Chapter 189 The Policewoman is Out

Su Yun was not unfamiliar with the name Cai Shaoxin.

From the perspective of TBB kids of her generation, Tsai Shao-hsin was already the heroine of many TBB TV series. Later, she played the role of a pitiful yet hateful empress in that palace drama that contributed many emoticons and famous memes.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about Cai Shaoxin’s popular “I can’t do it” emoticon pack. When she was under too much work pressure, she also used it to make fun of herself.

Cai Shaoxin seems to have an easy life as a TBB actress who is popular in both Hong Kong and Mainland China, but in fact, every family has its own problems - her gambling mother has always been on the list of "the worst parents in Hong Kong's golden age", and she is no less impressive than the vampire mother of the Mei sisters.

If you learn a little about old news from this era, you will know that the reason why Cai Shaoxin entered the entertainment industry was to help her gambling-addicted mother pay off her gambling debts: after dropping out of school and working, she couldn't make much money, so her gambling-addicted mother set her sights on various beauty pageants, hoping to show off her increasingly beautiful daughter through beauty pageants, and then ideally be able to hook up with a rich man and sell her for a good price.

It took only a moment to confirm the information of the little girl and her family. Su Yun looked up and saw the little girl struggling to retreat. Only then did he feel relieved and continued to climb the stairs with the group of young people.

Grandma Su wanted to follow just now, but considering various circumstances, Su Yun left her in the crowd downstairs.

The first group of people running up now, apart from the young people climbing the stairs, are the slightly older people who have had a relationship with Cai Shaoxin's gambling mother, or several respected elders in the housing estate.

When I was about to reach the top of the building, the sound of sirens in the distance rushed in from outside like breaking through the clouds and fog.

When Su Yun quickened her pace and ran upstairs, she saw several people shouting at each other with Cai Shaoxin's lousy gambling mother about five or six meters away.

"Huang Shumei! Come back! It's very dangerous over there. Even if you don't care about yourself, you should take care of your children!" A group of people talked at once, all of them urging Cai Shaoxin's lousy gambling mother to come back from the edge of the rooftop.

"My husband doesn't want me anymore, how can I support them? I might as well jump down together!" Huang Shumei grabbed a child in each hand, looking as if she had suffered a great injustice.

"Your husband just left because he was upset. We are helping you contact him. Come back quickly, it's really dangerous over there!" People started shouting again.

"I don't care, you guys are all lying to me! I told you so many times to contact him, but my husband hasn't shown up in such a long time!" Huang Shumei probably understood the principle of not sending a message until you see the rabbit, so she sat on the edge of the terrace without moving, "I'll just sit here with my two kids and wait for him to come back!"

"Of course you can wait for your husband, but the weather is so hot and the sun is so strong now, be careful of heatstroke. You can also go to the coffee shop downstairs with us to wait for him. We will wait with you!" Several elders in the housing estate stood up one after another to express their opinions.

"I don't believe it - you Hong Kong people only know how to bully us outsiders. Once you trick me, you will erase your previous words like chalk writing!" Huang Shumei remained unmoved.

"How did we bully you?!" A young man stepped forward in frustration.

"Don't come over here! If you come over here, I will push my two children down and then I will jump down too!" Huang Shumei screamed and then started to curse angrily, "You still say you didn't bully us outsiders? You clearly know that we don't speak Cantonese well, but you always laugh at us for speaking poorly and call us Vietnamese girls and Vietnamese women. We are outsiders, so we definitely can't speak well!"

"There are so many foreigners coming to Hong Kong, we must have classified them according to their hometowns, just like those village boys, Shunde guys, Shanghai girls, etc., aren't they just a name?"

"Bah! It's just a title. If you respect us, you shouldn't always speak in Cantonese in front of us outsiders..."

After hearing this, not only Su Yun, but almost everyone present was confused by Huang Shumei's logic: This is a place where Mandarin and Cantonese are spoken. As an outsider who comes here to earn money and live as a guest, shouldn't you "adapt to local customs"?

If you go to a foreign country where English is spoken, can you still expect others to speak your native dialect when communicating with you?

This language contradiction is probably a long-standing problem: for example, Mandarin and Cantonese. During the reform and opening-up era, many northerners came to the southern regions to work, so the southerners, who lost many job opportunities, were hostile to them.

The northerners were unfamiliar with the place and did not speak the language very well, so they could only blame themselves for being cheated by the black-hearted southerners. Thus, a vicious cycle continued, with the people of the two places becoming hostile to each other, and the first issue to be affected was the war over language.

Those who speak Mandarin think that the country has already established a unified official language, so people in the Cantonese-speaking area should abandon their regional dialects and switch to speaking Mandarin. On the other hand, those who speak Cantonese believe that unity and diversity should coexist, that the unified official language Mandarin and regional dialects can coexist, and that outsiders who come here to make money should follow the local customs...

