Chapter 378: Shared Luck

Christmas had just ended and the school announced the winter vacation, which is the New Year holiday. The vacation time is not long, only about ten days, and is used to celebrate the New Year.

As a common festival in the Chinese character cultural circle, Japan naturally celebrates the arrival of the New Year, but after the Meiji Restoration, their New Year date has changed from the lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

Their New Year celebrations are from January 1st to January 3rd of the Gregorian calendar. Although the times are slightly different, the process of celebrating the New Year in East Asian countries is basically the same.

Spring cleaning, New Year’s Eve, including the New Year’s Eve dinner, etc. are all no different.

In addition, on the morning of New Year's Day, Japanese people who celebrate the New Year will make their first visit to the shrine.

Burning incense and worshiping Buddha, reading fortune sticks, praying for family happiness and safety in the new year, or making wishes for the new year, etc., are all very lively festival scenes.

As a stranger from a foreign country, Xia Yu did not go to the shrine to worship. He was now hanging big red lanterns and couplets outside the door of his house.

Although you can ask servants to come, it is more ceremonial to post the couplets yourself. Besides, if you don’t post couplets during the New Year, the house will feel empty when you enter.

If the door was not inappropriate, he would have wanted to put up two door gods, which would have looked so festive.

Even though this year is not the New Year on the first day of the first lunar month that he is familiar with, but the New Year on the Gregorian calendar, he is not in the familiar country now.

Besides, he is far away from home, so it is okay to follow the local customs. He is alone anyway, so it doesn't matter where he celebrates the New Year, whether it is New Year's Day or the first day of the first lunar month, there is actually no difference.

Moreover, thinking back to his previous world, the feeling of the New Year is really getting weaker and weaker. When he was a child, he would visit relatives and so on, but when he grew up, even his relatives hardly visited him anymore.

Even the celebratory sound of firecrackers, I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but it doesn’t feel as lively as it was when I was a child.

After recalling the past briefly in his mind, Xia Yu came to his senses, pressed the horizontal banner in his hand hard against the door frame, and waited until he was sure that it was firmly bonded before climbing down the ladder.

Xia Yu folded the stepladder and put it aside. He looked at his masterpiece from away from the door and couldn't help but nodded.

As expected of him, even his calligraphy is so beautiful.

“Is this a couplet?”

Suddenly, a familiar questioning voice came from the side. Xia Yu did not turn his head to look, but nodded and replied: "Yes, it is our custom to post couplets during the New Year. It always feels like something is missing if there are no couplets during the New Year."

"What is it written about?"

"Heaven opens up new years, and people change the old world."

After saying the first and second couplets, Xia Yu turned his head to look at the visitor and chuckled, "Horizontal banner, the world rejoices! Why did you suddenly come to me? Are you here to wish me a happy new year?"

"Hmm, I don't understand."

When Zhishi, who came to pay New Year's greetings, heard the couplet read out by Xia Yu in Chinese, he shook his head. He didn't understand a word, but he always felt it was very domineering.

However, she understood the questions asked in Japanese. In response to Xia Yu's confusion, she smiled and said, "Yes, after visiting the shrine this morning, I came by to wish Mr. Xia a happy new year."

Today, Tomoyo was wearing an elegant red kimono, with her long hair tied into two pigtails on both sides of her head. With the faint smile that was always on her face, she looked dignified and elegant, yet cute.

After admiring Chiyo dressed in kimono for a few seconds, Xia Yu immediately invited Chiyo into his home. After serving her tea, he asked.

"On such an important day, don't you need to accompany your family?" After all, Chinese New Year means family reunion. Knowing the situation of the Shi family, they may only be able to reunite together for these few days. Why would she suddenly appear in front of him instead of taking advantage of the Chinese New Year to chat with her parents?
In response to Xia Yu's doubts, Zhishi took a sip of the teacup and replied softly: "Mom needs to host an important meeting today and has already gone to the company, while Dad is accompanying Grandpa and others to visit great-grandfather and will not be back until the evening."

Hearing this, Xia Yu suddenly felt that Zhishi had a hard time too. Although all his family members were there, he had very little time to spend with them.

And it must be said that Daidoji Sonomi is really a workaholic. She even had to go to the company to work overtime and attend meetings on New Year's Day. It's really terrible.

Is this the responsibility that a company boss has to bear? It's a bit too heavy.

Fortunately, he is a hands-off boss. Anyway, he has the capital to back himself up. No matter how his company develops, he is not afraid of any problems.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu looked at Zhishi and sighed: "It's really hard. Today is New Year's Day, but my family can't be with me."

"No."

Chiyo suddenly put down the teacup and chuckled, "Although my current family can't be with me, my future family is by my side."

"Yeah, that's true."

Xia Yu scratched his face. Although his future family would have to wait another seven or eight years before they could become real family.

"By the way, this is for you."

After chatting for a few words, Chise suddenly took out a piece of white paper with words written on it from the chest of her kimono and handed it to Xia Yu.

"what is this?"

Xia Yu reached out to take the paper, and looked carefully. There were two lines of words written on the paper, one line was "Good luck" and the other line was "Your wish will come true".

"This is the good fortune I drew when I drew lots at the shrine. I want to share this luck with Xia Jun. I hope both of our wishes will come true."

Tomoyo smiled slightly. After meeting Sakura by chance in the morning and visiting the shrine, she and Sakura went to try to draw a fortune together. She drew a lucky number, while Sakura drew a special number.

After that, she suggested visiting Li Syaoran on the way, and Sakura had no objection. When the two of them arrived at Li Syaoran's house, she took the opportunity to find an excuse to leave, leaving Sakura alone in Li Syaoran's house.

She came here alone, wanting to wish Xia Yu a happy new year, and then she ran into Xia Yu who was pasting couplets at the door.

Xia Yu didn't know that Zhishi had gone through so many things before he came to wish him a happy new year. He looked at the white paper with "good luck" written on it in his hand and chuckled.

"Share your luck with me? Thank you."

After he finished speaking, he placed the white paper on the table and began to fold it. After a few seconds, he had folded it into a thousand paper cranes. He placed the crane in the palm of his hand and blew gently. The cranes then swayed in the wind and flew up lightly.

The thousand paper cranes moved with the wind, circled around the two of them, and then slowly fell back into Tomoyo's hands.

Before Chiyo could ask, he smiled and said, "I have already received this good fortune. As a return gift, Chiyo, please accept this thousand paper cranes that carry my blessing."

Zhi Shi heard this, held up the paper crane in his hand, raised the corners of his mouth, nodded and said: "Does it carry Xia Jun's blessing? I will cherish it."

　Who resurrected me yesterday!!!

　　I'm going to write again now, are you satisfied now? You are a bunch of cold-hearted people, I will never forgive you! (dog head saves life)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)