After Yu Yaya finished speaking, Tang Miao looked at her with a frozen expression.
Not noticing Tang Miao's change, Yu Yaya continued, "Especially for a single woman like you, you should pay more attention to this aspect. What if one day you are not careful..."
"Girl, is the girl okay?"
When Yu Yaya was speaking, Tang Miao interrupted her anxiously. Being interrupted by Tang Miao, Yu Yaya also lowered her head and looked at Tang Miao.
Tang Miao's face was completely pale, and even her lips had faded. She didn't look very well. Yu Yaya quickly came to her senses and nodded, "No. Nothing happened. At that time, the man followed the girl home, and the girl's father was watching TV in the living room. When he saw a stranger following them home, the old father chased the man for several floors in his slippers. Later, he called the police and took the man away."
This happened a few days ago. The local group often posts some small local news, but Yu Yaya usually doesn't read it because there are too many messages in the property group at home. This morning when I got up, I was bored and scrolled through a few messages, and then I saw it.
The news said that the girl was followed and the person who followed her was sent to the police station. It was said that the person who followed her had a criminal record and was released a while ago, and now he is committing a crime again. Although he has been caught, people in the group are still panicking.
This is indeed a very scary thing. For example, if this girl was not vigilant enough and followed the man home, she would at least live with her family. But what if she didn't live with her family, but lived alone? What would happen then? No one dared or wanted to think about it in depth.
Anyway, because of this news, Yu Yaya's parents would go to the gate of the community to pick her up after she got off work in the evening.
Yu Yaya told Tang Miao what happened and how it was handled afterwards. After hearing that the girl was fine, Tang Miao's pale face gradually turned a little red.
Looking at Tang Miao's expression, it didn't seem like she was simply frightened. Yu Yaya tilted her head and looked at her, asking, "What's wrong with you?"
After Yu Yaya asked, Tang Miao looked up at her.
"I think he followed me too."
When Yu Yaya heard this, her heart skipped a beat and she asked, "What?"
"I don't know if it's the same person." Tang Miao said, "and I already noticed it when I chased him to the corridor."
After that, Tang Miao paused and said, "Then I knocked on my neighbor's door and went to his house to hide for a while."
After hearing what Tang Miao said, Yu Yaya's heart was still not completely relieved. She asked, "When did it happen?"
"When I first moved here." said Tang Miao.
Yu Yaya: "Do you know your neighbors?"
"I don't know him." said Tang Miao.
"You knock on your neighbor's door when you don't know me?" Yu Yaya's voice rose again: "Aren't you afraid that you just dumped a pervert and ended up in another pervert's house?"
Tang Miao was distracted by Yu Yaya's description. She remembered that at that time, He Xiao was only wearing a pair of sports shorts, revealing his naked and straight upper body, and his eyes were not really friendly, which would indeed make people have such thoughts.
But even now, Tang Miao would still choose to make the previous choice.
After Yu Yaya finished speaking, she kept nagging Tang Miao, saying that she had not been vigilant enough, that she was too trusting, and that it was too unsafe for her to live alone.
"What if my neighbor is He Xiao?"
Tang Miao asked this question, and Yu Yaya's nagging came to an abrupt end.
"Which He Xiao?" Yu Yaya asked.
Tang Miao: "It was He Xiao who whizzed past."
"Then I'll lie down as soon as I enter the door." said Yu Yaya.
Tang Miao: “…”
"Your neighbor is He Xiao?" Yu Yaya exclaimed belatedly.
Tang Miao's ears were numb from her shouting, and she smiled and said, "No, it's just an assumption."
Yu Yaya: “…”
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Although Yu Yaya said that nothing happened to the girl who was followed, the man who followed her was caught and sent to the police station. However, when this incident was mentioned, Tang Miao's memory of being followed on his first day in Huaicheng was revived.
In this way, she finished the day's classes in a state of anxiety.
Most of her classes are still during the day, and she only leaves when the class is over. Because of her inconvenience in walking, Tang Miao took a taxi to leave the piano store. When she arrived at the entrance of the supermarket across the street from the community, Tang Miao paid the taxi fare and got off.
After getting off the bus, Tang Miao limped into the supermarket.
This supermarket is the largest chain supermarket in the vicinity. Tang Miao usually comes here to buy vegetables and ingredients for dinner after work.
After arriving in Huaicheng, Tang Miao went to work and lived in the same place as in Nancheng every day, but his life was completely different.
In the south city, Tang Miao lived far from the piano store in the city center to save rent. She had to get up at six in the morning and commute two hours to get to the piano store where she worked. She got off work at nine in the evening, and it was already late at night when she got home.
Being so far away from home, she had to eat almost all of her three meals a day at a fast food restaurant in a shopping mall near the piano store. She would only cook a meal at home when she had a break.
