Hearing this, Bai Xi instantly grew interested and asked a few more questions. The Shopkeeper was incredibly mysterious and quite formidable. According to Da Shan, the Shopkeeper hadn't shown up at the shop the day after she left. That was the exact day Bai Xi had headed to Pingyang Pass and run into Qi Ba's group on the way, waiting by the road until the following evening to ambush the grain transport team. This meant the Shopkeeper's departure perfectly coincided with hers. But where could he have gone?
They hadn't chatted for long before the other staff members arrived, greeting Bai Xi warmly. She tried to ask about the Shopkeeper in a roundabout way, but none of them knew where he had gone. Bai Xi helped everyone wash and scrub, but with so few customers, there wasn't much to do.
