Gu Ning put the child on the bed and then asked the wet nurse Ye Wanwan about her life over the past half day, such as how many times she had drunk milk and how many times she had urinated.
The wet nurse, being quite eloquent, replied, "Replying to Your Highness, the princess drank milk four times and urinated three times." After thinking for a moment, she added, "The princess is very well-behaved. She only cries when she wants to nurse or when she urinates; otherwise, she doesn't cry at all. She's very good."
Upon hearing this, Gu Ning knew that the wet nurse was taking it to heart. She told her head maid, Chunlan, to "reward" the wet nurse. Chunlan knew that she was going to give the wet nurse a reward. Then she told the wet nurse to go and rest, leaving only Gu Ning and her confidante in the room.
Ye Wanwan was sleeping next to her mother, listening to her mother and the nanny talking. Gu Ning asked, "What is Master doing?"
Chunlan replied, "Master went to the front yard; he must be preparing Miss's name." Chunlan and the other three maids, Xialan, Qiulan, and Donglan, were all part of Gu Ning's dowry and were also Han Chinese, so they addressed Ye Wanwan as Miss.
Gu Ning asked again, "Did you tell my parents? It's a girl this time." The nanny replied, "We told them as soon as she was born."
Gu Ning is the eldest daughter of the Gu family and the only girl in the family. Because the Gu family is predominantly male and has more men than women, Gu Ning is very favored in the family.
As for the Gu family, Gu Ning's parents were overjoyed when they learned that Gu Ning had given birth to a daughter, so Gu Ning now has both a son and a daughter.
Gu Ning's eldest and second eldest brothers, as well as her parents, all had the steward send some things to the Wanyan family, especially jewelry, money, and fabrics. To put it bluntly, it was all about money, because the Gu family was rich!
A moment later, Donglan came in and said to Gu Ning, "Madam, the Gu family has already informed us that Master and Madam sent Miss several boxes of things, as well as some cloth, saying they are for Miss to use as diapers."
Gu Ning replied, "Understood, you can put it in the storeroom prepared for Miss."
In the front yard, Wanyan Honglie changed the names on the paper again and again, and finally settled on three names: Hanzhang, Wanwan, and Yuling.
In fact, many Manchu names are like Moyaqi and Erlinzhu, but there are only a few names with good meanings, and they are easy to repeat. Therefore, Wanyan Honglie and Gu Ning decided early on not to use these names.
Once Wanyan Honglie had prepared the last three names, he took them to the main courtyard to find Gu Ning.
As soon as Wanyan Honglie entered the room, he saw that Gu Ning was awake. He first asked Gu Ning, "Are you feeling any better?" Then he walked to Gu Ning's bedside, sat down, put the pillow next to her behind her, and helped Gu Ning sit up.
Gu Ning looked at Wanyan Honglie's actions, smiled, and said, "It doesn't hurt much anymore."
Wanyan Honglie then took out the names he had prepared and asked Gu Ning to choose one. Gu Ning looked at the names and thought Hanzhang was a good name, so she said to Wanyan Honglie, "I think Hanzhang is good."
But after thinking about it again, I decided to choose another one. The character "章" was a bit special, and my husband was a third-rank military officer. To avoid unnecessary trouble, I finally chose "绾绾".
"Let's go with Wanwan. It's a nice-sounding name with a good meaning. I hope she will be well-mannered, generous, gentle, and virtuous in the future," Gu Ning said.
Wanyan Honglie also thought the name Wanwan sounded nice, and from then on, Ye Wanwan had a new name, Wanyan Wanwan.
Wanyan Honglie picked up Ye Wanwan and said, "My daughter has a name now, Wanwan, do you like it?"
(From this point on, Ye Wanwan will always be referred to as Wanyan Wanwan or Wanwan.)
As for Ye Wanwan, knowing that her family was well-off and her parents were loving, she felt very lucky.
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