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

Kong Chen and his guards left Longxing at around eight o'clock in the morning. Zhou Beiwang and several officers of the garrison regiment sent him to the outside of the west city gate. As soon as Zhou Beiwang and his men returned to the regiment headquarters, soldiers came to report that a fight had broken out at Xishankou.

Zhou Beiwang immediately led his troops to reinforce. When they arrived at Xishankou, Kong Chen had been shot and fell to the ground, and only seven or eight of the more than thirty guards were left.

Yang Huasen's soldiers have begun to rush down the mountain.

After Zhou Beiwang's reinforcements arrived, they drove them back into the mountain. Due to the disadvantage in terrain, the garrison regiment suffered heavy casualties, with more than a hundred soldiers killed in action alone.

If there hadn't been another reinforcement from Linhua County, it would have been hard to say what the outcome would have been.

Fortunately, Yang Huasen did not ambush many people on the mountain this time, and he withdrew when he saw more and more reinforcements coming.

"This time, my garrison regiment was really beaten into a battalion!" Zhou Beiwang sighed.

"What about Kong Chen?" Su Bai didn't care about his fighting process, he only cared about Kong Chen.

Kong Chen was shot several times but was still breathing. He was taken to Linhua Military Hospital by the reinforcements from Linhua.

"Didn't you say you couldn't survive? After all, you're not dead?" Su Bai shouted.

"Do you really want him to die?" Zhou Beiwang asked knowingly.

"Nonsense, go wash your face!" Su Bai didn't want to pay attention to him.

Zhou Beiwang told Su Bai that judging from where Kong Chen was shot, the chances of him surviving were slim.

"He will definitely not die!" Su Bai stomped his feet and returned to the Confucius Mansion.

Su Bai was resigned to her fate. No matter how unlikely something was, it could happen to her. Kong Chen was no exception. She felt that he would not die.

More importantly, he is a bad guy, and bad guys are not easy to kill.

Gao Hu also came back with his guards, and he looked almost as disheveled as Zhou Beiwang.

As soon as he came back, the news that Kong Chen was seriously injured quickly spread throughout the Kong Mansion.

The Sixth Concubine quickly reported to Su Bai the reactions of the other concubines to this matter.

After hearing the news, the third concubine was the most distressed, because the only people who could make decisions for the Kong Mansion were Kong Chen and Kong Li, but the third master Kong Li was a person who didn't like to meddle in other people's affairs. If Kong Chen was really gone, no one would take care of their daily affairs.

"Aren't they living well if they don't cause trouble?"

The Sixth Aunt smiled and said, "It's hard for people to be idle and not find something to do. You should understand."

"Go tell them, just tell them that it was me who said that the Second Master is blessed with a long life and will definitely not die!"

"You are speaking against your conscience!" The Sixth Aunt gave Su Bai a contemptuous look, then immediately bent down and asked Su Bai if she had seen Huang Wenchang when she went to the county government.

"He went back to Jinan, and scared Kong Chen so much that he never dared to come back!" Su Bai said this deliberately to see her reaction.

"Damn it!"

"Are you scolding Huang Wenchang or Kong Chen?"

"Both are the same!"

It seems that this Sixth Concubine really is attracted to Huang Wenchang.

Although Su Bai felt somewhat disgusted with this matter, he still admired the Sixth Aunt's courage to speak and act. In this respect, she was better than himself.

Unexpectedly, the Sixth Aunt's evaluation of Su Bai was: cruel and ruthless.

"You can't kill your Sixth Aunt. Although I know your background best, I have never done anything to harm you, and I won't do it in the future!"

"Do I love killing people so much?" Su Bai asked her again, "What do you know about me? Tell me."

Another thing that Su Bai didn't expect was that although the Sixth Concubine's attitude in the Kong Mansion was half neutral and half biased towards Su Bai, she believed that the rumors on the street were all true, including that the Second Wife was also killed by Su Bai's order.

Even the Sixth Wife thought so. Su Bai felt that the Third and Fourth Wife were not just suspicious of this matter. Kong Li did not agree to help the Fourth Wife to go to Dongying to check his background immediately because of his busy military affairs. They would most likely find another way.

The Sixth Concubine stretched out her hand with her palm facing upward.

Su Bai immediately understood what she meant: "What, you want money again?"

"100 yuan."

"You blackmail me so frequently, aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"

"How is this extortion? This is business!"

