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

Su Bai turned around suddenly and motioned Xu Tianyi to continue asking.

Jueyuan said that he also heard it from two other brothers. They accidentally overheard the conversation between Master Zici and the fake abbot, and learned that what they failed to find was not only the set of scriptures, but also the gold bars.

Su Bai stood at the door for a few minutes before waving his hand, asking Xu Tianyi and the others to send the little monk away.

She quickly sorted out her thoughts. Kong Li associated the word "Dong" with Dongtian Temple, so she asked Tang Sanwa to ask Zici, his acquaintance in the temple.

After Tang Sanwa reported the news that he had learned from Zici that the scriptures were hidden together with the gold bars, with Kong Li's backing, Tang Sanwa risked the world's condemnation and broke into the temple to kill people. He also openly became a fake abbot, waiting for Zhixing and Zhiyuan, the two traveling scholars, to come back.

There is also a possibility that Zici only knew about the scriptures but not the gold bars. Zici learned the news about the gold bars from Tang Sanwa after Kong Li told him.

Now, it is basically certain that this batch of gold bars of Confucius is in Dongtian Temple.

However, these bandits had searched the entire Dongtian Temple, but found neither scriptures nor gold bars.

Wan Qili analyzed to Su Bai that if the gold bars and scriptures really existed, they must be in Dongtian Temple.

As the old saying goes, if one person hides something, it would be difficult for a thousand people to find it.

Dongtian Temple is so big, how could they possibly dig every corner?

Unless they first demolish the Dongtian Temple into the ground and then dig a big pit, there will be no blind spots.

We don't know how big this scripture is, but gold bars won't take up a lot of space, so they can be hidden anywhere near a wall or under a stove. It's normal that the bandits couldn't dig them out after all their digging.

"You mean..." Su Bai raised a finger: "The gold bars may be hidden in a wall?"

"It's possible," Wan Qili added, "In the wall, on the beams, inside the Buddha statue...it's all possible."

Su Bai nodded approvingly: "You make sense. If this is the case, none of us will be able to find it."

"Hahaha!" Wan Qili laughed: "Sister, are you insulting me?"

Not to insult her, but she does have a point.

We have to go to Dongtian Temple. I heard from that pilgrim that these bandits often open and close some courtyards.

I would go there every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, and pay special attention to see if there is a place on the wall of Dongtian Temple or on the Buddha statue where I could insert the key.

But for this matter, only Zi Yan and Kong Dai can go, because they are the only ones who know about the key, and Su Bai doesn't want to expand the scope of people who know about it.

But, on the first and fifteenth day of the month, once every half a month, do I still have that much half a month?

I have to go to Shanghai and then find a way to go to Chongqing.

Su Bai felt that this batch of gold bars might never have anything to do with him again.

He would not hand over the key to Kong Li, which meant that the batch of gold bars was completely lost.

Perhaps, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War or after liberation, I can hand over the secret of this batch of gold bars to the government, and let them organize people to investigate?

You're thinking too far ahead.

Su Bai decided to put the matter of the gold bars aside for the time being. She even gave up the idea of ​​asking Zi Yan and Kong Dai to go to Dongtian Temple on the first and fifteenth days of every month.

Even if you find a keyhole on a Buddha statue, you have no chance to open it.

Kong Man's tomb-visiting team returned to the Kong Mansion before noon, and Kong Man invited Su Bai to have a meal with them in the front yard.

"Eating good food again? You don't care about your sister-in-law's money at all!" Su Bai smiled and touched Kong Man's hair.

Although it costs a little more money, the Kong Mansion has become much quieter since Kong Man took over the management of Su Bai. This girl is capable and can control these concubines.

It was also reasonable. Since she was not pregnant, the eldest daughter was the legitimate daughter of Mr. Kong. In this era when there was a difference between legitimate and illegitimate children, the status of the second daughter Kong Yun was much lower than that of Kong Man.

Kong Man told Su Bai that the second young master Kong Nanwei went to look for his bad friends as soon as he returned to Longxing after visiting the grave.

"You think I'm afraid of him?"

"Why are you afraid of him? I'm afraid you will annoy him." Kong Man came to the front yard holding Su Bai's arm.

Several ladies and girls have arrived.

Although the second wife's condition has improved significantly, she still cannot sit normally, and the sideways sitting posture looks very awkward.

As soon as Su Bai sat down, the third concubine began to complain. The eldest lady Kong Man told them not to disturb Su Bai unless necessary.

Su Bai explained to everyone that he had not been feeling well recently, but it was okay, and if the aunts wanted to chat with him, they could come anytime.

The second wife leaned sideways and asked in a gloomy tone, "Are you handing the family over to Manman?"

Su Bai suddenly realized that although he saved her life, in her eyes, the benefit outweighed the favor.

You can't feed an ungrateful person.

"The Kong Mansion belongs to my eldest sister-in-law. I just help her with some chores. She runs a business and makes stinky tofu. I can't let her get too tired, right? What will we eat if she gets too tired?" Although Kong Man said this with a smile, it was also a counterattack against the second wife.

For the sake of the Second Young Lady's face, Kong Man would not easily change his attitude towards the Second Wife.

"Yes!" The second wife's words were even more unnatural: "Our eldest young lady had a really hard time. Most of the family wealth of the Kong family was taken away by the second master, the third master and that fourth bitch. She started with the little money left for her and opened a business in Linhua. It's amazing!"

"Yes, you are amazing. Fifth Auntie admires you!" Fifth Auntie gave Su Bai a thumbs up.

Perhaps the ladies did not hear the hidden meaning behind the second wife's words, but Su Bai found it very harsh.

In addition to Su Bai, there was another person who was awake, the Sixth Concubine.

She tapped the plate in front of her with her chopsticks a few times, and suddenly everyone quieted down. The third concubine even asked her, "Why, are you going to sing a song?"

The Sixth Aunt knocked again: "Second sister, don't think I can't hear you. You mean to say that Su Bai can earn so much money today to support so many people, and it's still the Kong Mansion that makes the money, not Su Bai's, right?"

"Isn't it?" The second wife finally stopped pretending: "When Su Bai came to the Confucius Mansion, she didn't even have a penny of dowry. To make stinky tofu, she had to buy tofu first, right? Even if she made tofu and then made stinky tofu herself, she still had to buy beans, right?"

Kong Man finally couldn't bear it anymore and started to speak rudely to the second wife: "Second Aunt, the Kong Mansion belongs to my eldest sister-in-law, and my eldest sister-in-law is the Kong Mansion!"

The second wife stood up. Her injury affected her sitting posture, so it was not difficult for her to stand up. Her tone also rose: "She is the Kong Mansion? She gave all the properties and businesses of the Kong Mansion to Kong Chen, and also gave the most profitable mine to Kong Chen. Did she discuss it with everyone? The Kong Mansion has fallen to this point today, and the wives of each room are like beggars. Isn't it all because of her?"

Kong Man responded sharply: "My father gave all the property of the Kong family to my sister-in-law. She can give it away if she wants to. No one can stop her!"

The second wife angrily slammed the table and said, "Your father's property was left to her unborn grandson. Now that the grandson is gone, is there any share for her?"

“Hahahaha…” There was a burst of laughter from outside the door. It was the second young master Kong Nanwei who came back. As he walked in, he said loudly: “Second Aunt is right. Su Bai is no longer pregnant with our Kong family’s child. Naturally, this Kong Mansion has nothing to do with her!”

Su Bai didn't expect that he would inadvertently fall into a different kind of Hongmen Banquet.