Chapter 1370: Side Story: Qi Xiuyuan (1)
The young Qi Xiuyuan carefully carried the medicine bowl to his mother’s bed with both hands and said crisply, "Mother, it’s time for you to drink the medicine."
Zhu Wan looked up and saw that her son’s round face was covered in sweat. She couldn’t help but smile. After propping herself up, she took the bowl and downed it in one gulp. Smiling at her son, she said, "Alright, Mother has taken the medicine. Xiuyuan, go take care of your younger brother."
Qi Xiuyuan cheered up and asked, "Mother, Little Brother is getting more and more adorable by the day. You can give him a name now."
Zhu Wan hesitated. "Your father has to be the one to come up with the name."
Qi Xiuyuan was a little displeased. Although he was young, he could already differentiate between those who were close to him and those who were not. Though he did not have a good impression of his father, he rarely refuted his mother. Therefore, he could gaze at his mother expectantly with those round eyes of his.
What Zhu Wan could not stand the most was when her son would gaze at her like this. When she thought about how her husband was solely focused, both physically and mentally, on Madam Wu now, she felt that he probably didn’t care much about their youngest son.
Since even her eldest son’s name was given by her, she presumed he would not care about his youngest son’s name either. So Zhu Wan paused for a moment and took out the name that she had come up with after much pondering. "Let’s call him Haoran then. It’s from ’Meng Zi: Gongsun Chou (Part 1)’: ’I am skillful in nourishing my great spirit... The great spirit can be exceedingly great, and exceedingly strong and nourished by rectitude without injury; it fills up all between heaven and earth.’ " Zhu Wan looked at her eldest son with a smile. "What do you think?"
Qi Xiuyuan’s eyes were starry. At his young age, he didn’t understand much of it, but still, he felt that it was very impressive. He repeated the name a few times and nodded fiercely after memorizing it.
He said happily, "I’ll tell Little Brother that he now has a name."
Zhu Wan smiled as she watched him run and jump away. No one expected this to be the last time they would meet.