Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 164: New Year’s Celebration

The captains looked at each other for a while, and ultimately decided to report it to the commune.

The Yu Family was unwilling to pay the money, and the team couldn’t come up with five hundred yuan either. If they didn’t report it to the commune and let the Huang Family cause trouble in the village, things would only get worse.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day for the Huang Family to leave.

Lin Xiang didn’t know how the captains negotiated with the Huang Family, but in the end, Mrs. Huang didn’t cause trouble for the team, yet she also didn’t take Huang Jiayun’s ashes.

In this era, people generally preferred burial, as land wasn’t scarce, and cremation wasn’t commonly chosen in towns.

But Huang Jiayun’s situation was special, and cremation was the only choice.

Now, Mrs. Huang had left, leaving behind her ashes in the countryside where she had lived for more than five years.

When Lin Xiang found out about this, she was pasting Spring Festival couplets on the courtyard gate. A dazed Zhu Zhu, holding an urn, passed by the gate and saw Lin Xiang standing on a stool applying glue to the wall. He stopped and gently called out.

"Missy."

Lin Xiang heard the voice, looked down, saw Zhu Zhu, and got off the stool.

"Jiayun’s mother and brother have gone back." Zhu Zhu tightened his grip on the urn, his voice gloomy, "When she left, she made it clear, ashes weren’t allowed on the train, so she left Jiayun here."

Though just a few words, Zhu Zhu found it extremely difficult to say.

Lin Xiang looked at the urn in his arms, feeling uncomfortable inside.

This poor girl, her whole life she was trying to find affection, but even at the end of her life, she never received love from her mother.

"I want to ask you for a favor."

"Speak."

"Jiayun and I never married, so I don’t have the right to put her in my family’s ancestral grave. But Jiayun doesn’t have many friends in this Li Hua Team; she only knows you relatively well. Can you plead with the captain to get a plot of land so Jiayun can be buried in peace?"

Lin Xiang remained silent for a long time.

Emotionally, she didn’t want to see Huang Jiayun be isolated even after passing away.

But rationally, she and Huang Jiayun hardly had any interaction and weren’t that close, so she was inherently unwilling to get involved.

Yet after much contemplation, she ultimately agreed.

Upon hearing her consent, Zhu Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, placed the urn in the corner outside the gate, and hurriedly left.

"Zhu Zhu!" Lin Xiang didn’t expect Zhu Zhu to do this, calling out instinctively, but the more she shouted, the faster Zhu Zhu walked away.

"What kind of situation is this!" Lin Xiang couldn’t help but complain.

But she had no choice but to handle it, so she went to find the captain.

Upon learning Lin Xiang’s intentions, the captain wasn’t difficult, "Smartie Huang was killed in our Li Hua Team after all, we have a duty to handle her posthumous affairs. I’ll have someone look for a place soon."

"By the way, wasn’t it Zhu Zhu who took away Smartie Huang’s ashes? How come you’re the one bringing them over?"

Lin Xiang had to repeat her conversation with Zhu Zhu from the front door to the captain.

Originally thinking Zhu Zhu was a responsible man, now she realized his version of responsibility was actually pushing everything onto her.

Does she really look like a sucker to him?

From Zhu Zhu’s perspective, she kind of does.

But Lin Xiang knew in her heart; she just couldn’t bear to see that poor girl be so distressingly lonely even after leaving.

After resolving the situation, Lin Xiang planned to go home.

But before she reached the gate, the captain called her again.

"Missy, do you have any good money-making ideas so our team can all earn a bit together?"

Lin Xiang thought about it, "Today is New Year’s Eve; even if there are good ways to earn money, it will have to wait till after the New Year."

"Alright, then after New Year, I’ll come to you for advice."

When Lin Xiang returned home, Mrs. Lin had already returned from town.

"I thought today there would be a lot of people in town, but there were fewer people than usual, and I managed to grab several pounds of pork."

"Today is practically New Year’s; city folks have long prepared their festive goods and are home celebrating now." Lin Xiang took a basin to fill with flour, "Let’s have dumplings tonight? I’ll make more dough, and we’ll have white flour meat dumplings."

Mrs. Lin naturally had no objection and helped Lin Xiang from the side.

This year’s New Year’s Eve dinner was more ample than any previous year, besides white flour meat dumplings, there was bacon and sausages. Lin Xiang also cooked a fish, and the mother and daughter were quite satisfied.

New Year’s Day.

According to Li Hua Team’s customs, children under ten in the village would go house to house asking for blessings.

Families in slightly better conditions would give red envelopes, with one or two cents in them. Families not so well off would give a few fruit candies; at worst, there would be home-roasted seeds or soybeans.

By ten in the morning, the New Year’s visiting team finally reached the Lin Family.

Dong Sheng, already the leader of Li Hua Team’s children, led with a bundle of blessings, while the little ones behind him followed suit, spewing good words like a fountain from their mouths.

Lin Xiang had prepared early on, ready with a plate of fruit candy.

After giving each child a few pieces, she gave the remaining to Dong Sheng.

Time flew, and soon it was the second of February.

Mrs. Lin deliberately woke up early, wearing the new clothes made by Fifth Aunt before the year, flaunting them in front of Lin Xiang.

"Do I look good in these clothes?"

Lin Xiang affirmed, "Good. The dark red is not only festive, but also makes your skin look whiter."

"Isn’t it a bit too flashy? I see few people in the village wearing red."

"It’s New Year’s; you should dress more cheerfully. Just because others don’t wear it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t."

Mrs. Lin looked at the small mirror hung on the wall, went back to her room, and came out wearing her usual clothes.

Lin Xiang asked puzzled, "Why did you take them off when they were fine?"

"Today is the day to visit the wife’s family, but besides your Fifth Uncle’s family, we don’t have any relatives left. On New Year’s, we might as well stay home, so why wear new clothes?"

Lin Xiang put down her pen, closed her exercise book, "Mom, I’m sorry, it’s my fault that you broke ties with the family."

Mrs. Lin waved her hand, "You can’t blame that on you. Even without Yu Yuan incident, I wouldn’t communicate with your aunt and uncle."

In previous years, on this day, Mrs. Lin would still visit her brother’s family, bringing things she had saved up for half a year.

But each time, her brother wouldn’t let her in the house, standing at the door, saying a few words, and then evading by saying there were guests, driving her away.

This year, due to a complete falling-out with Aunt Lin, the ties with her brother’s family were considered broken too.

In the big New Year, every household was visiting relatives, yet their family was the only one without relatives to visit.