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

Su Bai was extremely embarrassed and stood on the ground for a long time before she uttered a word. She asked Zi Yan: "Does it hurt? I'm sorry for making you feel wronged."

Zi Yan covered her face and shook her head, and asked her: "What should I do?"

What to do? Su Bai didn’t know what to do.

Zi Yan blamed herself for not taking the box back to the inner room in time.

"It's not your fault. I was also negligent." Su Bai comforted Zi Yan.

"Or..." Zi Yan gave Su Bai an idea. Now that things have come to this, it would be better to admit the matter first and admit that she met a man outside and that this man was constantly pestering Su Bai, but the two of them had no relationship.

Su Bai poked the note on the table: "It says here that I should stop bothering him, but I am the one who is bothering him, okay?"

"It's all the fault of this Liu Yiyan who will have no descendants!" Zi Yan even cursed him out like this will have no descendants.

In Su Bai's heart, as long as his identity is not exposed, Kong Man and Kong Dai are his two strongest allies in the Kong Mansion.

Now, although her identity has not been exposed, it is not much different from being exposed. Hooking up with outsiders during the mourning period is totally unacceptable in Kong Man's view. She may even want to make Su Bai a widow for life to give the Kong family another chastity arch.

What Zi Yan said makes sense. She can talk to Kong Man, admit the matter, and then tell her that she will no longer have any contact with this non-existent man. Although she may not get Kong Man's forgiveness, she can at least ensure that she will not become her enemy.

It was too complicated. The Second Wife's life or death was unknown, her accomplices jumped out to blackmail her, the Second Miss couldn't stay with Liu Yiyan forever, even Kong Dai was sneaking around and didn't know what he was doing, the Third and Fourth Wife's hostility towards her, and the weird Sixth Wife...

All of this was enough to drive Su Bai crazy.

Cut constantly, the rationale is still chaotic.

And those two men, Liu Yiyan's straightforwardness, Zhou Beiwang's tender affection...

Su Bai felt as if there were countless ghosts hiding around him, and one of them might pop out at any time.

Moreover, it is possible that new and unpredictable ghosts will continue to appear in the future.

Su Bai looked at the note on the table blankly. He felt powerless all over and could no longer muster the will to fight.

Zi Yan didn't dare to speak. She just stood opposite Su Bai and looked at her silently. Her left cheek was red from being slapped by Kong Man.

Su Bai suddenly stood up, startling Zi Yan.

"Word!" She only said one word and Zi Yan didn't understand what it meant.

Su Bai stared at the handwriting on Liu Yiyan's note. Looking at Liu Yiyan's barely acceptable handwriting, he remembered another note.

She remembered the note the blackmailer had slipped under the door.

The words on the note were written with a dip pen. They were vigorous and powerful yet graceful. Could this be the kind of handwriting an ordinary servant could write?

"How many of the servants in this mansion can read?" Su Bai asked Zi Yan.

As far as Zi Yan knew, there were very few, three or five people at most.

“How many of you can write?”

Zi Yan shook her head. In the nearly three years since she entered the Kong Mansion, she had never heard of anyone writing except the head steward and Mr. Sun, the Kong family's accountant.

"Young Madam still suspects that the note was written by the butler?"

Su Bai shook his head. This was not Kong Dai's handwriting.

There are quite a few words written by Kong Dai in the account books of the Kong family. Although they were written with a brush, his calligraphy cannot be said to be very bad, but it is definitely not good. If he had changed to a hard pen, it would be impossible for him to write such beautiful handwriting as the one on the note.

The accountant's calligraphy is better than Kong Dai's, but still, it cannot compare with the words on the note.

"Who could that be? Could it be Accountant Sun?" Zi Yan shouted again.

Su Bai didn't answer her and walked straight out the door.

"It's getting dark. Where are you going, Madam? Put on some clothes!" Zi Yan turned around and went into the house to get clothes.

"I'm going to find Zhou Beiwang, don't follow me!"

Someone has to share your worries, and Su Bai thinks Zhou Beiwang might be the most suitable person.

Regarding the handwriting on the note, Zhou Beiwang believed that since Su Bai was sure that there was no one in the Confucius Mansion who could write such beautiful characters, and the person who extorted the money might even be illiterate, there was only one possibility, that he asked someone else to write it for him.

Su Bai felt that what Zhou Beiwang said was almost the same as not saying anything. Finding someone to write for you means finding someone outside the Kong Mansion. This is a wider range than finding a suspect from the dozens of servants in the Kong Mansion. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Is it difficult?" Zhou Beiwang smiled and said, "I'll help you find this person."

Zhou Beiwang believed that this note was most likely written by someone paid by the blackmailer.

As far as he knew, there were two old gentlemen on Longxingcheng Street who wrote letters for others. It was said that one of them was a scholar during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

Su Bai, who grew up in the 21st century, had no idea that there were people in this era who made a living by writing letters for others.

Zhou Beiwang laughed at her, saying that she didn't even know this. Letter writing services were available in every county town, even in big cities like Shanghai.

Since Su Bai suspected that Yan Xi did it, Zhou Beiwang went to ask the two old gentlemen if they had ever written such a note for someone else. If so, he would ask about the person's age, body shape and facial features.

If the old gentleman's description roughly matches Yan Xi's, then it would be simple. He would send soldiers to capture Yan Xi directly and let the old gentleman identify him.

If it weren't for Yan Xi, he still had a way.

Invite the old gentleman back to his camp, or directly to the Confucius Mansion, and take a look at all the servants in the Confucius Mansion one by one.

Su Bai seemed to see hope.

Zhou Beiwang's method is feasible.

At the critical moment, he stood behind her again and supported her body which was about to fall down due to lack of strength.

"Is there anything else I can help you with?" Zhou Beiwang asked.

"No more, thank you."

Zhou Beiwang stood up and said, "Then go back and think about it again. Are there any other people who are worthy of suspicion?"

"Are you going to send me away now?" Su Bai sat there without moving.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Zhou Beiwang was surprised.

"Can't you just sit for a while if you have nothing to do?" Su Bai asked him back.

Of course Zhou Beiwang hoped to chat with Su Bai for a while longer, he was just afraid that rumors would be detrimental to Su Bai.

"I'm not afraid of anything now. It's useless to be careful in the Kong Mansion. We can't guard against anything." Su Bai then poured out all the difficulties and troubles she faced, including the second wife, the second young lady, the eldest young lady, and the concubines. She also talked to Zhou Beiwang about Kong Dai's abnormality.

"You suspect that Butler Kong has something to do with Brigadier General Yang Huasen's mutiny, and that he is his contact?"

"Later I rejected it myself. I thought it was irrational. He had no such motive."

Zhou Beiwang paced back and forth on the floor of the battalion headquarters. After several paces, he thought that Kong Dai might be the middleman who contacted Yang Huasen and the commander of the fourth company of the guard battalion, just as Su Bai suspected at first.

Kong Dai is too conspicuous in Longxing City, and many people recognize him.

"That cigarette dealer!"

Zhou Beiwang decided that he would catch the cigarette dealer and let him have a trial to find out the truth.