"Miss Xu…"
The one called Xu Gui was the security captain. He stood a few steps away, gesturing 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 said with a serious expression,
"The doctor said that the patient's condition is not good. It's probably because of the fall from a height. She has fractures in various parts of her body. We can't be sure if her internal organs are still intact…"
If the other person's internal organs are not seriously damaged, and it's just external injuries like fractures, 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 the other person, do you know any specific details? For example, who exactly is this person?"
Xu Gui smiled slightly after hearing this and said, "You still suspect that the reason this person fell from there has something to do with me?"
The security captain didn't deny this and said, "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 my fortune-telling is really too good, and I predicted that someone had fallen down there and was in danger of death, and I, being a very, very kind person, stepped in to save her!"
"Captain, if you suspect that her falling down there has something to do with me, then you are really wronging me."
Xu Gui's tone was very serious and sincere, so sincere that the security captain felt that she wasn't lying, but fortune-telling... does it 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 good." Her tone was very calm, and her 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 anything to do with Miss Xu, her current attitude wouldn't be so calm.
The security captain handed a business card to Xu Gui and said, "This is my contact information. If Miss Xu knows anything about this matter, I hope you can call me..."
"By the way, because we've already called the police, the police coming down the mountain will be investigating this matter later." The security captain added, this time his tone was sincere. "They might come to you, Miss Xu, to understand what happened, which might trouble you again."
Xu Gui nodded and said, "That is indeed quite troublesome."
She had clearly done a good deed, but so much trouble followed... 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. Watching the captain's departing figure, Yuan Lu couldn't help but ask Xu Gui, "Teacher Xu...what did that security captain want with you?"
Xu Gui replied nonchalantly, "Oh, they probably suspect I pushed that person off here."
Yuan Lu: ? ?
"You were the one who saved her!" she said angrily, her tone heavy. "If you hadn't gone down, Teacher Xu, they don'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; they can't believe it?"
She spoke with utmost seriousness, and upon hearing this, Yuan Lu: ...suddenly, the anger in her heart dissipated.
"Teacher Xu, you really are..." she looked helplessly at Xu Gui, "and you're still joking at a time like this."
Xu Gui: ? ?
"...I was very serious about everything I said," she said.
"Seriously, seriously!" The parrot perched on her shoulder immediately hopped around and began mimicking her, speaking fluently, though its voice sounded somewhat mechanical, unlike a human's.
Caiyun's owner immediately looked at it resentfully—she had raised Caiyun for so many years, and Caiyun had never uttered a single word in all that time, but now, she had heard it say at least three sentences.
"You just said that my Caiyun is a little unhappy with me, which is why it hasn't been talking to me..." The young woman couldn't help but ask Xu Gui, "What exactly does it dislike about me? Is it because I always step out with my left foot?"
Xu Gui said, "No, it's not so much that it's unhappy with you, but rather that it's disgusted, disappointed in you..."
In the young woman's bewildered eyes, Xu Gui gave an answer: "...It has never liked your boyfriend."
Xu Gui 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 throws a tantrum, pecking at him relentlessly... I don't really understand this."
The woman was puzzled. "Our Caiyun is a bit aloof, but it doesn't peck people easily..."
But whenever it sees her boyfriend, its feathers practically bristle, fluttering its wings and pecking 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 initially angry, but then calmed down and said, "That doesn't make sense. But when Caiyun first saw my boyfriend, it was already very excited. Whenever he got close to me, it would peck at him like crazy. That was the first time they met."
If it was because her boyfriend was bullying Caiyun behind her back, how could she explain the tense atmosphere of their first meeting?
"This doesn't make sense!" the woman said.
"Well…" Xu Gui began, "Of course there's a reason for that. Think back, what prompted your bird to peck at your boyfriend? If I'm not mistaken, you two were kissing, right?"
And when you kissed, the man was on top of her…
"…With that position, your Caiyun saw it and naturally thought your boyfriend was bullying you. So, wanting to save you, it naturally tried its 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 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, raising her head high and chattering praises.
The woman was shocked, realizing for the first time that her Caiyun wasn't stupid, but rather a clever bird?
"Then, after that, every time it saw my boyfriend, it would peck at him. Was that the reason?" the woman asked again.
Xu Gui: "No, that's not it. As I said before, behind your back, your boyfriend has been bullying your Caiyun... Also, you might not know, but your boyfriend has more than just you as a girlfriend."
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 cheating, you're probably the one he cheated on with..."
The woman: "What do you mean?"
Xu Gui said, "It means that he already had a girlfriend before he dated you. Simply put, you were the other woman!"
"Oh, no, that's not right." Xu Gui corrected her, carefully calculating and counting on her fingers, saying, "You might be the fifth one? You're probably the fourth mistress he's had outside... In that case, your boyfriend is quite something."
