Chapter 92
"Miss Xu..."
The person named Xu Gui was the security captain. He stood a few steps away and gestured for Xu Gui to come over.
"Wait for me a moment." Xu Gui turned her head and said to Yuan Lu, then walked towards the security captain. When she came over, the security captain pulled her aside and spoke with a serious expression.
"The doctor said the patient's condition is not good. It's likely due to the fall from a height; she suffered fractures in various parts of her body. We cannot yet determine if her internal organs are intact..."
If the other person's internal organs are not seriously damaged, and it's just an external injury like a fracture, that would be great. But if the other person's internal organs are injured... The security captain frowned even more as he thought of what the doctor had said.
He looked at Xu Gui and said, "Miss Xu, as the first person to discover this person, do you know any specific details? For example, who exactly is this person?"
After listening, Xu Gui smiled slightly and said, "You still suspect that the reason this person fell from up there has something to do with me?"
The security captain did not deny the statement, saying, "I just want to know the truth."
Xu Gui looked at him seriously and said, "The truth is, this matter has nothing to do with me. At most, it's just that I'm really good at fortune telling. I predicted that someone had fallen down there and was in danger of dying. And I'm an extremely kind person, so I stepped in to save her!"
"If you suspect that her falling down there is related to me, then you are really wronging me."
Xu Gui's tone was very serious and sincere, so sincere that even the security captain felt she wasn't lying. But does fortune telling really exist? The security captain remained skeptical.
Security captain: "We have already called the police, and they will be here soon."
Xu Gui: "Oh, that's great." His tone was very casual, and his attitude was very indifferent.
Seeing this, the security captain couldn't help but think that he might have been overthinking things. After all, if this matter really had something to do with this Miss Xu, she wouldn't be so calm and composed now.
The security captain handed Xu Gui a business card, saying, "This is my contact information. If you have any information about this matter, Miss Xu, please call and let me know..."
"By the way, we've already called the police about this, so the police coming down the mountain will be investigating it later," the security captain added, this time sounding more sincere. "They might come to you, Ms. Xu, to ask about what happened, and we might have to trouble you again."
Xu Gui nodded and said, "This is indeed quite troublesome."
He had clearly been doing a good deed, but so many things had happened afterward… Xu Gui couldn’t help but sigh.
...
After the security captain left, Yuan Lu and Xu Gui, who had been standing at a distance, walked over. Yuan Lu watched the security captain's departing figure and couldn't help but ask Xu Gui, "Teacher Xu... what did this security captain want with you?"
Xu Gui said nonchalantly, "Oh, they probably suspect that I pushed that person off from here."
Yuan Lu: ? ?
"You're the one who saved her!" she said angrily, her tone heavy. "If you hadn't gone down, Teacher Xu, they wouldn't know when they would have discovered someone had fallen. Why would they suspect you?"
Xu Gui pondered, "Maybe it's because I'm too amazing, and they can't believe it?"
She spoke with a serious and earnest tone, and upon hearing this, Yuan Lu felt the anger in her heart suddenly dissipate.
“Teacher Xu, you really are…” She looked at Xu Gui helplessly, “You’re still joking at a time like this.”
Xu Gui: ? ?
“…I spoke very seriously.” she said.
"Seriously, seriously!" The parrot on her shoulder immediately hopped around and began to mimic her speech, speaking fluently, though the bird's voice was different from a human's, sounding somewhat mechanical.
Caiyun's owner immediately looked at it with resentment—she had raised Caiyun for so many years, and Caiyun had never said a word in all those years, but now, she had heard at least three of its words.
"You just said that my Caiyun is a little unhappy with me, which is why she hasn't been talking to me..." the young woman couldn't help but ask Xu Gui, "What exactly does she dislike about me? Is it because I always step out with my left foot?"
Xu Gui said, "That's not it. Rather than saying it's dissatisfied with you, it's more like it's disgusted with you, it's like it's disappointed in you..."
Seeing the young woman's bewildered gaze, Xu Gui gave an answer: "...It has never liked your boyfriend."
Xu Guichao reached out to the bird, and it hopped from her shoulder onto her finger. The bird seemed extremely intelligent and very perceptive... However, the young woman had never seen it so clever before, which made her feel a sense of frustration that she didn't understand her own bird at all.
The young woman pursed her lips, somewhat disappointed, and said, "It really doesn't like my boyfriend. Every time it sees him, it gets very angry and pecks at him with its beak... To be honest, I don't quite understand this either."
