Jiang Lan hesitated before saying, "This name sounds a bit too soft for a boy."
Then everyone turned their attention to Xu Zhengyang.
Actually, Xu Zhengyang quite liked the name "Xu Xiao" that his wife mentioned. Although it wasn't particularly outstanding, it was easy to pronounce, so that was fine. But what kind of good name could you expect from someone with only a junior high school education who had simply read a lot of books that were basically useless to most people?
It's asking the impossible.
However, Xu Zhengyang suddenly thought that before this child was born, his father had made a big fuss with the Heavenly Laws and Rules because of him, and he almost rebelled against the Heavenly Laws. Only by doing so could the Heavenly Laws compromise and allow this child to be born safely.
So……
Xu Zhengyang said calmly, "Okay, let's add another word after it, Xu Xiaotian."
"Mm." Li Bingjie was the first to nod in agreement, and smiled with satisfaction.
Jiang Lan nodded and said, "Good, good, Xiaotian, this name has spirit!"
Xu Neng and Yuan Suqin never thought about these things. As long as the name was easy to pronounce and sounded nice, they naturally wouldn't have any objections. In fact, they were thinking that Zhengyang was becoming more and more successful.
Xu Xiaotian...
I wonder if, after you were born, you laughed at the sky, the earth, or perhaps, your parents?
Volume Six, Chapter 331: The Good and Bad of the Divine Child
Having a baby during the summer is incredibly painful, as anyone who's experienced it knows.
The child suffers, and so do the adults.
The reason is simple: it's hot! Even if you have air conditioning, as the doctor advised, you should use it as little as possible, as it's not good for either the child's or the adult's health. Fortunately, Xu Zhengyang's family is currently very well-off and can afford to live in the Jingniang Lake scenic area.
The temperature in the mountains is always much cooler than outside, and the air is fresh and the environment is better.
For the first two weeks after Xu Xiaotian's birth, this usually quiet and elegant mountain villa was bustling with guests every day, coming and going like a market, making it quite lively for a while.
Not to mention relatives and friends, practically every household in Shuanghe Village had someone come to visit and offer congratulations; and throughout the entire Fuhe City area, leaders and cadres from the city, county, and township levels, whether they knew them or not, well, it was all a matter of you following me, me bringing you along. Basically, anyone who could establish a connection would always come with bags and bags of gifts to offer their congratulations.
Although Xu Zhengyang disliked this behavior, he couldn't say anything about it. He had to politely thank him and ask Li Chengzong to write down the list, as he would have to invite people to the banquet when the child turned one month old.
The news spread extremely quickly, and even people in the capital like Hu Bayi and Tang Jing, who weren't very close to him, sent precious congratulatory gifts through Master Gu, Yao Chushun, all of which were top-quality antiques.
Huang Chen and Yu Xuan also traveled a long distance to visit and offer their congratulations.
This was something Xu Zhengyang and his family found hard to accept. If it were the day of their child's one-month celebration, it would be perfectly reasonable for them to come and give gifts and attend the banquet. But now, before they even had a proper feast, these expensive gifts, some even containing cash checks, were being delivered.
If this gets out, it will definitely draw criticism.
So, after discovering the cash and checks hidden among the gifts the day before, Xu Zhengyang immediately notified Chen Chaojiang to return the cash and checks to the recipients listed on the note. He then privately told his mother and Li Chengzong that whenever guests brought gifts, they should quickly check them carefully. If there was cash, checks, or valuable gifts, they should immediately notify his mother, Yuan Suqin, so she could seal the corresponding red envelopes and send them back.
For this reason, the family even prepared a safe full of cash.
Leaving those things aside, let's talk about Xu Xiaotian, that little guy, he's really quite strange. He seems to have been born with an exceptionally rich spirituality, and his physical development is incredibly rapid. From the second day after he was born, he could move his limbs flexibly. Whenever guests came to visit him, he would always lie on his side, close his eyes, and sleep.
Only when there are no strangers around will he open his eyes and playfully kick his arms and legs.
In the words of Jiang Lan and Yuan Suqin, "This doesn't look like a baby who's not even a month old! He's as lively as a three-month-old baby."
Moreover, he never cries...
We originally hired a professional postpartum nanny to help take care of the baby, but the little guy just wouldn't let anyone hold him or look at him, even though he was grimacing, glaring, and spitting smears. Well, that scared the nanny so much that she was afraid of upsetting the precious little guy, so she quickly resigned and left in a panic. "I can't afford to take care of this family's child," she thought, "goodness, such a spoiled brat even at such a tiny age."
Yuan Suqin, holding her grandson, was overjoyed. "I told you long ago, why hire a postpartum nanny? I didn't have my mother-in-law to take care of me, but I still managed to raise my child. You wouldn't trust someone else to take care of my grandson, would you? That's my little darling."
