Episode 15

Shude met Dou Shishu by chance in the corridor. She was smiling and congratulated Dou Shishu on his safe return and successful official career.However, Shude immediately proposed to share the taste of tobacco with Dou Shishu, and also hoped to listen to Dou Shishu's piano music, but Dou Shishu declined both of them.Dou Shishu said nothing, turned and left, leaving Shude with an indifferent back.

On the other side, Song Mo wanted to assemble the Jinwu Guards to search for Dou Ming, but was stopped by Dou Zhao.Dou Zhao was worried that if Dou Ming and Wei Tingyu were hit by a large group of people at this time, they would be afraid of damaging their reputation, so he offered to go with Song Mo to search for them.The two found Wei Tingyu with sprained feet in the woods and Dou Ming who was reluctant to leave.Dou Ming felt guilty and explained that his chance encounter with Wei Tingyu was due to a rabbit and nothing else.Dou Zhao naturally ignored it and proposed to let Dou Ming and Wei Tingyu ride back together on her horse. However, Dou Ming did not dare to snatch her sister's fiancé for fear of provoking criticism, so she proposed to let Dou Zhao and Wei Tingyu leave together.At this time, Song Mo walked out after hearing the sound, and took the initiative to ask Ying to escort Wei Tingyu home, claiming that the two had similar interests and could be companions.Song Mo checked Wei Tingyu's injury and found that it was just a dislocation, so he helped correct it.Just as Song Mo was about to leave, a cold arrow came. Song Mo instinctively protected Dou Zhao and held the arrow.It turned out that someone was hunting in the forest and mistook Song Mo, who was wearing brown clothes, for a brown bear, and shot the arrow out of desperation.Song Mo did not blame the other party, but found that Dou Zhao was too frightened and in a daze. He quickly hugged her and asked her why, but Dou Zhao remained silent.

Wang Yingxue felt unhappy when she saw Dou Zhao. Although Dou Ming claimed that Dou Zhao had found her and brought her back, Wang Yingxue instead of expressing gratitude, instead ridiculed Dou Zhao for winning the first prize just to delay the wedding, and said that she would not let her do so.Dou Zhao left without saying anything more. Wang Yingxue was surprised that Dou Zhao did not refute today.

Dou Zhao came to the lake alone and recalled what an old man said when he was young - as long as you have strong power, you can move mountains and displace seas.However, at this moment, she had made many efforts, but nothing seemed to have changed.Song Mo was almost injured by her again, and the old man seemed to appear in front of Dou Zhao again, reminding her that it was like a boulder in the river. Although it could temporarily separate the water flow, the water flow would still merge after bypassing the boulder, and the power of an individual was ultimately small.Dou Zhao took a closer look and saw that the old man was gone. She walked forward in despair and almost fell into the water. Fortunately, Song Mo appeared in time and took her into his arms.Song Mo wanted to explore Dou Zhao's inner thoughts, but Dou Zhao lied about being hungry and weak and almost fell into the water.Song Mo immediately took her to make a pot of porridge, and thoughtfully put his cloak on Dou Zhao. He held her hand and tried to find out her thoughts from her micro-expressions, which made Dou Zhao angry.Dou Zhao asked Song Mo if he would feel a sense of accomplishment if he could probe her mind. Song Mo explained that he just wanted to help Dou Zhao reduce her burden and understand her pressure.Dou Zhao took a step back, hoping that Song Mo would stay away from her. This would be the biggest relief for her.

In accordance with the emperor's order, Wei Tingyu came to Jinwu Guard to receive training from Song Mo.As soon as he arrived, he was arranged to eat. Song Mo arrived just in time and reprimanded Wei Tingyu that he should not eat in the army, and reminded everyone that eating in the army was punished. He also ate some casually, expressing his willingness to be punished with everyone.At the end of the day, Wei Tingyu suffered so much from training that even the steamed buns he had when eating were better than delicacies from the mountains and seas.

When Song Mo asked about his marriage to Dou Zhao, Wei Tingyu complained bitterly, complaining that Dou Zhao was not a good match and was vulgar, but marrying him home was like getting a golden egg.These words made Song Mo very angry, and in the name of training, he drilled Wei Tingyu hard again.Wei Tingyu couldn't bear the pain, so he contacted several young masters to submit a letter to the emperor.The emperor learned that Song Mo had maintained strict military discipline, and felt that Wei Tingyu could not endure the hardship, so he ordered not to accept Wei Tingyu's tricks in the future.However, the emperor was somewhat concerned about Dou Shishu's accusation that Song Mo was nostalgic for the land of fireworks and always took actors home to cover their feet. He believed that he would be able to settle down after getting married, so he urged Dou Shishu to quickly arrange for the young man's marriage.

