My Happy Daily Life After Being Reborn
Chapter 438 - 41 The First Person to Seek Help_2

Chapter 438: Chapter 41 The First Person to Seek Help_2

Wen Shuzhen thought these blueprints were ones Lin Xiaoguai had drawn in her spare time.

Lin Xiaoguai was taken aback by her words and somewhat sheepishly said, "No, someone else helped me draw them."

Wen Shuzhen was excitedly looking at the design plans, and Luo Ming, Luo Jiaxing, and Luo Jiamin were also engrossed in them, so they didn’t notice the unusual expression on Lin Xiaoguai’s face.

It was Shen Chi, however, who glanced at her with a smirk, "Someone else?"

Lin Xiaoguai pursed her lips, thinking to herself, as if she’s going to tell you.

The house was selected, and the next step was the settlement of payment. Shen Chi offered a price of 950,000 yuan, inclusive of renovations; Lin Xiaoguai would handle the renovations after paying this sum.

Actually, the price was already quite low, which Luo Ming understood. Without hesitation, he raised the price to 1.6 million yuan. Shen Chi tried to refuse twice, but after failing, he didn’t insist further.

Next, Shen Chi took charge of handling the property deeds, while Lin Xiaoguai started contacting the renovation team for the job.

By the time summer arrived, Luo Ming’s family had moved into the new house, and the Charitable Foundation’s base had just been completed and officially started operating.

Lin Xiaoguai didn’t quite understand how a Charitable Foundation should be run, and others knew even less, so they could only discuss things with each other and figure things out step by step.

They first visited several neighborhoods and schools to promote the foundation, hoping to attract children and people with disabilities who needed assistance to come forward and apply.

At first, after tirelessly handing out hundreds of thousands of flyers without any result, they began to lose hope. But a month later, just as everyone was becoming disheartened, the first child seeking help appeared.

It was a girl whose exact age was indeterminate; she might have been a teenager or as young as seven or eight because she was so thin, like nothing but skin and bones. Her hair had turned a yellowish color due to malnutrition, and while her expression was somewhat restrained and fearful, her eyes were stubborn.

Lin Xiaoguai noticed that the sole of the shoe the girl was wearing was coming off, which made her gait very awkward.

"Little sister, do you need any help?" Lv Huifang was the first to react, coming forward to ask eagerly.

The other people quickly caught on, and a young female staff member sat down with the little girl at the counter.

"I..." The girl nervously stammered, "My name is... Huang Daya, I want my brother to... to survive."

"Good child, how old are you?" Lin Xiaoguai set a glass of juice in front of her and asked in a gentle voice.

The base’s reception counter was very large, similar to a big desk. As this was the first case of someone seeking help, several of the base’s directors gathered around, and many staff members also paid close attention discreetly.

"I’m fourteen this year." Huang Daya clutched the blanket in her hands and swallowed before asking, "Big Zhu said you could help me, is that true?"

Though young, she understood the principle of reaping what you sow and was skeptical about the offer of free assistance, even if Big Zhu was a college student.

She wouldn’t have made the long journey into the city if she hadn’t run out of options.

"Can you tell us the specific situation? If your brother’s condition meets our funding criteria, then he can receive our assistance," Lin Xiaoguai’s voice was gentle yet firm.

Seemingly influenced by her calm demeanor, Huang Daya also calmed down and began to share her story—

Due to the common rural notion of preferring boys over girls, even after having three daughters and being so costly that the family planning officers emptied their house, Huang Daya’s parents never gave up hope of having a son.

While her mother was hiding in different relatives’ homes while pregnant with her fourth child, for fear of being caught by the village’s women’s director, the news came that her father had died in an accident. In sorrow, her mother gave birth prematurely and passed away during the difficult birth. The son she left behind was jaundiced and weak, on the verge of death.

All the relatives were too poor to offer any assistance.

Huang Daya, who had just lost her parents, was at her wits’ end. It was at this time that a village college student mentioned the Charitable Foundation, and she clung to that last hope and came to the city.

"The whole body was golden yellow?" Everyone seemed confused.

"It’s jaundice!" Lv Huifang was the first to react, asking urgently, "Little sister, when was your brother born?"

"Last night..." Huang Daya said, choking up.

"Where’s your brother? Did you bring him?"

"No, my older sister and the second sister are at home watching my brother."

"Where do you live?"

"Little Huang Village."

Lv Huifang quickly made a call to the hospital to arrange for the child’s pick-up and then, taking Huang Daya by the arm, said, "Come on, let’s go pick up your brother."

Huang Daya’s face lit up with joy, and she hurriedly followed.

The others looked at each other, taken aback by the situation. As one of the directors, Rui Ying turned to Lin Xiaoguai and said, "Xiao Guai, is this alright? We haven’t verified..."

"Special circumstances require special handling," Lin Xiaoguai didn’t believe the child would lie.

Orphaned with nothing to their name, they certainly met the criteria for assistance.

But then she remembered something. "Should we establish an orphanage?"

"What?" Rui Ying and the other directors left at the base were stunned.

"Think about it. Huang Daya and her siblings have no parents left. Even if we save her brother, what about the future? It’s clear their relatives can’t take care of them," said Lin Xiaoguai.

"That’s true, but we could send the child to a welfare home, couldn’t we? Isn’t building an orphanage making too much fuss?" a director with the surname Rong interjected.

This director, named Rong Changxin, was also a distinguished lady. Her husband was a government official, not high in rank, but she was known for her upright character and straightforwardness, which is why Lin Xiaoguai invited her to become the vice chairwoman of the board, assisting Lv Huifang in managing the foundation.

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