At night, Tao Mo, who had been lying down all afternoon, was no longer seriously ill, so he got up and went to the Yang residence to pick up the emperor.
Even though Tao Mo had said in advance in the morning, when the emperor came to Gu's mansion at night, Gu's mansion was still as usual.
Tao Mo felt that his face was lacklustre, and he lowered his head all the way, not daring to look at the emperor's face.
When the emperor was brought to the Yunying boat that he had agreed with Gu She, he was even more stunned, there was no one in the boat.
"This—" He looked around for a whole circle, but still found nothing, so he knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty forgive me, I will arrange it immediately."
"You can't leave!" The chief guard took a step forward, "Your Majesty, this place is Gu's Mansion. As the master, Gu Xianzhi is nowhere to be seen. His Majesty's presence here is tantamount to entrusting his safety to Gu Xian's hands! Gu Xianzhi has a different intention, and the death of a minister is nothing, as long as he hurts the dragon body of the emperor. It is better to detain the county magistrate Tao here, so that he will not be afraid of Gu Xianzhi being thrown out of the sky!"
The emperor waved his hand: "If Xianzhi wants to harm me, he won't help me capture the Nine Kings. Don't worry."
The head of the bodyguard still looked worried: "Today is different from the past, isn't the emperor..."
As he spoke, he glanced at Tao Mo.
After hearing what the head of the guards said, Tao Mo also felt that if he left, it would only arouse suspicion, so he said: "Xianzhi has always been safe, since he said he will pick him up here, there must be arrangements here, please Your Majesty, please stay here for a while." Wait, I will serve here and wait with the emperor."
Hearing Tao Mo's statement, the chief guard couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "This humble minister also serves here."
The emperor smiled and said, "Tao Aiqing will accompany me! The rest of us will retreat to the shore."
The chief guard was startled: "Your Majesty!"
The emperor said calmly: "It should be fine to have Tao Aiqing here."
A group of guards and eunuchs had to retreat to the shore.
The emperor looked at Tao Mo: "Get up."
Tao Mo quickly got up to thank him.
The emperor said indifferently: "Xianzhi is at ease, I dare to let you accompany me here alone."
Tao Mo was puzzled: "The humble minister is law-abiding, and the emperor is approachable, so he is naturally at ease."
The emperor laughed at himself, and was about to say something when a flute sounded faintly.
The sound of the flute sounded like weeping and complaining, coming from the opposite side of the lake.
The emperor and Tao Mo looked at where the sound of the flute was coming from, and saw a girl standing sideways holding a flute under the dim light of a few fireflies.
Not long after the sound of the flute stopped, the zither sounded again, and several fireflies flew out, reflecting a young man sitting on a brocade linden, playing the zither intently.
There were more and more fireflies, and the young man and the girl sang together, obviously they were a couple of like-minded beauties.
Suddenly a light was lit on the tree, and the figures of the young man and the girl were thrown into the lake, like a pair on the shore, and another pair in the lake.
The emperor couldn't help but whispered: "Okay!"
The sound of the zither and the flute finally harmonized, and Tao Mo suddenly thought of Gu She, and the sweetness of riding with him, as if in a trance, it was him and Gu She on the other side of the lake.
The fireflies flew away, and the sound of the zither and the flute also disappeared. Tao Mo couldn't help feeling ashamed when he remembered that he hadn't learned how to play the piano.
But before he could think about it, a string of lights suddenly lit up on the surface of the water, and he could vaguely see a person holding a small torch lighting the river lights. His figure was so fast that it made people think that the lights turned on by themselves.
The chief guard came to the boat: "Your Majesty! There are masters!"
The emperor waved his hand: "Wait on the shore."
The chief guard had no choice but to retreat, but he was always on guard.
Strange to say, those river lanterns do not flow with the lake water, but are fixed in one place and sway.
A strong man suddenly appeared on the water. There is nothing to rely on on the surface of the water, as if he is standing on the surface of the water.
The sound of the zither sounded, the gold and the iron horse, and the man started to punch.
Every move, every move, attracts but does not send out, all of which imply energy. The expert watched the doorway, and all the guards cheered, and the emperor also showed appreciation.
