Chapter 4 Naming
"Hah, what's the matter? The little guy dislikes your father?"
The father slapped Liu Lang's ass and laughed.
"Come east, don't scare your son!"
Mother hurriedly reached out and snatched Liu Lang over.
"Milk, is your great-grandson obedient?"
The father looked at the grandmother sitting on the kang and asked with a grin.
The grandmother usually lives in the grandfather, and now the mother is in the confinement stage, usually no one helps, so the grandmother is sent to her own home, although the grandmother is now nearly eighty years old, and her legs and feet are a little unfavorable, but there is no problem with helping to fold a quilt to see the child.
"Good...... Good...... My great-grandson is good!"
The grandmother applauded again and again.
"Come east, the window is leaking, you have to find a way to plug it. ”
Mother said to father.
"Yes, yes, I brought a stack of newspapers from the long one, and it got on it in a moment......... That's right, wait a minute!"
Father suddenly remembered something, and walked to the door, where there was a fast meter hanging on the wall, and asked him to find a thin paper shell from the side, and put it into the meter on tiptoe.
"Steal electricity!"
Liu Lang saw it clearly, and then a memory in his mind emerged.
In this era, the meters are all mechanical, and there is a piece of iron that can be rotated in it, and the faster the electricity is used, and many people will secretly insert a paper shell into the meter to jam this piece of iron, so that they can "save" electricity.
"Alas, people are really smart nowadays!"
The father, unaware that his son had just been in the middle of the moon, began to slander himself, so he took a stack of newspapers from the bicycle basket parked in the courtyard and placed it by the kang.
"No one in the factory saw you holding the newspaper, right?"
Mother asked.
"It's only the old king's ......!
Father said.
The mother ordered a little flour in a porcelain bowl in a corner of the house, and stirred it in a small basin of water for a while, and then went to the outhouse and put the iron basin on the stove, and in a short time a bowl of paste was made.
My father took the small pot of paste, took off his shoes and put on the kang, opened the newspaper, and slowly glued it to the window, and soon, the window was covered with newspaper, blocking the slightest cold wind.
Liu Lang lay on the kang and looked up to see the "Mass Daily" posted at the top, and the front page of the newspaper had this message: "The opening of the first private hotel in the capital marks a solid step ............in the country's reform!"
"That's right, this year is 1980, and the first private hotel in the capital opened this year, and the reform and opening up ......... This spring breeze sweeping the whole country will blow more and more fiercely, and I, Liu Lang, will no longer be a spectator in this life, I want to .........!"
Just as Liu Lang was ambitiously planning his future world, his beautiful vision was shattered by his father.
"Daughter-in-law, today is the full moon of your son, have you chosen your name for the past two days?"
Father picked up Liu Lang and asked.
"The son belongs to your Liu family, and the name naturally wants to be given to you, the father, didn't you say that it has already been started?"
Mother said with a smile.
"Where will I come up with a name?"
The father made a fuss and said with some embarrassment.
Liu Lang knew that his father and mother's generation had not gone to school for a few days, and the highest education of the two was only junior high school, not that they didn't like to study, but just went to junior high school and responded to the country's call to "go to the mountains and go to the countryside", at that time he was a miner in an iron mine, working hard to earn work points every day from seven to five in the morning, until three years ago he came out of the mine, and then became a factory worker, a young man with a junior high school education naturally did not dare to name easily.
"By the way, don't we have a Xinhua dictionary? You find it, I'll look through it to see if there are any good names." ”
The father suddenly slapped his head.
"Dictionary in the box!"
The mother opened a large box next to her and pulled out a dictionary.
"Xinhua Dictionary!"
Liu Lang, who was held in his father's arms, recognized the most widely distributed book in the country at a glance, the blue cover was written with the words "Xinhua Dictionary", and below was the words of the fifth edition in 1971.
"Son, look, if you know all the words in this dictionary, then you are a college student. ”
The father held Liu Lang in one hand and picked up the Xinhua dictionary in the other, and then turned the first page, revealing the title page inside.
"Great man quotes!"
The big red letters on the title page are eye-catching.
My father didn't look at the great man's quotations, and quickly flipped through the dictionary.
"This jade character is good......... This yang character is also good......... Well, well, this dragon word is better .........!"
My father rambled at this thick dictionary and couldn't think of a result.
"That's not right!"
Liu Lang was a little confused at the moment, which was very different from the "history" he knew.
In the previous life, when Liu Lang was seventeen or eighteen years old, his father told him the origin of the name, it was very simple, his father said that he remembered a beautiful jade named Lang, Liu Lang was indeed very white, so he named Liu Lang.
However, there is another version of Liu Lang's "naming right", which was provided to him by his master, this master is the younger brother of Liu Lang's grandfather, according to the memories of the master, the name Liu Lang was personally given by him, as for who came up with it, this is a public case, because the history is long and it is impossible to verify, but now Liu Lang sees his father's appearance in the dictionary, it seems that the old man has a big face.
"Oh, you can't find it until next year, so you just turn a page and find a better word. ”
Mother said from the side.
"Yes, that's a good idea, then I'll turn it over .........!"
Father casually stinted, and then pointed a finger at a word.
"Dogs?"
Liu Lang almost burst out laughing.
I can't call myself Liu Dog.
"That's a bad word!
Father shook his head and flipped through the dictionary again.
"Dogs, why are they still dogs?"
This time my father was a little annoyed and threw the dictionary aside.
"I'm sorry, wait for my dad to come back in a while, he has a lot of knowledge. ”
The father was a little annoyed.
Liu Lang's grandfather is indeed the most educated person in the family, born in the thirties but has a secondary school education, in Liu Lang's later generations, the secondary school education is low can not be lower, but if it is placed in the thirties of this century, the secondary school students are no less than the graduate students of the next century, so the name of the academic degree is not handy?
After a while, there was the sound of footsteps outside the house, and as the wooden door with "its own sound effect" was pushed open, a group of people walked in.
"Alright, the whole family is here.........!"
Liu Lang saw his grandfather, aunt, second uncle, third uncle and the old uncle who was drilling around, by the way, and his master, today is his full moon, it seems that the whole family has been dispatched.