It was also at this time that Jiang Wumei finally met little Cheng Shi’s “first relative”.
His name is Lao Jia, but Jiang Wumei couldn't tell which "Jia" he was, because Lao Jia himself couldn't seem to tell which Jia he was.
On the day he came to adopt Cheng Shi, he was wearing a shirt made of high-end-looking, delicate fabric, and a pair of starched trousers. His leather shoes were a bit worn, but clean, and his socks... he wasn't wearing socks. He just stood stiffly at the front desk of the orphanage, nervously waiting for the orphanage to bring little Cheng Shi over.
When the special education teacher pulled the reluctant Cheng Shi to his front, the first thing Lao Jia said to Cheng Shi, whose face was flushed, was:
"What happened to the boy's face?"
Xiao Chengshi rolled his eyes and muttered, "AIDS is contagious."
The special teacher's face darkened, and he slapped him on the head, and said helplessly to Lao Jia: "Children speak without restraint. There was paint on his face, which was just washed off. It was rubbed off, not a disease."
Seeing this, Jiang Wumei couldn't help laughing. This was not paint at all, but his mask.
Before coming, the clever boy made a new mask for himself and squatted to disguise himself as another child. Five or six special education teachers searched for him in sweat for a whole morning before they finally pulled him up from someone else's bed.
As for the disguised child, he was still crying loudly in the storage room in the attic.
Of course, the special education teachers no longer had time to take care of the poor guy. The most urgent task was to listen to the dean and send this troublemaker away as soon as possible.
After hearing this, Lao Jia nodded with his hands in his pockets: "Oh, oh, very good, very good, rubbing it makes me more energetic, rubbing it makes me more energetic."
Little Cheng Shi rolled his eyes again, seeming to dislike the awkward and unpresentable "father" in front of him.
After all, compared with other adopters, Lao Jia is simply the poorest adopter in recent years.
"Okay, take Xiao Shi to register. The dean is taking care of you and has arranged a green channel for you. As long as the registration is completed, he will be your son. Go quickly."
Old Jia shuddered with excitement when he heard this. He looked at little Cheng Shi, who had an unhappy face, and stretched out his hand tremblingly and tentatively.
Xiao Chengshi glanced at him with disdain and turned away.
Old Jia froze and stood there in a daze.
But not long after, Xiao Chengshi sighed and resigned himself to his fate as he reached out his hand.
A weak child simply cannot go against the decision of adults, so it is better for him to be "more obedient and submissive". Perhaps this kind of well-behaved behavior can make his future life a little more comfortable.
This was not Jiang Wumei's own feeling, but what he read in Xiao Chengshi's eyes.
Old Jia excitedly clenched Little Chengshi's hand, but quickly let it go a second later and gently pulled him, smiling happily and saying:
"Come on, kid, come home with me."
"Register. Didn't you hear me? You have to register." Xiao Chengshi reminded silently.
"Oh, oh, yes, yes, we need to register, teacher, where do we register?"
The special education teacher sighed helplessly and took Lao Jia and Xiao Chengshi to the adoption office of the orphanage.
Sitting in the negotiation room of the adoption office, Lao Jia's hand holding the pen trembled for a long time, and finally put it down awkwardly.
"I, I can't read."
Little Chengshi chuckled after hearing this, but he didn't dislike him. Instead, he picked up the pen and started filling in the paper for Lao Jia. After a while, he asked:
"Hey, what's your name? Write it down."
Old Jia looked at Xiao Chengshi's eyes and saw many changes. He responded with a complicated expression:
"Old Jia."
"They ask for your first and last name. Is your last name Lao and your first name Fake?"
"Oh, oh, I understand, I understand, my last name is Cheng..."
"Which course?"
"It's just...it's just..."
Little Cheng Shi was getting impatient. He casually wrote the word "Cheng" and pointed at it and asked, "Do you understand? Is this it?"
Lao Jia took a closer look and nodded quickly: "This is it, this is it."
"Your last name is Cheng, why are you called Lao Jia?"
Old Jia laughed: "My name is Cheng Jia, they are used to calling me that, so they naturally call me Lao Jia, which means Jia in the world."
"What a strange name." Little Cheng Shi muttered and wrote the words "Cheng Jia" on it.
"Also, what's my name?"
"ah?"
Xiao Chengshi pointed at the words on the agreement and said, "You have to fill in my name. You have to give me a name. Hey, who is adopting whom? My name is Xiao Shi, Xiao as in big or small, and Shi as in tenth. How about I write this in?"
"No, no, you have a name, you have a name, I gave you a name."
"Oh?" Little Chengshi finally showed some interest. "What's my name?"
Lao Jia clenched his fist and said very firmly:
"Cheng Shi, Cheng as in Cheng Jia, Shi as in honesty."
"Cheng Shi? Tsk, that sounds weird."
Little Cheng Shi didn't know what he was thinking about. He looked at Lao Jia for a while, and after seeing the bright light in the other's turbid eyes, he smacked his lips and wrote the word "Cheng Shi" on his adoption agreement.
He didn't seem to hate the name, or rather, he didn't care what his name was.
That was also the first time he wrote his name.
Cheng Shi.
Cheng in Chengjia means honesty.
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It seems like it’s summer vacation now, and there are more readers here recently.
I'll take advantage of the weekend to give friends who are following the updates some fun. If the number of requested updates at the end of this chapter exceeds 10,000 before 8 a.m. tomorrow, I'll add another chapter tomorrow morning.
I think the update is about right after these two days and I feel it should be here. Just treat it as a bonus chapter. No gifts are needed, just urge for the update.
The fun is only for today!
Have a nice weekend~
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