Chapter 117: Naming

"Father, you said Maodan is back? He won't have to live in the hospital, right? How many days does he have to rest? Can he play with us tomorrow...?"

Ercai's mouth didn't stop on the way, asking one question after another.

Gu Chenghuai disliked him for being wordy, strode with long legs, and walked very fast, leaving the two sons behind in just a few steps.

Ercai shouted, "Father, wait for me, why are you walking so fast, don't spill the chicken soup. That's the chicken soup Mother worked hard to make, not a drop can be wasted."

He flapped his short legs and ran.

Gu Da Cai raised his voice: "Father, do you know Maodan's house, slow down, I and Ercai will lead the way for you."

Gu Chenghuai always kept a distance not far or near from the twins, ensuring they were within his line of sight while not being attacked by Ercai's questions.

When they arrived at the Ning house, Maodan had already returned from the county hospital.

Gu Chenghuai looked at Old Lady Ning, "Is Maodan's body okay?"

"The doctor said there's a sound in the lungs, prescribed some medicine, said to eat it first, and if there's any other situation, send him over in time." Old Lady Ning's face was quite worried.

"If there's anything, send word, I'll send him to the hospital." Gu Chenghuai had heard about the many heroic deeds of that person in the Ning family, that person could be said to be his career enlightenment person, he was very willing to look after that person's family.

Hearing this, Old Lady Ning felt her tense nerves relax, and she smiled and thanked him: "Thank you."

Maodan didn't want to lie in the room, so he was lying on an old rocking chair in the courtyard, covered with a gray blanket on his stomach.

He coughed a few times and thanked Gu Chenghuai, "Cough cough cough... thank you Uncle Gu."

Ercai sat on the low stool next to Maodan without being polite, his eyes worried, "Maodan, did you go to the hospital for a blood draw?"

"No." Maodan shook his head, "The doctor took something cold and listened on my body." He tried hard to describe it.

Ercai listened and was confused.

Gu Da Cai didn't sit down, stood beside him, pulled the blanket up for Maodan, "Maodan, my mother stewed chicken soup, let us send it to you, you drink it in a while. You'll be fine tomorrow."

Old Lady Ning was surprised, "Chicken soup?"

Gu Chenghuai said steadily: "Yes, my wife said Maodan needs to be supplemented. Auntie, trouble you to get a bowl."

"Your wife has a heart." Old Lady Ning didn't refuse politely, turned her head and went to the kitchen to get a bowl.

Her cooking skills were not good, her grandson suffered such a big crime, and she also wanted the child to eat a good meal.

Gu Chenghuai poured the chicken soup into the Ning family's bowl, a big bowl, with quite a lot of meat, and the smell was fragrant.

Old Lady Ning smelled the ginseng flavor and was stunned: "Ginseng?"

Others might not be able to discover it, but she had smelled this flavor since she was small, and it couldn't escape her nose.

"Just a few whiskers." Gu Chenghuai had heard his wife say it.

Thinking of how Zhaozhao had muttered that she was nourishing his body, and that Maodan was just basking in his own reflected glory, he couldn't suppress the curve of his lips no matter what.

Sweet.

"Whiskers are also valuable." Old Lady Ning accepted this help, "I'll accept it for Maodan, thank your wife for me."

Gu Chenghuai didn't delay much, shouted to the twins, and the father and three sons left.

"Maodan, come, Grandma will feed you, this must be drunk while hot, there is ginseng inside, it's good for your body, it's really well made. If I had this good cooking skill, I could raise our Maodan to be white and fat." Old Lady Ning was annoyed that her cooking skills were not good.

"It's okay." Maodan didn't care, "When I get better, I can learn it myself, and raise myself and Grandma to be white and fat."

Old Lady Ning felt warm in her heart.

She found a small spoon, scooped a spoonful of soup and fed it to her grandson's mouth.

Maodan was a self-reliant little man, not used to being fed by adults, took the spoon and drank it himself, tasted the flavor, and the little guy's eyes were as bright as lamps.

