Shih-yin after hearing this message had no alternative but to banish the subject from his thoughts.
In comfortable circumstances, time indeed goes by with easy stride. Soon drew near also the happy festival of the 15th of the 1st moon, and Shih-yin told a servant Huo Chi to take Ying Lien to see the sacrificial fires and flowery lanterns.
About the middle of the night, Huo Chi was hard pressed, and he forthwith set Ying Lien down on the doorstep of a certain house. When he felt relieved, he came back to take her up, but failed to find anywhere any trace of Ying Lien. In a terrible plight, Huo Chi prosecuted his search throughout half the night; but even by the dawn of day, he had not discovered any clue of her whereabouts. Huo Chi, lacking, on the other hand, the courage to go back and face his master, promptly made his escape to his native village.
Shih-yinin fact, the husband as well as the wifeseeing that their child had not come home during the whole night, readily concluded that some mishap must have befallen her. Hastily they despatched several servants to go in search of her, but one and all returned to report that there was neither vestige nor tidings of her.
This couple had only had this child, and this at the meridian of their life, so that her sudden disappearance plunged them in such GREat distress that day and night they mourned her loss to such a point as to well nigh pay no heed to their very lives.
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