On August 20th, Song Jiawen and Jiang Yan went to school to receive their scholarships.
Jiang Yan's scholarship, awarded by the Education Bureau and his school, totaled eight thousand.
Song Jiawen's was much more, with contributions from the government, Education Bureau, school... adding up to over twenty thousand, nearly thirty thousand.
Because of this money, Xie Yanhai didn't insist on giving her cash before she left.
But she did accept the two thousand Shi Peirong had prepared for her, as grandma said it was a reward for her, for accomplishing the dream her grandfather hadn't achieved, for embarking on the path her grandfather had always wished to take...
Thinking of that kind, smiling old man, who patiently taught her how to write in large characters, taught her painting, reading the Three Character Classic...
