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

"Madam, what's wrong with you? Could it be that Liu Yiyan killed the second young lady?" Zi Yan was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the note. She thought that something had happened to the second young lady.

"Let's talk about it back at the house."

When the master and servant returned to the house and learned the contents of the note, Zi Yan was so frightened that she was speechless for a moment.

It is obvious that the person who sent the note was in the Confucius Mansion and was one of the dozens of servants in the Kong Mansion.

The memory that Su Bai sorted out in the bridal sedan showed that the Second Wife went to Dongying to find Su Bai's uncle, including when she signed a contract to sell herself with Su Bai's predecessor. From beginning to end, he only saw the Second Wife.

Then how did this person know that the second wife brought him back from Dongying?

There are two possibilities. One is that he participated in the planning of the scam by the second wife, or gave advice to the second wife.

This possibility is not very high. Could the Second Wife confide in a servant about a plan that could cost her life if leaked?

If there is such a servant, it can only be...

"Butler!" Zi Yan cried out.

Su Bai's brain was working rapidly. If this person was really Kong Dai, then was he using the opportunity of visiting the grave to meet the second wife who was still alive?

She shook her head vigorously. It didn't make sense. If the Second Wife wasn't dead, she wouldn't have to contact Kong Dai in such a secretive way. She should have returned to the Kong Mansion in a proper manner.

The second possibility is that the Second Madam brought a servant with her when she went to Dongying. Longxing and Dongying are more than 700 miles apart. It is unlikely that a woman like the Second Madam would go to such a far place alone. She must have brought someone with her, but just didn't let him show up in front of Su Bai and his uncle.

If this is the case, the scope of suspicion is wide, and all the servants in the Confucius Mansion are subject to this possibility.

But this inference was denied by Zi Yan. She was sure that when the Second Madam left the Confucius Mansion, she was only sent to Linhua by a carriage, and the driver came back soon.

The second wife left Linhua alone by bus.

There were no loopholes when they came back. The second wife arranged for Su Bai to stay in an inn in Linhua for a few days, and she went back to Longxing first. A few days later, the wedding procession from the Kong Mansion took Su Bai back to the Kong Mansion from Linhua.

This person only asked for 100 yuan at a time and didn't have a big appetite. Judging from this point, Su Bai thought that he was still a servant in the mansion, and it was unlikely to be Kong Dai.

Kong Dai is also a man who has seen money. If it were him, he would not ask for so little.

"This is the first time. He will want it again in the future!"

Su Bai knew very well that this was just the beginning.

Even if it was done by a servant in the Confucius Mansion who had never seen a lot of money, after having the 100 yuan, he would gradually become extravagant, and when he comes to blackmail again, his appetite will become bigger and bigger.

"What should we do then?" Zi Yan asked.

What else can I do? I can only put the money in the place he specified as he requested.

He was good at choosing a place and chose the Second Courtyard. When Kong Chen and Kong Li were not there, this was another uninhabited courtyard.

Although the two main rooms in the second courtyard are reserved for Kong Chen and Kong Li, they are not locked when they are not at home. The servants of the Kong Mansion will go to clean them every few days. Zi Yan suggested that her brother Yuan Yuze move into the second courtyard, and she will know who the person is when he comes to collect the money.

Su Bai didn't agree, as it was too risky.

After all, the three of us can basically be considered to be in the open, while this person is hiding in the dark among dozens of people in the Confucius Mansion.

If he finds out that one of our people is hiding in the Second Hospital, we will be completely finished once he reveals Su Bai's background in the mansion.

This method might be adopted, but that is a matter for the future. Su Bai decided to let him take the 100 yuan he extorted for the first time smoothly.

It's a pity that the second young lady is not here. If she were here, perhaps she could find out from her which servant in the Kong Mansion has more contact with the second wife on weekdays, and at least narrow the scope of suspects.

Thinking of the second young lady, Su Bai suddenly remembered one thing, the contract!

The indenture signed between the second wife and her predecessor!

Su Bai slapped his forehead hard. It had been such a long time since the Second Wife passed away, but he only remembered this thing now. This piece of paper with Su Bai's fingerprints and signature was equally deadly.

There are only the eldest lady and two maids left in the East Second Courtyard. She will send them out tomorrow and take Zi Yan with her to find the contract.

Zi Yan placed 100 French francs in the designated place, under the eaves of the west wing of the second courtyard near the south corner. A small strip-shaped hole had been newly dug at the junction of the steps and the wall, big enough for a hand to fit in.

This place was obviously carefully chosen. Although it was located at the base of the wall under the front door of the west wing, since it was less than half a foot away from the corner of the wall, someone squatting on the south wall of the west wing could reach out and take the money out of this hole.

After returning from putting the money down, Zi Yan expressed her guess again. She thought that this person must be Yan Xi.

Because Yan Xi once said that there was a traitor in the Confucius Mansion.

He said this after the second young lady was kidnapped. If he was really the second wife's accomplice, he would naturally suspect that Su Bai and the kidnappers had colluded to kidnap the second young lady.

There was some truth to this. Su Bai also felt that Yan Xi was worthy of more attention. She remembered the unconvinced look in Yan Xi's eyes when he was dissatisfied with her decision.

The next morning, Su Bai went to see the eldest lady and took another look at the house that she and the second lady had redecorated. She said that she liked it very much and asked the eldest lady to buy some cloth, silk and other materials for her according to their style. She also wanted to make a new dressing table for them, so she asked her to help make a trip.

