He packed everything, pondered for a moment, opened the cupboard, took out a small bottle of wine he had secretly kept, and also cut a sausage.
"Let's go see Chunyu and Uncle Liu."
With incredibly mixed feelings, Shen Sisi arrived at the back of the mountain.
Two small mounds of earth stand on a clearing surrounded by bamboo.
One had no monument, while the other had one, and next to it was a small sculpture of Xiao Chunyu's imposing figure, supporting a wooden beam with one hand, protecting two people, one big and one small, beneath him.
One of them was Chen Sisi!
The base is engraved with the words: Xiao Chunyu, a heroine in disaster relief and rescue.
Chen Sisi squatted down, poured baijiu (Chinese liquor) and sausages into the two earthen graves, and then took out rice cakes and braised meat that she had bought in Linxian County.
"Chunyu, Sixth Uncle, I've come to see you... to say goodbye."
She choked out her first words through sobs, then broke down completely, tears streaming down her face.
Gu Chengfeng put his arm around her shoulder reassuringly: "It's okay... tell me slowly!"
After a long period of contemplation, she finally composed herself and spoke again: "I have found my happiness and have a family again. I am here to share the good news with you. I am married! I married a man who is very, very good to me. Of course, he is also very good to Niu Niu."
Suddenly, Niu Niu pointed to Chen Sisi's shoulder and said, "Mommy, look, it's a white butterfly!"
A pure white butterfly, with wingspans as wide as a hand, fluttered its wings around Chen Sisi, hopping closer and closer to her...
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