Chapter 49
“He plays basketball as a hobby, even if he doesn’t play anymore, he can still go home and splurge, you play basketball to make a living, to earn money, besides it’s only a tryout, it’s still an unknown whether you can make the team or not.” Rongshu looked at the boy with pity in her eyes, “That’s so pathetic.”
“You you!” The boy’s mother was furious and her face was blue.
Fu Jinglin looked at Rong Shu’s calm face as she disliked people, not even taking a breath, and made those people’s faces blue with anger, so he couldn’t say how happy he was.
When he saw her coming towards him, he trembled and almost rushed forward, pulling her coat sleeve and begging in a small voice, “I really want to play basketball, don’t let Brother Huai take me back, let me try out for the tryout.”
“When did I say that Cheng Huai should take you back?” Rongshu inclined her head to look at him, “Or, do you want to go back with him?”
Fu Jinglin froze, “Then, then how did Brother Huai ……”
“He sent me over.”
“So.” Fu Jinglin rubbed his chest, “I thought he had come to arrest me back, scared me to death.”
Rongshu ignored him and went over to shake the coach’s hand, “Hello, I’m Fu Jinglin’s sister, sorry, something came up at work and I’m just now getting here.”
“It’s alright, just come.”
After shaking hands, the coach held out the contract to Rong Shu, “Fu Jinglin is a good talent, he will definitely pa*s the trial! Don’t worry about leaving him to me, I’ll bring him up properly.”
Rongshu smiled, “With your words, I’m sure I can rest a*sured.”
She opened the contract and was about to sign it when the parents behind her shouted, “I watched them play basketball just now, Fu Jinglin’s game was average, not as good as my son’s, why should he take part in the trial?”
“Yes, I also saw that he didn’t play well!”
The coach calmly explained to the parents, “I am the coach, I know better than you how the students are playing, Fu Jinglin is really good ……”
“Coach, has his brother approached you?” A parent asked tentatively, the meaning couldn’t be more obvious.
“……”
“You …… fart!” Fu Jinglin almost spurted out an expletive, his teeth knocking up and down as he spoke in anger, “I’m just great at basketball, what does it have to do with my brother? Don’t slander people!”
“Fu Jinglin, we don’t think you play well either!” A few of the boys who had signed the tryout contract also said a couple of words.
“Hey, you guys ……” The coach was afraid that if he said one more word, it would start a war.
Seeing the coach’s angry helpless and difficult look, Rong Shu’s eyes narrowed, put down her pen and shouted towards Fu Jinglin, “Fu Jinglin, since your cla*smates think you guys can’t play basketball, then you guys play a game.”
She then asked the boys, “How about two wins in three games?”
“Let’s play!” They were all picked by the national team coach, their strength couldn’t be any worse, so of course they weren’t afraid to fight Fu Jinglin.
“That’s fine.” Rong Shu looked apologetically at the coach, “Coach, it’s going to take you a while longer.”
The coach was relieved to see that Rong Shu had come out to round things up, “It’s alright, I also want to observe them again to see what positions each of them, are best at.”
The coach soon arranged the number of players on both sides and their respective positions.
Rongshu took a towel to wipe Fu Jinglin’s hands, “Play well, if you win I’ll help you sign the trial contract, if you lose, we’ll both be humiliated and you might even get slapped at home.”
“I won’t let my brother be humiliated.” Fu Jinglin’s eyes were firm and full of enthusiasm, “I will win!”
It was just a competition between cla*smates, but Rongshu saw a touch of blazing enthusiasm in the teenager’s eyes.
The Fu Jingting she had met was always calm and restrained, dealing with everything in an orderly manner, while the teenager in front of her was full of enthusiasm.
It was as if the young man was another version of Fu Jingting.
Rongshu suppressed those emotions inside her and said softly, “Go ahead, I hope you didn’t make me come for nothing.”
Fu Jinglin nodded and quickly entered the venue.
Cheng Huai followed Rong Shu in and listened silently from the side, not expecting Rong Shu to be so bold as to hide from Fu Jingting and come as a parent to help Fu Jinglin sign the basketball team’s tryout contract.
He had also quietly recorded a video while Rongshu was talking to Fu Jinglin.
When the game started, after Fu Jinglin scored, Rong Shu cheered and screamed without regard to her image, cheering Fu Jinglin on, Cheng Huai spoke out coldly, “Fu Jinglin will have to help out at Fu’s in the future, you helped him sign a trial contract and let him play basketball, aren’t you afraid that brother Ting will blame you?”
“If he wants to ask for blame, let him do it.” Rongshu gazed after Fu Jinglin on the court and gasped, “I don’t have a good impression in his mind anymore anyway, and he’ll have to reflect on himself.”
“Oh?” Cheng Huai raised an eyebrow, “What is he reflecting on?”
Rongshu quieted down just as Fu Jinglin hit a ball short, she said, “On how he was a brother, on how Fu Jinglin wants to live his life, so he doesn’t regret it only when something happens later.”
“You’re right, Chief Rong, I agree.” Cheng Huai seconded.
After he finished recording the video, he opened WeChat and sent both videos to Fu Jingting.
Fu Jingting was in his office, and after receiving Cheng Huai’s WeChat, he opened it and his eyes sank slightly.
Chapter 50
Afterwards, he clicked on the first video.
Fu Jingting saw that Rong Shu disliked those parents calmly, and when the parents questioned Fu Jinglin’s strength, she directly let a few kids fight, winning two out of three games.
It turned out that Fu Jinglin had run to Rong Shu that day because he wanted to take part in the trial and was afraid to go to him and went to Rong Shu for help.
