"Then thank you, Madam Li!" Fang Duobing did not refuse, mainly because the conditions simply did not allow him to refuse. They were already starving and could not bear it any longer; if they refused, they would really starve to death.

Although Li Lianhua didn't particularly like Fang Duobing, she was still greatly pleased when he called her "Madam Li." She liked hearing that, so she encouraged him to say it more.

The waiter quickly brought the food, and the three of them ate with gusto, not caring much. After they were full, seeing that only a few of them had started eating, Fang Duobing smiled sheepishly. Remembering that his purpose was to borrow money from Li Lianhua, he felt even more embarrassed.

"plum……"

"Ahhh! A ghost!" Fang Duobing had just mentally prepared himself to ask for money when he heard Xiao Er's loud scream. Instantly, everyone's attention was drawn to that side.

"Who are you calling a ghost!" A woman wearing a veil and holding a whip lashed out swiftly and decisively when she heard the waiter call her a ghost.

The waiter, who had been beaten, dared not speak and quickly hid to the side.

The person sitting on the stool seemed to recognize who was in front of them. "This is... the Yu Qiushuang from the painting?"

No sooner had she uttered those words than Yu Qiushuang shouted, "What are you looking at! No one is allowed to look!" She then lashed out with her whip several times. Fortunately, no one was around, otherwise someone would have been in trouble.

Hearing the noise, the guards of the Yu family came out to investigate. They immediately spotted Yu Qiushuang standing in the middle of the inn and were overjoyed. They rushed over to greet her, "Second Miss, where have you been? We've been looking for you everywhere!"

Yu Qiushuang angrily rebuked, "You've plastered notices all over the mountains and fields, do you want to be whipped!"

The guard immediately explained, "Yes, it was Madam who had been looking for the Second Miss for several days without success, so she asked us to put up the notice."

"It was my elder sister who sent you!" Yu Qiushuang was immediately frightened when she heard them say that her elder sister had sent them to find her. She looked around as if trying to see if her elder sister was also in the inn.

The guard stammered as he replied, "Um... Madam has gone to Shannan and won't be back for a few days. It was Miss Yunjiao who brought us here to find the Second Miss. She's on the second floor right now."

When Yu Qiushuang heard that it was Yun Jiao who had come to see her, she breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went upstairs happily. The guards hurriedly followed, "Second Miss, Second Miss."

If this second young lady gets lost right under their noses, they'll be in deep trouble when they get back!

Yu Qiushuang stopped in her tracks as she went upstairs, turned around and said to them, "Why are you following so closely? I've already gone upstairs, do you think I can run away anymore?"

Seeing that they didn't make a move, he went upstairs.

The room was lit by candles, and the orange light shone through the window, making Yu Qiushuang's figure clearly visible as she entered the room.

When Yun Jiao saw her return, she immediately went to greet her happily, "Shuang'er, you're finally back!"

“If you hadn’t posted notices all over the mountain, I would have made you worry for a few more days.”

After a while, Yun Jiao, whom the guard had mentioned, came out and said to the guards downstairs, "I have appeased Qiu Shuang, and she can return to Yucheng first thing tomorrow morning."

"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Yun." The guards breathed a sigh of relief. With Miss Yun around, the Second Miss would stay in the inn peacefully until tomorrow when they would set off to return home, thus reporting back to the Madam.

"Waiter, is the hot water you requested ready?" Yun Jiao turned to the waiter and asked, her meaning quite clear.

"Alright, alright, miss, this is it." The waiter immediately carried the bucket upstairs.

After waiting for the series of events to pass, Fang Duobing hesitated for a moment before preparing to speak again, only to find it was the same waiter again, shouting almost the same words in the same voice.

"Blood! There's blood!"

Fang Duobing, interrupted again: ...

"What happened now?"

The people in the inn also began to cry out, "Ah~ blood, blood, it's blood, ah~"

For a moment, the entire inn was filled with people shouting, and everyone's ears were ringing.

"Woof woof woof!" The fox spirit at his feet also barked a few times.

[Wangfu didn't die this time, and there was even bloodshed. Could it have been transferred to someone else?] Li Lianxin muttered to herself.

A group of people followed the trail of blood to a room. They opened the door but saw no one; instead, there was a large pool of blood on the floor. [With this amount of blood loss, the person would be completely dead; there's no way they could carry them out. It seems they used someone else's blood.] This startled her; she had genuinely thought that without Wang Fu, they would have found someone else to replace the blood.

However, to be honest, this taste is really nauseating.

Li Lianxin covered her nose and hid next to Li Lianhua. Li Lianhua often brewed medicine and handled medicinal herbs, so her body was covered in the smell of herbs, which could mask the smell of blood.