護花近衛 - 第271章 迎刃而解 - 墨香閣

Gu Mengyao did not understand at first, but she was no fool, and it did not take her long to work out why Wei Zhao had spoken so. He must have discovered something. This so-called accident had been aimed at her all along. If she had jumped first, she would have been the one to meet with disaster.

That puffy-cheeked man... Gu Mengyao suddenly remembered the bungee attendant and looked up in haste to have someone seize him, but Xiao Ma had already vanished without a trace...

What gave Gu Mengyao slight comfort was this: since Wei Zhao had foreseen the danger and jumped anyway, he must have had his own reason for jumping, and so he should come to no harm.

Although Gu Mengyao could not grasp why Wei Zhao had acted as he did, she calmed herself all the same. In a sense, Wei Zhao had taken the jump in her place, and for that she was grateful. But jump if he must, why drag Xiaoshu down with him?

Just as she was nervously turning the whole affair over in her mind, the ringtone of her phone sounded. Gu Mengyao pulled it out instinctively and glanced at the caller ID with a flicker of disappointment. What she hoped for now was a call from Wei Zhao or Shen Yushu, but the caller was Uncle Qing.

"Hello, Uncle Qing?" Gu Mengyao answered the call.

"Miss Gu, where are you? I am here at the bungee jump. I heard there was an accident and someone fell. As long as you are all right..." Hearing Gu Mengyao's voice, Uncle Qing felt a weight lift from his heart.

When he reached the bungee site, he found a crowd gathered before the cliff, not knowing what they were looking at. He caught a passerby at random and asked, only to learn that an accident had just happened. A man and a woman had been bungee jumping when the cord suddenly snapped, and they dropped straight into the sea.

Uncle Qing was badly startled. Wei Zhao had called earlier to say that someone meant to harm Gu Mengyao, and they were here at the bungee jump, where trouble had now struck. He instinctively took the two who fell for Gu Mengyao and Wei Zhao, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead at once.

But upon hearing Gu Mengyao's voice, Uncle Qing felt much more at ease.

"Uncle Qing, Wei Zhao and Xiaoshu have had an accident. They fell..." Though uneasy at heart, Gu Mengyao recalled Wei Zhao's calm expression beforehand and felt an inexplicable confidence in him. She believed he would surely be fine.

That fellow might usually look flippant and unserious, but every crisis seemed to melt before him, whether the bank robbery that time or the falling chandelier in the underground garage of Pengzhan Building. He always found the danger with ease and settled it.

So, since Wei Zhao had foreseen the danger in advance, he could not be rushing into peril knowingly. There could be only one reason for what he did, and that was absolute certainty.

"What? Wei Zhao and Xiaoshu fell?" Uncle Qing cried out in shock, his voice changing pitch. He had feared the victims might be Gu Mengyao, but Wei Zhao and Xiaoshu falling was no better.

"Uncle Qing, where are you? There are too many people here for me to explain in detail, but I think they should be all right." By now Gu Mengyao had recovered her usual calm. A rich man's daughter was not merely spoiled and grasping. With a mind ranked among the top five in her year, Gu Mengyao easily grasped the key to the problem.

Wei Zhao was no fool, so he would not do anything reckless. Nor was Wei Zhao the sort to implicate others, as anyone could see from how he had taken a bullet for a strange girl during the bank robbery. So if he had brought Xiaoshu with him, he surely would not let harm come to her.

Without knowing when it had begun, Wei Zhao had become omnipotent in Gu Mengyao's heart. It was an inexplicable trust, almost mystical. Though Gu Mengyao was unwilling to admit it, fact was fact.

"I see you, Miss Gu." Uncle Qing's voice sounded from behind Gu Mengyao, and then he hung up the phone.