female catcher

Chapter 57
Mrs. Liu's mood was very unstable, Xia Chu asked the maid to pour her a cup of tea, and after a few words of persuasion, she managed to hold back her tears.

The lady of the Liu family is named Liu Ying, and she is 16 years old this year.Yesterday, Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Concubine, two girls and a few maidservants went to Wanfo Mountain for an outing and burning incense.

This was decided early in the morning. Mrs. Liu also invited acquaintances from other families, and Liu Ying still had a few girls whose handkerchiefs had not been handed over to the court.The female family members of these official families have a lot of contact with each other, which can be regarded as a kind of relationship maintenance between the masters of each family outside the court.

"Yesterday was fine. In the afternoon, Sakura took her younger sister and some girls from other families around the mountains. After dinner, they talked about theirs and we talked about us. I went to see it before going back to the room. It's okay, Sakura."

"Then when did you find out she was missing?"

"She didn't come when I woke up early today for breakfast. I thought she was snoozing, but when I saw her sister Rong'er, Rong'er said that Xiao Ying was not in the room, so I didn't see her when I got up early. The air in the mountains is good in the morning, I thought She wandered around with her sister again, and didn't care too much. Later, I went to the main hall to listen to scriptures and worship Buddha. But..., but..."

Madam Liu said tears fell again, and her voice became agitated, "But when I came out after listening to the chanting, I saw some girls from other families chatting in the courtyard, but there was no Xiao Ying from my family, so I went to ask. This question Only then did I realize that none of them had seen Sakura in the morning, so I panicked and asked someone to look for her."

Xia Chu hurriedly comforted her a few more words, telling her not to worry.

"How can I not be in a hurry! It's been so long since morning, and my voice is hoarse. Girls and maids from other families also helped to find them, and even alarmed the abbot. He went in and looked at the scripture building with the door locked. You said... You said where did Sakura go..." After finishing speaking, she began to cry again.

Chu Xia scratched his head through the hat.

If she couldn't find it after searching like this, either Liu Ying sneaked away from Wanfo Mountain by herself, or something bad happened.Xia Chu didn't dare to say it now, after all, he wanted to see people and dead bodies, and now he could only wait for the news from Soushan.

When it was dark, Wang Huai brought Wu Zuo over, and Xia Chu arranged for them to search the mountains together, and he followed.

The people who searched the mountain had searched from the top of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, and the shouts of "Liu Ying Liu Ying" were everywhere in the mountains and plains, which made people feel restless.The abbot asked a lot of monks to help, but after scattered on the mountain, it seemed that there were only a few sporadic ones.

Wanfo Mountain has five peaks, big and small, and Wanfo Temple is on the top of the main peak. The further you go down, the larger the area to search, and the more difficult it is, especially after dark.

Xia Chu lit a torch and arranged for the people who searched the mountain to line up horizontally to do a blanket search, but the more they searched, the more confused Xia Chu felt.

It was already very late, if Liu Ying was still on this mountain, it would be easy to say, whether she was dead or alive would be found out sooner or later, but what if she was not here?Is it necessary to search the entire Ten Thousand Buddha Mountains before counting it all?

Just thinking about it, I heard someone shouting in the distance: "Is that over there? Is it a person?"

When Xia Chu heard it, he hurriedly called his policeman to run towards the source of the sound.When I got closer, I saw a few monks standing beside a big rock, all with their heads half down, holding a torch in one hand and propping up a single palm in front of their chest, chanting sutras in a low voice.

When Xia Chu saw this situation, his heart skipped a beat.It seems that Liu Ying is dead.

The monk made a gap for Xia Chu, and Xia Chu saw a girl in light yellow spring clothes, lying on her back on the ground next to the boulder in a strange posture, her clothes were messed up, her head was covered with blood, her young face was pale, and there was a smell of blood on her head. dead air.

(End of this chapter)