Chapter 213: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 213: Inviting Guests to the Warm Room, Buying Cattle and Horses (6)
"Alright, then Qingze will take his leave."
Hearing his uncle's acceptance, Mo Qingze calmly said his farewell, bowed to Old Mo, and left. Whether his uncle's family came or not held no significance to his own family anymore. If they did come, it would just make the village gossip less about the two families.
"Old man, are you really going to give him face? If you go, I don't want to see the smug faces of those white-eyed wolves," Hong Shi said spitefully, as if her going would greatly benefit the Mo family's reputation.
Old Mo looked at her with a grim expression and coldly replied, "It's best if you don't go, so you don't embarrass me."
Hong Shi was infuriated and cursed at Old Mo, but he was no longer the silent and honest man he used to be when he was just a villager. He didn't care about Hong Shi's insults and had already decided to use this opportunity to mend his almost severed relationship with Mo Qingze.
"Mother, please refrain from speaking!" Mo Yonglu advised Hong Shi. "If we don't go, the villagers will think we're too ashamed to show our faces."
Old Mo looked at Hong Shi, whose face had turned stiff, and snorted coldly, "You're even worse than a child. Giving face? What face do you have to give them? Why don't you listen to what the villagers say about our Mo family."
After speaking, without looking at Hong Shi's increasingly ugly expression, he walked back into the house.
Wu Shi and her husband exchanged a glance, both showing a hint of joy in their eyes, but the reasons for their joy were somewhat different.
Wu Shi didn't want to ruin their relationship with their cousin's family and didn't want to be caught in the middle. If they could improve their relationship, they wouldn't offend their in-laws when they visited them in the future.
Mo Yongfu, on the other hand, was afraid of becoming a laughingstock. If they could use this opportunity to improve their relationship, he might be able to ask his cousin for some work. Their family was going through tough times.
Mo Qingze didn't bother to speculate on the thoughts of the various members of the Old Mo family and went to the Lin Yong's house.
Lin Yong was busy collecting wild game at the door. After hearing Mo Qingze's invitation, he readily agreed and even handed Mo Qingze a cleaned wild chicken to take back home.
Mo Qingze politely declined but accepted eventually. Seeing the wild chickens and rabbits beside Lin Yong, he said with a smile, "There will be quite a few guests at home that day, and we'll need a lot of meat. Brother Lin, why don't you sell the game you've caught to our house? It will save us from going to the city, and we might not even find any."
Lin Yong continued skinning the rabbit without looking up and said, "I'll send everything I catch these days to your house as a congratulatory gift for your housewarming."
Mo Qingze smiled and accepted, but he wouldn't actually take advantage of this.
Lin Yong was the only one left in his family. Besides taking care of the farm work, he relied on hunting to support his family. At his age, he still wasn't married, and Mo Qingze felt a bit sorry for him. If he could save up some money now, it might be easier for him to marry in the future.
After that, Mo Qingze went to the other houses on Lin's list and invited them one by one. Zhang Dayou, Zhang Erniu, and others were also invited.
As for Cai Shi and the others, it was Mo Yan who went to invite them, carrying eggs. With many guests expected that day, they estimated they would need to prepare about twenty to thirty tables for the banquet. They were too busy at home to handle it all themselves, so they needed to hire some help. Cai Shi and the others had a good relationship with the Mo family, so they were the most suitable candidates for help.
After inviting everyone in the village, Mo Yan and Li Zhong went to the city again. In addition to inviting Liu Tinglan, the shopkeeper of the Restaurant, and the shopkeeper of the wood shop, they also went to buy a carriage and two plow oxen.
It used to be convenient to call a carriage to go to the city when they lived there. However, now that they had moved to Liuyang Village, the whole village didn't even have a plow ox. Otherwise, it wouldn't have taken so long to send Xin'er to see the doctor the other day.
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