Shi Nian was stunned for a moment, "Impossible."
She found a selfie of her bestie and showed it to her, "Is this from your store? Have you seen her?"
The girl was puzzled. "Judging from the background, it is indeed our store. The person in the photo... I have never seen him before."
Shi Nian looked around. "Are you a new employee? My best friend... is Zhao Xinyue. She came here a while ago. She has been working here before the store opened, managing the accounts and cashiering."
The girl nodded. "I'm sure the one who does the cashiering and accounting here is the boss, not your friend."
She asked tentatively, "Miss, have you found the wrong place? There are many catteries with the same type of decoration."
Shi Nian frowned and said, "This address was sent to me by my friend. It can't be wrong."
Feng Sihan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up and said to the girl, "Please call out your boss."
The girl looked hesitant, her eyes moving between the two men's faces.
Seeing that Shi Nian looked anxious, she nodded and said, "Okay, you guys wait in the store for a while, I'll go call the boss."
After the girl left, Shi Nian looked worried.
She checked the location again. It was right here, absolutely correct.
Feng Sihan suggested, "Niannian, if it really doesn't work, you can give Fang Ning a call and ask."
Shi Nian sighed, holding the phone tightly, and saw the girl and a young man walking towards them, and said, "I'll ask the boss first and see what he says."
The young man stepped forward and asked, "Are you looking for Zhao Xinyue?"
Shi Nian quickly asked, "Yes, you know her?"
The man asked tentatively, "Are you friends?"
Shi Nian nodded, and then heard him ask, "Isn't she Brother Ning's girlfriend?"
"Yes, that's her."
The young man said to the girl, "Xiao Li, go and do your work first."
He led the two to a corner of the room and said, "The employee just now was new and had never seen Zhao Xinyue."
Shi Nian was anxious, "Is Xinyue no longer working as a cashier? Where is she?"
"Not long after she came here, she asked for leave from me and went out to play with her friends."
Shi Nian was stunned for a moment, "Has she never come back?"
The young man frowned and thought about it, then nodded, "Never, because she is my partner's girlfriend, and I can't fire her, so naturally I can't hire anyone new, so I have to take on the cashier job for now. I did ask her when she would be back a few days ago, but she never replied to my message."
He added, "You are her friend. If you can contact her, please ask her politely when she will be back. If she doesn't want to do this anymore, I can post a notice to recruit new people."
Shi Nian murmured to herself, "That's not right. Her mother called me two days ago when she couldn't find anyone. I called Xinyue and she said she was too busy with work to reply in time..."
The store was doing a booming business, and the clerk called for the boss.
The young man responded and nodded to the two of them, "Do whatever you want, I'm going to be busy now. Girl, if you contact her, remember to urge her to come back!"
He turned and waved to the clerks and customers waiting at the cashier, then walked quickly towards them.
The store was noisy, so Shi Nian pulled Feng Sihan out of the store and stopped in a relatively quiet place outside the store.
Shi Nian's mind was in a mess. "Si Han, why do I feel a little dizzy? Xinyue went out to play with her friends... She didn't tell me. We have such a good relationship, I didn't know she had close friends in this province..."
Shi Nian was frustrated, "I wanted to give her a surprise, but she's not here."
Feng Sihan thought more than she did. He always habitually assumed the worst case scenario when it came to people or things related to Fang Ning.
He said in a deep voice, "Niannian, call Fang Ning right now and ask him about Zhao Xinyue to see if he knows anything about it. Based on your description of her during this period, I reasonably suspect that something might have happened to her."
Shi Nian's brows were filled with worry. "My best friend has been acting very abnormally recently...Okay, I'll call Senior now."
She took out her cell phone, and before she could dial, the phone rang.
She saw the phone screen, was startled for a moment, and met Feng Sihan's gaze, "It's Senior."
"You answer it."
When Shi Nian pressed the answer button, she felt a little uneasy for no reason.
Feng Sihan was beside her, and she turned on the speaker.
Fang Ning's gentle voice came from the phone, "Niannian, are you free tomorrow?"
Feng Sihan frowned, and a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes.
"Senior, I'm not at home. I'm out."
Shi Nian was worried about her best friend and asked quickly, "Has Xinyue contacted you recently?"
"No."
Fang Ning was puzzled, "Why are you asking about her suddenly?"
Shi Nian was stunned for a moment, and said in a puzzled tone, "Senior, she is my best friend and also your girlfriend, don't you care about her?"
"You went to see her?"
"Um."
Shi Nian asked, "But I didn't see her. The owner of the cattery said that Xinyue went out traveling with her friends not long after she came. Do you know who she went out with and where she went?"
There was silence on the other end of the line for a moment, "I don't know."
Shi Nian's voice suddenly rose, "You don't know?"
"She didn't tell me."
Shi Nian questioned, "That's strange. If she likes you, she should tell you everything... Didn't you just contact each other two days ago?"
"Yes, but she didn't ask me to go out and play. I always thought she was working in the store."
Shi Nian choked and her lips parted slightly. Before she could finish her next words, she heard him say, "Niannian, I have something urgent to do. I'll hang up first. I'll call you back later."
"study……"
As soon as Shi Nian opened her mouth, the phone was hung up.
She began to worry and met Feng Sihan's gaze, "Sihan, what should we do now? Senior doesn't know where Xinyue went, where should we go to find her?"
Without waiting for Feng Sihan to answer, she picked up the phone again and muttered to herself, "I'll call Xinyue first... The public security is so good now, maybe we are overthinking it... She went out to play with her friends, why did she lie to me and Aunt Zhao..."
Shi Nian frowned, dialed the phone, and prayed in her heart.
Xinyue...answer the phone quickly...
The prompt sounded twice, and then the other party hung up.
She was a little anxious, "Why did she hang up the phone?"
Feng Sihan comforted, "Nian Nian, don't worry."
"Now that I can't find anyone, how can I not be anxious?"
"The call was hung up, which means..."
Shi Nian interrupted, "There's something wrong! Xinyue has never hung up on me before. Now I'm beginning to doubt whether the person on the other end of the line is actually her!"
She held Feng Sihan's hand, her eyes reddened, "Sihan, do you think something really happened to Xinyue?"
"I……"
The phone rang suddenly, drowning out Feng Sihan's voice.
Their attention was focused on the lit screen of their mobile phone.
When Shi Nian saw the caller, her worries were somewhat dispelled.
"It's Xinyue, she called back!"
Shi Nian hurriedly answered the call, but Feng Sihan held her wrist.
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