Delicious.

Life reached its peak!

Didn't drink a few sips, the little face turned red.

"Lin Auntie's cooking is really fragrant. Grandma, when I get better, I'll go learn from Lin Auntie how to cook, and then make it for you to eat." Maodan always remembered what his grandfather said before he died, thinking about taking good care of his grandmother.

Old Lady Ning smiled and accepted the pie drawn by her grandson, "Good, Grandma is waiting."

Seeing her grandson eating fragrantly, she was very happy.

Being able to eat means there's nothing big.

Maodan didn't finish drinking, and insisted on sharing half a bowl with Old Lady Ning, Old Lady Ning wanted to leave it for him but couldn't, the child was very stubborn.

Fortunately, the Gu family sent a lot, enough for the grandmother and grandson to share, and neither of them suffered.

Gu Chenghuai brought the two cubs home, the dining table in the courtyard had been set up, full of food, the fragrance was misty, coming to the nose, and the wooden stools were also arranged neatly, just waiting for them to return.

"Back, just right, sit down quickly, have things to say after eating." Gu's father sat down first, beckoned to the juniors in the family, signaling them to sit down.

The Gu family sat down in order and started eating.

There wasn't much chicken soup, the Gu family had so many people, it definitely wasn't enough to share, only distributed to the two big heads of the family, the third room couple, and then the Gu family's big and small cubs, and then it was empty.

Gu Yuanshan and the others didn't care about not having chicken soup to drink, eating braised chicken blocks was the same, the potatoes inside had a meat flavor, it was fragrant.

And there was chicken blood tofu, it was also fragrant.

Gu Chenghuai drank a mouthful of chicken soup, the flavor was fresh and fragrant, and he didn't stint on praise: "Very fragrant."

"If you like it, I'll make it for you again if there's a chance." Lin Zhao smiled slightly at him.

Ercai gnawed on a chicken wing, his mouth was oily, his body turned sideways, smiling, "Mother, I like it too."

"I'll make it for you if there's a chance." Lin Zhao responded.

"Mother, Grandmother is really amazing." Ercai's eyes were worshipful, "If I were as amazing as Grandmother, our family could eat meat every meal."

The Gu family felt Ercai really had a heart, and the look in their eyes toward him was soft beyond words.

Lin Zhao patted Ercai's back lightly, "Sit straight, you'll fall if you lean sideways."

After he sat straight, she said: "Hunting is not a simple matter, and now the brigade manages strictly, there isn't much meat at your grandmother and grandfather's place."

If a big one is caught and discovered by others, it has to be handed over to the brigade, and all the commune members will share it equally.

The wild boar her mother sold must have been transported out secretly.

Ercai sighed gloomily, "Sigh, it's really hard to eat a mouthful of meat."

Gu Chenghuai stared at him faintly, "Is the family lacking meat for you to eat?"

"Little guy who doesn't know contentment." His biological father complained.

When he was small, let alone meat, he couldn't even eat a few eggs, he could grow so tall, purely relying on being gifted.

This cub has meat every few days, and he's still not satisfied.

Don't look at Ercai being young, he used his chopsticks with ease, picked up a piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed a few times and swallowed, "Who dislikes too much meat."

Gu Chenghuai choked.

He said deliberately: "How about sending you to another family for a few days?"

"My mother can't bear to part with me, if you dare to send me to another family, my mother will scratch you." Ercai said spiritedly.

Lin Zhao couldn't laugh or cry, "Comrade Gu Ercai, don't talk too much, eat your meal."

Even Gu Da Cai felt his younger brother was too noisy, picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth.

Seeing this scene, everyone laughed.

The twins sat on the small wooden cart, eating grandma-style noodle paste, with their faces full of it.

The small cart they sat in was also made by Gu Chenghuai, he saw that it was inconvenient for Lin Zhao to feed the children, and according to the height of the two little ones, made a small dining chair suitable for them.

