The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 292 Sakuragi’s Backing

"Ah, no, no need, I can just sleep in the living room!" Haruko waved her hands repeatedly, her whole face turned red with embarrassment.

Over the past year or so, she and Sakuragi had been communicating with each other, and they had already been secretly in love. They were both innocent guys. Although they were ignorant and didn't make it clear, in fact, they were already in love with each other.

And not only they know it, Akagi, the Sakuragi Legion, and even Coach Anzai and others all know it, and they have long regarded these two as a couple.

"Haru, Haru, Haruko! Sleep, sleep, sleep in my, my room!" Sakuragi Hanamichi was even more nervous. At this time, his face was redder than Haruko's, and he felt like smoke was about to come out of his nostrils.

His biggest dream was to go to school hand in hand with Haruko, but suddenly...

"What are you thinking of letting you sleep with Boss Akagi?" Takamiya said coaxingly: "Oh, Haruko, don't worry, he has never slept on Sakuragi's bed, it's clean!"

"That's right, conditions are limited, just make do with it! Boss Akagi?"

Takenori Akagi smiled helplessly.

My sister and Sakuragi, in fact, everyone knew it as early as the winter league game against Sanno, when Sakuragi cried and shouted to his sister, "I like it the most."

For more than a year, Haruko had the habit of keeping in touch with Sakuragi, and he knew about it, and even secretly read Sakuragi's replies. He was afraid that this kid would learn bad things after going to the United States.

"Ahem!" Akagi smiled and said to Haruko: "Listen to them, the sofa in the living room is easy to catch cold..."

But she always had a smile on her face, and even in the most painful times, she never put her sad and weak side in front of Sakuragi.

And there’s more! Should the child be called Sakuragi Haruko or Akagi Hanamichi? Uh...Akagi Hanamichi sounds so angry...

"Is Haruko going to college this year?"

As long as he thinks of Haruko sleeping in that room, and when Haruko returns to Japan, he will sleep in the same room, bed, and quilt that Haruko slept on... Sakuragi Hanamichi is trembling as he walks, his head It was completely blank, and my ears and nose already felt like they wanted to squirt.

At this moment, he even thought about next year. Anyway, he will never wash or change the quilt for at least the whole year this year. He must wash it fragrantly before going to bed every day to avoid getting dirty!

The apartment on the 10th floor has floor-to-ceiling windows, and outside the windows is the beautiful night view of Seattle.

"Ok!"

"I just received the admission notice from the University of Tokyo before coming to the United States." Haruko said happily: "After I return this time, I will go to Tokyo to report."

But the result... was different from what he feared. Not only was Sakuragi pure about basketball, but he was also very pure about love. What was even more rare was that he never seemed to change his original intention at all after going to the United States.

What a solid guy.

"That's right!" Mito Yohei and others became even more enthusiastic. Even my uncle agreed. This matter is settled!
"I, I, I, I'll go collect it..." Sakuragi Hanamichi was so excited that his head was filled with smoke.

They were all here, how could the thoughts of the two young people escape her eyes?
She held Haruko's hand and kept talking on the bed. She didn't have much knowledge, and most of what she talked about was trivial family matters, but she was a mother after all. Slowly, she brought the topic to Haruko and Sakuragi. Come on.

Sakuragi Aiko's actual age is actually much younger than she looks. She is actually only 39 years old this year, but she has been suffering from illness since her husband lost her early years. A serious illness at the beginning of this year even cost her half of her life. At this time, her hair was green and white, and her stooped back made her look like she was in her early 50s.

At this time, Sakuragi Aiko smiled even happier towards this daughter-in-law, whom she had no clear relationship with yet.

But after all, seeing how red-faced and helpless Haruko was, Sakuragi's mother finally came out to smooth things over.

The purpose of Mito Yohei and the others' booing was just to help these two people break the window paper as soon as possible.

