Chapter 218 Christmas Eve and Apples
Ding--!
Ding--!
A light blue halo like water waves slowly spread out, and the illusory dream gradually solidified.

Under the night sky with a huge full moon as the background, Tokyo Tower shines brightly.

Sakura stood alone on the tall building, her pink cloak whistling in the wind, and countless cherry blossom petals falling around her in the wind.

This was a dream she had before, and now the dream appeared again. Sakura looked ahead in a daze, and the petals around her turned into the shape of Clow Cards.

Suddenly, she reached out and a Clow Card fell into her hand, but the next moment, the Clow Card turned into an illusory colorful light and disappeared.

Until then, Sakura suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a familiar figure standing on the Tokyo Tower.

The person was wearing a long dress, with the full moon as the background, and his entire body was shrouded in shadow.

Looking at the figure, a thought suddenly occurred to Sakura: she knew this person.

But before she could see clearly, the dream suddenly became hazy, and Sakura slowly came back to her senses, still mumbling incoherently.

"That person is..."

"who is it?"

Suddenly, there was a voice coming from the front. Sakura, who was still a little confused, came back to her senses instantly and looked up.

"Teacher Guanyue!"

Sakura was startled and screamed subconsciously. She met the teacher's gaze and saw that it seemed to be class time. She had fallen asleep in Mr. Guanyue's class.

"Uh-huh——"

Sakura stood up in shock, bowed slightly and said, "I'm sorry!"

In response to Sakura's apology, Kanzuki Utaho smiled and warned: "You will catch a cold if you sleep in the classroom."

After saying that, Guan Yue Gefan turned his head slightly and glanced at Xia Yu.

Xia Yu: "..."

No, why are you looking at me? I didn't sleep in your class today!

Xia Yu was quite dissatisfied with Guan Yue Gefan's obviously stereotypical gaze, and he was so angry that he lasted the entire class.

Fortunately, the class was over, so Xia Yu was no longer angry before he could even last a minute.

After school time.

on the way home.

"Xiaoying, you were amazing today. Even I don't dare to sleep in Teacher Guanyue's class, but you were able to fall asleep."

Xia Yu walked beside Xiaoying and couldn't help but admire her: "Sure enough, I still need to learn from you. This kind of spirit of being so bold as to sleep in any class is a good role model for our students."

Sakura: "..."

Hearing Xia Yu's strange compliment, Xiaoying smiled awkwardly: "Xia classmate, I just fell asleep accidentally, and good students can't sleep in class."

"That's wrong. If you don't sleep well in class, how can you have the energy to play after class?"

"interesting……"

"Sakura, are you feeling unwell?" Tomoyo next to her asked subconsciously with concern.

"No, not at all." Sakura shook her head and replied when Tomoyo spoke to her.

"But ever since the last guessing contest, you've been a little dazed, and now you fall asleep for no reason during class. Are you really okay?"

"I'm really fine, I just have been having weird dreams lately."

"What a strange dream. What kind of strange dream? I dreamed that the world was destroyed? Aliens invaded? Or that the whole class moved to another world?" Xia Yu suddenly took over the conversation and asked curiously.

"If we are transferring to another world, then each of us should awaken magic. I want to awaken shadow magic and become a shadow power."

"Ah, this..." Xiaoying couldn't help but be stunned by Xia Yu's occasional disconnection, and subconsciously said: "But Xia classmate, don't you know magic? And the shadow card is in your hand."

"Yeah!"

Xia Yu clapped his hands with his fist, suddenly realizing what was going on.

"..."

"Sakura, why don't you tell me about your strange dream?" Tomoyo interrupted the increasingly strange atmosphere.

"Well, mainly the full moon, the long-haired woman, and the dream about the Clow Cards."

After she finished, Sakura smiled and said, "Other than that, I'm really fine."

"Don't push yourself too hard, though."

Facing Tomoyo's concerned gaze, Sakura nodded seriously, but in the next moment, Sakura seemed to notice something and trotted to the door of a house.

"what happened?"

Seeing that Sakura seemed a little excited, Tomoyo and Xia Yu followed her curiously.

Following Sakura's line of sight, they noticed a Christmas wreath hanging on the front door of the residence, and next to it a beautifully decorated Christmas tree.

Seeing this scene, Zhi Shi suddenly said: "By the way, Christmas is coming soon."

During Christmas, Christmas trees and Christmas wreaths are indispensable decorations, just like pasting couplets during the Spring Festival in the East, which are both manifestations of the festive atmosphere.

"By the way, I've already thought of Christmas gifts for Xia and Sakura, you can look forward to it."

Hearing this, Sakura smiled and nodded: "Thank you!"

Xia Yu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Gifts? You actually give each other gifts on Christmas."

"Huh? Doesn't classmate Xia celebrate Christmas?" Zhishi asked curiously.

"We do celebrate it, but we don't take it that seriously. Besides, we basically just give each other apples. No one gives Christmas presents."

"apple?"

When Sakura heard that the gifts they gave each other were not apples, she was also curious and asked, "Why apples?"

"This is related to Chinese, because the night before Christmas is called Christmas Eve, and the Chinese character for apple and the Chinese character for Christmas Eve have the same pronunciation, so giving apples means peace and safety."

"Of course, you have to eat apples after giving them away. I have no idea when this custom started, but it just happened."

"So giving apples on Christmas Eve has such a meaning. I've learned something new." Sakura nodded in understanding, feeling like she had learned something new.

"It's no use gaining knowledge. This is a unique meaning that only Chinese people can understand. After all, only in Chinese do apple and Christmas Eve have the same pronunciation."

Xia Yu spread out her hands and told the cruel truth, that the so-called 520 Valentine's Day is only celebrated in Chinese-speaking regions. After all, the homonym of 520 is "I love you", and people from other countries would not understand the meaning at all.

"This one……"

Sakura was speechless for a moment. What Xia said made a lot of sense.

"By the way, I can give Li and the berry apple as gifts."

Sakura suddenly realized that Li and Meiling were Chinese, so they must know the meaning of giving apples to them.

“You’re going to give them apples…”

Xia Yu didn't know how to explain it. In fact, he didn't know whether Li Xiaolang had the habit of sending apples as gifts. After all, Li Xiaolang was from Hong Kong and he didn't know that place at all.

To be honest, China is so big that he really doesn't know much about other places except his own province. At most, he only knows that there is such a place and what it is called.

(End of this chapter)