Nongmen's clever daughter-in-law: hook a general and give birth to a cub

Chapter 45 Naming the Three Children
Before she could recover, the messenger's voice came in.

Grandma Mo is an out-and-out rural woman who can't read a single word. If she wants to deliver news to her family, she has to find a messenger to deliver the message back.

"This old lady, why didn't she tell us when she ran to Xuyang's place?"

Du Yao said with some displeasure.

I was really scared just now, in this chaotic day, I suddenly lost someone, who would not worry about it? !
"Godmother is like this, don't think too much, let's eat."

Zhou Yongnian pulled Du Yao back and sat down, picked up a large piece of rabbit meat, and put it in her bowl, "In a few years, Baozi will go to the yamen gate of the city to apply for household registration, and he doesn't have a name yet. You can get one."

"What?"

Before he could swallow a piece of rabbit meat, he was shocked by his words.

Cough,

After coughing violently, Du Yao was reluctant to spit out the meat, but Du Yao swallowed it into her stomach, her small face turned red from holding back, and her throat was even more painful.

"How old is this kid? Why doesn't he have a name yet?"

Knowing that "Little Baozi" is a baby name, it is most popular in rural areas.

A name is born, a name is on the household registration book, thousands of years ago, even in the villages of the 21st century, the habit of giving names seems to have never changed.

Can……

"Zhou Yongnian, what on earth do you do as a father? Are you so foolish?"

"Mother."

The daughter sitting opposite said timidly, the chopsticks in her hand were crunched, "My brother and I don't have names either. The woman said we are children from poor families and don't deserve names."

"shit!"

Du Yao stood up abruptly from her chair, almost knocking over the table.

"Your name is the face of a person. Whether you are rich or not, you have to let others know your name!"

"It's a custom here."

Zhou Yongnian insisted on dragging Du Yao back to sit on the small bench, and gently patted her back with his big hand, afraid that the piece of meat hadn't been swallowed yet.

"If you want to get a household registration at the gate of the yamen, you have to take more than a dozen taels of silver, but every family can't eat enough, so how can there be so much spare silver?"

The yamen does not give household registration, and no one cares about death.

In order to appease the hearts of the people, the imperial court allocates food every year for disaster relief, but who would have imagined that all the food and money were embezzled by the officials, not even a grain of rice entered the mouths of the common people.

But for the superior emperor, all he read was the booklet sent by the household department and the statistics on it.

However, if the number is small, it has already been passive, and it is under the premise of not violating the laws of the court.

Even though tens of thousands of people are starved to death, frozen to death, or even beaten to death by local tyrants and landlords every year, they do not have household registration, so they will not be counted in the statistics, and they will not be included in the booklet. number.

"It's unreasonable! It's unreasonable, how could they do this?!"

Du Yao was so angry that she punched the table, "No way! I have to find a way to make this matter public. I must not let these corrupt officials take the lives of ordinary people as jokes!"

"Yao'er, you and I can't bear the fate of offending the court officials."

Zhou Yongnian has never been so serious like this moment. Those black eyes are like the night sky, deep and bottomless, making people unable to figure it out. It is like a huge question mark that will never be answered.

"Listen to me, there are three children in our family, and the household registration is only 50 taels of silver at most. I can still take it out."

"you……"

"Choose a name for the three of them. I'll go to the city and report it tomorrow."

It wasn't that he was ruthless, but that he was powerless. The fight between ordinary people and officials had unimaginable consequences. Zhou Yongnian watched how many people lost their lives because of this.

"That's it."

Du Yao lowered her head in shock, her hands tightly entangled in front of her body, "It's all because I didn't say what I said just now, I was impulsive and confused."

"Mother."

The girl jumped off the stool, took small steps, and ran to her side, her little hands firmly grasping Du Yao's cuffs, "My father said when he was still alive, if there are green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood, as long as you do it Those who do wrong will definitely be punished.”

Du Yao was astonished that a seven or eight-year-old girl, Duanzi, could understand this.

"Cuifang's husband was once the old village chief's favorite student."

Zhou Yongnian spoke up from the side and explained, "I passed the provincial examination, but was killed by bandits on the way to Beijing to catch the examination. He is a very good man."

Married a daughter-in-law who was not motivated, and lost her life inexplicably, so I never saw him, but Du Yao really felt sorry for him.

"How about your name Zhou Nianci?"

Think about charity and be a good person all your life, just like your own father.

"Okay, the name my mother gave me, Nian Ci likes it."

"Then your name is Zhou Nianen."

Say gratitude, and don't forget the people who have helped you, just like your biological father.

"Ah."

The boy hummed lightly with no expression on his face. He was as indifferent as ever. It seemed that he didn't like this new home at all. The reason why he was willing to stay obediently was simply because his sister liked to stay here.

"Mother, mother, and buns, buns also have names!"

The heartless little bun jumped up and down, and rolled onto Du Yao's lap, "Mother, you said that you would never dislike buns, you only like older brothers and sisters."

"Okay, let mother think about it, what is the name of our little bun?"

Du Yao patted Baozi's head, then tugged at his chubby face, "Well... let's call him Zhou Nianheng."

Think about persevering, and be a man with responsibility and backbone, just like his father!
"Zhou Nianheng, Zhou Nianheng, I'm so happy, I finally have a name!"

There are people named Goudaner and Erzhuzi in the village, but none of them has a proper name. Little Baozi and that pair of siblings are unique.

"Nianci, Nianen, Nianheng, all come to mother."

The three little guys lined up after listening to the instructions.

"Listen well."

While talking, Du Yao stood up from the chair, put her hands on both sides of her knees, and continued seriously, "No matter how long mother and father can accompany you, you must be an upright person. For those petty gains, put your dignity in it."

She didn't know if the children could understand these words, but education, most of the time, had to go from not understanding to understanding before it could take root in her heart.

"Mother..."

Zhou Nianci tilted his body to the left, passed Du Yao, and looked at Zhou Yongnian who was sitting behind him, "Why are you crying, Daddy?"

what? !

Du Yao was taken aback by the words, and turned her head quickly, and she saw a pair of red eyes.

"Yongnian, you..."

(End of this chapter)