Five thousand yuan...that's a full five thousand yuan.
The girl's boyfriend's gaze was fixed on Xu Gui's phone, his face twitching. Even though he tried hard to pretend he didn't care, everyone could see that he was extremely concerned.
This also led to his extremely unfriendly look at Xu Gui.
"...Since you're a fortune teller, then help me calculate how I can become rich and a millionaire." The man looked at Xu Gui with no attempt to hide his malice, his tone blatantly difficult.
The girl couldn't help but say, "Aren't you just making things difficult for me? How would Little Turtle know how you can become rich?"
"I don't care!" the man said nonchalantly, "Didn't you say she's a fortune teller? Since she's a fortune teller, she must know how to make me rich, right? If she doesn't know...hehe, it seems that this so-called fortune teller is largely unreliable."
His tone was sarcastic, his eyes full of provocation as he looked at Xu Gui, clearly hoping to provoke her.
However, no matter what she said, Xu Gui's expression remained calm, completely unaffected by his provocation.
(Xu Gui: If someone gave you five thousand yuan, even if they were waving their arms around, you definitely wouldn't get angry.)
"Mr. Zhou, I need to clarify something," Xu Gui simply said, "I am a fortune teller, a diviner who predicts good and bad fortune, and discerns good and evil. I am not a god; only gods can create things out of nothing."
The subtext: You can't possibly become rich, so how could I possibly make the impossible true?
The man: "..."
The man broke down.
"I don't care, I've given you the money. If you can't make me rich, you're a liar!" he gritted his teeth. "You have to give me back my money."
The girl couldn't stand it anymore and said to him, "Stop being unreasonable and making things difficult for others!"
"I'm being unreasonable?" The man's eyes widened as he pointed at Xu Gui and said, "She took five thousand yuan from me! That's five thousand yuan! If she can't tell me how to get rich quickly, then she should give me back my five thousand yuan."
The girl felt ashamed that he kept mentioning five thousand yuan and cared so much about it.
Yes, five thousand yuan was indeed a lot for an ordinary family like theirs, but no one forced him to give it away. He came looking for trouble and scanned the code with his own phone.
If he was reluctant, he shouldn't have done it in the first place. Since he had already given it, he shouldn't have acted like this, making a scene even when he was wrong.
This person was actually her boyfriend… At this moment, the girl seemed to finally realize that she truly understood him.
"Fine, then keep making a scene, but," the girl gritted her teeth and said calmly, "Zhou Xiangchong, I want to break up with you!"
With that, the girl turned and left.
Seeing this, the man panicked and got up to chase after her, but then he suddenly remembered the five thousand yuan he had given Xu Gui. He turned back and said to Xu Gui, "Give me back that five thousand yuan!"
"You really want me to give it back?" Xu Gui asked, adding, "Although I can't tell you how you can get rich overnight, I can tell you how to get a windfall in a short time."
The man frowned and said, "I'm not interested in that. Give me back my five thousand yuan."
Xu Gui sighed regretfully, "...Okay."
Without hesitation, she returned the five thousand yuan. As soon as the man received the money, his frown disappeared, and his tone was no longer irritable. However, looking at Xu Gui, he still cursed, "You damn liar."
After cursing, he quickly turned around and hurriedly ran after his girlfriend who had already left.
"Why is this guy like this?" Yuan Lu couldn't help but say, angrily, "He took the money and then called Teacher Xu a liar, that's really too much!"
Yang Haolin said, "Teacher Xu, why did you actually return the five thousand yuan to him? With his attitude, if it were me, I wouldn't have returned it to him, I'd have driven him crazy."
Xu Gui, however, remained calm and said, "I don't need five thousand yuan, there's no need to get entangled with him."
Compared to her goal of being more than twenty million yuan away from achieving her goal, five thousand yuan was just a small amount. No matter how you looked at it, there was no need to argue or quarrel with the other party over such a small amount of money, not to mention that the point of what just happened wasn't the five thousand yuan.
"Ah, if the point isn't the five thousand yuan, then what is it?" Yang Haolin asked blankly.
Yuan Lu, however, thought of something and said to Xu Gui, "I know, the point is his girlfriend, right?"
Xu Gui smiled but didn't say anything, neither confirming whether Yuan Lu's statement was right or wrong.
Yang Haolin was bewildered: "...So, why is the focus on the other person's girlfriend?"
Netizens were also discussing:
[I'm also curious about the focus. Why is it the other person's girlfriend?]
[When you don't understand something, you can work backward from the result. So, what was the result of this? The result is that Xu Gui didn't actually suffer any loss, while the other person broke up with their girlfriend.]
[The matter is simple. That guy clearly wasn't a good match. This incident allowed the girl to see what kind of person he was and cut her losses in time.]
[...You're all just guessing. Our Xiao Gui didn't say that. These are all just wild guesses.]
[Exactly, our Xiao Gui is completely innocent. She didn't do anything. In the beginning, that guy came to cause trouble. Later, he asked for the five thousand yuan back, and our Xiao Gui returned it all to him. Waaaa, it proves that our Xiao Gui is really too kind.]
