Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 176 Nanzhi

"Did your little girl happen to be a frail child since birth, only starting to improve when she turned two?"

Hearing the old man’s words, the Mother Lin’s face, which had just been smiling, turned somewhat pale.

She hadn’t nurtured the little girl well when she was pregnant, which resulted in her daughter being as thin as a kitten at birth. And as she grew up, she seemed like a fool, not responding no matter how much she was called. Every day she would just stare straight ahead, not crying or fussing, only humming when she was hungry.

It wasn’t until she was two years old that one day the little girl suddenly called her mother.

It was only after that day that their little girl seemed to become a normal child.

But how did this old man know about this, something only known by the villagers?

"You, you must have asked the villagers to know that." Lin Yicheng stuttered.

This old man must have come here to swindle silver!

"Your name is Dacheng, also known as Yicheng, you are eight and a half years old. Last time you secretly cut off your little sister’s pigtail and told her that it was stolen by goblins, right? You also like the girl from the west of the village, and when you have the chance, you’ll help feed her family’s donkeys, correct?"

The old man chuckled as he stated two more matters, not believing that this boy would dare to lie in front of him today, he’d surely sleep standing!

Lin Shougui, after sobering up some, found the old man’s words more and more lively, which caused him to shift his gaze to his son.

"Is what the old man said true? Was it you who cut off the little girl’s ponytail last time? I wondered why she kept crying for a few days."

Lin Yicheng really wanted to cry, but he didn’t dare run away, only stuttering so badly he could barely form words.

Seeing his behavior, both Mother Lin and Lin Shougui understood that their son’s behavior indicated that the old man’s words were accurate.

"What could the old man want from our little girl, I wonder?"

"Change her name."

At these words, Lin Shougui and his wife exchanged glances.

They were of the belief that a modest name is conducive to raising a child. Children usually wouldn’t be given a formal name until they were ten because of fear that they may not be able to handle the fortune that a formal name might bring.

In their village, many families simply called their kids by their pet names until the girls came of age, and then they would ask elders or village seniors to give them formal names.

The name of their little girl was thought up by Lin shougui after a lot of pondering, intending for it to make her grow up chubby and adorable.

But now, they were suddenly asked to change the little girl’s name, making them a bit hesitant.

After all, no matter how you looked at it, this old man was an outsider. Having him name their daughter was a bit out of place.

"After changing her name, the little girl will grow well. She has good fortune and opportunities. But if her name isn’t changed, those fortunes and opportunities will be suppressed."

Upon hearing that changing the name could allow their daughter to grow well, Mother Lin suddenly became spirited.

"May I know what name the old man suggests for our daughter?"

"Nanzhi."

The old man looked at the round and chubby little girl in front of him with a smile in his eyes.

"Nanzhi... Lin Nanzhi..."

Mother Lin felt the name was not bad after a few repetitions, at least better than calling her Cuihua Jinlan. Most of the girls in the village had names like Cuihua, Cuilan, Jinlan, and she could easily bump into two or three outside her home.

"Does this name have any symbolic meaning?"

"I cannot tell." The old man said in a profound manner, making Mother Lin feel like she may have asked too much.

After the meal, Mother Lin instructed her two sons to lead the old man to the prepared guest room, while she, along with Lin Shougui and the little girl, went inside their house.

"What do you think of this new name?"

Lin Shougui pursed his lips, his face showing displeasure.

"Why change the name, ’little chubby’ sounds quite nice, doesn’t it? Hearing the name immediately tells you that our daughter is round and chubby, and it’s very festive."

Mother Lin shot him a glance, too lazy to ask his opinion further, simply pinching her daughter’s little face.

"Little chubby, tell me, do you want to change your name?"

The little girl scratched her head, looking up at her mother: "What would my name be?"

"It’s Nanzhi. Do you like it?"

"Nanzhi..."

The little girl repeated it and suddenly smiled, "Good, good, I want to be called Nanzhi~"

She remembered that in her dreams she had a sister named Nanzhi! She didn’t want to be called little chubby anymore!

"Alright, our baby girl will be called Nanzhi from now on." Saying this, Mother Lin kissed her daughter’s cheek.

Seeing how his wife and daughter didn’t care for his opinion, Lin Shougui became somewhat unhappy, "Why does everything he say have to be enacted? He’s not even our elder. Why should he name my daughter?"

Speaking in angered tone he appeared to have completely forgotten that he was the one who had invited the old man into the house.

The next morning, just as the three children from the Lin family were about to call the old man for breakfast, they discovered him already dressed and waiting for them at the door.

"Grandpa, mother asks you to have breakfast." The little girl stood in front of her two brothers, raising her head to look up at the old man.

Lin Yicheng kept silent, rubbing his sore buttocks, blaming this man for getting him into trouble last night!

Lin Ercheng did the same, only he wasn’t standing next to his older brother like usual.

He had been sold out by his elder brother when the latter was being punished and ended up being punished as well!

Seeing the state of the two brothers, the old man silently laughed to himself, were two children really that hard to deal with?

"I won’t be eating at your house this morning, sorry for the inconvenience yesterday."

After saying this, he clasped his hands in farewell, but unexpectedly, the little girl spoke up: "So, grandpa, what will you give me in return?"

Looking at the little girl expectantly looking at him, the old man’s face darkened, was this little girl obsessed with wealth?

When he stayed silent, the little girl was about to say something, but she saw the old man raising his hand and then her head was knocked three times.

"Take this as a gift." The old man said and walked out of Lin family’s yard without looking back.

By the time she realized her head had been knocked, the old man had already disappeared.

"Wa——"

Although the old man didn’t hit her hard, the little girl still cried all the way holding her forehead.

Mother Lin, busy in the kitchen, saw her daughter come back crying. Her hands stopped mid-air and she quickly walked over to her daughter, abandoning her kitchen duties.

"What happened, daughter? Who bullied you? Quickly tell mother!" Halfway through her questioning, Mother Lin realized that she had just sent the three children to call the old man for breakfast.

Why had her daughter returned crying?

"That grandpa, he, he hit me on my head!" It took quite some time for the little girl to say this much through her sobs.

"He hit your head?" Mother Lin was taken aback, why did that old man hit someone?

"Where is he now? I’ll ask him why he hit you."

"He, he left——"

The little girl sobbed and looked like she was about to cry again, but Mother Lin fought back her laughter.

Perhaps, that old man was taking revenge for the silver the little girl asked for yesterday.

Lin Shougui already was against changing little girl’s name, and when he heard about the knock on his daughter’s head from the old man before his departure, he became even more unwilling.