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

After suturing and bandaging Liu Yiyan's wound and Zi Yan cleaned up several bloodstains in the yard and came back, Su Bai was already sitting on the ground leaning against Zi Yan's bed and fell asleep.

The exhaustion and nervousness finally overwhelmed her.

However, she did not sleep well and had strange dreams.

Not only did she dream of the sinister faces of the Second Wife, Zhou Beiwang and Doctor Jiang again, she also dreamed of Kong Chen roaring at her with his bloody mouth wide open. Even more strangely, she dreamed of her nominal husband, the dead young master Kong Nankai.

It was just a ghost and she couldn't see his face clearly.

His voice was as gloomy and erratic as his figure. He told Su Bai that he would be back soon and would settle accounts with her.

"No, no!" Su Bai woke up from his dream with a scream, waking up Zi Yan as well.

Seeing that Su Bai was sleeping soundly, Zi Yan did not go to bed. Instead, she sat beside Su Bai and slept against the bed like Su Bai.

"Are you dreaming? Let me help you go back to bed." Zi Yan rubbed her eyes.

"I dreamed that Kong Nan opened."

Zi Yan smiled and said that the young lady was missing the eldest master.

"You said..." Su Bai grabbed Zi Yan's arm: "Is he still alive?"

Zi Yan was embarrassed. She said, "Let's say he's alive." He was obviously dead. But if she said he was dead, she was afraid that the young lady would be shocked. She knew that the young lady had always been suspicious about the death of the eldest master. After all, no one had seen his body.

At this time, Liu Yiyan, who was lying on the ground, spoke: "In your heart he is still alive, that's enough."

"Is it your turn to say such nonsense?" Zi Yan choked him, "If it wasn't for saving you, would the young lady be so frightened and have such a weird dream?"

Liu Yiyan actually smiled.

"What the hell are you laughing at!" Zi Yan raised her hand and made a gesture as if to hit someone.

Liu Yiyan added, "If the young master is still alive, I will definitely help you find him."

Su Bai doesn’t want to talk anymore. If I find him back, won’t I be doomed?

"Come on, let's go back to my room and sleep." Su Bai asked Zi Yan to spread her quilt on the ground and let Liu Yiyan sleep on it.

Su Bai first pulled out a lot of cotton from the quilt, and later even the lining of the quilt was torn into strips to bandage the wound, leaving it in a complete mess.

It was already three o'clock in the morning and Su Bai couldn't sleep for long. She checked the door again and made sure it was locked. Then she let Zi Yan sleep with her.

Liu Yimou lost a lot of blood and might not be able to move tomorrow. Su Bai had already made up his mind to send Zi Yan out early tomorrow morning to find a doctor to prescribe some internal and external medicines.

Traditional Chinese medicine has its own methods for reducing inflammation, relieving pain and preventing infection. Su Bai only knows a little bit about it. When he has no medicine to use, he can only seek help from traditional Chinese medicine doctors outside.

However, this could not be done in Longxing City, so we had to go out of Xishankou and go to Linhua County to find a doctor.

"So far? Twenty miles!" Zi Yan was puzzled.

The last time Zi Yan bought arsenic, she was caught by Doctor Jiang. If someone catches Zi Yan getting medicine to treat her red wound again this time, who knows what new trouble she will get into.

Hire a carriage for Zi Yan tomorrow morning and she will be back before noon.

……

As soon as it was daybreak, Zi Yan went to the front yard to find Yan Xi and asked him to send a carriage.

"Why are you harnessing the car so early?" Yan Xi asked.

Zi Yan was not happy with him. After all, she was also a member of the eldest young lady's family. Her status among the servants was only slightly lower than that of the housekeeper. "Is this something you should ask?"

But Yan Xi didn't buy it. He put his hands behind his back and said that the car could not be sent unless he was told what he was going to do.

"You dare not listen to the young mistress?"

"The young madam didn't tell me!" Zi Yan was furious, and Yan Xi was even more angry.