Fu Jingting’s eyebrows knitted slightly, a little unhappy with Rong Shu’s private run to school to help Fu Jinglin, but patient nature to watch the video on.
“Fight properly, if you lose, you are disgracing your brother.”
In the video, Rong Shu handed a towel to the teenager, talked to him for a few seconds, and when she looked up at the teenager, her eyes lingered on his face for more than ten seconds, because Cheng Huai shot it from the side, Fu Jingting couldn’t see what expression the woman was making.
After watching, Fu Jingting clicked on the next paragraph.
While cheering for Fu Jinglin, Rongshu said in a smooth tone –
“If he wants to ask questions, let him do it.”
“He needs to reflect on himself.”
“Reflect on how you’ve been a brother, see how Fu Jinglin wants to live, don’t wait until something happens later to regret it.”
This woman, helping his brother privately, and asking him to reflect on himself in turn?
Fu Jingting was simply furious and laughed.
In the large office, apart from the man, there was also a man wearing a duck-tongue hat and Zhang’s a*sistant.
The man stood in front of the mahogany table with his head bowed, trembling.
After the man felt Fu Jingting’s breath become colder, his body unconsciously shivered and spoke in a whisper “Fu, Mr. Fu, it was Miss Gu who took the initiative to find me that night and asked me to go to that private room to put the recorder ……”
“I took a total of two hundred thousand, all in this card, the money did not move a single point.” The man said, putting a bank card on the table.
The man all said several sentences, see Fu Jingting still silent, the invisible oppressive force makes him almost breathless.
“Fu, Mr. Fu, I’m wrong, please be noble and let me go.” The man’s knees were shaking and he was almost on his knees, “I will tell you immediately what Miss Gu is looking for me to do in the future.”
Fu Jingting moved his eyes away from the phone and looked up at him, “How many minutes is the total duration of the audio?”
When Cheng Huai cleaned up the surveillance, he said he saw a man coming out of Rongshu’s private room that night, sneaking around, and after checking the information, he said he was a small reporter from a newspaper, taking this kind of job privately to make extra money, and suspected that the audio was released by this reporter.
An hour ago, Fu Jingting asked a*sistant Zhang to contact the man to come over, and after entering the office, before he could ask, this reporter confessed everything.
“More than forty minutes.” The man immediately replied, “I put the recorder in when the private room was still empty, and the audio that was sent out was also edited.”
The man nimbly took out the recorder from his bag and put it on the table, “This is the recorder, I give you my word, there is no backup.”
Fu Jingting picked up the recorder, his eyes dark and uncertain.
The man-made car accident six years ago, coupled with the reporter’s incident, made Fu Jingting gradually doubt in his heart that this gentle woman, who created the car accident and married another person, was really the “Maple Leaf” who corresponded with him six years ago?
He had exchanged countless letters with “Maple Leaf” and knew everything about “Maple Leaf’s” preferences through the letters.
The girl on the other end of the letter was pa*sionate and loved life, and many of their ideas always coincided with each other, while Gu Manyin, who had awakened, was clearly by his side, but they never got to talk, she seemed so far away from him.
A long time later, Fu Jingting broke the recorder and destroyed the tiny chip inside.
“I’ll give you an hour, go back and pack your things and leave Hai City.” Fu Jingting threw the things in the trash, his voice cold and deep, “After you leave, never go back to Haicheng, when she asks you, just say that your job is transferred, got it?”
“Yes, yes, don’t worry, I will never reveal myself on Miss Gu’s side.” Seeing that he had escaped the death sentence, the man was relieved and nimbly tried to leave, but just as he turned around, he was shouted at by Fu Jingting.
Fu Jingting pointed to the card on the table, “Take it away.”
“Thank you, Mr. Fu, thank you!” The man kept thanking him, grabbed the card, bowed to a*sistant Zhang and quickly left the office.
Zhang’s a*sistant, who had listened to the whole thing, had an unperturbed expression on his face, but he was sighing in his heart.
Aigoo! I didn’t think that Miss Gu, who was so gentle and kind on the surface, would instruct someone to do such a thing.
Miss Rong was so miserable!
After the man had completely left, Zhang’s a*sistant came forward and reported to Fu Jingting, “Mr. Fu, we’ve found out the whereabouts of Jia Pao’s boss, he’s at the Yabuli Resort.”
Fu Jingting gave a hint, “If there’s nothing else, you go down first.”
“Mr. Fu, I’ve been to Gu’s house with you before and saw that their stairs are covered with imported Persian carpets, very soft.” a*sistant Zhang said, “The chandelier over the stairs is also very bright, and you can see the steps when you go downstairs.”
What he meant was that even if Gu Manyin was blind, she wouldn’t step on the stairs like that.
However, Gu Manyin stepped out of the way and hit the escalator pillar head-on, breaking her head and bleeding, which was a bit unbelievable.
Fu Jingting didn’t say anything.
Fu Jingting also suspected Gu Manyin’s accidental fall, but seeing Gu Manyin lying on the hospital bed, her face as white as paper, pitiful, his heart was soft and heartbroken, and he dismissed the idea of asking her about it.
“I know.” Fu Jingting’s voice turned a few degrees colder, “Go down.”
a*sistant Zhang silently retreated.
Fu Jingting sat alone in his office for a long time, his eyes coldly looking at the document about the whereabouts of Jia Pao’s boss, hesitating to make a move.
After a long time he touched his mobile phone, opened Rong Shu’s WeChat and sent a message over.
In the field, Fu Jinglin found the right time to throw the ball and won the game by three to two. Outside the field, Rong Shu scanned the faces of the parents and said indifferently, “You have to admit that you are not as good as others, so don’t make yourself look like a clown.”