Chapter 45
“Don’t you have a home?” Rongshu swept over his face, the right cheek was high and swollen, presumably from another fight, “A fight and you use me as a haven?”
“You’re my sister-in-law.”
“Ex-sister-in-law.”
“Ex-sister-in-law is also sister-in-law!” Fu Jinglin strained his neck and said, “Open the door and get me something to eat, I’m hungry!”
“Shut up!”
Rongshu opened the door, tugged Fu Jinglin by the collar of his school uniform, and pulled him in.
She took out her medicine cabinet and applied medicinal wine to Fu Jinglin’s red and swollen cheek.
After treating Fu Jinglin’s wound, Rongshu took a piece of soup from the fridge and cooked it slowly over low heat, making two dishes and a soup.
As Fu Jinglin ate his dinner, she asked, “The wound on your face, did you get it from a heroic rescue again?”
“No.” Fu Jinglin took two bites of rice, his voice slurred and muffled, “My mother slapped it.”
Rongshu froze.
She had been in the Fu family for six years and knew how much Wang Shuqin loved Fu Jinglin, giving him whatever he wanted, saying “baby son” after “baby son”, never saying anything serious to Fu Jinglin, and never seeing Wang Shuqin hitting him.
Rongshu ate a piece of apple and asked, “Isn’t your mother very precious to you, how come she slapped you?”
Fu Jinglin brushed his mouth, “She told me not to go out and play all the time, to learn more from my brother, and to join Fu’s early, but I’m not interested in running the company. I quarreled with her a few times, she got angry and slapped me with an ear ……”
Rongshu could imagine Wang Shuqin being furious and slapping Fu Jinglin, and couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“What are you laughing at!” Fu Jinglin glared at her.
“Didn’t you used to gloat next to me when your mother was teaching me a lesson?” Rongshu said, “I didn’t expect you to be slapped by your mother one day, and I’m not allowed to take pity on you too?”
Fu Jinglin, “……”
After eating, Fu Jinglin honestly cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them.
He took out a set of skincare products from his school bag and threw it to Rong Shu, a little ingratiating, his tone was still harsh, “I spent three months’ pocket money on this, take it and come to my school on Saturday!”
Rongshu picked up a bottle of skin care products and looked at the brand, it was a big brand, a bottle of essence water was nearly five thousand.
A bottle of essence water was nearly five thousand. This set must be a hundred thousand.
She thought he had nothing to do with it, but now she found out what he wanted to do, “You’re looking for your brother if you get into trouble.”
“I’m not in trouble!” After looking at her, Fu Jinglin’s voice lowered again, “The coach of the national basketball team is coming to our school on Saturday to recruit people to train at their base, if they pa*s the tryout they can enter the team, but they want to talk to the parents ……”
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. Besides, your mother wants you to help out in Fu’s in the future, and if I have to help you get into the national team, she will definitely kill me.”
“I’ll carry the load if something goes wrong, I’ll never drag you into it!” Fu Jinglin raised his hand and swore to her, “Sister-in-law, you’re the only one who can help me.”
“I know I used to badmouth you and disrespect you all the time, but at that time I thought you bullied sister Mangyin and stole my brother from her, plus my mother kept saying this and that about you, so I followed suit and disliked you ……”
“It seems you quite like Gu Manyin as your sister-in-law, even telling her about that tattoo of mine.” At the mention of it, Rong Shu didn’t like the brat, “I think you might as well go to Gu Manyin, she’ll be happy to help you.”
“Huh?” Fu Jinglin froze, “I didn’t tell her about the tattoo on your body!”
Rongshu stared at him, “You really didn’t tell her?”
“No, I didn’t!”
Rongshu said, “Since you didn’t tell her, how did she know?”
“She probably overheard me on the phone.” Fu Jinglin said, more or less vaguely, “When I was on the phone with my cla*smate, I asked him if the tattoo hurt, and spat out a couple of things about you later, I just said you were a bit of a pervert for tattooing my brother’s name on your body, I didn’t say anything else.”
