Chapter 466
"Ye Wanming has been back from the countryside for about half a year now, and he still doesn't have a job. No wonder he set his sights on Comrade Cui."
"Comrade Cui has already said that she doesn't want to get married or date anymore, but Ye Wanming is still acting like this. Isn't this just trying to force Comrade Cui to submit?"
"Although Comrade Cui doesn't have a man or his family to support him, he has Boss Ye. Boss Ye alone is more powerful than a man or his family." Someone joked with a smile.
Ye Fuyue smiled and said, "Yes, I am very strong. If I can't do it alone, I still have my family and friends. If anyone dares to bully me, I will not be polite."
Although Ye Fuyue said this in a joking tone, she was specifically telling everyone to stop targeting Cui Li and Zhong Lan. If anyone dared to bully them without support, she would not be polite.
After that, Ye Wanming never bothered Cui Li again, and Aunt Ye never came to the bun shop to buy buns again.
Ye Fuyue didn't care about this at all.
She wouldn't care even if she lost dozens or hundreds of old customers, let alone one.
Just like she said before, even if she didn't do business with regular customers and only did business with passers-by, the bun shop could still continue to operate, it was just a matter of how much profit it could make.
Cui Li was very grateful to Ye Fuyue, especially for the two sentences Ye Fuyue said in front of so many people -
——Although Cui Li and I are not related by blood, she is like a family member to me.
——If anyone dares to bully me, I won’t be polite.
She was just too dumb in speaking, which was why Ye Wanming succeeded.
Ye Fuyue was very indifferent to Cui Li's gratitude.
She said, "You don't have to be too grateful to me. Just think of it as me doing this so that you can make more money for me."
Cui Li smiled gratefully and said, "Okay, I will make money for you."
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Although Ye Wanming's incident did not happen to Zhong Lan, it made Zhong Lan understand Ye Fuyue better. She was very grateful to Ye Fuyue from the bottom of her heart. Like Cui Li, she also wanted to make money for Ye Fuyue - after all, making money for Ye Fuyue was also making money for themselves.
But one evening, when she and Cui Li were about to close the bun shop, Yao Zaoer and Huan Di came running back in a panic.
"Mother--"
"Mom——" Yao Zaoer and Huan Di both shouted anxiously.
"What's wrong?" Zhong Lan and Cui Li asked them curiously.
"Where is Laibao?" Cui Li asked Huan Di again.
"Laibao is missing!" Huan Di said anxiously.
Cui Li was shocked and didn't react for a moment: "Gone? What does that mean?"
Yao Zaoer said, "Huan Di and I were jumping rubber rope when Lai Bao went out to buy popsicles and never came back. Huan Di and I looked for him everywhere but couldn't find him."
Cui Li was so frightened that her face turned pale.
Zhong Lan asked Yao Zaoer, "Where are you guys jumping rubber rope? Where did Laibao buy popsicles? Take us there."
Cui Li and Zhong Lan quickly locked the shop and asked Yao Zaoer and Huan Di to take them to the place where they played jump rope.
The place where Yao Zao'er and his friends were jumping rubber rope was under a big tree on the next street. Yao Zao'er said, "We jumped rubber rope here. At that time, Laibao didn't want to jump rubber rope with us, so he said he was going to buy popsicles. He also asked Huandi and me what kind of popsicles we wanted. I saw Laibao going in this direction. There was a small store nearby, but we went to the store to ask, and the uncle said he had never seen Laibao come there."
Cui Li and Zhong Lan walked in the direction Yao Zaoer pointed for a while and saw a small shop.
The owner of the convenience store was an elderly man. When Cui Li asked, she found out that the man still remembered Laibao.
"I remember this kid. The three of them always played around here and came to buy things from me several times," the uncle said. "But he definitely didn't come to my shop this afternoon. Not only that, he hasn't been here all day."
"But we really saw Laibao walking in this direction." Huan Di said.
The uncle suggested: "Since you saw him coming in this direction, why don't you ask around, maybe someone has seen him."
Cui Li thanked her uncle, and then took her brother Huan, and split into two groups with Zhong Lan and Yao Zaoer, and started to inquire around the area.
The uncle's wife asked him, "What happened? The child is missing?"
Uncle sighed: "It seems so."
"Could it be that he was taken away by a beggar?" said his wife, "I heard that there are beggars here recently."
The uncle sighed again: "I don't know, I hope the child is safe."
On the other side, Zhong Lan and Cui Li asked around, but no one had seen Lai Bao.
Cui Li was so anxious that tears were about to come out: "Where else can Laibao go? He is a very well-behaved boy and would not run away without saying hello."
Zhong Lan thought the same. She comforted Cui Li, "Let's expand the search area. What if we find Laibao?"
Cui Li nodded, and she and Zhong Lan split into two groups to expand the scope of their inquiry.
However, they still found nothing. Not only did they not find Laibao, they didn't even get a clue.
Cui Li looked at the sky that was getting darker and darker and said, "I have to go back to the shop. What if Laibao has gone back?"
"Yes, maybe Laibao has already gone back." Zhong Lan said.
Cui Li and Zhong Lan rushed back to the shop with their two children full of hope, but the lights in the shop were not on and it was dark. Laibao had not come back at all.
Cui Li slumped in her chair, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably: "Where on earth did Laibao go?"
When Huan Di saw Cui Li crying, he felt sad and blamed himself.
She also started crying and said, "Wow, it's all my fault. If I had gone with Laibao, he wouldn't have disappeared. I shouldn't have jumped rubber rope, woooo."
When her brother started crying, Yao Zaoer also blamed herself and started crying too.
Cui Li took Huandi into her arms and said, "This has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with you."
Cui Li also said something to Yao Zaoer who was held in Zhong Lan's arms.
"Where else can Laibao go?" Zhong Lan frowned and thought about this question.
In fact, she and Cui Li had already thought of it. Laibao was very well behaved and would not run around on his own. Since Laibao would not run around on his own, there was only one possibility: Laibao was taken away by someone.
When they were looking for Laibao, they had heard from others that there were some beggars around here recently.
Could it be Laibao...
Neither Zhong Lan nor Cui Li dared to think in this direction.
Cui Li pulled herself together, stood up from her chair and said, "I'll look around again."
Zhong Lan said, "Why don't we go find Fu Yue and see if she has any ideas."
When she thought of Ye Fuyue, Cui Li felt reassured and nodded quickly, "Okay."
"Why don't I take Zao'er to look around nearby, and you take Huan Di to find Fu Yue and explain the matter to her." Zhong Lan suggested.
They didn't dare leave the two children alone at home.
"Okay." Cui Li agreed.
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