Xie Zhinuan wasn't so filled with fear and emotion; she was very busy.
Originally, she hadn't planned to invite all the farmer families over for a New Year's Eve feast, but after she gave away gifts on the twenty-seventh, they sent her pork, chickens and ducks, pickles as gifts to their new landlord. She thought about it and decided that on New Year's Eve, they could all have lunch together at "Kechanglai". After lunch, everyone could go back to their own homes for the New Year's Eve dinner. It would be a kind of celebration.
She was busy preparing red envelopes for the children, two hundred wen each, regardless of age. As long as they were children, even held in someone's arms, they would get one.
On her side, Xie Zhinuan arranged mule carts for pickup, instructing the Zhu Family to pick up the farmers, worried that one boat might not be enough, she rented another large one.
After preparing over a thousand, Xie Zhinuan hoped that would be enough.