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

As he was eager to go to Shanghai, Su Bai once again entered a busy working state. He went into the tunnel and entered Li's Mansion early every morning, and taught Zi Yan and Niu Yanzi step by step the key points, precautions and purity testing of repeated purification, and finally completed the packaging.

Zi Yan and Niu Yanzi have experienced these steps. Zi Yan has followed Su Bai to operate several batches, while Niu Yanzi has only operated it once.

But Su Bai was still a little worried, and it would take some time before he could really let them do it on their own.

Adjutant Feng also roughly figured out the patterns of the watchers in the courtyard. One of the seven people was the leader. Except for this leader who would occasionally walk around the courtyard when he had nothing to do, the others basically would not leave the house unless they were on duty.

Moreover, they did not monitor the back door of Confucius Mansion 24 hours a day. After several days of observation, it was found that their latest shift was at two or three in the middle of the night, and the earliest shift was at around four in the morning. There was a monitoring window of more than an hour during this period.

Su Bai felt that he still couldn't let his guard down. He couldn't be 100% sure whether Kong Li had only sent these seven people or there were other people hiding somewhere else. However, being too suspicious would not accomplish anything. In the future, when entering and leaving Li's Mansion through the back door, it would be best to disguise himself and do everything he could think of.

Although Kong Li transported the items and raw materials purchased from Qingdao back in batches, the west gate was heavily guarded and would still attract attention over time.

I'm going to Shanghai by myself in a couple of days and I'll buy a lot of things.

Fortunately, after Yang Huasen was captured and fled into the mountains, Longxing City withdrew the guards at the three small gates in the north, south and east. We could go around the foot of the mountain and enter the north gate before dark, so we wouldn't have to go through the west gate.

Moreover, they had to use the more than one-hour surveillance window to transport the things into Li's house.

Kong Dai said Su Bai was a little too cautious.

"It's better to be cautious. The Li Mansion is separated from the people who are monitoring us by a wall. They use carriages to bring things to the mansion every day. It's impossible for him not to hear anything. Once they notice it, we will be in big trouble."

"Young Madam is right. Starting tonight, I will let Niu Fuping take advantage of this opportunity to bring goods to the Li Mansion."

As the two were chatting, Xu Tianyi came to report that County Magistrate Cheng Zifeng had arrived.

Su Bai quickly tidied himself up, looking a little disheveled from being busy, and then went out the back door.

"How is the eldest young lady doing lately?" Cheng Zifeng smiled. "Since I learned that the eldest young lady and the Kong family had separated, I have been busy with official duties and have not had the time to visit her. I am so sorry!"

"You are the head of a county, and I should be the one to pay you a visit. How can I dare to accept the responsibility when you say that?" Su Bai asked Zi Yan to make tea for Cheng Zifeng and then left.

"I don't have anything to do, I just came to see you. I heard that the eldest young lady hasn't been out of the house recently. I guess she doesn't know a lot of things that happened outside, right?" Cheng Zifeng took a sip of tea and said, "There are some things that I think it's better to let the eldest young lady know, just as a tip."

Cheng Zifeng did have something to do, but it had nothing to do with Su Bai; it was about the Sixth Concubine.

The Sixth Aunt and Commissioner Huang meet so often that the news has become a household name in the city.

Kong Li and Kong Chen must have known about this. Cheng Zifeng didn't know whether they would take care of it or how they would do it. But the last time he and Commissioner Huang came to the front yard of the Kong Mansion to meet Su Bai, he could see that the Sixth Madam had a good relationship with Su Bai.

Judging from the fact that Su Bai and the Kong family had completely separated, he believed that Su Bai was being marginalized in the Kong family. Therefore, he felt that it was not easy for Su Bai to have a good friend like Sixth Madam in such an environment, and he had the obligation to remind her.

If Su Bai thinks it is appropriate, he should go and persuade Sixth Madam to be more restrained.

If the Sixth Madam is determined to remarry Commissioner Huang, then she should do it quickly. The county government will provide convenience so that she can marry into the Huang family legally and reasonably.

Otherwise, it would be fine if Kong Li didn't care about this matter. Once he wanted to intervene, Commissioner Huang would not be afraid. Kong Li would not dare to do anything to him, but Mrs. Six would probably not have a good ending.

"Okay, then I'll thank County Magistrate Cheng on behalf of the Sixth Madam. I'll go talk to her." Su Bai felt that this was really no small matter. If the Sixth Madam married Commissioner Huang, the government would definitely support it at a time when women's liberation was being vigorously advocated and feudal shackles were being broken. Even if Kong Li was unhappy, he couldn't, and it wasn't worth it to make a fuss against the Sixth Madam.

However, it was unclear what the relationship between the Sixth Madam and the Fourth Madam was like before Su Bai came to the Kong Mansion. At least in the previous period of time, the Sixth Madam had never stood on the side of the Fourth Madam. If the Fourth Madam took advantage of this matter and persuaded Kong Li to use family rules, the Sixth Madam would be doomed.

The fourth wife had an affair with another man and gave birth to a child, which was unacceptable under the family rules, but the power was on the fourth wife's side and there was no place for her to seek justice.

Cheng Zifeng also brought another piece of news that was related to Su Bai, which was about the Silingshan Iron Mine.

The Silingshan Iron Mine and the iron smelting plant in the suburbs of Linhua County were originally funded by the Cheng family and built in partnership with Mr. Kong who provided the land. Both parties held half of the shares. It was because of Cheng Zifeng's suggestion that Su Bai should sever ties with the military as soon as possible that he gave half of the Kong family's shares in the iron mine and iron plant to Kong Chen.

"I am to blame for your misfortune!" Cheng Zifeng said apologetically. The iron mine has been officially mined for more than two months. The mined ore is refined into pig iron by the Linhua Iron and Steel Plant, and the income is considerable.

Cheng Zifeng raised his index finger to Su Bai and said, "That's an average of one yellow croaker a day!"

This was just the beginning. Kong Li had already purchased new equipment from abroad. I heard that the contract was awarded to an American company to expand the iron plant into a steel plant. At the same time, the iron mine also began to expand on a large scale, and the number of mines would be doubled. After all this is completed, the profit would probably be more than five gold bars a day.

Su Bai smiled and disagreed.

She asked Cheng Zifeng: "What about half of the Cheng family's shares? Have you also transferred them to Kong Li?"

When asked about this, Cheng Zifeng slapped his thigh. He just didn't want to get entangled with the Kong family in the first place, so he symbolically exchanged the shares of the iron mine and iron factory with the Kong brothers for a few shops in Linhua. Now, Grandpa Cheng beat and scolded Cheng Zifeng all day long, saying that he was a prodigal son and had cut down the cash cow with his own hands.

"Hahahaha..." Su Bai laughed a few times.

"Why is Young Madam laughing?" Cheng Zifeng asked in confusion, "Are you blaming me for giving you advice and then regretting it myself? Do you think I deserve this bad luck?"

He nodded again and said, "That's right. Although I knew that iron ore was a piece of fat meat, I could only make a thousand or eight hundred dollars a month at most. Who would have thought that it would be more than ten times!"

Su Bai retracted his smile: "County Magistrate Cheng, I just want to tell you eight words."

"Speaking?"

"A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise."

"What the young madam means is..." Cheng Zifeng was puzzled.

"The secret cannot be revealed," Su Bai said mysteriously, making Cheng Zifeng even more confused.

Seeing that Su Bai was unwilling to continue, Cheng Zifeng told him another piece of news that he thought had little to do with Su Bai, but Su Bai thought that this news was too important.

There's going to be a war.