Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 56, Eighteenth Birthday
In two days, a major day will come, which is actually a very important day for the Wang family.

It was Wang Li’s 18th birthday. In fact, the Wang family is very traditional. After all, they are a martial arts family and they care a lot about some traditional rules.

The rule in their family is that the elderly do not celebrate their birthdays lavishly before they are 60 years old, and young people do not celebrate their birthdays before they are 18 years old. If they celebrate their birthdays before the age of 18, they will simply have a meal at home.

This birthday is Wang Li’s 18th birthday since his rebirth, and it is also the most important birthday of adulthood in the Wang family’s tradition.

In fact, this tradition of the Wang family was very scientific under the social environment at that time, because the society was very turbulent, wars were frequent, and the living conditions of the people were not good, and the sanitary conditions were even worse.

Therefore, it is not easy for a child to live to 18 or for an elderly person to live to 60. Reaching these two ages is worth celebrating in the eyes of the Wang family, so this tradition has been preserved to this day.

In fact, Wang Li's mother had already started preparing for the birthday party a few days ago. His family planned to use this birthday party to invite several familiar friends to come over for a gathering.

In fact, Wang Li didn’t feel anything about this birthday. After all, his real age or psychological age is already over 50 years old.

Although his childhood and teenage life over the years has left him with a very childish heart, his thinking is mature.

Therefore, he just treated this birthday as a party and remained calm.

But from the perspective of the other invited families, this was a big deal. The Wang family hadn't hosted several families together for a while. And their relationship with Wang Li was also quite special. After all, this era was still quite traditional.

Although the children were older than Wang Li, they still valued the relationship between master and apprentice. After all, Wang Li taught them kung fu selflessly, and they also gained a lot. At least they grew up healthy without any illness or disaster.

They all knew that Wang Li's hobby was old and rare items.

Therefore, several families tried their best to prepare gifts to express their sincere congratulations.

Today is Wang Li’s birthday, which happens to be Sunday. Therefore, after lunch, the Zhang Fang family, Li Ren family, and Zhao Gang family, who were invited by the Wang family, came to Wang Li’s courtyard and presented birthday gifts.

The women went to the kitchen to prepare dinner, while the men gathered together to discuss interesting things in their work and life and their own experiences, while the children, led by Lai Xiaomei, played in the courtyard of the second courtyard. Here I would like to say that today's dinner was held in the second courtyard where his parents lived, and no more people were allowed to enter Wang Li's third courtyard.

Happy times always pass quickly. After Wang Li's 18th birthday party, several parents organized Lai San, Zhang Fang, Li Ren, and Zhao Gang to pay tribute to their master Wang Li individually, just like the New Year's greetings between master and apprentice during the Chinese New Year.

Wang Li doesn't care about these things, but they are all people from the older generation and they still attach great importance to the master-disciple relationship. They are psychologically grateful to and respect Wang Li.

The difference between this collective thank-you ceremony to the master and previous years is that after working, several apprentices will prepare a thank-you gift to the master.

As farewell gifts to their teacher, they did not choose expensive items, but rather old and rare items that Wang Li liked.

That’s why Wang Li didn’t reject them. After all, these were all their thoughts and they didn’t cost them too much money. These gifts represent a kind of gratitude and a way to express emotional closeness.

Wang Li’s 18th birthday passed in a cheerful atmosphere.

That night, Wang Li was very happy after opening the birthday presents sent to him by several families. Someone gave him a piece of porcelain, someone gave him a small ornament, and someone gave him a piece of jade. They were varied but all had one thing in common: they were all delicate and beautiful, and had a certain ancient style.

After all, they were not collectors and did not know how to identify antiques. They just looked at it and thought it was okay and the price was not too high. They thought Wang Li would like it, so they bought it as a gift.

Wang Li is always the happiest at this time. It is not because these things are more valuable than his collections, but because: these are the gifts from his apprentices and their families, and it also gives him the feeling of opening a blind box.

But Wang Li didn’t know that his days of suffering were about to come, and I won’t talk about what kind of suffering it would be.

Let me first introduce to you the situation of his disciples. I believe readers will be able to think of it.

(End of this chapter)