It was raining heavily, and Hu Die was struggling with the window that was always not closed tightly in her room. Suddenly her cell phone rang, and the special ringtone made her tremble suddenly. She quickly put down what she was doing and quickly answered the phone.
"Aunt Xia, what happened?!"
"Xiaodie...your mother...no, she's gone..." the nurse, Aunt Xia, cried.
"What?!" Hu Die was shocked, but he had to comfort the nursing aunt on the other end of the phone who was crying so hard, "Aunt Xia, don't cry yet, tell me slowly, what happened, how did my mother disappear, she
Aren’t you in the hospital?!”
"Xiaodie... yes, I'm sorry... I saw that the typhoon was coming, so I called home to give my wife a warning... I called from the window in the corridor. Maybe the door of the ward was not closed when I came out.
...Your mother... took the opportunity to run away... The nurses and I have searched many places, but... we haven't found her... She may have gone out of the hospital..."
Out of the confines of the hospital?!
Hu Die's heart suddenly sank, and the fingers holding the fuselage tightened suddenly. She held her breath and asked, "How long has she been gone?!"
"It's been more than half an hour."
Hu Die felt her head spinning. Her mother, whose IQ was about the same as that of a child of several years old, walked out of the hospital alone. It was this kind of weather again... God, she couldn't imagine that situation and consequences.
"I'll go to the hospital right away!" she said decisively.
After hanging up the phone, Hu Die rushed downstairs. The rainwater had accumulated at the door of the unit on the first floor. She stepped into the puddle and a biting cold feeling rose up from the soles of her feet. She shivered from the cold, but she didn't
Without any time delay, he raised his umbrella and quickly rushed to the street.
It was too narrow and long to walk through the alley. Her shoes and calves were already wet. The umbrella in her hand was shaky and of no use. Her clothes were all wet and her hair was stained.
The wet and cold feeling on her cheeks made her think of her mother. Where was she at this moment?!
Hu Die quickly ran out of the alley, hoping to intercept a taxi as soon as possible, but she knew that this possibility was very small, the location here was very remote, and it was such a weather.
But her luck seemed to be good today. When she looked up, she saw two beams of bright light shining from the headlights in front of a car. She raised her right hand and wanted to stop it, but suddenly realized that it was not a taxi.
But——
Li Yuanhang sat in the car, controlling the steering wheel with both hands, and moved forward slowly. The road conditions in this section were not good, so he had to slow down.
The wipers on the windshield swung back and forth, and he suddenly saw a familiar figure running in the alley ahead. She was in a mess and looked anxious.
He was shocked, quickly stopped the car, opened the door and got out of the car, and without having time to open his umbrella, he asked, "What's wrong? What happened?!"
Hu Die saw it was Li Yuanhang. For some reason, she, who had always been stoic, felt like crying. She urgently asked him for help, "Can you take me to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital?!"
He had a bad intuition, "Get in the car!"
She closed the umbrella, opened the car door he opened for her, and sat in the passenger seat. The clothes on her body were wet and stained the seat, and the shoes on her feet were also stained with some mud.
The carpet under my feet was stained, and I felt a little embarrassed for a moment. I wanted to say sorry, but for some reason, it felt like it was stuck in my throat and I couldn't utter a single word.
Li Yuanhang didn't pay attention. He took out tissue to wipe her and asked concernedly, "Did something happen to Auntie?!"
She showed a panicked expression and said with trembling lips, "I... my mother left the hospital alone... disappeared..."
He frowned for a moment and asked calmly, "Have you called the police?!"
"No, you can call the police 24 hours later. We won't accept it now." She said anxiously, picked up the phone and dialed Aunt Xia's number again, "Aunt Xia, how are you? Have you found my mother... Keep looking.
...Please...you look for it first...I will be at the hospital soon..."
Li Yuanhang heard the urgency in her tone and accelerated the car. The wheels rolled over the puddles on the ground and drove away quickly.
As the car got closer and closer to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Hu Die's heart became more and more anxious. When Li Yuanhang turned the steering wheel and was about to turn a corner, she suddenly seemed to see someone and reached out to hold his arm, "Wait a minute.
——”
He was a little stunned and confused, but he still stepped on the brakes.
Before he could ask anything, she had already ignored the shocking storm outside and got out of the car in a panic. She took the unopened umbrella and staggered to the bench next to the road. On the bench sat a man in hospital clothes.
, a woman with disheveled hair.
"Mom...Mom...get up quickly and follow me back to the hospital..." She held an umbrella with one hand and supported her stupid mother with the other.
Her mother obviously didn't recognize her and refused to cooperate at all. She looked awkward like a child.
Li Yuanhang's heart suddenly trembled. He saw her struggling to support her mother, and the rain was wet on her head and body. The wind and rain were too strong, and because her mother refused to cooperate, she couldn't hold the umbrella and it fell to the ground.
, they were instantly soaked in the rain and were in such a miserable state.
He quickly got out of the car and ran over to help her. The sound of wind, rain, her pleading, and her mother's willful yelling all mingled together, making his chest tighten.
Her face was wet, and he didn't know whether it was tears or rain.
He just knew that in the heart-chilling wind and rain, his eye sockets were burning and feeling inexplicably hot.
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After a lot of hard work, Hu Die's mother was finally sent back to the hospital. After cleaning her mother, she changed into clean hospital clothes. The nurse gave her a diazepam and fell asleep.
Aunt Xia shed tears blaming herself, but Hu Die just held her hand and shook his head without any blame.
If you really want to blame someone, it should be her as a daughter. It is her fault that she is unable to give her mother a better environment and care.
She cried so suppressed that Li Yuanhang couldn't help but reach out to her.