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

Although he and Kong Dai had made the same judgment before that the Second Lady was most likely still alive, Su Bai was still shocked when he heard the Second Lady tell him the news.

"Oh," Su Bai asked after a moment, "Where is your mother now?"

The second young lady stopped crying and laughed, saying that the second wife was chatting with several other concubines in the room, and the other concubines were also very happy to see the second wife come back.

The second young lady said that her mother was rescued by a hunter. The reason why she took so many days to come back was because she was seriously injured at the time. She had been in a coma for the first half of the month and was unable to walk for a while after waking up.

"Thanks to you and Uncle Kong for deciding not to build a cenotaph for my mother first, otherwise..." The second lady said halfway and then laughed.

They had originally planned to build a cenotaph for the Second Wife in Dongyuan one month after she disappeared. However, after the letter appeared, Su Bai and Kong Dai decided to put the matter on hold for the time being.

"Let's go, I'll go see your mother too." There was no way to avoid her, so he had to bite the bullet and go meet her.

"No need, my mother said not to bother you and she will come find you after she finishes talking to the sisters!"

"Then I'll go say hello and come back so as not to disturb their conversation." Su Bai felt that out of superficial courtesy he should go and see this elder.

For now, the second wife poses no threat to her, and she will not reveal her identity to the concubines because she is the planner of this incident.

The real test will have to wait until she is alone with me, only then I will know what kind of demands she will make of me and what goals she wants to achieve next.

The current Su Bai is no longer the same as the Su Bai who had just entered the Kong Mansion. He has two absolutely loyal helpers, Xu Tianyi and Zi Yan, by his side, who can help him escape from the Kong Mansion safely when necessary.

Even if Zhou Beiwang couldn't help much in Linhua for the time being, he still left Bai Ying, his confidant, to himself. The new battalion commander of the garrison battalion didn't know anyone in Longxing, and without Kong Li's order, he would not interfere in the affairs of the Kong Mansion.

As long as the garrison camp does not stand on either side, he can at least leave Longxing City and hide with Liu Yiyan for a few days.

It’s a pity that the business has just started.

This is Su Bai's worst plan. Once the Second Wife reveals all her secrets, Kong Dai will be his enemy, and Guo Deyi might be the same.

It is hard to say about Gao Hu's guards. The best outcome would be for them to remain neutral.

At the same time, Su Bai was also very clear that as long as the Second Wife was not pushed into a corner, she would not do this.

Even if her past is exposed, she won't be in any better condition.

Thinking of this, Su Bai followed the second young lady to the east backyard.

The east backyard is only separated from the main backyard by a moon gate, and it can be reached in no time.

The second wife was sitting at the octagonal table in the main room. Several concubines were sitting or standing beside her, and they were very affectionate.

As soon as he entered the room, Su Bai bowed first: "I was surprised and happy to hear Yunyun say that Second Auntie returned safely. I couldn't wait to come and see Second Auntie."

The second wife behaved normally and said to Su Bai with a smile: "I'm sorry to have worried you these days. No matter who it is, it's not that easy to kill me. The King of Hell won't take me!"

The concubines didn't hear anything, but Su Bai knew that the second concubine was telling him on purpose.

The fourth concubine was the first to attack Su Bai: "When the master was seriously ill, the Kong Mansion was managed by the second sister. With the second sister's character and status, everyone in the Kong Mansion admired and obeyed her. Look at what you have done to the Kong Mansion these days. Not to mention that several people died, there were originally 50 or 60 people in the Kong Mansion. How many are left now?"

Is it my fault that only a few people are left out of the 50 or 60 people? If a person is unreasonable, you really can't talk to him.

The fourth concubine then added, "Su Bai, the master left his inheritance to the child in your belly. We all acknowledge this, but you are not capable of running the family. You should leave it to the second concubine. If you know your place, we will not trouble you again in the future!"

The third concubine immediately followed up with, "That's right, I think so too."

No one could understand whose side the Fifth Concubine was standing on when she said this. She only said that although the monthly allowance was not much now, as long as she could have it all the time, she had no higher demands.

Only the Sixth Concubine tricked the Second Concubine: "Second sister, if you take over the Kong Mansion, will my monthly salary increase to 50 yuan?"

The fifth concubine followed up on what the sixth concubine had said, saying that it was heard that a lousy professor at a university could earn at least dozens of dollars a month, or even hundreds of dollars at most.

Su Bai said in his heart, "You want to compete with the professor? Why don't you compete with those clerks who earn a few dollars a month?"

A bunch of parasites with lofty ideals.

"Then I won't disturb the conversation of the aunts. I will come back to talk to the second aunt another day." Su Bai bowed slightly and stepped back.

"Don't go. You haven't expressed your opinion on who will be the housekeeper!" said the third concubine as she chased out.

She chased to the Moon Gate and whispered to Su Bai in a very fast voice that the Fourth Madam had told the Second Madam everything that had happened in the past few days and asked the Second Madam to come back to preside over the verification of Su Bai's identity and to take over the governance of the Kong Mansion.

"You acted very well today, I get it." Su Bai walked out of the east backyard quickly, and the third concubine's voice came from behind: "Give me a word whether you will hand over the power or not, don't leave so quickly!"

What a good actor, Su Bai said secretly in his heart.

After walking a few steps across the Moon Gate, the Second Miss caught up with him again.

"My mother wouldn't let me listen to them and kicked me out!"

"Your mother is doing this for your own good," Su Bai said sincerely. The Second Wife really didn't want to involve her daughter in this matter.

Even though the concubines could not talk about the secret between her and Su Bai, they kept talking about gossip, and the Second Wife did not want her still innocent daughter to hear it.

"I don't want to hear them gossiping all day long!" From the way Kong Yun jumped while talking, it was clear that he was extremely excited about his mother's safe return.

She has been lukewarm towards me these days and still doesn't believe what I said about not killing her mother.

Now, for her, the clouds have cleared and the fog has dissipated.

"Where is your elder sister?" Su Bai asked.

The eldest daughter took the third and fourth daughters to play in the front yard.

The second young lady told Su Bai that Kong Man was different from her. Sometimes she was willing to listen to what the concubines were saying. Unfortunately, she was also kicked out by the second lady today.

Kong Man is only one year older than Kong Yun, but what he thinks in his mind is much more complicated than Kong Yun.

Back in the main room, Su Bai asked Kong Yun to sit down and asked Zi Yan to heat up the sesame cakes and steamed buns that she had bought from Linhua yesterday for Kong Yun to eat.

Most of these things were given to the guards, and Su Bai only kept a few pieces of each.

"Yunyun, sister-in-law asks you, if one day your mother and I become enemies, will you stand on her side and treat me as your enemy?"

This question was asked so suddenly that Kong Yun almost choked on his mouthful of sesame cake.