Chapter 178: Naming

Zhang Fan and Ba Ke Er had a whispered conversation in the kitchen, then tiptoed into the bedroom, looking at the still-asleep baby, and they couldn't help sharing a smile.

Looking at the baby's adorable appearance, Zhang Fan suddenly remembered something very important.

"Ba Ke Er, it seems we haven't given the baby a name yet! What do you think the baby should be called?"

Zhang Fan lifted his head, looking at Ba Ke Er with hope, and said.

Ba Ke Er lowered his head to look at Zhang Fan, smiled, rubbed Zhang Fan's head with his hand, and said indulgently, "Well, I haven't decided either. How about you, Fan Fan, you decide?"

Zhang Fan gave Ba Ke Er a white-eye, face full of black lines, then said rather tsundere, "I haven't decided, that's why I'm asking you! I didn't expect you to toss the question back at me! So boring! Humph!"

After saying that, Zhang Fan had already left the bedroom and entered his own room. Ba Ke Er saw Zhang Fan's reaction, tried hard not to laugh, and followed after him.

"What's wrong, Fan Fan? Don't you want to give the baby a name? This is such a meaningful thing!"

After saying those words, Ba Ke Er then saw that Zhang Fan was actually sitting on the bed, eyes closed, thinking.

"Don't disturb me! I'm thinking!" After thinking for a while, Zhang Fan suddenly opened his eyes, irritably rubbed his hair with his hand, and while rubbing said anxiously, "Ah! It's so hard! Why is picking a name so difficult?"

Seeing this, Ba Ke Er hurried forward, took Zhang Fan's hands off his own head, and gently said, "All right, Fan Fan, stop rubbing! Your hair's a mess. Don't rush! You can think of a name slowly."

Hearing Ba Ke Er say that, Zhang Fan suddenly felt that coming up with a name didn't need to be too complicated; it just needed to be easy to say, like his own name: Zhang Fan.

Isn't it just two simple characters? Plain and simple, yet easy to remember.

Once he realized that, Zhang Fan became excited, grabbed Ba Ke Er's hand, and said, "Ba Ke Er, don't you think the simpler the name, the easier it is to remember? Just like my name?"

Ba Ke Er felt that as long as Zhang Fan understood and stopped being so irritable, even if the name was unpleasant, he would applaud. So he quickly voiced his agreement with Zhang Fan's words.

"Exactly! Exactly! A name is just for people to call; as long as it's easy to say, it can certainly have some special meaning, which is also nice. For example, my name: Ba Ke Er, in the Beastmen tribe's language, means 'warrior'."

"Our baby can also be given a name with special meaning, or a simple one; that's entirely up to your choice, Fan Fan."

After hearing Ba Ke Er's words, Zhang Fan lowered his head in thought for a moment, rubbed his chin, lifted his head with a furrowed brow, and asked Ba Ke Er, saying, "What about Zhang Lele? I chose this name hoping the baby will always be happy and healthy."

Ba Ke Er, the king of flattery, upon hearing Zhang Fan say that, immediately clapped and praised! With a smiling face, he said to Zhang Fan:

"Fan Fan, you're amazing! You decided on a name so quickly! This name is really good! Le Le, Le Le, happy and happy. I'm sure the baby will love this name!"

Saying that, Ba Ke Er also wrapped his arms around Zhang Fan and gave him a hard kiss on the cheek.

"Hahaha... you saying that puts my mind at ease; I thought you wouldn't like this name!"

After saying that, Zhang Fan also embraced Ba Ke Er and returned a kiss on his face.

"By the way, Fan Fan, Le Le has already been born; we should also go report to the chief. Next, we need to take Le Le to Priest Ah Shu to ask him to pray to the Beast God for Le Le's blessing."

Zhang Fan had never heard before that a newborn must go see the priest for a blessing; he found it strange, clearly when Wu Na gave birth to a child, no one mentioned seeing the priest for a blessing, so why does his family now need to go ask the priest for a blessing?

Upon hearing Zhang Fan say that, Ba Ke Er smiled understandingly and said gently:

"That's because, of course, our family's newborn is a precious female baby! Moreover, female babies are born with a weaker physique than male babies, they get sick easily, and once ill, the chance of dying young is high."

"Therefore, to let female babies grow up healthy, each female baby, after birth, is taken by their parents to ask the priest for a blessing, praying to the Beast God to protect them and let them grow up safe and healthy."

After hearing Ba Ke Er's explanation, Zhang Fan nodded thoughtfully, then hurriedly pushed Ba Ke Er, saying, "Then go quickly report to the chief! Tomorrow at dawn, we'll hurry to bring Le Le to Priest Ah Shu for a blessing."

Seeing Zhang Fan so eager, Ba Ke Er couldn't say much, so he only gave a few instructions, telling him to stay home obediently, watch little Le Le, not go out, and only after Zhang Fan nodded would Ba Ke Er feel at ease leaving, transforming into beast form and flying to the chief's home.

Seeing Ba Ke Er already gone out, Zhang Fan hurriedly got off the bed, put on his shoes, left the room, and headed toward the bedroom. As soon as he reached the doorway, he heard crying coming from inside.

So Zhang Fan rushed into the room, dashed to the bedside at lightning speed, gently picked up the baby, then softly cooed while gently beginning to sway his arms.

"Be good, Le Le be good, don't cry! How can a proper man cry like that? Be good! Are you hungry? Or do you need to pee?"

Just as Zhang Fan's words fell, the baby had already stopped fussing, just as Zhang Fan was about to praise the baby for being obedient. Suddenly, Zhang Fan felt his hand getting warm; he slowly pulled out one hand and saw it was completely wet.

