Farm Girl's Manor-Chapter 1331: Final - Ending Six_2

"Me, picking names for the dragon-phoenix twins?" Mo Yan blinked in surprise, speaking somewhat awkwardly, "I’m terrible at naming, you should do it yourselves!"

Whether it was the Six Beasts or the horses and cattle at home, except for Little Flower, all were named by Mo Yan. Initially, Dabai and Mao Tuan had no concept of names and didn’t mind being called these two names. But later on, when Red Python, Golden Beast, and Red Python joined, and Mo Yan tried to name them again, they strongly opposed.

Therefore, names like Little Red, Xiao Jin, and Heihei were just Mo Yan’s way of satisfying her own fancy, as the creatures themselves were completely uninterested in responding to them.

As for the cattle and horses, they simply accepted the names given on a whim due to their lack of Spiritual Wisdom. However, after drinking the Spirit Spring Water, they would often complain together that their names were too lame and strongly requested their owner to come up with new, majestic names. Mo Yan cheerfully rejected their requests.

Then for the maids bought later on, she thankfully did not resort to calling them Little Red or Little Green. Still, naming one Yuan Yue and another Er Mei, which together mean "Two Moons," clearly indicated another naming failure.

Now that she was asked to name two children, she knew she would come up with dreadful names, so she declined without a second thought.

Unfortunately, the couple was convinced that Mo Yan was a person of good fortune, and by having her name their children, they would surely grow up healthy and strong. They comforted her by saying, "You can name them with confidence. If the names turn out to be unsightly, we can always use them as nicknames."

Nicknames? Mo Yan’s eyes lit up at the idea, that could work!

She looked at the two tiny, peaceful infants sleeping in their swaddles and many meaningful names flashed through her mind. She carefully picked and chose, eventually settling on two that were somewhat to her liking and proudly said to the expectant couple, "When the girl grows up, she’ll definitely be smart and beautiful, so let’s call her Shen Meili. The boy cried with a finer voice than his sister at birth, he’ll have to become a truly imposing man in the future, so let’s call him Shen Zhuangshi!"

Liu Tinglan: "..."

Shen Ji: "..."

Shen Meili? Shen Zhuangshi? What kind of names were these? They really didn’t want to doom their daughter and son. Could they take back the request for this "blessed person" to name the children?

"Hahaha—Meili? Zhuangshi? Yanyan, you really are hopeless at naming!" Xue tuanzi in the Space couldn’t stop rolling with laughter, feeling inexplicably fortunate that though the name Xue tuanzi wasn’t grand, it at least sounded cute and catchy. If it were given a name like Meili or Zhuangshi, it would headbutt itself to death against the Jade Table.

Watching the couple looking at each other in disbelief, and hearing Xue tuanzi’s unrestrained ridicule, Mo Yan knew well enough that her chosen names were being scorned. Waving her hand with a disheartened air, she said, "I told you I’m no good with names, yet you insisted I try. Now that I’ve finally thought of two, you dislike them! Nevermind, you should just name them yourselves, then!"

The couple felt somewhat embarrassed upon hearing this. Liu Tinglan looked at her silent friend and then at the two little old men in the cradle, biting her lip and eventually deciding to risk it, "Then let’s go with Meili and Zhuangshi. The meanings are pretty good. Who knows, they might actually turn out as their names suggest: one beautiful and one strong!"

The babies were still young and unaware of how troubling their names might be. Growing up accustomed to them, they would probably not find them unpleasant. After all, a name is just a label, we value inner beauty, so what does it matter if it sounds nice or not?

Shen Ji, however, still had some sense left, leaning toward his poor son and daughter who couldn’t understand human speech. After mulling it over, he cautiously worded, "The name Meili is too flashy to be a formal name; it’s better off as a nickname. Zhuangshi is a good name, but in our Shen family, this generation should bear the ’Hong’ character in their names, so Zhuangshi can only be a nickname as well."

Liu Tinglan looked curiously at her husband, about to ask why he didn’t mention the generational character issue before naming, but then stopped when signaled by her husband’s glance. After seeing her friend’s mood had improved considerably, she immediately understood this was a tactful excuse to reject the names.

Alright, the reality was that the two names were indeed terrible, and naturally, it would be best if they weren’t used! This time, Liu Tinglan firmly stood with her husband and their two children!

"Well, then we’ll just use them as nicknames," Mo Yan conceded, finding the names suitable for that purpose. After all, weren’t nicknames what people used more often day-to-day?