I formed the strongest swordsman group.

Chapter 893 Talent [Best Stallion +7] Activate! Build the Strongest Family! [6500]

Qing Deng really took great pains to come up with this name.

As a father, he naturally hopes that his child can have a name that is both nice and meaningful.

What can he do... He is really not good at naming.

I finally came up with a name that I thought was pretty good, but my wives always scolded me...

After a long brainstorm, Qing Deng finally made up his mind: his son would be named "Ju Jiangchen" and his daughter would be named "Ju Mozi"!
Regarding the name "Jiang Chen", many people think that it is too archaic and sounds like the name of a military general from the Heian period.

Moreover, this name always makes people think of the "mysterious zombie king and generals."

As for "Mozi", there's not much to say, it's just average.

"X-ko" was a popular female name in the Edo period, often seen among samurai girls, and Sanako was one of them.

There are three main reasons why Qingdeng chose these two names.

First, the font is beautiful.

Second, the pronunciation is catchy.

Third, it has profound meaning.

"Jiangchen" means "commanding all the ministers", which just fits the identity of "Young Master of Qinjin Fan".

As for "Mozi", it reminds people of the beautiful jasmine flower, which is very suitable as a female name.

The more Qing Deng thought about it, the more he felt that these two names were good and he liked them more and more.

So, facing Sanako's immediate question, he shouted without hesitation, "Yes, it's confirmed!"

Of course, another reason why he loved these two names so much was that he was really tired... and had no energy to think of any other names.

Seeing Qing Deng's resolute attitude, Sanako nodded slightly:

"Jiangchen... Mozi... OK, these names sound pretty good. Then as you wish, use these two names as Jiulang and Ningning's names."

As soon as she finished speaking, Awu and Souji beside her both nodded in agreement.

Sanako and others had the same attitude towards these two names: although they were not very good, they were not bad either.

Since Qing Deng likes these two names very much, they are also happy to see it happen.

"Wow! Wow! Wow!"

At this time, Jiulang, who had just fallen asleep not long ago...that is, the young general Chen woke up again.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he started flapping his limbs and crying loudly, looking very aggrieved.

Seeing this, Souji quickly and skillfully picked up Kuro again.

"Don't cry~Don't cry~~"

From the way she holds the child to the tone she uses to coax the child, everything reveals the aura of a veteran.

Sanako couldn't help but ask:
"Xiao Si, you are so skilled at coaxing children, have you practiced this before?"

Although Sanako had just complained in an unpleasant tone that Qing Deng didn't know how to hold a baby, in reality, as a first-time mother, she was not much better than Qing Deng when it came to holding and coaxing a baby.

She was used to swinging a naginata, so how could she have ever held such a delicate baby?

The chief smiled:
"Yes!"

"In the past, the lady living near my home was too busy with work to take care of her newborn baby, so whenever I had some free time, I would do my best to help her."

"After a while, I learned a lot of skills to coax children."

Souji said this while gently shaking Kuro in his hands.

Her small action seemed to have some magical power.

After a while, Jiulang's crying gradually subsided.

As far as Qing Deng knows, this is actually an instinct engraved in human genes.

A long, long time ago, when humans were still apes that had not yet completed their evolution, they lived in fear every day.

They have to work hard to find food and avoid being hunted by natural enemies.

Whenever they encounter a natural enemy, the mother monkey will carry her baby monkey on her back and escape.

In the process of escaping, his body will naturally shake uncontrollably.

Over time, every time the mother monkey's body shook, the little monkey on her back would get this message: Now is a dangerous time, don't cry! If you keep crying, the enemy will come to you!
Those little monkeys that were still making a lot of noise while escaping were basically killed by the cruel law of nature of survival of the fittest.

The monkeys that survived and eventually evolved successfully acquired the instinct of "not crying when their bodies are lightly shaken."

Qing Deng had always been skeptical about this argument.

It was not until now, watching Jiulang gradually calm down under Souji's gentle stimulation, that he changed his mind and began to feel that the argument was not groundless.