Seeing this, Zhang Fan felt like he was about to collapse; after all, he had never handled a baby before, and it's understandable to be at a loss the first time encountering this situation.

Zhang Fan stared at his hand, eyes wide, face full of shock, somewhat disbelieving as he looked at the baby, saying, "Baby! How can you do this? Oh my god! What should I do? What should I do?"

In contrast, the baby who had just caused the trouble was now showing his toothless gums, laughing so hard his eyes disappeared.

"Why are you still laughing? Baby, you just peed on yourself and me, and you're still laughing? Sigh..." Seeing the baby laugh so happily, Zhang Fan also couldn't bring himself to scold.

So he first put the baby on the bed, got a towel, and wiped the baby's bottom. But while Zhang Fan was wiping him, the baby uncooperatively kept stretching his arms and kicking his legs.

"All right, now it's clean, don't you feel more comfortable? Le Le, how can you be so mischievous? Stop fussing, don't move around! Come on, let Daddy help you get wrapped up again!"

Saying that, Zhang Fan fetched a new small blanket from nearby and rewrapped the baby.

"All right, all right, little Le Le is the best behaved; are you hungry? Come, Daddy will take you to find something to eat."

After wrapping the baby, Zhang Fan directly picked him up and headed toward the kitchen.

Looking at the baby in his arms constantly cooing "ee-ee ya-ya", Zhang Fan's smile never ceased.

Before Zhang Fan even entered the kitchen, Ba Ke Er had already pushed open the door and walked in, followed behind him by Fei Er and his wife, Nuoya and her husband, the chief and his wife, and of course Le Le's grandfather and father.

Just as everyone hadn't yet entered the door, Fei Er couldn't wait to say, "Where is the baby? Little Le Le, we've come to see you."

Upon hearing Fei Er's voice, Zhang Fan quickly held Le Le tighter before speaking.

"Here! Why is everyone here? Come in quickly! By the way, Ba Ke Er, hurry to the kitchen to see if the meat soup has cooled; Little Le Le just woke up and even peed on my hand, I guess he's also hungry."

Saying that, Zhang Fan carried Le Le from the kitchen doorway to the dining table in the main hall and sat down on a stool.

As Fei Er and Nuoya entered the house, they saw Zhang Fan holding the baby seated at the table, hurried over, and leaned in to look.

"Wow! A female baby! So adorable! Speaking of which, we haven't seen a female baby born in ages! This still let Fan Fan pick up a bargain, really unfair!"

Fei Er wore a "you got a huge bargain" expression as he looked at Zhang Fan and said.

"Enough! Enough! Fei Er, you brat, still have the nerve to say that! If it weren't for you back then, we might not even know where the baby was! Thanks to Fan Fan's family adopting him, otherwise we wouldn't get to see Little Le Le!"

Wei Er saw Fei Er's demeanor, feeling somewhat exasperated at his son's shamelessness!

Upon hearing his own father Am speak, Fei Er said nothing more, merely walked silently to the side, closed his mouth, and remained silent.

The originally cheerful atmosphere also turned somewhat sour because of Wei Er's words. Seeing this, Zhang Fan hurriedly stepped in to smooth things over, smiling and saying:

"Exactly! If it weren't for Fei Er back then, maybe I and Ba Ke Er wouldn't have been able to adopt such an adorable baby! You'd agree, right, Fei Er? Besides, the things Fei Er said earlier were also quite reasonable; it's just that back then nobody imagined there was a little female inside the egg. Hahahaha..."

Who would have thought, Zhang Fan saying that actually backfired, making the atmosphere even more tense. After Zhang Fan gave two dry laughs, he couldn't laugh anymore.

At that moment, Ba Ke Er happened to come out of the kitchen holding a bowl of meat soup. Seeing the scene before him, Ba Ke Er scratched his head in confusion, furrowed his brows, and asked:

"What's going on with everyone? Just a moment ago we were fine, why is nobody speaking now?"

Nothing much, Ba Ke Er— is the meat soup ready? Hurry and bring it over, let's feed the baby. Zhang Fan saw Ba Ke Er didn't understand the situation, and quickly spoke.

Ba Ke Er saw Zhang Fan speak, hurriedly held the bowl, walked over, and placed the bowl on the table as Zhang Fan instructed.

As soon as Zhang Fan picked up the spoon in the bowl, he seemed to think of something, put the spoon down again, looked up at Fei Er, and said, "Fei Er, come over and help me, okay?"

Fei Er saw Zhang Fan speaking to him, was very happy, and immediately came over.

Great! Fan Fan, tell me quickly, what's the favor? Even if you had me go up a mountain of knives and down into a sea of fire, I would definitely help you!

Zhang Fan saw Fei Er say that so exaggeratedly, had a black line on his face, and lightly said: "It's nothing big, I just want you to help hold Le Le. No need for you to go up a mountain of knives and down into a sea of fire."

After saying that, Zhang Fan didn't wait for Fei Er to speak, directly pulled Fei Er to his side, and then gave Nuoya a look.

As soon as Nuoya saw Zhang Fan's look, she secretly nodded, then took the opportunity when Fei Er wasn't paying attention and shoved him onto the stool.

Zhang Fan also seized the moment; seeing Fei Er just sit down, he stuffed Le Le into Fei Er's arms.

Alright, Fei Er, you've got him steady! I'm starting to feed him!

Seeing Fei Er's stiff movements while holding the baby, Zhang Fan felt his mood couldn't be better! Even little Le Le in Fei Er's arms was "hee-hee-hee" laughing nonstop.