Chapter 859: Chapter 852: Like Waking from a Dream

This New Year, Lin Wanwan had a particularly fulfilling time. She had a reunion dinner at the Lu Family on New Year’s Eve, and on the first day of the new year, she took Lu Shouyue to sweep the graves of her parents.

As usual, she met her grandparents who were waiting for her at the cemetery. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

This time, she was prepared and gave each of them a red envelope of ten thousand.

The elderly couple, who couldn’t earn this amount by farming all year, were so pleased that they couldn’t stop smiling and bragged to everyone about Lin Wanwan’s filial piety.

There is an agricultural park invested by Times Company in the village, and now, half the village basically depends on it.

Although Lin Wanwan is not in her father’s village, her legends linger there.

She was the first college student from the village, married the first great beauty, gave birth to a college beauty, and single-handedly solved employment for the entire village. This legend will likely be told for a long time in the village.

After returning from Mian City, Lin Wanwan spent another day in Great Tang, and then continued celebrating the New Year in modern times.

During this period, she was taken by Lu Shouyue to visit his grandparents and uncle’s family in Beijing.

Lin Wanwan had met Lu Shouyue’s uncle’s family at Lu’s mother’s birthday banquet.

As for his grandparents, she had seen them on the news.

Regarding the Lu family’s relatives, she had practically met them all.

After this New Year, Lin Wanwan felt deeply that her life was different.

She was no longer alone.

For New Year celebrations, besides visiting relatives with Lu Shouyue, she had only the Su Family as her own relatives.

Because Lin Wanwan generously gifted Su Yanwei the final payment for a new house, and she was also his boss, in the Su Family, she naturally enjoyed the status of a distinguished guest.

Even Su Yanwei’s stepmother treated Lin Wanwan with great enthusiasm.

Most people admire strength; when you are successful enough, you naturally attract goodness and smiles around you.

Aside from the New Year socializing, Lin Wanwan also ordered a box of designer sunglasses for Xiao Yixun, a total of ten pairs, as a New Year’s gift.

To avoid appearing too abrupt in Great Tang, she specifically requested frames made of platinum, 18K gold, and other metals.

With this box of sunglasses, Xiao Yixun can now avoid staying forever in the shadows.

Sunglasses are very friendly to the eyes of people with albinism.

With sunglasses on, despite being dressed in traditional attire, Xiao Yixun exudes a cool, trendy vibe.

In Lin Wanwan’s home, there’s Xiao Yixun and Baye Feng, each naturally emanating an aura of 280 times over, a typical case of few words with lots of action.

This year’s Lantern Festival in Great Tang, Lin Wanwan again spent with little Qingyu in Xiaoxi Town, but there were fewer people setting river lights than last year.

After the New Year, Lin Wanwan also received rewards from Chang’an.

Xiao Chong, through the books she sent, developed open-hearth steelmaking and petitioned for her to Li Shimin, so she made another surprisingly large fortune.

These imperial gifts were all priceless treasures.

The village started farming crayfish, although it wasn’t very formal. Lin Wanwan merely bought a lot of fry and a little feed to release into Great Tang’s small rivers and streams.

No special farming ponds were built, nor was there any management. The fry and initial feed were left to grow naturally in Great Tang’s ecosystem.

The biggest reason Lin Wanwan farmed crayfish was that she wanted to eat clean and pollution-free crayfish!

On the modern side, the business of leasing sea islands was going smoothly.

Lin Wanwan herself didn’t have to worry much, leaving most work to Niu Kongqing. She even bought a fishing boat and hired two local fishermen.

With marine farming and sea fishing underway, transporting pure wild high-quality seafood from Great Tang became easier without having to buy seafood at the docks early in the morning to cover up.

Regarding the ranch, it was both smooth and troublesome.

The reason the original ranch owner wanted to sell was found out—it was because profits were being embezzled by the ranch manager.

The ranch’s parasite was exposed, but finding a suitable manager was momentarily challenging for Lin Wanwan.

Having Niu Kongqing tied up at the ranch was not an option; Lin Wanwan couldn’t manage without her as she could handle many things, saving Lin Wanwan a lot of hassle.

Finally, a headhunting company was hired to find talent, resolving the ranch management issue.

These two matters exhausted all the cash flow from Lin Wanwan’s Yongtang, and Liang Mingzhe had quite an opinion. He didn’t quite understand why a company dealing in Hanfu and embroidery would venture boldly into ranching and fishing.

But as Lin Wanwan was the sole owner, his opinions couldn’t change anything.

One morning in March, Lu Shouyue called her early, asking her to bring her household registration book downstairs.

Confused, Lin Wanwan found the household registration book and went downstairs. She still felt a bit dazed when she got into Lu Shouyue’s car.

Having just returned from Great Tang in the middle of the night, her jet lag wasn’t adjusted, her sleep was not great, and her head felt a bit muddled.

"Mr. Lu, what’s going on?"

Lin Wanwan yawned and asked Lu Shouyue.

"Didn’t sleep well? Another night of dreamwalking in wonderland?" With two bodyguards in the front seat, Lu Shouyue’s sarcastic comment was rather restrained.

"Yeah," Lin Wanwan replied, then closed her eyes to rest.

When she woke up in the car, she found it parked in an unfamiliar parking lot.

The window was open, and Lu Shouyue was in the front seat working on a laptop, while the bodyguards stood outside the car.

As Lin Wanwan moved, Lu Shouyue turned around and smiled at her: "Little lazybones, are you awake now?"

Lin Wanwan sat up, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "Where are we?"

"City Administrative Service Center."

"Hey, what are we doing here?"

Lu Shouyue raised an eyebrow and remarked, "Wanwan, you are the first in playing dumb."

With that, he closed the laptop, stepped out, and opened the car door for Lin Wanwan, offering his hand as he bowed slightly: "Come on, bring your ID."

The just-woken-up Lin Wanwan picked up her bag in a daze, being led by Lu Shouyue into the City Administrative Service Center, passing through the hall, where several large red characters, "Marriage Registration Office", were clearly visible.

With hindsight, Lin Wanwan reacted: "How... how come it’s so sudden?"

The engagement party was in May, and the wedding was in July.

Lu Shouyue looked back and asked, "Sudden?"

After staring at him for a moment, Lin Wanwan smiled slightly: "Alright."

Lu Shouyue tried to suppress a grin and said playfully, "Well then, shall we?"

Next to the marriage registration, were the places for taking ID photos and marriage health checks. No wonder Lu Shouyue came for her early today without bringing breakfast; now it made sense.

"Oh, I didn’t put on any makeup today!" After finishing the health check on an empty stomach and seeing that she had to take a photo, Lin Wanwan remembered this important matter.

"You’re beautiful without makeup," Lu Shouyue flattered her, "stupefying beauty, capturing my heart."

"No way, that can’t be." ID photos are supposed to be on record for a lifetime, so they have to be perfect!

Lin Wanwan insisted, "I’ll find a makeup artist."

"Okay, I’ll arrange it, just wait a moment." Lu Shouyue immediately made a phone call.

In a few minutes, a styling team arrived at the administrative service hall.

The central area of the hall was a reading and resting space, making it convenient for makeup and hairstyling, with people coming and going busy with their own matters, leaving no time to watch.

Leaving the administrative service center, Lin Wanwan looked at the red book in her hand, as if in a dream.