Chapter 91 Visiting to Wish Happy New Year_1
The Mo Family’s New Year’s Eve dinner was sumptuous, with twelve dishes including both meat and vegetables. The two families sat around the table, warming themselves by the fire as they ate joyously for nearly two hours before they set down their chopsticks to continue staying up late into the night.
At Zi Hour, the Mo Family lit incense candles in the courtyard and, after offering a sacrifice of fish and meat, set off a long string of firecrackers. Only after everyone ate dumplings did the vigil come to an end.
Listening to the intermittent sound of firecrackers outside, everyone yawned contentedly as they headed back to their rooms to sleep.
On the first day of the new year, early in the morning, Mo Yan and the younger generation got out of bed, dressed in their brand-new clothes, and paid their respects to the two elders, Mo Qingze and Lizhong.
Mo Qingze and Lizhong had prepared in advance, smiling as they took out several red envelopes from their sleeves and handed one to each person.
Mo Yan accepted it with a smiling face and hid it in a waist pouch, while the three little ones couldn’t wait to open theirs. Seeing one waist pouch contained a half-tael silver fish, and another a half-tael silver peanut, they were overjoyed, quickly stowed them away, and clutched them to their chests as if afraid of losing them by accident.
After washing up, Mo Yan boiled a pot of longevity noodles in old hen soup for the family’s breakfast, signifying a wish for a safe and smooth new year.
After the six of them finished eating the fragrant noodles, they planned to take the New Year’s gifts they had prepared the night before and go to Liu Yang Village to pay a New Year’s visit.