At this time, another young man ran over.
Zhang Shuchang instinctively covered his chest with his hands.
The person who came was the boy from the first drug store who had bumped into him and dropped the tray.
The boy ran over, squatted down, and gave him the oil paper bag in his hand.
He said: "Uncle, your daughter is dead, don't look for her. If you want to look for her, go to the mass grave and look for her. If you find her, take her back and bury her properly. You can also live your future life with peace of mind. , don’t waste time in this cannibal city, take care of yourself.”
After saying that, he ran away quickly again.
However, Zhang Shuchang only felt that five thunders were striking his head, and everything within him was burned.
His daughter is dead? His Zhizhi is dead?
No, impossible, absolutely impossible!
He stumbled up, letting the coins and oil paper packets fall. He held on to the wall and wanted to catch up with the boy and ask questions.
However, darkness appeared in front of him.
He finally couldn't hold on anymore and fainted.
Didn't faint for too long.
There was an aunt who kindly fed him some water.
In Zhang Shuchang's mind, he kept shouting: Get up, get up! Get up and find your daughter!
The water fed by the aunt successfully awakened his consciousness.
He got up, thanked his aunt, and ran staggeringly towards the west gate.
Mass grave, in the western suburbs.
The gate of Shezhou City is not locked at night because there has been no war for many years and because of the need to collect a lot of money.
It just closes the door.
The little door is always open. The gatekeepers only need to guard the small gate and collect money at night.
At night, there is not only a tax for entering the city, but also a tax for leaving the city. And the price is twice as much as during the day. It's ten copper coins.
Zhang Shuchang didn't have enough copper coins and couldn't get out.
After being driven away by the gatekeepers, he huddled on the street corner and suddenly calmed down.
He had to make sure he was alive before he could find his daughter.
The sky has completely darkened. Now he is begging for copper coins randomly. If the amount is enough, he can go out and go to the mass grave without finding anything.
He had to wait until daybreak.
Thinking about it, he stood up, held on to the wall, and returned to the place where he fainted.
The oil paper bag and the five copper coins are still there. The aunt picked it up and pressed it against the corner with a stone.
When Zhang Shuchang found it, he really felt mixed emotions.
There are three Hu cakes in the oil paper bag.
Zhang Shuchang ate one, went to the river to drink water, and then fell asleep leaning on the street corner.
When it got light, he rushed to the mass grave.
January 22nd of the twelfth year of the Great Xia calendar.
Zhang Shuchang saw the gray, tattered, thin coat, black trousers, and small cloth shoes with holes in them at a glance in the mass grave.
The body of her daughter Zhang Zhizhi had been eaten by vultures, crows, etc., and was mutilated beyond recognition.
Zhang Shuchang, who endured great grief, hugged his daughter.
But when he was packing his daughter's clothes, he discovered that his daughter had been stabbed to death with a knife.
He was stabbed more than a dozen times.
During this season, corpses did not decompose very quickly, and the marks left by sharp blades were completely different from the marks left by birds after they had eaten.
Zhang Shuchang himself often goes into the mountains to hunt, so he can tell the difference clearly.
He stopped crying.
Caressing his daughter's eyes, which had only two dark holes left, and thinking about his daughter's once big, watery eyes, he stopped crying.
The flame of revenge was burning all over his body.
He ate all the biscuits and then returned to Zhangjia Village with his daughter in his arms.
He put his daughter in the broken thatched house, covered it with the weeds that her daughter had pulled out with her own hands, then closed the door and returned to his home.
When he went back, Zhang Shuchang didn't look at his parents, wife, and two sons.
Carrying his own bow and arrows, carrying a hatchet, and with a pair of scarlet eyes open, regardless of their objections, he took out all the copper coins in the house, put them in them, and turned around to leave.
He re-entered the city of Shezhou and stood guard at the corner of the first drug store. When the young man came out alone, he pulled the person away and carried him away.
After first thanking the boy who didn't struggle after recognizing him, Zhang Shuchang stuffed the bag of copper coins over and begged him to tell the truth.
The boy pushed the copper coin back and said, "Uncle, you are still behind when you want to use the money. I know what you want to ask me."
I was in a hurry that day and didn’t have time to tell you. That night, after your daughter left, I was still worried because it was late at night, so I followed her.
I saw her knocking on the door of a drug store. But they were all blown away. Later she ran to Evergreen Lane.
She bumped into Master Sun's lap. Master Sun saw that although she was dirty, her eyes were extremely beautiful, so he pulled her into a side alley...
That's Young Master Sun. Uncle, I'm sorry, I, I'm scared. "
When the boy said this, he lowered his head.
Zhang Shuchang took two steps back and leaned against the wall.
He wanted to get angry, roar, or even beat the boy, but he had no strength and it was as if his whole body had been drained.
He couldn't imagine how desperate his daughter was at that time, nor could he imagine his daughter's plight and helplessness.
He only heard the boy continue: "Later, I heard the little girl struggling, calling for help, and begging for mercy. She, she was begging the bad guy to let her go. She said that she still wanted to find a doctor for her seriously ill father...
She, she even begged the bad guy: just let her go and let her save her father, and then she would take the initiative to come to the young master's door and work as a slave for the young master.
But... Young Master Sun did not agree.
Later, I heard the sound of her struggling violently, and it seemed that she had kicked Master Sun, and then I saw the little girl running to the side alley.
I thought she had escaped, and I was still happy for her, but Master Sun followed closely, stretched out his hands, and grabbed her back.
Then there was the little girl's scream...
After about ten breaths, Master Sun came out, his clothes covered with blood. It was the same on his hands. He wiped it on the wall in disgust, then called his friend, another tall young man, and left.
After they left, I mustered up the courage and walked to the side alley, and found your daughter, she, she was dead, covered in blood...
I, I was scared away. I didn't sleep that night until the end of Yinshi (05:00). I couldn't stand the torment of my conscience, so I went there again.
But the little girl's body was gone. I searched everywhere and couldn't find it. Later, I remembered the mass graves and quietly went there. Just, I saw it..."
The boy said, and knelt down with a "pop" sound.
He lowered his head and said regretfully: "Uncle, I'm sorry. I'm too cowardly and useless. I couldn't save your daughter. I'm sorry..."
Zhang Shuchang raised his hand.
He wanted to slap him, but in the end, he slapped himself in the face.
Once, once... fanning hard.
He couldn't live anymore, and he couldn't hate anymore.
