Chapter 220 Difficulty in Choosing a Name
With Neinei around, the four little ones immediately quieted down, lying on the bed each holding a bottle and feeding vigorously.
Jiang Jianni: "Luckily, we hired a housekeeper, otherwise I can't imagine how I would have been able to take care of four children at once."
She's going to break down.
Lu Xiangyang also found it hard to believe.
At seven o'clock, Aunt Liu, Sister Zhang, and Sister Li had already arrived.
With them taking care of the four children, the couple was finally able to eat.
Before we had finished eating, Lu's mother came over.
Jiang Jianni immediately remembered what happened last night: "Mom, didn't you say Haiqiang slept very well? But he almost fell to the ground yesterday."
Lu's mother shrugged: "Haiqiang sleeps very well. He's so sound asleep that even thunder won't wake him up."
"Unless you've had a full night's sleep or were frightened by a nightmare."
"But I didn't say he had a good sleeping posture."
"This child always punches in his sleep."
"My old arms and legs are really suffering."
Who would have thought that Lu Haiqiang, this kid, would actually turn around in circles on the bed while he was asleep?
When the second couple first brought their child here, the baby was only four or five months old and had just learned to roll over.
After he started crawling, Lu's mother realized that her child's sleeping posture was really terrible.
The reason I was so obedient before was because my body was too soft to move.
Now that I can move, even being tied up with ropes is no use.
If you tie him up with a rope, he can run around the bed like a cricket larva.
If his legs were tied up, he would behave better, but the child is so young, and as his grandmother, Lu's mother couldn't bear to restrict him like that just because of his sleeping position.
As a result, Lu Haiqiang's sleeping posture has become increasingly unruly.
Jiang Jianni: "..."
Lu Xiangyang: "..."
Seeing the young couple's accusing expressions, Lu's mother couldn't help but laugh and said, "I often let him sleep at your house. Haven't you noticed that I've moved the bed in your guest room so that it's against the wall?"
Jiang Jianni: "..."
Lu Xiangyang: "..."
It's normal for kids to put their beds against the wall; isn't that what everyone does?
Not to mention their three-meter-wide bed in the master bedroom, upstairs at the Jiang family's house, Dudu sleeps with his grandparents most of the time and with Jiang Haibing a small portion of the time.
Their beds were all against the wall.
Other families with children follow the same procedure.
At most, when the child is playing on the bed, we will put a stack of blankets next to the bed to prevent the child from falling off.
Who would have thought that the reason Lu's mother put the bed against the wall was because Lu Haiqiang had such a bad sleeping posture?
In addition, Lu's mother brought up another matter: "The three children are almost one year old, have you decided on names for them yet?"
"Hurry up, we still need to register the child's household registration."
"Children grow up very quickly; they have to go to kindergarten at the age of three."
"We can't keep calling him Da Bao, Er Bao, and San Bao, can we?"
"If you parents don't want the names we old-fashioned folks come up with for your children, then you should hurry up and decide on the names yourselves."
"How long has it been? You're still dragging your feet and haven't come up with a name yet."
"I really don't know what you guys are thinking."
Jiang Jianni: "..."
Lu Xiangyang: "..."
The two exchanged a glance and replied perfunctorily, "We know, we know, it'll be soon, it'll be soon, no need to rush."
no way.
It's just that everyone has different opinions.
Lu's father meant that the three children should take the names of their eldest brother, Lu Haiqiang, and be named Lu Junqiang, Lu Guoqiang, and Lu Kongqiang. The four children are all strong, perfectly reflecting the professions and expectations of the elders in the family.
The young couple objected as a result.
Lu Junqiang and Lu Guoqiang are both fine, although these two names are very common. But what does Lu Kongqiang mean?
Those who know the truth are that Lu's father hopes the country's air force will be as strong as its army and navy; those who don't might think the child's name is Lu Kongqiang (meaning "land, air, and gun").
Besides, Sanbao is a girl, and it sounds awful for a girl to be named Lu Kongqiang.
Even the child's grandmother couldn't stand it anymore and directly deprived the child's grandfather of the right to name the child.
But Lu's mother herself is terrible at naming things.
All the names she could think of were related to medicine, and they were mostly Western medicines.
There was nothing she could do; she was a nurse, and the medicine she dealt with most was Western medicine. She only knew about Chinese medicines like wolfberry, aconite, and ginseng; she didn't know the names of those nice-sounding Chinese herbs.
But some Western medicines have nice-sounding names.
We can't exactly name our child Analgin Cold Relief and Cough Syrup, can we? Loquat Syrup doesn't sound good either.
The pressure then falls on the child's parents.
The problem is, who would have thought that this couple was also terrible at naming things?
The couple, one of whom is a teacher, and a history teacher at that, while not necessarily an expert in both ancient and modern times, possess a knowledge base far exceeding that of most people.
One is a soldier who can shoot the enemy without blinking when on a mission, and he is also a college graduate whose education level far exceeds that of most people.
One of them is now a well-known novelist, and the other, although not as prolific as his partner, has a stable readership because he writes rare military-themed stories.
These two individuals, who were both accomplished in both literature and martial arts, had to consult the Hundred Family Surnames when naming the characters in the novel.
Especially Jiang Jiani.
When choosing a name, the first step is to list out the Hundred Family Surnames, then look up the characters in the dictionary, and only by randomly combining the Hundred Family Surnames and the characters in the dictionary can a suitable name be selected.
Lu Xiangyang learned how to write books from Jiang Jianni, and he even copied her naming style exactly.
Then, when it came to naming the child, they suffered a major setback. After a year of hard work, they still hadn't come up with a name for the child.
So much so that Lu Haiqiang, the older brother, has already memorized his own name, and the three of them still call him Da Bao, Er Bao, and San Bao every day.
After the couple left, they both sighed.
"Or perhaps..." X2
Lu Xiangyang, realizing that he was less experienced in naming than Jiang Jiani, took the initiative and said, "You tell me."
Jiang Jianni pondered for a moment, then finally made up her mind: "After get off work, I'll go to the bookstore and buy some books on poetry and prose."
"Let's look through the books later and find some nice-sounding names from the poems."
When authors choose their names, besides randomly combining surnames from the Hundred Family Surnames and from the dictionary, or using name-generating software, the most common method is to find a meaningful line from a poem and combine it with the given name.
When Jiang Jiani was in high school, she had a pair of twin classmates named Zhang Yixian and Zhang Yizhu.
Everyone was quite surprised because these two names were completely different from the naming style for children their age.
Later I learned that their mother's name was Li Huanian, and their father named the children that, meaning "thinking of the past years with a single string and a single pillar."
After learning the meaning behind their names, no one called them Salt and Iron Pillar anymore.
Jiang Jianni originally wanted to find three suitable names from the poems she had learned, but later found that it wouldn't work.
All the poems she knew were those taught in textbooks.
Finding one or two names for these poems is manageable, but finding three pleasant-sounding and auspicious names for a single poem is an incredibly difficult task.
So I still have to look it up in the book.
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