"No, we didn't see Miss Li on the way here." After listening to Yingniang's explanation of the whole story, Zhou Ping shook his head and replied with his mouth open.
They did not meet Miss Li on the way here.
As soon as they walked into the alley, they got lost. There were no pedestrians around them, not even a fly was seen.
At that time, they were anxious to find someone to ask for directions, so they wanted to get out of the alley as soon as possible. If Miss Li really passed by them, even if she was thinking about something and didn't see them, there was no way they would not have noticed her. After all, they were lost at the time and were worried about not being able to find anyone to ask for directions. As long as a living person passed by them, their eyes would light up.
Besides, they were not alone. There were two of them together and there were several people around. Even if one of them had eyesight problems and couldn't see or noticed, it was impossible for so many people not to have seen it.
Zhou Ping also carefully recalled Yingniang's questions, fearing that he had missed something. However, even if he thought about it more carefully, he really had no impression. He was absolutely confident that he did not see Li Xia walking past him.
There are many alleys and hutongs in the city, and most of them look similar. They are not from here, and this is their first time in the city. They definitely don’t know the layout of the houses in the city.
The only thing that can be confirmed now is that Miss Li did walk out of the inn to look for them, but the problem is that they didn't meet her.
Judging from this clue, it is true that Miss Li went to find him, but they did not meet on the road. Because most of the roads here are almost the same length, Zhou Ping always thought that there was only one road here.
If it weren’t for the experience of getting lost today, Zhou Ping wouldn’t have thought of this.
The only explanation now is that although the roads here are almost the same length, there should be more than one road.
If this was the only main road, then it was impossible for so many people to not see anyone, so Miss Li might have taken another road to find me.
Maybe she heard someone in the inn, or someone living here knew a shorter way.
"What should we do? It's getting dark, and Miss Li's brother is still upstairs. I've promised him to wait for me in the room and his sister will be back soon. Now I've coaxed him, but the little boy is very stubborn. We've experienced this before. He only listens to Miss Li and can't hear anything else.
Only when Miss Li was mentioned would he listen to instructions a little bit, but if it took too long and he didn't see Miss Li coming back, I guess I couldn't coax him anymore. Not long before Miss Li left, his brother also sneaked downstairs. Fortunately, I was standing outside at that time, waiting for you to come over so that you could see me first. If I was in the room on the second floor, he might have sneaked out by himself at that time.
Before Miss Li left, she specifically told me to help look after her brother. If he disappeared under my nose, I really don’t know how to explain it to him.”
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