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

Yuan Yuze didn't come back until Su Bai and Zi Yan finished dinner and came back to report. Kong Dai came out of the inn again, but still didn't see anyone. He bought two packs of cigarettes and went back to the inn and locked himself in the room.

"He must have made an appointment with someone to meet at the inn tonight. I have to go back to Zuihualou!"

Su Bai was at a loss as to what to do, so he just let Yuan Yuze go.

Yuan Yuze didn't come back until after ten o'clock in the evening.

At least so far, Kong Dai has done nothing. The inn has already closed its door, and any future guests who want to stay at the inn will have to knock on the door.

The inn is on the street and there are many shops around it, not to mention the Zuihualou not far away which is brightly lit all night long. Kong Dai is so secretive that he would not make an appointment with someone and then knock on the door after the door of the inn is closed.

Su Bai tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep. Finally, he discovered something strange about the matter. Kong Dai bought two packs of cigarettes yesterday and two more packs of cigarettes today. Is he so addicted to smoking?

This is not normal.

If he bought cigarettes from the same cigarette stand both times, then there would be a problem. The cigarette seller might know Kong Dai. This reminded Su Bai of the scenes he had seen countless times in movies and TV dramas, where the owner of the cigarette stand was the contact person!

Could it be that... Kong Dai is a member of the underground party?

It’s unlikely. Could the underground party be so cruel to kill people in Confucius’ mansion?

I bother!

Su Bai scolded himself for watching too many dramas.

Early in the morning, Guo Deyi came to the backyard. Everything needed for the 37th day of the twelfth lunar month to burn incense at the grave had been prepared. He asked the eldest young lady to move to the front yard and prepare to set off for the East Garden.

He also told Su Bai that Kong Dai came back at midnight yesterday and fell asleep immediately after returning. He asked someone to call him when he came to the backyard, and he should be awake by now.

Before he could finish his words, Kong Dai strode into the backyard.

"Time was too tight, and we hurried all the way back. It was already late at night when we got back to Linhua yesterday. We were afraid of delaying the master's third seventh day, so we walked back overnight. I guess I made the young lady worried?" Kong Dai's explanation arrived before he did.

So hypocritical, good acting.

Su Bai found himself surrounded by actors.

"What should I worry about? If Uncle Kong wants me to worry too, then I will worry to death, right?"

"Thank you for the compliment, Madam. I am ashamed." Kong Dai's acting was flawless.

Su Bai thought, is that too much of a compliment?

I was insulting you, not praising you!

Let’s pretend to be confused together.

Su Bai came to the front yard and immediately asked the servants to go to each courtyard to invite the concubines out and go to the East Garden.

When the concubines were reluctantly gathering from various courtyards to the front yard, Kong Chen and Kong Li also came back on horseback.

The 37th is considered a big day for the master, so it is only natural for the two brothers to come back. What worries Su Bai is that he doesn't know how long these two devils will stay in the Confucius Mansion this time.

Kong Chen smiled when he saw Su Bai. He looked at the arrangement in the yard and praised Su Bai for being a good head of the family and being filial and considerate.

Su Bai thought, thanks to Guo Deyi, if he hadn't thought of making preparations in advance, he would have forgotten the March 7th day long ago.

Su Bai saw a familiar figure appear outside the gate of Confucius Mansion, Zhou Beiwang!

He looked at Su Bai, with the usual smile on his face.

Somehow, after not seeing each other for a few days, Su Bai felt a warm feeling in his heart when he saw Zhou Beiwang again. Compared with Liu Yiyan, Zhou Beiwang was more trustworthy and reliable.

Zhou Beiwang's injury had not yet healed fully, and his left arm was still tied with a gauze bandage and hung on his shoulder.

In front of so many people, Su Bai couldn't go up to him to ask about his injuries. He could only smile at him from afar, hoping that he could see it.

Kong Dai prepared sedan chairs for Su Bai and several wives. He followed outside the sedan chair, with Zi Yan on either side.

After lifting the curtain of the sedan chair, Su Bai saw that Zhou Beiwang was riding a horse, riding side by side with Kong Chen. The two were talking along the way. It should be that Kong Chen was telling him something.

There were not many soldiers accompanying them this time, only one squad.