“Kid.” Rongshu looked at him with a wry smile, “You must be 100% biological by Ms. Wang, I’ll vouch for that.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re just as bad as Ms. Wang, with a big mouth.” The mockery in Rongshu’s eyes was strong, “The flaws your brother avoided were all inherited by you.”
“……”
Fu Jinglin’s face turned red with anger, and he was just about to argue with her that he still had merits when the phone on the coffee table rang.
It seemed the call was from his own brother, and Fu Jinglin was abashed.
Rongshu also caught a glimpse of it and took the phone one step ahead of him to answer it, and also pressed the amplification, “Mr. Fu, calling here, do you know your brother is missing?”
There was silence on the other end of the line for a moment, then the man’s low voice came through, “Fu Jinglin, come down to the south gate, three minutes.”
“Brother, three minutes is not enough.” Fu Jinglin wailed, but didn’t dare to contradict Fu Jinglin explicitly, “She lives near the north gate ……”
“Two minutes.” The man’s tone became more somber.
Chapter 46
Fu Jinglin’s body shook with fear, and after hanging up the phone, he nimbly threw his school bag over his shoulder and rushed towards the door on his own without the need for Rong Shu to rush him.
As he opened the door to leave, Fu Jinglin turned around and warned Rong Shu, “If you accept my gift, you have to come to school on Saturday to help me! If you tell my brother, I’ll tell my brother that you just divorced him, and you’re sleeping with a white boy!”
Rongshu was speechless.
Fu Jinglin put on the fastest run of his life and ran to the south gate in exactly two minutes.
As soon as he reached the curb, he saw his brother’s limousine, himself sitting in the driver’s seat smoking, his posture idle, his fingertips dripping with smoke.
He gasped and got into the pa*senger seat, buckling himself in.
Fu Jingting glanced at him coldly, his body under pressure, causing Fu Jinglin to lower his head, not even daring to speak.
When the car hit the road and drove steadily, Fu Jinglin opened his mouth, “Didn’t I tell you not to come to her place, but did you take it to heart?”
“I don’t have any money on me ……”
Fu Jingting sneered, “There are several hotels under the Fu family, who doesn’t know that you are the second young master of the Fu family.”
“My intestines have not been working lately, so I came to her for a tonic.” Fu Jinglin said stiffly, “Sister-in-law, she cooks very well, don’t you know that, brother?”
After saying that he realised he had addressed her wrongly and immediately changed it, “It’s ex-sister-in-law. Brother, you’re divorced, so it’s not like I can’t even come to her place for dinner, right? Besides, she opened the door and cooked for me, I didn’t ask for it.”
The man let out another sneer, clearly not believing his nonsense.
“Brother, actually the former sister-in-law, she’s quite nice.” Fu Jinglin spoke carefully.
He was counting on Rong Shu to go to school to help him out, so he wanted to put in a few more good words for her in front of his own brother, and besides Rong Shu was indeed quite nice.
Sometimes, to see if a person was good or not, you couldn’t just judge by what others said, seeing was believing.
Seeing that Fu Jingting did not speak, Fu Jinglin gathered the courage to continue, “I heard that her family company is not very good, brother you help, or have time to teach her how to do business, when she divorced you, she did not want anything, it is quite difficult to live ……”
The thing that Rong Shu used to do with someone online, he also did not decide to tell his brother.
After all, who didn’t have a past?
“Does your face still hurt?” Fu Jingting interrupted.
Fu Jinglin licked the inside of his mouth, “It hurt before, but it stopped hurting after she applied medicine to me.”
“When you go back, apologise to mum, don’t play basketball either, and study hard.” Fu Jinglin rested his hand on the car window, his expression cold, “When I was sixteen, Dad handed me a bunch of things and wanted me to study at the top of Fu’s hierarchy.”
Fu Jinglin’s eyes darkened and he moved his lips to say something when Fu Jingting spoke first, “Or do you want to go abroad to study tomorrow?”
Fu Jinglin did not dare to talk back to the man, lowering his head and completely silent.
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The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the website.
