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

It is indeed worthy of Su Bai's reward, but this is not what Su Bai came to Tietou to ask.

Kong Zhengliang was killed by Tietou.

Just as Kong Dai had judged, he strangled Kong Zhengliang to death and then hung him from the beam.

This cleared up Su Bai's misunderstanding of Tietou. He was originally asked to give Liu Yiyan a message to kill Kong Zhengliang, but he didn't go because he thought it was a small matter and he could do it himself without disturbing the people on the mountain.

Su Bai first praised Tietou a few words, then frowned and asked: "Who told you the time when Zhou Beiwang left Longxing?"

Tietou showed an awkward expression: "Young Madam, can I tell you this? Otherwise, you will kill me?"

"Did the Second Miss tell you?" Su Bai knew that he would not tell her, so she simply expressed her guess and wanted to judge based on his reaction.

Guo Deyi handled this matter very quickly. Just when Su Bai walked out to the front yard, the third concubine sent a reply. The news that Zhou Beiwang left Longxing was known to all the concubines and two young ladies in the Kong Mansion.

When they learned the news yesterday, the four concubines were playing cards in the fifth concubine's room. The eldest and second daughters were playing with their two younger sisters and they all heard it.

"Ah, ah," Tietou showed a brief surprise on his face, "Second Miss? Young Madam, it's whoever you say is the one. What does it matter? Zhou Beiwang is not dead anyway."

Tietou's expression was too exaggerated, which made Su Bai unsure.

He had no choice but to ask Tietou to tell Liu that when Zhou Beiwang was destroying Panlong Cave, he not only created an opportunity for Su Bai to tip off, but also deliberately spared him a way to survive in the battle.

"A person cannot be without conscience. He wouldn't even understand this, right?" Su Bai knocked on the table lightly: "Forget it this time, but don't do anything to Zhou Beiwang again in the future!"

But Tietou didn't care: "Madam, Commander Liu can listen to you in ten thousand things, but not in this one thing. If Zhou Beiwang comes back to Longxing again, Commander Liu will have to kill him!"

"Why?" Su Bai held the teacup and almost splashed it on him.

"Don't you know this? Commander Liu said that his life belongs to your eldest young lady, and you can take it whenever you want. But no matter who it is, if he wants to cuckold Commander Liu...will Commander Liu let him go?"

"Bullshit!" Su Bai finally couldn't help it: "What the hell is this green hat and red hat? Do I have any relationship with Liu Yimiao?"

Tietou looked aggrieved: "It's not up to me to decide whether it matters or not. This is what Commander Liu said."

"Shameless, shameless!"

Su Bai had no good way to deal with a scoundrel like Liu Yiyan. He could only ask Tietou to tell Liu Yiyan that if he didn't obey, he would not be responsible next time Kong Chen sent people into the mountains to suppress him.

Moreover, if he dares to set his sights on Zhou Beiwang again, he will break off all ties with him.

"I have nothing to do with Zhou Beiwang, why don't you tell him this!"

Su Bai felt that it was too difficult to deal with Liu Yiyan and his gang of tough guys.

……

This time, Niu Shijiu selected six people for Su Bai, three men and three women.

According to Niu Shijiu, he guaranteed that these six people were all loyal and reliable, and not stupid. He did not choose those people in the village who were as honest as blocks of wood, for fear that they might not understand what he said and would anger the young lady.

Today, Su Bai improved the meals for everyone in the Kong Mansion, including Gao Hu's guards. She specially invited these six people and Guo Deyi to the backyard for dinner.

Not knowing these six people, Su Bai chose a man and a woman to keep by his side. One was Niu Fuping, the son of Niu Shijiu, and the other was Niu Yanzi, who was also a relative of Niu Shijiu.

In fact, there are fewer people in the Confucius Mansion now, and there is not much to do. The other four people will follow Guo Deyi first, and he will transfer them when he is too busy.

Zi Yan also asked Niu Fuping why his father didn't give him a name like Niu Twenty or Niu Twenty-one. Niu Fuping said that many people in the village did not name him like that now, mainly because young people opposed it and thought it sounded ugly.

Although he worked for Su Bai, he still lived in the east and west front yards.

There can’t be any new people living in the backyard, as that would arouse more suspicion.

Guo Deyi gave Su Bai another good suggestion. He could see that these six people were personally selected by the young lady to enter the mansion. Since they were all people the young lady trusted, it would be better to let them take turns to obey her orders.

In this way, it would not easily arouse suspicion from the concubines in the Confucius Mansion, especially the fourth concubine.

Normally, these concubines don't care what the servants in the mansion are doing, but if the young mistress regularly lets Niu Fuping and Niu Yanzi do her bidding, it will attract their attention after a while.

As long as the rotation is done according to his method, no one can tell except him.

Su Bai decided to adopt Guo Deyi's suggestion, but at the same time he also felt that the secret of the basement could not be kept. Although Guo Deyi had never been to the basement, he also knew that Su Bai was doing something that he didn't want others to know.

After dinner, Su Bai asked Zi Yan to take Niu Fuping and Niu Yanzi into the basement, and Zi Yan led them first.

Zi Yan would instruct them on matters such as confidentiality, and then slowly teach others.

As for whether it can be truly kept confidential, we can only trust Niu Shijiu's recommendation. It is like a thread hanging on the ground, which may break at any time.

As for what consequences will occur after this line is broken, it is difficult to predict.

Zi Yan told Su Bai that these two people were very smart and would learn quickly.

When it was dark, Su Bai, together with the three of them and Xu Tianyi, began to move some important facilities and equipment in the basement to the ancestral hall in the west backyard. This was also the solution Su Bai came up with after listening to Guo Deyi's advice today.

The ancestral hall is only visited when there is a death in the Kong Mansion or on major festival days such as Qingming Festival and New Year's Day. Mainly Kong Chen and Kong Li come to burn incense at the ancestral tablets. However, the ancestral hall is only used in special circumstances. Usually they go to the ancestral tomb in Dongyuan.

Even if they come to the ancestral hall, they will only go to the main room where the ancestral tablets are enshrined. No one ever goes into the two rows of side rooms.

Su Bai planned to place all the final steps of drug production in these two rows of rooms.

Only he and Kong Dai have the key to the ancestral hall gate, and no one else can enter.

In the future, the basement will be mainly used for fermentation and culture of bacteria. Even if Kong Chen entered the basement, it would be full of jars and moldy corn pulp. He would not understand what was strange here and would probably be choked by the unpleasant smell as soon as he entered the basement.

But this is only a stopgap measure. Once we make some money from selling the medicine, we have to move the production out of the Confucius Mansion.

When moving these things, Su Bai simply called the other four people over. After all, it was the middle of the night and no one would see them.

Despite this, it was already two o'clock in the morning when we finished moving everything.

……

Su Bai slept until around nine o'clock the next day, when he was woken up by the second young lady.

The eldest and second young ladies have been lukewarm towards him for some days now, and Su Bai is too lazy to pay attention to them.

What's wrong with you that makes you come back here again today?

Zi Yan wanted to inform Su Bai first, but Er Xiaonai ran faster than her and rushed directly into Su Bai's bedroom. She threw herself on Su Bai, who had not yet had time to get up, and started to cry.

"what happened?"

"Sister-in-law, I was wrong. I wronged you!"

"What did you wrongly accuse me of?" Su Bai was a little confused.

"You really didn't kill my mother, she came back alive!"

This news was like a bolt from the blue. Su Bai felt like he was struck by lightning and felt numb from head to toe.