Wang Yingxue and Dou Shiying invited Wei Tingzhen to watch a play together, specially bringing their juniors with them, hoping to have more opportunities to contact them and discuss and confirm the marriage between Wei Tingyu and Dou Zhao.However, Wei Tingyu met Dou Ming in private and gave her a painting to express his feelings.

Dou Zhao was dissatisfied when he saw Song Mo hooking up with some actors.Song Mo motioned for everyone to leave, leaving only him and Dou Zhao.He directly pointed out that Dou Zhao could actually see through his intentions, but he just hoped that Dou Zhao could give him a clear explanation.Dou Zhao didn't know how to face Song Mo's eyes and wanted to escape, but was trapped in Song Mo's arms and stopped.When Dou Zhaozheng didn't know how to escape, Wei Tingyu came over. Thinking that Song Mo was bullying Dou Zhao, he stepped forward to protect Dou Zhao behind him.Song Mo found that Dou Zhao tried his best to break free from Wei Tingyu's hand, and was secretly happy in his heart, and left without arguing with Wei Tingyu.

Dou Zhao called Wei Tingyu aside alone and pointed out that if Wei Tingyu didn't like him, he could propose to break off the engagement.But Wei Tingyu did not dare to disobey her sister's wishes and expressed her willingness to get married.Dou Zhao simply suggested that fortune telling could be used, and the next step would be the wedding date.Wei Tingyu was a little anxious after hearing this, but hoped that Dou Zhao could communicate with Dou Shishu to resolve the issue of breaking off the engagement.Dou Zhao was furious and felt that Wei Tingyu was still so cowardly and irresponsible.

Song Mo secretly observed all this and understood Dou Zhao's thoughts - he didn't want to marry Wei Tingyu, and he felt even happier, waiting to see what Dou Zhao was going to do next.

Wei Tingyu met Dou Ming privately again. Although Dou Ming liked Wei Tingyu, he still remained rational.She investigated the place where there were many beautiful concubines around Wei Tingyu and often hung out with fireworks. Wei Tingyu knelt down and vowed to dismiss all the maids. From now on, he would only paint for Dou Ming. He also gave her the portrait of Dou Zhao that he had painted. At the same time, she also discoveredDou Ming embroidered the red bean picture and knew that the two of them had the same mind.

When Dou Zhao agreed to tell her destiny, Wang Yingxue felt that she was unusually well-behaved.Suddenly I heard that Dou Zhao was ill, and I became even more suspicious that Dou Zhao had ulterior motives.Wei Tingzhen specially invited a famous divination master to bring him over to burn the turtle bones to tell fortunes.Chen Qushui and Su Xin suddenly hurried over, claiming to have encountered a thief and asking everyone to avoid it.After everyone went out, Wang Yingxue went back and hid, and saw with her own eyes that Dou Zhao replaced the auspicious tortoise shell in the brazier with the inauspicious tortoise shell.She was so proud that she thought she had planned everything long ago, and asked her grandma to replace the Daji tortoise shell that she had prepared in advance.But what she didn't expect was that Dou Ming also came in later, took Daji's tortoise bone and replaced it with Daxi's tortoise bone.

Wang Yingxue prepared several turtle bones, and fearing an accident, she quickly asked her to put them on again.But the mother-in-law found that Dou Ming had taken away the fire tongs, and she did not dare to go to the brazier to get the turtle bones with her bare hands.In desperation, Wang Yingxue wrapped her hands in her sleeves and took out the turtle bones to replace them.Just after changing, I heard Wei Tingzhen and the divination master coming in.The divination master believed that the turtle bone would be a good thing, but Wei Tingzhen found that Wang Yingxue's hidden hands were trembling, and she had doubts in her heart.

When Wei Tingzhen left, she met Dou Zhao who took the initiative to say hello.Dou Zhao pretended to be recovering from a serious illness, deliberately curry favor with Wei Tingzhen and gave her precious gifts.Wei Tingzhen's doubts became even greater.In fact, this is exactly Dou Zhao's strategy.Dou Zhao knew that Wang Yingxue would definitely make more preparations, and her purpose of changing the tortoise shell was not her purpose. The real purpose was to make Wei Tingzhen suspicious.Dou Zhao was sure that Wei Tingzhen would get to the bottom of it, but Su Xin didn't know what he was going to investigate. Dou Zhao smiled slightly and thought he was going to put on a good show with the help of these sisters.