Chapter 888: Full-level Boss Dressed As a Peasant Girl
Chapter 888: Thought She Escaped
Shu Yu turned around and instructed the old lady, "Grandmother, you go back first. I'll handle things here and be back soon."
The old lady was somewhat worried. "Are you okay on your own?"
Da Niu got off the other cart and said, "I'll accompany Shu Yu."
"Alright, we'll wait for you at home."
The old lady glared at the clerk, closed the curtain, and urged Lu Erbai to set off.
As the two carts left, Shu Yu turned around to look at the clerk and said, "Let's go."
The clerk watched her back and his face became gloomy. When they were far enough, he hurriedly caught up.
The cloth shop wasn't far from here, otherwise, the clerk wouldn't have seen their figures so quickly.
There were still customers in the shop. When they saw Shu Yu enter, the shopkeeper raised his head and maintained a smiling expression. "Master Lu is here, please come in."
He came out from behind the counter and led them to the backyard.
Taking a moment, he fell behind and asked the clerk, "Where did you find them?"
"I didn't find them. Just now, as I was seeing off a guest, I saw them on the street. They seemed to have just returned from outside the city, and they had two carts."
The shopkeeper narrowed his eyes. "Returned from outside the city? It seems she went back to the village."
The clerk furrowed his brow. "So, they really didn't escape?"
It wasn't surprising that he would think this way. After they agreed to terminate the contract yesterday, they had been waiting in the shop all day today.
However, they waited and waited, but the people never showed up. So the clerk took the opportunity when the shop had no customers and went to the ready-made clothing shop to look for them.
But the door to the ready-made clothing shop was closed tight and hadn't been opened since.
The clerk hurriedly asked the neighboring merchants, and two of the shopkeepers said that after Master Lu returned yesterday and found Da Niu, they closed the shop and hadn't seen anyone since then.
These shopkeepers didn't know that Da Niu and Zhou Qiao had gone to Liufang Lane for dinner and by the time they returned, it was already too late, and the shops had already closed. Moreover, Da Niu and the others woke up early in the morning and left Ningshui Street before the shops opened.
When the clerk heard that the shop had been closed since yesterday evening, he became anxious.
Could it be that Master Lu really escaped from the place of exile and now fled again with her family?
He shared this thought with the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper thought it was unlikely. If Master Lu herself was a fugitive, it would be understandable, but it didn't make sense for the Lu family to live here in the big house as fugitives. That would be unreasonable.
The shopkeeper asked the clerk to go to the clothing workshop in Liufang Lane to find Ah Xiang and her daughter. They used to deliver goods directly there. They didn't know where Shu Yu was living now, but they were sure to go to the clothing workshop.
So the clerk hurriedly ran to the clothing workshop. Unfortunately, Ah Xiang and her daughter had just gone out to buy some things.
The Lu family's second branch had returned, and Meng Yunzheng and Zhao Xi went to help find a house. They found one in Liufang Lane, and it was quickly settled.
However, the newly rented house was still lacking in many things, so they asked Ah Xiang and her daughter to help with the purchases.
So when the clerk went to Liufang Lane, the door to the clothing workshop was tightly locked.
No one was there, and the clerk became flustered.
You see, the Lu family's ready-made clothing shop settled accounts with them once every three months. The last settlement was two months ago, and in these two months, the Lu family had made three deliveries, but they hadn't paid.
If the people had all escaped, who would they go to for payment
The clerk was extremely anxious, and the shopkeeper also felt somewhat uneasy.
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