Shen Heng took the notebook from Bai Jiaojiao and put it in the bicycle basket: "I told you I was going to beat this kid up, but you had to stop me. People like him are just foul-mouthed; a good beating will fix him right away."
Bai Jiaojiao said, "Alright, alright, I guess I won't see him again."
"That's not necessarily true. You're all in the same major, and you might even be assigned to the same hospital after graduation."
"Heng-ge! Don't jinx it!"
Feng Zhi and she are both in Ji Guizhang's laboratory, researching in the same direction. They might actually end up in the same department when they are assigned to different jobs.
"Haha, get in the car quickly, let's go home for dinner."
Shen Heng teased Bai Jiaojiao, not wanting anyone unrelated to her to spoil her good mood.
A few days later, Bai Shiqing packed her luggage at home and bought train tickets to Yancheng with Li Shuxian.
Bai Jiaojiao originally wanted to pick them up, but Shen Heng refused, since it was quite a distance from their home to the station. He told Bai Jiaojiao to stay at home and rode his bicycle to the station by himself.
Bai Jiaojiao was home alone, so she tidied up a bit so that Bai Shiqing and Li Shuxian would have a place to stay when they came over.
"Woof woof!"
Bai Doudou suddenly called out to the back window.
"It's alright, DouDou, they were just passing by."
As Bai Doudou grew older, he became more and more alert. If someone passed by the door, Bai Doudou would bark twice as a warning. Sometimes when the neighbors behind his house went out, Bai Doudou would also bark twice.
Upon hearing its owner's voice, Bai Doudou immediately quieted down.
Bai Jiaojiao took out clean bed sheets from the cupboard, but there was nothing left in the house to use in the summer. If Bai Shiqing and Li Shuxian didn't bring them over, they would probably have to go to the department store to buy some.
She placed the bed sheet on the kang (a heated brick bed) in the west bedroom. As soon as she stepped out of the bedroom, she smelled an unpleasant odor, as if it were burning her nose.
Bai Jiaojiao subconsciously held her breath and looked down to see Bai Doudou looking very anxious on the sofa.
Bai Jiaojiao immediately carried Bai Doudou to the yard. The smell in the living room was unpleasant, and she could still smell the pungent odor when she got to the yard.
She frowned and stared out the back window.
Is that what the neighbors behind the house are doing?
Shen Heng wasn't home. Before he left, he told her to wait until he came back before doing anything. Bai Jiaojiao kept this in mind and didn't go directly to ask the neighbor behind the house.
She led Bai Doudou up to the roof of the flat-roofed house, where the air finally became fresh.
Bai Jiaojiao took a few deep breaths, but when she looked down, she saw a man lying by their door, as if waiting for her to come out.
The man was holding something in his hand, but Bai Jiaojiao couldn't see it clearly.
She made a "shh" gesture to Bai Doudou, patted its head, and carefully went down from the bungalow.
The man was afraid that Bai Jiaojiao would open the door and face him directly, so he didn't dare to peek through the crack in the door. It was very quiet inside, and although he was puzzled, he didn't make any rash moves.
Bai Jiaojiao held her breath as she went home, grabbed a thermos of hot water, took it to the roof, poured it into a basin, and splashed it directly onto the man's head.
"Ahhhhhh! It's so hot! It's burning me! Ahhhhhh!"
The man's voice was loud and piercing, quickly attracting people from the vicinity to come out.
The first one to arrive was Meng Hongmei from a hutong.
"What's wrong? Jiaojiao, what's wrong?"
From Meng Hongmei's perspective, she could see Bai Jiaojiao on the roof of the bungalow. She was startled to see a young man rolling around in front of Bai Jiaojiao's door.
"Sister, I don't know him. He released some kind of poisonous gas into our house. The smell was terrible. He even blocked my door!"
"Huh? What poison gas? Don't come down!"
While the two were talking, everyone in the neighborhood who was at home rushed over.
They had originally intended to watch the spectacle, but when they saw the person at Bai Jiaojiao's doorway, whose entire body was scalded red and whose face was torn open, they all clutched their chests.
"Good heavens, what is happening?"
"How did it get like this?"
"This guy's trying to get me! Everyone watch out, don't let him get away!"
With more people coming, Bai Jiaojiao was no longer afraid.
"Jiaojiao, don't be afraid, we'll go find someone to help you!"
When Meng Hongmei heard Bai Jiaojiao say there was poisonous gas, she was at a loss and thought that it was so serious that she must call the police.
"Thank you so much, big sister!"
Since Bai Jiaojiao came to live here, Meng Hongmei has seen quite a few people from the police station.
Meng Hongmei was about to lock the two children in the house when a teenager said, "Aunt Mei, let me go, I can run fast!"
"Alright, Pengsheng, go and explain things to them!"
Don't worry!
The child had already run two alleys away as he spoke.
The stranger at the door was still struggling from the burns: "Please, have some kindness and give me some cool water, it's scalding me, it's killing me, can you give me some cool water!"
It's very hot now, and he was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and his clothes were all very thin.
The hot water that Bai Jiaojiao poured out had just been boiled when Shen Heng left that morning. Less than two hours had passed, and in the sweltering summer heat, it was hot enough to make one's skin bleed, if not scalding.
The weather was so still, without even a cool breeze, that the man felt like he was on fire.
"Who are you? What are you doing at someone's doorstep?"
"Are you here to do something bad?"
"Tell me quickly!"
Bai Jiaojiao's identity had already spread far and wide in the area. Everyone knew that she was Yang Fu's granddaughter, and they assumed that what she said must be true.
Bai Jiaojiao shouted from above, "What exactly did you put in my house? Why does it smell so bad?"
The pungent smell made Bai Jiaojiao subconsciously think it was a poisonous gas.
The man gritted his teeth and remained silent, so no one paid attention to his request. He was in excruciating pain all over his body. He reached out and took off his clothes, but tore off a layer of skin along with them.
"ah----"
"hiss--"
Everyone gasped in shock. Seeing the man rushing around haphazardly in pain, no one dared to touch him and quickly made way for him.
"ah--"
"Hey, don't run away! You should go to the hospital right away!"
"The police officers from the local station will be here soon. Have them take you to the hospital!"
Two men stepped out from the crowd and grabbed the man from both sides, saying, "Alright, now we'll take you to deal with this. You behave yourself and don't run around, understand?"
"Kind person, please take me to take a cold shower!"
The man, seeing a glimmer of hope, quickly pleaded.
Bai Jiaojiao stood on the roof of the flat-roofed house. She didn't know what this person had done to her house, and she didn't dare to go down, afraid of hurting the baby in her womb.
The smell was somewhat familiar, but the environment was too messy right now, and Bai Jiaojiao was also in a disheveled state, so she couldn't remember what it was for a moment.
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