She smiled and took Haruko's hand: "Haruko, come sleep with me. My room is also very big. It was all thanks to Haruko that I got sick last time. I just wanted to talk to you more, okay?"

One sentence finally resolved Haruko's embarrassment, and she nodded vigorously with a blushing face.

If you look at it as the brother-in-law, Akagi is very relieved to leave his sister to Sakuragi.

"That's the best university in Japan. It's really good." Sakuragi Aiko said with a smile: "Have you ever wanted to come to the United States to study, Haruko? I heard they said American universities are also very good."

"Well! I really thought about it. Every year, the University of Tokyo exchanges some international students with the United States. I also want to try. If it succeeds, I can often come to watch Sakuragi play in the future! Think about it, Sakuragi just played two years ago. I came into contact with basketball and now I am playing in the most powerful league in the United States. Every time I think about it, I feel so excited! I love watching Sakuragi play the most!"

"Hehehe, I never thought Sakuragi could play basketball before. At that time, he couldn't do anything, and he couldn't study either. I thought he would become bad."

"No way! Auntie, you don't know. When we first met Sakuragi, everyone rumored that he was very vicious and that he knew hundreds of bad people outside. But at that time, I felt that Sakuragi was not that kind of person... …”

"Yes, Sakuragi is actually a good boy."

"Yeah! That's all!"

"Just now they asked Haruko to sleep in Sakuragi's room. Does Haruko mind?"

"Well..." This question came a bit suddenly. Qingzi was startled and then became nervous again. She stammered and replied: "...ah? That's not the case... this..."

Sakuragi Aiko smiled and touched her head, and changed the topic slightly: "By the way, what major did Haruko study at the University of Tokyo?"

"Finance and economics." After all, Haruko is relatively simple. Although the previous question was embarrassing, when the next question came, she naturally diluted the embarrassment a little when she answered.

"Finance?"

"Auntie, there are many majors in finance, such as finance, investment, marketing, financial management, etc. I mainly study financial management."

"That's great. From now on, Haruko will help Sakuragi take care of the money. Look at that guy, he spends money lavishly. It wouldn't be possible if no one helps him take care of it." Haruko was stunned, and then she blushed completely. This time she finally I didn't dare to say anything anymore.

after awhile.

"Haruko? Haruko?"

Sakuragi Aiko shouted twice in succession. Through the bright moonlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window, he saw the little girl closing her eyes tightly, her eyelashes moving from time to time, obviously pretending to be asleep.

But looking at the expression on his face, it wasn't that he was impatient or embarrassed, but that he was so shy that his face was red, and he was so nervous that he was almost dripping with water, and he didn't even dare to move his fingers.

However, there seems to be a trace of joy in this shyness.

Sakuragi Aiko laughed.

She gently pulled the quilt on Qingzi: "Good boy, go to sleep..."

………………

Sakuragi's room.

With Haruko's episode before, Sakuragi was destined to not be able to sleep tonight.

He tossed and turned on the bed for a while, giggling and covering his head under the quilt until someone knocked on the door.

Coach Anxi came in with a smile on his face and an envelope in his hand.

"Dad!" Sakuragi quickly invited him in, and then started chattering excitedly: "Tomorrow, after the training is over, I will take dad and you to Green Lake to play. The scenery over there is great, and there are many more. It's delicious. Brother Gao Ren took me there last time..."

"Hahaha, I'm not leaving classmate Lin Dong now. I can see that classmate Lin Dong treats you very well. Please help him well."

"Hahahaha, is there any need to say it? I'm telling you, dad, brother Gao Ren and I are like brothers now. We have agreed to win at least three or four championship trophies!"

"Hehehehe! Come on, I believe you can do it!" Coach Anxi said with a smile: "But I won't go to play tomorrow. I bought a flight ticket back to Japan tomorrow morning."

"Ah?" Sakuragi was startled and muttered: "It's hard to come here, let's play for a few more days!"

