Chapter 161: Chapter 161
Grandma Bai coaxed and deceived Gangzi into going back home, repeatedly assuring that she would definitely not let him bother again.
Bai Dahe hesitated for a long time before returning home, without stepping up to talk to them or being sentimental like yesterday.
Bai Ruxue breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn’t cause the most substantial harm to Grandma Bai in the end, she believed that with Gangzi’s personality and disposition, the old couple would definitely not have peaceful days in the future.
"We’ll change the name at the police station later!" Bai Ruxue happily said after the others had left.
"Yes! Let’s go later!" Xianglan chimed in, smiling happily.
Although her eyes were still swollen, her face showed happiness.
After having breakfast, Bai Ruxue took everyone to the police station. She specially sought out Mayor Guo and explained everything. Afterwards, Mayor Guo assigned a secretary to lead them to the police station.
Thus, the surname was changed smoothly; Lin Gang was changed to Bai Gang.
It sounded odd and unpleasant, and he himself was quite unwilling.
Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai followed them. They changed their names first, and Grandma Bai reassured Gangzi by saying they would go to the State-Owned Restaurant for a meal, and then the three of them left.
Ultimately, Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai didn’t say a word to Daliang.
Daliang was changed to Lin Daliang; the name didn’t change, only the surname.
Bai Ruxue advocated removing the "Ru" character from her and her siblings’ names.
Changing them to Lin Xue, Lin Yun, Lin Xia, Lin Shan, Lin Chuan, Lin Feng, Lin Cai.
The names of the younger generation in the Bai Family, she didn’t want them.
Although she also bore the Bai surname in her past life, rebirth is rebirth. Being overly attached to the past life isn’t good, and besides, there weren’t many good people in this current Bai Family whom she liked, so she decided to change it.
After leaving the police station, Bai Ruxue took her renamed father Lin Daliang to get marriage certificates for her parents.
At that time, many people didn’t have this awareness, with many couples living most of their lives without any concept of a marriage certificate.
However, since they came to process the certificates today, they decided to change them all.
Just right, that courtyard was purchased under her father’s name, and now they all had urban household registrations and could move in.
However, Bai Ruxue knew that if her father moved in, she’d have to transfer her supplies and could no longer use that courtyard for transactions, so she needed to find another place.
She’s not in a rush for all this, just changed the names on the property certificates first.
Zhang Yuan is supposed to return tomorrow, so let’s see what he says then.
Suddenly, their household registrations fell under the Lin Family, becoming urban ones, which owed greatly to Mayor Guo’s effort. Otherwise, so many rural registrations transferring to urban ones would be nearly impossible.
Changing rural registrations to urban ones was as difficult as ascending to heavens at that time.
The four little ones didn’t know about the change in registration, nor about the happenings at home. After sending her father Lin Daliang back to the milk powder factory, Lin Xue took grandma Xianglan to the school.
When the four little ones were called out from the classroom, they were particularly curious to see their elder sister with an old lady coming to see them.
"Big sis, why did you come over so soon, not even a week has passed, and you came to see us?" Lin Xia, the third sister who had changed her name, jumped over excitedly.
She seemed more immature compared to the two younger brothers.
Behind her was the quiet Lin Yun who also walked over, smiling happily.
The two younger brothers were also particularly cheerful. Their elder sister came to see them just three or four days after the school started, truly making them happy.
The four little ones automatically ignored the old lady next to them.
They were too young at that time to have any impression of their former grandaunt, now their real grandmother, Bai Xianglan.
"Let’s go! It’s noon; I’ll treat you to a delicious meal!" Bai Ruxue didn’t hurry in speaking.
She just led the four little ones and Xianglan out of the campus.
"Big sis, where are we going for the delicious meal? The State-Owned Restaurant?" Lin Shan asked, his brain being the clearest, always keeping a thought process. Find the newest release on novęlfire.net
Upon hearing his elder sister say that she would treat them to a good meal, he thought about it, as there was only that one State-Owned Restaurant to eat in town.
"Yes! I’ve taken leave from your teachers, so I’ll treat you to a splendid meal!" Lin Xue nodded.
The four little ones didn’t ask, and she wasn’t in a rush to introduce grandmother to them.
As for Xianglan, looking at so many grandchildren, she was already smiling widely.
She never dared to hope for so many grandchildren in her lifetime, but now it was like a dream; having so many grandchildren, and her son being so capable, and the eldest granddaughter being extraordinarily smart and capable—it was unbelievable to her.
Nowadays, the feeling of having grandchildren around seemed almost to burst her heart.
Bai Ruxue witnessed all this—earlier, just after they changed names, her father wanted to pay respects at her grandfather’s grave, but Grandma recommended waiting for the children’s holidays and then going with her son and grandchildren.
As for the granddaughter, there’s a tradition that girls shouldn’t pay respects at graves, coincidentally Lin Xue didn’t want to go, so it was settled.
They laughed and chatted their way to the State-Owned Restaurant.
Originally, Lin Xue thought she might bump into Grandma Bai and the two others, but unexpectedly, they must have left before mealtime, so they weren’t there.
The waitress was still the same as before, but the chef had changed.
When she walked in, the waitress, unlike her usual indifference towards other people, approached her to greet her.
"Little girl, coming for a meal, huh? You arrived in good time; today there’s meat! Plus, big white steamed buns!"
"Yes! Brought grandma and siblings over for a meal!" Lin Xue replied to the waitress, turning to tell the four little ones and grandmother, "You all find a table to sit! I’ll go order food!"
Although the waitress approached to greet them, the rule at State-Owned Restaurant was that customers had to go upfront to order food themselves! And they had to pay first after ordering.
"Xiao Xue, let grandma go order!" Bai Xianglan stepped forward to stop Lin Xue.
Though she was left with not much after Gangzi’s antics, she still had a few yuan and several jin of grain stamps hidden secretly.
This was the first time dining out with the real grandchildren, how could she let her granddaughter pay!
Upon hearing this word "grandma," Lin Shan started calculating in his mind.
She is said to be his eldest sister’s grandmother, yet he didn’t know her. Could she be the eldest sister’s husband’s grandmother? But it doesn’t seem like it! Isn’t the eldest sister’s husband’s family very wealthy? If she were the grandmother, she definitely wouldn’t be dressed .
If it’s not the eldest sister’s husband’s grandmother, then who could it be?
As he calculated this, the other three happily found a big table to sit, waiting for the eldest sister to order food.
They were all hungry, and the food at school wasn’t as good as at home where they could eat fine meals daily.
Though they had experienced hunger many times before, they had almost forgotten the feeling since Lin Xue came over and they hadn’t missed meals.
The phrase "Thrift comes easily, extravagance is hard" wasn’t spoken in vain.
"Grandma, don’t compete with me, I am a factory director, coming out to eat, and letting grandma pay—it’s so embarrassing to say!" Lin Xue said confidently, pushing her towards the table with the little ones and signaling Lin Shan with her eyes.
It was then Lin Shan came to his senses, joining towards the table, with his face full of exploring expressions.
Lin Xue smiled; at key moments, this brother was reliable; there it was, certainly pondering things over in his mind.