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

Seeing Su Bai getting anxious, Gao Hu laughed out loud. Zhou Beiwang had asked him to do so in order to tease Su Bai on purpose. He also said that when Gao Hu went to Linhua again in two days, he should tell him what Su Bai's reaction was today.

"It can be seen that Captain Zhou misses the young mistress very much."

"Boring!" Although I said this, I still felt a little happy in my heart.

"Give it to me!" When Su Bai opened his hand for Gao Hu to take out the gold bar, but Gao Hu didn't have it, Su Bai got angry again: "Is that why he misses me so much that he wants to cheat me out of my medicine?"

In his excitement, he told the truth that what he asked Gao Hu to send to Linhua was medicine.

However, Gao Hu patted his chest and promised Su Bai that ten gold bars were not a small number and it was normal that he could not get them together in a short time. Captain Zhou asked him to go to Linhua again in three days and bring the gold bars back to Su Bai.

At this point, Su Bai began to have doubts in her heart. She did not doubt Zhou Beiwang, but this military doctor Chen... to be honest, she did not dare to completely believe him.

If Doctor Chen got the medicine and then told Zhou Beiwang that he couldn't get that many gold bars, Zhou Beiwang couldn't kill Doctor Chen or take the medicine back, right?

From now on, you pay the money and get the goods.

Fortunately, this time I did not give all 60 boxes of medicine to Doctor Chen at once.

At this time, Su Bai had already lowered the price in his mind. Even if he couldn't get back all 10 gold bars, 5 would be fine.

The Xi'an Incident caused a great uproar both domestically and internationally, but the Kong Mansion was not affected at all. At the suggestion of Kong Dai, the entrance to the underground cave leading to the Li Mansion was chosen in the main hall of the ancestral hall. There was a cabinet in front of the tablets enshrining the ancestors of the Kong family, and it was just below this cabinet.

This cabinet is used to place offerings when worshipping tablets. Since the Confucius Mansion was built and the ancestral hall was set up here, no one has moved this cabinet.

"Aren't you afraid of being blamed by your ancestors?" Su Bai asked Kong Dai.

"What the young lady has done is a big deal, and our ancestors won't blame us. Besides, we just moved the cabinet and didn't move the tablet." Kong Dai's explanation made Su Bai feel a little far-fetched. It was a little abnormal for him, who had always been extremely orthodox and rigid, to say such a thing.

Perhaps it was out of gratitude that she had taken him in after he was fired by the Fourth Madam?

This cabinet is quite heavy. Once the hole is dug, if Su Bai wants to go down, he won’t be able to move the cabinet.

Xu Tianyi, along with Adjutant Feng and Gao Erzhu, started digging the hole right away. Since the hole didn't need to be very large and it would take a lot of effort for two people to get in, the three of them took turns working, taking turns to rest.

The progress was faster than Su Bai had imagined. On the first day, in addition to digging a hole nearly three meters deep, they also dug more than one meter to the north.

According to Xu Tianyi, it would be easy to dig three or four meters a day, and the whole process could be completed in three days at most.

Kong Dai said that it would not be difficult to dig through the cave in about ten days. He planned to repair the cave after digging it through, build walls on the cave walls, and support the cave roof. He couldn't let the young lady roll out of the dirt every time she dug into the cave, right?

Anyway, there was no rush in these ten days, so Su Bai asked Kong Dai to do as he said.

Kong Dai was very careful and even brought the necessary bricks and wood to the backyard in the middle of the night.

Xiao Wei, who had just moved into the backyard, saw everyone busy coming in and out and offered to help, but was rejected by Su Bai. It was better not to let him know the secret.

Xiao Wei also knew the rules well and never asked what everyone was busy with.

The front yard of the Confucius Mansion was also not idle. New servants were recruited. In addition to the original three cooks and kitchen helpers, only three people were recruited. It seemed that the Fourth Concubine was determined to squeeze money out of the Confucius Mansion to accumulate a fortune for herself and her son.

