The room Li Nian booked was a first-class room so that it would be quiet and her children could have a good sleep at night.
I didn't expect the inn's soundproofing to be so poor. I couldn't notice anything during the day, but at night, the sounds of conversation and crying seemed to be infinitely amplified, disturbing me without a moment's peace.
Jinhe, who was originally well-behaved and never cried, was affected by this environment and started crying and making noises. Li Nian was so scared that she thought the child was frightened or sick, so she went to ask a doctor to see her.
To be honest, Li Nian admired the nanny's patience. She held Jinhe in her arms and paced back and forth in the room all night, singing northwestern nursery rhymes to coax her softly.
I kept coaxing her like this until the second half of the night. I don't know if she was tired of crying or because it was finally quiet outside, but Jinhe finally fell asleep peacefully.
Li Nian breathed a sigh of relief. Since she came into this world, she had never stayed up so late!
The next morning, just as the sky was getting light, the hustle and bustle outside began again.
Li Nian was woken up, her head was still dizzy, and she was extremely irritable.
She really didn't want to live in this shabby inn anymore. If all else failed, she could just rent a yard. They could all live there together, and it would be safe and quiet.
But what if the enemy attacks again and we have to run away again? Wouldn’t the money be wasted?
Li Nian sighed as she got dressed and got up. "Forget it, I'd better go find out what's going on today!"
The little guy must have adapted to the situation and is sleeping soundly next to his nanny.
After washing up, Li Nian came to the lobby in front of the inn. Li Sisi and the Shen family mother and son were sitting at a table.
Wang Yi stood half-bent over by the table, his face full of guilt as he said, "It's all my fault. I made Bai Ying angry. I guess she's mad at me, and I don't know where she'll go."
Aunt Shen looked at his red and swollen face, with obvious scratches on his face and neck, and sighed: "Alas! This is not your fault. My daughter Bai Ying has a bad temper like her father. I have seen how you treat her. What's in her heart..."
Aunt Shen stopped talking suddenly. Her daughter Bai Ying was probably still unable to let go of Pei Yanli!
She could see that Wang Yi really liked her daughter Bai Ying, but Bai Ying was just very stubborn!
Some time ago, it seemed that Bai Ying and Wang Yi had a good relationship, and she was even planning to arrange a marriage for them!
Who knew this would happen again now!
When Bai Ying comes back, she will definitely try to persuade her. Pei Yanli doesn't even have her in his eyes. After pursuing her for so many years without any results, it's time to give up.
Shen Qianye suddenly stood up, his tone worried: “No, we can’t just wait like this, we have to go out and look for it.”
Wang Yi looked helpless: "When I found out that Bai Ying was not in the room early in the morning, I went out to look for her, but I couldn't find her."
Shen Qianye became even more worried after hearing this: “If there is no one in the city, go look for her outside the city. Maybe she has run away.”
"We can search separately." Li Sisi also stood up, looking anxious. "Wang Yi and I will search in the city, and you, brother Qianye, will search outside the city. If that doesn't work, we'll report it to the police."
Wang Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head. "It's useless. Right now, the government won't care about people like us." He sighed and continued, "When I went to see Bai Ying today, I saw someone report it to the authorities. The officials said that there are people everywhere who have been separated from their families, and they simply can't handle it all."
Li Sisi frowned: "The government doesn't care, we can only rely on ourselves..."
She saw Li Nian coming over from the corner of her eye, her eyes lit up, and she said hurriedly: "Niannian, you have a lot of ideas, do you have any ideas?"
Li Nian's eyes fell directly on Wang Yi's face, and he asked in surprise, "Brother Wang, who did you fight with yesterday?"
Aunt Pei interrupted to explain, "Hey, don't mention it. Bai Ying got beaten up by him yesterday just for a piece of fried pastry!"
Wang Yi smiled embarrassedly and replied, "Bai Ying has been in a bad mood recently, so I thought of buying her something she likes to eat, but I didn't expect..."
"Cousin!" A pleasant voice was heard, and Wang Yi's words were suddenly interrupted.
A girl in a moon-white dress came over and looked at everyone in confusion: "What happened?"
Wang Yi watched her approach and explained, "I went to buy breakfast for Bai Ying early this morning and wanted to ask her what she wanted to eat. When I knocked on the door, I found it was not closed tightly. I called out a few times but no one answered. Then Qianye came out of the next room. Qianye and I pushed the door open and entered the room, only to find that Bai Ying was not in the room."
The girl said guiltily, "It's all my fault for being greedy. I really didn't know that the pastry was bought by you, cousin, for Sister Bai Ying. If I had known, I definitely wouldn't have eaten it."
Li Nian's eyes switched between Wang Yi and the girl. Frowning, he asked Wang Yi, "Didn't you say you had already looked for Bai Ying this morning? How did you and Shen Qianye discover that Bai Ying was missing?"
Wang Yi answered honestly: "When Qianye and I found out that she was not there, we thought Baiying might have gone out to buy breakfast, so we went to look for her on the street."
"If he hasn't come back yet, we'd better go look for him quickly." Li Nian felt a little worried.
At this time, the wet nurse came over holding Jinhe, followed by her family. It seemed that they were also planning to go out to buy food.
Li Nian walked towards the wet nurse and told her roughly about Shen Baiying.
When the wet nurse's family heard this, they immediately said, "Then let's help look for her. It's easier to find her with more people. There's chaos and war outside right now, and it's not safe for her to go out alone."
Li Nian nodded: "Then I'll trouble you to spend some time on it."
The wet nurse's eldest son said hurriedly, "Of course not. Now is the time for everyone to help each other. My mother told me how much you, Miss, have taken care of her. This time when we escaped, you let us ride in a carriage, helped my mother get a room, and even let our younger generation stay there. Our family is very grateful to you."
Li Sisi came over and said, "In that case, let's plan how to search separately."
The nanny's eldest son nodded quickly: "Yeah, okay!"
Finally, after a few people discussed it, the wet nurse took the children to wait at the inn.
Li Sisi and Li Nian went to look for her in the crowded streets together, the two couples from the wet nurse's family went to look for her in the west and east streets respectively, Aunt Pei and Aunt Shen went to look for her in the south, and Shen Qianye went alone from the north streets to the outside of the city.
If you can't find anyone, we can go back to the inn and meet in the evening.
At this time, the streets are crowded with people and the roadsides are full of refugees.
The two best friends never imagined that just last year they were still looking at the refugees as bystanders and expressing their sympathy.
In the spring of the new year, they also became refugees.
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