The woman was puzzled: "Although our Caiyun is a bit aloof, it doesn't peck people easily..."
But as soon as it sees her boyfriend, its feathers stand on end, and it flaps its wings and pecks at him, especially his face and hands.
Xu Gui sighed and said, "Is it possible that your boyfriend is bullying your little bird when you're not looking?"
The woman was shocked. She was angry at first, but then she calmed down and said, "That's not right. But when Caiyun first saw my boyfriend, she was already very excited. Whenever my boyfriend got close to me, she would go crazy pecking at him. That was the first time the two of them met."
If it's because her boyfriend was bullying Caiyun behind her back, how do you explain the tense atmosphere when they first met?
“That doesn’t make sense!” the woman said.
"Well..." Xu Gui began, "Of course there's a reason for that. Think back, what prompted you to peck at your boyfriend? If I'm not mistaken, you were kissing at the time, right?"
And when they kissed, it was the man who pressed her down to kiss him...
"...If your Caiyun saw this, she would naturally think that your boyfriend was bullying you. So, if she wanted to save you, she would naturally try her best to drive your boyfriend out of the house," Xu Gui said.
The woman's eyes widened, no longer caring about blushing at Xu Gui's description of the "position." She looked at Xu Gui in shock, then at her own little bird, and then back at Xu Gui.
"Is that really the reason?" The woman's expression was complicated. "Is my Caiyun really that smart?"
Xu Gui reached out and stroked the little bird's head, saying, "Our Caiyun is, of course, the smartest little bird in the world..."
"Smart! Caiyun is smart!" Caiyun seemed to know that Xu Gui was praising her, so she raised her head high and mumbled words of praise to herself.
The woman was shocked, realizing for the first time that she, Caiyun, was not a fool, but a clever bird.
"So, after that, every time it saw my boyfriend, it would peck at him. Was that the reason too?" the woman asked again.
Xu Gui: "That's not it. As I said before, your boyfriend has been bullying your Caiyun in places you didn't see... Also, you may not know, but your boyfriend has more than just you as a girlfriend outside."
Xu Gui looked at the woman with pity, the meaning of which was self-evident.
The woman was shocked again, and blurted out, "My boyfriend cheated on me?"
Xu Gui sighed, "If we're talking about infidelity, you're probably the one he cheated on with..."
Woman: "What do you mean?"
Xu Gui said, "It means that he already had a girlfriend before he started dating you. In short, you were the other woman!"
"Oh, no, that's not right." Xu Gui corrected him, did some serious calculations, and gestured with his fingers, saying, "You might be Xiao Wu? You're probably the fourth mistress he's had outside... In that case, your boyfriend is quite something."
Xu Gui was surprised: "You've had so many girlfriends, and none of them have backfired?"
woman:"……"
The woman pressed her chest, feeling like she was about to vomit blood—she had received far too much information from Xu Gui, and her brain seemed to be overloaded.
“Your Caiyun has always been targeting your boyfriend. Besides the initial misunderstanding, later, on the one hand, it’s because your boyfriend has been plucking its fur and scolding it behind your back,” Xu Gui continued. “On the other hand, it’s because it keeps smelling a scent on your boyfriend that doesn’t belong to you, and every time you meet, your boyfriend’s scent is different.”
Birds have a sense of smell; they can smell the fragrance on a woman's boyfriend. But every time the woman's boyfriend comes to see her, he carries the scent of other women... How could the bird not be angry when it smells this?
Xu Gui patted the bird's head and said in a low voice, "Poor little bird, it has been working so hard to help you get rid of your troublesome boyfriend, but you have never appreciated it. You have been telling it to stop targeting your troublesome boyfriend... This time, you even let your boyfriend come with you to the Golden Summit for vacation. Tell me, how can your Caiyun not despise your mother?"
The little guy got angrier and angrier, and the more he saw that wicked man at home, the angrier he became, so today he just flew away from home.
The woman looked embarrassed and said, "I really didn't know that... Caiyun didn't tell me either."
Xu Gui glanced at her, reached out and took Caiyun in his palm, then handed her to the girl's outstretched hand, saying, "Your little bird truly loves you and is thinking of you. Your boyfriend is no good. You should break up with him as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid you'll be beaten up as a mistress later. He has a legitimate girlfriend by his side."
Even if a woman is the victim of a mistress, the label of "mistress" is enough to make her universally condemned by outsiders.
The woman was a little embarrassed and said in a low voice, "I understand."
