55. Don't pretend to be crazy and stupid
When Gu Yibao asked the little girl to bring a message to Tang Mo, Tang Mo was lying in her small dilapidated room and sleeping in the dark. Last night, she was shocked and frightened by the four people of "Black and White Impermanence" and "Bull Head and Horse Face", but she was tired and half dead, but then again, although it did not achieve the expected result, it was finally inquired about the real murderer of Cui'er, and she finally did not act in vain.
Tang Mo got up and hurriedly freshened up, said hello to Mo Jing, and came to a bush of weeds in the backyard. Only from the last time Li Yu'er's arm that couldn't move was rumored by the people in the mansion to be bitten by the poisonous insects in the small courtyard where Tang Mo and the others lived, from the ladies and aunts to the ladies and ladies in the mansion, down to the big and small people in the mansion avoided their yards and even the two of them, lest they pass by there, and the third lady can sprinkle the venom on them if she moves casually.
In the end, Tang Mo simply didn't clean up the cordyceps in the yard, let them grow at will, scare all those nobles away, and still be quiet.
There was a puppy hole in the corner next to the thick weeds, next to the base of the wall. This was discovered by Chu Chen when he was busy looking for poisonous insects, but Tang Mo helped dig it up a little bigger.
These days, the Zhou family secretly sent people to keep an eye on her and Mo Jing, and they were not allowed to step out of the courtyard casually. In this way, it was impossible for Tang Mo to go out from the front and back doors, so at this moment, Tang Mo had to consider climbing out of this dog hole.
Hey~ The dog hole is the dog hole, Tang Mo's heart is wide and she doesn't take it seriously at all, anyway, she is about to become a hero in Liangshan now, and she doesn't care about what the image is not image, she is not a daughter in the first place.
Gu Yibao and Tang Mo made an appointment to meet in a tavern.
When Gu Yibao saw Tang Mo coming in, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face.
"Miss Tang - ouch, it hurts, it hurts!"
Gu Yibao grinned while covering his ears that were picked up by Tang Mo and hurriedly shouted.
"Hmph, can you call another Tang girl to try?"
Tang Mo looked like a spill,
"Gu Yibao, stop pretending to be crazy and stupid for me. Why are you pretending to be amnesiac when I am a fool? β
Gu Yibao rubbed his reddened ears and whispered unconvinced:
"How do you know I'm not amnesia."
Tang Mo sat down at the table, took a sip of tea slowly, and said:
"Isn't it strange that an amnesiac person cares nothing about what he forgets? Alas, you are still a police officer to arrest quickly! β
In fact, Tang Mo also looked away at first, thinking that Gu Yibao really had amnesia, but then he went back and thought about it carefully, and felt that something was wrong, even if this Gu Yibao had amnesia and was indifferent to other things, could it be that he didn't even care about who the name 'Gu Yibei' that he said from time to time was? It's a bit of a bizarre.
Gu Yibao smiled, gave Tang Mo a chopstick dish, and said,
"My little ancestor, how dare I hide it from you! Isn't there nothing I can do? β
Tang Mo nodded casually while chewing the vegetables in his mouth, he had guessed in his heart that Gu Yibao was so much in his heart that he might have a last resort to hide it from himself.
"Ma Yike is an old catcher, I can save a lot of unnecessary trouble by doing this, but I'm afraid that even if I pretend to have amnesia, he may not believe me 100% in his heart."
Tang Mo nodded in agreement, although she and Ma Yi only had a one-sided relationship, she could see that Ma Yi's eyes were full of shrewdness and calculation.
The two of them each drank a glass of wine, and during this period, Tang Mo suddenly raised his hand to lift his hat when Gu Yibao was not paying attention, revealing a shiny bald head inside.
Tang Mo smirked,
"I'm thinking about it, how to cover up your inch, it's good, it's not bad to become a monk directly."
Gu Yibao waved his hand at Tang Mo, put his hat on, and said with a serious face:
"The girl's words are wrong, the poor monk still has a fate!"
"At first glance, you know that you are a flower monk, hahaha......"
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Tang Mo and Gu Yibao joked with each other for a while, and then each poured a glass of wine,
"Can we go back?"
Tang Mo whispered, she didn't know if she was asking Gu Yibao or herself.
"Maybe we'll be able to go back if we find that fang."
When Gu Yibao said this, a trace of guilt flashed on his face, if he hadn't owed it and untied the seal of the wolf's tooth, he and Tang Mo would not have to eat or not eat in this place where they are restrained everywhere, they would not have to wear it, and they would have to be a man with their tails between their legs, but it was too late to talk about all this.
