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19. Misfortunes do not come singly (1)

Tao Mo ran two more streets, and the headless flies were indeed ramming around. Even when he asked a few people, he didn't know what to do. He was helpless and was about to go back home to find the yamen runner again, but when he heard a porter rushing over, shouting: "It's dead, it's dead..."

Tao Mo was in a state of chaos and ran towards his place.

There is a pond in the county, which has been abandoned for a long time, but not big but deep.

At this moment, dozens of people were surrounding the pond. Tao Mo squeezed in twice and couldn't squeeze in. He heard the sound of water inside and shouted in a hurry: "I am the county magistrate of this county, and everyone else is out of the way!"

It's indeed useful.

The originally tight wall of people suddenly separated on both sides, revealing the passage.

Tao Mo immediately squeezed to his head, but saw Cai Fengyuan lying on the ground with water all over. Seeing that his stiff body was ineffective, a porter sat next to the corpse, trembling while panting, trying hard to put on his clothes, and shouting about bad luck.

"What happened?" Tao Mo said this for a long time, and his face turned blue.

The porter originally wanted to go home by himself, but when he saw him asking about this, his eyes lit up, and he didn't care about his coldness. He stamped his feet and trembled his lips to describe the whole story.

It turned out that Cai Fengyuan was already in vain after knowing the truth. He ran out of Tong's mansion to vent, but later he developed ambition to die. When he saw the pond, he simply threw it away. In order to fear that he would not be able to die, he hugged a big stone when he jumped. According to others, even an ordinary butcher and a blacksmith may not be able to hold such a big stone, but he, a scholar who was powerless, not only picked it up in one fell swoop, but he did not let go after falling into the water, which shows how difficult the obsession with death in his heart is.

After the porter finished speaking, he looked at Tao Mo with a gaze.

Tao Mo was embarrassed to see it and quickly praised him, "Thank you for your bravery."

Be brave to act for justice?

The porter's face turned bluer even more, and he was stunned for a moment and said, "Sir, you are joking."

"No, I wasn't joking." Tao Mo said seriously, "It's not everyone who wants to go into the water in such a cold weather."

The onlookers looked ashamed.

The porter secretly complained in his heart: The reason why he saved people was to be grateful and repay them. He didn't expect that people would come up with great difficulty, but they were dead. He originally expected Tao Mo to give him a little reward for his bravery to save people, but now it seems that he is just a delusion.

Tao Mo squatted in front of Cai Fengyuan's body, sucking his pulse and exploring his nose, but how could a person be resurrected even if he had done so, even if he had thousands of methods, he could not.

Just as the onlookers were hesitating whether to leave, they heard a shout, and then they saw Cui Jiong and the yamen runners rushing over.

"Sir?" Cui Jiong was shocked.

Tao Mo stood up and whispered: "Die."

Cui Jiong looked at the body on the ground, frowned almost invisibly. Another murder case! Before the aftermath of Tong Yinghong's case passed, another life arose. Seeing that the New Year was approaching, the frequent occurrence of murder cases made him feel a splitting headache. What's even more headache was that he found that Tao Mo could be seen in both recent murders, whether direct or indirect.

"Sir, please forgive me for being in trouble." Cui Jiong said, winking at the yamen runners behind him.

There were only a few people left at the scene at this time, but the facts described were similar.

Cui Jiong was still dissatisfied and asked one of them, "Where is the porter you mentioned now?"

The man said, "It's probably because he's going home. The man got his clothes wet and was so cold that he shivered."

"It's exactly. I can testify." Tao Mo's head poked out from behind the man.

Cui Jiong was startled and said, "Sir, just leave this matter to the official."

"As a parent, I naturally want..." Before Tao Mo finished speaking, he heard Gu Xiaojia calling him on the other side of the street.

Cui Jiong saw Tao Mo, who was as warm as a turtle in his mind, suddenly turned into a little white rabbit, and jumped to the opposite side of the street.

"You, you? Are you here?" Tao Mo said incoherently. He encountered Gu She twice in one day, but how could he be lucky twice?

Gu Xiaojia whined in the direction of the officers, "Is anyone dead?"

"It's Cai Fengyuan." Tao Mo looked sad.

Gu Xiaojia said curiously: "Who is Cai Fengyuan?"

