Before Jiang Baige could speak, Wang Yu spoke first: "You? How do you make money?"

"I... I can pick up bottles and collect waste paper like you, and I can also..."

"We are already in the third year of junior high school, and we are the top student in review. If we fail to get into high school, wouldn't it be a waste of my sister's love?"

"Then, then I...I..."

Xiaohua became flustered, at a loss, and almost cried.

From her words, Jiang Baige finally extracted the key information: it turned out that Xiaohua didn't want Jiang Baige to think she was too "greedy" because she had to pay tuition and living expenses, so she took the initiative to offer to pay for her own living expenses.

She interrupted Xiaohua hastily: "Xiaohua, don't worry. I will pay for your living expenses and tuition. As long as you study hard and try to get into college."

Xiaohua suddenly calmed down: "Really?"

"Of course... I was just thinking about Xiaoyu's problem, how to give you the money best."

Jiang Baige did not ask Xiaohua to follow her way, but instead offered her suggestions.

Because she was worried that Xiaohua's family would misappropriate the tuition and living expenses she gave her, she would not hand the money directly to Xiaohua.

Instead, the money will be transferred directly to the school’s payment account.

As for living expenses, she proposed two options.

One method is to adopt the "reimbursement system", where payments are settled weekly or monthly, but this may be more troublesome, and in many small stores there are no receipts when purchasing items.

The second way is for Jiang Baige to contact Xiaohua’s class teacher directly, transfer the monthly living expenses to her class teacher, and then pass it on to Xiaohua.

In terms of operability, the latter one would be better, but in return, Jiang Baige would need to invest a lot more energy.

However, Jiang Baige proposed to sponsor Xiaohua starting from high school.

If Xiaohua really succeeds in getting into high school, then she will definitely come over to find out about Xiaohua's high school.

And she only sponsors one student, so the pressure is not that great.

What she worried most was that Xiaohua would misunderstand her.

"Xiaohua, I want to make something clear to you. From the beginning to the end, I have always believed in you. I believe that you really want to study and can get into high school and college. The reason why I didn't put the money directly in your hands is for your own good, not because I don't trust you. Do you understand?"

Wang Yu also said: "Yes, Xiaohua, it's really not safe to keep the money in our hands. Look, last time my sisters gave me a thousand yuan, it was all taken away by my damn father!"

Thinking of this, Wang Yu was still angry.

Xiaohua grabbed Jiang Baige's hand. Her palm was a little wet, but very warm.

"Sister, I know you are doing this for my own good, really."

After sending Xiaohua away, it was almost time for Jiang Baige to leave. After all, her vacation was limited, and the journey from Mangxian back to Anjing was long.

Wang Yu offered to send Jiang Baige off the next morning.

Dai Yanling also felt that Jiang Baige was unfamiliar with the area in the mountains and it would be better for her to have someone accompany her, so she agreed.

In the past two days, she has also told her son that her grandparents will live with her to take care of him in the future.

This is slightly different from what they originally envisioned.

The main reason is that this was originally the home of the old couple, but later Wang Liang drove them away, so they went to live with their daughter in the neighboring village.

But my daughter also has her own life. It is understandable for her to accept her own parents, but now she wants to bring her nephew over as well, which is a bit unreasonable.

Dai Yanling changed her mind and realized that she would be going back to Anjing to work soon, and her daughter would be living in the school dormitory soon. If she sent her son away, the room would be empty.

It would be better to bring the old couple over.

In this way, when Wang Yu goes home on holidays, he has a place to stay and hot meals to eat.

After all, although the old couple value their grandson, their relationship with their granddaughter is not incompatible.

Even if Wang Yu comes back as a guest, as a mother, she will feel more at ease if he has an extra place to stay.

Now that the decision has been made, these two dilapidated houses need to be renovated.

Dai Yanling thought that there was strength in numbers, so she planned to go and pick up the old couple first, and then leave after the house was repaired and Wang Yu went to school.

August is almost over anyway.

With her as a mother, at least no one dares to bully her daughter.

At first, when the old couple heard that Dai Yanling and her son were divorced, they were a little reluctant to let her live here.

But after two days, perhaps because of Wang Liang's sister's advice, they also figured it out: the daughter-in-law is not theirs, but the grandson is, and as long as the grandson is there, Dai Yanling will definitely send money home, so their attitude naturally softened.

There was no need to even go so far for Dai Yanling to pick her up. Instead, she could offer to wait until people from the same village were free and then come along.

So when Jiang Baige lived here, she didn't see them.

In order to catch the noon train, they got up early and were taken into the city by their fellow villagers who were going to the market.

Still the same as when I came, sitting with a pile of goods.

Although it was summer, the morning in the mountains was still a bit chilly. Jiang Baige and Wang Yu cuddled together to keep warm.

Wang Yu suddenly whispered, "Sister, I plan to change my name."

"Change your name?"

"Yeah. I don't want to take my father's last name anymore. I want to take my mother's last name. Besides, I don't like the name 'Yu' either. Why can my brother be called 'Youwei' but I can only be called 'Xiaoyu'... Am I unworthy? I think I can also be called Youwei, and I can also be called Youqian!"

Generation has money...

There's money in the bag? It seems quite auspicious.

Jiang Baige asked her: "Have you told your mother about this?"

Wang Yu nodded: "But my mother said that changing the name is complicated, after all, the name follows us for a lifetime. So, I want to change the name before the high school entrance examination, what do you think?"

Indeed, if the name is to be changed, the sooner it is done, the smaller the impact will be.

Otherwise, the names on all the graduation certificates will not match those on the ID cards, and household registration books must be used as proof, which is quite troublesome.

It will be easy as long as Dai Yanling doesn't object.

After Dai Yanling and Wang Liang divorced, Wang Yu and Wang Youwei were awarded to Dai Yanling, and their household registration should have also changed.

Jiang Baige couldn't help thinking: Marriage is indeed a very troublesome thing! No wonder many people just make do with it... But she didn't want to make do with it, so she chose not to play this complicated game.

"Sister, you read a lot and you're a writer, can you help me think of a name with a good meaning?"

"So this is what you were thinking!" Jiang Baige smiled and scratched Wang Yu's nose. "Okay. Then we should keep in touch in the future."

"Of course I will! After all, you are Xiaohua's 'new mother'."

The two men laughed together.

——Wang Yu said that here, the sponsored children will call the sponsors "Mom" or "Dad", saying that they have given them "new life".

This trip to Mang County was very successful, and Jiang Baige couldn't help but share it all with Zhou Ling.

Zhou Ling also said: "That's great, send me the flight number and I'll pick you up and listen to your whole story."

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