Fu Bao thought carefully for a while and asked, "Do you know the woman's name and where she lives?"

Li Darong's round face wrinkled up. "I didn't know her at all. After I woke up, I was so scared that I almost lost my soul. I gave her the money and left the inn quickly. I didn't even bother to ask her name."

Fu Bao asked again: "Do you remember which inn you stayed in?"

Li Darong nodded quickly: "I do remember this, it seems to be called something like, West Exit Inn!"

Fubao's face lit up. West Gate... Could it be that Wang Li came to Yuzhou? She asked hurriedly, "Please take me there."

Li Darong looked at her delighted expression and thought that he had found a solution, so he quickly agreed: "Yes! Yes! Okay, I'll go and ask A Long to harness the carriage!" A Long was their newly hired coachman. Most of the women in the family could not drive a carriage, so someone had to see them off when they went out, so they hired someone.

Fubao followed him out. As soon as they walked out of the room, the lively atmosphere in the living room suddenly became gloomy. In just a moment, everyone put on a serious look.

Li Darong was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do. It had been a month and his family had never been friendly to him.

Seeing the two of them about to leave, Zhou Qiaoping frowned and said sternly, "You are not allowed to go out. If you dare to step out of this door to find your lover, don't come back in this life!"

Fu Bao was about to speak when Zhou Qiaoping stopped talking: "Men become bad when they have money. Our family's situation has just improved a little, thanks to my little granddaughter who is only a few years old. Rich families take concubines because they can't give birth to sons. We are from a poor and remote village. Aren't our three sons enough for you to support? You go out and look for women, you are shameless!"

Li Darong was in front of so many people, especially so many young people, and was scolded so harshly that his face turned red, but he did not dare to say a word in rebuttal.

Zhou Qiaoping calmed down and finally adjusted her mood and said to Fubao: "My dear grandson, if you want to go out, just let your father go with you. It will be convenient for you to buy things..."

Fubao didn't dare tell them now that there might be something fishy. Otherwise, if it was finally verified that it was indeed an accident and the incident really happened, his family would definitely be even more disappointed.

So she could only look at Zhou Qiaoping pitifully and said, "Grandma, my uncle knows a lot of big bosses now, and I want to discuss business. Without my uncle, who would recognize me as a little girl? My father is no longer in Yuzhou recently, and I can't talk to him."

Everyone was silent for a moment, and Li Huaiqing waved his hand: "Go ahead, be careful on the road! Tell A-Long to drive slower."

Zhou Qiaoping also relaxed. Although she didn't say anything, she turned her head away and stopped stopping Li Darong from leaving.

After leaving the yard, Li Darong still said nothing. Fubao looked at his ashamed and sad face and comforted him, "It's okay. Once you find out the truth, your family will understand you."

Li Darong nodded. He had not been eating well or sleeping well in the past month. He was worried about Zhang Ercui's health and felt sad about the cold words of his family. His big belly had shrunk a lot and his clothes were loose.

Aaron had been waiting outside the yard for a long time. As soon as he saw the two people coming out, he immediately opened the car curtain and waited happily by the side without saying a word from beginning to end.

Fubao sat steadily in the car, looking at the snowy scenery of Yuzhou, and accidentally looked at A-Long's back. This back figure looked like a person... No, that person would not appear here at all.

Half an hour later, the carriage stopped steadily at the West Gate Inn. Oh A-Long still didn't make a sound outside, and Fu Bao saw it himself when he opened the curtain. Although it was a little strange, he didn't ask him the reason.

Fubao looked up from under the plaque of the West Exit Inn, and saw the familiar words in flying and flamboyant handwriting. Li Darong exhaled hot air, rubbed his red hands, and said, "What are you looking at? It's so cold outside, go in quickly." Fubao came to his senses and strode inside.

As soon as I entered the door, the layout inside was almost exactly the same as the restaurant in Pingyang Town before, and there was even a familiar face.

The waiter who originally followed Wang Li to greet customers at Xikou Restaurant is now wearing a decent cotton coat and sitting behind the counter to settle the bills.

Fu Bao passed by the waiter who was running towards them and said to the man who was holding an account book with one hand and an abacus with the other, "I'm looking for someone, can you help me, sir?"

The waiter who was galloping behind hurriedly said, "Miss, if you have any questions, just ask me. Our shopkeeper doesn't want anyone to disturb him when he is settling accounts."

Fu Bao said to him, "Okay, I'll look for Wang Li."

The waiter's face froze, and he looked at the shopkeeper who was doing the accounting, then said, "Our boss is in Qingzhou, and all the business in Yuzhou is in charge of our shopkeeper."

Fubao raised his eyebrows, this was indeed Wang Li’s property.

Fubao: "More than a month ago, my uncle was staying at the hotel and lost a jade ring. I wanted to see if it was here."

The waiter hurriedly said, "We clean the inn very well every day, and we have never seen any rings before. Did you remember it wrongly?"

Fu Bao pretended to look resentful and said, "Uncle, are you sure you are staying in this shop alone? Don't tell me those dishonest people who accompanied you took your things away!"

Li Darong looked hesitant: "I drank too much that day. I was sent here by someone. I don't remember anything."

Fubao shouted again: "That is the token Uncle Wang Li gave me. If you lose it, how can I find him?"

Then he said to the waiter, "I asked my uncle to come to discuss business, so he gave me a jade ring as a token of respect. It was a token Uncle Wang Li gave me when he left Linzhou. I was relieved when I heard it was lost at the West Gate Inn, thinking it would be fine if it fell at home. But now it looks like this, it must have been stolen by someone with bad intentions! Now I have to write a letter to Uncle Wang Li and tell him that the ring is lost, don't let him cheat me."

When the waiter heard this, he paused and turned carefully to look at the shopkeeper who was wholeheartedly paying attention.

The shopkeeper seemed to have heard Wang Li's name. He looked up from the account book and asked, "A month and a half ago? Let me check for you."

Fu Bao looked at his serious face and felt relieved. The inn had records of guests staying in the inn, and the only way to find out the identity of the woman was to check the records.

The waiter also came over to read together, and it was not until they had turned half of the book that their faces froze.

Fubao heard the waiter lower his voice and say, "How could it be her? Then let's..."

The shopkeeper quickly adjusted his expression and whispered, "She paid so much for keeping quiet, she must have gotten something precious. That's the boss's ring, if she really uses it to cheat, we'll both lose our jobs! At worst we can just return the money to her, the boss has treated us well, we can't be ungrateful!"

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