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

Su Bai felt that it was not normal for the third and fifth concubines to switch residences.

The walls of the East Second Courtyard and the East Third Courtyard are next to each other, and the courtyards are next to each other. If the reason that the Third and Fourth Misses are afraid of being disturbed while studying is still understandable, then the Third Concubine moved from the East Third Courtyard to the East Second Courtyard, which is only about twenty meters closer to the gate of the Confucius Mansion than before. Does this mean it is convenient for shopping?

Although women take small steps, at most they would only walk thirty or forty steps less for a distance of more than twenty meters, the Third Concubine was not someone who could not walk. Every time she heard the news and came to ridicule Su Bai, her legs and feet were no slower than those of young people.

According to Su Bai's observation, the relationship between the third concubine and the fifth concubine was not very close. With the third concubine, who couldn't stand others doing well, how could she happily provide convenience to the third and fourth young ladies?

He's probably up to something again, right?

While he was thinking about it, Zhou Beiwang had already appeared at the gate of Confucius Mansion, and Su Bai hurried to the outside.

Zhou Beiwang told Su Bai two pieces of news, one from the ransom note and the other from the cigarette dealer.

The person who wrote the letter has been identified, and it is the scholar from the Guangxu period.

About six or seven days ago, a man came to the old scholar's letter-writing stall and asked him to write this note.

According to the old scholar's recollection, he did not pay much attention to the man's appearance at the time, but only left some impressions when communicating about the content of the note.

The man was about 50 years old, hunchbacked, but walked very fast. After writing the note, he immediately took the note and quickly left to the west.

The old scholar watched his back until he disappeared into the street before he looked away, so he remembered this very clearly.

As for the man's appearance, the old scholar couldn't describe it clearly. First, he didn't care too much about it, and second, there was nothing unforgettable about this man's appearance.

Over 50 years old?

Hunchback?

These two characteristics are enough.

Unfortunately, there is no such person in the Confucius Mansion.

The Kong family moved back to Longxing City from Yi'an three years ago. In fact, it was Kong Dai who fled back to Longxing with several concubines and young masters and young ladies.

When Yi'an suffered the disaster, even several wives were in a situation where they had to go hungry for three days after eating one meal. Except for Kong Dai, all the servants and maids ran away or resigned, leaving no one behind.

The ordinary servants of the Confucius Mansion were newly recruited after the Confucius Mansion was rebuilt in Longxing City. They were all young and strong. Not to mention those who were 50 years old, there were not even any who were 30 years old.

There are only three people over 50 years old in the Confucius Mansion now, Kong Dai, Guo Deyi and the accountant Mr. Sun.

But these three people are not hunchbacked, and they are not short.

Seeing Su Bai's worried look, Zhou Beiwang advised her not to be anxious. Since they had identified two notable features of this person, namely, his extremely short stature and hunchback, it would not be impossible to find him by spending some time.

At that moment, Kong Chen ordered a search for the families of the mutinous soldiers within the three counties, and took this opportunity to search the whole city like a sieve to find this person.

Most of the servants in the Confucius Mansion were from Longxing. Zhou Beiwang believed that the hunchback was a relative of the blackmailer.

The inference from the time is also reasonable. The hunchback asked the old scholar to write a note six or seven days ago, and the note appeared in the crack of Su Bai's door a few days later.

What Su Bai was worried about was that if this happened, too many people would know the inside story.

Another piece of news is about a cigarette dealer, which is a bit strange.

The tobacco dealer knew steward Kong. Coincidentally, during the two days when Kong Dai stayed at the inn and went out to buy cigarettes, the tobacco dealer caught a cold and stayed at home to recuperate, so his nephew sold cigarettes for him for a few days.

Zhou Beiwang specifically checked and found that the cigarette dealer did not lie. He did stay at home to recuperate for seven or eight days.

In this case, Zhou Beiwang is more inclined to believe that Kong Dai's involvement in the mutiny was purely coincidental. His reason for this judgment is the same as Su Bai's. As a die-hard fan of Marshal Kong, it is unlikely that Kong Dai would help Yang Huasen contact his old subordinates and defect to his mortal enemy, Marshal Yang.

"Maybe we are too suspicious. Does Butler Kong really have a lover who is a widow?"

Su Bai nodded. He had to put the matter aside for the time being. He shouldn’t worry about things that he shouldn’t. He was too busy with the things on hand.

"Hey - why don't the Madam and Captain Zhou go back into the house but are standing outside the door talking?" A coquettish voice came from behind. The Sixth Aunt twisted her slender waist and walked out of the gate of the Confucius Mansion and came behind Su Bai.

"Hello, Madam Six." Zhou Beiwang nodded to her politely.

"I hope I'm not disturbing you guys?" Mrs. Six asked Su Bai. She was so close to Su Bai that he could feel the hot breath from her.

"You are indeed disturbing me," Su Bai said without any politeness: "Sixth Aunt, do you want to talk to me or to Captain Zhou?"

The Sixth Concubine waved the handkerchief she had pulled out of her waist in front of Su Bai's eyes and said, "Look at what you said. I am a woman from a humble family, a young widow. I am not afraid of gossip if I go to Captain Zhou. Of course I will go to your eldest young lady!"

It was sarcastic and this was not just a subtle sarcasm towards Su Bai, it was an outright mockery.

Su Bai was also a young widow, and a woman of her own making. If she chatted with Zhou Beiwang outside the Confucius Mansion, she would attract gossip.

For Su Bai at this moment, this set of tricks is useless.

With Zhou Beiwang's consolation yesterday, and Xu Tianyi entering the mansion today, she had already made plans. With so many hidden dangers and troubles around her, she couldn't solve them in a short time, or maybe she could never solve them completely. So she might as well just go for broke and escape with her life after the truth came out.

Before that, he had to hurry up and do his own thing. It would be best if he could produce a batch of medicine. At the same time, he also had to strictly control the financial power of the Confucius Mansion to save some funds for himself once he escaped.

The Sixth Aunt's words were ambiguous, and she was directly targeting Zhou Beiwang and Su Bai. Zhou Beiwang didn't want to get involved, so he said goodbye and returned to the camp opposite.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Su Bai asked as he turned around and walked back.

The two came to the front yard lobby, and the Sixth Aunt told Su Bai that she didn't have something to ask Su Bai, but the eldest daughter Kong Man asked her to come and find out when Su Bai was going to redeem the second daughter from the kidnappers.

It seemed that Kong Man didn't even want to talk to herself, and actually asked the Sixth Concubine to deliver a message.

Before moving to the east backyard to live with the second young lady, Kong Man lived in the west second yard, in the same yard with the sixth concubine. The two of them interacted more often, so he asked her to pass on the message to him.

"She also asked me to tell you that if you don't do anything, she will find a way out herself."

Su Bai sneered, "She has a solution? Then let her go. Tell her that the kidnappers didn't send any letters. I don't even know who the kidnappers are. I'm not psychic and can't tell fortunes. My solution is just one word: wait."

The Sixth Aunt looked at Su Bai, blinked a few times, and then said, "I guess... Kong Man wants you to redeem her for 20,000 yuan as the kidnappers demanded."

"Don't you think it's ridiculous?" Su Bai's words insulted both Kong Man and the Sixth Concubine.

If this is really Kong Man's idea, she is an idiot.

If the Sixth Concubine made such a guess, she is an idiot.

Let alone 20,000 oceans, the Kong family can't even take out 2,000 oceans from their account.

"Then... I can only reply to the eldest lady like this. However, she also said something else. If you don't redeem the second lady, you can't blame her for anything she does."