That night, everyone at the dinner table of relatives and friends was laughing. They didn't know whether to eat or not eat the buns that Lu Jingchuan sent. In the end, adhering to the principle of not wasting food, they all ate the buns with gritted teeth.
The Gong family also gave each person a baba-shaped bun. Even Han Ji laughed while eating. The whole family talked about this interesting topic all night.
From then on, the elders would mention this matter whenever they saw the triplets. Many years later, no one allowed them to make noodles anymore because they didn't want to force themselves to eat special delicacies anymore.
Gong Linglong specifically asked Lu Jingchuan to deliver the buns. In fact, she also wanted to let the highly concentrated candidates relax. During this period, everyone was staying in the room and studying hard. Some even studied until midnight every day. Everyone was very tired.
This week, the Lu family received good news again. Li Wanqiu gave birth to her second child safely and smoothly, a little girl as she wished.
On Sunday, Li Wanqiu was discharged from the hospital and returned home to recuperate after giving birth. Lu Jingchuan and his wife took the triplets to visit her and brought chickens, ducks, eggs and other nourishment for her body.
When they came over, the elders were discussing naming. Because it was snowing outside when Li Wanqiu went into labor, Grandpa Lu named his great-granddaughter Lu Yingxue. The nickname was given by Lu Jingyao, Beibei.
Everyone liked the name very much, except for young Comrade Lu Zhen, who had a problem: "Grandpa, why do all my brothers and sisters have three-character names, but I have only two?"
"Two or three characters are fine, there are no special rules."
Lu Zhen's name was also chosen by Grandpa Lu. He is the great-grandson. In order to give him a good name, the old man started looking through the dictionary half a year in advance and carefully selected the character "Zhen".
"Grandpa, I want a three-character name."
Lu Zhen felt that his brother and sister's names were all nice, but his name was not so nice. He strongly requested: "Grandpa, I want to change my name. I want a name with three characters."
"Okay, you can change it yourself." Mr. Lu agreed.
"I've made up my mind."
Lu Zhen's eyes rolled around, and when he saw everyone looking at him, he grinned and said, "I want to change my name to Lu Zhen Bang."
The whole family: “…”
"Ha ha."
Gong Linglong was the first to laugh, and the others also laughed happily.
"Why are you laughing?"
Little Lu Zhen was puzzled and tried to explain: "My teacher praises me every day. She says I'm awesome. I want to change my name to Lu Zhen Bang."
"You idiot." Lu Jingyao kept laughing.
"Dad, you can't curse. I'm a human being, not a club."
Lu Zhen pouted unhappily and rushed into the bedroom like a cannonball, asking his mother for her opinion. "Mom, I want to change my name. I want to be called Lu Zhen Bang. I want three characters."
Li Wanqiu, who was resting in bed, had heard this before. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she said to the outside world, "Brother Yao, it's okay if Xiao Zhen wants to change his name. Take a pen and paper and write the three characters "Lu Zhen Bang". Have him copy this name a hundred times first so he can get familiar with his new name."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Lu Jingyao listened to his wife and turned around to get a pen and paper.
When he wrote the three characters on the paper, Comrade Lu Zhen was stunned. However, he followed the instructions with his pencil. Before he even finished writing the second character, he howled, "Why does my name have so many strokes? Why do the last two characters look the same?"
"How can they look the same? One is Zhen and the other is Bang. You named them yourself."
Lu Jingchuan was trying to suppress his laughter and urged him, "Hurry up and write! Your mom asked you to write it a hundred times. When the teacher asks you to write your new name, you have to write it out proficiently. The teacher will praise you for being awesome."
Lu Zhen was still in kindergarten and had just started learning to write. Even his handwriting of "Lu" was crooked, and he couldn't write the last two characters with more strokes at all.
Before he finished writing once, he didn't want this name anymore and changed it again: "I don't want this name anymore. I will write one. I will change it to Lu Zhenyi."
"You can write 'yi', so why not change it to 'lu yiyi'?" Lu Jingyao said.
"I don't want Yi Yi. There's a girl named Yi Yi in the class next door. I don't want a girl's name."
Seeing that he was obsessed with the name, Gong Linglong smiled and said, "Comrade Lu Zhen, your name is two characters long, while your elders and siblings all have three-character names. Your name is very special, unique. Do you really want to change it?"
"What is unique?" Lu Zhen grasped the key point.
"Your name is the only two-character name in our family. 'Zhen' was chosen by my great-grandfather with great care, and it means 'perfect'."
"Perfection means being well-rounded, morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and laboriously developed. Being the best in every aspect, and also being tall and handsome, extremely intelligent, with excellent academic performance, and a successful career in the future—the best in every way."
The more she explained, the brighter Lu Zhen's eyes became.
Now that he knew his name actually meant perfect, he immediately withdrew his previous thoughts and said excitedly, "I won't change my name. I'll just be Lu Zhen. I want to be the most perfect person in the Lu family."
Others: “…”
"You must keep your word and live up to the name I gave you." Old Master Lu was amused.
"I am a man and I keep my word."
The boys who grew up in the compound received red education since childhood. They spoke with a stern voice and puffed out their chests, showing a bit of manliness.
Grandpa Lu stopped talking nonsense with him. When he saw the triplets enter the house, they gathered around their mother to look at the little sister and waved to them: "Chuming, Changxiao, Pengze, come here to Grandpa, let me hug you. See how much you have grown in this time?"
Just as the triplets were about to turn around, Lu Zhen came up to them and asked with a smile, "Brother, did you bring any dumplings for Grandpa? Grandpa loves them."
Mr. Lu: "...Get out of the way."
Lu Jingyao pulled his son over and laughed non-stop: "It was obviously you who wanted to eat it, and you ate three in one go."
Yu Peirong was also amused. "My three younger brothers are not even a year old yet, and they can already make dumplings. Each one is evenly wrapped. You are almost five years old, and I asked you to learn how to make dumplings, but you didn't even come. Just now, your aunt taught you to develop in all aspects of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. "Lao" means labor, but you only know how to eat and not to work. You are unworthy of the good name that your great-grandfather gave you."
"I don't know how to wrap it." Lu Zhen had a reason.
"My younger brothers weren't born knowing how to make woven bags. Their grandmother taught them step by step. They are smart, studious, and love to work. They are sensible and filial at a young age, and they take the initiative to help adults with housework."
What the elders said made sense. Lu Zhen thought about it and said, "Okay, then I'll learn how to make them too. Let my brother teach me how to make baba buns."
"You can make other shapes. You don't have to learn this." Lu Jingyao gritted his teeth slightly.
"I think it looks good."
Children’s preferences are different from adults’. Lu Zhen really likes the buns of various shapes made by the triplets. At that time, he was reluctant to eat them and took them out to share with other friends.
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