"Does the young mistress have to come and tell you in person? You are just temporarily taking care of some chores for the housekeeper. You don't even know your last name, right?"

At this moment, Kong Dai walked out of the room and angrily scolded Yan Xi, telling him to do whatever the young mistress told him to do and not to ask any questions.

Yan Xi had his reasons. There were only two covered carriages in the Kong Mansion. One of the wheels was broken and had not been repaired yet. The remaining one was reserved for Kong Dai. Kong Dai was going out today, so he had to be sent to Linhua and then take a carriage to Qingdao.

Zi Yan suddenly had an idea and suggested sending Kong Dai to Linhua first while she went to do the work.

She told Kong Dai that she was going to use the carriage to buy some things to send to her parents who were in quarantine at the foot of Beishan Mountain.

Kong Dai agreed, and told Zi Yan to just deliver the things and visit her parents from afar, and not to bring any disease back and infect the eldest young lady.

Kong Dai still needed some time to pack up, so Zi Yan returned to the backyard first.

She complained to Su Bai that Yan Xi was not a good person and must not be used. Even if Butler Kong would not be away for long this time, he had to find another butler to replace Yan Xi.

Su Bai laughed and said that Zi Yan just had a childish temper.

Yan Xi did the right thing. The car was originally reserved for Kong Dai. We didn't ask for permission before using the car, so it's only right that we make do with it.

Zi Yan looked unconvinced, but didn't say anything else.

Su Bai came to Zi Yan's room and took a look at Liu. Fortunately, he didn't have a fever, which meant he was not infected.

Now I remember that there was one thing I didn't think through last night. I should have moved Liu Yiyan to the master's room. After the master passed away, the three rooms had been locked. It would be safest to hide Liu Yiyan there to recuperate.

It was now bright outside. If he went to the side with Liu in his eyes, it would be troublesome if he was seen by someone entering the backyard.

Zi Yan and she could only carry Liu Yim to the other side of the bed with great effort, spread a quilt for him on the ground, and let him lie on it.

The reason for choosing this side is that if someone comes in, the bed is blocking the way and they cannot see Liu lying there unless they go inside.

It was impossible to send Liu Yiyan away today. He was too weak to move on his own.

Liu Yiyan told Su Bai that he would take a good rest and would be able to leave tomorrow and would not cause any trouble for Su Bai anymore.

After Zi Yan left, Su Bai settled Liu Yiyan down, locked the door and left Kong Mansion to meet Zhou Beiwang.

She was even more convinced that Zhou Beiwang had some ulterior motives towards her.

It’s still the same old two things, one is money, the other is sex. Maybe this hypocritical guy wants both.

I have already asked Zi Yan about the location of Jingxuan Teahouse. It is about a hundred meters west of the Confucius Mansion.

Su Bai deliberately stopped at the gate of Confucius Mansion and then walked quickly to the west.

After walking a few dozen meters, she turned her head and looked back, and sure enough, she saw Zhou Beiwang following her not far behind.

This guy definitely has bad intentions. He always wears military uniform, but today he is wearing casual clothes!

In a blink of an eye, we arrived at the door of Jingxuan Teahouse, a two-story wooden building. On the four door screens, there were four large green official script characters engraved on the black plaque: Jingxuan Teahouse.

There are three small characters below the four big characters: Kong Li Ti.

I didn't expect Kong Li could write inscriptions for others. Although Su Bai himself had never practiced brush calligraphy, he could tell that Kong Li's level of official script was very average.

Is this teahouse related to Confucius?

Is Zhou Beiwang Kong Li’s man?

The four doors were closed and did not look like they were open for business.

When Su Bai was hesitating whether to go forward and knock on the door, the door opened, and a young man in his twenties stuck his head out from behind the door and said to Su Bai, "Madam, please come in!"

What the hell?

Su Bai realized at the first moment that Zhou Beiwang had carefully designed a trap for him.