[Something feels off...]
[So, even now, no one has found out where Xu Gui is?]
…
Netizens were going bald.
The search for Xu Gui was still in full swing online, but unfortunately, even after Xu Gui packed up her stall, the location of her stall remained a mystery. Everyone could only listen resentfully as she told fortunes.
At 4:30 PM, Xu Gui decisively packed up her stall, meticulously arranging her 9-to-4 work hours down to the second.
Only then did she have Yang Haolin hold up the camera to show everyone their location: "...This is an old residential area, located near the suburbs, mostly inhabited by elderly people."
As for young people, there were naturally some in each household, but they all had to go to work and, for convenience, didn't live in this area. So, those who came to Xu Gui for fortune telling that day were mostly elderly women and men.
The elderly didn't know anything about celebrities or fortune tellers; they hadn't even heard of Xu Gui's name. Therefore, even though Xu Gui had told fortunes for several people that afternoon, no one went online to talk about it.
Netizens who knew the reason almost burst into tears.
[We've been set up by Xu Gui!] How could this person be so cunning? They chose such a remote place, how infuriating!
[Ahhh!! This neighborhood, this is the neighborhood where my family used to live! Because of my parents' work and my schooling, we moved to the city center, but my grandparents still live there! Ahhh! Why didn't I go there today?]
[Dazed, I just delivered takeout to this neighborhood today, which means I almost ran into Xu Gui?]
[Secretly, I actually found Xiao Gui, but Xiao Gui told me not to tell anyone. Now I can finally tell you!]
[??? Traitor!]
…
Amidst the netizens' wails, Xu Gui happily packed up and went back to the hotel.
The car arrived at the hotel entrance smoothly. Just as Xu Gui got out of the car and took two steps towards the hotel, she suddenly had a very subtle intuition. This intuition made her subconsciously take two steps back.
These two steps caused her to bump directly into Yang Haolin behind her. However, before Yang Haolin could wonder, in the next second, a bright light flashed before his eyes, accompanied by a clumsy figure that swept past Xu Gui.
Yang Haolin: ?!
He realized that it was a person with a knife. The gleam he saw was the light reflecting off the gleaming blade in the sunlight.
So, if Xu Gui hadn't suddenly taken those two steps back, the figure rushing towards her would have collided with her, and the knife in the other person's hand would likely have pierced her body.
Realizing this, Yang Haolin immediately shielded Xu Gui behind him: "Teacher Xu, be careful!"
At the same time, many thoughts flashed through his mind, such as, who is this person, what does it want? Does it want to kill Teacher Xu?
Because of Xu Gui's retreat, the person rushing towards her didn't collide with her. Its forward momentum didn't slow down, and it stumbled and fell headfirst to the ground. When it raised its head, it revealed a face full of old age and blood flowing from its mouth—it turned out that when it fell, it had accidentally hit its mouth on the ground, breaking two teeth and cutting its lip.
The person was an elderly woman with a haggard appearance.
Now, the old woman got up from the ground, glaring at Xu Gui with venomous hatred, shouting, "You murderer! You owe me my grandson's life! I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"
As she spoke, she raised her knife to stab him.
The thought, "This person looks familiar," flashed through Yang Haolin's mind. Seeing her raise the knife, he quickly stepped forward and grabbed her hand holding the knife.
At the same time, he shouted to Xu Gui behind him, "Teacher Xu, you two go back to the hotel first!"
Yuan Lu, who had been in the car, planning to drive the van to the parking lot after Xu Gui and the others got out, quickly got out of the driver's seat after witnessing this scene and escorted Xu Gui into the hotel.
"Teacher Xu, let's go into the hotel first!" she said.
Not far away, the hotel security guards also noticed the situation and rushed over, passing by Xu Gui and the other person.
Behind them, the shrill screams still rang out: "You executioner, murderer! You owe me my grandson's life!" The screams drew the attention of those unaware of the situation, their curious gazes fixed on Xu Gui and the other woman.
At that moment, Xu Gui, who was walking towards the hotel, suddenly stopped. To Yuan Lu's astonished and anxious gaze, she turned around and walked to the old woman, whose knife had been thrown aside and whose body was being held down by security guards, still struggling and screaming.
Xu Gui stood there, looking down at her.
"The person who killed your grandson was never me, but yourself..."
she said coldly.
"From the very beginning, I warned you that since you promised your grandson you'd buy him goldfish, you absolutely had to keep your word! Otherwise, something you'd regret for the rest of your life would happen!"
"And that regret would be your grandson's death!"
Xu Gui lowered her eyes, coldly staring at the other woman, and said with certainty, "Didn't I tell you these things back then? I even reminded you repeatedly! Didn't I?"
The loud, shouting voice suddenly fell silent.
In the silence, Xu Gui looked disappointed and said, "Now it seems you didn't take my words to heart... You've come to me now to avenge your grandson? But what kind of revenge are you seeking?"
"Your grandson's drowning has absolutely nothing to do with me!"
Not only was it unrelated, but she had even warned the other woman about it from the beginning. If she had listened to her, none of this would have happened, but the other woman didn't believe her, and that's why things are like this now.