The general manager's method of comforting others can be said to be very skillful.

However, no matter how long she lay there, Jiulang in her arms was always restless.

Even if he stops crying, he still makes a whining sound.

"Xiao Si, what happened to Jiulang?"

Sanako asked nervously.

Souji, who had extensive experience in child-rearing, quickly saw the problem.

"Jiulang, he must be hungry."

As soon as she finished speaking, immediately... immediately! Ah Wu beside her said impatiently:
"Is Jiulang hungry? That's great! Ningning has almost finished her milk, bring Jiulang to me!"

When I looked up, I saw Ah Wu with her upper body naked, and little Ning Ning in her arms was eating with relish.

Just at this time, Ningning finally had enough to eat and drink.

After stretching her body a little, she slowly closed her eyes and fell into a sweet sleep.

Ah Wu wiped her mouth gently and lovingly, then gently put her back to her bed.

Today, Awu’s talent - "milk" - has finally come into play and is showing its power!
[Note: The RU juice produced is more abundant and nutritious. However, because Qing Deng is a male, he does not match this talent, so this talent does not take effect.]

Because it happened so long ago, Qing Deng almost forgot that Ah Wu had such a talent.

When Wu was still a virgin, this talent was of little use and there was not even a chance to activate it.

But time has passed, and now she is a mother... With the change of her identity, the situation of her talent has changed fundamentally in an instant! It has suddenly changed from a useless garbage talent to an important god-level talent!
As we all know, not all mothers have strong breastfeeding ability.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be the profession of “wet nurse”.

Although Sanako has the fullest figure among the three women, and among the many women Qing Deng knows, the only one who can compete with her in terms of fullness is Tenshoin, her breastfeeding ability is actually very average.

Although it was not bad, it was not very good either; although it would not make the baby hungry, it could not make him full either. In a word, a wet nurse had to be asked to help feed the baby. All of the above statements came from Sanako's mother.

Because when she gave birth, she breastfed about the same amount as Sanako, and she hired a wet nurse afterwards to solve the problem of food for her children (Chiba Shigetaro and Sanako), so she dared to make this conclusion.

Facts have proven that the amount of breastfeeding has no direct relationship with body shape or whether or not you exercise regularly.

Just when Qing Deng was worried about "where to find a wet nurse", Ah Wu helped him solve this problem.

When Ningning was fed for the first time, with the help of her natural "milk", she demonstrated a breastfeeding ability that even the midwife couldn't help but scream.

To use an exaggerated but vivid metaphor...the difference between Sanako and Mai is like the difference between a water faucet and a fire nozzle.

With Ah Wu around, there's naturally no need for a wet nurse.

This sudden extraordinary talent made Ah Wu very excited.

Normally, I am always outshined by Sanako, but today, I finally have something that is better than him!

So, this scene happened - she rushed to feed Jiulang, eager to show herself.

Who doesn't know her little thoughts?
Qing Deng and Zongsi smiled helplessly.

Sanako looked at Awu with a complicated expression.

Although she was very unhappy with Awu's boasting, she had to admit that she really needed the help of this "wet nurse" now.

Souji was right, Kuro was indeed hungry.

As soon as he was held in Awu's arms, he started drinking "gulp, gulp".

Even though the baby in her arms was not her biological son, Awu did not discriminate at all.

She patted Jiulang's back and whispered gentle words.

"Don't worry, don't worry~ Drink slowly~ Drink more, and grow into a strong warrior soon~~"

Looking at Jiulang sleeping peacefully and Jiulang eating heartily, Qingdeng felt his facial lines gradually relax and a calm smile appeared on his cheeks.

There is no normal parent who does not hope that their children can be successful.

No matter how bad the situation is, I will pray that my children grow up safely and healthily.

No matter from which angle you look at it, his children both had a great start!

First of all, they have an awesome dad.

Qingdeng's status and income level ensure the growth environment and educational resources for his children.

Secondly, Awu will provide rich nutrition so that they can go through a healthy and nourished infancy.

