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

March 3th, the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, was the day Su Bai planned to go to Dongtian Temple to burn incense. Early in the morning, Su Bai set off with Xu Tianyi, Kong Dai and Wan Qili.

This time, Su Bai mobilized all his forces, and the twenty or so people living in Li's Mansion also walked towards Dongtian Temple in groups of two or three.

There are quite a lot of people coming to Dongtian Temple to burn incense today, and quite a few of them are from Tianlong and Linhua.

As soon as I entered the mountain gate, I saw the yard full of people and noisy.

It turned out that the monks in the temple only allowed people to burn incense in the main hall in the front yard and no one was allowed to enter other yards.

The doors leading to the backyard and the courtyards on both sides were closed, and there were monks guarding outside.

Kong Dai told Su Bai that before, except for the two small courtyards where Abbot Huijing and the monks lived and practiced, all other courtyards and halls in the Dongtian Temple were open to pilgrims, and many pilgrims would burn incense in every hall when they came to the Dongtian Temple.

Every time Mr. Kong came to Dongtian Temple, he would only burn incense in the main hall in the front yard. After that, he would go to the small courtyard of Abbot Huijing.

"Stop arguing!" A tall, fat monk shouted to the people gathered at the door, "It's not that we don't allow you to go in, it's just that our temple is being renovated. After the renovation is completed, everyone will be allowed in!"

Just from the fat monk's loud shouting, you can tell that he is a fake monk and a bandit from Honghuagou.

Kong Dai said he recognized one of the monks; he had seen him before when he accompanied his master.

This proved Su Bai's judgment that Tang Sanwa did not kill all the real monks in Dongtian Temple.

No one was allowed to enter any courtyard, which disrupted Su Bai's plan.

She brought so many people with her because she was planning to have them split up and act separately to see if they could find some loopholes in the Dongtian Temple. These bandits only allowed pilgrims to move around in the front yard, so they couldn't force their way in, right?

After pretending to light a few incense sticks in the main hall, they came to the courtyard and chatted with the pilgrims who refused to leave. Several pilgrims who came to burn incense on the first and fifteenth day of every month said that just before the New Year, many strange monks came to the temple, and they all looked fierce.

Since these new monks came, people in the Dongtian Temple could no longer burn incense in any courtyard or hall they wanted as before. Some courtyards were always opened and some were closed.

The pilgrims had no choice but to burn incense in whichever courtyard allowed entry, but never before had only the front courtyard been opened to the pilgrims like today.

Su Bai told Niu Yanzi that there was nothing to do today and asked everyone to leave in batches.

The only gain was that Kong Dai found the monk he knew and chatted with him for a few words. The monk told Kong Dai veiledly that Abbot Huijing had been in poor health recently and had been recuperating.

There are indeed many new monks in the temple. This is because since the beginning of the year, Abbot Huijing has sent many monks to other temples to study. These new monks are from other temples who came to Dongtian Temple to study.

Su Bai had heard of this kind of thing. The exchange of Buddhist teachings between different temples is usually called "Chan Xue".

If the second lady had not brought back the news that Tang Sanwa had entered the Dongtian Temple to become a monk, Su Bai would have believed it.

Obviously, this is a lie.

Suddenly, Kong Dai pulled Su Bai and said, "Young Madam, lower your head!"

As he spoke, he pulled Su Bai through the crowd and hid in a corner outside the hall.

The door leading to the backyard opened, and more than a dozen people walked out, all wearing black clothes and black pants.

The two people walking in front were wearing top hats with their brims pulled down low.

It’s Kong Chen and Kong Li!

Oh my god, is he related to Tang Sanwa?

Tang Sanwa entered Dongtian Temple... Could it be that he was instructed by them?

Kong Li has already suspected that the master's hidden gold bars are related to Dongtian Temple?

If so, how did he guess it?

Su Bai suddenly thought of someone, the second wife!

She provided me with the guess about Dongtian Temple and took 500 yuan from me. Why couldn't she reveal the information to Kong Li and sell it for money again?

Su Bai felt that her analysis was tenable. The second wife's plan to seize the Kong family's property was failing step by step, and there was no hope at all. She would just take whatever she could get. She didn't care about credit or morality.

There is only one way to leave Dongtian Temple. Su Bai waited until Kong Chen and Kong Li were far away before coming out with Kong Dai. She told Kong Dai her analysis, and Kong Dai also believed that it must be the second wife who revealed the news to him.

Kong Dai believed that the reason why Kong Li was still polite to Su Bai was because he was not sure whether Su Bai had other information about the gold bars.

If the Second Wife told Kong Li exactly what happened on the day the Master died, Kong Li would become suspicious when he knew that Su Bai had been alone with the Master for a short time before the Second Wife rushed into the Master's bedroom.

"Kong Li must be killed, otherwise we will never have peace," said Kong Dai.

After returning to Li's Mansion, Niu Yanzi told Su Bai another piece of news. When they came back, they were walking and playing, stopping and moving from time to time, so they walked slowly and met Kong Li and his gang who came out from behind.

On the day when Kong Li helped the fourth concubine to officially occupy the Kong Mansion, Niu Yanzi had seen Kong Li, but Kong Li did not recognize her.

Seeing Kong Li and others walking quickly, Niu Yanzi and others hid aside and made way.

She heard Kong Chen scolding one of his subordinates, blaming him for not remembering the right day and rushing to the temple on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, encountering so many people and causing chaos.

Whether the Second Wife leaked the news to Kong Li, we can only ask her after she returns to the Kong Mansion.

Kong Dai gave Su Bai a suggestion, that each member of our guards should be equipped with a pistol.

Today, the guards who escorted Kong Li into the temple were all holding a pistol.

Although after leaving Gao Hu and officially following Su Bai, each of these people had a spear, but the long spear was too conspicuous. We are not a regular army and do not need to fight. It is more convenient to carry a short gun and it is not easy to attract other people's attention.

More importantly, if they wanted to kill Kong Li, Yang Huasen and Liu Yiming were on the mountain, and it might be too late for them to pass on the message back and forth.

If there is a good opportunity, we have the people who can get it done.

For example, the next time Kong Li comes to the Kong Mansion, or when he goes to the Fourth Concubine's Kong residence, we can send a few people to hide outside and wait, and shoot him to death as soon as he goes out.

Su Bai disagreed with Kong Dai's idea. If he did it his way, the chances would definitely be much greater than letting Liu Yiyan and Yang Huasen ambush and kill Kong Li, but it was too dangerous.

Kong Li always brings a lot of guards with him. If we send some people to guard outside the door, even if we can kill Kong Li, how many of us can come back alive?

If one or two more people were caught alive and interrogated to find out that I was the mastermind behind the incident, everything would be over.

But Su Bai felt it was still necessary to buy some pistols so that he could have guns at hand just in case.

Kong Dai has this channel and can buy it from the black market in Jinan or Qingdao.

After lunch, Su Bai was just about to go to bed to rest for a while when Guo Deyi ran into the backyard and Zhou Beiwang came.

This damn thing, you come now?

Su Bai hurried to the front yard.