After Zhang Dandan got her keys, she hurriedly found someone to do a simple renovation. During this time, Liang Jian Country went over to help keep an eye on things. They even managed to do some tasks like painting the walls themselves, which eliminated the need to hire people. For the past few days, Liang Jian Country and Cha Zhenfang, as a couple, have been busy helping Zhang Dandan renovate her house.

Originally, the two came over with their children to play, but seeing Zhang Dandan struggling on her own, they ended up helping her finish the renovation before heading back.

Before leaving, Zhang Dandan gave Liang Jian Country a thousand yuan, asking him to pass it on to her son back home.

"Uncle, just say the money is from you, not from me. If they find out where I am, given the nature of my child’s father, he will definitely come looking for me. I really don’t want to live with him anymore. As for the child, I haven’t raised him since he was little, he isn’t close to me. Even if I give him money, he won’t feel anything about it. To avoid causing trouble for everyone, it’s better not to say it’s from me."

Although Zhang Dandan doesn’t have deep feelings for her son, she is still his mother and cannot entirely ignore him.

Liang Jian Country didn’t say much. Since she didn’t want to tell people back home, then let it be. As long as she lives well in the future, that’s what matters. When the child grows up, whatever happens will be a matter for the future.

While Liang Jian Country and Cha Zhenfang were here, they also talked about some family situations with Liang Hongmei. They knew that Liang Weixiang was now dealing with divorce issues. However, their family wasn’t much to speak of, with several sons who weren’t very capable, had narrow perspectives, and liked to haggle over small things. Having too many sons isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Originally, when Liang Weixiang had three sons, she used to brag in front of her, saying that in the future she would have many sons to help with the farm work and that when she’d grow old she’d have meals brought to her while sitting idly.

Looking at it now, raising sons is also a risk; if not done well, they all become burdens. This is the current situation for Liang Weixiang. So, children shouldn’t be spoiled.

After Little Star and Dingding went to S City, Grandma taught him how to ride a bicycle and even specially bought him a kid’s bike. Within a week, he was riding quite smoothly. Dingding somehow found out where Su Ling’s house was and rode his bike there daily to find Tiger to play. Tiger was older than Little Star and had more things to play with, so every day he took him to run around the city, and together with a group of kids, they even went to dig up someone’s grave in the suburbs, claiming to have a good friend in medical school who wanted a human skull cap for research, and they really went and dug for one. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Of course, they went at night, but the skull cap was not dug out. The kids either had "diarrhea" or wanted to "urinate," and one by one they all ran away.

This matter was discovered by Su Ling’s grandma because her Tiger liked to talk in his sleep, and his grandma heard it. Upon waking up and questioning, she found out what the kids had been doing these days; Tiger’s grandma called the other kids’ homes. They were all scolded by their parents.

Tiger and the others were just curious, and Dingding was simply joining in the fun, fearing nothing and following them, even carrying a shovel taller than him when he went.

After Grandma found out, she gave Dingding a stern lesson and wouldn’t let him play with Tiger anymore. Uncle Hu registered him for a swimming class, where he could play in the pool all afternoon every day.

Compared to Dingding’s mischievousness, Little Star is much more reassuring. She expressed wanting to learn baking from Shuhua, and as soon as she arrived, she went to find Shuhua.

Now, every day around nine or ten, she takes the bus over to Shuhua’s place, and Grandma doesn’t let her come back too late in the afternoon, usually getting on the bus to come home by four or five. Grandma even got her a bus card.

When Little Star arrived at Shuhua’s place, she started by helping her arrange bread and cakes and aid in collecting money. One time, she mistakenly undercharged a customer one yuan, feeling guilty for a long time.

Since then, she doesn’t rush to handle the money business anymore and instead helps Shuhua and Uncle Jin with cleaning up, making bread, and has learned many things in half a month. She knows which ingredients to use for making different types of bread.

Once, Shuhua’s three kids and Grandma brought Dingding over to pick up Little Star. Having eaten too much bread and not wanting to eat anything else, she saw Shuhua with a bowl of dough being made for buns, remembered the delicious pizza she ate at Pizza Hut before, and noticing there were several vegetables and soy milk here, Little Star had a sudden inspiration, baking a few homemade pizzas for everyone.