When Su Bai arrived at the cemetery, she discovered that there were traces of new soil in many places. She couldn't help but look at Kong Chen. Did this guy really dig up the ancestral grave?

But if you look at it more closely, it doesn't look like that. Although there is new soil everywhere, the amount is not large. If they were really digging a grave, there couldn't be so little soil.

What is this guy doing?

When Kong Chen's attention was not on him, Su Bai pointed at Kong Dai. He was older and had more experience, so he might know what Kong Chen was doing.

Kong Dai looked at it and nodded: "We'll talk about it later."

When they returned to the city after the worship, a platoon of soldiers who had been stationed in the East Garden for the past few days also withdrew.

Is Dongyuan's mission over?

On the way back, Kong Dai told Su Bai about a tool used for tomb robbing at the sedan window: the Luoyang shovel.

He paid special attention and found that Kong Chen had almost dug up the entire East Garden with a Luoyang shovel.

The Luoyang shovel is used by tomb robbers and archaeologists to explore tombs, and they make judgments based on the quality of the soil drilled out.

Kong Dai paid attention to the position where Kong Chen dug the shovel, and did not destroy the ancestral tombs. He only dug holes around the tombs.

If the master had buried the gold bars next to a grave, the quality of the soil dug out by the Luoyang shovel would definitely be different.

Su Bai asked a question that stumped Kong Dai: "What if the master was not buried next to a certain grave, but directly in a certain grave?"

Kong Dai replied after a while: "Master...would not do that."

Su Bai didn't believe it. These warlords were likely capable of doing anything.

When they were still a few miles away from Longxing City, several gunshots were heard.

Su Bai in the sedan heard Zhou Beiwang shouting, "It's the sound of gunfire in the city. Come on, follow me!"

Su Bai opened the window of the sedan chair and saw Zhou Beiwang and his soldiers running quickly towards Longxing City.

Although the distance was a bit far, it was still possible to hear that the gunshots were not frequent and lasted for a very short time, stopping after more than ten minutes.

Su Bai didn't take it seriously. He thought it was probably the guard battalion training in target practice, or the people in the police station practicing with shooting.

In the territories occupied by warlords, the county government is appointed by the warlords, and the police station is even more so.

With Zhou Beiwang's guard battalion in charge, the Longxing Police Station is just a business of running errands and taking abuses. It has no real power and on weekdays it only conducts symbolic patrols, catches thieves, and helps the rich bully the poor.

When Su Bai returned to the gate of Confucius Mansion, he found that something really had happened. The glass on the windows facing the street of the camp opposite was broken.

Through the window without glass, Su Bai also saw Bai Ying reporting to Zhou Beiwang inside, with blood on Bai Ying's face.

A group of common people gathered not far away, looking at the battalion headquarters and pointing and talking.

"What happened?" Su Bai asked the guards in front of the Confucius Mansion, only to find that there were only two of the four guards standing here, and there were some bloodstains on the ground.

"The fourth company commander rebelled."

At this time, Kong Chen's roar came from the camp: "Damn it, gather the troops immediately, don't let anyone go!"

When Su Bai asked the guard again, he couldn't explain clearly. He only knew that the fourth company commander wanted to leave with some soldiers from the guard battalion, but Captain Bai refused. Both sides opened fire, injuring a soldier at the gate of Confucius' Mansion.

"Check it for me immediately!" Kong Chen and Kong Li walked out of the battalion headquarters, followed by Zhou Beiwang.

Kong Chen was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged out: "Find out all the relatives of these people within the three counties, leave no one alive, bury them all alive!"

The mutiny within the guard camp seemed to have nothing to do with the Confucius Mansion, but it made Su Bai smell a hint of tension in the air, which seemed to be mixed with a faint smell of blood.

"Report--" An officer came galloping over on horseback. When he arrived in front of Kong Chen, he dismounted as if he was flying, but he did not land properly and fell directly to the ground. Then he quickly got up and said a few words in Kong Chen's ear.

"What?" Kong Chen roared, pulled out his pistol and fired three shots into the air, then waved his fat hand and said, "Go!"

Together with Kong Li, he mounted his horse and left in a hurry.

Su Bai had a premonition that something big was going to happen.

It would be difficult for me and the Confucius family to stay out of it.