Chapter 31
A younger brother?
Rongshu looked at the caller and frowned, “This is Rongshu, but I don’t have a brother, you have the wrong number.”
“That’s right, he said it was your brother, his name is Fu Jinglin.”
As soon as she heard the name, Rong Shu thought of all the bad things Fu Jinglin had done before, and her sweat trembled, “Sorry, I don’t know him.”
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
Lu Qi asked curiously, “What brother? Is Li Chuan looking for you?”
“No, she got the wrong number.”
Rongshu and Lu Qi left the office and discussed going to eat Japanese food and talking about the plans for Tiansheng in the meantime.
As a result, just as they entered the lift, the phone rang again.
Rong Shu held her temper and answered it, and instead of the woman/police speaking, it was Fu Jinglin on the other side.
“Hey sister-in-law, you come to the police station to fetch me away.”
Rongshu had been married to Fu Jingting for six years, and his brother Fu Jinglin had either called her “hello” or even called her by her name, but this was the first time he had called her “sister-in-law”.
But the kid shouted it reluctantly, as if he was squeezing the two words out of his teeth.
“Your brother and I got divorced a long time ago.” Rongshu reminded him, as if reminding herself, “You should call your brother and ask him to go get you.”
Fu Jinglin said angrily, “Would it kill you to come to the police station!”
“Let your brother go.”
Rongshu frowned when she saw that the brat’s temper came and went as quickly as it came, suddenly sullen and silent.
She was just about to hang up the phone when Fu Jinglin hung up first, one step ahead of her.
“Fu Jingting’s brother is looking for you?” Lu Qi asked, he heard quite a few key words from Rong Shu’s words.
“I heard that Fu Jingting had booked a table at the Grand Hyatt Hotel and invited Gu Manyin’s family over to have dinner with his parents and discuss the time to re-engage. Shouldn’t his brother have gone to the hotel with him for dinner, why is he at the police station?”
“It seems he’s been detained for committing an offence.” Rongshu’s face was unruffled as she pursed her lips, “Wanted me to go fish him out.”
Lu Qi snickered, “He still thinks you and Fu Jingting are not divorced and wants to bark at you? He has the same personality as his mother!”
When they arrived at the garage and were about to get into the car, Rongshu suddenly asked, “How long do you usually keep them in the police station?”
“It depends on what the crime is, if there’s no one to bail you out, you’ll be detained for about fifteen days.” Lu Qi said, looking speechlessly at Rong Shu, “You’re going to fish him out?”
“He doesn’t dare to call Fu Jingting, which means the crime must be serious.” Rongshu got into the car, “I’ll go over and take a look.”
Lu Qi bent down and knocked on the car gla*s, his eyes dark, “You want your ex-husband’s brother and you don’t even want me?”
Rong Shu ignored him and drove away from the underground garage.
On the way to the police station, Rong Shu thought back to the conversation she had just had with Lu Qi in the garage and hated herself for her momentary weakness.
She had promised to let go, but she wanted to help when his brother was in trouble.
Upon arriving at the police station, Rong Shu gave Fu Jinglin’s name and followed the female/officer inside, soon seeing a row of teenagers in school uniforms standing wall to wall.
Each one was dirty and had badly coloured faces.
“Fu Jinglin.” The female/police officer shouted at Fu Jinglin who was standing in the pile of teenagers, “Your sister-in-law is here to pick you up.”
Fu Jinglin jerked his head up and when he saw Rong Shu, his eyes lit up briefly, quickly bristling and grunting, “Stinky woman, I knew you’d come.”
Rong Shu looked at him calmly, “What are you shouting at me for?”
She was wearing a black coat, tied in a low ponytail, her whole person looked gentle and dignified, but her calm eyes made the back of Fu Jinglin’s neck go cold.
They stared at each other for a moment, and Fu Jinglin squeezed out words from between his teeth, “Sister-in-law! Zi!”