At this moment, her feelings were extremely complicated. First, she learned why her little bird hadn't spoken to her for so many years, and then she learned that she was just a mistress by her boyfriend's side... The information she received was too shocking, and the only word to describe the woman's emotions at this moment was "absurd".
This is all really... ridiculous.
She looked down at the parrot in her palm. The parrot was standing there, not moving, but the woman couldn't help but feel touched when she thought about what Xu Gui had just said.
"Ah, Caiyun, why are you so good to me?" She excitedly rubbed her face against the little bird. "You really are my good Caiyun!"
The parrot, feeling her rubbing against it, couldn't help but flap its wings at her, then yelled, "Idiot! Idiot! Jerk, jerk!"
Yuan Lu exclaimed in surprise: "...This parrot actually knows how to talk about scumbags?"
The young woman said, "It's probably because the cleaning lady in my house really likes to watch those melodramatic TV shows, and Caiyun sometimes watches them with her. That's probably how she learned the word from TV."
After saying that, she looked at her little bird with emotion and said, "Caiyun, I know you care about me, sob sob sob. Don't worry, I'll kick that wicked man out when I get back, and I'll never let him bully you again!"
More than being cheated on by Xiao Wu, the woman was furious that the man had actually bullied her Caiyun behind her back. This was something she simply couldn't tolerate.
"Our Caiyun is truly the best parrot in the world..."
"Idiot! Idiot!"
And so, amidst the human's constant flattery and the parrot's incessant "idiot" insults, the two parted ways, their noisy antics surprisingly harmonious.
"Ah, Ms. Xu, it seems we haven't asked that lady her name yet?" Yuan Lu suddenly realized this, which meant that they had been chatting for so long, but they still hadn't exchanged names?
Xu Gui said, "It's alright, we just need to know that the parrot is named Caiyun..." After all, she was on good terms with the bird, not the person. The bird's name is important, but the person's name is not so important.
*
Xu Gui and Yuan Lu went down the mountain at noon and returned to the hotel.
Of course, upon returning to the hotel, he was met with a barrage of questions from Kuang Ming. To sum up his words, he was saying: "From now on, you must tell him where you're going. Don't forget that you're a star with an agent!"
Xu Gui listened and nodded honestly, "Mhm!"
Kuang Ming: I just hope he's genuinely honest...
In the afternoon, Kuang Ming, who was hoping that Xu Gui was truly honest, heard that Xu Gui had received a call from the local police station. The police said they wanted to come and find out about what happened that morning.
Kuang Ming was dumbfounded: "...What happened this morning?"
Xu Gui, who had just hung up the phone with the police, looked at him in surprise upon hearing his question, and asked in a slightly guilty voice, "Didn't I tell you?"
Kuang Ming sneered, "What do you think?"
Xu Gui hurriedly said, "I'll tell you now, don't be angry, angry people age easily... Actually, it's nothing, it's just that when I was wandering around on the mountain at the Golden Summit this morning, I found someone who had fallen down the back of the mountain."
She explained the whole story, and in fact, she was just doing a good deed, so what did she have to be ashamed of?
Xu Gui looked at Kuang Ming with a righteous indignation.
Kuang Ming rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on. He looked at Xu Gui and said, "Why are you always looking for trouble?" He always felt that something would happen to Xu Gui the moment he looked away.
Xu Gui was somewhat displeased upon hearing his words. She said, "What do you mean I'm good at causing trouble?"
She scoffed and said, "This isn't me looking for trouble, it's trouble coming after me..."
Kuang Ming: "What's the difference between these two sentences?"
“The difference is huge,” Xu Gui said. “The reason I was brought to this place is because of this incident, which led me to this situation… Have you ever heard the saying, ‘There is a will in the universe’? The things I’ve encountered are all the will of heaven.”
She concluded, "It was fate that brought them together!"
Kuang Ming and Yuan Lu listened to her words and felt a bit confused but also a little mysterious. What was this about destiny? It sounded quite plausible, Kuang Ming muttered to himself.
Xu Gui didn't care about their attitudes; he just smiled.
She thought that all of this was fate. Fate had brought these things to her. After all, without her, the girl who fell from the Golden Summit Mountain would have died in less than three days.
She died silently, and no one discovered her body until two months later, when her father, who was still determined to find her at the Golden Summit, found her halfway up the mountain. By then, due to the hot and humid weather by the sea, her body had decomposed and was almost unrecognizable.
Later... later, her father killed another girl for her sake, and then jumped off Jinding Mountain, dying instantly.
This accident killed three people, ruined two families, and also cast a shadow of bad luck over the Golden Summit. People who used to love vacationing here no longer like to come here.
