Chapter 278

“Hey, you’re here,’ the owner greeted Lily warmly.

Lily nodded and took out the draft she had prepared in advance but did not hand it over. “Where’s the kid?”

“Oh, that kid?” The owner laughed. “He hasn’t been showing up for the past two days. I have no idea what’s happening, and he wouldn’t answer his phone. I'll have him fired if he doesn’t show up again tomorrow. Young people nowadays are truly unreliable.”

‘He hasn’t been here for two days?’ Lily thought to herself before asking again, “Didn’t he work for you for a long time already?”

The owner shook his head. “Who told you that? It has only been a couple of months. Besides, I saw that he had some carving skills. I’ve been preoccupied recently, and there’s no one watching the store. Hence, I let him work here. However, I didn’t expect that he’d be so unreliable. Look, he’s only been working for a while and stopped coming without saying a word.”

As the owner spoke of this, he seemed to think of something. “Oh, don’t worry. We