The sound of the piano is passionate, and the man leaps; the sound of the piano is low, and the man defends but does not attack.
The candlelight swayed with the man's fist, reflecting the water light, showing the beautiful combination of strength and light and shadow.
Tao Mo stared at him bewilderedly, thinking that Gu She is so smart! The infatuation in my heart is a little more.
Suddenly, the head of the guards shouted: "Magistrate Tao! Is this someone from your house?"
Tao Mo looked back and saw Ji Wudi standing on the bank holding a tea tray.
Tao Mo nodded quickly: "Yes."
The head of the guards stepped aside, Ji Wudi entered the boat, put down the tea tray, and stared at the emperor.
The emperor finally noticed that someone was looking at him, and when he turned his head, he couldn't help being startled: "You are?"
Ji Wudi said: "They all know how to play the piano and boxing, but I don't know anything, so I'm here to serve you."
The emperor glanced at Tao Mo: "You arranged it?"
Tao Mo thought to himself, I did not arrange the idea of asking Ji Wudi to serve the tea tray, so he said, "It's Xianzhi."
The emperor smiled, and said softly to Ji Wudi: "Come here."
Ji Wudi asked, "Why?"
But still go forward.
The emperor looked at Tao Mo again: "How about I rest in Gu's mansion tonight?"
Tao Mo was taken aback.
The emperor immediately understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "I forgot, I have to ask Xianzhi."
Tao Mo smiled embarrassedly.
The emperor asked Ji Wudi again: "What's your name?"
Ji Wudi replied, "My name is Yuan Xiaodi."
The emperor sighed: "Xiao flute, Xiao flute, the sound of the flute at dawn, what a name!"
Without waiting for Ji Wudi to speak, he asked again, "How old are you?"
Ji Wudi was puzzled: "It's 22."
The emperor sighed again: "You are born with a baby face, you look like sixteen or seventeen."
Ji Wudi looked at Tao Mo, and Tao Mo said, "Xiaodi, go and ask Gu She, the emperor wants to rest in Gu's mansion at night, to see if there is a room where people can live?"
Ji Wudi quickly responded, "Okay."
Unexpectedly, the emperor made a backhand, grabbed Ji Wudi's wrist, and said to Tao Mo: "Go and ask Xianzhi, let Xiaodi accompany me."
Both Tao Mo and Ji Wudi were stunned. Ji Wudi shook his hand vigorously, but he didn't. He is lazy in practicing kung fu on weekdays, but the emperor is a real soldier.
Tao Mo was so anxious that he stepped forward and knelt down: "Your Majesty! This is my friend."
The emperor was startled: "Didn't Xianzhi arrange to serve me?"
Tao Mo said anxiously: "It's the waiter who brings tea and water, not the kind of waiter the emperor said!"
The emperor blushed and let go of his hand.
Ji Wudi didn't dare to delay, he quickly stepped back and ran to the shore again.
The emperor glanced at Tao Mo, then turned around in embarrassment: "Get up!"
Tao Mo turned his head and saw that although Ji Wudi was on the shore, the head of the guards still prevented him from leaving, so he could only beg, "Please let my friend leave, Your Majesty."
The emperor clenched his fist and coughed lightly, then turned around and said, "Let him go."
Only then did the chief guard give way.
The emperor tried his best to calm down before saying: "Now you can get up."
Tao Mo stood up, bowed his head and remained silent.
The Emperor clenched his fists and coughed again, and explained: "That—after I agreed this afternoon, I no longer extravagantly hoped for you and him, but went to seek my own marriage. I saw that Xiao Di's clothes didn't look like a servant, and that she had broken sleeves. I thought he was specially found by Xianzhi as a gift to me in order to compensate me."
Tao Mo was startled: "What did the emperor promise Xian Zhi?"
The emperor said embarrassingly: "I no longer expect you and him."
Tao Mo opened his eyes wide: "Me?"
The emperor frowned: "What's the matter? Don't you know that I like you?"
Tao Mo couldn't believe it: "Isn't Xianzhi the emperor's favorite?"
The emperor disagreed: "Can't you please two people at the same time?"
"One person..." Tao Mo said with difficulty, "How can you please two people at the same time? What kind of happiness is this?"
