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

"Where is she?" The second wife grabbed Kong Dai's arm tightly as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.

Su Bai was confused by this sudden scene. How could Kong Dai know where the second young lady was? What tricks was he going to play?

It is not clear whether Kong Dai made up a bunch of nonsense, but the whole process is barely reasonable.

In the morning, when he went to the north gate to hire a carpenter, he saw a very familiar figure.

"Is that so?" the second wife asked impatiently.

"No, he's a bandit."

The man carried a woman on his arm, walked out of the north gate, and headed towards the north mountain.

Unfortunately, Kong Dai just thought the man looked familiar at the time, and only remembered that he was a bandit after returning to the Kong Mansion.

Kong Dai said that the last time Su Bai was kidnapped by bandits on the mountain, he was redeemed and it was this bandit who handed him over.

The woman with him looked very young, but she had a large scarf wrapped around her head. Kong Dai only saw her back, so he didn't pay much attention.

When he found out that the second young lady had gone out and had not returned at night, he suspected that the woman might be the second young lady.

The reason for this guess is that this group of bandits in Beishan specifically kidnapped people from the Kong family. They first kidnapped the eldest lady and then the second lady.

The last time he kidnapped the second young lady, he only asked for a ransom of 200 yuan. Maybe he felt that it was too little, so he kidnapped her a second time.

At this point, Su Bai felt that what Kong Dai said was a bit far-fetched. When he mentioned the white and blue floral jacket and black skirt that the Second Young Miss was wearing today, Su Bai felt that he had indeed seen the Second Young Miss before, but he did not recognize her at the time.

"Yes, yes, that's what Yunyun is wearing!"

"That should be it. It's all my bad memory. If I had remembered at that time that the man was a bandit... Alas!" He slapped his thigh.

The second wife was never polite to servants, and she immediately took out her anger on Kong Dai: "What's the point of the Kong family raising you for so many years? You saw Yunyun being captured by bandits and you didn't save her!"

Su Bai spoke for Kong Dai: "Second Aunt, this is you being unreasonable, isn't it? Didn't Uncle Kong just say that he remembered it after he returned to the Kong Mansion?"

The second wife still scolded Kong Dai: "Useless thing!"

Su Bai comforted the second wife, saying that if she was really kidnapped by bandits, it would be a good thing, as it meant that the second young lady was safe.

Just wait, the bandits will send someone to deliver a letter in a few days, and we can just spend money to redeem the second young lady.

"This group of bandits kidnapped me once, so I know them. They know the rules and will not harm the Second Young Miss as long as they want money."

The second wife turned her head and stared at Su Bai for several seconds before saying, "I heard people say it when I came back. Yan Xi said that someone in our house was colluding with the bandits. Those wives have always suspected that this person is you. Tell me, did you collude with the bandits to bring Yunyun to the mountain?"

This is like giving someone a pillow when they are sleepy. Su Bai hoped that the Second Wife would think so, so that he wouldn't have to give her any hints.

In fact, Su Bai's words just now, "He knew this gang of bandits very well," were meant to arouse the Second Wife's suspicion, but he did not expect that the effect would be achieved so easily.

"Don't listen to those rumors. People inside and outside the mansion say that I have connections with bandits. Why would I, the eldest young lady of the Kong family, have any contact with them?" Su Bai grabbed the second wife's hand with one hand and patted the back of her hand with the other hand: "Don't worry, I redeemed the second lady the first time she was kidnapped, and I can redeem her again this time."

After finishing speaking, Su Bai was quite satisfied with her own speech. Needless to say, there was such a rumor in the mansion. She deliberately added the words "outside the mansion" and then promised that she could redeem the second young lady, so that the second wife could not say anything about her and could remain suspicious of her.

This is enough.

Kong Dai also added fuel to the fire and assured the Second Madam that since the Eldest Young Lady came into the mansion, nothing she had promised had been left unfulfilled.