What the Sixth Aunt said is quite appropriate. It can indeed be considered a business. It is up to you whether to do it or not. No one forces you.

She said it very bluntly, she just wanted to save some money for her retirement in the second half of her life.

"I promise, I'll give it to you later, okay?"

The news from the Sixth Concubine was indeed worth 100 yuan. She heard it from the Fifth Concubine.

The third and fourth concubines want to personally investigate Su Bai's background.

This time we are not going to Dongying, but to Tianjin.

The eldest son was a battalion commander of the Tianjin garrison before his death. Master Kong sent him to the regular army for training in the hope that he would come back to take over and regularize the Kong family army in the future. Unexpectedly, the eldest son was not honest and caused a lot of trouble for the master.

There are not many troops stationed in Tianjin. As long as they go to Tianjin, they can easily find the unit where the eldest young master served when he was alive.

Even though he has a bad reputation, he is still a celebrity. You can tell who he is dating and how many he has by just asking him.

Going to Tianjin requires expenses, and the third and fourth concubines asked the fifth concubine to share the cost. The fifth concubine was unwilling to take the money, so she complained to the sixth concubine.

This is so hateful. It forces Su Bai to find a way to take action immediately.

The Sixth Aunt advised Su Bai not to rush, as it was just an idea now and it would take more than three to five days to go to Tianjin.

The reason why they were so cruel to Su Bai was actually simple. As long as they could overthrow Su Bai, the Kong Mansion would belong to them, because they each had a son with the surname Kong.

They were gnashing their teeth at the fact that Su Bai used his property to pay off military expenses to Kong Chen. After all, what was transferred was the biggest source of income for the Kong family.

Although the income of the Confucius Mansion is much less now, the gross profit of several branches of the business is still around 2000 yuan per month.

So, they must bring Su Bai down.

"Be careful. If they can't go to Tianjin, or if they go there and don't find anything, they will definitely attack the baby in your belly!"

Su Bai believed that if they were really allowed to go to Tianjin, they would be able to find out the problem.

"Fortunately you got rid of the second wife, otherwise you would be in more trouble!" The sixth concubine blurted out this sentence again.

"Why?" Su Bai asked.

"Don't pretend you don't know!" The Sixth Concubine rolled her eyes and said, "You have been in the Kong Mansion for a short time, there are some things you really don't know. Forget it, I won't charge you for it this time, it's a gift to you!"

The Sixth Concubine said that when the Second Concubine was in the Confucius Mansion, the Third and Fourth Concubines did not dare to act rashly because they were very afraid of the Second Concubine.

Su Bai knew the reason, because the second wife knew who their mistresses were and had something on them.

But what Su Bai didn't know was that the Second Wife, if not having any hatred towards Mr. Kong, at least had some resentment towards him.

The second wife had a lover when she was young, and the two families even set a date for their wedding. However, Mr. Kong snatched her away to be his second concubine.

In a fit of rage, the lover went to the northern mountain of Siling Mountain and became a bandit. He attacked Kong's army all day long, assassinated people, robbed food... he did everything.

Mr. Kong also sent troops to suppress the rebellion several times, but failed to capture the bandit leader.

Later, the second wife gave birth to the second daughter, and the old lover left Beishan and went to Xishan.

From then on, he never harassed the Kong family again.

"Tsk tsk," the Sixth Aunt kept praising the bandit. A good man with feelings and righteousness was really rare. Because the Second Wife had given birth to a child, he wanted the Second Wife and her daughter to live a peaceful and happy life from then on, so he let go of his hatred.

Putting it this way, it's quite touching.

Xishan!

Su Bai stood up suddenly.

The second wife has neither been found alive nor dead. Could it be that she was rescued by her old lover in Xishan?

Oh my god, how could such a coincidence happen?

Although there was no concrete evidence, Su Bai was basically certain that the second wife was still alive.

If she was really saved by that old lover, it would make sense that she didn't return to the Confucius Mansion. The old lover didn't let her come back.

According to this inference, the letter signed by Kong Wangshi was not written by the former servant of the Kong Mansion who spread the rumor, but was indeed done by the second wife, but she did not write the letter.

It made sense that Zhou Beiwang's carefully designed ambush was exposed. They were discovered by the bandits, so they didn't send anyone to take the money.

But there will definitely be a next time, and perhaps the second wife should return to the Confucius Mansion.