Tao Mo said: "It's Miss Tong's sweetheart."

Gu Xiaojia thought for a while and said, "Ah! Is it the one who ran out of Tong's Mansion?"

Tao Mo nodded.

"How did he die?" Gu Xiaojia asked.

Tao Mo said: "I committed suicide by throwing into the pond."

Gu Xiaojia was surprised and said, "Sacrifice for love?" He didn't expect that there was such a thing as life and death.

"Get into the car." Gu's sound came from the car.

"Wait." Tao Mo ran back to the side of the body, accused Cui Jiong of guilt, and immediately ran back.

As he climbed into the carriage, Gu Xiaojia suddenly remembered something and pulled his trousers and said, "Wait, have you ever touched the corpse?"

Tao Mo looked back at him and answered honestly: "Of course."

"Don't get in the car and touch my young master!" Gu Xiaojia wanted to pull him down.

Just as Tao Mo was about to cooperate, he felt a fan gently pressing his shoulder. Gu She said lightly: "It's okay."

"But..." Gu Xiaojia still has to say something, but Gu She said coldly: "Drive."

Gu Xiaojia had no choice but to watch Tao Mo climb into the car.

After getting on the car, Tao Mo was not at ease. Not only did he try hard to shrink his body into a ball, but he also had to be careful not to let his hands touch the inner wall of the car.

"Drink tea." Gu Xie poured tea.

Tao Mo took it with a panic.

"Is Cai Fengyuan dead?" Gu She asked.

Tao Mo's eyes, which were brightened by Gu She's considerate actions, dimmed again, "That's it." A person who was obviously alive before did not want to become a corpse that did not recognize the love and hatred of the world in a short time.

Gu She suddenly said, "He got what he wanted."

Tao Mo said: "But if Miss Tong knows something underground, she must hope that he can survive well, rather than follow her."

Gu She said, "Even if he is alive, he will live in his own regret. Instead of doing so, it is better to die for a hundred years to seek liberation."

"You can't say that." Tao Mo rarely refuted him, "As long as you are alive, there will always be hope."

Gu She was filled with emotion when she saw him speaking, and curled her lips, but stopped arguing.

The carriage turned around.

Tao Mo saw Gu She no longer spoke, but just drank tea slowly, feeling upset and regretted not to argue with him. He wanted to speak several times, but didn't know where to start, so he had to lift the curtain and look out the bed window. He didn't know until he saw it. When he looked, he was shocked and said, "Where are we going?"

"County government." Gu Shedao, "I'll take you back."

Tao Mo's cheeks turned red, but his expression was very happy.

The county government office is not far away and arrives soon.

Tao Mo has never hated that the county government has been so close.

He jumped out of the carriage reluctantly and turned to see Gu She.

Gu She said: "I will pick you up tomorrow evening."

Tao Mo was stunned and was about to ask why, the carriage was already galloping towards the other side along the street.

He returned to the room and was about to change someone to prepare for a bathtub when he saw Hao Guozi reaching in mysteriously and whispering: "Young Master, do you know that Young Master Yiyu has left Pingcheng?"

Tao Mo was stunned.

The name of Mr. Yiyu is far away and familiar, close and unfamiliar to him. It took him a while to calm down and say, "How do you know?"

Hao Guozi said, "It was said in the letter sent to Lao Tao." He saw Tao Mo glaring at him, shrank his neck, and whispered, "I saw it by accident. I didn't expect Lao Tao to still pay attention to the news about Pingcheng."

Tao Mo sighed lightly: "He is for me."

"Where do you think that Young Master Yiyu will go?" Hao Guozi said, "Can you become a good person? Or do you follow that..."

"Fruit!" Tao Mo cut him off.

Hao Guozi knew that he had made a mistake and looked embarrassed, "Maybe he is here to find the young master."

"No, he won't come." Tao Mo lowns the Nan.

Seeing that he was depressed, Hao Guozi seemed to fall into his former memory again, and hurriedly said, "It's hard to say, after all, he was very good to the young master."

Tao Mo was silent for a while and said, "What was gone is the past."

Hao Guozi nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes, yes. Compared to Gu She, Young Master Yiyu is really worse."

"Gu She." Tao Mo said softly, but his thoughts floated to the appointment tomorrow evening.
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