I must say, Mo Yan had a talent for picking gifts. She touched everyone’s heart with her choices. Xin Er siblings were both clamoring to hug their sister and wouldn’t let go. Lizhong and his grandsons had not expected Mo Yan to still rember them and were incredibly moved. Knowing Mo Yan’s temperant, they thanked her profusely before accepting the gifts.
Before long, it was the end of July and the Mo Family’s house was completely finished. They just needed to clean up and move the furniture in, and they would be ready to move on the sixth day of August.
The Mo Family’s house was so large that, in addition to the debris and broken bricks in the yard that needed to be cleared away, Mo Yan had asked Aunt Cai, Xiong’s and other familiar won to help clean up.
She had intended to pay them for their labor, but none of them would accept it, saying they would not co if they were given money. Mo Yan had no choice but to relent and, in the end, gave each family a basket of eggs to express her gratitude.
It was only after Aunt Cai and the others entered the Mo Family house that they truly grasped the size of the place. They were all astounded, remarking that the house was even better than any landlord’s they had seen before.
When they saw the several independent small courtyards lined up in the center and learned that the four mbers of the Mo Family would each live in their own yard, even the straightforward Aunt Cai couldn’t help making several envious remarks, lanting that although her family was large, they didn’t have the sa ability as the Mo Family.
Fortunately, the group of won all had decent characters. After envying for a while, they cleaned the house earnestly. They did not gossip about it after returning ho or talk about it with the whole village.
Mo Yan and the others also ca to clean every day. Even little Zhenzhen was wiping doors and windows with a cloth. By the ti everything, inside and outside the house and the yard, was cleaned up, it was already the second day of August.
"Dad, we have too much furniture at ho, it has to be moved over in advance. On the sixth of August, our whole family will move in directly, so these next few days you just prepare the things we need for moving. Leave the moving of the furniture to ."
After lunch in the still standing grass shed, Mo Yan shared her plans with Mo Qingze.
"Hmm, Dad will go and ask the elders in the village later to see what needs to be prepared for moving. However, we’ll be hosting guests on the twelfth of August to warm the house, and we should decide whom to invite. Do you have anyone in mind that you specifically want to invite?"
Mo Qingze had been concerned about this matter. To have a successful housewarming, the more guests, the better—but with over a hundred families and a thousand people in Liu Yang Village, if everyone was invited, even with a spacious house, it would not accommodate so many people.
After so thought, Mo Yan decided that people like Lin Yong, who were on good terms with her family and had helped out a lot, definitely needed to be invited.
Aunt Cai, Xiong’s and the others should be invited too, as well as Zhang Dayou and another eleven who had helped take care of the greenhouses.
The village head was a must-invite, as was the Mo Family’s Clan Leader. As for the other mbers of the Mo clan, they should be inford as well, but whether or not they ca was up to them.
Liu Tinglan, her good friend, had long wanted to visit Liu Yang Village during her housewarming, so she was also on the invite list.
As for the Punishing Shopkeeper and Owner Mu, whether to invite them required so thought. After counting, there didn’t seem to be many people to invite, but it was enough to have a lively housewarming.
Mo Qingze felt that Mo Yan’s proposal was about right. Inviting villagers who were not close might an they would feel obliged to bring a gift, and if the gesture wasn’t heartfelt, it would be better not to invite them at all.
"Yanyan, about your second uncle... should we tell his family?" Mo Qingze asked Mo Yan with a frown, his face showing a struggle.
"Second uncle?" Mo Yan was startled, having truly forgotten about that family,"We should tell them. Otherwise, Second Aunt will have another excuse to tarnish our family’s na. But with the relations between our two families so strained, even if we do inform them, they might not co. It’s just a formality we need to go through."
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