"Father!! Bo Ehuang has given birth!! It's a girl!!" From the hospital, Zan Tengfei shared the happy news with his father.
"Oh!! God!! Is she okay?!"
"Yes father!! She is alright!!"
"What about the baby?!"
"She is also healthy father. Bo Ehuang didn't have any complications!!"
"Oh!! Then I would come there tomorrow with little Yingying!! Get some rest both you and the in-law."
"Yes father!!"
"Then good night father!!"
"Food night son! Take care!!"
"Okay!!" Zan Tengfei hung up.
***
Next day.
When Zan Guiying woke up, she didn't see her grandpa. Where is he? Usually grandpa will come and wish me good morning!!
"Young miss Zan!! Please get up and brush your teeth." Her nanny smiled.
Zan Guiying nodded and started her morning routine.
When she reached downstairs, she saw the servants were arranging food items including congee in a container.
"What happened?!" She asked.
"Little Yingying!! I have a good news to tell you!!" Grandpa Zan, who was instructing through out the packaging, turned and smiled.
"What is it grandpa?" Zan Guiying ran and grabbed his hands.
"You are a big sister now!! Your mommy gave birth and it's a baby sister!!"
"BABY!! BABY SISTER!!" Zan Guiying squealed happily and hugged him. "Grandpa!! I am so happy!!"
"Me too!! Little Yingying!! Me too!!" He hugged her and ruffled her hair.
"I want to meet her grandpa!! When are we going to meet them?!" She looked up.
"Eat your breakfast!! We are going after that." He instructed.
"Okay grandpa!!" Zan Guiying ran to the dining table and began to eat her food....
***
Bo Ehuang has been feeding the baby. There were no disturbance because they where in private room.
"When will they reach?!" She asked her husband.
"They will be here in minutes. I will go downstairs. They could get confused." He answered.
"Baby!! Your big sister is going to come!!" Bo Ehuang touched her child's nose.
The baby smiled.
"Oh!! She likes it!!" Both her parents giggled.
"Where is your mother and father?!" Zan Tengfei asked.
"She is outside, getting some fresh air." She answered. Her father arrived early in the morning to see his granddaughter.
Within minutes her mother and father came inside the room.
"Mother, Yingying and father will be here shortly. I am going downstairs to escort them. " He informed her.
"Okay. Yingying must be very excited." Mrs Bo smiled.
Zan Tengfei nodded and left.
***
Downstairs.
"Daddy.....!!" Zan Guiying ran and hugged her father.
"Ha!! my Yingying!! Daddy missed you!!" Zan Tengfei took her in his arms and kissed her.
"I missed daddy too!!" She also kissed her father.
"Father!!" Zan Tengfei greeted elder Zan.
Elder Zan nodded.
"Daddy!! Where is mommy and my baby sister?!" She asked.
"Well we are going there!!" Zan Tengfei smiled and pinched his daughter's cheeks.
"Ouch!! Daddy!! It hurts!!" She rubbed her cheeks.
Zan Tengfei and elder Zan chuckled. They shook their head and walked inside.
"Mommy!!" Zan Guiying ran towards her mother.
The elders greeted each other.
"Come here Yingying!! Mommy missed you!!" Bo Ehuang extended her arms and hugged her.
They both kissed each other.
"Hello grandma!! How are you?!"
"I am good Yingying!! Don't you want to see your little sister?! Come and look here!!"
Zan Guiying looked at the white cradle and moved beside it. Inside it, she saw a small bundle. Only a small face can be seen.
"Is this my sister? She is so wrinkly!!"
All the elders laughed. "Yingying her wrinkles will go away after some days!!" Zan Tengfei said.
"Oh!! But why is she small? Mommy's belly was big than this!!"
"Well it's because it looks like that!! But in mommy's belly, there was a cradle like that. And the baby was sleeping I side it!! And don't worry!! The cradle was made by not wood.... But mommy itself!!" Bo Ehuang explained. I should explain everything to her later....
"Oh!!"
Elder Zan took the baby from the cradle and rocked her in his hands for sometime.
"It's grandpa here...." He told the baby softly.
The baby smiled.
"Daddy!! Mommy!! She is smiling!!" Zan Guiying said happily.
"Yingying... Come and sit!! Hold your little sister!!" Zan Tengfei called his daughter.
Zan Guiying sat happily in the bed and extended her hands...
Zan Tengfei took the baby from his father's hand and bent down to give the baby to Zan Guiying.
"Wait!!" Bo Ehuang's mother suddenly put her hands in the middle of them.
Everyone looked at her questioningly.
"Yingying.... Don't sit in the edge of the bed. Sit inside." She instructed.
Zan Guiying sat in the properly.
Grandma Bo took a pillow and put it in Zan Guiying's thighs.
"Yingying!! When you holding the baby, try to keep the baby's neck and shoulders at the same time. Keep her between your elbow and forearm."
"Like this?!"
"Yes.... Like that!! Bend your left elbows and open the right hand...." She slowly put the baby in Zan Guiying's lap.
Zan Guiying smiled happily.
"Baby!! I am your elder sister!! How are you?!"
The baby smiled.
"Oh my god Yingying!! Your sister likes you!!" Everyone exclaimed.
Zan Guiying smiled proudly. She sat with her little sister in hand for sometime. After that Bo Ehuang took back the baby and lied her near her.
"Daddy!! Our baby's name was baby Bozan!! But what would be her original name?!" Zan Guiying asked.
It's a custom to name and unborn child, that the child could get protected from unknown spirits. Zan Guiying's baby sister was named as baby Bozan before she was born. But nobody called that name (it was given by Zan Guiying, but they always called the little baby as 'baby' untill now).
"We have selected a few names!! But Yingying is going to select one out of this!!" Grandpa Zan explained.
"But I have a name in my mind!!"
"Well Yingying.... Everyone likes to name the baby. If only one could decide it, others would be unhappy. Is it?!"
"Mm... Yes!!" Zan Guiying nodded.
"So.... What we are doing is we are going to write the name we wish to give the baby and followed that paper. Then Yingying is going to take a chit from that!! Agreed?!"
"Agreed!!" Everyone wrote the names. After shaking it for sometime, Zan Guiying took a paper and unfolded it.
"What is the name?!" Everyone asked.
"Her name is....."