The little guy laughed heartily.
This left the family both amused and exasperated. It would be a lie to say they weren't happy—what kind of baby less than a month old could be so intelligent? But it was also true that they were both amused and exasperated. After all, this child was just too strange…
In the first week, the little guy's pooping and peeing were nothing special. But after just one week, well, the little guy started to know he was dirty. Whenever he needed to pee, he would babble and touch his little penis with his little hands to remind the adults that he needed to pee; when he pooped, he would clench his fists and deliberately strain until his little face turned red to tell you that he was going to poop.
At first, the adults didn't understand his actions, but as soon as he finished each action, before the adults could even stop him, he would immediately urinate and defecate, and then the adults naturally understood what was going on.
Twenty days after birth.
That night, the little guy took a nap and woke up around midnight.
Xu Zhengyang lay on the edge of the bed, his consciousness traveling into the State God's Mansion, listening to Li Haidong and Su Peng report on the current situation of Gulierya being detained under special circumstances, as well as the fact that Wan Yun and others in the capital would be sentenced next week.
The little guy looked at Xu Zhengyang, who was sleeping peacefully with a calm expression, and then rolled his eyes around before turning to his side and slowly closing his eyes.
In an inner room of the Prefecture God's mansion, the Prefecture God spoke calmly: "If Wan Yun is not sentenced to death this time, then let him commit suicide in prison. I want to use his ghost. His misfortune was that he happened to have plotted to harm me during the political struggle. He has been an official for many years and is considered a rare good official. Moreover, he is capable. In the future, I will place him by your side, Li Haidong, as a ghost messenger who advises you..."
“Yes, Wan Yun is indeed capable,” Li Haidong replied.
"Your Excellency is wise," Su Peng said, bowing respectfully.
Just then, all three of them froze, staring blankly at a tiny baby that had appeared out of nowhere on the dark brown table.
The little guy propped himself up with his chubby little hands, his arms showing several folds from his plumpness. He tilted his head back, staring with his big, bright black eyes, curiously looking at the people in the room. Then he grinned at the three stunned people and tentatively crawled toward Xu Zhengyang.
Who else could it be but Xu Xiaotian?
"M-sir, Xiaotian, he, he..." Su Peng stammered, pointing at Xu Xiaotian, unable to speak.
"What's going on?" Li Haidong was also dumbfounded.
Xu Zhengyang quickly reached out and hugged the little guy, examining him from head to toe. He probed the little guy with his divine sense and finally discovered a serious problem, much to his dismay: the little guy could actually travel with his divine sense and enter the State God's Palace within the Nine Provinces Record. Xu Zhengyang frowned and asked the Nine Provinces Record, "How did you allow his divine sense to enter?"
The Records of the Nine Provinces replied: This child's spirituality comes from the divinity of the God of the Province himself, so his divinity is in accordance with the divine nature, and he naturally entered the God of the Province's palace.
"Damn it, we can't let him come here so easily anymore, you hear me?" Xu Zhengyang said angrily.
The Records of the Nine Provinces replied: Yes.
After saying this in his mind, Xu Zhengyang held the little guy and pouted helplessly. He said to Li Haidong, "You handle it. I have to go now."
"Yes, yes," Li Haidong quickly replied, his old eyes fixed on the little guy. His grandson-in-law was just too...
In the bedroom, Xu Zhengyang opened his eyes and turned his head to see that the little guy lying on his side facing him also had his eyes open and was grinning at him.
Sleepy Li Bingjie lifted her eyelids slightly and glanced at him, muttering habitually, "Zhengyang. You can tease him, I'm so sleepy."
After saying that, Li Bingjie closed her eyes and fell asleep.
"Laugh, laugh, what are you laughing at?" Xu Zhengyang picked up the little guy, tilted his head back so the little guy sat on his chest, and glared at him, baring his teeth as he said, "Remember, you're not allowed to wander around with your divine sense in the future. It's very dangerous. You're just a little kid and you dare to act so recklessly? Be careful or I'll seal your divine power!"
The little guy waved his little arms and glared at Xu Zhengyang without any fear.
"Hey, you son of a bitch, you think you can rebel against me at such a young age?" Xu Zhengyang roared. "If you weren't so young, I would have slapped your ass right now!"
Sizzle...
The little guy gushed out a stream of urine so quickly that even the agile and incredibly fast-reacting Lord Xu Zhengyang couldn't dodge it, and the entire stream of urine ended up on his face.
"Damn it!" Xu Zhengyang sat up abruptly, furious, and roared, "I..."
Holding his son in one hand, he raised the other hand high, but ultimately couldn't bring himself to slap him.
The little guy started giggling.