Her gifted "milk" is not only large in quantity, but also contains far more nutrients than ordinary people.

With her as a "super wet nurse", Qing Deng couldn't imagine how strong and healthy his child would grow up to be.

Then, Qing Deng, as a time traveler, is familiar with a lot of advanced parenting knowledge.

Although he is not a professional nanny, the parenting knowledge he knows is always better than the backward ideas of today.

Due to a variety of reasons, including underdeveloped medicine, poor diet, and absurd child-rearing concepts, the infant mortality rate in the Edo period was extremely high, especially among the imperial nobles.

In comparison, although Chinese nobles of the same period also had an extremely high infant mortality rate, half of the children in a litter would always survive.

In contrast, among the nobles of the Edo period, dozens of children died. Even if they adopted children from branch families, they could not keep up with the rate of infant and young child deaths. This was obviously very abnormal.

A typical example is the 12th shogun, Tokugawa Ieharu, who had 11 sons and 16 daughters with his main and concubine wives, but only Tokugawa Iesada grew up successfully.

Even this sole surviving scion was only able to survive after taking the extreme measure of "locking Tokugawa Iesada in the O-oku to prevent him from getting any cool breeze."

This extreme parenting method ultimately indirectly contributed to Tokugawa Iesada's weak body and morbid psychology.

Why is there such a horrific infant mortality rate?
There are three reasons that Qing Deng knows of.

A case of toxic inheritance.

Second, the food quality is terrible.

Three unhealthy lifestyles.

The cosmetics used daily by noble women in the Edo period generally contained excessive amounts of lead.

Over time, it is very easy to die from lead poisoning.

Even if you are lucky enough not to be poisoned, the excess toxins will accumulate in the body, affecting the baby in the womb, and ultimately making the child sick from the womb.

Qing Deng doesn't need to worry about this.

Because Sanako and others are serious martial artists, they have no habit of wearing makeup.

As for the second point, there is no need to elaborate. Maybe even the stray dogs on the roadside eat more nutritious food than the nobles. In addition to diet, the lifestyle of the nobles is also full of complaints.

In pursuit of so-called elegance, he stayed at home, reciting poems and writing essays, and seldom exercised.

In comparison, children of commoners who did not have the conditions to live an "elegant life" were more likely to survive and had a much lower mortality rate than children of aristocrats.

Throughout Japanese history, there are many people who were able to thrive by escaping from unhealthy aristocratic lifestyles - the most representative example of this is Ii Dairo (Ii Naosuke).

Ii Dairo was the 14th son in the family. Because he had no chance to inherit the family business, he left home early and lived alone.

In this way, his quality of life improved dramatically. Not only did he not die young, but he developed a strong physique and superb sword-drawing skills.

Not long after, the brothers before him either died or were adopted by other families, and he turned a disaster into a blessing and became the new head of the family.

Therefore, Qing Deng made up his mind: he would never let the "elegant" aristocratic life pollute his children!
There is no need to pamper them too much. Letting them live in a slightly rough environment will be beneficial to their physical and mental growth.

The last and most important factor that contributed to the great start of his children was Qing Deng's god-level talent - "the best stallion +7".

[Note: The best stallion +7: Its excellent genes are easily passed on to its offspring.]

This talent was copied from Chiba Sadakichi.
Ever since I copied it, I haven't had the chance to activate it.

Just like Awu's "breast milk", with the birth of Jiulang and Ningning, Qingdeng's talent finally had the chance to show its power!
For people of mediocre talent, this gift is of little use.

But for Qing Deng, who possessed nearly a hundred talents, this talent was too powerful! It was simply tailor-made for him!

Imagine what would happen if Qing Deng's talents were all passed on to his children?
Even if you don't inherit all of it, but just half or a quarter of it, it is still a very scary thing!