Looking at the kid’s stifled face, Rong Shu’s heart was happy, she didn’t rush to sign the bail, but asked him, “Why did you fight with someone?”
Fu Jinglin stifled his voice.
From the row of teenagers standing in the corner, someone shouted at Fu Jinglin, “Hey Fu Jinglin, I heard that your sister-in-law and your brother divorced long ago, how dare you ask them to bail you out? Haha, you’re just like your mother, telling people what to do and still justifying it.”
“I think his mother must have got his gender wrong when she gave birth to him!”
A few of the teenagers said something that made Fu Jinglin’s eyes red with irritation and he wanted to punch them in the face.
Rong Shu’s hands were quick to tug at his school uniform, “You still want to do it at the police/station, do you want me to call your brother over?”
Fearing that she would really call his brother over, Fu Jinglin’s face was foul and his arm was pulled hard, not letting Rong Shu touch his uniform.
After Rongshu signed Fu Jinglin’s bail, she looked at the teenagers in the corner and said to the police officer, “It’s not unusual for kids to fight with each other, I’ll bail them out too, it’s not good to bother their parents to come here for such a small matter.”
The police officer saw that they were from the same school, so they agreed to let the kids go back sooner, so they could save their worries.
Rongshu quickly signed the bail forms for the children.
Fu Jinglin didn’t expect Rong Shu to do this, and his eyebrows exploded in anger, almost cursing at Rong Shu, “Are you sick in the head, bailing them out?”
Rong Shu just pulled the sash of her coat and tied it, asking him, “Did you win the fight with them before?”
Fu Jinglin looked at the teenagers in front of him and said reluctantly, “I would have won if there were three of them, but then two more came ……”
“Then it’s not a win.” Rongshu glanced at him, “I thought how capable you were!”
“……”
After leaving the police station, Rong Shu unhurriedly followed behind a few teenagers, looking at Fu Jinglin puzzled.
He hesitated for a moment and had just followed them when he saw Rong Shu slamming the bag in her hand onto the back of one of the teenagers, causing the other to wail.
When several teenagers saw that Rong Shu had dared to hit her partner, they all gathered around her.
Rong Shu shouted at Fu Jinglin, who looked dumbfounded, “What are you waiting for?
When Fu Jinglin came back to his senses, he immediately rolled up his school uniform sleeves and rushed forward.
Rongshu dragged two teenagers with her, while Fu Jinglin fought the other three with ease, and soon took down all of them, with more paint on his body.
He had been punched in the right cheek by accident, and was grimacing in pain.
Rongshu straightened her dishevelled hair and said to the boys lying on the ground, “I let him do it because I was giving you face, but if I do it, I can put you in juvenile detention for three months. If I say so, I can do so.”
In a flat tone of voice, she said the most ruthless words that made the few teenagers who were still in school wince and not dare to say anything.
“Get up.” Rongshu said, and pointed to Fu Jinglin beside her, “Bow and apologise to him.”
Several teenagers hurriedly got up from the ground, bowed in unison and apologised to Fu Jinglin, and waited for Rong Shu to give the word before leaving nimbly.
Fu Jinglin looked at the woman’s side face with a somewhat complicated expression.
Because Rong Shu had asked Fu Jingting to marry her, Fu Jinglin thought that she had indirectly broken up Fu Jingting and Gu Manyin, so she had been unkind to Rong Shu and had confronted her at every turn in the Fu family.
That time at the bar, and this time, he had seen a different Rong Shu than the one he had seen in the Fu family.
She, it seemed, wasn’t that bad.
“I heard that your brother and your future sister-in-law are at the Grand Hyatt.” Rong Shu drew two pieces of money from her bag and shoved them at him, “You go home or go to the hotel, it’s up to you.”
She went around to the driver’s seat and was just about to get in when she heard the door being pulled open and slammed shut again.
Rongshu looked at the teenager in the pa*senger seat and said, holding back her temper, “Fu Jinglin, take a taxi back yourself, I don’t have time to drive you.”
