Chapter 378 Oh, I'm a local.

The fact that Bai Nuo was a police officer at the Environmental Protection Bureau near the school had long been known at the school. When female classmates were bullied and dared not tell others, they would secretly come to Bai Nuo. If they couldn't find Bai Nuo, they would ask Jiang Hongtao, who was good friends with her, for advice. This actually led the police to come and arrest quite a few small gangs of hooligans circulating in the area.

Moreover, they respond quickly to police calls and don't have to worry about victims being retaliated against. Therefore, Bai Nuo and Jiang Hongtao have a very good reputation at school and are very popular among students, especially female students who trust them a lot.

Fang Meng had initially worried that his daughter's beauty would attract unwanted attention from male classmates with ulterior motives, but it turned out that it didn't happen at all.

The main reason was that Bai Nuo pulled off a stunning rescue by climbing a building on her first day of school, which scared away some of the more timid students.

Later, some male classmates who were not keen on developing their future through their own efforts found that Bai Nuo and the other girls seemed to come from well-off families, which gave them the courage to pursue them. However, they then heard that Bai Nuo was a police officer specializing in criminal investigation. Even if they wanted to pursue her sincerely, they were forcibly discouraged by the female classmates who admired Bai Nuo.

In the eyes of these girls, these ordinary-looking and ordinary-educated classmates were not worthy of the lovely heroes who secretly protected them.

In addition, Bai Nuo doesn't actually spend much time at school, and even when she is at school, she rarely appears on campus, so those with ulterior motives simply can't find an opportunity to get close to her.

However, it is undeniable that Bai Nuo, Jiang Hongtao, Shan Shushu, and Liu Ying are outstanding among the freshmen in terms of family background, appearance, temperament, and academic knowledge. In the two departmental exams, all four girls ranked first in their respective majors.

The final exam results will be released in three days. Although some students who have finished the exams have already left school and started their holidays, it does not stop those students who are still at school from paying attention to their final exam results.

But what no one knows is that the person most concerned about their grades is definitely not the four of them, but their roommates.

It's also possible that they're not just concerned with grades.

"Jiang, Bai, what about you? Aren't you going home either? Is your workplace not giving you time off?"

Bai Nuo, who was still lazily lounging on the lower bunk, heard Shi Xingxiang's words and turned her head slightly to look over. She raised her eyebrows and said in a somewhat lazy tone, "If there aren't any cases, I should be able to take a vacation. I'm just a tech person, not all cases need me, so I should be able to take a vacation earlier."

"Oh, that's good. Are you going home? Do you want to go book tickets together this afternoon? We asked this morning, and the train station is super crowded. It should be less crowded this afternoon." Shi Xingxiang looked at Bai Nuo with a gentle smile, appearing kind and considerate.

"No need!" Bai Nuo curled the corners of her lips and smiled indifferently. "My family is from Beijing."

"Are you a local?" Not only Shi Xingxiang looked at Bai Nuo in surprise, but even Chai Shaolan and Mu Yuelan, who hadn't paid much attention before, looked at Bai Nuo with surprise.

Bai Nuo's lips twitched slightly as she looked at her roommates with amusement: "Is it strange that I'm from Beijing? I work here."

"But...we heard you were transferred from a county in the Northeast? How did you become a local?"

"You guys have really got all the information you need!" Jiang Hongtao turned around and glanced at his roommates over there, chuckling softly, but the smile in his eyes had faded a bit.

Shi Xingxiang's smile froze for a moment, but she quickly regained her gentle smile. "It wasn't on purpose. A friend of mine has a brother who works in the police force. He heard that I have a roommate who is also a police officer and felt a sense of kinship because we're in the same profession. That's why he asked. That's how I learned about the closure of Bai Nuo's classmate's office."

He told me that Bai Nuo is very good at drawing portraits, and that he even drew several criminal portraits for his former workplace to help solve cases. That's why he was exceptionally transferred to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. I originally thought Bai Nuo was from a small county in Northeast China.

"Heh!" Bai Nuo chuckled lightly, "I went there to work in the countryside, but my job here is indeed a partial transfer."

"Going to the countryside?" Chai Shaolan looked at Bai Nuo's fair face seriously, her expression full of surprise: "I really can't tell that you've lived in the countryside before. A relative of mine also went to the countryside. When he came home to visit relatives last year for the Spring Festival, I almost didn't recognize him. Before he went, he was fair and clean, but after he came back, he not only looked much more haggard, but his skin was also very dark. He looked like he had aged more than ten years in an instant."

Bai Nuo leaned to the side, propped her head up with her hand, and nodded with a smile: "That's definitely the case. After going to the countryside, you have to work in the fields every day, working yourself to the bone, and being exposed to the scorching sun. How can you not get tanned? I'm lucky, I don't get tanned. Plus, after I went there, I was assigned to work in the brigade's animal husbandry team. I just walk the horses every day and occasionally help feed the cows. I'm basically not exposed to the sun."

"You're really lucky!" Chai Shaolan nodded sincerely. This was much better than her cousin's sister.

The awkward atmosphere from before finally dissipated a lot after the two started chatting normally, but Shi Xingxiang still seemed unconvinced and said something else.

"Bai Nuo, you said you're from Kyoto, is that true? Your accent doesn't sound like it at all. I know a few locals, and they don't talk like you."

Bai Nuo curled her lips speechlessly: "Because my family is strict and values ​​education, they started training me to speak Mandarin from a young age, and I can't have an accent when I communicate with others."

"Wow, your family has this kind of rule?"

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