Li Bingjie was woken up by the noise from the father and son. She opened her eyes sleepily and said with dissatisfaction, "What's all the noise about... Oh, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Xu Zhengyang's face was wet and dripping water, Li Bingjie quickly asked.
Xu Zhengyang threw his son into Li Bingjie's arms, got up from the bed, grabbed a wet wipe from the side, and paced angrily by the bedside, saying, "What's wrong? What's wrong? Look what your son did! I scolded him a little, and he dared to pee on my face... You little brat, ah, fine, fine, you..."
"Ah? Haha, haha..." Li Bingjie got up, hugged her son, and couldn't help but laugh.
Xu Zhengyang was completely speechless. What else could he do?
The little one, however, turned his head away and snuggled into his mother's arms to nurse, completely unconcerned.
"Zhengyang, the child is still young..." Li Bingjie looked at her husband, who had lost his temper but still looked dejected, and comforted him with heartache.
"Little one, little one, does he look like a baby?"
"Why are you so angry?" Li Bingjie asked, puzzled.
Xu Zhengyang was taken aback. Then he sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed, looking at the baby who was happily nursing, and frowned as he said, "Do you know what he did before?"
"So what if he peed on your face?" Li Bingjie said.
Xu Zhengyang shook his head, frowned, pointed at the little guy, and said in an extremely serious tone, "That little brat, he's so young yet he dares to use his divine sense to travel and chase me all the way to the State God's Mansion to find me..."
"Ah!" Li Bingjie's mouth opened wide, clearly startled.
She had heard her husband talk about the dangers of spiritual travel. Her son's current weak body was far too fragile. If in the future... he got used to spiritual travel and would frequently go on spiritual journeys. It would be fine at home, but it would be too dangerous outside.
"How can I not be angry? Sigh!" Xu Zhengyang sighed heavily.
"Is this good or bad?" Li Bingjie looked at the little one in her arms, who was still happily nursing without a care in the world, with great concern.
Speaking of which, the person who knows this little guy best right now is Li Bingjie.
Before they had children, Xu Zhengyang never hid anything from Li Bingjie. Especially after they got married, whenever Li Bingjie had a question, even if she didn't ask, Xu Zhengyang would tell her. Therefore, Li Bingjie's understanding of Xu Zhengyang, this deity, truly surpassed that of anyone else.
After having a child, Xu Zhengyang made no secret of telling his wife about the child's situation.
Before tonight, Xu Zhengyang and Li Bingjie both thought it was a good thing. This little guy had completely inherited his parents' traits, both mentally and physically, especially his father's inherent divinity, making him almost like a demigod. But now, this unexpected turn of events is truly worrying.
Li Bingjie looked at her husband with a sorrowful expression and said, "Zhengyang, you...you can't be helpless either, can you?"
"There's nothing I can do," Xu Zhengyang shook his head.
He had threatened his son, saying he would seal his divine power, but that wouldn't work. It's true, with Xu Zhengyang's current position and unparalleled divine power, he could easily seal off his son's meager abilities. However… you must understand, divine power is completely integrated with a person's spirit and consciousness. The Heavenly Court had once sealed off the divine power of a deity, but that would have been equivalent to sealing off the entire deity's will and consciousness.
To put it simply, if Xu Zhengyang were to seal off his son's divine powers, his son would become an idiot.
“Well, well, before he’s old enough to understand, we shouldn’t let him go out. When he does go out, someone should always be there to watch over him,” Li Bingjie said through gritted teeth, her voice tinged with pain. She understood the profound impact this would have on a child’s emotional development.
"So what if his physical body is preserved?" Xu Zhengyang said with a headache, "Don't think that just because his divine sense is traveling, he will be 100% safe. With his current weak divine sense ability, a bullet hitting his divine sense could cause his soul to scatter in an instant."
"Ah..." Li Bingjie was terrified and didn't know what to say for a moment.
The little one stopped nursing, turned around, and grinned at his parents without a care in the world.
"You tease him for a bit, I'm going out for a walk and thinking," Xu Zhengyang instructed, then got up and went out.
My good mood of the past few days was completely shattered by this little guy who brought me good mood.
Xu Zhengyang took a cigarette and a lighter from under the coffee table in the living room and walked slowly into the courtyard wearing shorts and slippers.
The moonlight outside was like frost, and the breeze sliding down from the mountain carried the moisture from the lake, refreshing and cool, dispelling the summer heat and making it quite comfortable.
Lighting a cigarette, Xu Zhengyang walked to a pavilion in the courtyard and sat down, pondering how to deal with the matter of the little guy Xu Xiaotian.
He even regretted having the child in the first place.
As the only deity in the Three Realms, Li Bingjie will be granted a divine position in the future. How wonderful it would be for this divine couple to live a carefree and happy life...
I thought and thought, but I still couldn't come up with a solution.