Chapter 1312: A Boy at Home Has Grown Up

The class bell rang.

The little sister hadn't finished talking, but she had to go back to class.

She looked at Shi Ran with reluctance, wanting to say something but hesitating, and ultimately said nothing.

Yun Qitian said: "We will come to see you in the future, often."

"Mm-hmm."

The little girl smiled, and when she smiled, two shallow dimples appeared on her cheeks, which was especially pretty.

"Goodbye, brother and sister, I'm going to class."

"Wait a moment."

Shi Ran took a few banknotes out of her wallet and stuffed them into her hand: "Take this money, keep it to buy some things."

"I don't want it."

The banknotes seemed to burn her hands; the little girl hurriedly stuffed them back and turned to run.

"Hey, run slower."

"Goodbye, brother and sister."

The little girl turned her head and smiled while running.

The couple returned to the Welfare Institute again, put down the things they had bought for the second time, and the director accepted them gladly.

But when the couple wanted to donate money to the Welfare Institute, they were refused.

The director rubbed his hands and smiled honestly: "No need, no need, we don't accept money."

"Why don't you accept it? This is just a little token of our appreciation; is it because you think it's too little?"

Shi Ran prepared to add another donation, but was refused again.

The director explained that they were not a state-run Welfare Institute, but a private one.

The status of private ones is quite awkward; if they accept donations, some people say it's irregular, claiming he didn't use all the money on the children, and they want to audit the accounts.

But the director and his family don't have a high level of education; they do have account books, but they are all handwritten, and they were told it was irregular, almost causing the Welfare Institute to be unable to continue running.

So from then on, they only accepted supplies and not cash, and they didn't want bank transfers either.

Shi Ran and Yun Qitian left the Welfare Institute; Shi Ran now finally understood her mother's painstaking efforts, the reason why she didn't send Qi Xiaomei to a public Welfare Institute, but instead withstood the pressure to send her to this place.

Although this place is small and looks poor on the surface, it is more suitable for the little sister than a big place.

The little sister is very happy here.

For a child, there is nothing more important than being happy!

……

Sheng Family.

Shi Youxuan tore another sheet off the small blackboard; the remaining number of characters showed: 7 days until the high school entrance exam.

Time passes so fast; in the blink of an eye, Zichen and Litian are about to take the high school entrance exam. After high school, there are three more years until university, and after university, they will be adults.

Children are like wheat seedlings in the field, one crop after another, growing very fast.

The children have grown up, but she... seems not to have aged.

This is something Shi Youxuan has been very proud of in recent years.

She is not like other ladies and wives who are keen on beauty treatments, spas, and even injecting hyaluronic acid into their faces or going abroad for anti-aging plastic surgery every day.

She does almost nothing; apart from the most basic daily care, she does nothing else, yet her skin condition is better than her peers.

She is in her forties, but she still looks like she is in her twenties.

When going out with her daughter and sons, she is often mistaken for their older sister.

She summed it up and felt that a good mindset is more useful than any beauty product!

At this time, Zichen and Litian came back from school.

The two children were talking and laughing, discussing as they walked, laughing uncontrollably!

Shi Youxuan asked: "What are you laughing so happily about? Tell me so I can laugh for a while too."

Litian cut in before Zichen and said to his mother: "Mom, you don't know, many of our classmates have had conflicts with their parents. During the days of the high school entrance exam, the parents insisted on accompanying them to the exam, and they wouldn't listen even if told not to. It's hilarious..."

Zichen continued: "Exactly, Li Yi in our class got anxious while talking to his mom and shouted twice. His mother cried out of grievance, and then he had no choice but to agree."

"As a result, he was mocked by his classmates when he got to class, hahahahaha..."

They were talking lively, and Shi Youxuan was listening intently; no one noticed that the grandparents had come over.

"You should accompany them for the high school entrance exam. Xuanxuan, aren't you and Hanyu going?" There was no lack of complaint in the grandmother's words.

"Mom, please sit."

Shi Youxuan helped her mother-in-law sit down, her brain spinning fast, thinking about how to talk to her mother-in-law better.

She wanted to express her meaning tactfully without making her mother-in-law react too strongly.

Plans cannot keep up with changes.

Her idea was fine, but the problem was that someone couldn't hold their breath.

Zichen and Litian were in the middle of their excitement and didn't notice that their grandmother was already unhappy.

Zichen said to his grandmother: "That's right, we have already agreed with Mom and Dad that we don't need to be accompanied during the high school entrance exam. We are not children anymore, and being accompanied by parents to the exam will make classmates laugh at us for being mama's boys."

Litian echoed: "Exactly."

Wang Yinghao's face suddenly turned red; she spoke slowly.

Grandfather Sheng Jiang spoke up for her: "Exactly what exactly? What's wrong with being a mama's boy? Every child is a mother's baby; is it bad to be loved? I really don't understand you children nowadays; what is there to be proud of in not being loved?"

"You must go, all of you go." Wang Yinghao's face turned red, and she finally said what she wanted to say.

What?

Zichen and Litian were dumbfounded.

Laughing at others eventually means laughing at oneself.

Other families only have their moms and dads accompanying them, and the classmates are already being mocked.

Their family is even better, with both Grandpa and Grandma wanting to accompany them; wouldn't they be laughed at by their classmates until their teeth fall out?

"No."

"No."

The two brothers spoke in unison, opposing it together.

"Grandpa, can you and Grandma stop getting involved? Being a 'mama's boy' isn't much, but it's the nastiest insult; we don't want to be mama's boys, so none of you come to the exam."

"The exam isn't a basketball game; it doesn't need cheerleaders, so no one from the family should go." Zichen and Litian made their stance very clear.

Grandpa rarely speaks, but when he does, he hurts people.

Even though both brothers were talking back, he directed his anger only at Litian: "You couldn't be a mama's boy even if you wanted to, you don't have a mom! Oh right, you don't have a dad either."

Litian stood frozen in place, speechless.

Shi Youxuan said anxiously: "Dad, what are you saying? Hanyu and I are Litian's mom and dad, he is our child."

"You want to be someone's mom, but they don't appreciate it; didn't you hear him say he doesn't want to be a mama's boy? Flesh that isn't your own won't stick to your body. If you have spare time, be better to the child you gave birth to; being good to others is useless..."

Her daughter-in-law kept signaling him to speak less and stop talking.

Sheng Jiang didn't catch on at all; not only did he continue, but he became more energized the more he spoke.

"It's the truth, I'm not wrong. He's even corrupted our Zichen; my perfectly good grandson is now disobedient and has been incited to be unreasonable..."

Litian ran out, tears welling in the corners of his eyes as he turned away.

"Grandpa, what are you saying... Oh!"

Zichen stomped his feet in anger, then turned and ran out to chase after Litian.

Shi Youxuan shouted at her son's retreating back: "Talk to Litian properly, Grandpa is just joking, don't take it to heart."

Whether he heard the second half of the sentence is unknown; the two children ran extremely fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Sheng Jiang was unconvinced and argued: "I wasn't joking, I was serious."

Shi Youxuan was speechless.