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

The second wife is literate, but she doesn't write often and can only write a few words.

Kong Yun had seen his mother's handwriting, which was very ugly and crooked, and the radicals of many characters were not written in the right places.

This letter is different. Although the handwriting is not beautiful, it is generally quite neat.

"Then... why did you lie? Did you not want the Third Concubine and the others to embarrass me?"

Kong Yun did not answer Su Bai's question. He stood up and walked in front of Su Bai. He was so close to Su Bai that the tips of their noses were almost touching.

She almost gritted her teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "Sister-in-law, I just want to ask you one question, did you kill my mother?"

"It's rare that you're willing to call me sister-in-law. Well, I'll tell you, I don't know whether your mother is alive or dead. If she is really dead, it was the Japanese who killed her."

Su Bai combined Zhou Beiwang's judgment at the time with Wang Yutian's description and told Kong Yun that a group of Japanese were prospecting in the Xishan area, and the second wife happened to run into them, so she was silenced.

Kong Yun looked at Kong Man who was still sitting, and seemed not to completely believe what Su Bai said.

"Then let me ask you again, did you kill my cousin Wang Yutian?"

"I killed her." Su Bai admitted it without thinking. If he denied it again, Kong Yun probably wouldn't even believe that he didn't kill the second wife.

"Why kill him?"

"He wants to sleep with me, do you think I should kill him?"

Kong Yun was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and asked, "He wanted to sleep with you, but you didn't arrest him and bring him back to the Kong Mansion to punish him openly, but secretly let Zhou Beiwang kill him. Could it be that he has some evidence against you?"

Kong Yun's reaction was not slow, he dug to the bottom so quickly.

"I don't want to talk about this. If the Second Madam returns to the Kong Mansion one day, maybe she will tell you."

Kong Yun looked back at Kong Man again. It seemed that among the two sisters, Kong Man had the final say.

Su Bai emphasized once again that whether the second wife was dead or alive had nothing to do with me. I was indeed the one who killed Wang Yutian. This was all true. Believe it or not, it was up to you.

As for why I didn't kill Wang Yutian openly, I won't tell you the reason.

"Oh, by the way, let me tell you another truth. I was the one who killed Dr. Jiang."

Su Bai said these words just to make Kong Yun believe that he did not kill the second wife.

After admitting to the crime of Doctor Jiang, Su Bai immediately regretted it. Doesn't this just prove the rumor that he was killed in order to cover up his identity?

There is no medicine for regret in the world. Anyway, after hearing this rumor, they will not believe it anymore.

Unexpectedly, after he admitted the case of Dr. Jiang, Kong Yun whispered, "I know about this matter."

She actually knows!

This damn Liu Yiyan, it must be him who told her.

"Yes, it was Liu Yiyan who helped me kill him." Now that it has come to this, I might as well just say it bluntly.

"My mother..." Kong Yun mentioned the second wife again.

"I didn't kill him."

"If my mother is alive, can you help me find her back?" Kong Yun asked again.

Su Bai also told the truth. The second wife's body had not been found yet. It was just possible that she was alive, but the probability was not high.

This blackmail letter also made Su Bai think for a moment that the second wife might still be alive, but after Kong Yun confirmed that the handwriting was not from the second wife, this fleeting thought was dispelled.

"If she were alive, I would not ignore her, but now, there is no news at all."

Kong Yun nodded and walked out of the room in a daze.

It was not until she walked down the steps in front of the door that Miss Kong Man stood up. She came to Su Bai's side and whispered, "I didn't tell Yunyun about the second aunt's jewelry box."

Su Bai felt that his brain was totally inadequate. Why were these people so weird and what they did was so illogical?

It feels like they are deliberately playing tricks.

……

The days that we don’t want to see always come so quickly, and the day to deliver money at Xishankou arrived in the blink of an eye.

Su Bai carried the Browning loaded with six bullets with him. He had exchanged 1000 French francs for silver dollars. He had just exchanged the French francs for silver dollars a while ago.

Fortunately, the legal currency has not shown a clear depreciation trend yet, otherwise I would have to lose all my assets if I exchanged it back and forth a few times.

It was Gao Hu who drove the carriage and sent Su Bai out of the city for a distance before stopping. Su Bai then walked towards the west mountain pass by himself.

Gao Hu also brought a rifle today and hid it in the carriage canopy. The carriage was parked about 200 meters away from Xishankou to ensure that Su Bai was within the effective range.

Xishankou is dozens of meters wide, less than 20 meters at its narrowest point, but nearly 300 meters long. The western section of the pass turns south, with a steep northern slope and a slightly gentler southern slope. It is an excellent place for an ambush. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, various bandits in the mountains carried out countless robberies and kidnappings here.

More than ten years ago, there were guards on the hillsides on both sides of Xishankou. Later, the Kong family army expanded its power outside the mountain, and the sentries here were withdrawn only after the mountains and outside the mountains became the Kong family army's sphere of influence.

There are two gangs of bandits in the direction of Xishan, who have never interfered with the Kong family. Xishankou became a dangerous place again last month when Liu Yiming ambushed Kong Chen here. Later, a Japanese prospecting team shot the second wife, and Zhou Beiwang led his troops to engage in a firefight with them.

Longxing County and Linhua County are separated by a mountain and are twenty miles apart. Merchants and people between the two counties travel frequently. Su Bai stood at Xishankou for less than half an hour, and seven or eight groups of people came in and out.

Zhou Beiwang brought a dozen soldiers to ambush on the south slope today. The slope here is slightly gentler, making it more convenient to rush down the mountain.

Su Bai looked up the slope, and Zhou Beiwang saw that they were hiding very well and could not be seen at all.

About half an hour later, several more people came in and out of the mountain pass. Everyone looked at Su Bai with curiosity, but no one stopped.

None of them were the people he was waiting for. If it really was the person who posted the advertisement, Su Bai could not remember the names of so many servants in the Kong Mansion, but he had seen them all and would recognize him at a glance.

A chestnut horse came galloping from the west, with a middle-aged man with a moustache, wearing a black Zhongshan suit and gold-rimmed glasses riding on it.

When he got close to Su Bai, he slowed down and stared at Su Bai without any hesitation. Su Bai immediately turned his head away, reached his right hand into the handbag with the zipper half open, and tightly grasped the Browning pistol.

Su Bai breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the man and his horse slowly leaving from his peripheral vision. He discovered that his hand holding the gun handle was already sweating.

Su Bai looked up at the south slope, but Zhou Beiwang and Kong Dai still hadn't shown up.

Just then, the man in the Zhongshan suit came back on horseback.

He jumped straight off the horse.

"Madam, how far is this place from Longxing County?"

"It's six or seven miles, and there is only one road. Just go east." Su Bai reached into the bag again.

"Madam, are you waiting for someone here?"

The man took a step towards Su Bai and was less than one meter away from Su Bai.

Su Bai felt that all the nerves in his body were tense.