"Chicken Feather, has the water boiled? If it's all right, come over quickly and I'll shave your head!"
Su Mingzhe took the razor and shouted at the chicken feathers that were boiling water in the kitchen.
"Here we come, Brother Zhe."
When Ji Feo heard that his head was about to be shaved, he ran over in a hurry. He had lived in the deep mountains and forests for more than half a year, and his scalp had long been itchy.
Not only was my scalp itchy, but my hair was also oily and in clumps, even if I rinsed it with boiling water, it wouldn't be able to be rinsed away.
Su Mingzhe shaved his head and didn't get him an apron. He just asked him to take off his shirt and wear a pair of big pants. After shaving his head for a while, he went directly to take a bath with the mugwort leaves he had prepared for him.
Su Mingzhe took the razor and slowly shaved the chicken feathers, and then explained:
"Chicken Feather, you just came out of the deep mountains and old forests. I need to shave your head and apply medicated powder on it to get rid of the bacteria and bugs in your scalp. When the lice and mites on your body are gone, I can leave you a bald head in the future. Flat hair, short hair.”
"Um."
Even though Ji Feo was a wild child before, he has a really good nature.
Not only does he work hard and never complain, he never says goodbye to Su Mingzhe's orders. He is also very well-behaved and sensible. When he comes to Su Mingzhe's house, he will not move around. He is the kind of person who doesn't order him, and he always stands still. The kind of good boy.
Su Mingzhe naturally liked good children very much.
After a while, Su Mingzhe shaved Ji Fei's head.
Su Mingzhe let Ji Feo stand in the bathroom, soaked moxa leaves in boiling water, and carried it over.
"Wash it yourself. In the past few days, when you take a shower, wash it with hot water first. Don't be too hot. This is all for sterilization and detoxification. After taking a bath, put this layer of prickly heat powder on yourself. This is to prevent prickly heat. of."
Ji Fei took a bath properly, applied a layer of prickly heat powder on himself, and then changed into Su Mingzhe's new clothes.
While Ji Fei was taking a bath, Su Mingzhe tidied up the east room where he slept.
Since he will be the master of the house in the future, it is natural that he should sleep in the master bedroom of the main room.
I'll just give up my east room to Ji Fei.
In the summer, we don’t need any bedding. We just carry the bamboo bed out to dry in the sun, and prepare two sets of clothes and shoes for Ji Fei.
After a while, Chicken Feather came out from the bath.
Su Mingzhe looked at the bald chicken in front of him and smiled immediately.
Ji Feo has a pair of squinty eyes with single eyelids that can't be opened wide even if he tries hard, but he has a pretty face. If he dresses up a little, some people will believe him that he is a girl.
"not bad."
Su Mingzhe looked at it for a while, and then laughed when he saw that Ji Fei was shy again.
Not only does this kid look like a girl, but he also has a habit of blushing like a girl.
If I hadn't seen him peeing while standing, I would have thought he had picked up a girl.
"Ji Feo, from now on you can follow me and accept me as your big brother, and you will be my little brother."
After Su Mingzhe said it, Ji Feo nodded quickly. He was really grateful to Su Mingzhe.
Last winter, if Su Mingzhe hadn't sent me meals for two months, I don't even know if I could have survived that winter.
Therefore, when Su Mingzhe said that he would be his younger brother, Ji Feo nodded in agreement:
"Yeah, big brother."
"Okay, now that you recognize me as your eldest brother, it's no longer easy to use the 'nickname' of Ji Fei. I'll give you a big name, eldest brother."
As Su Mingzhe spoke, he began to have difficulties.
He is a noob at naming. In the past, when naming his children, he had to look through the Book of Songs, dictionaries, and Cihai.
Now that I have a younger brother for myself, I can't call him 'Su Mingcheng'.
Ji Feo was stunned for a moment when he heard that his newly recognized eldest brother was going to give him a name, and he quickly said: "Brother, I have a name."
"Huh? Do you have a name?"
"Well, my surname is Chen, and my name is 'Chen Jianghe'."
"'Chen Jianghe'?"
Su Mingzhe was stunned for a moment, and then his mind felt like it was exploding. This name was the name of the male protagonist in "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky".
Damn, Chen Jianghe’s nickname seems to be Ji Fei.
So, you picked up a male protagonist, Chen Jianghe?
"Brother, isn't my name bad?"
Chen Jianghe felt a little uneasy when he saw that his elder brother was stunned when he heard his name.
He knew that he was still carrying eucalyptus on his back.
If, as my eldest brother, I was sent to the police, I would be a prisoner in the labor camp.
"No, your name sounds much better than Chicken Feather."
Su Mingzhe regained his composure. Seeing that Chen Jianghe looked uneasy, he quickly comforted him and said, "Your name is very good, but if the elder brother wants to register for you, you can no longer be named Chen. You need to follow the elder brother's surname of Su. You think that's okay?" no?"
Chen Jianghe was silent for a while, and he began to feel troubled.
Under the education of his Uncle Jin Shui since he was a child, he believed that a man should not change his name in business and his surname in office.
Now, Su Mingzhe asked him to change his surname, and he was naturally unwilling to do so.
However, just as Su Mingzhe said, it is definitely not easy to continue to use the name Chen Jianghe because of the negative meaning.
Under Su Mingzhe's warm smile, Chen Jianghe finally nodded: "Brother, I listen to you."