When the eldest lady heard that Su Bai wanted to decorate her room like her, she happily took the money given by Su Bai and went shopping with her maid.

The Third Courtyard had been uninhabited for a long time, so Su Bai asked the Second Wife's maid and Yuan Yuze to clean the Third Courtyard together.

Letting Yuan Yuze work with her was actually to keep an eye on her, for fear that she would run back to the east backyard and run into Su Bai and Zi Yan.

Su Bai and Zi Yan searched in the Second Wife's room for more than an hour and finally found a locked small dressing box under the Second Wife's bed.

The two men didn't even bother to wipe the sweat off their face as they took the box back to the backyard and pried it open. Sure enough, the contract was inside.

Su Bai breathed a sigh of relief. Everything had been going wrong since he entered the Confucius Mansion, but this time his troubles were finally not in vain.

Let Zi Yan burn it immediately.

"Don't you have anything to ask me yet?" Su Bai asked Zi Yan when she came back after burning the contract.

Zi Yan still shook her head and didn't ask any questions. She just did whatever the eldest young lady asked her to do.

In fact, Zi Yan helped Su Bai do so many things. Although she didn't know the whole story of the scam between the Second Wife and Su Bai, she knew about 70% of it by putting the scattered fragments together.

Su Bai simply asked Zi Yan to sit down and explained the whole story to her.

Although Zi Yan knew a lot before, she still looked surprised when Su Bai said this.

Su Bai told her that Zhou Beiwang also knew about this.

Yuan Yuze is considered half an insider, or even less than half.

Right now, the people he could rely on most were Zhou Beiwang and Zi Yan.

Zhou Beiwang is completely unable to help in digging out the Second Madam's accomplice in the mansion. We have to rely on ourselves to dig him out from among the dozens of servants in the Kong Mansion.

It is very difficult, and he cannot ask anyone he meets, because if he does, that person will immediately find out that Su Bai is investigating him.

Zi Yan was also in a dilemma. If she asked other servants in the mansion, this person would immediately find out. It would also be difficult to sneak into the Second Courtyard and catch him when he came to withdraw the money. Who knew when he would come to withdraw the money?

It is impossible for a person to hide in the house and stare at the small hole for 24 hours a day.

What's more, Su Bai is not ready to use this method for the time being, for fear of alerting the enemy.

"Okay, let's not think about it anymore. There will be ways and opportunities in the future. As long as he keeps asking us for money, we will find him one day!"

Su Bai was comforting Zi Yan and also comforting himself.

Su Bai knew that he was in a helpless situation about this matter.

In the morning and afternoon, Yuan Yuze went to Zuihuayuan twice, but still didn't see Tietou. Su Bai guessed that he should have gone up the mountain.

In the evening, Kong Man brought her maid into the backyard with the things she bought for Empress Su, and started shouting as soon as she entered.

Kong Man was showing off to Su Bai that all the tasks entrusted to her had been completed. She had also found a wood shop to custom-make the dressing table that Su Bai wanted and it would be delivered in a few days.

Su Bai came forward and asked Zi Yan to take the things from the maid.

At this moment, something was suddenly thrown in from outside the back wall and hit Kong Man on the head.

"Ouch!" Kong Man sat down on the ground, covered his head and shouted, "What the hell? Look, whose child is so naughty that he dares to throw stones into the courtyard of the Confucius Mansion?"

Su Bai's heart trembled, thinking that it must be Tietou who brought the letter.

We had agreed last time that we would no longer send anyone to the gate of Confucius Mansion to report inside if something happened. Doing so for too long would arouse suspicion.

Later news was thrown directly in from the back wall.

How could it be such a coincidence that it hit the young lady right on the head?

It was already dark at this time. When Su Bai saw the things thrown in on the ground in the yard, Kong Man also saw it, and she was closer.

It is a small cloth bag, round in shape, not much bigger than a walnut.

"Miss, there's bleeding on your head!" Kong Man's maid shouted.

"Really? Let me see!" Su Bai hurriedly came to Kong Man, wanting to take the opportunity to pick up the small cloth bag, but Kong Man had already taken the small cloth bag in her hand and opened it immediately.

"Whose little bastard is this? He throws stones and wraps them with rags." Kong Man cursed while untying the string tied to the cloth bag.

The last time Tietou threw the ransom message made of several layers of paper into a ball to the west front yard, Su Bai asked Yuan Yuze to tell Tietou that messages to the backyard should not be thrown like this in the future. If they are not discovered in time, they will be blown to other yards by the wind and cause unnecessary trouble.

Tietou listened to him and cleverly wrapped a small stone, but he didn't expect to hit Kong Man.

Even if you aim, you may not be able to hit the target so accurately.

After Kong Man opened the small cloth bag, he not only saw the small stone, but also the note.

Kong Man threw the small stone aside and unfolded the folded note.

Su Bai wanted to snatch it, but it was too late. Kong Man directly read out the contents of the note: "Everything is fine, don't worry, I'm very busy recently, don't bother me."

This damn Liu Yiyan was telling himself not to ask Tietou to send messages to her all the time. He didn't want Su Bai to worry about the second young lady's affairs.

However, Kong Man's expression was different.

There was a hint of anger in his suspicious eyes.