Chapter 90: Giving Gifts_1
Great Chu’s custom held that the New Year’s Eve dinner should be eaten only after nightfall, and it was a meal attended to with much attention to detail. It wasn’t simply about having fish and meat on the table, but also about continuing to eat the leftovers until the third day of the first lunar month.
Although eating leftovers for three days was not beneficial to one’s health, this custom carried within it a family’s hopes for a good year to come. Moreover, it was an occasion that came but once a year, so Mo Yan prepared food to last for the three days.
The food supply at home was very abundant. Half a month ago, she had bought half a pig; half of this was cured with spices to make flavorful bacon, and the other half was minced to make spicy and fresh sausage.
Some chickens from the Space had also been slaughtered, including only the roosters that were fit for consumption and old hens that no longer laid eggs—all of which had been nourished by the Spiritual Energy within the Space. Not to mention the nutrition, their flavor was unspeakably delicious.
Speaking of chickens, Mo Yan was troubled. The hens in the Space were often broody, and their numbers had grown from the initial forty or so to seven or eight hundred now. This was the result of her efforts to keep their population in check; otherwise, the entire Space would have been overrun by chickens.
Fortunately, next year they planned to purchase barren hills, and at that time, she intended to let these chickens roam and raise them on the hills.
The Mo Family loved braised dishes; naturally, they could not be without delicious braised meat, braised chicken, and braised sausage. Mo Yan personally blended the braising spices. As soon as the pot was heated, the savory aroma wafted out, irresistibly drawing Zhenzhen back and forth to the kitchen.
Mo Yan tore off a braised chicken leg and stuffed it to him, and he happily bit into it several times, his cheeks bulging like an inflated frog.