Princess, why not tell me."
The middle-aged man said unhappily: "Bold! Do you think you can really stop the princess?"
Tao Mo didn't back down: "It's not only the humble officials who stop the princess, but also the laws of heaven and the people of the world!"
Princess Jing raised her hand, and the middle-aged man shut his mouth and took a few steps back.
"Magistrate Tao, follow me, the others will leave first."
Both Gu She and Qiu Shuining looked at Tao Mo: Gu She was worried and helpless, while Qiu Shuining was grateful and looking forward to it.
Princess Jing walked to the carriage, took off the cushion on the side seat of the carriage, and threw it on the ground: "Sit down."
Tao Mo saw that Princess Jing was already sitting in the carriage. If he was sitting on the ground, he would have to work very hard to raise his head to see her, so he shook his head and said, "Thank you, Princess. It is better for me to stand."
With that said, he picked up the mat and put it on the shaft.
Princess Jing didn't take it seriously, she just said lightly: "Then just stand there!"
Tao Mo asked: "The princess said just now that there is a reason why this grave must be dug?"
Princess Jing brushed her hair from her temples: "I suspect that my sister, Princess Wei, is buried in this grave."
Tao Mo was taken aback: "Isn't it a big deal for the princess to die? How can you not even know where she is buried?"
Princess Jing frowned and said, "It's a long story.
Eighteen years ago, I was only 15 years old, and my sister Princess Wei was 18 years old.
Both of us are born directly from our mother and queen, and our father loves us like treasures. On weekdays, I like to practice martial arts, and my sister likes writing. I often hunted and raced horses with my father, and my sister learned piano, chess, poetry and painting from my mother.
One day, my sister fainted suddenly, and my father, mother and queen were very anxious, so I hurriedly called the imperial physician, and the imperial physician diagnosed a pregnancy pulse.
You must know that I sometimes go out with my father, but my sister is always in the palace. Usually, the only man she could see was Xu Lei, her bodyguard, but Xu Lei couldn't even get a hundred steps closer to her.
Of course the father was furious and asked her whose child was it? The elder sister resolutely refused to say anything, but only asked her to give birth to the child and then become a monk with her son.
The emperor said that if you don't tell the truth, the child will not be allowed to stay, so he immediately asked the imperial doctor to make an abortion pill to force her to take it.
My sister had no choice but to say a name, and my father was very surprised when he heard it! That person is the leader of a cult, who has always declared that the monarch, minister, minister, father, son, husband and wife are all bullshit, and that only oneself is the most noble in the world.
The father sent people to suppress this cult several times, but they all returned without success.
The emperor asked her how she knew this leader Qiu
My sister said: Xu Shiwei said that Qujiang is very fun on the 15th night of every month, so she asked Xu Shiwei to take her to play, and then met the autumn leader. At that time, Qiu Jiaozhu lied to his sister, saying that he was dressed in white, and his sister believed it, so she called him Mr. Qiu. The two chatted very happily, and Mr. Qiu said that he liked Qujiang in the fifteenth night.
After my sister came back, she wanted to go again, but she was afraid of meeting Mr. Qiu again. My father always taught us that the princess's marriage can only be a pawn in a major national event. My sister also knows that her marriage can only be entrusted to Jiangshan Sheji, and she can't help herself. , so the second time I went there on the night of the 14th, I didn't expect to meet that Mr. Qiu. Mr. Qiu also pretended to be surprised and said that he just changed the time at will, but he didn't expect to meet the girl again. It was really fate.
My elder sister was very guilty when she saw that she was disguised as a man, so she stopped going out of the palace.
Seeing that his sister could not go out of the palace, Xu Shiwei was unhappy, and suggested that her sister go to a place where foreigners live in the west of the city instead. My sister thought it was right, but she didn't expect to meet Mr. Qiu again. Needless to say, she knew now that he was waiting for her. "
Tao Mo said sincerely: "Princess, if you are so beautiful, your sister must be beautiful too. It is not unusual for that cult leader to fall in love at first sight."
Princess Jing sneered and said: "It's a pity that he didn't intend to have a romantic relationship at the beginning. Xu Lei actually joined a cult a long time ago. He is some kind of guardian in the cult. Xu Lei was ordered by the Qiu leader to trick my sister out of the palace. Take it hostage!"
Tao Mo was startled: "Then why didn't he detain the princess and let the princess return to the palace safely?"
Princess Jing sighed: "That's something he has to ask himself. If after he fell in love at first sight, he just forcibly detains his sister, and there will be nothing later."
Tao Mo hurriedly asked: "Then—what happened next?"
"My sister found out that Master Qiu was waiting for her on purpose, so she hurried back to the palace, but she couldn't find Xu Lei. You must know that my sister has never practiced martial arts, so she couldn't go back without anyone noticing.
Seeing that his sister was flustered, Qiu Jiaozhu told her that he fell in love with her at first sight, and that he has been living like a year without seeing her these days.
At that time, my sister didn't know who Mr. Qiu was. She just thought that he was really an idle rich man, so she told him that it was impossible and that she could not decide her own marriage.
Qiu Jiaozhu asked, what if you could be the master? My sister dared not answer. Qiu Jiaozhu said: I don't think you mean to look down on me, why can't you be with me? My sister said how can I make decisions on matters of marriage without permission? Qiu Jiaozhu repeatedly confessed his love, but his sister repeatedly refused. In a fit of rage, Master Qiu took his sister back to his residence and forcibly defiled her! "
"Ah!" Tao Mo's eyes widened in shock, "How is this possible? How is it different from a beast?!"
Princess Jing sighed: "It would be fine if he just detained my sister, or if my sister just accepted her fate, that's all. Unfortunately, my sister still shouted to go back. Qiu Jiaozhu's heart softened again, so he sent her back .
After his sister returned to the palace, Xu Lei still delivered letters to them every day.
However, within a few days, my sister fainted, and my father knew about it.
The father comforted his elder sister on the face of it, saying that his elder sister was his good daughter, and if his elder sister could recruit this evil cult, it would be considered as her elder sister's death for the country and the people. My sister was very happy, and it was only then that I realized that she was actually the leader of Xinyueqiu.
But when it came to the day of Zhao'an, the father ambushed many people behind his back.
Qiu Jiaozhu came alone, and his father asked him why he was alone? He said he was not coming, I was sorry for my sister; he was going to bring the congregation, and I was sorry for the congregation. Only this life is his own, so he came alone. "
Tao Mo was stunned: "He knew that the late emperor wanted to kill him?"
The author has something to say:
A not-so-pleasant thing to tell you:
After going to work for a while, I'm going to participate in a training of the provincial company for a period of one week.
The training location is in the Qinling Mountains. One is that I have classes every day until 9:00 p.m., the other is that the signal is not good, and the third is that my saved manuscripts are gone because of a new workaholic leader.
So update... I have to look at fate.