The emperor became irritable: "Why not? If a man can be named concubine, he will be my queen, and you will be my noble concubine! Your friend Yuan Xiaodi will also be my concubine!"
His pointing hand stopped suddenly because he saw the disappointment in Tao Mo's eyes.
He suddenly regretted saying so much.
"Dance text!"
Gu She strode in, followed by a young man from Yuan Ting Yue Zhi.
Gu She hugged Tao Mo tightly, then pushed away: "Wait for me at the rockery."
Tao Mo glanced at the emperor and left silently.
The emperor was very surprised to see Tao Mo leaving without any hindrance, and hurriedly searched around.
The young man behind Gu She said coldly: "I tapped their acupoints."
"You - alone? Have you tapped so many acupuncture points?" The emperor's voice trembled uncontrollably.
"Yes." The young man obviously didn't want to say a word.
"When did you come here?"
Gu She had a cold look in his eyes: "When you made your queen and concubine."
The young man drew out his sword: "Do you know who Yuan Xiaodi is?"
The emperor couldn't believe it: "Your man?"
A smile finally crossed the young man's face: "Yes."
"This—" the emperor tried to explain, "it's a misunderstanding."
The young man just looked at the sword, as if he was looking at where it was not wiped clean: "I know it's a misunderstanding. If you know who he is and who I am, you must not dare to make up his mind."
"You are—" the emperor was not sure, "In today's world, there is such a skill, a broken sleeve, and such a young age, could it be Yuan Aozec?"
Yuan Aose looked at him in surprise: "I thought few people would remember me."
The emperor sneered: "How come? Once Ji Huihuang dies, you will be the number one expert in the world today."
Yuan Aozec lazily said: "Okay! Since it was just a misunderstanding, I hope there will be no more misunderstandings in the future."
The emperor hurriedly said: "No, no, no."
Yuan Aozie put the sword back into its sheath, and the emperor looked at Gu She again.
Gu She's face turned cold.
The emperor timidly called out: "Xianzhi."
In the current situation, his safety is really in the hands of Gu She.
Gu She held back her anger: "I want you to apologize to Wu Wen immediately!"
"How-how?"
"You were just joking about everything you said just now." Gu She stared at the emperor closely, "Wu Wen always believed that the emperor is a Mingjun. When the Nine Kings rebelled, I didn't care about other business. I'm afraid that many people will not accept it, and I don't know how many people will die. I will help you."
The emperor was startled, with disappointment in his eyes: "It turns out that you really didn't help me for me."
How could Gu She be in the mood to understand his loss? He continued: "The people of Xinyue Wuwen all love him for his cleanliness. He has always demanded himself by 'following the public and abiding by the law, being loyal to the emperor and loving the people'. I cannot allow anyone to tell him: there is no absolute justice in the world, and the law can be ruled by others." People trample on him; nor allow anyone to make him feel that his loyal king is a foolish one, and his beloved people are bad people!"
The emperor's face turned pale: "I'm afraid he already thinks I'm a fool."
"You have been the emperor for seven years, and you will definitely be able to get your words back."
The emperor had no choice but to say: "Yes, of course I can. Where is he?"
Under the rockery, Tao Mo is waiting.
Lao Tao, Hao Guozi and Gu Xiaojia were all by his side, but no one spoke.
No one knew how to comfort him.
Gu She, Yuan Aozec and the emperor walked over, Gu She gave the emperor a warning look.
Tao Mo came up to meet him, Gu She said softly: "I just misunderstood, the emperor wants to explain to you."
Tao Mo was startled, and looked at the emperor.
Seeing Gu She and others walk away, the emperor said with difficulty: "Just now, I was joking with you."
Tao Mo opened his eyes wide.
He didn't think it was a joke at all.
The emperor said: "Your relationship with Xian is profound and meaningful. I left state affairs behind and came to Danyang for so long, but I still haven't made any progress, and I feel restless. I don't even know what I'm doing."
"Then you—who do you like?"
The emperor straightened his chest immediately: "I only have one heart in my heart, you have to believe me!"
"The string is mine."
"Yes, Xianzhi belongs to you, so I'm in a bad mood, and I'm talking nonsense."