“I’m not going back, I want to sleep in your car!” Fu Jinglin’s whole face was wrinkled together because he spoke too loudly and pulled the wound at the corner of his mouth.
“Go down. I’m divorced from your brother.”
Fu Jinglin sat there motionless, humming, “A former sister-in-law is still a sister-in-law, and I called out to you anyway!”
Chapter 32
Rongshu looked at the kid’s bruised and battered appearance, sighed deeply, didn’t talk to him again, pulled open the car door and went up.
Fu Jinglin didn’t treat himself as an outsider at all, flipping his hands here and there.
Rongshu’s car was a standard model, but Fu Jinglin was tall and his long legs were shrinking under the seat in aggravation, and he still thought it was the car’s problem, “What a crappy car, I can’t even fit my legs in it! Hey, didn’t you know to ask my brother for a car when we got divorced?”
“Sit down if you like, or get out.” Rongshu was not polite in her words, not wanting to spoil this guy at all, “Go take your brother’s luxury car!”
Fu Jinglin, “……”
The car soon arrived at the underground garage of Repulse Bay.
After seeing Rong Shu get out of the car, Fu Jinglin immediately pushed the door down as well and followed her, “I heard that the property prices here are not cheap, did you take that Zhan Blue Heart and sell it to buy a house here?”
“My brother really didn’t give you a dime in the divorce?”
“Hey are you sick, you asked my brother for some money and no one said anything about you!”
Rongshu ignored his words and even treated others as if they were transparent, and when she reached the floor, she pressed her fingerprints and entered the house.
Luckily, Fu Jinglin dodged quickly, otherwise he would have been locked out by her.
Fu Jinglin’s face turned blue with anger and he wanted to scold Rong Shu, but when he thought he needed a place to sleep at night, he grunted and didn’t bother with Rong Shu.
When he saw Rong Shu walking towards the centre console, Fu Jinglin shouted at her, “I want beef noodles, two bowls!”
Although he didn’t like Rong Shu, she was a good cook, at least to his liking.
In the past, when Rong Shu was still in the Fu family, she had prepared all his lunches at school. After Rong Shu left the Fu family, Wang Shuqin hired another cook, who claimed to be from a five-star hotel, but the food was not as good as Rong Shu’s.
“Noodles in clear soup, don’t eat it if you like!” Rong Shu didn’t even turn her head back and said coldly, “The medical kit is in the second compartment of the locker, get it yourself.”
“……”
This woman had only divorced his brother, why did she feel like a different person?
Fu Jinglin spat Rong Shu out in his heart, reluctantly went to the locker to get the medicine box, found the topical spray and sprayed it on the wound on his face.
Seeing that Rong Shu was still fixing dinner, Fu Jinglin wandered around and found that one of the second bedrooms was empty, while in the other master bedroom, there were only Rong Shu’s clothes and cosmetics, and no trace of any other man was visible.
Could it be that the white boy called Li Chuan did not live here?
Fu Jinglin walked to the desk next to the floor-to-ceiling window and saw a laptop, pen and paper on the desk, and an old metal box with the lid half open.
Inside the old metal box was a pile of envelopes that were already yellowed.
Fu Jinglin couldn’t hold back his curiosity, so he picked up a letter and opened it. After reading it, he found that it was a correspondence between Rong Shu and a pen pal called “Xiao Zhong”, who shared with him interesting stories about his life and asked him about his grandmother’s health.
Looking at the date and time at the bottom of the letter, Fu Jinglin was very contemptuous, “Hmph, the b*tch doesn’t go to school properly, but also engages in online dating, how come she hasn’t been cheated!”
He said how Rong Shu’s personality had changed so much after she divorced his brother, but it turned out that Rong Shu was already like this, restless!
“Fu Jinglin.” Rong Shu’s voice came from outside the bedroom, very impatient, “Ten seconds, if you don’t come over and eat the noodles, I’ll pour!”
sh*t, this woman was even threatening him!