With this small dining chair, it saved a lot of worry.

Seeing the big brother being fierce to the second brother, the twins giggled.

Ercai felt he had no face, didn't talk much anymore, and ate his meal obediently.

As for Bang Bang and the others, they ate without raising their heads, and couldn't even give birth to the thought of talking.

The sun set, the small farmhouse courtyard, the Gu family was harmonious, even Seeing Da Huang and Amber had bones to eat, the big and small dog tails wagged like propellers.

The neighbors on both sides of the Gu family looked at the hard wild vegetable buns in their hands, only feeling it was hard to swallow.

Adults could still find joy in bitterness, children didn't understand, couldn't bear it for a moment, crying and wanting to eat meat, tears the size of beans slid down their cheeks.

"I want to eat meat woo woo woo, Father, I want to eat meat..."

The father's heart said he also wanted to eat meat, where to get meat tickets, where to get money.

"Shut up, don't eat if you make a scene again."

"Why are you fierce to the baby!" The mother couldn't bear to see her man being fierce to the baby, pinched her own man, coaxed her son, "Don't cry, don't cry, Mother will ask someone tomorrow, see if I can get meat tickets, if I can get them, I'll cut a few taels of meat, Mother will wrap dumplings for you."

The boy stopped crying instantly, broke into tears and smiled, "Really?"

"Really!" The woman wiped the tears on her son's face messily, "Crying like a little flower cat, are you stupid."

Complaining on the surface, but in her heart, she felt heartache, let alone the baby being greedy, not having tasted meat for more than three months, they adults were also greedy.

The boy became happy, sniffed the fragrance of the food in the air fiercely, and started eating obediently.

It was impossible not to eat, if he didn't eat, his stomach would keep calling, and he wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

This scene happened in several households.

Planned economy, materials were not abundant, city people had a hard time eating meat, let alone country people.

Gu family.

After the whole family finished eating, Huang Xiulan and Zhao Liuniang cleaned up the kitchen.

Gu's father scanned the circle, found that everyone in the family was there, and opened his mouth: "I have taken the names for the children."

Lai Mei was the most excited, rushed to his grandfather, his eyes extremely bright, "Grandfather, what is my name?"

"Your brother is called Gu Xingye, you follow his name, called Gu Xingci, Fish is called Gu Yu." Gu's father said.

Gu Da Cai was also looking forward to his big name, "Grandfather, what about mine?"

"You are called Gu Zhiyu." Before Ercai and the others could ask, Gu's father smiled: "Ercai is called Gu Zhiheng, Quiet Quiet San Zai is called Gu Zhijian, Fourth Cub is called Gu Zhiyao."

He looked at the paper and read the names, the Gu family, whether they knew characters or didn't know characters, all swarmed over, staring at the characters on the paper.

Lin Zhao saw that row of names, the corners of her eyes and brows were full of satisfaction.

Sure enough, handing the task of naming to the father-in-law was not wrong at all, it was really well taken, Yu, Heng, Jian, Yao... were all characters with beautiful meanings.

Tie Dan saw it wasn't his turn yet, jumped anxiously, pointed at the tip of his nose, "Grandfather, Grandfather, there's still me, what about mine?"

"Tie Dan is called Gu Zhihang, Tie Chui is called Gu Zhili." Gu's father said.

Lai Mei was very satisfied with his name, what he couldn't understand was, "Grandfather, why are Ercai and the others' names all Zhi something, Zhi something, and I am Xing something?"

"Because you have to follow your brother, your brother's name was already on the household register, so it can only be followed down like this." Gu's father explained to his grandson.

As for why he changed to use the character "Zhi"? He felt that knowledge is power, he hoped his grandchildren all had knowledge, had culture, and could walk out.

"So that's it." Lai Mei asked clearly and had no opinion.

He announced loudly: "From today on, don't call me Lai Mei brother, call me Xingci brother!"

Ercai gave face, "Starting today, I won't call you Lai Mei brother, I'll call you Xingci brother!"

