Chapter 1837 - 1833: Full-Moon Banquet Customs
Ye Ning smiled, "Grandpa, you have a long life, which is a blessing in itself. A name you choose naturally carries a blessing too. How could we not like it?"
Sui Qinglan hummed lightly from the back, really, her words flow so well here, but why is she so blunt when talking to me.
The old man looked at it and said, "Hmm, this is the name."
He took out a brush and, on a piece of rice paper, elegantly wrote a few large characters.
With a few cheers, Ye Ning saw the two characters were Mu Qin.
"Good, good, this name is excellent."
"Yes, it’s grand."
"Looks cultured."
"It has depth."
"Deserving of an educated person."
Ye Ning originally thought it was a particularly hard-to-understand name, but looking at it now, she really liked it.
She didn’t have a strong feeling about names herself, just thought of them as a code.
For her own name, it could be anything, as long as it was hers, it was fine.
Mu Hai said, "How do you like it, Ye Ning?"
Ye Ning said, "It sounds nice."
She pinched Tangdou’s little cheek, "Tangdou, you have a formal name now, Mu Qin, Mu Qin, you are called Mu Qin."
Mu Hai saw Ye Ning also liked it, and he was suddenly very happy. He had someone bring out his stamp, and he stamped it, then asked someone to frame and hang it.
Someone was then asked to write it into the family tree, and he stroked his chin and said, "Our Mu Family finally has a successor."
After this set, everyone went off to play on their own.
Because it was a full-month celebration, everyone there was family, so it felt like a family gathering.
The nanny was in the back with the child, who soon fell asleep. Recently, because the child was growing fast, he was eating a lot, so everyone had prepared many supplies: milk powder, pacifiers, all packed in a box.
In the back, Sui Qinglan said to someone, "Look, look, if there was milk, why the need for such a big bundle, it’s so troublesome."
People sighed as well, and someone said, "Haven’t they tried stimulating lactation? The old lady of the Chen Family, after stimulating lactation, she had more than enough."
"Stimulate lactation? Ha, they haven’t even tried that, don’t you think, if she really had to breastfeed, could she still flaunt like this? I don’t know who said, breastfeeding ruins the figure, she’s so vain, just barely out of confinement, dressed so boldly, could she breastfeed? Forget it."
Everyone listened and followed up with similar remarks.
Since it was the child’s full-month celebration, everyone took turns to check on the child. After a while, Ye Ning also came over with the child.
When the group saw Ye Ning arrive, they shifted their attention from Sui Qinglan to the child, one person went over to check on the child and said, "Oh, such a wonderful child."
Ye Ning didn’t recognize which family’s relative this person was from. With so many relatives normally visiting, she couldn’t possibly know everyone.
She’s not fond of such socializing; even in other areas where she has an exceptional memory, here, she can’t remember anyone’s face. She just politely smiled as the person came over.
The person looked at the baby in the swaddle, "Look at this little mouth, but it’s so pale, what kind of milk did you feed?"
Ye Ning said, "Oh, formula milk."
"Oh my, why formula milk? Don’t you have enough breast milk?"
Ye Ning continued with a smile, "No milk."
She had heard from the servants that when relatives come during the full-month celebration, they politely ask if there is enough milk, and how the milk supply is.
Even though she didn’t understand why, it seemed like an essential part of the full-month ceremony; you had to ask this question to consider the ceremony complete.