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

Niu Yanzi and others returned to Li's Mansion before dark with a full load.

After hurriedly eating a bite of food, Su Bai immediately took them to prepare the sterile water that would be used again tomorrow.

Zi Yan also came back.

Ever since she took over the business of the firm, she could no longer be relied upon during the day.

While working, she mentioned to Su Bai Manager Wan's suggestion to open a business in Linhua.

Su Bai agreed. If she wanted to do it, she could do it on a bigger scale if she had the conditions. Zi Yan assured Su Bai that she could definitely earn back half of the daily expenses of the Kong Mansion.

Fortunately, we have Niu Yanzi, our capable helper, otherwise we really can’t do without Zi Yan.

Su Bai had only been working for a while when she was pushed out by the two men, who asked her to rest early.

Su Bai was busy in the laboratory for a while before returning to the backyard of Confucius Mansion.

As soon as he returned to the backyard, Kong Dai came over from the front. Captain Tian brought a message on behalf of Kong Li, which contained only one sentence: I believe you, stop digging.

"Should we continue digging tomorrow?" Kong Dai asked.

"Do you think Kong Li will really believe it? Keep digging!" It wouldn't cost much anyway. Su Bai just asked Kong Dai to change the digging depth. It's not necessary to dig as deep as previously planned. Just lay the bricks again as a show. This way, it can be finished earlier. Otherwise, it would take ten days or half a month to dig, and it would be really uncomfortable with the chaos in the yard.

"Okay." It seemed that Kong Dai didn't quite approve of Su Bai's behavior.

"What day is today?" Su Bai asked.

"The fourth day of the New Year." Kong Dai asked, "Why is the young lady asking this? Is there any particular reason for this?"

"Remind me on the fifteenth day, and we'll go to Dongtian Temple to burn incense."

Except for the first and fifteenth day of each month and some festivals, the gate of Dongtian Temple is usually closed. Anyone who wants to go in to burn incense has to knock on the door first. Su Bai didn't want to go through so much trouble, so he waited until the fifteenth day.

There were many people burning incense that day, so I could bring more people with me to see if I could find any flaws in this temple.

Su Bai placed his hopes on the monks in Dongtian Temple who were not killed.

She believed that Tang Sanwa had killed Huijing and taken his identity, but as long as he could not dig up the treasure, he had to stay in Dongtian Temple, and if he stayed there he had to appear to receive pilgrims normally.

These bandits know nothing. Whether they are performing rituals or praying for the salvation of souls, there must be someone who knows about it to receive them, right?

According to this inference, Tang Sanwa probably did not kill all the monks in Dongtian Temple, and at least left a few.

Another possibility is that the monks in the temple colluded with Tang Sanwa, knew that there were treasures in the temple, and cooperated with Tang Sanwa to rob the temple and dig for treasure.

Based on this inference, there will still be monks in the temple.

But one thing is certain, the monks are only a minority, and most of the people in Dongtian Temple are bandits.

"Uncle Kong, do you think that the monk living in the small courtyard behind Panlong Cave could have escaped from Dongtian Temple?" Su Bai suddenly remembered the somewhat strange courtyard he saw on the way from Panlong Cave to Wohu Cave.

It was immediately denied by Kong Dai.

A month before he fell ill, the master went to Dongtian Temple and met Abbot Huijing. Kong Dai accompanied him that time, but he stayed in the courtyard and did not enter Master Huijing's meditation room.

Every time the master went to Dongtian Temple, he would first burn incense in the main hall and then go to Master Huijing's meditation room in the backyard.

When he came out of Dongtian Temple last time, Kong Dai remembered that his master said that he envied Master Huijing's health very much. She was in her seventies, almost eighty years old, but her face was still rosy and she looked energetic.

Unlike him, he is not even 60 years old, but he feels that his health is getting worse day by day and he has become a medicine bottle.

At that time, the master's condition was very serious and he had to rest after walking a few steps.

It has been less than a year since the last time the master went to Dongtian Temple.

Although it is not known when this small courtyard in the mountains was built, it has existed at least a few years ago.

Therefore, it is impossible that this monk fled there after the disaster at Dongtian Temple.

After listening to Kong Dai's narration, Su Bai was more or less disappointed.

However, she still thought that if she had the chance, she would visit the monk under the pretext of asking for water to drink.

"Madam, you don't have a suitable person to serve you, right?" Kong Dai wanted Su Bai to choose another one from the twelve people in Niu Village to be his personal maid. It was awkward to let Xu Tianyi, a big guy, do the work of making tea and pouring water, not to mention that he was clumsy.

"We have Zi Yan here. She just needs to come back every night, and I can handle the daytime stuff."

Kong Dai was right. She did need a maid. It was not that she wanted to be served by someone. As the eldest lady of the Kong family, it didn't make sense for her to have maids in every room but she did not.

Besides, he really needed someone to run errands for him. A big man like Xu Tianyi was not good at handling some of the small things around him.

"There's no rush. Let's talk about it in a few days." Su Bai felt that what Kong Dai said made sense. A personal maid must be someone he can trust. Su Bai planned to observe her carefully in the next few days to see which of the girls from Niu Village was more suitable.

There is no doubt that Niu Yanzi is the most suitable one, but she is now the main force in pharmaceutical production.

After staying in Longxing for three days, Kong Li returned to Linhua. During these three days, except for asking Captain Tian to convey a message that he trusted Su Bai, he never showed up at the Kong Mansion again.

However, the second young master Kong Nanwei goes to Kong Li's place every day.

In order to avoid suspicion, Kong Li did not live in Kong Zhengliang's yard with the fourth concubine.

There is a plaque with the words "Kong's House" hanging on the gate of Kong Zhengliang's courtyard. Although the fourth concubine renovated the house, the plaque remained.

The people in the Kong Mansion called the courtyard of the Fourth Concubine the Little Kong Mansion.

Su Bai asked everyone to call it according to the words on the plaque, "Kong's House".

Since the Fourth Concubine did not take off the sign, it means that she is very satisfied with the name of Kong's House. So let's call it Kong's House and don't give it any other nickname. Don't have conflicts with the Fourth Concubine over these trivial matters.

Su Bai heard that since the fourth concubine took over the Kong family business, the business has been declining. Some concubines in the Kong family said that she had poor management skills, while others said that this was retribution. Only Su Bai knew best that it was due to the unstable situation.

The bandit suppression operation in the mountains was ongoing, and Gao Hu would bring back the limited information he got from Bai Ying and relay it to Su Bai almost every day.

After severely injuring Xu Laohei, the troops continued to search for Yang Huasen in the mountains based on the military doctor's description of the relevant terrain.

There is only one piece of news brought back every day, and the search is still ongoing.

Gao Hu analyzed that it seemed that they would not withdraw their troops easily if they couldn't find Yang Huasen this time.

After I gave him Doctor Chen’s medicine last time, he never came to Su Bai for medicine again. The medicine produced by Su Bai is actually unsalable. It’s unfair.

Two days after Kong Li left Longxing, Niu Yanzi and her colleagues had collected enough Streptomyces and entered the cultivation stage.

After a busy night, Su Bai got up very late.

When she was about to go out to the Li residence after eating something, Zi Yan came back excitedly: "Young Madam, who's here?"