Also, everyone in the mansion knows that the second young lady and the eldest young lady have a good relationship, and the eldest young lady will definitely do her best to redeem the second young lady.

The second wife glared at Su Bai fiercely and said nothing more. She turned around and went back to the east backyard. She walked very slowly when she left, obviously thinking carefully about the ins and outs and cause and effect of the matter.

"Uncle Kong, did you really see the second young lady?" Su Bai asked Kong Dai.

Kong Dai grinned. He had indeed seen the second young lady when he went to the north gate to find a carpenter to pull the door to the Kong Mansion, but the second young lady was not wearing a headscarf. Moreover, the second young lady also saw Kong Dai and told him to say that she was kidnapped by bandits if anyone asked when he returned home.

This second young lady...Su Bai was speechless.

"In fact, the second young lady told me that you saved Liu Yiyan's life. She likes to play in the mountains. She has been there once. I think... she wants to play again this time. Even if I want to stop her, I can't, so I let her go."

Su Bai always thought that Kong Dai didn't know that he had saved Liu Yiyan, but he didn't expect that the second lady had already told him.

Put this way, Kong Dai's explanation makes much more sense.

"Madam, can you..." Kong Dai hesitated to speak.

"If you have anything to say, just say it."

Kong Dai cleared his throat and said to Su Bai, "Could you please send a message to Liu Yiyan, asking him to keep the second young lady on the mountain for a few more days, and send her down the mountain after we finish the business at the Kong Mansion?"

What Kong Dai was talking about in the Kong Mansion was the affairs of the head of the family. He didn't want Su Bai to hand over the family to the second wife.

The next step is to make the second wife understand indirectly that this matter may really be related to Su Bai.

In this case, the second wife would not dare to take over Su Bai's accounts. Even if the second lady returned to the Kong Mansion, she would not dare to do so after this incident.

I thought exactly the same thing as Su Bai.

This also made Su Bai a little scared. Kong Dai knew about his relationship with Liu Yimian. It seemed that he was safe now, but it was a lucky safety.

You must be more careful when doing things in the future. For someone like the Second Miss who is not tight-lipped, you must not let her know any secrets in the future.

But on second thought, she realized that she had to be careful about this matter. It was that hateful Liu Yiyan who told the second young lady all this, and she could do nothing about it.

"Uncle Kong, to be honest, I really don't want to be a member of the Kong family anymore. Those concubines are all very capable. Now there's a gate in the backyard. I intend to separate from them and live our own lives. Out of sight, out of mind. If we can't afford to offend them, we can afford to avoid them."

This is not entirely false. Su Bai's mind is on making medicine. If he can separate them, he can concentrate on making medicine without distraction.

Now the door has been installed. Bolt it from the inside. From now on, you don't have any contact with people from Confucius Mansion. You can enter and exit the Confucius Mansion through the back door.

"Absolutely not!"

As soon as Kong Dai said this, Su Bai quickly stretched out his hands to support his elbows. Otherwise, Kong Dai would have to kneel down in front of him again.

He is determined to believe that the Kong Mansion belongs only to Su Bai, is it just out of loyalty to the Kong family?

Su Bai began to have some doubts. Loyalty was definitely a factor, but could there be other reasons?

Su Bai realized a problem. He remembered that when he first entered the Kong Mansion, Doctor Jiang took her pulse and said that she was pregnant with a boy. The next day, on the way to the East Garden's eldest young master's cenotaph to burn incense, Kong Dai repeatedly reminded the people carrying the sedan chair that the young mistress was pregnant, and asked them to walk steadily so as not to shake her.

In the following period of time, Kong Dai reminded Su Bai many times to walk less, go up and down the stairs slowly, and let Zi Yan support him at all times, for fear that he would have a miscarriage.

But since when, he no longer gave similar reminders and deliberate care.

Did he forget, or did he know something?

This Kong Dai is getting weirder and weirder.