Chapter 15 Trouble Comes Knocking
The woman, enraged, said to Bai Tang, "The property manager told us that there are only three people living in your family. We are neighbors in the same building, so what's wrong with letting us stay here for a while?"
Bai Tang laughed angrily: "Are the property management office your neighbors too? Why don't you go stay at their place? Don't you think I'm easy to bully just because I live alone?"
The woman was quite angry at Bai Tang for pointing out her little scheme.
At this moment, Lin Feng and his two companions pretended to come downstairs, looking at the old lady and her family with unfriendly expressions.
When the old woman saw someone coming down, she cried and told them how miserable her home was, how it had been flooded, and how she had nowhere to live and wanted to stay upstairs.
At this moment, Lin Fan stepped forward and said to the old woman, "It's you again, auntie. You were shameless before, trying to extort things from us, and that was fine."
Why are you bringing your whole family here today to extort money? What's our relationship with you? Do you think you can just let us stay anywhere? Are you out of your mind?
Lin Fan's sarcastic remarks made the old lady tremble with anger.
She really didn't expect to run into Lin Fan, who had such a sharp tongue, again.
The couple's expressions also turned sour; they hadn't expected that Bai Tang wasn't the only one upstairs.
They were even thinking of shamelessly going to Bai Tang's house to stay for free.
In order to be able to stay at Bai Tang's house, the older woman hesitated for a moment and then said, "We can give you money, we really have nowhere else to stay."
Bai Tang burst out laughing and said to them, "Do you think I look like I'm short of money?"
It's true, Bai Tang has nearly 90 billion in stockpiled supplies in her space, and she also keeps 500,000 in cash at home, just in case there's another chance.
Bai Tang is genuinely not short of money; it's simply impossible for that person to use money to swindle her.
"I don't need the money, and I don't like people staying at my house. Go find someone else."
After Bai Tang and the others finished speaking, they were about to leave when the old lady's son suddenly started banging on the door, shouting as he did so.
"You come back here right now! There are only one or two people living in your house, why can't we stay here? Are all rich people this unreasonable?"
Bai Tang turned to the man and said, "First of all, I clearly refused to let others stay at my house. Secondly, whether I have money or not is none of your business. My money is earned by my parents, my brother, and my husband."
"What does it matter to me if you have nowhere to live? Don't try to morally blackmail me. The world is in chaos now. I might have someone beat you up in the middle of the night. Get out of here and don't get in my way."
After Bai Tang finished speaking, she went back into the house without looking back. Gu Yanxu gave the family a cold look and also went back.
Lin Feng threatened the man, "If you come looking for trouble again, I'll beat you so badly your own mother won't recognize you."
After they finished speaking, they all went back inside, leaving that family bewildered in the wind at the entrance of the building.
The woman kept cursing, "It's all that damn property manager's fault! He said there was only a young couple living upstairs and asked us to stay here."
"Aren't they just using us as pawns? No way, we'll go down and find him. Our whole family is going to stay at his house! Let's go!"
The woman and her family went downstairs in a chaotic mess.
After Bai Tang and the others returned to the house, they sat down in the living room.
"See, it's already started. Trouble has come knocking. Luckily, we installed a door in advance, otherwise we wouldn't be able to do anything if they insisted on sleeping in front of our house."
"It's alright. If that family comes up again, I'll let them know why the flowers are so red," Bai Jiyang said, cracking his knuckles.
Lin Zhou patted Bai Jiyang on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you don't need to do anything. Your brother Feng and I will just send them back to their hometown."
Gu Yanxu said casually from the side.
"What are you worried about? Have you forgotten the weapons I told you to stockpile? Times have changed."
Don't be so violent. If they act recklessly again, we'll treat them to peanuts.
Hearing this from the side, Bai Tang laughed and said, "We seem to be part of that underworld force, but let's not use real guns for now."
After all, their official rescue team is still on its way. What if someone reports us and we get arrested and sent for "education"? That would be too much trouble.
"That's right, Tangtang's worries are valid. The radio said that the authorities will come to our rescue in the next few days, so we should keep a low profile and avoid trouble."
Gu Yanxu nodded in agreement with what Bai Tang said.
Bai Jiyang and the others all said: We understand.
However, Bai Tang gave them long knives that could be used to penetrate the iron bars of the gate.
Whether or not we need it depends on whether there are any blind people left.
"Let's take turns keeping watch these next few nights. We're worried someone might try to break in at night. Even though the door isn't hard to break in, we can't let anyone run wild over our heads like that," Lin Fan suggested.
"Sure, I'll stay up for the first half of the night. I'm used to staying up late anyway."
Bai Jiyang spoke first.
Then Lin Fan continued, "Then I'll take the second half tonight. Xiao Yang, go and call me to switch shifts when it's time."
"No problem, Brother Lin Fan."
After dinner, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.
Bai Jiyang was watching variety shows on his tablet in the living room, preparing to keep watch all night.
Bai Jiyang was half asleep when he saw the security camera footage in the hallway.
It looks like someone is sneaking around trying to break in.
I rubbed my eyes and looked at the surveillance footage again. There was indeed a dark figure preparing to pry open the door.
However, the person didn't seem to notice the sign next to them: "The gate is electrified; you are responsible for the consequences."
Then Bai Jiyang watched as the person seemed to twitch for a moment before collapsing straight down.
Bai Tang and his friends turn the electric fence on their gate at full power at night; it's the kind that can knock someone unconscious.
Bai Jiyang didn't leave at all, just watched the man fall.
After a while, another person, wrapped up tightly, appeared on the screen and dragged the person who had fallen away. It's unclear whether the person who had been electrocuted will wake up.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with Bai Tang and the others. A sign has already been put up inside the gate: You will bear the consequences.
They won't listen to advice, what can we do?
As the saying goes: "Listen to advice, and you'll have a full stomach."
Some people are eager to get electrocuted, and you can't stop them.
Bai Jiyang watched for a while longer and found that there was no movement at all. He checked the time again, went next door to wake Lin Fan up, and kept watch for the rest of the night.
He then told Lin Fan what he had just seen in the video.
Bai Jiyang said to Lin Fan, "I think they'll behave themselves for now after being shocked this time. Lin Fan, you keep an eye on them, I'm going to catch up on some sleep."
"Go ahead, I'll keep an eye on things."
By daybreak, no one dared to break into the door again.
After Bai Tang and the others woke up, Bai Jiyang told them that someone had tried to break into the house last night, but was electrocuted by the electric fence.
I don't know what that person is like.
Bai Tang said, "He went straight to touch the electric fence. What does that have to do with us? We put up a sign warning of danger, but they don't believe it. We'll ignore them and go to the kitchen to get breakfast."
After Bai Tang and the others finished eating at the restaurant, they heard someone shouting in their hallway.