Yingbao felt numb.
She seemed to understand why the innkeeper was so attentive to her.
But it seemed too rude to refuse directly, so he said tactfully: "I will talk about this matter after I ask Uncle Wu."
The lady of the inn responded happily, and as she took the basin out, she said, "My dear, I'll buy you a box of Rongfuji Red Bean Paste Pastry, which is a specialty of our Qinchuan County."
Ying Bao shook her head when she heard this: "No, thank you, auntie. Eating cakes at night will rot my teeth."
No matter what, you can't accept other people's money or things. If someone finds out your identity, you will be chased and beaten.
The next day, the servant came to Yingbao and said that her lover had gone to the county government office for work, and asked her to stay in the inn and not leave. After her lover finished his work, he would send someone to the countryside to ask her parents to pick her up.
Then the servant went downstairs and asked the innkeeper to look after the young lady and not let any strangers get close to her.
The innkeeper agreed without hesitation, and as soon as the servant left, she brought in a pretty girl in her twenties.
"My dear, this is my niece. She just turned twenty this year and is still unmarried."
Yingbao stared at the graceful woman in front of him, stunned.
What does this mean? Are you trying to use her as a springboard
But what could he do since she was standing in front of him? He could only let her stay for the time being and then tell her clearly that he was not Wu Daozi's relative so as not to delay her.
"My name is Yanru."
Yan Ru stepped forward lightly and bowed to Ying Baolue.
Yingbao immediately jumped up to return the greeting. "Sister Yanru, you're welcome. I..."
Suddenly she stopped, realizing that she shouldn't reveal her real name to a stranger.
Changing the subject, Ying Bao said with a smile: "My name is Bao Er, Sister Yan Ru can just call me by my name."
"Baoer." Yan Ru called out obediently and opened the food box she brought, revealing the red bean pastry with words on it.
The red bean pastries are the size of eggs, and each one has a red diamond-shaped paper pasted on it, with words such as "Fu", "Lu", "Shou", "Xi" and "Cai" written on the paper.
Such exquisite packaging looks very valuable.
"This is the snack I bought from Rong Fu Ji. It's freshly made and still warm. Little... Bao'er, have a try."
Yingbao didn't dare to taste it. She smiled awkwardly and said, "I just had breakfast and I'm not hungry yet. Sister Yanru, please put it away first."
After walking around the room, Yingbao tilted her head to look at Yanru.
She has a graceful figure and pretty looks. It's impossible that she is still unmarried at the age of 20.
She even rashly showed her courtesy to a stranger's relative, which was not something a girl waiting to be married would do.
This is not right. I cannot bring trouble to Uncle Wu.
Since I have nothing to do, I might as well go to Furuifeng Trading Company to find Manager Zhou Mao.
My family has business dealings with Zhou Mao, and he is making money from my goods, so he will not ignore me.
Moreover, Uncle Wu seemed to be very busy and couldn't take care of her for a while. He was also a foreigner and was not familiar with the place as he had just arrived here.
Instead of waiting for Uncle Wu, it would be better to ask the innkeeper to take me to Furuifeng Trading Company, or at least ask Manager Zhou to pass a message to my family.
Of course, it would be great to send her home.
So Yingbao said to Yanru, "Sister Yanru, do you know Furuifeng Commercial Bank?"
Yan Ru nodded: "I know, sister Baoer also knows about our big business?"
As long as you live in the county, you know this big business. But this kid has just arrived here, how could he know about Fu Rui Feng
"Well, I want to go there to find someone. Can you take me there? I have money to hire a car." Yingbao said, taking out a string of copper coins from his pocket, "Are these enough?"
Yan Ru smiled and pushed the copper coins back: "Why do you need to spend money? My aunt's inn has a donkey cart. I will ask the waiter to harness one."
"Thank you, Sister Yanru." Yingbao smiled at her with curved eyes.
After a while, Yan Ru took Ying Bao on a donkey cart and rushed to Fu Ruifeng Trading Company.
The inn was only three or four miles away from the business, and we soon arrived at the door of the business.
Yingbao jumped off the donkey cart first and ran into the store.
"Excuse me, is Manager Zhou Mao here?" She stood on tiptoe to ask the clerk at the counter.
The waiter looked for a long time but couldn't find the person who was talking. He looked under the counter and saw a little kid as tall as his knees craning his neck to look at him.
"What do you want to see Manager Zhou about?" the waiter asked patiently.
Yingbao: "It's important. I have to tell him face to face."
"Manager Zhou has gone to the provincial capital and won't be back for a few days," said the waiter.
"Going to the provincial capital?" Yingbao was depressed.
The young man said: "Yes, young lady, you should come back in a few days."
After coming out of the Fu Ruifeng Trading Company, Ying Bao got on the donkey cart dejectedly.
Yan Ru also followed and told the driver to drive the carriage back, and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Baoer, if you have anything to say, please tell me."
Yingbao shook her head, wrapped her head with the blanket again, and didn't want to pay attention to anyone.
When the donkey cart was driving through a street, it suddenly heard a noise ahead.
Several villagers were grabbing a man.
Yingbao's eyes lit up when she saw the villagers clearly, and she quickly shouted, "Stop the car! Stop the car! I want to get off!"
Seeing this, Yan Ru hurriedly asked the driver to stop the donkey cart.
Yingbao ignored Yanru's attempts to stop her, jumped off the donkey cart, and ran quickly towards the men, shouting, "Second Uncle! Second Uncle!"
Among the people in front, one was Yingbao’s second uncle Jiang Erlang.
They were grabbing Chen Ergou's son-in-law Zhang Mazi and beating him up, cursing, "You bastard! You've come to the county town! We finally caught you. Tell me! Where is Chen Ergou?"
Suddenly, a little girl came running towards him. Jiang Erlang noticed it was his little niece. He let go of Zhang Mazi's neck and hurried over to meet her.
"Bao'er!" He picked up his niece and was very surprised: "You are really in the county town."
Yingbao hugged her second uncle's neck tightly, grinning as if she wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.
She was so excited that she didn't know how to express her feelings.
"Oh, we finally found Yingbao." A villager said with a smile.
He kicked Zhang Mazi hard again and cursed, "Tell me where your father-in-law is hiding! I'll send you to the government office later and you'll suffer the consequences!"
Zhang Mazi was also surprised to see the little kid running back by himself. He knew that it was pointless to hide it any longer, so he held his head and shouted, "I'll tell you, don't send me to the government office, I'll tell you everything..."
It turned out that day, Chen Ergou suddenly found Zhang Mazi and said that he wanted to do a business to make a fortune, and asked his adopted son-in-law to cooperate with him, and he would give him one or two taels of silver as a reward for his hard work.
Zhang Mazi was worrying about how he would live after paying taxes, so when he heard this, he followed without saying a word.
After that, he and his father-in-law successfully snatched the child. Chen Ergou sent him home first, and he went to deliver the child to the employer himself, saying that he would give him a share of the money after getting it back.
As a result, when his father-in-law came back, he only gave him 100 coins, saying that the employer did not bring enough money and asked them to wait for a few days.
Chen Ergou cursed all night long, and early the next morning he heard that Sun Lizheng had brought people to arrest someone.
So the father-in-law and son-in-law had to flee to the wild for two days, and only dared to run back home in the middle of the night to eat something to fill their stomachs.
Seeing that the employer had not yet sent the money, Chen Ergou had to secretly go to the house to ask for it, but was finally told that the employer had already gone to the county town and asked them to go to the county town to get the money.
There was no choice, so the two of them ran to the county town again. Chen Ergou even swore that if that woman dared to fool him again, he would give her up even if he had to go to jail.