"Okay. In this case, after we have dinner, I will take you to my uncle's house and let him take you to register for residence."
Changing your surname in your household registration is not a big deal or a small matter.
After all, Chen Jianghe is already quite old now.
However, this society is an emotional society, and many things are easier to tolerate outside the law.
Su Mingzhe first brought Chen Jianghe to his uncle Su Chao's home. Su Chaocheng heard that Chen Jianghe was a wild child that Su Mingzhe picked up from the mountains. He also saw that Chen Jianghe was good-looking and well-behaved. After thinking for a moment, he decided Got an idea.
"Zhe Xiao (similar to Lu Xun's 'Brother Xun'), didn't the second child of your uncle Shan's family climb a tree and fall to his death last year? Let Jiang He replace the second child's household registration."
"OK."
Su Mingzhe knew that this kind of impersonation was also a way to solve the problem, so he immediately agreed on behalf of Chen Jianghe.
Afterwards, Su Mingzhe asked Chen Jianghe to go home first, and he and Su Chaocheng went to Su Chaoshan's home to talk to see if they agreed.
Su Chaoshan's biological father, Su Mutou, is Su Shitou's biological brother, and Su Chaoshan is the biological cousin of Su Mingzhe's father, Su Chaoqun.
This relationship is closer than Su Chao getting married.
When they arrived at Su Chaoshan's house, Su Mingzhe was the first to call out before he even entered: "Uncle Shan, Aunt Shan."
"Zhe Xiao is here, have you had dinner?"
Aunt Shan responded in the kitchen.
Su Chaocheng and Su Mingzhe entered the kitchen.
Su Chaoshan and his family were having a meal. When they saw Su Chaocheng coming, they quickly stood up and said hello:
"Brother Cheng, why are you here with Zhe Xiao?"
"I have something to discuss with you two."
Su Chaocheng said, and when he saw Su Chaoshan's family of four still eating, he waved his hand and said:
"You guys eat first. After you're done, we'll talk later."
As soon as Su Chaoshan saw it, he knew that the matter might be important and it was not convenient for his two children to hear it. Seeing that the two children had almost eaten, he drove them away.
Su Chaoshan's family had poor living conditions and originally gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Among them, the youngest and the eldest daughter fell ill and died when they were two or three years old.
Last year, the second child was gone, and now the couple is left with two children: the five-year-old third child and the three-year-old second daughter.
Seeing that the children had been pushed away, Su Chaoshan told Su Mingzhe about picking up a wild child from the mountains.
"Zhe Xiao wants to take in this child, and I've seen it too. The child is really good. This is not because your second child just passed away last year. Has the household registration been cancelled? If not, if you are willing, this child will be fine in the future. I will follow Zhe Xiao, but from now on I will treat you two as my biological parents and support you in your old age. What do you think?"
After hearing this, Su Chaoshan and his wife looked confused:
"Brother Cheng, we also want to agree to this, but the neighbors nearby know that our second child is missing. Another one suddenly appears, and we can't hide it."
"As long as you don't cancel your household registration, even if your neighbors know about it, few will say anything."
Seeing the dilemma between the couple, Su Chao couldn't help but frowned and said:
"We can say that this child fell from a tree and got seriously ill, but was taken away by rich relatives to see a doctor. Now he has recovered."
After struggling for a while, Su Chaoshan and his wife finally expressed their true thoughts.
Although the couple has urban household registration, they are small in rank and have not inherited the jobs of adults.
More than ten years ago, when the workforce was being downsized, Su Chaoshan and his wife, who worked as temporary workers in the central factory, were also laid off.
After the temporary workers were fired, both of them had to live frugally and live by working as helpers and coolies for others.
Later, when I gave birth to children, my family was poor and could not afford any nutritional supplements. The first two children were both weak and sick and died when they were two or three years old.
Six years ago, Su Mingzhe came to Pujiang and started hunting in the mountains. Every time he harvested something, he would distribute it to the Su family members.
It was with this help that Su Chaoshan's family survived for several more years and slowly raised their two sons and one daughter.
Last year, the second child in the family accidentally fell off a dead branch because he was naughty and climbed a tree. He died on the spot.
After losing three children in a row, outsiders said that Su Chaoshan and his wife were destined to have no children. Sooner or later, something would happen to the two remaining children in the family.
A person must be benevolent and righteous, and he must know how to repay kindness.
Over the years, Su Mingzhe sent various kinds of meat to Su Chaoshan's family every month to improve their lives.
If Su Mingzhe needs help elsewhere, Su Chaoshan and his wife can put their own lives aside and help Su Mingzhe without saying a word.
However, Su Mingzhe wanted to raise the outside child in his own name, and the two couples were afraid that they were not lucky enough to raise a child and would harm the innocent child.
"Uncle Shan, Aunt Shan, you think too much."
Neither Su Mingzhe nor Su Chaocheng expected that this couple, who usually kept silent, would be so concerned about the gossip outside.
Su Chaocheng was so angry that he slapped the table: "Which bastard is tired of his job and talks like this."
Su Chaoshan and his wife looked embarrassed, but did not answer.
The couple felt that they were incompetent. Even if they heard outsiders gossiping about them, they would pretend not to hear them, let alone talk about these gossips to their clan members.
But when the couple quarrels in the middle of the night, they complain to each other.
These two couples are typical honest people with no ability. Even if their teeth were knocked out, they would still be swallowed with blood.
