", picking nas for the dragon-phoenix twins?" Mo Yan blinked in surprise, speaking sowhat awkwardly, "I’m terrible at naming, you should do it yourselves!"
Whether it was the Six Beasts or the horses and cattle at ho, except for Little Flower, all were nad by Mo Yan. Initially, Dabai and Mao Tuan had no concept of nas and didn’t mind being called these two nas. But later on, when Red Python, Golden Beast, and Red Python joined, and Mo Yan tried to na them again, they strongly opposed.
Therefore, nas like Little Red, Xiao Jin, and Heihei were just Mo Yan’s way of satisfying her own fancy, as the creatures themselves were completely uninterested in responding to them.
As for the cattle and horses, they simply accepted the nas given on a whim due to their lack of Spiritual Wisdom. However, after drinking the Spirit Spring Water, they would often complain together that their nas were too la and strongly requested their owner to co up with new, majestic nas. Mo Yan cheerfully rejected their requests.
Then for the maids bought later on, she thankfully did not resort to calling them Little Red or Little Green. Still, naming one Yuan Yue and another Er i, which together an "Two Moons," clearly indicated another naming failure.
Now that she was asked to na two children, she knew she would co up with dreadful nas, so she declined without a second thought.
Unfortunately, the couple was convinced that Mo Yan was a person of good fortune, and by having her na their children, they would surely grow up healthy and strong. They comforted her by saying, "You can na them with confidence. If the nas turn out to be unsightly, we can always use them as nicknas."
Nicknas? Mo Yan’s eyes lit up at the idea, that could work!
She looked at the two tiny, peaceful infants sleeping in their swaddles and many aningful nas flashed through her mind. She carefully picked and chose, eventually settling on two that were sowhat to her liking and proudly said to the expectant couple, "When the girl grows up, she’ll definitely be smart and beautiful, so let’s call her Shen ili. The boy cried with a finer voice than his sister at birth, he’ll have to beco a truly imposing man in the future, so let’s call him Shen Zhuangshi!"
Liu Tinglan: "..."
Shen Ji: "..."
Shen ili? Shen Zhuangshi? What kind of nas were these? They really didn’t want to doom their daughter and son. Could they take back the request for this "blessed person" to na the children?
"Hahaha—ili? Zhuangshi? Yanyan, you really are hopeless at naming!" Xue tuanzi in the Space couldn’t stop rolling with laughter, feeling inexplicably fortunate that though the na Xue tuanzi wasn’t grand, it at least sounded cute and catchy. If it were given a na like ili or Zhuangshi, it would headbutt itself to death against the Jade Table.
Watching the couple looking at each other in disbelief, and hearing Xue tuanzi’s unrestrained ridicule, Mo Yan knew well enough that her chosen nas were being scorned. Waving her hand with a disheartened air, she said, "I told you I’m no good with nas, yet you insisted I try. Now that I’ve finally thought of two, you dislike them! Nevermind, you should just na them yourselves, then!"
The couple felt sowhat embarrassed upon hearing this. Liu Tinglan looked at her silent friend and then at the two little old n in the cradle, biting her lip and eventually deciding to risk it, "Then let’s go with ili and Zhuangshi. The anings are pretty good. Who knows, they might actually turn out as their nas suggest: one beautiful and one strong!"
The babies were still young and unaware of how troubling their nas might be. Growing up accustod to them, they would probably not find them unpleasant. After all, a na is just a label, we value inner beauty, so what does it matter if it sounds nice or not?
Shen Ji, however, still had so sense left, leaning toward his poor son and daughter who couldn’t understand human speech. After mulling it over, he cautiously worded, "The na ili is too flashy to be a formal na; it’s better off as a nickna. Zhuangshi is a good na, but in our Shen family, this generation should bear the ’Hong’ character in their nas, so Zhuangshi can only be a nickna as well."
Liu Tinglan looked curiously at her husband, about to ask why he didn’t ntion the generational character issue before naming, but then stopped when signaled by her husband’s glance. After seeing her friend’s mood had improved considerably, she imdiately understood this was a tactful excuse to reject the nas.
Alright, the reality was that the two nas were indeed terrible, and naturally, it would be best if they weren’t used! This ti, Liu Tinglan firmly stood with her husband and their two children!
"Well, then we’ll just use them as nicknas," Mo Yan conceded, finding the nas suitable for that purpose. After all, weren’t nicknas what people used more often
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