(SVSSS Volume 1, Chapter 1: Scum)
I think people forget about the fishermen, haha. I’ve seen one too many people who wholeheartedly believe it was the washerwoman that pulled Baby Binghe out from the river and adopted him right then and there. Even if they didn’t adopt him, give them some recognition!!! I blame the donghua for this…
I feel like the fishermen supplied Baby Binghe’s basic needs for at least a year — which is around the time babies start walking — before releasing him out in the wild, aka the streets. The first few years of a baby’s life are absolutely critical to their developing brain, so even if Binghe only spent a year at best in the fishermen’s care, I wonder how that singular year affected him.
Also. I could have sworn that I read about Binghe floating in the river for nine days. I even checked the raws, but there’s no indication of how long he’d been floating in the river before he was picked up. Does this piece of information come later in the story? Did I make that part up?? Was it all in my imagination??? Someone tell meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Live Update: I realize that the confusion may have come from someone misinterpreting, and therefore mistranslating, this part of the raws:
The highlighted part, “数九寒天” (shǔ jiǔ hán tiān), is defined as the nine periods of nine days after the winter solstice, the coldest time of the year. Basically what the English version says. The confusion likely came from someone who translated the phrase literally, as “数” (shù) means number, “九” (jiǔ) means nine, “寒” (hán) means cold (it also has strong associations with winter, such as with the phrase “寒假” (hán jià), which means winter vacation), and “天” (tiān) means day. So, the translator probably translated this as literally “nine cold/winter days”.
My confusion has been cleared. Yay!
Anyways, I also wonder if Binghe suffered any health problems from being exposed to freezing temperatures shortly after his birth… If he did, they probably went away eventually thanks to his protagonist halo or heavenly demon heritage, but maybe Airplane milked Binghe’s health problems for whump and sympathy points from his readers.
Canonically, Binghe probably didn’t because it’s never mentioned nor hinted at in the text, but I’m storing this away for headcanon material.
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