CHAPTER 352: 352. DRAWING LOTS: AN UNUSUAL NAMING METHOD

Until early the next morning, Shuzhen was still bursting with joy.

This left Liu Shouren and Liu Shouyi, who came to pick her up from the hospital, wondering: It’s just a discharge from the hospital, why so ecstatic?

It’s not like they’re those poor families with no income and dread going to the hospital, thinking that even leaving one second earlier could save a considerable amount of money.

The Number One Scholar Village Hospital has excellent medical facilities, highly skilled medical staff, and a good attitude. Even the wards are designed to feel like home, afraid patients might not feel comfortable.

And most importantly: For all the members of Liu Village, the village hospital named Number One Scholar Village Hospital issues each household a medical booklet worth two thousand yuan every year. Any medical expenses or medication purchases by family members can be covered by this booklet.

If exceeding two thousand, they can still enjoy half-price treatment with the booklet.

This is one of the most praised and envied benefits for the members of Liu Village.

There’s also a free bus, a school with all fees waived. Normally, they earn wages from work and raising livestock, and at year-end, they receive dividends.

All these benefits make many good girls from other villages fight desperately, hoping to marry into Liu Village and become part of it to enjoy the various benefits.

Ahem, getting a bit off-topic here, the two brothers mainly just couldn’t understand Shuzhen’s feeling like a labor reform inmate finally regaining freedom.

To this, Shuzhen rolled her eyes with great flair: "You guys, you’re all just talking thoughtlessly! No matter how good the hospital is, can it be as cozy and joyful as home? And being used to sleeping on a warm kang bed, who would prefer this cold and hard hospital bed!"

"Hehe, what little sister says is true. Being used to it, our home’s warm kang bed is way better than any spring mattress!" Liu Shouyi laughed, chatting with Shuzhen while helping Lianshan organize the things they were going to take home.

Liu Shouren’s focus was on the discharge procedures and his little nephew’s name.

When this was brought up, Liu Shouyi laughed again and cheekily asked, "I heard you want to name my little nephew Lian Yan, with the nickname Yanzi?"

"Is that funny?" Shuzhen glared at him threateningly, clearly implying that if he said yes, he was done for.

Her look was exactly like when they were kids, and she was threatening to tell on them to their parents.

She smiled warmly and sweetly, with no actual threat in it.

But if you took it seriously, you’d really be in trouble.

Liu Shouyi, wanting to just see a joke and not be part of it, waved his hand, "Not at all! I just think my little nephew is so robust and smart that he deserves a name that’s more majestic and bold to match him. If you really like Yanzi, it can totally be a nickname, right!"

Otherwise, in the future, calling a strapping young man Yanzi...

Liu Shouren really feared that when his nephew grows up, he might ask his little sister what grudge did they hold to deserve such a name.

Because she always thought about her youngest son, Shuzhen wanted to continue his former name.

After the kids complained about it seeming effeminate and common, Shuzhen, who wanted to give the best to her youngest son, was quick to agree on the kids’ suggestion to carefully choose a bright and good name for him.

Chenchen suggested picking a beautiful character with a "jade" radical, after all, a gentleman is like jade!

Characters like Jin, Yu, Jue are all pretty good choices.

Lian Xi rolled his eyes and humorously suggested, "I think since my little brother was born in early summer at noon, he should have a character with a ’sun’ radical, representing brightness and glory! Characters like Kai, Sheng, Sheng, Hui, and Hao that imply vastness and parental grace are all pretty good, don’t you think?"

And being connected with me, Xi, anyone would know we’re brothers!"

Pfft...

What responded to Lian Xi was a burst of laughter.

"Hey, Mr. Malaprop, only the character Hao in Hao Tian signifies parental grace! It just means vast if paired with a sun radical!" Chenchen flicked Lian Xi on the forehead, "I told you to read more, see, making a fool of yourself now?"

"Alright then, cut it out! For a primary school underachiever like our Lian Xi to come up with so many meaningful names with a ’sun’ radical is not easy at all!" Xinzhi rebutted, supporting Lian Xi was secondary, mainly she rarely agreed with Chenchen. Whatever he disliked, she found interesting to admire.

Picking fights with everyone, Chenchen included, seemed to be a habit?

"Exactly, it shows how thoughtful Lian Xi is towards his little brother!" Xinyue nodded, it’s not hard to casually come up with a few meaningful names, but the one saying it is Lian Xi, the only underachiever in the family!

Despite always hovering around the pass mark in humanities, Xinyue truly felt pity for Lian Xi.

With such a strong reason, Shuzhen and Lianshan both felt they couldn’t argue against it.

Finally, the kids spent ages flipping through the dictionary, writing down characters like Kai, Hui, Sheng, Yu, Yu, Hao, Min, Xu with good meanings and suitable for boy’s names, to draw lots.

QAQ, there’s no other way, each kid thought their chosen character was the best and most suitable for their little brother.

Unable to convince anyone else, they resorted to drawing lots.

They decided the winner with a game of rock-paper-scissors, who would then draw lots for the youngest son’s name. Shuzhen, nodding to this, felt she was pioneering a naming method that would be laughed at far and wide.

The only comfort was that each character had a good meaning, so no matter which one was chosen, it’d be a good name.

Unexpectedly, the one who finally succeeded in getting naming rights for the little brother was Lian Xi, the underachiever.

Even more coincidentally, the name he picked was the very Kai he had hoped for, representing brightness, beauty, and virtue!

Little name Yanzi, big name Lian Kai, this little guy got his name in a hilariously dramatic fashion.

Now thinking about it, Shuzhen couldn’t help but chuckle.

Even funnier was that when Yanzi grew up and went to school, he complained more than once about his name being hard to recognize, blaming his third brother for his bad luck. With so many easy and memorable characters like Hui, Xu, Ming that he didn’t pick, he chose the hard-to-write and recognize Kai! You know how frustrating it was explaining to classmates every time that my name is Lian Kai, not the Kai in Victory nor the Kai in Model. It’s the Kai with a sun radical, signifying brightness, beauty, and virtue!

You suffered from having a hard-to-write name yourself, how could you bear to have your brother go through it all over again!