Chapter 1 New Addition to the Family

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The reproduction of human beings is the inevitable guarantee for the continuous development of society. For the sake of human progress and development, in the long course of time, many people have left behind immortal and great achievements! Especially after the founding of New China, everyone breathed and shared the same destiny with the motherland, and wrote a magnificent chapter in the motherland's growing strength and great rejuvenation!

In the ancient city of south-central Anhui Province, there is a beautiful village. One early morning in late 1969, the village was wafting with the rousing movement of "Dongfang Hong".

At eight o'clock in the morning, the old Wang family in the village was busy, and his daughter-in-law was about to give birth. After a while, the mother-in-law who delivered the baby was holding the baby in her hand and was busy announcing the good news: "Ouch! It's a boy, it's a fat boy with a handle!"

The child's mother, Liu Ying, had a shallow smile on her tired face. She forgot the pain and pain of childbirth, and everything was gratified and worth because of the arrival of this little life.

The child's grandmother, Wang Yang (hereinafter referred to as the "old lady"), smiled from ear to ear and blurted out: "Good, good!

The old lady quickly picked up the baby. While scrubbing and wrapping, she carefully looked at it and muttered to herself: "Hehe, look at this chubby little thing, how much ——, look like his father Wang Yongqian between his eyebrows!"

People in the countryside get along day and night and interact frequently. Everyone can basically "clear the door" about the big and small things in the village, or every household and everyone. This phenomenon is peculiar and normal, because everyone is transparent and has no secrets from each other.

The time is close to the Spring Festival, and the farming season is off, so most people are still leisurely nesting at home. Hearing the loud cry of the newborn baby and the direction of the transmission, everyone knows which family added the "new ding". The neighbors all walked out of the house and went together to congratulate them.

The old lady of the Wang family was in her fifties at the time, with a dignified face, gentle eyebrows, neatly tied hair, and elegant and clean clothes...... She faced the neighbors who came to congratulate one after another, laughing happily and greeting non-stop. She was busy handing cigarettes and serving tea with both hands, and a pair of small feet were running around at a high speed like stepping on the "Hot Wheels"; her whole body was floating, and there were few traces of touching the ground.

Happy and busy old lady with clear thinking. While taking care of her daughter-in-law Liu Ying and her newborn grandson, she arranged for people to go to report the good news to her son and daughter-in-law's mother's family. It was her nephew Wang Yongguo who gave her son the good news, and she specially instructed: "The eldest nephew must remember to let your brother buy more candy, tobacco and alcohol to come back!"

Wang Yongqian was working in a textile factory in Yicheng City, a distance of about 100 miles from home. Because transportation and communication are not developed, Wang Yongguo can only bring dry food and water and walk to it from the path.

Walking briskly along the way, it took Wang Yongguo more than ten hours to complete the task of reporting the good news. Knowing that he had a son, Wang Yongqian happily thanked the other party: "Brother, it's hard work!" Later, he brought a porcelain jar full of rice from the canteen, with braised pork on it.

Wang Yongguo, who was hungry and tired, quickly wiped out the food. Later, he sighed many times: "At that time, there was a lack of food and clothing, and it was the greatest happiness for people to be able to eat and dress warmly, so I ate the most full and fragrant meal, and I will never forget it for the rest of my life!"

Because of this good news, Wang Yongguo actually has a clear memory of this nephew's date of birth. The nephew has been well-behaved since he was a child and is loved, so they later intersected. So much so that every time his nephew had a birthday, he would send his blessings.

Mankind advocates having more children and more children, and having more children and grandchildren was once the ideal and happiness that people dream of, but today, the birth rate of the world's population is declining sharply. In the past, many families often had a few or even more than a dozen children. In fact, although people in the past were able to have more children and more nutrients, because of poverty, famine, war, disease, natural disasters and other reasons, very few people were able to survive smoothly. However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's population has doubled, and the survival rate is extremely high.

The birth year of this child is the peak of China's population growth. These people have witnessed the development and prosperity of the motherland, participated in its construction, reform and opening up, and enjoyed many achievements brought about by the country's strength.

Wang Yongqian saw his newborn son. In front of this son, he already has a daughter, Wang Yaqin. But no matter how much bloodline continues, he is still extremely happy.

Wang Yongqian, who was happy, smiled and said to his lover: "You are a teacher who is more educated than me, so you should name your son?"

"You are the father of the child, and you should choose the name. Liu Ying smiled and excused herself.

"Son, it seems that you are so naughty that even your mother doesn't want to name you. Wang Yongqian flicked his son's cheek with his hand, laughing and teasing.

"Who said I didn't want to come, he is the meat that fell from my body!" Liu Ying replied anxiously. She groaned a little, and then asked her husband: "The time of my son's birth is at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, which means that the sun rises in the east and the dawn first appears. I think ——, it's called 'Dawn', right?"

"Dawn~~Dawn~" Wang Yongqian recited it twice, then nodded and smiled: "Son, my mother has given you this name." From now on, your name will be 'Wang Shuguang'!"

As for the name of the eldest grandson, the old lady didn't care at first. It doesn't matter what he calls, even "A Cat" or "A Dog". Because the cheaper the name, the easier it is to feed, anyway, as long as the grandson is all right, it's fine!

Mr. and Mrs. Wang Yongqian have always been very satisfied with the name given to their son. But when the child was five or six years old, the old lady changed his name without authorization - Wang Linlin.

It turned out that there was a blind gentleman in the village who was extremely good at fortune telling. The old lady was concerned about her eldest grandson, so she begged him to settle a hexagram. Through the eight characters of his birthday, Mr. Blind calculated: "This child lacks wood in the five elements, in order to prevent it from happening, there should be one or more 'wood' characters in the name." Later, by pinching the bones (the bones of the hand and the face), the blind man muttered, "This child's hands are soft and loose. 'Soft', so soft that you can't catch the hoe handle, so you won't be in the field to do farm work in the future, and you should have a good future. 'Loose', the five fingers are so loose that they can't tighten their fists. First of all, it shows that this person is kind-hearted, generous and not stingy, and has no intention of hurting or harming others. Secondly, it means that they cannot accumulate wealth, and although they can live without worry in their lives, they basically have no savings until the age of 50. As the saying goes, 'each is born from the heart', this child's face is upright and upright, both righteous and handsome. If he had stayed in the previous era, he would have had a serious wife with more than four rooms when he became an adult......"

The use of the I Ching to give people physiognomy or fortune-telling is not uncommon in various periods of history. But the old lady changed her grandson's name through fortune telling, which made Wang Yongqian and his wife feel ridiculous and couldn't laugh or cry. Naturally, they did not believe the fortune teller's nonsense, and at first they were a little unhappy; they had communicated with the old lady many times, but to no avail; they comforted each other in private, "the name is just a person's name", and finally the old lady was satisfied.

Wang Yongqian and his wife's compromise with the old lady was first of all out of filial piety. Secondly, there is a deeper reason here. Because although the old lady is just an ordinary rural woman, her life experience is full of suffering and legends.

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