"Smart!" Lai Mei, the big friend who would be Gu Xingci in the future, praised.

Ercai said again: "I'm called Gu Zhiheng, it's so awkward, I don't know if these characters are easy to write, if they are not easy to write, in the future when I take exams, just writing the name will take a long time, thinking about it is a loss."

Gu's father: "..." Makes sense.

Take a Gu Yi?

But...

The number of strokes of the character Gu was not small, and the surname left by the ancestors couldn't be changed casually.

"Gu Da Cai's Gu Zhiyu, the character Yu has the meaning of quick-witted and knowledgeable, Ercai's Gu Zhiheng, the character Heng has the meaning of gentle and resilient..." Lin Zhao explained the meaning of their names one by one, "I think the names your grandfather took are very good, and the meanings are also very good."

Ercai had nothing to say immediately.

He walked behind Gu's father, used his little hands to massage his grandfather, "Thank you, Grandfather, for the name you took for me, I like it very much, Grandfather has worked hard."

Feeling the strength falling on his shoulders, Gu's father narrowed his eyes, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes spread out like layers of fan faces.

He felt, it was worth it.

"Grandfather didn't work hard, as long as you like it."

Gu Da Cai ran in front of Lin Zhao, "Mother, I have two names now, what will you call me in the future? Zhiyu or Gu Da Cai?"

This was a problem.

Lin Zhao threw the problem back: "What do you say? What do you want Mother to call you?"

Gu Da Cai looked troubled.

After considering for a while, he made up his mind: "Mother, call us by our big names, we are going to school soon."

And felt that every time Mother called him, it made his heart hot, the child said again: "If Mother calls me Gu Da Cai, I will also respond."

"..."

Lin Zhao saw her son's hesitation, pondered for a moment, "Better call by the big name, otherwise the big name was taken as if it wasn't taken."

Just look at Bang Bang and you'll know, Xingye is such a good-sounding name, yet not many people call it, all call it Bang Bang.

Gu Da Cai worried, "Mother, can you distinguish between my name and my younger brother and sister's names?"

Lin Zhao pinched her eyebrows, a bit helpless, "Is there anything difficult to remember about this, you are called Zhiyu, Ercai is called Zhiheng, Quiet Quiet San Zai is called Zhijian, Fourth Cub is called Zhiyao."

"It's good that you can remember clearly." Gu Da Cai seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Looked at Gu Chenghuai again, "Father, you remembered too, right?"

"... Remembered."

Only then did Gu Da Cai feel relieved.

Ercai was sleepy from massaging Gu's father, stopped his movements, and his bright black eyes looked at Lin Zhao.

"Mother, then in the future you will call me Zhiheng?" He felt this name wasn't close enough, his little eyebrows frowned, not so happy.

The cub came out of Lin Zhao's stomach, Lin Zhao knew what he was thinking with one look.

"I'll call you Hengbao, call your brother Yubao, call your younger brother Jianbao, call your younger sister Yaobao, you are all the treasures of your father and me."

The little guy who was usually thick-skinned showed shyness on his face, but his eyes flashed with unhideable happiness.

"Okay!" He said loudly.

Gu Da Cai also felt it was okay, his mouth split wide.

Yubao.

He is Mother's treasure.

Ercai looked at the others in the family with bright eyes, "Grandfather, Grandma, Eldest Uncle, Eldest Aunt..."

After calling a string of names, "In the future, you all call me Hengbao, can you?"

Gu's mother was cute-faced by her grandson, "Good, Grandma listens to our Hengbao."

Learned to use it immediately!

Tie Chui hurriedly said: "Then I'm called Little Li Bao."

Tie Dan thought it was childish and didn't follow.

All are little childish ghosts, hum.

The cubs had big names, and couldn't stay still immediately, ran out of the house to introduce their big names to the people in the village.

In a short time, the whole village knew that the Gu family's cubs had big names! ===== CHAPTER 118 =====