Traveling through the Republic of China, I married a dead person

Now that you have traveled to this unfortunate and chaotic world, you should stop complaining about your fate and find a way to survive.

If you want to survive, you have to escape from the Confucius Mansion, which is not easy.

Since I have fallen into the trap set by the Second Wife, she will keep an eye on me all the time. The walls of the Confucius Mansion are high and the courtyards are deep. There are servants inside and guards outside. Even a bird cannot fly out easily.

There is another way. Su Bai has a double doctorate in biochemistry and clinical medicine. With his medical skills that are far beyond this time, he can cure the master's illness and expose the second wife's scam. Master Kong should save his life.

You can even ask him to invest money to help you develop and produce medicines.

It was 1936. Penicillin, which had saved the lives of a large number of Allied soldiers in the late stages of World War II and greatly promoted the progress of the anti-fascist war, had not yet been released and was still in the paper stage.

There is no need to bring high-tech drugs from the 21st century here. Just one penicillin is enough to enable Su Bai to gain a foothold in this era, with no worries about food and clothing, and wealth and honor.

For Su Bai, making penicillin was a simple matter. Even without the pharmaceutical equipment of the 21st century, she could produce penicillin using traditional methods.

For the warlord Mr. Kong, penicillin can allow countless wounded soldiers to return to the front line quickly, which means doubling of combat power.

However, to know what disease Mr. Kong had, you have to see him in person.

This is not easy. Without the assistance of modern medical instruments, diagnosis has to rely on experience. The young Su Bai has sufficient knowledge, but what he lacks is experience. Even if he can make an accurate diagnosis, there is no medicine to use.

Su Bai felt that the most appropriate sentence to describe his current situation was: a tiger trapped in a cage.

Only by breaking through this cage can one's talents be realized.

"Madam, it's time for dinner." Along with a gentle voice, a pair of women's gray shallow-mouth cloth shoes appeared in Su Bai's limited vision behind the veil.

She lifted her veil, and a young woman dressed as a maid stood in front of her with a smile.

She has big eyes, a round face, and a waist-length braid that is tied neatly without a single stray hair.

Although the white jacket with blue flowers had faded due to washing, it was still clean.

You can tell at a glance that he is smart and capable.

Su Bai pulled his thoughts back to reality: "What's your name?"

"Young Madam, just call me Zi Yan. From now on, I will be the one serving you!"

"Zi Yan, what a nice name."

The eldest young lady's house is a three-bedroom apartment with one entrance and two rooms. The main room at the entrance is equivalent to a modern living room, with a bedroom on each side. The eldest young lady lives in the bedroom on the east, and the smaller bedroom on the west is for the maid.

There were four hot dishes and four cold dishes, a thin-necked ceramic wine jug and a wine glass on the table in the main room.

Zi Yan picked up the wine pot and poured the wine into the glass: "I just heated the wine."

Yesterday I was in Bincheng eating sweet and sour pork and goose stewed in an iron pot and drinking kvass, but today I ran to this damn place to be a puppet eldest lady. I feel totally unhappy.

The food tasted good, but Su Bai was not in the mood to eat. She picked up the wine glass and took a sip. A hot stream flowed down her throat through her esophagus.

She looked up and saw Zi Yan standing beside her in a proper manner, so she asked her to sit down and eat with them: "Take a pair of chopsticks and sit down to eat."

"Young Madam, please eat. We have already eaten. Besides, we servants cannot eat at the same table with our masters."

At the wedding banquet at the Confucius Mansion, county governors from several counties near Longxing and celebrities from all walks of life were all present to congratulate. The servants of the Confucius Mansion had eaten early and dressed neatly to welcome the guests.

"Just eat when I tell you to. There are no rules here. Go get the chopsticks!" Su Bai said sternly.

The servants had eaten at around nine o'clock, so they could eat even if they were not hungry. Zi Yan was the eldest young lady's personal maid, so she did not have to go to the front to entertain guests like other servants.

Su Bai judged Zi Yan's role in a very short time. She must have been sent by the Second Madam to monitor him. The identity of the fake eldest lady was the core secret of the Second Madam's seizure of the Kong Mansion's property, and Zi Yan should not know it.

In Zi Yan's eyes, she was the eldest young master's lover during his lifetime and the legitimate eldest lady of the Kong family.

Although Zi Yan sat down, she was still very reserved. She only put half of her butt on the chair and was restrained when picking up food.

Su Bai picked up the plate and pushed it directly into her bowl, which frightened Zi Yan so much that she waved her hands: "No, no, you can't do that..."

"Eat it big!"

Zi Yan whispered, "Thank you, Madam."

Although she is the second wife's spy, I can still get a rough understanding of some things in the Kong Mansion from her.

Marshal Kong married six wives, as his first wife died early.

Mr. Kong had three sons and four daughters.

What surprised Su Bai was that most people in the Kong family, including Zi Yan, had never seen the eldest young master.

"How come you haven't seen the young master? He doesn't go home?" Su Bai put down his chopsticks and said to Zi Yan, "Eat and talk while you eat."

It’s not that the eldest young master doesn’t want to go home, it’s that the master doesn’t allow him to come back.

Longxing County is Marshal Kong's hometown. Three years ago, when the Marshal moved the Kong Mansion from Yi'an back to Longxing County, he dismissed most of the servants. Now most of the people in the Kong Mansion were newly recruited after the move.

The Kong family's chief steward followed the master when he was young. Apart from the steward, she was not sure if there were any other people who had seen the eldest young master, but there must not be many people.

"Why doesn't the master let the young master go home?"

"This... don't you know?" Judging from Zi Yan's tone, Su Bai should know about this, but the Second Wife didn't say anything.

"I... don't quite know. You should ask the second wife." Zi Yan said again.

There is no doubt that Zi Yan knew the reason why the master did not allow the eldest young master to go home, but she was not in a position to say it, at least not in front of Su Bai.

"What disease does the master have?" This is the issue that Su Bai is most concerned about at the moment. If he wants to get out of his predicament, the fastest and simplest way is to cure the master's disease.

"It seems to be..." Zi Yan thought for a moment: "It's called Shi... Shi Rong!"

Su Bai found out that the disease formerly known as loss of honor in traditional Chinese medicine is the modern lymphoma.

Under modern medical conditions, the cure rate for this type of cancer is still very high in the early stages.

"Take me to see the master!" Su Bai pushed the bowl forward and stood up.

The second wife had told her that the master would be bedridden for only more than a month. Su Bai was confident that even though there was a shortage of medical care and medicine in this era, and even though the master's lymphoma had reached an advanced stage and was incurable, she was still able to prolong his life appropriately and keep him clear-headed in most cases, even for a few months.

As long as the master's condition showed temporary improvement, she would beg him to spare her life and leave the cage of the Confucius Mansion.