This year's winter seems to have come especially early. When I got up, I found that the first snow had fallen.
Looking out the window, the snow wasn’t heavy, just like when I was six years old.
I remembered the fairy tale about snow that Yangguang had told me, so I found a few bottles and scooped up some snow to put in. While I was doing that, the phone rang. It was Ling Shanshan, and I heard her anxious voice: "An An, it's not good. Aunt Shen is missing!"
I froze in shock, the bottle in my hand slipping out of my hand. "Shanshan, what happened? How could it be gone? Have you looked for it?"
"Xiao Xia went to look for her...My mother and I wanted to come and see her today. On the way, Xiao Xia called me and said Aunt Shen was missing. An An, I'm stuck in traffic. If you're nearby, go over and take a look..."
I hung up the phone and ran out. As soon as I arrived at He Xubei's house, I saw a patrol police car and Xiao Xia was saying something anxiously.
"An'an, you're here! I was so worried, I don't know where my aunt ran off to..." Xiao Xia said, "I went to buy vegetables this morning, and my aunt insisted on going with me. There were a lot of people in the vegetable market, and somehow my aunt let go of my hand, and then she got lost... What should I do, An'an? Will something happen to ?"
"Xiao Xia, don't worry, think about it calmly, where did you get separated?"
If anything happens to Aunt Shen, I will be the one who feels the most sorry for He Xubei. But I can't panic now, the most important thing is to find the person.
Xiao Xia and I went to the market again and when we were asking around, a bun shop owner told me that today a woman who looked similar to what I described snatched two crystal buns from his stall. The owner originally caught her, but because he saw her pitiful look, he let her go.
"Boss, did you see where she went?"
The boss said the woman was muttering the name of a cemetery.
Xiaoxia and I rushed to the cemetery. Aunt Shen was sitting there with a bun in her hand, tearing off half of it and holding it out, as if she was going to give it to someone. I heard her say, "Xiaobei, mommy brought your favorite crystal bun, eat it quickly, and study hard to get into college! My Xiaobei is the smartest..."
Xiao Xia was about to come forward but I stopped her and said, "Let Auntie sit by herself for a while."
Aunt Shen kept talking about He Xubei's life from childhood to adulthood, and tears blurred my vision.
Xiao Xia said that Aunt Shen was too stimulated. The doctor said that she might have "intermittent psychosis". She planned to send Aunt Shen to a nursing home after some time.
I don't want Aunt Shen to go to a strange place alone. He Xubei would be unhappy if he knew. But I have no other choice but to do this for the time being.