After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved novel Chapter 367

Chapter 367: Chapter 367: Big Brother Wants to be a Cross-dressing Master?!

Jiang Ting directly asked about the time when Lu Sheng lived in the countryside with her birth mother, Du Ran.

In fact, the more she let go of her emotional baggage, the less cautious she became when speaking.

Nobody, including Jiang Ting, thought that there was anything taboo about Lu Sheng’s previous life in the countryside or her birth mother, Du Ran, in the Lu Family.

Jiang Ting said they should celebrate this New Year’s well.

One reason was what had just been discussed, and another was, in fact, Du Ran had passed away.

Jiang Ting thought about how last Chinese New Year’s Eve, Lu Sheng still had her mother with her, but this year her mother was gone. It was supposed to be a joyous festival of family reunions, yet it was difficult for the child not to feel sorrowful.

Thinking this way, Jiang Ting felt even more sympathy for Lu Sheng and was even more prepared to make great efforts for the celebration.

Luckily, the Lu Family was big.

Apart from her, there were five brothers to keep Shengsheng company. With Li Muchen added to the mix, they were sure to make Shengsheng happy during the New Year without stirring up any painful memories.

After all, this was Shengsheng’s first year with the Lu Family.

It was their first year of family reunion.

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The family members were all gathered in the living room, while Lu Siyan was making a nourishing lung soup for everyone in the kitchen.

Lu Ziye was lazily hugging Lu Sheng on the sofa, occasionally feeding her peeled grapes.

"Speaking of the New Year’s atmosphere, the countryside indeed has a thicker atmosphere than the city," Lu Sheng pondered upon hearing Jiang Ting’s question.

The reason why rural areas place more importance on celebrating the New Year is because life used to be relatively worse there.

Many families would refrain from eating well or wearing new clothes on normal days, saving them for the New Year, when they would wear new clothes and eat things that were too expensive to buy regularly.

But the conditions in cities are relatively better, and with the rapid economic development of the past few decades, the average salary in an economic center like Jiang City is also among the highest.

"However, my mother and I wouldn’t do anything special for New Year’s."

"It would probably just be before the last market day on Chinese New Year’s Eve; my mother would take me to the market to buy clothes."

"My mother is quite traditional and believes that Chinese New Year’s Eve is about bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, so she would take me to buy everything new, from big items like clothes, pants, and shoes, to small ones like underwear and socks, for me to wear on the first day of the New Year."

"Then, on the evening of Chinese New Year’s Eve, my mother would take me to the back of the mountain to burn paper money."

"...Burning paper money?" Lu Jingyan paused, "Is it to commemorate your grandparents or someone else?"

"Actually, I don’t know who it’s for," Lu Sheng hesitated, "My mother rarely talked to me about her side of the family."

"All I could see was that every time she burned the paper money, she looked very sad."

"After we finished burning paper money, we would go home, and my mother would start preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner."

"In reality, there were only the two of us at home, and we couldn’t eat that much. However, my mother placed great importance on the New Year’s Eve dinner and would prepare many dishes every year."

"After the ingredients for the New Year’s Eve dinner were prepared, it was time to make dumplings. This meal of dumplings would be eaten after setting off fireworks at midnight."

"I would help my mother roll out the dumpling wrappers on one side, and she would wrap coins of one, five, and ten cents, as well as a specially wrapped one hundred yuan banknote in tin foil, inside the dumplings."

"She said that whoever ended up eating the one hundred yuan would have good luck for the new year."

"However, every year at midnight on Chinese New Year’s Eve, I was the one who got the dumpling with the one hundred yuan."

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