Chapter 194 — The Girl Who Jumped Off the Building

"Mom, let me come help you." Tang Yun felt awkward and stifled sitting in the room and wanted to go out to keep her mother company.

"Yun'er, you stay and eat with your classmates, get them some drinks and talk with them, I can manage here on my own!" Tang's mother smiled: "I'm not busy at all. At the snack street I handled so many customers all by myself, and this is nothing compared to that?"

"Oh..." Tang Yun pursed her lips, displeased inside. Eat with them? Drink with them? And chat with them too? Wouldn't that make me a three-way escort?

Kang Xiaobo had been looking forward to this delicious barbecue immensely, but now he seemed somewhat distracted, his eyes kept drifting toward that photograph on the bookshelf, thinking of the girl called Lan Fen, and he could not help asking: "Tang Yun, why don't we call Liu Xinwen and Lan Fen to come eat with us?"

Although Kang Xiaobo put Liu Xinwen first, it was only to cover himself, his real intent lay elsewhere. Liu Xinwen was a schoolmate from No.1 High School and naturally someone he should know better, so Kang Xiaobo mentioned her first, while Lan Fen was actually the point.

From the first glance at Lan Fen, Kang Xiaobo had felt his blood rush upward. Tang Yun, he knew he was not worthy of, and he harbored no fantasies, but Lan Fen... Kang Xiaobo had truly taken a fancy to her.

Tang Yun frowned, not understanding why Kang Xiaobo had taken an interest in the person in the photograph: "I'll treat them separately some other time. If you want to eat, eat. If not, just sit there."

Rebuffed softly, Kang Xiaobo could not help giving two dry laughs. "Eat, of course I'll eat. Just from the smell you can tell it's delicious."

Wei Zhao could roughly guess Kang Xiaobo's little scheme. Out of the corner of his eye he had also seen Lan Fen in the photograph earlier. She was indeed the making of a beauty, a notch below Tang Yun, but still outstanding among her peers. No wonder Kang Xiaobo was smitten.

Looking at the barbecue on the table, Wei Zhao had to admit Tang's mother had an excellent grasp of the heat, and with his own seasoning added, it would be hard for business not to boom.

Just as he was about to pick up a skewer to taste, the door was pushed open and a girl burst in, shouting the moment she entered: "Tang Yun, this is bad, Xiao Fen is going to jump! Come with me and talk her out of it!"

The newcomer was naturally Tang Yun's best friend Liu Xinwen. When she rushed in she had not noticed Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaobo in the room, but after she finished speaking, she was startled to discover there were two other people there! Especially when she saw Wei Zhao, the expression on Liu Xinwen's face turned rather ugly... Just two days ago she had talked to Tang Yun about Wei Zhao, and Tang Yun had sworn solemnly that she had nothing to do with him, yet in the blink of an eye, Wei Zhao had appeared inside Tang Yun's home!

Liu Xinwen sighed inwardly. What a silly girl blinded by love! Tang Yun's earlier explanation about riding in Wei Zhao's car now seemed rather hard for Liu Xinwen to believe.

"What? Xiao Fen is going to jump? Where?" Hearing Liu Xinwen's words, Tang Yun's heart jolted with shock, and she sprang to her feet, about to rush outside.

"Right in front of her house at the mouth of the alley, that three-story building," Liu Xinwen said urgently: "Let's hurry and talk her down!"

At that moment Tang's mother also hurried in. She had been grilling when she saw Liu Xinwen rush into her house like a whirlwind. Liu Xinwen had said something to her that she had not caught before dashing inside, so Tang's mother naturally followed in quickly to see what had happened.

At the doorway she heard Liu Xinwen blurt out the shocking news, and she was frightened out of her wits. Lan Fen had been Tang Yun's playmate since childhood, and the three of them with Liu Xinwen had been very close, only later that thing had happened...

So much time had passed since then that it should have been over by now, yet to suddenly hear that Lan Fen was going to jump, what was to be done?

"Mom, Wenwen and I are going to have a look!" Tang Yun had no time for more words and, grabbing Liu Xinwen, ran for the door.

"Hey... be careful..." Tang's mother hastily called after them.

"Auntie, what's going on?" Wei Zhao was completely bewildered and only knew that someone was going to jump.

"Ah, a good friend of Yun'er's, called Lan Fen, suffered some harm a few years ago. Who would have thought she would try to jump now..." Tang's mother said this with worry: "No, I have to go and see too!"

But before Tang's mother's words had even landed, upon hearing the name "Lan Fen", Kang Xiaobo shot out the door as if injected with stimulants, chasing after Tang Yun and Liu Xinwen.

Lan Fen. Wei Zhao shook his head. No wonder Kang Xiaobo was so nervous...

"Huh? Wei Zhao, your classmate..." Kang Xiaobo's behavior left Tang's mother rather baffled.

Wei Zhao of course knew why Kang Xiaobo was acting like this, and said at once: "Auntie, come on, let's go have a look too..."

In front of the three-story building at the mouth of the alley, a crowd had already gathered and the scene was noisy and chaotic, while Tang Yun and Liu Xinwen stood outside the crowd, at a loss what to do. Kang Xiaobo ran up close behind them, and with one look upward, his whole body jolted!

At the window on the left side of the third floor, the window was now fully open, and leaning upon it was a girl in white, none other than Lan Fen from the photograph! Though she looked utterly haggard, she still possessed a fragile beauty that made Kang Xiaobo's heart skip a beat.

"Xiao Fen! It's me, Liu Xinwen, Wenwen, can you hear me?" Liu Xinwen cupped her hands like a megaphone and shouted loudly up at the building.

But Xiao Fen on the third floor seemed not to have heard Liu Xinwen at all, her expression dazed, her empty gaze fixed on the distance, no one knew what she was thinking.

"Xiao Fen, get back inside, it's dangerous!" Tang Yun was terribly nervous too and had no idea what to do.

The onlookers from the shantytown basically all knew that Tang Yun and Liu Xinwen were Xiao Fen's best friends, and the crowd automatically parted to make a path to let Tang Yun and Liu Xinwen go forward.

When they got closer, they saw Lan Fen's mother Song Huiping standing there anxiously, at a loss, tears glinting in her eyes, gazing at Xiao Fen upstairs and screaming her name with a hoarse voice, yet Xiao Fen paid no heed.

"Auntie Song, Xiao Fen she..." Tang Yun asked hurriedly upon seeing Song Huiping.

"Ah, Tang Yun, Liu Xinwen, you're here, hurry and persuade Xiao Fen. I don't know what happened, she just locked herself in the room and wants to jump. Her father went up, but he can't open the door and is contacting a locksmith..." Though frantic with worry, Song Huiping still placed her hopes on Tang Yun and Liu Xinwen.

Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaobo squeezed through as well. Kang Xiaobo looked even more anxious than Tang Yun and the others, sweat about to drip from his forehead: "Boss, what do we do? What do we do?"

Wei Zhao ignored Kang Xiaobo's words and looked up at Lan Fen upstairs. At this height, he was fully confident he could climb up unnoticed from the side and bring her down, but that would also expose his skills...

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