The Ace Bigshot Becomes A Farmgirl

Chapter 888: Chapter 888: Thinking She Had Escaped

Shu Yu said, turning her head to instruct the old lady, ”Grandmother, you all go back first, I will return after I finish things here, very soon.”

The old lady was somewhat worried, ”Will you be alright by yourself?”

Daniu got down from another mule carriage, ”I’ll accompany Yu.”

”Alright then, we’ll wait for you at home.”

The old lady gave the staff a glare, let down the carriage curtain, and then instructed Lu Erbai to set off.

As the two mule carriages departed, Shu Yu turned to face the staff, ”Let’s go.”

The staff, looking at her departing figure, had a gloomy expression on his face. Only after watching the people go far did he hurry to catch up.

The cloth shop was not far from here; otherwise, the staff wouldn’t have spotted them so quickly.

There were still customers in the cloth shop at that moment. Upon seeing Shu Yu enter, the shopkeeper lifted his head, still showing a beaming smile, ”Boss Lu has arrived, please come in.”

He came out from behind the counter and welcomed the guests into the back courtyard.

He discreetly lagged two steps behind to ask the staff, ”Where did you find the person?”

”Didn’t find, just now when I was escorting customers out, I saw them on the main street. They seem to have just returned from outside of the city, with two mule carriages.”

The shopkeeper squinted his eyes, ”Coming back from outside the city, it seems she has made a trip back to the village.”

The staff furrowed his brow, ”So, it seems they really haven’t escaped, have they?”

No wonder he thought this way, as they had agreed to dissolve the contract yesterday, and they had been waiting inside the shop all day today.

But waiting left and right, the person was nowhere to be seen, so the staff took the opportunity when the shop was not busy to go find people at the ready-to-wear clothes shop.

However, the entrance of the ready-to-wear clothes shop was tightly closed and apparently had not opened at all.

The staff hastily inquired with the neighboring merchants, and two shopkeepers said that after Boss Lu returned yesterday to find Daniu, they closed the shop, and since then no one had been seen.

These shopkeepers did not know that Daniu and Zhou Qiao had gone to Liufang Alley for a meal, and by the time they returned, it was too late, as all the shops were already closed. And in the morning, Daniu and the others had left Ningshui Street before the opening of the shop because they had set off early.

When the staff heard that the shop had not been opened since it was closed yesterday evening, he became anxious.

Could it be that Boss Lu really had escaped from the exile area and was now fleeing with his family again?

The staff shared this thought with the shopkeeper, who felt it unlikely. It would be one thing if Boss Lu himself was a fugitive, but it made no sense for the Lu family, who had been living well here, to also become fugitives - that would be nonsensical.

The shopkeeper then sent the staff to go to the garment workshop in Liufang Alley to find Xiang and her daughter, as they would usually deliver goods directly there. Now they did not know where Lu Shuyu was living, but the garment workshop was definitely a place they would go.

So the staff hurried to the garment workshop, but it just so happened that Xiang and her daughter had just gone out to buy supplies.

The second household of the Lu family had returned, and Meng Yunzheng and Zhao Xi had helped them find a house in Liufang Alley, which was quickly settled.

It was just that the newly rented house was inevitably lacking in many things, so in the absence of the Lu family, they asked Xiang and her daughter to help with the purchases.

Therefore, when the staff went to Liufang Alley, the garment workshop’s doors were also locked tight.

One by one, they were all missing, and now the staff was really panicking, wasn’t he?

Keep in mind that the ready-to-wear clothes shop of the Lu family settled their accounts with their cloth shop every three months, and the last time they settled the accounts was two months ago. In these two months, the Lu family had restocked thrice, and the money had not been paid.

If everyone had fled, who would they go to for the money?

The staff was extremely anxious, and the shopkeeper also carried a trace of unease in his heart.