I can't tell if this is a sprinkler truck or a municipal greening irrigation vehicle.

The ladies grew alert. Seeing the truck not washing the road but instead spraying the greenery, they knew it was targeting them. They boldly stepped onto the road, linking arms to block the sprinkler truck's path.

The sprinkler truck stopped, rolled down a window, and a worker stuck his head out to shout at the ladies: "Road law enforcement, please cooperate!"

"Is this how you do sprinkling?"

"The road is dry, why are you spraying the greenery?"

"The greenery is wilting, the ground is bare, dust is flying, affecting driving safety, that's why we're spraying the greenery."

"Greening is municipal management, since when did it become your road admin's business?"

Song Xiaodong, who understood lipreading, heard the lady's deep understanding of government departments and couldn't help but smile coldly, muttering to himself, "Heh, the lawyer must have explained all this stuff to you quite thoroughly."

"My sprinkler hose has a problem, I don't know why, it's just spraying from both ends." The worker quickly changed his tune.

"You're just making things up; the last truck also had a broken sprinkler hose. How come both trucks sent by the road admin are broken coincidentally?"

The worker realized that the previous truck had already used the malfunction excuse.

"Please cooperate with road administration work." The worker insisted.

"Cooperate with you? The last truck sprayed us all over with mud. I haven't even settled that with you yet. You need to compensate us for our clothes and mental damage."

"Please cooperate with road administration work."

"You have to compensate us, otherwise, we won't let you leave!"

Several ladies became agitated and surprisingly lay down on the ground.

"Please cooperate with road administration work." The worker retracted his head, rolled up the window, and started the vehicle. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Not afraid of death, the ladies didn't flinch even at the sound of the engine restarting, believing the government enforcers wouldn't dare do anything outrageous.

The worker turned on the switch, and the sprinkler pipe under the truck's front began spraying. The ladies lying on the ground were soaked like drowned rats. They had just gotten splattered with muddy water from the last vehicle and were now rinsed clean again.

"Hey! What are you doing! You're spraying water on me!" The powerful spray from the sprinkler truck frightened the ladies into quickly dodging aside.

"What are you doing! I have rheumatoid arthritis! I can't touch cold water!"

"I have shoulder joint trouble, I can't get cold!"

"Stop right there!"

"You must be with the last truck, you're all imposters!"

"We're taking you to the police station and making you serve jail time!"

"Ah—"

Amidst the ladies' shrill screams, the sprinkler truck suddenly increased the water pressure, soaking the group and causing them to scatter and flee, but the spray was so thorough and even, the ladies couldn't hide anywhere and were all drenched to the bone.

Though they wanted to chase it, the sprinkler truck's rear also sprayed water. On second thought, they gave up.

Unwilling to give up, the ladies insisted on continuing their sit-in.

"What is this? Your hospital is actually resorting to such despicable acts!"

"We will not surrender, we must seek justice for the patient!"

"The hospital is negligent, and legitimate rights protection faces retaliatory sprinkling!"

Song Xiaodong heard this and thought, wow, some of these ladies really know how to write a news headline. It's like there's a hidden dragon among them.

"We are upholding our rights legally, sit-in protest!"

After chanting their slogans, the ladies found that after the sprinkler truck passed, the ground at the hospital entrance was covered in muddy water, rendering it impossible to sit down. The group was drenched, and the afternoon sun had passed with weakening light. The north wind quietly began to blow, with water puddles everywhere at the hospital entrance causing them to shiver helplessly in the wind.

"How can we sit here when the ground is all wet?"

"Yeah, I have a slipped disc and can't sit on wet ground."

"What if we catch a cold?"

"Who was the scoundrel that tossed away our little stools and everything?"

"These bastards, how sneaky!"

Hearing this, Song Xiaodong felt a surge of anger.

"Damned! I'll see how I deal with you!" Song Xiaodong gritted his teeth.

"Hey, isn't that your little stool?" A lady discovered their little stools thrown away by the security guards in the stinking gutter beside the greenery, submerged in foul-smelling sewage.

"Who's so wicked?"

"Step forward!"

"Zhifen, make a decision, the ground's so wet, sitting is out of the question."

"This must be the hospital's doing!"

"Maybe we should leave first and go find Xiao Liu to discuss it."

"Yeah, we're soaked through, what if we catch a cold, or get rashes from the sweat?"

"Let's ask Xiao Liu for a solution. It's not that we lack courage, this hospital is just too cunning!"

The leader of this lady group was named Zhifen, and Zhifen's leader was called Xiao Liu, as deduced from lipreading by Song Xiaodong.

Zhifen frowned at the hospital, glanced at the bedraggled women, then at the muddy ground, sighed, and issued the command: "Retreat!"

Song Xiaodong smiled again, this group of ladies really had some organization and discipline.

The group of ladies left as they spoke, all the while drying their clothes.

Seeing this, Song Xiaodong called Lin Su'er: "Su'er, the ladies have left."

"Huh? Really? Yesterday they blocked the entrance all day. They only left after we got off work at night. Why did they just leave today?"