There is an old rule left by the ancestors in Daxi Village: when a woman gives birth to a child, after the baby lands with a “wow”, the father will open the gate of the yard. He will give the child whatever name he sees at first sight.
There is a man named Zhang Daguo in the village, because when his father opened the door, he saw a dog peeing under the wall, so he took this name. Just call a dog by yourself. What bothers him most is the eldest daughter’s name. Things were so strange. When the eldest daughter landed, his big black dog was lying at the gate of the courtyard. Zhang Daguo opened the door and was so scared to sit on the ground at the time! No way, her daughter could only be called Zhang Heigou.
Seeing that the belly of the wife’s barrel is moving again. The couple discussed that they should give their second child a more civilized name. The wooden barrel came up with an idea and asked the man to plant a poplar on the left side of the door and a lily on the right, which can be seen at first sight. In this way, if a boy is born, it is called Baiyang, and if a girl is born, it is called Lily. Zhang Daguo listened, his eyes lined up with a smile: “A wooden barrel is a wooden barrel, and there are still a lot of goods in his belly!”
The tree is also planted, and the barrel is finally in labor. She yelled “Wow oh yeah” all night, and when the day was about to dawn, the back room finally heard a cry of “wow”. The midwife opened the curtain and walked out, smiling and saying to Zhang Daguo: “I gave birth to a boy. Son, go open the door and name it!”
“Okay, Bai Yang!” Zhang Dagou jumped to the door with joy, and suddenly stopped, and said in his heart: Don’t be busy, this time you must be cautious and don’t go wrong. He glanced around through the cracks in the door, and found that there was no such thing as a cat or dog, and then he twitched the latch. When he grasped the door leaf with both hands, he suddenly grew a mindful eye, so he closed his eyes tightly, and wanted to wait until his eyes were pointed in Bai Yang’s direction, and then opened the courtyard door and opened his eyes suddenly, so that he would be foolproof.
Zhang Dagou calmed down, “Bang Dang” opened the door, closed his eyes and jumped out, only to hear a “puff”, his feet slipped and staggered, as if he had stepped on something. Zhang Daguo opened his eyes involuntarily, his head buzzed, and his body suddenly became cold. He didn’t even look at the white poplar, it was for nothing.
Zhang Dagou entered the house with his head drooping and looked at the little baby lying on the kang’s head. Tears flowed down: “The barrel, I’m sorry my son!” The barrel asked what was going on, Zhang Dagou. He beat his forehead hard: “Why are we so destined with the dog?” The barrel smiled slightly, and quickly comforted him: “You saw the dog again? Just call the dog when you call it.”
Zhang Daguo wiped away his tears and stomped his feet and cried out, “It’s fine if you call a dog, but the first thing I, I saw… is a pile of shit!”