"What about my friend?"
"I thought he was arranged for me by Xian Zhi, and I deliberately used it to anger you, who made Xian Zhi only have you in his heart?"
Tao Mo turned his head and said nothing.
The emperor felt a little uneasy in his heart, and leaned his head to see Tao Mo's face.
Tao Mo burst into tears: "I don't understand the affairs of your emperor's family."
The emperor was dumbfounded: "What don't you understand?"
"I don't understand why the late emperor wanted to kill his own son, or why the late emperor poisoned his own daughter? I also don't understand why you appeased King Lingyang by marrying him? Princess Xueyi married King Lingyang not long ago They separated, but there was no way to reconcile because it was the emperor's marriage. I don't understand how you can kill him even if you are a happy brother? Are you a happy brother or a happy brother? One of them is used as a substitute for the other? Isn’t it enough to only have this person when you are in love with someone? I never understood!”
The emperor was stunned for a long time before he said in a low voice: "I, I don't understand myself. You don't know that when you are an emperor, you have supreme power, and you are also afraid of losing this power. In order to keep the throne, people will become Not like myself."
Tao Mo turned his head to look at him, with tears still on his face: "When I saw you, I thought you were approachable and different from the emperor I imagined, and I thought I misunderstood you, and I thought you were a different person." emperor."
The emperor felt hot in his heart: "I-I am not like that. I don't know anything about Princess Xueyi and King Lingyang. I will write an imperial decree to make them reconcile. As for Lianjian and Xianzhi, I actually like Lianjian. More, but I am afraid of death, and I am afraid that Shi Da will rebel... "
His voice choked.
That's right, it's the first time for him to face his own heart, he likes to shoot more arrows.
Gu Shecheng's mansion is too deep, too similar to himself, he actually prefers Lianjian with a sunny personality. But in order to keep the throne, he sacrificed Lianjian.
He couldn't forget the year he secretly watched Gu She after Lian Jian's death. He didn't have the face to see Gu She, and wanted to look for clues about Lian Jian on this identical face, so he often went to see him secretly.
Later, Gu She also disappeared, and he was gone for two years.
How did two years of despair come about? He no longer wants to think about it.
When the Nine Kings rebelled, he hid in the secret passage, thinking to himself three years ago. If back then, he was determined to keep the arrow, wouldn't it be the same ending? But at least he can be with Lianjian, maybe he can live together.
Lian Jian's death only made him live like a walking corpse for three years.
By the way, why let Lianjian die? It was because he was jealous, he was jealous that Lianjian actually had a girl he really liked, and for her, he was able to kill Shi Guangyao.
Jealousy and power blinded his heart and made him do something he regretted for the rest of his life.
He couldn't forget the surprise when Gu She appeared in the secret passage.
He even felt his heart come alive again.
This is Lian Jian's twin brother, who has exactly the same face as Lian Jian. He still remembered him, and he was still willing to save him, and this realization made him tremble with ecstasy.
So even though Gu She admits that he already has someone in his heart, he still chases after Danyang.
Then he discovered that he was more interested in this simple Tao Mo.
That's right, people who are pure and happy in nature have always attracted him more, because he himself is dark and depraved enough.
"I actually prefer Lianjian." He murmured again, "Xianzhi is his substitute."
"Your Majesty?" Tao Mo was stunned, and turned to look for Gu She, "Xianzhi!"
The emperor covered his face and waved his hands: "Don't call him, I don't want anyone to see me like this."
Tao Mo took out the handkerchief and handed it over with both hands.
The emperor covered his face with a handkerchief: "You go, I want to be alone for a while."
Tao Mo walked away step by step.
The carriage drove out of Danyang County, and the emperor said: "Tell someone to go to the Dragon King Temple, and take off the red cloth strip I wrote and bring it back."
"yes!"
On the night of April 28, the sky was dark.
There are only a few stars in the sky, illuminating the carriage and the horses.
Not long after, the head of the guards came back: "Going back to the emperor, when I went, the red cloth strip was gone. I have already captured Miao Zhu here, how can the emperor send it?"
The emperor was startled, smiled wryly, and said softly: "Send him back!"
"yes!"