And so, the "golden dome" that once resembled a pyramid on the island gradually declined and lost its former glory.
Thinking about these things, Xu Gui couldn't help but sigh again: "...So you see, I'm really too kind!" How could there be such a kind and compassionate turtle? She prevented so many bad things from happening.
"You agree, right?" She looked expectantly at her agent and assistant, wanting their approval.
Yuan Lu, who was rummaging through the dumbbells in the room and trying to lift them, replied without hesitation, "Of course, Teacher Xu, you are the kindest person in the world!"
Xu Gui looked at Kuang Ming expectantly again, while Kuang Ming remained silent.
"Yes, you are indeed a very kind person." His lips twitched slightly, not understanding why Xu Gui liked hearing praise from others so much. What kind of preference was this?
Looking at Xu Gui, who was beaming with joy, Kuang Ming thought: It's better to like being praised than to have other bad habits, right? Compared to other celebrities, Xu Gui's hobby is so healthy.
Kuang Ming pondered: Perhaps he should give a more positive response?
*
In the afternoon, the police from the local police station who had called around noon came over.
"Miss Xu..." The two policemen greeted Xu Gui, and under Kuang Ming's invitation, the three of them sat down on the balcony outside the living room of Xu Gui's suite.
This room is a luxurious suite with a superb ocean view. Sitting on the balcony, you can turn your head and see the vast ocean outside. The view is exceptionally good. It's a wonderful place to relax and have tea.
“Officers, let’s eat and talk,” Kuang Ming said, bringing over tea and snacks. As he poured them tea, he smiled and said, “Xu Gui did a good job in this matter, didn’t she? I heard that if it weren’t for her, that little girl who fell down there would have been in danger…”
He said in a relaxed tone, "So, the atmosphere between us doesn't need to be so serious, right?"
Based on the current evidence, Xu Gui did indeed do a good deed, so the two policemen exchanged glances and tacitly agreed with Kuang Ming's attitude.
The police officers took out their notebooks and began questioning the officers.
"...Ms. Xu, how did you know there were people down there?" The first question the police asked was the same one asked by the security captain of "Golden Top".
Xu Gui smiled and looked at them, saying, "Before you came, you must have investigated my background, so you should already know that I can tell fortunes."
The wind was strong at the beach. A gust of wind blew by, making Xu Gui's hair fly. She reached out, grabbed her hair, and smoothed it down.
"So, if you ask me how I knew there was someone down there, it's because I calculated it. I can even tell you when she fell down, it was half a month ago... She fell down half a month ago."
Xu Gui recalled the middle-aged man she had met at the barbecue stand last night—a man with a slender build and an extremely thin face. If she really wanted to talk about it, that's where it all started.
After thinking about it, she decided to tell the police.
“Yesterday when I went to the beach for a barbecue, I met someone…” she said.
When she first saw the man, she didn't actually intend to do anything, until she mentioned "Golden Summit," and the immense hostility he displayed, as well as a subtle feeling that Xu Gui had vaguely sensed at the time.
So, she had a sudden inspiration and did some calculations for the man. She even calculated that he would die in two months, and at the same time, she learned about his daughter.
The man came to the island to find his daughter, who had suddenly disappeared two weeks prior. The last message she left was that she had been invited by her best friend to visit the island, and this best friend was a wealthy man living on the "Golden Dome."
However, the man had come all the way here but couldn't even get to the top of the Golden Summit, which is why he felt such strong hostility and indignation towards the "Golden Summit".
Xu Gui rested his chin on his hand and said, "...Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't have found his daughter until two months later. But by then, his daughter would be dead, and it would be too late. So, after killing his daughter's best friend, he committed suicide as well..."
However, that was the original future. Now, because of Xu Gui's intervention, everything has changed.
“I calculated that his daughter is still alive and on Jinding Mountain, which is why I went to look for her…” Moreover, she successfully found the girl and even managed to get the security guards at Jinding Mountain to rescue her.
Xu Gui murmured, "Actually, when I saw her, I always felt it was unbelievable..."
At that moment, she even felt a strange yet intense shock.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who would have thought, who would have dared to think, that a little girl who fell down just half a month ago, and who was only eleven years old, would still be alive today?
The resilience and wonder of life were vividly displayed in her... Xu Gui felt that perhaps that was why he had met her father.
She looked at the police officers and smiled, "There's a destiny at play... isn't there?"
After all, if she had been even one day later, it would have been too late. Isn't this fate?
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