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

"I think..." Zi Yan reminded Su Bai again: "You still don't regard yourself as a real eldest young lady."

The money in the Kong Mansion's account also belongs to Su Bai. She can use as much as she wants. As long as it provides food, drink and expenses for the wives, children of the Kong family and servants of the Kong Mansion, no one can complain.

According to Zi Yan, Su Bai should keep the money in the account in his own hands instead of just leaving it there.

"Yes, that's right!" Su Bai smiled.

Zi Yan was right. As a fake, she was...and it was because of her guilty conscience that she couldn't move freely.

"Take 100!" Su Bai changed his mind right after he said that: "Let's take 50."

It's not good to be too generous, as it will give the Sixth Concubine a wrong impression. She will think that I am generous and it will be easy for her to extort money from me. Just like that blackmailer, her appetite will become bigger and bigger in the future.

Don't spoil her.

The Sixth Aunt went to the eldest lady's place in the morning and it was unknown whether she had returned or not. Su Bai asked Zi Yan to go to the Sixth Aunt's courtyard first to see if she was there.

The Sixth Concubine was not in her West Courtyard, and neither was her maid.

That is with the eldest lady. If Su Bai asks her to convey the message back, the eldest lady will inevitably join forces with her. One thing is certain, these two people will not say anything good about Su Bai together.

In the afternoon, Zi Yan went to the West Second Courtyard four times, but the Sixth Concubine never came back.

On the way back for the last time, Zi Yan saw from afar the eldest daughter and the fourth daughter playing in the third concubine's East Courtyard.

"The relationship between the eldest lady and the third concubine has never been very good. Why would she bring the fourth lady to play in her courtyard?"

"Have you lost your memory? The Third and Fifth Concubines have switched courtyards, and the Fifth Concubine is living in the East Third Courtyard now!"

Su Bai felt that Zi Yan had been wronged. Zi Yan was not aware of this matter as Su Bai forgot to tell her.

But when Zi Yan found out about this, she immediately raised questions. Just like when Su Bai first learned from Guo Deyi that they were going to change courtyards, she felt that it was not normal.

This made Su Bai further confirm his thoughts that there was something fishy going on.

"Don't worry about it!" Su Bai felt that this matter was at least unimportant for now. Even if there was something fishy going on between them, as long as it didn't hinder him, he didn't bother to care even after knowing the truth.

The eldest daughter is taking the fourth daughter out to play, which means the sixth concubine is not with her. So where is she?

Su Bai asked Zi Yan to go to the front yard to ask if she had seen the Sixth Aunt go out.

The news soon came out. Zi Yan happened to meet the fifth concubine's maid going to the boiler in the front yard to get water. It turned out that the four concubines had been playing cards in the fifth concubine's room!

Well, the four concubines just happened to sit at one table, so Su Bai had to do nothing the whole afternoon and wait for a long time.

It was not until after nine o'clock in the evening that the card game of the concubines was finally over.

When Su Bai came to the Sixth Aunt's room, the Sixth Aunt told her that today was her lucky day, she won money playing cards, and the eldest young lady came to give her money again.

"Congratulations, Sixth Auntie," Su Bai threw 10 5-yuan French notes on the table. "Did you win more, or did I give more?"

"Of course you gave more, hehe." The Sixth Aunt picked up the money and counted it: "Young Madam, you are too stingy, aren't you? 50 yuan?"

"If Sixth Aunt thinks it's not enough, then I'd better take it back." Su Bai reached out to take it, but was blocked by Sixth Aunt.

"Well, I'll tell you who that person is."

"Is your surname Yan?" Su Bai asked first.

Judging from the Sixth Aunt’s surprised expression, I guessed right.

"Yan Xi, right?"

"How did you know?" The Sixth Aunt immediately hid the French currency in her hand behind her back, fearing that Su Bai would ask for it back.

It turned out to be Yan Xi. That’s easy.

"Don't worry, I've already given you the money and I won't take it back. Tell me, how did you know Yan Xi had so much money?" Su Bai sat down.

Sixth Aunt ate some fruit after dinner yesterday and ended up having a diarrheal upset.

She got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet. When she came back she was no longer sleepy, so she walked around the yard. Through the moon gate between her yard and the second yard, she saw a dark shadow flashing in the second yard in a hurry.

It was already past two in the morning. Who was still awake so late?

Moreover, the second and third masters were not at home, so what was this person doing in the Second Hospital?

Driven by curiosity, she quietly followed the shadow.

"Have you heard of me? I used to be the leading actress and pillar of our troupe. When I walk, it's like I'm floating, without any sound at all!"

Su Bai nodded: "I believe it."

"It's not like there was no sound at all..."

Su Bai interrupted her: "Sixth Aunt, let's talk business."

"Hahaha, look how anxious you are."

The dark shadow stopped at the gate of the west front yard where the servants lived, and immediately the sound of counting money was heard.

The Sixth Auntie immediately concluded that the money was not clean. Several servants lived in one room, so she didn't dare go back to the west front yard to count the money, let alone go back to the room to count it.

"Can you also hear the sound of counting money?" This time it was Su Bai who interrupted the topic.

"It's late at night, there's not a single breeze, and you would have heard it if you were in my shoes!"

The hundred French francs that Su Bai had were basically new bills, so it was normal for them to make some noise when they were counted.

"He counted seventy-eight. There should be at least seventy-eight pieces, right?"

Su Bai looked at the Sixth Aunt and thought, you are so boring. You follow others counting money.

There are more than seventy pieces of one hundred French francs, with more one-yuan denominations and fewer two-yuan denominations, about the same.

The Sixth Aunt was also very smart. She determined that they were legal tender with a denomination of one or two yuan. This was not something she figured out by hearing, but something she deduced.

She believed that Yan Xi took advantage of the second and third masters' absence to break into the house and steal the money.

The two masters must have forgotten to take this money with them when they left the Confucius Mansion last time.

More than seventy yuan is not a small amount. If it is five yuan or larger denominations, more than seventy bills would be a large sum of money. The second master would definitely send someone to take it away.

To be honest, Su Bai doesn't agree with this inference.

But there is also an advantage. She actually thought that Yan Xi was a thief. In her heart, this matter had nothing to do with Su Bai. She told Su Bai about this matter only because Su Bai was the head of the Kong Mansion.

"How did you recognize it was Yan Xi?"

The Sixth Aunt laughed: "Isn't this easy? Among the dozens of people in our Kong Mansion, only Yan Xi can compare with Ma Lian!"

It's too exaggerated, but it's also appropriate, Yan Xi's face is indeed very long.

She also took the opportunity to complain about Su Bai, saying that Yan Xi was very rude and unruly during the one or two days when he was in charge of the Kong Mansion for Kong Dai. He even refused to let her get the tea from the warehouse, and only gave her two taels when she asked for half a catty.

Su Bai nodded.

"How are you going to deal with this Yan Xi?"

The Sixth Aunt told Su Bai that before Su Bai came, if something like this happened, the person who stole the money would be beaten up and kicked out of the Kong Mansion.

"Isn't this how Cripple Guo got beaten up by Butler Kong?"

Seeing that Su Bai didn't say anything, she said something that scared Su Bai: "You want to beat him to death?"