Tang Miao likes cooking very much. She thinks it is the fastest way to turn a house into a home. For people, a house is actually a building. If you want to have a sense of belonging, you have to live in that building and let it be tinged with your breath and your life. Only then can it be a home.
Tang Miao had been renting the house in South City for almost a year. She had bought all the things in it over the past year. Although it was small, it still had quite a few things. But when she moved, Tang Miao didn't want any of the things because they all had Ji Junlin's scent.
The current home is quite big and she doesn’t have many things. It will be a long process to slowly let the cold walls and wooden furniture be imbued with her scent.
But what Tang Miao has the most now is time, and she will make it her home bit by bit.
After going to the supermarket, Tang Miao bought the ingredients for dinner. After buying, Tang Miao limped out of the supermarket again.
It is already July. After July, the climate is really hot and humid. I remember when I came here in June, it was hot but the air was still fresh. But now, the hot weather plus the steam in the air make the stuffy feeling airtight, making people feel heavy and uncomfortable.
This feeling of discomfort became even more severe after hearing what Yu Yaya said today about the girl being followed.
Tang Miao carried the supermarket shopping bags, lowered her head and frowned, walked past the noisy children in the community, and went to the lobby of the apartment building where her home was.
The lobby of the apartment building usually has no sunlight and a marble floor, so it is cooler and drier than outside. But when Tang Miao walked into the lobby, he didn't feel much more comfortable.
The uncomfortable feeling of being pulled and touched disappeared when she entered the lobby and looked up to see He Xiao standing at the elevator door waiting for the elevator.
Tang Miao looked at He Xiao's back as he stood there, and felt that his breathing, which had been blocked for a whole day, became smooth at this moment.
And when she stopped and looked at He Xiao, He Xiao seemed to have noticed her presence and turned around to look at her.
He Xiao seemed to have gone out for exercise again.
I don't know if he was running this time. He was wearing a simple white T-shirt and black sports shorts. He stood there, tall and thin, looking like a college student who was going home for the summer vacation.
When he saw Tang Miao, the elevator had also reached the first floor. He Xiao heard the elevator door open, looked back at the elevator, and walked up first.
After He Xiao went up, Tang Miao also went up with him.
Just like that, there were only two of them left in the elevator.
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After spending time together yesterday, Tang Miao thought that her relationship with He Xiao should be closer, and when she saw He Xiao, she indeed felt a sense of security from him.
This sense of security, which had made her feel uneasy after hearing Yu Yaya talk about the girl being followed in the morning, disappeared when she saw him.
After the collapse, Tang Miao found that the relationship between her and He Xiao was still not natural and familiar enough.
The hair dryer was still on in the elevator, and the humming sound mixed with the sound of the elevator pulleys moving upward. The two stood in the elevator, watching the elevator number slowly go up.
In the narrow elevator, He Xiao was emitting some heat due to exercise. He must have worked out in the gym and had taken a shower, so he had a refreshing scent of good-smelling sports shower gel.
"Are you feeling better?"
Just as Tang Miao was looking at the elevator screen and thinking, He Xiao on the side spoke first.
After He Xiao finished speaking, Tang Miao turned around and looked at him. He Xiao was also looking at her, and after she looked over, his eyes fell on her injured ankle.
"Okay." Tang Miao nodded quickly.
"After applying ice and medicine yesterday, it doesn't hurt much, but it's still a little swollen," Tang Miao added.
After she finished speaking, He Xiao responded.
"Um."
After He Xiao responded, the elevator was quiet for another second or two. Tang Miao moved her lips slightly, then she looked at He Xiao and greeted him.
"You went to exercise?"
After Tang Miao asked, He Xiao lowered his eyes and looked at her again. Seeing Tang Miao's gaze, He Xiao responded.
"Um."
"Very good." Tang Miao said with a smile.
In fact, looking at He Xiao's appearance, you can tell that he should exercise regularly. He has obvious muscle lines, slender but not exaggerated. Under the simple white T-shirt, she suddenly broke in that day and saw the outline of his well-defined abdominal muscles.
Tang Miao thought about what happened that day and his brows twitched slightly.
While the two were talking, the elevator had already reached the 16th floor. The elevator door opened and the two people walked down from the elevator.
After He Xiao got off the elevator, he walked to his door and pressed the fingerprint password lock to open the door. As the door opened, Tang Miao beside him suddenly asked a question.
"Did you have meal?"
He Xiao turned around and looked at her.
Tang Miao looked at the way He Xiao was looking at her. She moved the shopping bag forward and said, "I'm just about to cook. If you haven't eaten yet, you can eat with me. I can cook."
Tang Miao shamelessly praised himself, and then added: "If you have eaten it, it will be fine..."
He Xiao interrupted Tang Miao before she could finish her words.
"I didn't eat." He Xiao said.
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