Xu Gui was surprised: "Having so many girlfriends, and he hasn't had any scandals yet?"
The 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 she felt like her brain was overloaded.
"Your Caiyun has always been targeting your boyfriend. Besides the initial misunderstanding, it's partly because your boyfriend has been secretly plucking its feathers and scolding it behind your back," Xu Gui continued. "And partly because it keeps smelling a scent on your boyfriend that doesn't belong to you, and every time we meet, your boyfriend's scent is different."
Birds have a sense of smell; they can smell the fragrance on a woman's boyfriend, and every time the woman's boyfriend comes to see her, he carries the scent of other women… How could the little bird not be angry when it smells this?
Xu Gui patted the little bird's head and whispered, "Poor little bird, it's been working so hard to drive away your troublesome boyfriend, but you've never appreciated it. You've even kept telling it to stop targeting your troublesome boyfriend… This time, you even let your boyfriend come with you to the Golden Summit for a vacation. Tell me, how can your Caiyun not despise your mother?"
The little bird got angrier and angrier the more it thought about it, and the more it saw that troublesome man at home, the angrier it became. So today, it flew away from home.
The woman looked embarrassed and said, "I really didn't know... Caiyun, it didn't tell me either."
Xu Gui glanced at her, took Caiyun in his hand, and handed it to the girl's outstretched hands, saying, "Your little bird truly loves you and is thinking of you. Your boyfriend isn't a good person; you should break up with him as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid you'll be accused of being a mistress. He has a legitimate girlfriend."
Even though she was just a mistress, a victim, the label of "mistress" was enough to make her a target of public scorn.
The woman was somewhat embarrassed and whispered, "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 to her boyfriend... The information she received was too shocking; the only word to describe her emotions at this moment was "absurd."
This was all really... too absurd.
She looked down at the parrot in her palm. It stood still, but the woman couldn't help but feel touched, remembering Xu Gui's words.
"Ah, Caiyun, why are you so good to me?" she exclaimed excitedly, rubbing her face against the little bird. "You really are my good Caiyun!"
The parrot, nuzzled by her, couldn't help but flap its wings at her, then cried out, "Idiot! Idiot! Scumbag, scumbag!"
Yuan Lu was surprised: "...This parrot actually knows how to say 'scumbag'?"
The young woman explained, "It's probably because my cleaning lady loves watching those melodramatic dramas, and Caiyun sometimes watches them with her. She probably learned that word from the TV."
She then looked at her little bird with emotion, saying, "Caiyun, I know you care about me, sob sob sob. Don't worry, I'll kick that scoundrel out when I get back, and I promise I won't let him bully you again!"
More than being cheated on herself, the woman was furious that the man had secretly 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 left, their noisy antics surprisingly harmonious.
"Ah, Teacher Xu, we haven't even asked that lady's name yet?" Yuan Lu suddenly realized this, meaning they'd been chatting for so long and still hadn't exchanged names?
Xu Gui said, "It's alright, we just need to know the parrot's name is Caiyun..." After all, she was connected to the bird, not the person. The bird's name was important, but the person's wasn't so crucial.
*
Xu Gui and Yuan Lu descended the mountain at noon and returned to the hotel.
Of course, upon returning, they were met with a barrage of questions from Kuang Ming. In short, he was saying: From now on, wherever you go, be sure to tell him; don't forget you're a star with an agent!
Xu Gui listened and nodded honestly, "Mhm, mhm, mhm!"
Kuang Ming thought: I just hope she's really honest...
But in the afternoon, just as Kuang Ming was hoping Xu Gui was truly honest, he heard that Xu Gui had received a call from the local police station. The other party said they wanted to come and ask her about the incident that morning.
Kuang Ming was dumbfounded: "...What happened this morning?"
Xu Gui, who had just hung up with the police, looked at him in surprise when she heard his question, and asked in a slightly guilty voice, "Didn't I tell you?"
Kuang Ming sneered, "What do you think?"
Xu Gui quickly said, "I'll tell you now, don't be angry, angry people age easily... Actually, it's nothing much, it's just that this morning when I was wandering around on that mountain at Jinding, I found someone who had fallen down the back of that mountain."
She explained the whole story. In fact, she was just doing a good deed, so what did she have to be guilty about?
Xu Gui looked at Kuang Ming with a straight face.
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 a little displeased by his words. She said, "What do you mean I'm always looking for trouble?"
She snorted and said, "It's not that I'm looking for trouble, it's that trouble is looking for me..."
Kuang Ming: "Is there a difference between these two sentences?"
"The difference is huge." Xu Gui said, "Trouble is looking for me because of what happened, which is why I encountered... Have you ever heard the saying, 'There is a will in the universe'? The things I've encountered are all fate."
She concluded, "It's fate that brought them to me!"