This problem is an eternal thorn in the sidelines. Even in later times when science is advanced, it has not been solved, let alone in today's chaotic age.

Seeing the people on the scene trying to persuade her and the police who had hurried up arguing with each other, Su Yun looked around and suddenly saw several scaffoldings made of bamboo poles on the lower floor behind Huang Shumei.

The estate has to repair some minor defects that need to be reported from time to time, so in addition to clothes, quilts and sundries hung out to dry in each household, there are also a lot of scattered building materials on the rooftop.

"Zhuzi, what's going on there?" Su Yun secretly called out to the person standing next to her.

This sturdy young man named Zhu Zai was the leader of the children in Camellia House of So Uk Estate back then. The Wang brothers and Su Yun were taken care of by him when they lived in Camellia House. Later, when they grew up, they went to construction sites to work as construction workers based on their talents. However, he would occasionally take on renovation tasks of various buildings in So Uk Estate, so it was most appropriate to ask him.

Zhu Zai glanced in the direction Su Yun pointed and said, "Oh, there has been a water leak there recently, so a few of my co-workers and I set up a scaffold there and plan to start repairing it this afternoon."

After confirming that this was a scaffold that could support the weight of an adult male, Su Yun immediately had a backup plan in mind.

However, considering the safety issue, let's first see if the police can persuade the man to come down.

Thinking of this, Su Yun cast her gaze back to the chaotic scene, but was immediately angered by the increasingly chaotic situation: the team responsible for this police mission happened to include Chen Fengshi, the runner-up of Miss Hong Kong who had just been selected this year.

This heroic policewoman and Miss Hong Kong runner-up did not act coyly. Instead, she eagerly proposed various plans to save people. However, the group of male police officers around her scoffed at her plans and told her to just watch and help persuade the people, and that the dangerous actions that required physical effort should be done by the men.

It can be said that this group of male police officers do not discriminate against women. In fact, they even take on dangerous tasks on their own initiative to show their concern. However, the idea that female police officers should sit in the office instead of going on missions is so chauvinistic that it makes people uncomfortable.

Chen Fengshi's face turned red with anger, but she was no match for four hands. Her colleagues and neighbors in the housing estate all protected the weak. They blocked the way in front of her and asked her to step back, not letting her take risks. As they pushed and shoved, they pushed Chen Fengshi to the side of Su Yun.

"It's you?" Chen Fengshi saw clearly that the person next to her was Su Yun, and she felt even more upset: when Su Yun was a judge, she did not give her a high score like the other judges.

Although she knew that her performance in the question-and-answer session was indeed not as good as others, she could not help but feel dissatisfied with the judges who gave her a low score.

Su Yun didn't care about her attitude, but looked at her carefully for a few times: "You had a secret rescue plan before, can you tell me in detail?"

"Why should I tell you?" Chen Fengshi frowned.

"Because I also come from this housing estate, and I have friends who have lived here for a long time and work here. I am familiar with the environment and can improve your plan." Su Yun explained briefly, "I know a place that can make your plan more successful."

After all, rescue methods are improved and passed down from generation to generation. Chen Fengshi was born into a family of police officers, and her family background is professionally trained. Apart from the slight physical disadvantage caused by her gender, her overall quality is far higher than that of the male police officers who graduated from the police academy.

But even though they are wearing the same green military uniforms and have the same standard police equipment, people of this era have always trusted the armed male police officers "Sirs" more, and have shown distrust towards the armed female police officers "Madams".

The reason why Su Yun approached Chen Fengshi was not only because she felt that people of the same sex needed to help each other in special situations, but also because one of the plans Chen Fengshi had just proposed was similar to the rescue plan Su Yun had thought of before.

"You mean... there?" Although Chen Fengshi looked arrogant, she was a person who knew what was important and what was not. In fact, she and Su Yun had no real grudges against each other. So after Su Yun approached her and expressed her approval of her plan, her previous dissatisfaction quickly turned into appreciation and emotion. "If it was built by the construction workers, it is indeed much safer than the location I had previously selected."

"But this is a dangerous last resort. If they can find the woman's husband or persuade her to come back together, there would be no need to take such risks." Chen Fengshi and Su Yun's plan was to secretly go to the lower floor corridor, then use the scaffolding there to climb up to the back of Huang Shumei, and then rescue her when she was not prepared.

However, the scaffolding is still a certain distance away from the edge of the roof, so to do this, the cooperation of at least two or more people is required.

One person stayed on the scaffolding as a support point, while the other person reached out to the concrete beam outside the edge of the roof, then climbed over and stood firm. Because Huang Shumei had to negotiate with the people who were trying to persuade her, she was facing the roof with her two children the whole time, and was basically unaware of what was happening behind her.

While waiting for good news, Su Yun and the other two were also prepared for the worst.

"Huang Shumei, your husband is here!"