Chapter 3132 Name
Bai Shan changed into a clean set of clothes and carefully carried the child in. Zhou Man had already cleaned up and was leaning on the bed eating meat porridge in small bites. She didn't have much appetite to eat anything else.
When she saw the child, she immediately put down the bowl and waved, "Let me see."
Bai Shan held her up and showed her, "Look, isn't our daughter whiter than Bai Er and his son?"
"Really?" Zhou Man narrowed his eyes and smiled. He looked at Bai Shanhou, then looked down at his daughter and said affirmatively, "Looks like you."
Bai Shan smiled and whispered, "I've thought about it. In the future, her eyes, forehead, and mouth should be like yours, and her nose should be like mine. That would be the most beautiful."
"And I want my skin to look like yours. It's hard for you to get a tan. Girls look better if they're lighter."
Bai Shan nodded, "Your ears should be like mine too."
The two of them discussed and decided on the part of their daughter's head. Zheng, who was listening on the side, was speechless for a long time. How could this child grow up according to their ideas?
She went forward to look at the baby in the cradle. Seeing that the baby moved her mouth and body, she immediately patted Bai Shan and said in a low voice, "Speak softly, don't wake her up."
She thought of something and quickly asked Zhou Man, "Is there milk now? Do you want to call the wet nurse?"
"No need," Zhou Man said, "I'll eat something. If I don't feel any better, I'll ask my sister-in-law to make me some milk soup."
Xiao Qian brought up a bowl of fish soup. "It's ready. Come and try it and see if it suits your taste."
Zhou Man hummed softly: "I don't want to drink greasy food now."
"It's not greasy. It's fish soup, not chicken soup," Mrs. Qian brought it to her to see. The light yellow clear soup must have been added with the medicine packet she prescribed.
She thought about it and took a sip. It had a herbal flavor at first, but soon she tasted the freshness of fish. She savored it and thought it was not bad, so she drank it all in one gulp.
Bai Shan has been busy since the second half of the night and hasn't had a sip of water. Seeing her eating so happily, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and then his stomach growled rudely.
He lowered his hand holding the child slightly, using the child to cover his stomach, and his earlobes were a little red.
Zhou Man felt full after just one bowl of soup, so he took the child and gave him half a bowl of porridge on the table next to him, "You eat it."
Bai Shan took it and ate it, and Zheng looked at him with a condemning look.
Bai Shan: "...Mother, Manbao is full."
Zhou Man nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I'm full. Mother, sister-in-law, you must be hungry after a busy night, right? Come and eat something."
Zheng looked at the child in her arms reluctantly.
Little Qian smiled and responded, pulling Zheng away. "Manbao will definitely need to catch up on some sleep soon. We'll stay by her side to look after the child. Go eat first so you can have enough energy."
Zheng thought what she said made sense, so she went to have brunch with Xiao Qian.
Zhou Man and Bai Shan looked at the child and found that he was indeed sleepy. Seeing that the child was also sleeping soundly, they put him beside them and lay down to sleep. Seeing that Bai Shan's eyes were a little dark, they said, "You should go to sleep too. You didn't sleep much last night."
"Well, you go to sleep first, I'll watch her for a while."
Zhou Man fell drowsy as she touched the pillow. She had been tired, sleepy and in pain since last night. Now that her body was relaxed, she fell into a deep sleep in no time.
Bai Shan sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the two, one big and one small, and couldn't help but smile with a gentle look on his face.
He reached out and touched the child's cheek with his fingertips and found it soft and smooth, even more tender than the most tender tofu pudding he had ever eaten.
Now, Bai Shan felt that the name he gave her didn't seem so good.
So when Zhou Man was woken up by the child and she hurriedly got up to feed the child, Bai Shan was sitting outside the tent and said to her with a serious face: "I have decided to change the child's name."
Zhou Mandu didn't care about being shy, and slightly pulled open a corner of the curtain. He exclaimed "Ah" and asked, "What do you want to change it to?"
"Change it to Jingxing, Bai Jingxing!"
Zhou Man blinked and tilted his head to look at him, "I admire you as a lofty figure, and I admire you as a wise man."
Bai Shan grinned, "Yes!"
Zhou Man hesitated for a moment before happily saying, "I don't have any objections. I'm just worried that the master might think we're too complacent."
Bai Shan waved his hand and said, "This one thing is not a big deal. Our daughter is so beautiful. She will definitely be a top-notch person in terms of wisdom and virtue in the future. What's wrong with giving her a nice name?"
Bai Shan looked at her swaddled daughter tenderly through the curtain and said softly, "So that she will know our expectations for her in the future."
Bai Erlang also named his son early on. As soon as he was born and it was confirmed that it was really a boy, he happily got a name.
However, he only wrote it down and gave him a nickname. His real name would be recorded in the genealogy when he was older, at least one year old.
Because Zhou Man was there, both families knew the child's gender early on and named the child according to the gender.
Bai Erlang looked through many books and discussed with Mingda for a long time. Finally, he picked the two characters "Ruo Yu" from a bunch of names.
Like a beautiful jade, its meaning is even better than the "sincerity" name his father gave him.
He even held his son in his arms, chuckling and admonishing him, "Son, you were born two hours earlier than your cousin. You'll be her older brother in the future, but you must be smarter than her. We'll have the same teacher in the future, so you have to be her senior brother. Got it?"
Mingda: "...What are you teaching your child?"
"I'm teaching him the great principles of life." Bai Erlang carefully carried his well-fed son over to the nanny and asked, "Is this okay? Will this stop the hiccups and milk from drying up?"
"Yes," the nanny smiled with her eyes curved, and she stepped aside and said, "My Lord, put the child down once he falls asleep. Don't let him get used to holding her, or he'll become spoiled in the future."
Bai Erlang followed Mammy's instructions and carefully placed the child on the crib. He let out a sigh, "He's so soft, so scary."
As they were talking, a palace maid who had gone to the county government office to deliver something came over and said, "Master Zhou has woken up and is in good health. He just woke up and was fed. Everyone is now gathered around the child to look after him."
He added, "Master Bai has given the young lady a name, Jingxing, and her nickname is Dajie'er. He asked us to call her by her nickname from now on."
Bai Jilang was stunned. "Why did they change the name? Wasn't this the name they chose before?"
Mingda smiled and said, "That's a good name. It's like looking up to a lofty mountain, admiring one's conduct. Virtue like a lofty mountain is admired by people, and virtue like a great way is followed by people. We are all mortals, but although we cannot reach them, our hearts yearn for them. It seems that the eldest sister was born very well. Bai Shan and Man Bao must not want to let her down, so they changed her name."
The maid immediately laughed and said, "That's right, Princess, didn't you see that? The child is very pretty. Although she was born not long ago, her face is very white. I have seen so many children, and this is the only one who looks so pretty right after she was born."
Bai Jilang became curious and wanted to go over and see, "Really?"
(End of this chapter)
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