Chapter 69: Chapter Sixty-Five: Making Wishes

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Longzhou Calendar, 1779, January 3rd

Even though the New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival were celebrated at the clan’s ancestral hall, Xu Shuhui still organised a private family gathering from a traditional perspective.

In this gathering, there were no servants. There were only five members of the family, cooking a genuine reunion dinner.

Tang Sen was responsible for handling the animals, including skinning them, draining the blood, and breaking them down into chunks.

Tang Luo and Tang Xing were responsible for delivering these ingredients to their mother, who was at the stove-front.

Even Nuan Nuan, the youngest, was asked to wash the vegetables and pick out the undesirable ones with a small basin.

But honestly, Tang Luo felt that the most difficult time of the year is when it came to this reunion dinner, because their mother, Xu Shuhui’s cooking skills were, truthfully, quite ordinary.

Due to the increased quantity of each plate of food from Tang Sen’s presence, Xu Shuhui’s grasp of the seasoning intensity always seemed less than satisfactory—it was either too salty or too bland.

However, since the ingredients themselves were extremely nourishing and tasty, even when a subpar chef worked with them, the food could still be palatable, despite its ugly appearance.

Because Tang Sen would always finish all the food at once, Xu Shuhui felt that her cooking was exceptional, and she proudly declared that she made different dishes every year.

After an afternoon’s work, the family’s first meal was finally ready and laid out in the dining hall.

Looking at the table full of mouth-watering dishes, Xu Shuhui seemed completely intoxicated. She clapped her hands to attract everyone’s attention and said, “It’s a new year again. Luo Er has started his business, Tang Xing has also started practicing martial arts, and even Little Nuan Nuan will start her Foundation Building next year. Make your New Year’s wishes.”

a tradition of the Tang Family, part of the Yuanzhou custom. Every New Year, everyone would make a vision or goal for the new year, and

lady of the house. If the lady is vain and power-hungry, it’s hard for the family to foster generous and tolerant children. Similarly, a

especially liked this tradition of Yuanzhou because it gives people new goals to strive for each year. Therefore, it became a

was only one son, Tang Luo, in the house, Xu Shuhui would make Tang Sen make a wish for

transcend the mortal world. Although he hasn’t achieved it, transcending the mortal world

The young boy asked Tang Luo, his

was about to make a wish, Tang Luo glanced at the curious young boy

face of the curious young boy suddenly filled with disbelief, and he stammered, “You…how did you

call him “brother” in his

respond, only thinking that youngsters had no ambition, with his

scene in the Tang’s dining hall was not very large, and the conversation between the brothers was heard by Xu Shuhui.

boy’s gossiping came from. Tang Luo glanced at

jump up, described in vivid detail how he had hit a girl in

shrill cry, the embarrassing incident of losing to a

usually calm Tang Sen couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth when he heard that his brother was beaten into a pig by a girl for several days in a row, not to mention the

shame-” Little Nuan Nuan pointed to her round face and teased the

laughter from Xu Shuhui, who was covering her mouth,

buried his head in the bowl and his tears dripped drop by

cry, Xing. After turning thirteen, the girl will be no match for you-” Seeing her younger son crying with his face

boy lifted his tear-stained face and

moment, finding it hard to explain. She simply said, “Because after turning thirteen, Tang Zhen will start to get sick. For seven days each month, she won’t

it quite well, but this didn’t satisfy the

widened his eyes and blurted out, “What kind of

of illness that every girl will get. It’s no biggie.” Xu Shuhui

be Tang Luo. He looked at the young boy’s face, and he

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