If one could acquire a few of Qing Deng's abilities, he would be able to become an extraordinary talent!
Qing Deng couldn't help but think: Now that he has married three beautiful wives, he can definitely mass-produce supermen!
In the future, there will be no need to recruit talents. Just relying on their own descendants will be enough to form a super strong administrative and military team! Eventually, they will establish a "Big Orange Family" that will go down in history because of its many talented people!
Of course, all of the above is pure Qingdeng’s delusion.

Whether the baby is a boy or a girl, and how many children to have, all depends on God's will, and he has no intention of forcing it.

In order to establish this so-called "Tachibana family", he over-forced Sanako and others, causing them to harm their bodies... He couldn't do such a stupid thing.

Today he saw how difficult and dangerous childbirth is.

In fact, he did not have high expectations for his offspring.

He only hopes that his children will grow up healthy and safe, and then become brave and upright people.

His expectations for his descendants can be summed up in Liu Bei's famous saying: Do not refrain from doing good deeds because they are small, and do not do bad deeds because they are small.

……

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A few days later——

Qinjin Domain, Shinsengumi Station——

"Is this wooden box the 'camera'?"

Harada Sanosuke looked up and down at the huge machine in front of him with curiosity.

"It is said that this wooden box can be used to draw paintings with extremely high levels of detail."

Nagakura Shinpachi added.

"No, no, the camera does not paint the picture, it just copies the picture onto paper."

Suddenly, a young man jumped out from the side and enthusiastically explained science to Nagakura and Harada.

This person was none other than the photographer that Hijikata Toshizo had taken great pains to invite, Kenzo Tamoto.

He wore a pair of fashionable thin-framed glasses on his nose and a pair of shiny leather shoes on his feet, looking like an expert on the West.

"'Photocopy'?"

Nagakura Shinpachi chewed on these unfamiliar words with a look of confusion on his face.

Harada Sanosuke asked directly:

"You are the photographer who is responsible for taking pictures for us today, right? Can you explain to me how this machine takes pictures?"

It is not difficult to see that Kenzo Tanamoto has great passion for photography.

Seeing that Harada Sanosuke was interested in the camera, he immediately changed his tone to excitement and said passionately:
"Simply put, the core principle of a camera is pinhole imaging. This principle describes that when light passes through a small hole, a reflection of the light source is formed on the other side. In a camera, this 'pinhole' is usually replaced by a convex lens to improve light transmission and reduce aberration and chromatic aberration, thereby improving image quality..."

He chattered endlessly.

Shinpachi Nagakura standing by had already shown an expression of "Ah? What is he talking about? Who am I? What am I doing?"

Harada Sanosuke crossed his arms and nodded from time to time, as if he understood everything.

After the other party finished speaking, he nodded slightly with a serious expression.

"Yes, I understand. In other words, there is a brush inside this machine that can paint automatically. This brush is very powerful. Not only can it paint very quickly, but it can also paint very realistically."

"Totally wrong!"

Just as Harada Sanosuke was torturing Kenzo Tanamoto, Qing Deng and his wife and children arrived late.

With Qing Deng's arrival, everyone at the scene immediately came forward to greet him.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting."

Hijikata Toshizo shrugged.

"It's okay, I just got here too."

After exchanging brief greetings with everyone, Qing Deng turned his head to look at a conspicuous machine not far away, which was a camera.

Cameras of today...it was the first time he had seen one in real life.

He had only seen this antique camera in old historical photos before.

Several days ago, he and Hijikata Toshizo had planned to ask Kenzo Tamoto to take commemorative photos for them.

However, Sanako and Ama suddenly gave birth, so the matter had to be put on hold for the time being.

The weather is very good today and there is nothing important for everyone to do.

Not only that, Sanako and Mai have recovered to the point where they can walk.

Therefore, Qing Deng made a direct decision: Take a photo today!
So, under Qing Deng's call, everyone gathered together and it was very lively.

……

……

With everyone's unanimous recommendation, Qingdeng and his wife and children took the lead to take a family photo.

Not surprisingly, the tall Qing Deng stood in the last row.

Sanako and Mai held Kuro and Ningning respectively, and stood in front of Qingdeng with Souji, the three of them lined up in a line.