When Lu Qi was free to come to Tiansheng, she called up the group and had a meeting with Lu Qi to analyze the acquisition of Jiaou, and finally discussed the matter unanimously.
If Jia Piao was properly reorganised, it could become the right arm of Tiansheng, and the purchase price was affordable for Rongshu.
However, there were too many people who wanted to buy Jia Piao, and the owner of Jia Piao was so annoyed that he hadn’t returned from a trip abroad in December, and his phone was unanswered, so it was very difficult to get in touch with him.
In the past few days, Rongshu has been busy looking for connections to get in touch with the boss of Jiayou, but she just can’t find out.
She was so annoyed that several phone calls came in the morning, all from Fu Jinglin, asking her what time she would arrive at school.
She simply pulled the plug.
Later, Fu Jinglin called her from a different school landline, and his tone was not arrogant at all, he even begged her a bit, “My brother picked me up that night, and I said nice things in front of him, can’t you help me for once?”
“Please, if you don’t come, my life will be over in the end.”
Rongshu was angry and laughing at the same time.
A sixteen year old kid whose life had just begun, and who felt that life was grey because he couldn’t play basketball?
She hung up the phone mercilessly and ignored it, but when she finished her work and took a break, Rongshu remembered the humble tone of Fu Jinglin’s voice when he called, and her heart softened a little.
She had known Fu Jinglin for so long, and apart from his own brother, it was the first time she had seen him beg so much.
“Boss, are you busy?” Chen Xingnuo knocked on the open door and then walked in, “My grandmother is not well and wants to take three days off from you to go back for a visit.”
Hearing her talk about her family, Rong Shu recalled Old Lady Fu.
After she and Fu Jingting divorced, she had also broken off contact with Old Mrs. Fu, and wondered if the old man was in good health.
“Fine, if you’re in a hurry, it’s fine to leave today, I’ll grant it.” Rongshu said, “If you want to stay at home for a few more days, you can make up the leave slip when you return.”
Chen Xingnuo’s eyes lit up, “Wow, Mr. Rong, you’re too nice, you’re beautiful and kind-hearted!”
But after she got her leave, she didn’t rush to leave, instead she told Rong Shu, “Mr. Rong, I have a friend whose family is very poor and works three jobs every day, I want to help him but I don’t want to hurt his self-esteem, can you help?”
“How old is he and what does he know?” Rongshu asked, “If he doesn’t know anything, it’s okay to come to Tiansheng as a security guard, I’ll pay him a higher salary.”
Chen Xingnuo and Lu Qi were alumni, so if she could take care of her friend, Rongshu was willing to do the same.
“I’ve made all the arrangements, as long as you agree, Mr. Rong.” Chen Xingnuo smiled and said, “Let him be your driver, call him if you need a car, I’ll pay for his salary.”
Rongshu really needed a driver to drive her car once in a while, “Okay, I’ll pay for the salary, after all, you don’t earn much.”
“It’s okay, I have a house.” Chen Xingnuo waved his hand, unconcerned, “The house in the city can sell for a lot of money, enough to pay his salary for a year.”
Rongshu froze and asked, “Is this the only house you have or ……”
“The first thing you need to do is to buy a house, and I’ll sell you a villa at a discount.”
“……” Rong Shu rubbed her forehead in despair.
She had just felt sorry for Chen Xingnuo’s low income, but it turned out that he was out to experience life, and it was he who was poor.
As she had to go to Fu Jinglin’s school later, Rong Shu gave Chen Xingnuo her car keys and asked her to call her friend to come over and drive her there later.
About fifteen minutes later, Chen Xingnuo called, “Mr. Rong is here and is waiting for you downstairs, be careful what you say to him, don’t let him see anything.”
“Got it.”
Rongshu packed up and left the office, and when she saw her car, she went straight over and pulled open the back door to get in.
“Xingnuo friend, right?” Rongshu asked as she looked up, just as she was about to tell the driver where she was going, the driver also happened to twist around to look at her, his narrow eyes tinged with a smile.
The two of them looked at each other for a moment before Cheng Huai waved at her, “Hi, Mr. Rong.”