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

It was past lunch time when they returned to the Kong Mansion. Zi Yan asked Niu Yanzi to heat up the unfinished food from the Li Mansion and bring it over. She felt that the food cooked by Xu Tianyi was too unpalatable.

Adjutant Feng came to the backyard and told Su Bai that he had figured out the situation in the small yard and there were seven people in total.

When it was almost dawn, Adjutant Feng climbed onto the roof of Li's house and found a man sitting in the yard leaning against the wall. He should be observing the back door of Kong's house through a crack or hole in the wall. After dawn, the number turned into two people.

From then on until lunchtime, they changed shifts every hour.

"It's really hard work." Su Bai sighed.

Adjutant Feng said that this was not hard work and was nothing compared to setting an ambush during a war. In the past, they often climbed on hilltops or in the grass, and could not move for a whole day.

What's more, there is basically no danger in doing this kind of surveillance mission, and the shifts are changed every hour and it's not tiring.

Gao Hu excitedly told Su Bai a piece of news that the negotiations in Xi'an were successful, the civil war was stopped, and the two countries united to resist Japan.

"The young lady guessed it right again. What do you think..." Gao Hu asked in a low voice, "What about Chairman Han..."

Xu Tianyi didn't understand what Bai meant, and asked Su Bai with wide eyes: "Young Madam also knows Chairman Han?"

Su Bai and Gao Hu both laughed.

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In the next two days, the tunnel was repaired and the equipment in the two wing rooms of the ancestral hall was moved into the Li Mansion. From then on, the basement and the ancestral hall would focus on fermentation and mold cultivation, and all subsequent processes would be moved to the Li Mansion.

In this way, even if someone discovered what was happening in the ancestral hall, no one would be able to tell what was going on. The shelves were filled with layers of corn pulp tightly covered with moldy green hair. People who didn't know might think Su Bai was making stinky tofu.

Zi Yan thought this was a good idea. Let's import a batch of stinky tofu from other places, package it into small cans, put our Confucius Mansion labels on them, and sell some of them. Let people know that we are making and selling stinky tofu, which can explain the source of funds for our livelihood after the separation from the Confucius Mansion.

Su Bai felt that it was a barely acceptable solution. This method of concealment was a bit ridiculous, even a bit troublesome. This required people to do this. Although he had a lot of people now, it was actually not enough.

After most of the ancestral hall and basement are used for mold fermentation, the output will definitely increase, and there will be a shortage of manpower.

Zi Yan gave Su Bai an idea. Her parents' illness had been cured long ago, but Su Bai kept emphasizing to her that the treatment was not enough, so she kept her brother Yuan Yuze with her parents to take care of the injections. The Kong family is so busy now, he should have returned long ago, so let him do this.

"My brother promises that he doesn't mind the smell!" According to Zi Yan, the Li Mansion would not be exposed for a while, but the backyard would not be so safe.

We might be discovered at any time. After all, if someone from the front yard comes to visit us, we can't stop them from coming.

"Okay, I'll leave this to you. But as for Yu Ze, you should give your parents injections for a few more days to consolidate their condition before coming back. There's no rush."

Su Bai had too many things to worry about, and he definitely couldn't afford to be involved in the stinky tofu issue, so he followed Zi Yan's advice and let Yuan Yuze handle it alone.

The stinky tofu was shipped back from other places in large jars and put into small cans after returning to the Confucius Mansion. The words "Kong Mansion Stinky Tofu" were written on red paper and pasted on the cans.

You don't need to make money from it. You can even sell the goods in stores in nearby counties every now and then to pay some labor costs.

It is not a long-term solution, it is just a temporary solution. As for whether others believe it or not, it is not up to us. Believe it or not, anyway, few people believe in many things that happen around us.

Kong Dai was away for four days before returning. He hired a truck at a high price to transport the goods from Qingdao to a large carriage shop on the outskirts of Linhua for storage. Then he used a horse-drawn carriage to transport the goods to Li's mansion in Longxing in small quantities.

Kong Dai was indeed very careful in this matter. There were not many cars in Longxing, and a truck driving in would definitely attract a lot of people's attention.

After Kong Dai returned to Longxing, he went to Li's Mansion first and brought Gao Erzhu to the carriage inn in Linhua for handover. After handing the matter over to him, Kong Dai came back to see Su Bai.

The matter was handled perfectly, and Kong Dai bought the opium after he returned to Longxing.

Opium, ammonium chloride and caustic soda are used to extract morphine. There is also a step in the process, in which ammonium chloride is first used to make ammonia water.

Alcohol and concentrated sulfuric acid are used to make ether, which is currently the most widely used and simplest general anesthetic. If necessary, it can also be used to do bad things.

Su Bai was not in a hurry to make ether, but after having a group of followers in the courtyard behind her, she decided to produce some ether and keep it in case it would be useful someday.

Su Bai called Kong Dai into the main hall and asked him about Dongtian Temple.

"Young Madam went to Dongtian Temple? Did she meet Abbot Huijing?" Kong Dai seemed to know quite a bit about Dongtian Temple.

But what surprised Su Bai was that he had never met Monk Huijing.

When the master went to Dongtian Temple during his lifetime, he usually only brought a few guards with him. Kong Dai only accompanied the master a few times, but he always waited outside the mountain gate and never entered the temple.

He himself had gone to Dongtian Temple to burn incense and pray, but he had never met Monk Huijing.

"How could that be? During the master's funeral, the monks of Dongtian Temple performed rituals for us twice."

Kong Dai shook his head. This was indeed true. He was the one who sent people to Dongtian Temple to invite them. However, the temple only sent a few masters, and Abbot Huijing did not come in person.

There was indeed something fishy about this monk. He clearly hadn't been here, but he said he had seen Su Bai at a ritual.

If you have seen it, you have seen it. If you haven’t seen it, you haven’t seen it. This has nothing to do with the treasure. There is no need to lie. Why?

Su Bai's mind had been confused for the past few days since he came back from Dongtian Temple because he was thinking about Monk Huijing. He was always jumping back and forth between the rationality and irrationality of every detail, and now another inexplicable thing had occurred.

baffling.

"Where was the master when he executed his guard platoon?" Su Bai asked.

Kong Dai said that this incident happened in the Marshal's Mansion at that time. The master left the mansion and ordered other troops to shoot all the unsuspecting guards in the yard.

The details of this incident were only recently learned from Yang Huasen. The charge at the time was treason.

Kong Dai also said that since he was a steward, he seldom went to his master's army and knew very little about this matter.

Oh, Su Bai felt that his question was unnecessary. He originally wanted to hear from Kong Dai that the guard platoon was executed in Beishan. It was too stupid. Only then did he remember that he had heard of this incident.

Su Bai thought of Huijing again, and couldn't understand why Huijing lied about having seen him. Could it be that Huijing came with the other monks and didn't announce her name? In addition, Kong Dai had never seen Huijing, so he thought Huijing didn't come to the ritual?

Kong Dai immediately denied Su Bai's guess. Although he had never seen Huijing, he knew that Huijing was an old man in his 70s, and there was no monk that old among the monks who performed the rituals.

Su Bai stood up and said, "Huijing is over 70 years old. Are you sure?"