Chapter 17: The Jade Lady Leader

"Okay." Rong Jiahui held the edge of her skirt with her small hands, lowered her head, and spoke with a slightly unstandard pronunciation.

Pastor Edward said, "Mr. Yin, Jiahui is born with hearing impairment. The doctor diagnosed her as grade three, but she is not completely deaf."

"When we talk loudly in daily life, she can hear a little by looking at the lip movements."

"Of course, communicating with sign language is more accurate, but it is best to have verbal conversations in daily life. Deaf-muteness is a comorbidity, and language skills require long-term training."

Seeing that Rong Jiahui seemed to be more introverted, Yin Zhaotang nodded: "I understand."

Zhou Huimin stood up, put her hands on Rong Jiahui's shoulders, and said softly and gracefully, "Mr. Yin, Jiahui is a well-behaved and sensible child. She has encountered some problems in life. Please take good care of her."

"Adopting a disabled child requires a little more patience." Pastor Edward laughed.

Yin Zhaotang nodded slightly, looked at the pure, innocent, sweet and lovely Zhou Huimin in front of him, and asked knowingly: "Excuse me, what is your name, Miss? Are you Jiahui's tutor?"

Pastor Edward shook his head: "Miss Zhou Huimin is a volunteer of the Anglican Church. She sometimes comes to the Children's Home to teach the children music lessons."

"Because Jiahui has a hearing impairment, Miss Zhou has always been very caring towards her."

"Mr. Yin, my last name is Zhou, you can call me Amin." Zhou Huimin was not tall, and looked quiet and well-behaved, but she extended her hand to Yin Zhaotang very generously. Perhaps it was Yin Zhaotang's kind act of adopting a child that made people let down their guard.

Yin Zhaotang shook hands with Zhou Huimin generously and said, "Well, Amin, thank you for your long-term care for Jiahui. I will definitely ask for your advice if I need any help."

Zhou Huimin took back her hand, her delicate eyes and eyebrows were filled with smiles. Everyone likes the feeling of being recognized by others: "I was sick when I was a child, and I was cured by the church hospital."

"I transferred to a church school, believing that doing good deeds will be rewarded. Mr. Yin, this is my phone number, you can call me if you have any questions."

She picked up a pen and paper on the counter and wrote down a string of numbers.

Her original intention was to show concern for Jiahui's future life, but after handing over the note and seeing Yin Zhaotang's surprised look, the girl became sensitive and subconsciously avoided eye contact.

Only after Yin Zhaotang put the note away and thanked him solemnly did Zhou Huimin look at him again.

This time I paid more attention to his appearance and soon found that Mr. Yin had a very strong body and looked sunny and youthful. He was wearing a simple white T-shirt, which looked very clean.

Pastor Edward saw that the two were chatting happily and were of similar age. He was very helpful and said with a smile: "Jiahui is just going through the procedures for family foster care. The Children's Home will send someone to visit every month."

"Ms. Zhou and Jiahui have a very good relationship. In the future, if there is time, Ms. Zhou can visit Jiahui on behalf of the Children's Home."

Zhou Huimin readily agreed: "Okay, Pastor."

"Mr. Yin, please fill out the foster care information. In addition, there is a foster care fee of 20,000 yuan that needs to be paid. When the foster family qualification ends, the welfare home will return the money to you." Pastor Edward said sincerely: "This is also a kind of protection for the children. I believe you can understand."

Yin Zhaotang nodded and said that he understood, but he secretly complained in his heart: 20,000 Hong Kong dollars is a bit too high!

This will actually discourage some ordinary families from registering for foster care, which shows that there is no long-term operating organization in the world that does not make a profit.

Any organization claiming to be non-profit, even if it does not seek profit at the beginning, will begin to show the Matthew effect of money when the capital pool accumulates to a certain level.

The Bible, Matthew, Chapter 25: "For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."

Yin Zhaotang had some cash on him, but considering that he would be doing business soon, he had to keep some cash, and he happened to buy a checkbook at the bank counter.

He stood at the front desk, holding a pen, opened the checkbook, wrote down the welfare home's account information, signed his name, filled in the number, and tore it off with a clean and neat sound. If he wasn't wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, he would have looked like a rich young man.

When volunteer Miss Jiang came back and saw this scene, her eyes lit up. She secretly bumped Zhou Huimin's shoulder, looking very interested in him.

Zhou Huimin pouted, secretly touched Miss Jiang's butt, and said in a quirky way: "Are you being crazy again, Jiang Lin?"

"Who wouldn't like a handsome guy who is rich and stylish?" She admitted generously: "The key is that it is even harder to find a loving person at such a young age."

"Think about it, a handsome boy of 16 or 17 years old is going to adopt a disabled child. There must be a special story behind it."

When Zhou Huimin thought about it, she felt that it was true. If they were not people with a story, it would be hard to imagine that teenagers would adopt children.

She suddenly felt curious and looked at Yin Zhaotang, then at Rong Jiahui who was sitting on the chair waiting, hoping that Jiahui would be happier than living in the orphanage.

After paying the money and signing the documents, Yin Zhaotang found that the adoption procedures were not that complicated. The biggest hurdle was actually money. As long as the money was in place, no one would even ask him what job he did.

Now we are waiting for the volunteers to take Jiahui to pack her clothes and say goodbye to the children. We can leave in half an hour at most.

"This is good. If it's too strict, I won't be able to pass the review. It won't be good if it affects my work."

Yin Zhaotang stood at the door of the classroom, watching Zhou Huimin bring Jiahui to the podium and say goodbye to other children. He felt a rare sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Perhaps putting aside the need to repay the gods, just doing this thing itself is meaningful, at least it makes people feel worthwhile at certain moments.

Beep beep beep.

Yin Zhaotang was looking happy when the pager on his waist suddenly rang.

I picked up the pager and glanced at the screen, which showed Jiang Hao's number. I tapped it again and saw the most commonly used paging code: Please call back immediately.

The five brothers couldn't even get together to own a mobile phone. Every time they needed to call back a pager, they could basically find the person by calling the rental house where the younger brothers answered the phone to bring guests.

"Pastor, I have something to do at work, and I want to borrow the Children's Home's phone to contact a friend."

Edward would not refuse a kind-hearted man who had just paid 20,000 yuan, so he said politely, "Mr. Yin, please play as long as you want."

"Thank you."

Yin Zhaotang nodded in thanks, walked to the phone at the front desk, picked up the receiver and dialed a number.

Since there was no one around, he subconsciously took out a cigarette box from his trouser pocket, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

He looked up and saw a picture of a child on the wall. He stopped lighting a cigarette, bit the cigarette, and asked the brother on the other end of the phone, "Ah Hao, what's going on?"

"So urgent!"

To register a company, you can ask a scalper to do it for a few hundred dollars, and there is no need to call back. You will definitely encounter other troubles.

(End of this chapter)

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