Fu Jinglin was furious and stuffed the letter into his school uniform pocket, secretly saying, “He must take it back to his brother and tell him that Rong Shu used to have an online relationship when he was studying!
Fu Jinglin went to the kitchen and saw a bowl of beef noodles on the dining table.
Rongshu didn’t have much appetite, so she made a cup of milk tea and drank it.
When she came back and saw Fu Jinglin eating like he hadn’t eaten in a few days, she reminded him, “Don’t choke to death if you eat so quickly, if someone dies in this house, I won’t be able to sell it in the future.”
“Ahem! Cough!” Fu Jinglin choked on Rong Shu’s words and gave him a fierce glare as he slowed down his noodle consumption.
Rongshu sat down opposite him, “Why did you fight with someone?”
“It’s up to you!”
“I don’t care about you.” Rong Shu tapped her fingers on the table and smiled lightly, “I’d better call your brother to come over.”
As soon as Fu Jinglin heard her words, his crossed eyebrows lowered, and it was a while before he said reluctantly, “There is a female student in my cla*s who is often bullied by them, and they even cut her hair, so I was upset by what I saw, so I fought with them ……”
Who knew that when they were fighting, a police officer off duty just happened to pa*s by, and then several people were carried into the police station.
“I can’t see that you are quite brave to see justice.” Rongshu said.
Because of Fu Jinglin’s bad character, he always liked to target her when he was in the Fu family before, so Rongshu didn’t care about his affairs, and let Fu Jingting deal with them.
Fu Jinglin bristled, “I’m just upset that a few of them are manly men and bullying a girl.”
He pushed the empty bowl to Rong Shu, “One more bowl!”
“The noodles are in the pot, the beef is in a small bowl, get your own.” Rongshu pointed to the centre console, not spoiling him, “Wash the bowl too when you’re done eating.”
Fu Jinglin’s eyes widened in disbelief, “You’re letting me wash the bowls?”
“You ate, you didn’t wash the bowl, did I wash it?” Rongshu asked rhetorically, “Fine, then I’ll wash the bowl now and get rid of the extra noodles too.”
Seeing that she was about to get up, Fu Jinglin was busy taking the empty bowl to the centre console, fearing that she would dump the noodles.
Fu Jinglin returned with the bowl, eating the noodles while asking Rong Shu, “I was just about to ask, where is that little white boy, not living with you?”
“Which one?”
“The one called Li Chuan!” Fu Jinglin rolled his eyes and slurred his words, “I just went to your room and looked, there were no men’s clothes.”
Rongshu was irritated by this practice of his being a guest in someone else’s home and snooping on their **.
She propped her cheeks up and looked at the brat, her red lips curled, “Li Chuan doesn’t have any, but there is another little white boy, close at hand.”
Close at hand?
Fu Jinglin froze, seeing Rong Shu staring straight at him, quickly tasting the meaning of her words and choking on the noodles again.
“You’re shameless!” Fu Jinglin scolded her, his face turning red with anger, “I’m only sixteen and still your ex-husband’s own brother, you, do you even dare to think nonsense!”
Rongshu asked lazily, “Do I still have an image in your heart, not just wanting to tease a man when I bump into him?”
“……” Fu Jinglin was choked speechless.
After finishing his beef noodles, Fu Jinglin reluctantly went to wash the dishes.
When he was growing up, he had never even been in the kitchen, not to mention washing the dishes, but today he not only entered the kitchen, but also had to help this woman brush the pots and wash the dishes!
Fu Jinglin had just wiped the water off his hands when Rong Shu picked up his school bag from the sofa and threw it at him, “When you’re done eating, take a taxi yourself.”
Fu Jinglin gritted his teeth, “I’ll sleep on the sofa, okay?”
“No, go back.” Rongshu refused, pushing him towards the door.
Wang Shuqin valued Fu Jinglin more than her life, if she knew Fu Jinglin was here with her, she would think she was up to something, and probably come over in the middle of the night and tear herself apart.