Chapter 374: Change the Child's Surname

Only these few brothers could empathize with him. No one else could understand those subtle feelings.

Even though it was New Year's Day, it was appropriate to say something good in the letter. Gu Zhenjun also wrote letters to his two brothers to complain about the matter.

They were happy that their eldest brother had fallen out of favor, but the attitudes of Gu Fugen and Gu Chouni made people feel uneasy.

Gu Laoer is a bachelor, and he said directly: "I have been in the countryside for so many years, and I have basically no contact with my family. And when I was in the countryside, I wanted to live off my wife, so I married into the family, and my child will not have the surname Gu."

When he went to the countryside and left the Gu family, Gu Laoer never thought of coming back. He used to live in the countryside, far away, so he didn't worry at all that the Gu family would look for him.

Unlike Gu Zhenhua, who has a unit and concerns, he also needs to spend time at home and suppress the situation with an iron fist.

He was quite carefree, but Gu Zhenhua was a little angry. Why was he the only one with a son among the brothers? Wouldn't this force Gu Chouni to miss him?

Gu Zhenhua then wrote to Lin Xiangnan, "Since we announced to the public that they were marrying into the family, we should change Dabao and Xiaobao's surname to Lin. If we want to change it, we should do it earlier, otherwise they won't be able to adapt after they start school."

The two children are young and are called by nicknames at home. They are called Dabao and Xiaobao every day. They do not have deep feelings for their own names, so it is easy to change them.

In Gu Zhenhua's eyes, as long as the child is his, it doesn't matter what his surname is.

He avoided the Gu family as much as possible. If his file had not been finalized long ago, Gu Zhenhua would have wanted to change his last name to Lin.

"Third brother... he's too ruthless! What should I do then?" With his two brothers leaving him with no choice, Gu Zhenjun now has only one thought, "I don't care. If I give birth to a son, I'll let him take my mother's last name! If I give birth to a daughter, she'll have my last name!"

The actions of the Gu brothers left Hu Meili and the others speechless.

"You are too casual. How can you change a child's name so casually?" Hu Meili couldn't help but complain.

"It's not a big deal." Lin Xiangnan said with a smile: "The last name Lin sounds pretty good. Lin Qingshan, Lin Yunchuan, they're pretty easy to pronounce."

When they got married, Gu Zhenhua gave everything he should have given. It was called marrying into the family, but they followed the standard of marrying a daughter-in-law. Moreover, Gu Zhenhua was promoted at a young age, and he had great potential in the future.

Lin Xiangnan tacitly agreed that the child's surname should be Gu, firstly because that was the current custom and Gu Zhenhua had fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband and father, and secondly because she wanted the child to inherit Gu Zhenhua's future political capital.

If the two children are lazy, Lin Xiangnan is willing to spend money to support them and give them the capital to lie down, but if the children want to climb up, what if they need support from Gu Zhenhua? You can't let the two sides have a grudge because of a surname.

It doesn’t matter what the last name is, what matters is what the child can get.

Now even Gu Zhenhua doesn’t care about the child’s surname, so Lin Xiangnan doesn’t care even more.

Hu Meili, on the other hand, was still a bit conservative. "If the child has your last name, there will definitely be gossip. You may not care about what's happening outside, but people will definitely ask me questions. What will I say then? I'm too embarrassed to talk about the mess in the Gu family..."

The main person taking care of the children is Hu Meili, and of course she is the one who suffers the most mental pollution.

"Just say it. If you feel that you are under pressure that you shouldn't be under, then let the child have the surname Hu, okay?" Lin Xiangnan smiled nonchalantly.

"It's getting more and more unreliable!" Hu Meili was speechless. "Forget it, forget it. I won't get involved. We can't agree on anything anyway. Only you two know the affairs between you two."

The two ruffians hanging out together made her, a normal person, seem out of place.

Gu Zhenjun didn't hear the hidden meaning in Hu Meili's words, and said enviously: "I also think my brother and sister-in-law are a perfect match. They have such a tacit understanding, they are simply bosom friends."

"You and Xiaoxi should be close friends." Hu Meili rolled her eyes and grumbled, "You two lackeys have become spirits."

Gu Zhenjun smiled and said, they are all younger brothers in the family, no one can be tough.

There was no need to seek the opinions of Dabao and Xiaobao. Lin Xiangnan and Gu Zhenhua discussed it and took the certificate issued by their unit to change the names of the two children.

Lin Xiangnan's household registration was moved directly to Beijing after she was admitted to university, and her two children's household registration was also moved with her.

Dabao and Xiaobao thought the name change was quite novel and they vied to see the new names on the household registration booklet. Hu Meili was so scared that she quickly took the household registration booklet back.

"Don't mess it up. You two can't read, you two are illiterate, and you don't know what the point of reading is. Go back and learn to read."

Holding the newly issued household registration booklet, Hu Meili's expression was still a little strange, and she whispered, "Gu Zhenhua really doesn't care about his reputation..."

"What's the big deal? Mom, times have changed. There are so many things like this." Lin Xiangnan complained, "I told you to watch the news more often, but you just don't."

"Why haven't I watched the news? I watch it every day! I paid for the newspaper, so I can't let it go to waste."

"I'll just listen to your excuses." Lin Xiangnan asked, "Did you see the incident about the individual business owners appearing in the news?"

"What's going on? Someone got arrested for running a small business?" Hu Meili showed an expression of having eaten a big piece of news, and complained: "You didn't even remind me of this kind of thing. I was just about to pack up and start the stall again."

"That's not it. It's that business licenses for self-employed businesses can be obtained." Lin Xiangdong said, "This news was from last month. I specifically reminded you to go and read it, didn't you?"

"No." Hu Meili's momentum weakened involuntarily, "I'll find this issue of the newspaper later."

Everyone in my family has their own career. If they see information about related industries in the newspaper, I will just give them a reminder at most.

Although selling tea eggs is profitable, it is not good to talk about it. Hu Meili usually does not talk about her business at home.

"I thought you were too busy during the Chinese New Year and didn't think of this. It turns out you didn't even look at it." Lin Xiangnan urged, "After you look at it, go and open a shop and get a business license."

Seeing Hu Meili's hesitation, Lin Xiangnan suggested, "If you don't want to spend money, I'll buy a shop and rent it to you, okay? It's too troublesome to move things back and forth."

She also didn't want Hu Meili to be too tired.

"Okay." This time Hu Meili agreed readily.

Lin Xiangnan was speechless. "If you don't buy a shop now, you will regret it later."

Now, Hu Meili hesitated again, "Should I buy it or not? I want to buy a yard with the money I have saved for my retirement. If I buy a shop, what will I do with the yard?"

Lin Xiangnan said firmly, "Buy! Buy them all!"