The birth of the baby and the peace of the mother and daughter did not bring much joy to the Yi Wangding family, on the contrary, it also added a little distress to the family. Yi Ande and Yi Zhang's old couple were even more depressed, they looked forward to their grandson every year, they thought about their grandson every month, they looked forward to it, they thought about it, and in the end they still didn't see the shadow of their grandson, which was both a huge and fatal blow to the two old men. Let's not talk about the inheritance, even if it is quite embarrassing on the face. Yi He saw that he gave birth to a daughter, and his mood was also very low, thinking about how he was so unlucky, and finally gave birth to a child, but he was a woman, he was really ashamed of the Yi family and her husband, thinking about it, his heart was like a pinprick, he felt very uncomfortable, and sometimes even shed tears. Only Yi Wangding is still an understanding person, even if he is dissatisfied with his wife's failure to give him a boy and fail to continue the incense for his Yi family, but he knows that he is still young and has a long way to go, as long as he is diligent and has more sex, he will definitely give birth to a boy. Therefore, after his wife gave birth to a daughter, he did not show any dissatisfaction with his wife Yi He, both on the outside and in his heart, and comforted his parents and wife many times.

On the third day of the baby's birth, according to the local customs in the northwest area of Yuanzhou, the newborn baby is generally bathed, commonly known as "washing the baby", also called "doing three dynasties".

Because Yi He gave birth to a daughter, Yi Wangding followed his mother's advice and postponed the time of doing three dynasties for his daughter to the sixth day. The scale of "doing three dynasties" has also been reduced to no longer small, in addition to the guests of Yi He's mother's family, it is his eldest uncle Yi An'an, his second uncle Yi An'an, the three main families and Granny Liu, Sister-in-law Li, who were in the delivery room that day, plus Yi Wangding's parents and his own two couples, a total of only three tables. If it is a boy, other relatives and friends, the clan has three rooms and five covers, seven aunts and eight aunts have to be invited, not to mention seven or eight tables. No wonder women always want to give birth to a boy, it turns out that the mother and son are expensive in remote mountain villages, and they are also vividly reflected in the village.

Today is the day of the Yi Wangding family's "three dynasties". On this day, it was the end of the autumn season, and the scorching sun was raging even harder. In the morning, as soon as the sun rose above the horizon, it opened its bloody mouth and sprayed flames on the blue sky, and the air seemed to stop flowing, and the branches of the trees on the mountain and the dead grass by the roadside seemed to freeze there, and there was no shaking for half a day. Only the heat wave rushed in wave after wave, torturing the honest farmer to sweat.

After breakfast, the eldest aunt Yi Yan came to Yi Wangding's house early to help find mugwort leaves, cattails, and hot water. These little things were originally done by Yi Wangding's mother Yi Zhang, but Yi Zhang's pushed it all away on the grounds of physical discomfort, in fact, Yi Zhang's was not unwell at all, but deliberately shirked from the bottom of her bones to look down on this little granddaughter, originally she didn't want to do this "three dynasties", but because of the face of her husband and son, it was not easy to openly oppose it, so she prevaricated for physical reasons.

The cattails and mugwort leaves used for "washing the baby" are not ordinary cattail mugwort leaves picked in the wild casually, but the kind of cattails and mugwort leaves that are hung on both sides of the hall door during the Dragon Boat Festival to drive away the evil baskets. It is said that the water boiled out of this cattail and mugwort leaves has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and the baby washes it, and the skin is moist and does not give birth to prickly heat. Therefore, most of the babies in the Yuanzhou area "do the three dynasties" use cattails and mugwort leaves to decoction water for bathing. Some babies use it for bathing on a regular basis.

Due to the hot weather, the pot of boiling cattail mugwort leaf water that had been boiled after breakfast lay quietly under the window of the room, and cooled for more than an hour before it dropped to the temperature of the bathing water. At the beginning of the afternoon, Yi Wangding stood at the gate of his house, lit the firecrackers in his hand, with the sound of "crackling", the eldest aunt Yi Yan held the white and chubby baby girl for the first bath in her life, the baby girl who was born only five days ago seemed to know a certain enjoyment, and the cry of "wow, wow, wow" just now stopped abruptly. The tiny body floating in the tub full of cattails and mugwort leaves was like a winter melon that had just been picked from the melon shed, white and fat, tender and raw, especially the two jade hands and two small feet, slapping vigorously and kicking indiscriminately, attracting laughter and admiration from the adults.

The next step is to name the baby. The name of the baby is also an important part of the "three asahi", but this content was originally only a privilege enjoyed by male babies, girls generally do not take names, what the father's surname is called, she will be called, after marriage, and add a husband's surname in front of her surname, which is her name. But now it's different, it's now the eighth year of the Republic of China, and the family rules of the past are constantly changing. The "Three Dynasties" of Yi Wangding's family were simple, and even the parents and husbands of the clan were not invited, so the responsibility for naming the baby girl had to fall on the shoulders of her grandfather or grandfather, or father and other elders.

"Give your child a name!" The eldest aunt, Yi Yan, said while holding the baby girl who had been wrapped in the bath to Yi Wangding.

Yi Wangdin took his daughter with both hands and slowly came to his father. While looking at his father, he whispered, "Dad, you old man should choose a name for the child!" ”

Eander sat in the upper right corner of the antechamber. The thin, slightly curly hair seems to have fallen out quite a bit, and in stark contrast, the wrinkles on the face seem to be getting more and more numerous, and the grooves are getting deeper and deeper. At this moment, while inhaling deeply, he thought: his daughter-in-law finally gave birth to a healthy baby, but she never achieved the result he wanted. Will you ever see your grandchildren in this life? In the face of his son's request, he did not react for a while, and still took a big gulp. I don't know if he really coughed or smoked too hard, but he choked on a mouthful of smoke and coughed, and only came to his senses after spitting out a mouthful of yellow thick phlegm. Yi Wangdin quickly handed the girl in his hand to others, holding his father with one hand and gently patting his father's shoulder with the other. After a long while, he asked softly, "Dad, it doesn't matter, right?" ”

"It's okay, people are old and useless! The smoke that comes up is stuffed in the throat. ”

"Give your little granddaughter a name!"

"What is the name of a daughter's family?"

"Dad, it's not as good as before, it's the Republic of China now, and both men and women must have their own names!"

"If you really want to take it, just take 'Yuxiu'! Didn't it rain heavily when she was born that day? The daughter's use of 'Xiu' is better, and her nickname is 'Xiuxiu'." After Yi Ande finished speaking, he began to fill the pot with cigarettes, as if only smoke could dilute the unhappiness in his heart.

"Yi Yuxiu, this name is good, it sounds good." Everyone echoed and praised in unison.

The name of the newborn baby girl is taken, followed by the seat drinking, there are many rules for doing wine seats in this area of Yuanzhou, the first four seats of the ancestors can not sit casually, otherwise some elders will not sit on the seat that should belong to them and have contradictions, the light refuses to go to the table to eat and drink or gamble home, and the heavy sweep the bowl and lift the table to make a big banquet, and some even have a life lawsuit.