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

"Gold bars?" The fourth concubine obviously had never heard Kong Li talk about this matter: "What gold bars?"

"Just tell Master Kong this, this is a secret between him and me."

The hall immediately started to quarrel again. Su Bai told everyone not to get excited, saying that no matter how much gold or silver it was, it had nothing to do with them.

A look of resentment appeared on the second wife's face. She thought Su Bai shouldn't tell everyone this secret.

Su Bai did it on purpose, but he stopped talking about the gold bars here and didn't go into details.

There are two meanings. One is to show Kong Li that she really doesn't know the whereabouts of these gold bars. The other is to remind Kong Li not to push him too far, otherwise she will let everyone know that the master left behind a large number of gold bars, including but not limited to the people in the Kong Mansion.

The Fourth Aunt had nothing to say at this time. She was still thinking about what the gold bars Su Bai mentioned were, and all her thoughts turned to this aspect.

Su Bai asked Guo Deyi to call all the servants in the mansion to the lobby and ask them one by one whether they were willing to follow the Fourth Madam or stay and continue working.

Most of them were newly recruited after Niu Yanzi and other six people resigned. It was the Fourth Wife who recruited them into the Kong Mansion. Except for the accountant Mr. Sun and Guo Deyi, there were three who were the previous servants of the Kong Mansion. One was a full-time cook, and the other two helped in the kitchen and did miscellaneous chores, so they were considered half-cooks.

The fourth wife finally spoke: "Su Bai, what are you going to do? Do you have enough money to support them?"

After the Fourth Lady finished speaking, she began to call out names of people she had just recruited, including the cook and the accountant, Mr. Sun.

Only the two half-cooks were allowed to choose. If they were willing, they could take it away. If they wanted to stay in the Confucius Mansion, it was up to them.

These two half-cook maids were the ones who secretly monitored Guo Deyi for Su Bai, allowing Su Bai to successfully catch the third concubine committing adultery.

The fifth concubine said to the two people with a bitter face: "Since she is willing to take you away, then go. The Kong family has nothing now, and we can't even pay the wages."

Unexpectedly, after the two looked at Su Bai, one of them said, "If the young lady is willing to keep us, we are willing to stay in the Confucius Mansion. The salary... can be a little lower."

Another person immediately said, "As long as I can have enough to eat, it's okay to not have to work for the time being."

Su Bai was a little touched, and came over to hold their shoulders: "Okay, if you trust me, you can stay. I won't treat you unfairly. From now on, you just need to be responsible for preparing meals for the whole family of the Kong Mansion."

He turned around and said to the fourth concubine, "Fourth Madam, take care. I won't see you off."

"Why would I want to stay in this shabby place?" The fourth wife said as she walked out, "There must be more than a dozen people who have died in this haunted yard. The evil spirit is too strong!"

Su Bai saw the third concubine spit at her behind.

"Captain Zhao, please come in as well. Your duty is to protect the Kong Mansion. We at the Kong Mansion need to discuss family matters. It is not appropriate for you to be here." Seeing that Captain Zhao was standing still, Su Bai ordered him to leave as well.

Captain Zhao may have been used to being a bully in the army, so before leaving, he turned back and said to everyone, "I repeat, from now on, anyone entering or leaving the Confucius Mansion must greet me, otherwise don't blame me for turning my back on you!"

"We have nothing to do with Kong Li anymore, so why should he look at us?" The third concubine spoke, and the fifth concubine followed suit. Su Bai stopped them. She understood that Captain Zhao dared to be so unscrupulous because of the power given to him by Kong Li.

"Okay, from now on, the gate of the Confucius Mansion will be under your control, Captain Zhao!" Su Bai sent Captain Zhao out the door with a smile, and asked him softly, "Captain Zhao, haven't you heard of the saying, 'Leave a line of favors so that we can meet again in the future?'"

"I'm a soldier!"

"Okay, you did the right thing." Su Bai gave Captain Zhao a thumbs up.

Su Bai's attitude confused Captain Zhao, who was stunned for a moment before walking down the stairs.

After going down the stairs, he turned back and said to Su Bai, "By the way, I won't send anyone to live in your backyard, but the door to your backyard can no longer be bolted from the inside!"

Su Bai laughed and said, "Captain Zhao is really worried. Now that I am in charge of the Kong Mansion again, the various rooms still need to interact with each other. I won't do it even if you ask me to."

Su Bai returned to the lobby and saw everyone was waiting for him eagerly.

Su Bai asked Guo Deyi who was standing by the door: "How much money do we have in our account?"

"Madam," Guo Deyi said with a tearful face, "We don't even have the accounts, how can we have money?"

Su Bai told Guo Deyi that he was still the chief steward of the Kong Mansion, Kong Dai was still the second steward, and the accountant Mr. Kong had left with the fourth concubine. In the future, the only accounts left in our mansion were food, drink, defecation and urination, so this account would be managed by Guo Deyi.

Guo Deyi looked at Su Bai helplessly, probably thinking, what is there to worry about with an empty account?

"Go find Zi Yan and get a thousand yuan from her. Let's have a good gathering at noon today, chat and have a good meal!"

Then he asked the two cooks, "Can you make two tables of food, a more sumptuous one?"

"We can do it, we can do it!" the two cooks said quickly. They have been helping in the kitchen for many years and have long learned the head cook's skills and can do it.

"From now on, your monthly salary will be eight dollars, and Butler Guo will be ten dollars a month."

Everyone in the hall was dumbfounded again, but the fifth concubine was the first to react: "Last time when the family was divided, the fourth wife said that you took more than 2,000 yuan from the account. This family has to live a long and steady life. You raised the wages so high all of a sudden, we can't live like this!"

It turned out that she thought Su Bai took the more than 2,000 yuan back to support the family.

This is good, otherwise they would be confused about Su Bai suddenly taking charge of the Confucius Mansion again.

Su Bai saw how badly they were bullied by the Fourth Madam, and felt sorry for them. It was not hypocritical that she wanted to take care of them, but what was more important was what she had considered before. If such a large yard belonged to her, the backyard would not be so conspicuous.

Moreover, a new idea came up today, to transfer the fermentation step of the bacteria to another yard. Anyway, it is useless to leave so many yards empty.

"Please rest assured, Fifth Aunt, I have a business and can support everyone." Then he raised his head and looked at everyone: "From now on, the maids in each room will be paid five yuan per month, and it will be paid from the account of Butler Guo."

"It's increased again?" the fifth concubine asked woodenly.

It was unbelievable. Not long after Fourth Madam reduced the salary from four yuan to two yuan, as soon as Su Bai came back, she raised it to five yuan.

Moreover, the Kong Mansion also wanted to recruit new servants, and Su Bai would do the recruiting personally.

Of course, it was Niu Shijiu who recommended it from Niujia Village.

The cripple Guo Deyi ran really fast and brought Zi Yan from the backyard in a blink of an eye. There was no one thousand yuan in the backyard, only gold bars.

"Take three gold bars and give them to Butler Guo, and go buy the vegetables, eggs and meat for lunch today. Buy good ones, including chicken and fish!" Su Bai also instructed Guo Deyi that if the change was in legal currency, just keep a small amount, and either keep gold bars or dollars in the account.

The fifth concubine asked with a smile: "Is it possible that the young mistress exchanged all the more than 2,000 yuan for gold bars?"

Su Bai's face tightened: "My dear aunts, remember, from now on, don't tell anyone outside about the affairs of our Kong Mansion."