Not My Visitor

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I was looking towards to a quiet Saturday last weekend when our front door was banged repeatedly and loudly at about 1:30PM. Through the opaque glass of the front door, I could see a muscled 40ish, army hairstyle guy, in dark short sleeve T-shirt and Jeans. He would stop banging at my front door for a bit, then continued while slurping down his beer can. He looked up to our second floor with a puzzle look a few times, then continued banging on our the front door again. That dark blond guy walked back to his car, about to drive away, then thought again - then back to our front door for another round of banging. He then suddenly disappeared, only to reappear in the backyard of my Chinese neighbor, who can't speak any English. From the second floor, I discretely watched that stranger talking loudly to someone there in that house and began to feel worried for my gentle Beijing neighbor. In my simple mind, the stranger was pretending to be friendly, but perhaps was about to murder the 60ish Chinese lady any time then. I promptly contacted another Chinese neighbor on my street, asking her to please urgently contact her fellow countrywoman. By 2:30, the stranger drove away. I thought of my poor neighbor, perhaps by then, was lying in a pool of her own blood... (useless to call police in this case, they wouldn't come that fast to help anyone.) While I was lamenting for my gentle Chinese lady neighbor (she often gave me peaches and nectarines from her garden!!!), I suddenly heard some car doors banging again. That stranger was back, and the odd thing was, he was sitting there in his car - waiting. A few minutes later, a tall muscled 40ish Chinese man with similar short hairstyle (who often did the lawn for my Chinese neighbor) came out, giving him a coil of thick rope. I felt such a relief, suddenly realizing that my Chinese neighbor must have rented her place out finally to that younger Chinese guy. (I heard she had bought another property some blocks away, which would be more suitable for her dog sitting business.) Would you open your front door to any stranger who looks a bit threatening to you?