"Teacher Xu..." Seeing the growing crowd, Yuan Lu called out softly to Xu Gui, "Let's go back to the hotel first."
Xu Gui exhaled and turned to stride towards the hotel.
The scene of the old woman attacking Xu Gui and hurling insults at her was filmed and posted online, immediately causing a huge uproar and sparking heated discussions.
Xu Gui's name now represented popularity and online buzz; she was arguably the most popular person online. And this incident, based on the old woman's shouts in the video, seemed to be related to a deceased child.
Xu Gui, a deceased child... it would be strange if this topic didn't trend.
Therefore, by evening, the topic had directly topped the trending searches, gaining immense popularity. Everyone was genuinely curious about the old woman's claim that "Xu Gui killed her grandson."
At this time, Xu Gui's haters resurfaced—although Xu Gui was a fortune teller, even money has its depravity, and naturally, there are those who dislike her.
Previously, these critics had nothing to criticize, but now that they finally have something to use against Xu Gui, they naturally get excited.
Meanwhile, not long after the incident, Kuang Ming arrived, accompanied by He Yuan.
"Xu Gui, are you alright?" Upon seeing her, He Yuan took Xu Gui's hand and looked her up and down. "Are you hurt?"
Xu Gui shook her head and said, "I'm fine. That person didn't touch me."
He Yuan bit her lip. "How could this happen? Who is that person? Why did she want to kill you?"
They had all seen the video; the other person was holding a knife, clearly aiming to kill Xu Gui. What kind of deep-seated hatred and resentment could that be?
Kuang Ming asked, "Do you know that old lady?"
Hearing this, Xu Gui sighed and said, "I guess you could say I know her." "You could say you know her
?"
"Yes..."
Xu Gui explained, "I only met her once. Back when I was still setting up a fortune-telling stall under the overpass, I did some promotion for 'Miaoyu.' Her grandson took a liking to the fish in my tank and kept asking to buy them..."
Kuang Ming had watched Xu Gui's previous live streams, so hearing her say this, he suddenly remembered her.
It seemed there was such a pair of grandparents and grandchildren in one of Xu Gui's previous live streams? After recalling this, Kuang Ming breathed a sigh of relief.
"...I'll handle this matter. Don't say anything online yet," he said. "In this whole thing, you're the victim. You did a good deed, but now you're suffering this undeserved misfortune. Don't worry, netizens aren't stupid; they can discern the truth."
Xu Gui: ?
"I'm not worried." She looked at Kuang Ming frankly.
Kuang Ming: "...Okay, it's me who's worried."
He Yuan couldn't help but laugh.
*
And Kuang Ming was right. He could remember, and among so many netizens, naturally some could too. After all, Xu Gui's live stream at that time was watched by many people, and after it was edited into a video, it was played countless times. Countless people had seen it.
Among them, there were naturally many people who had a deep impression of that live stream.
Sure enough, amidst the heated discussions online, and among the comments about "Did Xu Gui really kill her? Otherwise, why would the grandmother want to kill her for no reason?", one netizen said:
[This old woman seems to have appeared in Xu Gui's live stream before, pointing to the ×th episode of "Zhe Er Gen" edited video... It should be this video! The grandmother in that video should be this old lady, right?] After the comment "I've watched it several times"
appeared, many similar comments followed. Some netizens went to watch the edited video and then returned with comments like:
"I watched the video once, and it really is her! It's the same old lady, exactly the same!"
"Wait, so, this old lady's grandson is dead? What Xu Gui said back then really came true?" "
I remember back then, Xu Gui gave her grandson a free reading once, saying that her grandson might die young, and also reminded her what to do... Hmm, this person didn't listen to Xu Gui's words back then, did she?" "
Having watched Xu Gui's previous live stream videos so many times, I can tell you for sure that Xu Gui did tell the other person that her grandson would die young. Xu Gui probably foresaw this at the time, so she gave the reading for free, without charging any money."
"So, this old lady didn't listen to Xu Gui's words back then, but now she's coming to cause trouble for Xu Gui?" She even claimed that Xu Gui killed her grandson, so she wanted revenge? Wait, how did she come to this conclusion? Xu Gui only predicted her grandson would die young!
[Hehehe, haven't you all figured it out yet? This old lady clearly doesn't dare admit that the child's death was because of her, so she's blaming Xu Gui. Only in this way can she feel at ease telling herself that her grandson's death had nothing to do with her.]
[This is a classic case of good intentions gone wrong. Xu Gui is truly pitiful.]
[Xu Gui is truly pitiful +1]
...
Netizens aren't stupid; they have the ability to clearly distinguish right from wrong. Besides, their interaction with the grandmother and grandson was under the camera, witnessed by countless people.
Who wouldn't say Xu Gui is truly pitiful after watching the video? She tried to gently remind them, but now she's being resented instead? Where's the justice in that?
After the incident blew up, someone from the old woman's neighborhood went online and revealed the truth about her grandson's death.
[...I live in the same area as this old woman. Her grandson did indeed die; he drowned...]