Chapter 404 - 142: Decline
Zhuang Ruolan thought the name Keyue was very good. Just as Ma Peng had said, it sounded nice and had a good meaning, but thinking about Yueyao’s origins, she couldn’t help but hesitate. Their daughter had been born in an inauspicious month, so would letting Yueyao name her bring bad luck?
Cai Yun looked at Ruolan, who was exceedingly troubled, and said, "Young lady, don’t you remember that the senior monk at Zhaohua Temple said Cousin Miss was fated with Buddha and was a person of great fortune. Could Master Xuan Tian’s words be wrong?"
Cai Yi countered from the side, "If Cousin Miss really had such great fortune, she wouldn’t have been rumored to be a jinx, so I feel it’s not appropriate."
Cai Yun had no rebuttal since the fact that Cousin Miss had lost her parents was unchangeable, "This name is truly excellent, at least I haven’t heard of a better one." Actually, this name wasn’t one that couldn’t be found between heaven and earth, it’s just that its meaning was very auspicious.
Cai Yi grumbled, "Cousin Miss is deliberately giving us a difficult problem." Cai Yi didn’t deny that the name was good—pleasant to hear and with a good meaning. If this name had been given by the Eldest Young Master, they would not have had so many qualms.
In the end, after much vacillation, it was Cai Yun who spoke up, "Young lady, if anyone is said to have good fortune, it should be the Old Lady. Why not ask her for advice?" The Old Lady of Duke Mansion was more than eighty years old, having enjoyed a lifetime of glory and wealth, and now was surrounded by a full house of children and grandchildren—definitely a person of great fortune.
Zhuang Ruolan shook her head, "Let’s consider it further," she said. Ruolan was also aware that despite enjoying a lifetime of wealth and an enviable posterity, the Old Lady was not favored by the Duke.
Of course, the most important reason was that Zhuang Ruolan didn’t like the Old Lady much. Having lived in the Duke Mansion for many years, she felt the Old Lady was partial and always made things difficult for her grandmother and aunt. Moreover, Ruolan thought that if they were to specifically request the Old Lady to name her daughter, it would only fuel more gossip among the Duke Mansion’s folk.
Soon, Zhuang Ruolan was no longer troubled.