Kuang Ming and Yuan Lu listened to her words, feeling somewhat confused but also thinking... it was a bit mystical. What fate? It sounded quite plausible, Kuang Ming muttered to himself.
Xu Gui didn't care about their attitude and just smiled.
She thought, it was all fate. Fate had brought these things to her feet. After all, without her, the girl who fell from Golden Peak wouldn't have survived three days.
She died silently, unnoticed by anyone, until two months later, when her father, who had never given up and still wanted to go to Golden Peak to find her, found her halfway up the mountain. By then, due to the humid and hot weather by the sea, her body had already decomposed and was almost unrecognizable.
Later… later, her father killed another girl for her sake, and then jumped off Golden Peak himself, dying instantly.
This accident killed three people, destroyed two families, and added a touch of bad luck to Golden Peak. People who used to love vacationing there stopped coming.
And so, the "Golden Peak," which once resembled a pyramid on the island, gradually declined, losing its former glory.
Thinking about all this, Xu Gui couldn't help but sigh again, "...So, I really am too kind!" How could there be such a kind and compassionate turtle like her? So many bad things have been prevented from happening.
"You agree, right?" She looked expectantly at her manager and assistant, wanting their approval.
Yuan Lu, who was fiddling with the dumbbells in the room and trying to lift them, said without hesitation, "Of course, Teacher Xu, you are the kindest person in the world!"
Xu Gui looked expectantly at Kuang Ming, who was speechless.
"Yes, you are indeed a very kind person." His lips twitched slightly, not understanding why Xu Gui liked hearing praise so much. What kind of hobby was this?
Looking at Xu Gui, who was beaming with joy, Kuang Ming thought: Liking to hear praise is better than other bad habits, right? Compared to other celebrities, Xu Gui's hobby is so healthy.
Kuang Ming pondered: Maybe he should give a more positive response?
*
In the afternoon, the police from the local police station who had called at noon came over.
"Miss Xu..." The two police officers greeted Xu Gui, and at Kuang Ming's invitation, the three of them sat down on the balcony outside the living room of Xu Gui's suite.
This room was a luxurious suite with a superb ocean view. Sitting on the balcony, one could turn and see the vast sea – a truly beautiful view. It was a perfect spot to relax and enjoy tea.
"Officers, let's talk while we eat," Kuang Ming said, bringing over tea and snacks. As he poured tea for them, he smiled and said, "Xu Gui did a good deed in this matter, didn't she? I heard that without her, the little girl who fell down there would have been in danger..."
His tone was relaxed. "So, we don't need to be so serious, do we?"
Based on the current evidence, Xu Gui had indeed done a good deed, so the two officers exchanged a glance, tacitly agreeing with Kuang Ming's attitude.
The officers took out their notebooks and began questioning.
"...Miss Xu, how did you know there were people down there?" The first question the officers asked was the same one asked by the security captain of "Golden Top."
Xu Gui smiled, looking at them. "Before you came, you must have investigated my background, so you probably already know I can tell fortunes."
The wind was strong at the beach, and a gust of wind blew Xu Gui's hair around. She reached up and brushed it back.
"So, if you're wondering how I knew there was someone down there, it's because I predicted it. I can even tell you when she fell—it was half a month ago…she fell down half a month ago."
Xu Gui recalled the middle-aged man she met at the barbecue stall last night—a man with a thin build and extremely gaunt face. If you really wanted to talk about it, that's where it all started.
She thought for a moment, then decided to tell the police.
"Yesterday, when I went to the beach for barbecue, I met someone…" she said.
When she saw the man, she didn't actually intend to do anything, until she mentioned "Golden Summit," and the immense hostility he displayed, and the subtle feeling Xu Gui had subtly sensed at the time.
So, she had a sudden inspiration and calculated the future for the man, including a future where he would die in two months. She also 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 to the island by her best friend, a wealthy man living on the "Golden Summit."
However, the man couldn't even reach the summit, hence his intense hostility and resentment towards it.
Xu Gui rested her chin on her hand and said, "...Originally, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he wouldn't have found his daughter until two months later. But by then, she would be dead, and it would be too late. So, after killing his daughter's best friend, he committed suicide..."
However, that was the original future. Now, because of Xu Gui's intervention, everything changed.
"I calculated that his daughter is still alive, still on the Golden Summit, which is why I went to find her..." Moreover, she successfully found the girl and even managed to get the Golden Summit security guards to rescue her.
Xu Gui murmured, "Actually, when I saw her, I felt it was unbelievable..."
At that moment, she even felt a strange yet intense shock.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, who could have imagined, who would have dared to imagine, that a little girl who fell from Jinding Mountain half a month ago, and who was only eleven years old, was still alive.
The resilience and miracle of life were vividly displayed in her... Xu Gui felt that perhaps that was why she 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 a day later, it would have been too late. How could this not be destiny?