The babies are no longer the ugly red, wrinkled ones they were when they were born.

Their skin stretched out and became much whiter, gradually turning into what Qing Deng believed cute babies should look like.

It was the first time for Sanako and the others to take photos.

Therefore, facing the unfamiliar camera, they all felt a little at a loss.

Seeing this, Kenzo Tanamoto shouted in a nonchalant manner:

"Don't be nervous! It will be fine soon!"

"Don't move until I say 'OK'!"

After saying that, Kenzo Tanmoto buried his head in the black cloth behind the camera and began to tinker with it secretly.

"Okay, don't move! One... two... three... four... five... OK! That's it! The photo has been taken, you can move now!"

Souji blinked a few times, his eyes full of confusion.

"Eh? Have you finished taking the photos? Sanosuke just told me that there is a very powerful brush in this wooden box. It can not only draw very quickly, but also draw very realistically. I didn't expect that this brush is even more powerful than I expected. It can draw the picture so quickly..."

“Ahhh! Stop spreading wrong photography knowledge!”

……

Qingdeng's family portrait has been taken, and now it's time for free photography.

Hijikata Toshizo stepped forward and spoke first:
"Ju, let's take a photo together."

Qing Deng naturally had no reason to refuse, so he nodded and moved to the front of the camera with the other party.

"Sui San, how are we going to shoot this?"

"How about you sit on the chair and I stand next to you?"

When Qing Deng heard this, his mouth twitched immediately.

I'm sitting, you're standing, and you're standing next to me on purpose... Why does this composition look so much like a couple photo?

As far as Qing Deng knows, this is how family portraits were taken in the West at the same time: the wife sat on a chair, holding the child in her arms if there was one, and the husband stood next to his wife.

These photos taken today are likely to appear in museums or history books in the future.

Qing Deng didn't want future generations to suspect that he had some secret relationship with Hijikata Toshizo...

So, at Qing Deng's strong request, the photo of him and Hijikata Toshizo was changed to one where they were sitting together.

They were seen sitting side by side on the chairs, legs apart, left hands pressing the knives... Their sitting posture and momentum were very similar to the "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference.

With Qing Deng and Hijikata Toshizo taking the lead, the others did not doubt it. Curious about this new technology, they came forward and took pictures enthusiastically.

"Ah Sheng! Xiao Si! Come here! Let's take a group photo of the three of us!"

There is no need to explain the friendship between Yong, Sui and Si.

Although they are not biological siblings, they are better than siblings.

As soon as Hijikata Toshizo finished speaking, Souji immediately ran over happily.

Kondo Isami hesitated for a moment, then took long, steady steps and moved to the side of Hijikata Toshizo.

"…A-Sui, what are you doing?"

Kondo Isami lowered his voice so that only he and the other party could hear clearly:
"You always give me a very abnormal feeling today..."

Hijikata Toshizo smiled slightly and replied in the same low voice:
"Ah Sheng, you worry too much. I don't mean anything else. Stand still quickly and don't keep the photographer waiting for too long."

"..."

Kondo Isami looked at him deeply, said no more, and stood up silently.

Souji smiled, Hijikata Toshizo suppressed his smile, and Kondo Isami kept a straight face - the three siblings took a proper photo together.

As soon as Kondo Isawa and Souji retreated, Hijikata Toshizo shouted again:

"Shin! Sanosuke! Come here quickly, let's take a group photo together!"

Hijikata Toshizo, who had a special liking for places of entertainment, led Nagakura Shinpachi and Harada Sanosuke astray. The three of them formed the "Three Brothers of Prostitutes" and often went in and out of brothels together - this has now become an interesting anecdote of the Shinsengumi.

At Hijikata Toshizo's call, Nagakura Shinpachi and Harada Sanosuke both moved to his left and right sides.

Looking at Hijikata Toshizo who was taking photos with others enthusiastically, Kondo Isami, who was waiting beside him, slowly lowered his eyelids, his expression serious, as if thinking about something.

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