No matter what, the other ladies were also the master's wives and concubines, so Kong Li had to treat them kindly.

Su Bai believed that if Kong Li had not stopped her, the Fourth Concubine would have kicked out these wives. She was capable of doing such a thing.

The fourth concubine moved out of the West Third Courtyard where she originally lived, and moved into the Main Third Courtyard, which is the courtyard in front of Su Bai.

As the head of the family, it was very considerate of him not to come and seize Su Bai's main backyard. However, this favor was not given by the Fourth Madam, but Kong Li did not allow her to do so.

December 12th was the day agreed with Zhou Beiwang to pick up the gold bars. Early in the morning, Su Bai urged Gao Hu to go to Linhua.

At noon that day, the tunnel leading from the ancestral hall to Li's mansion was dug through.

Su Bai couldn't wait to get over and take a look. Although it wasn't as exaggerated as Kong Dai had said before, he was still covered in dirt.

Kong Dai told Su Bai that it was just open now. The next step was to widen the road appropriately and then build the wall, so this situation would not happen again.

Compared with the backyard and ancestral hall occupied by himself, the courtyard of Li Mansion is almost twice the size.

The main house and side rooms in the front and back yards are complete. Although they have been empty all the time, they are kept very clean, which makes Su Bai feel the diligence of Widow Li and her daughter.

After visiting Li's Mansion and then crawling back into Kong's Mansion through the cave, Su Bai was in a very good mood. With this courtyard, his small workshop immediately became a big workshop.

This is also because the number of equipment is insufficient. If some more equipment can be purchased, the Li Mansion can become a small pharmaceutical factory.

However, Su Bai still felt that this was only a temporary solution. As long as he could not escape Kong Li's control, he would not be at peace.

Gao Hu didn't come back until the next day after he went to Linhua. It was already December 12th.

What Su Bai didn't expect was that he got back 35 gold bars!

Chen Yidao asked Zhou Beiwang to tell Su Bai that this was the full payment for the 1000 pills and 100 boxes of medicine that had been agreed upon.

Let Su Bai find a way to get the remaining 70 boxes, the sooner the better.

"Are there so many wounded?" Su Bai asked. He hadn't heard any news about the war in Shandong in the past few days. For some minor injuries and pains, the medicines that Chen Yidao had used before would be enough. There was no need to be so extravagant.

Although Su Bai's drug prices are still far from the highest level in history, to be honest, this is still a sky-high price.

What Gao Hu learned from Zhou Beiwang was that in order to raise these 35 gold bars, Doctor Chen took out all his savings and also mobilized many of his friends and connections.

"Borrowed money? Crazy." Su Bai looked at the 35 gold bars and couldn't hide his excitement.

"Military Doctor Chen is gambling!" Gao Hu took out a newspaper he brought from Linhua. Just yesterday, the Political Committee of the National Government had decided to send General He Mouqin as the commander-in-chief of the anti-rebelion army, Liu Zhi as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army Group, and General Gu Moutong as the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army Group, to approach Xi'an from the east and west directions.

The Air Force also received orders to bomb Xi'an.

A war is about to break out.

The scale will be unprecedented.

Gao Hu and Zhou Beiwang agreed that Doctor Chen was taking a gamble by spending so much money to buy these drugs.

Doctor Chen is a powerful figure in Linhua Military Hospital. He has many colleagues and friends with excellent medical skills in various local armies. Once the war breaks out, it would be a joke to say that these medicines will be enough for him.

The medicine was not enough even for the injured officers, and it was far from enough.

Su Bai remembered that Doctor Chen had said that he would use these medicines to blackmail those wealthy senior military officers.

It looked like he was really going to take action, but unfortunately, he couldn't win this bet.

Seeing Su Bai laughing, Gao Hu asked Su Bai: "Madam, what are you laughing at? Are you so happy about getting so many gold bars?"

"Am I the kind of person who has never seen money?" Su Bai retracted his smile and said, "I tell you, this war can't be fought at all."