"But where do you find this wolf fang?"
After Tang Mo asked this, the two of them suddenly fell into silence.
"Guest officer, all the dishes you want are ready."
Xiao Er brought the last dish of steamed fish, Tang Mo lazily took a bite with chopsticks, his favorite thing to eat in the original world was this steamed fish, but now it feels like chewing wax when he eats it again, and there is no taste.
"By the way, what are you looking for me today?"
Tang Mo suddenly remembered that Mama Gao was stunned by a slap from "Bai Wuchang" yesterday, and now I don't know if I woke up? I don't know how much she can remember about last night's events, will she say it? Thinking of this, Tang Mo felt that he had to hurry back and stare at her.
"Yesterday, Ma Yi and I went to Wulipo again, which is where Mrs. Li was robbed and killed by mountain bandits."
"Did you find anything?"
Tang Mo asked curiously.
Gu Yibao shook his head,
"Ma Yi suspects that the old lady was kidnapped, but it was actually a scene written and directed by Li Jinnian."
"Why do you say that?"
Faced with Tang Mo's doubts, Gu Yibao repeated Ma Yi's inference to Tang Mo.
"So, the old lady should still be in the Shangshu Mansion, but she was hidden by Li Jinnian?"
Gu Yibao nodded,
"As it should be. It's just that Li Jinnian only gave Ma Yi a seven-day deadline, and today is the third day, if Ma Yi can't find Mrs. Li by then, then he can only go back to his hometown to plant sweet potatoes. β
"That's not right,"
Tang Mo frowned slightly and said,
"Li Jinnian is just a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, what right does he have to dictate to Ma Yi?"
"An official of the third grade, do you say that he has the right to order such a small catcher as Ma Yi? What's more, the detection tasks undertaken by the fast capture are all time-limited, do you think you can check as long as you want? If Li Jinnian dumps this matter to the county master, people may be able to rush up desperately in order to shoot Li Jinnian's sycophants, and the time may be pressed even tighter. β
Tang Mo lowered his head speechlessly and cursed a dirty word.
"Did you make any strange discoveries in the mansion?"
Tang Mo glanced at Gu Yibao, then tilted his head sideways, and told him how she tricked Mama Gao into telling the real murderer who killed Cui'er last night, and said at the end,
"By the way, there's another thing that used to be weird to me, but now that I think it might make sense.
"Tell me something, maybe it's an important clue?"
"You, you really don't leave your profession."
Tang Mo smiled and poked Gu Yibao's forehead with his finger, and said,
Li Jinnian usually had dinner with his wife and aunts in the evening, and Mama Gao was responsible for sending the lunch and evening supper to the study. But what is strange is that Li Jinnian was about to have a supper immediately after dinner, and he didn't stop. But then I found out that Mama Gao not only delivered supper, but also contained a set of rice and vegetables that she made herself in the food box. So I'm thinkingβ"
When Tang Mo said this, he and Gu Yibao suddenly glanced at each other, and said with a smile:
"Mama Gao must be delivering food to the old lady."
Gu Yibao clapped his palms and said excitedly:
"That's right. Li Jinnian, the old fox, thought quite thoroughly, and was afraid that delivering food to the old lady locked in the study would arouse the suspicion of others, so he simply came up with the idea that under the banner of sending supper, he was actually secretly asking Mama Gao to deliver food to the old lady. β
"But Li Jinnian's study is not easy to approach."
Gu Yibao sighed a little depressedly.
Yesterday afternoon, when Ma Yi deduced that Mrs. Li's robbery by mountain bandits was a play directed and acted by Li Jinnian, he immediately went to Shangshu Mansion in the evening to check out. But Gu Yibao waited until dawn before Ma Yi ran back exhausted and dejected.
Ma Yi told Gu Yibao that there were a large number of secret guards hidden around Li Jinnian's study, and he couldn't get close to it after keeping watch all night last night, so he had to give up and go back.
Gu Yibao came to Tang Mo this time to ask her to think of a way to see if she could help them enter Li Jinnian's study to find out the whereabouts of Old Madam Li.
"This seems to be a bit difficult!"
Tang Mo frowned, holding his chin with his hand and looking embarrassed.
When Gu Yibao was about to become a little impatient, Tang Mo's eyes lit up, and he snapped his fingers at him, and said excitedly,
"Hey, I came up with a brilliant idea."