Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 431 Mysterious New Year’s Debt Collection (4)_1

Chapter 431: Chapter 431 Mysterious New Year’s Debt Collection (4)_1

Mo Qingze’s heart sank. This person did not seem to be bluffing; he probably did have some significant backing. Indeed, Great Chu had strictly prohibited private citizens from using official seals. Those who violated this would be severely punished. If there were no connections to rely on, ordinary people wouldn’t dare do such a thing...

Upon understanding the implications, his expression grew even uglier. But to really spend money to get out of this disaster would be more disgusting than eating flies!

Having been dealt a blow, Tang Yushi had not expected the situation to take such a turn. Seeing Mo Qingze being coerced into repaying her debt, she only wished that her thin frame could coerce him into giving more silver so that she could get a share of it.

Others were also nauseated, especially Tang Xin, who wished she could take a knife and stab that scourge Tang Yushi to death. She had been doing well in the Mo Family and wanted to slowly forget everything about the Tang Family. As long as the Tang Family did not come to trouble her, she had no intention of dealing with them again, but reality had brutally slapped her in the face.

She knew this venomous woman would not let her off easily. Even while in the Mo Family, she would find ways to torment her. After such an incident, if it had been a more heartless master, they would have punished her severely—if not beaten her to death. Now that this venomous woman had purposely trapped her in wrongdoing, how could she not hate her!

Tang Xin’s eyes turned bloodshot as she thought of this, and she unconsciously walked toward the kitchen.

Mo Yan, who was standing beside her, sensed her abnormality. Recalling her previous actions at the Tang Family, she quickly held onto her: "Don’t do anything foolish; it’s not worth it for such people."

In just one short sentence, so much concern was conveyed! Tang Xin’s eyes moistened, and she covered her mouth, her shoulders shaking continuously.

Mo Yan silently sighed; seeing her father at a loss, she asked Xin Er to watch over Tang Xin and then approached the arrogantly thin figure, saying just one sentence that changed his complexion...

"Sister, what on earth did you say that scared those people away?"

"Yeah, big sister, that skinny guy turned completely pale with fright!"

"Sister Yan, tell us, quick, it’s killing me."

When the skinny figure and his group hurriedly fled with the Tang Family, the children looked up at Mo Yan admiringly, bombarding her with questions.

Mo Yan couldn’t handle the nagging and casually brushed them off. Finally free from the children, she was then stopped by her father.

"Father, those people clearly had significant influence, and I didn’t want to give them the satisfaction, so I had no choice but to borrow Punishing Shopkeeper’s master’s reputation to scare them off."

Mo Qingze stared blankly at his eldest daughter’s departing figure, feeling somewhat choked up. If their family hadn’t known the Punishing Shopkeeper, if there hadn’t been a powerful master behind the Punishing Shopkeeper, would they have been crushed under power today, forced to swallow this injustice, and possibly continue to do so in the future?

For the first time, Mo Qingze realized the benefits that the power he once scorned could bring...

The commotion had delayed the Mo Family’s lunch; there were still things to be done in the afternoon, so the family had a simple meal of buns and noodles to get by.

According to tradition, a New Year’s Eve dinner must last for three days, meaning from the first to the third day of the first lunar month, only leftovers could be eaten. The Mo Family had ten members, big and small, so the quantity of food could not be scant.

This time, all three stoves in the house were in use: one for braising radish and pork ribs, one for stewing mushrooms and chicken, and the remaining one puffing out a thick aroma of spiced marinade while stewing chicken!

After the chicken was marinated, pork, wild sheep meat, and wild rabbit meat would continue to be marinated. Plenty had been marinated before, but all had been given away; this batch was for the family’s own consumption.

The marinade was personally blended by Mo Yan, with several herbs coming straight from Space. The just-marinated chicken was fragrant and tender. Not just Zhenzhen, even Mo Qingze and Lizhong, the two adults, couldn’t resist the temptation and occasionally made rounds to the kitchen.

After the first chicken was out of the pot, Mo Yan didn’t have time to cut it into pieces while hot for the evening meal before Zhenzhen quietly slipped in, snatched up the dustpan, and ran out of the kitchen straight to the study to "bribe" her father, who was checking her and Yun Zhao’s homework, hoping that he would go easy on them for the sake of the marinated chicken.

While the pot was still busy marinating, Mo Yan, unable to pay attention to them as she stirred with her chopsticks, managed to get the second chicken ready. By then, the three "beasts" had returned from the mountain, drooling over the stove, almost sticking their mouths into the pot to marinate themselves.

The second marinated chicken couldn’t escape its fate of being divided up on the spot. After stealing and consuming three chickens, it wasn’t until Mo Yan got angry that the three "beasts" dared not continue their actions and steal the fourth chicken, though their three pairs of longing eyes couldn’t have looked more pitiful.

By the time the meat was finished marinating, the sky had darkened, and faint sounds of firecrackers could be heard in the distance—it was time to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner. Mo Yan, being the best cook, took charge, and with the help of four others, including Xin Er, managed to prepare over ten dishes in just two hours.

At this moment, the sound of firecrackers was unceasing, near and far. Whether it was wanderers from afar or men who went to the city to earn a living, all had returned to their families, reuniting with loved ones!

Offering incense to the ancestors and Buddha, sticking up couplets, setting off firecrackers... After a series of blessing rituals, the family, listening to the bustling firecracker sounds outside, began their first New Year’s Eve dinner since moving to Liu Yang Village.

Seeing Mo Yan place a cup in front of each person and then proceed to open the clay-sealed jar of liquor beside her, everyone thought it was the sweet rice wine or wild fruit wine they had drunk before and paid it little mind. However, when a strange yet fragrant aroma wafted to their noses, their eyes collectively turned towards the small jar...

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