Chapter 9 Chapter VII

How did Gao Kangda get its name; how to drink Gao Lang Gujie, a good old man, was having fun with the guests when he suddenly heard his son's astonishing cries after he was born, shouting, "Drink! Drink! Drink!" He couldn't help saying: "Gao Kangda!" After the guests heard it, they all said that he should be called Gao Kangda, because this was the first sentence his father said after he was born, which was in accordance with the rules of the ancient Hebrews.Gao Langgujie agreed with this suggestion, and the child's mother also liked it very much.He was given a great deal of wine to silence the child's cries, and then he was carried to the holy water and baptized according to the rules of the Catholic Church.

Then, he ordered 17,903 cows from Botia and Peremon to supply the baby with milk every day, because he needed so much milk that no one could be found in the whole country who could do it. Although some Scotus scholars said that the child's mother could squeeze out 1,402 large buckets and nine basins of milk each time, which was enough for the child, everyone did not believe it. This statement is not in line with the ability to breastfeed, and it sounds unreasonable to the ears of religious believers, and it also smells of heresy. In this way, Gao Kangda grew up to one year and ten months.At the doctor's suggestion, they began to take him out, and a fine bullock cart was built for him by John Dynew's design.Everyone put him in the car and pulled him around happily. It was really fun, because he was born with a fat head and big ears, and his chin alone was almost eighteen stories high, and he didn't cry a lot; there was only one thing, which was I have to shit at any time, and my butt is particularly loose. This is due to my natural physique and the occasional excessive drinking when I was born.He doesn't drink alcohol for no reason, and only gives him alcohol when he is bored, irritable, angry, sad, or stomping, crying, or shouting. After drinking, he immediately returns to normal, calm, and smiles.

One of the nurses swore to me in her faith that he was so used to it, that the mere sound of jars and bottles gave him a taste of heaven.For their part, seeing his wondrous eccentricity, they came to amuse him every morning by beating knives on glasses, corks on bottles, and lids on jars in his presence.When he heard such a sound, he trembled with joy, shook his head, danced his fingers, and farted like a trumpet. ① Original text: Que grand tu as (plus le gosier), meaning: "What a big throat!" ② Baoti is a town along the Vienna River in Sinai.Perlemont is the name of a county that is irrigated by the Royal, Ender, and Sher Rivers in the Shih Farming District.Both places are famous for their fertile grasslands and abundant cattle and sheep.

③ Duns Scotus: A British philosopher in the thirteenth century, the author always took a mocking attitude towards his theory. ④ John Dynew: Shi Nong is a very popular name, and it may also be a person familiar to the author when he was young.