"Bastard! Your wife is giving birth in there, and you bastard still has the heart to talk about this nonsense! A voice rang in Scrooge's ears.

Without looking back, Scrooge knew that this was definitely Joseph Sr. Now that Scrooge is becoming more and more authoritative in the family, no one in the family dares to talk to him like this. When he hadn't made a fortune before, Carol often called himself a bastard, but with the development of the family business and the growth of wealth, Carol even had a sense of awe for his genius brother, and naturally his tone gradually became more and more respectful, not like to his brother, but to his eldest brother. At this time, only Joseph Sr. could be called "bastard" and "bastard".

But even Joseph, now the way he treats Scrooge has also changed, if Catherine is in the delivery room, and the person standing outside but still talking about business is Carol, it is estimated that Joseph will not just scold a bastard, but directly slap Carol on the head.

"Hehe," Scrooge smiled embarrassedly at old Joseph, "Dad, you know, I don't really want to talk about this, it's just that Dorothea has been in for a long time, and my heart is empty, so I found something to say." Daddy, you see Dorothea has been in for so long......"

"It's still early, Scrooge." Carol said, "It's only been half an hour in there, and it's going to take a while." ”

"Scrooge, have you thought of a name for your child?" Catherine asked suddenly.

"Ah, there are a few names to be prepared, both for boys and girls. But what to call in the end is still to be discussed with his mother. Scrooge replied.

"It should be, it should be." Everyone said this, but no one expected that when Scrooge's first child, Carol's second child, was named, it didn't bother his mother at all.

Everyone waited outside the delivery room, and Scrooge stood up from time to time, spun around a few times, picked up the newspaper and read it a few times, and then sat down and stared at the door of the delivery room......

I don't know how long later, there was a sudden giggle in the delivery room, and after a while, the delivery room was opened, and Dr. Menger and Dr. Heim came out, and Dr. Menger took off the special rubber gloves on his hands, and said to Scrooge with a smile: "Mr. MacDonald, Madame is doing well, and the child is doing well, it's a boy." ”

"Yes, a very cute boy, he won't cry when he is born, and we're worried that it will lead to a lack of oxygen, (there is a very small chance, the child won't breathe spontaneously after birth, and the external appearance is that he won't cry) Fortunately, the nurse touched him, and he immediately laughed, speaking of which, although I've heard of it before, but I don't cry when I'm born, but it's the first time I've seen a child who laughs." Dr. Heim added on the side. (In reality, there are cases of laughing without crying at birth, but it is relatively rare.) ）

"Doctor, can I go in and have a look?" Scrooge asked.

"Ah, it should be fine now, but you can be quiet......"

By this time, Dorothea and the child had been admitted to the special care unit next to her. Scrooge walked into the hospital room and saw Dorothea reclining on the half-shaken hospital bed, the little one being held in her arms.

The little one's eyes have not yet opened, the Americans do not have the habit of wrapping their children tightly, and although it is already winter, there is heating in this ward, and the temperature is controlled at a very comfortable twenty-four degrees. So Dorothea and the child were covered with only a thin blanket, so the little one's two hands scratched in the air from time to time, and then he put his right hand into his mouth dishonestly.

Dorothea gently pulled the little one's hand out of her mouth, and just touched him lightly, and the little one giggled.

"What a laughing little guy." Scrooge walked over and smiled at Dorothea and said, "Can you give me a hug?" ”

"Be careful, don't make him uncomfortable." Dorothea said, handing the little one to Scrooge.

As soon as Scrooge picked up the little guy, the little guy who had been giggling and laughing suddenly burst into tears and cried, and the cry was so loud that it was deafening. Scrooge scrambled to tease, but to no avail. Had to be an honest child to return to Dorothea. Strange to say, although he hadn't even opened his eyes, the little one stopped crying as soon as he got into his mother's arms. This also made Dorothea feel extra proud.

"Dorothea, what do you say is the child's name?" Scrooge sat down next to Dorothea, looked over at the child, and said to Dorothea.

"Well, let's call it Greystone, and I hope he'll have good luck." Dorothea said.

"Well, that's Greystone." Scrooge didn't particularly care about the name or anything, so he agreed.

……

Although the birth of a child is a big deal, especially for the MacDonald family, under normal circumstances, as long as the child does not have any problems, such as illness, or is too useless, little Greystone will undoubtedly be the first in line to the heir to this business empire. But even if this kid is unfortunate and doesn't have any talent in business, at least he can definitely not worry about money. In this sense, we can say that little Greystone was born to be a lucky person under the care of Lady Luck.

On the other hand, this may not be the case. Before our little Glestone could even open his eyes, his parents were already discussing how to toss the child.

"Mathematics education is absolutely essential in any education. It's much more important than any mess like playing the piano, drawing, or riding a horse. So from an early age, we have to strengthen his math training, to be honest, the math in the American children's education part is too simple, where can things like this teach useful children. So, um, I think we need a higher standard of education......" Scrooge, who was born in science and engineering in his last life, expressed his disdain for the so-called "su zhì" as always.

"But for our child, the ability to communicate is also very important, so he must also be trained in oral and written expression. And ......," Dorothea was quick to add.

Then one of the wealthiest couples in the United States spent a precious weekend discussing a Greystone development program to develop a detailed training program for our little Greystone, according to which our little lucky ones had little childhood after the age of five.

"Ah, it's finally roughly planned!" Dorothea glanced at the plan on the side, and then at the fragrant little Greystone, who had just eaten enough milk and was now sleeping, (newborns sleep more than twenty hours a day) and said to Scrooge, "There should be nothing missing, right?" ”

"There's nothing left, knowledge accumulation, ability training, physical exercise, and social practice. If there's anything missing, make up for it later. Scrooge said.

"Dena and Donald are almost the age to be educated, do you say that we are not building yì Carol They will also train them according to this plan." Dorothea said with a smile.

"Well, why do you care so much about those two little ones? Wouldn't you like to follow them in and see how effective our plan is? "Still, it's time for these two little ones to discipline themselves." ”

Scrooge has always disbelieved in the so-called "happy education". In his view, the so-called "happy education" in later generations is fundamentally for the sake of fooling the people. Because the emphasis on happiness can only make people unable to learn things. Those who engage in "happy education" always want to emphasize the protection of children's nature, but the purpose of education itself is not to protect any nature, on the contrary, its purpose is to change certain natures. And change is often painful. Born as a polytechnic, Scrooge was miserable in his previous life, learning things like Laplace and Lagrange. There may be people who can learn these things well by relying entirely on this interest, but that is definitely a special case, and a special case cannot be replicated. Scrooge sometimes felt that "happy education" not only violated the basic principles of education, but also violated the second law of thermodynamics. This is because the process of education is in a certain way to gather negative entropy and order the mind of the object of education. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that any artificial increase in order must come at the cost of increasing disorder on a larger scale. And happiness is obviously not the price of this, pain is. In his previous life, when Scrooge was studying, he never paid the price of this pain. Moreover, the ability to endure suffering is also one of the most important abilities, especially for people in high positions, if you want to be able to suck the blood of others, you must first be able to suck your own blood.

……

The next day, Scrooge showed his educational plan to Carol and Catherine for their opinion.

"That's too much, isn't it? If the child is cultivated according to such a plan, it will really be well-rounded, but will it not make the child too hard. Carol asked.

"Also, Dena is a girl, so you don't have to learn this, right?" Catherine also raised questions.

"It's not hard, it's not an adult." Scrooge said, "As for Dena, the girls of our family will not be used as vases in the future, but also as men." Naturally, this is how it should be cultivated. ”