“Aunt Jiang’s cooking is so delicious!”
Jiang Peirong smiled and touched her head. "If you like it, eat more. If it's not enough, I'll make more."
"That's enough. We still have so many dishes. Let's all eat pizza. Do we want to eat other dishes?" Jiang Qiuyu invited everyone to sit down and wait for Zhan Aoxiang and Xue Wangjun to come back before officially starting the meal.
The three families rarely had the opportunity to get together for dinner, so they moved the table to the yard. In order to leave room for the children to play, all the flowers and plants in the Xue family's yard were pulled out.
"Everyone is here today, so I'll take this opportunity to announce a good thing." Jiang Qiuyi stood up with the cup in her hand, "We are going to formally adopt Xiaoyu, put her on our household registration book, and change her last name."
Ying Huanyu was stunned, "Mom, are you telling the truth?"
"Of course it's true."
Jiang Qiuyi looked at Xue Jiayu, and the little guy jumped up with joy, "Mom, you are the best!"
Ying Huanyu also rushed over with red eyes, "Thank you, Mom and Dad—"
"If you want to thank someone, thank your sister. She was the one who brought this up."
Ying Huanyu hugged Xue Jiayu with red eyes, "Thank you, sister. I am really happy."
“I’m happy too!”
Changing the name is like experiencing a rebirth. Xue Jiayu sincerely hopes that Ying Huanyu will no longer have any relationship with Li Minxue and can have a happy life.
Others also started to applaud, and Gu Yuan took the opportunity to say that he wanted to eat more to help Ying Huanyu celebrate.
Xu Huimei wanted him to eat less, but Jiang Qiuyi stopped her, "Today is a happy day, eat more if you want, I wish Xiaobao could eat more."
"But he eats too much!" Xu Huimei looked at Gu Yuan with dissatisfaction, then looked at Zhan Nanqi, and sighed: "Look at Nanqi, then look at our kid, it's really a prince and a frog!"
Jiang Peirong smiled bitterly, "You know the situation of our Nanqi family."
"That's good too! At least he's handsome and smart."
The children listened to their parents praising each other's children, and they all stuck out their tongues at the same time, quietly took their bowls from the table and went to play in the house.
After deciding to transfer Ying Huanyu's household registration, Jiang Qiuyu asked Xue Wangjun to take her back early to handle the formalities.
She didn't want to go back to the village, so Xue Wangjun contacted the village committee in advance and told her that she only needed to go back to sign and then go to the local police station to handle the formalities.
The village committee could not contact Li Minxue, but they knew that the Xue family had been raising Ying Huanyu for many years, so they readily issued an adoption certificate.
The police station was also very responsive and told them to just go back in a month to get their new household registration books.
When he came out of the police station, Ying Huanyu still found it unbelievable.
"Dad, is my last name really Xue now?"
"yes."
Xue Wangjun smiled and teased her deliberately, "Don't you want to? Then I'll go back and ask the police to change it back."
“No no!”
Ying Huanyu quickly shook her head, "So my name is Xue Huanyu now, right?"
"Yes, let's go home. My sister, mother and grandma are waiting for us at home."
Xue Huanyu felt that she was extremely happy, except that she would occasionally worry about Li Minxue coming out from somewhere and disturbing her life.
Although Xu Suzhen was against adopting Ying Huanyu, she also knew that Jiang Qiuyu had to decide on this matter, so she turned a blind eye to the matter of changing the surname.
Privately, Xu Suzhen talked to Jiang Qiuyi and said, "Since you have decided to adopt Huanyu, I won't say much, but you should have a balance in your heart and remember who is your biological child."
"Don't worry, Mom."
Jiang Qiuyi shook Xu Suzhen's hand and said, "Wangjun and I know what's going on with this matter. Mom, don't worry."
"That's good."
After Ying Huanyu changed her name to Xue Huanyu, she felt more confident going to school.
When her classmates saw her change her name, they laughed at her in private.
Until one day Xue Jiayu heard it, she kept it in mind and took the household registration booklet to school the next day and threw it in front of her classmates.
"Look carefully, Huanyu is my sister now! It's real, we both have the surname Xue."
Almost all the classmates in the class circulated the Xue family’s household registration booklet, and only then did they believe that Ying Huanyu had really become Xue Jiayu’s sister.
Xue Huanyu stood in the corner and watched Xue Jiayu supporting her. She was so moved.
"Let's see who dares to bully you again! Xiaoyu, don't be afraid, your sister is here!"
Xue Huanyu secretly swore in her heart that she would be good to her sister and follow her sister all her life.
The classmates in the class did not smile more towards Xue Huanyu because of the change of surname, but they no longer bullied her like before, and most of them ignored her.
Xue Huanyu was not sad either, and all she wanted was to follow Xue Jiayu.
In a blink of an eye, they were in the fifth grade.
In the past few years, several children grew up together, and Zhan Nanqi often stayed with them. His personalities became much more cheerful than before.
The Xue family's factory has doubled in size, and its performance has reached new highs for two consecutive years. As they see their bank deposits increasing, they have never thought of moving to a new house.
Just because living in this community allows me to be with my old neighbors.
But they renovated both children's rooms. Xue Jiayu's room is all blue, while Xue Huanyu's room is mainly purple. The two children have distinct personalities.
Xue Jiayu is cheerful and outgoing, while Xue Huanyu is careful and introverted.
"Tomorrow is the autumn outing. Please go back and tell your parents and prepare lunch. Gather at the school gate at 8:30 tomorrow morning."
As soon as the teacher finished the announcement, the students in the audience went wild.
"Teacher, where are we going for this autumn outing? Is it the zoo again?"
"Can we not go to the zoo? We go there every year and we all know those monkeys!"
"That's right, I don't want to go to the forest park either. Can we go somewhere new and interesting?"
The teacher slapped the table, "Quiet! Quiet!"
The students kept talking at once and just wouldn't listen to the teacher.
Until Xue Jiayu, the class monitor, stood up, with a stern face, slammed the table and shouted: "Didn't you hear the teacher talking?! Shut up!"
Only then did everyone quiet down.
The teacher secretly gave Xue Jiayu a thumbs up. At the beginning of the school year, the classmates unanimously elected Xue Jiayu as the class monitor. She was also worried that a weak girl like Xue Jiayu might not be able to manage the entire class.
Unexpectedly, after Xue Jiayu became the class monitor, she managed the class atmosphere very well, and classmates would go to her for solutions when they had problems.
“This time we’re going to the Science and Technology Museum.”
"Yeah! It's a new place!"
Xue Jiayu immediately turned around to look at Zhan Nanqi, Science and Technology Museum, Brother Nanqi must like it!
Sure enough, Zhan Nanqi raised his head and a hint of interest appeared on his handsome face.
After school, Jiang Qiuyu came to pick them up, and when she heard that they were going on an autumn outing, she immediately said she would prepare lunch boxes for them.
"Aunt Jiang, can you make one for me?" Gu Yuan put his hands together and asked, "My mom's bento will only have vegetables. How can I eat it?"