It was when Xun'er was half a year old, and that day, Yu'er and your wife, that is, Shuyuan, made an appointment to go to Yuncui Temple to pray for Xun'er, so they set off early in the morning, and the sedan chair sent the two to the bottom of the mountain, and they waited at the foot of the mountain, and the two sisters went up the mountain alone with a maid.
In the middle of the afternoon, Shuyuan hurriedly ran down the mountain, and asked the rest of the sedan chair drivers to see Yu'er, it turned out that on the way down the mountain after praying for blessings, Shuyuan met an old acquaintance, when the two talked, Yu'er was bored, so she picked grass and flowers alone, and slowly swayed down the mountain, but when Shuyuan said goodbye to the person and went to pursue Yu'er, she couldn't find her anyway.
Shuyuan was afraid that she would go down the mountain first, so she and the maid hurriedly came to the bottom of the mountain to ask the sedan chair man, but several people said that they had never seen Yu'er, and then Shuyuan was completely panicked, because it was hot that day, she and the maid walked down the road and did not touch a few people, so it was impossible not to see Yu'er, which showed that on the way down the mountain, Yu'er was missing.
However, at that time, Shuyuan was still holding hope, because Yu'er was young and had not yet been determined, maybe she was attracted to the beautiful scenery in the mountains, so it was possible not to be on the mountain road.
So Shuyuan decisively asked a few palanquin men to go up the mountain to find someone, and she also took the maid to follow them into the mountain.
The group of soldiers divided into two roads and searched for two hours in the mountains and forests, until sunset, but Yu'er was still not found.
Shuyuan's legs were already frightened at this time, she lay on the ground, couldn't stand up, just kept calling Yu'er's name, and finally the palanquin man and the maids forcibly put her down from the mountain, because the mountains and forests during the day and night are completely different, there is no light in the night, the moonlight is covered by the shade, and the wild mountains are full of dangers, and if you are not careful, you may lose your life, and you can't find anyone at all.
That night, we reported the case to the Kaifeng Mansion, and your father also helped at that time, so the government was quite concerned about this matter, and the next day just after the dawn, I sent a few teams of officials to the mountain to look for people, but even so, I was not at ease, and I took the family to follow.
But it was summer at that time, and the grass and trees on the Banzai Mountain were lush and the crown was like a canopy, which added great difficulty to finding people, so we searched the mountain for a few days, and still did not find Yu'er's whereabouts, and the people of the government suspected that she had accidentally fallen under the cliff, after all, the mountains and rocks were grandiose, and there were many strange peaks and strange cliffs, and most of them were covered by wild grass, and the things that fell off the high cliffs by stepping on the air happened from time to time, and it was not uncommon.
When I heard them say this, my heart was also half discouraged, but Yu'er is my flesh and blood, and I swore that I would see the corpse without seeing anyone alive or dying, so I took a lot of silver and handed it to those officials who searched the mountain, so that they would not stop searching, and I myself even found all the people who could be used in the family, and then looked for people on Banzai Mountain.
In this way, after about half a month, finally one day, Yu'er was found.
I was the one who found her, and then I often thought that maybe Yu'er's spirit in heaven also took pity on me, the old father, who was running around for her day and night, and was reluctant, so he guided me to find her body.
Because the place where her body was dumped and its secrecy was on a raised stone under a cliff, which was on the shady side of the mountain, and there was no mountain road leading there, only through a wild road full of strange rocks and thorns, so in the past few days, the passers-by only looked inside, but never thought to go there and search carefully.
However, when I first passed through that place, I felt extremely uneasy, and with this uneasiness there was a great grief, so that, without seeing her body, I concluded that she must be in the vicinity, and I insisted on walking towards the cliff covered with weeds, despite the obstacles of the people.
The grass on the stone is barren, but I can't care so much, I pounced on the ground inch by inch, but I still didn't see Yu'er's figure, just when I was about to give up, I heard a voice from under the cliff face, it was a faint sigh, the voice was very soft, but I heard it clearly, it was my Yu'er, I recognized, this voice was my Yu'er's.
I was overjoyed, thinking that she had just stumbled and fallen, and was still alive, so I called her name and walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down.
But it didn't matter, I almost stumbled and fell, if it hadn't been for the officials who came to grab my clothes immediately, I am afraid that I would have become a lonely soul under the cliff.
Yu'er she was lying on a big stone a few feet away from the cliff face, because the stone was protruding, so I saw her appearance clearly, all in my eyes, her appearance, has also become my lingering nightmare in the past few years, I dream of her almost every night, dreaming that she stretched out a hand to me, whispering her pain and unwillingness in a thin voice like a gossamer, she said: "Dad, I hurt so much, my skin is gone" "Yu'er's skin was stripped off?"
Cheng Muyou looked at Duan Zhixing intently.
"I didn't recognize her at first, because on top of the stone was a slick bloody body, with his legs curled up and one arm pointing upwards, until I saw the pile of clothes next to her, and I didn't recognize that this was my Yu'er.
My Yu'er is the most beautiful, her skin is as white and tender as clotted fat, and the family says that when she walks outside, it is simply Yuchunlin's living signboard, but, but" he couldn't go on, covered his face and cried bitterly, tears gurgling out of his fingers.
Cheng Muyou looked at the slightly trembling old body, and a huge desolation suddenly rose in his heart, and the words of comfort seemed too redundant in the face of death, so he had to stand next to Duan Zhixing, waiting for him to get out of the painful memories.
Finally, he stopped crying, but his eyes looked dull, he looked at Cheng Muyou in front of him, "This is what happened, after discovering Yu'er's body, the people of Kaifeng Mansion searched for a few more days on the mountain, and arrested a person who watched the mountain and went back, but after a few days of torture, I found that this person was not right in terms of time or motive, so I had to put the person back."
By the way, this person is Li Shen, I saw that he was beaten all over his body, and this flying disaster was caused by me, so I took him back to the house and made him a hospital worker.
And Shuyuan, she felt guilty all day long because of Yu'er's death, depressed, and since then she has not been very good to get up, and within a few months, she also went with her sister, and I lost two daughters in one year. ” Cheng Muyou sighed lowly, "At that time, I was on the Northern Expedition with the army, and I didn't know anything about what happened here, it was my fault that I didn't fulfill my responsibilities as a husband." ”