"Anke Fried Chicken still has some things to deal with. I have been busy going on the market recently. I will let you entertain me well next time I come." Coach Anzai smiled and put the envelope into Hanamichi Sakuragi's hand.

"What is it?" Sakuragi opened the envelope suspiciously and saw it was a Citibank bank card.

"Dad, you..."

"There's $80 in the card."

"Ah?" Sakuragi Hanamichi was surprised. He sent his father a remittance order of 70 yuan to repay his father's money. But then, when he turned around, Anxi's father gave him 80 yuan?
What do you mean?
"Dad, I have money! I still have hundreds of thousands! This is obviously what I gave back to you..." Sakuragi hurriedly tried to stuff it back to Coach Anxi.

But before he finished speaking, Coach Anxi had already held his hand.

"Listen to me, Sakuragi." Coach Anzai called Sakuragi for the first time instead of 'Sakuragi-san'.

"I'm not short of money. You know, dad is a rich man." Coach Anxi said with a smile: "And you are living in the United States and you are bringing your mother over this time. There are still a lot of things you need to spend money on. You have a lot of money to spend." The remaining bit is not enough.”

"That's enough, that's enough. I've done the math. I always eat in the arena, and I don't have any jerseys or anything like that..."

"Have you paid taxes?" Coach Anxi interrupted him with a smile.

"Tax?" Sakuragi's face was full of questions: "What tax?"

"When you make money in the United States, you pay taxes in the United States. It's different here than in Japan. Some companies will withhold it, but I don't think the SuperSonics will withhold it for you. So from now on, before April 4th every year, you will have to pay taxes." You have to file your federal and state tax returns for the current year, otherwise you will be found to have evaded taxes, which will be a big trouble."

"Although Washington State is a tax-free state, it only exempts state taxes. Some trivial taxes such as federal personal income tax and financial income tax are still required to be paid. Let me do a rough calculation for you. You will probably have to pay 250 million US dollars every year. Around 90, is the little money you have left enough? Not to mention you have to leave a year's worth of expenses. You know, although Washington state is exempt from state taxes, prices are relatively higher. You have to spend money. There’s plenty of room.”

"Ah?" Sakuragi Hanamichi was stunned. He thought it was his own if he got it: "Hand in so much? Do you want me to pay it myself? God, why don't they grab it..."

"Hahaha, that's it." Coach Anxi laughed so hard that he put the card back into Sakuragi's hand: "Yakaki, you don't owe me anything."

"I'm really happy to see you and Rukawa standing at the highest basketball hall in the world. This kind of happiness cannot be bought with money."

"I don't have children, and I have enough money that I can't spend all of it. To me, you are like my child... Do parents want money from their children?"

"Dad..." Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes became moist and red.

"Silly boy, put your card away, play hard, and live a good life. Lin Dongjun and I had already talked in the afternoon, and he also expressed concern about your financial situation, hehehe, but he said that you have held it back too hard in the past few years. He wants you to spend it for a year. He plans to wait until the beginning of the year to file your tax return before helping you. By then, you may have learned how to manage money after suffering losses. If you return the 30 to him, he will also save it for you. Still waiting."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Brother Gao Ren!"

"At that time, he will find a reliable financial planner for you. Someone will naturally help you with things like paying taxes, which will involve many adjustments and reductions. With a professional financial planner, the actual amount of taxes will be It’s much lower than what I said, but I think it’s better not to let Lin Dongjun advance payment for you, his expenses are quite large, so just keep the money, it’s nothing to me.”

"250 million is not much, so save some money. If you really want to make dad happy, when you get several NBA championship rings, give one to me." Coach Anxi smiled and touched his Head: "My child gives me the most precious thing. When the time comes, I will definitely not refuse."

"Dad!" Hanamichi Sakuragi hugged Coach Anzai tightly, tears streaming down his face: "I will get it! I will! Even if I work hard, I will get it, and I will give it all to you!"

(End of this chapter)