This year's New Year's Eve dinner was the liveliest the Zhang family had enjoyed in the past decade.
Not only had the whole family reunited safely in Great Xia for this New Year's Eve dinner, but every family business was flourishing and the household was prospering. This naturally delighted Zhang Tie's father and mother.
Next year would mark the beginning of Black Iron Calendar 900—a new era.
And next year, the Zhang Family would buy land and build a city, establishing its first family city in You Province of Great Xia and leaving behind an enduring foundation for generations to come. For Zhang Tie's family, this too was a new era.
Thus, amid such an atmosphere, the Zhang family's New Year's Eve dinner was especially lively.
From that evening onward, even before dinner began, laughter and cheerful chatter in the Zhang family dining hall never ceased.
Before the meal, Zhang Tie's mother and father sat in the main hall and handed every Zhang family servant, maid, and guard a heavy red envelope. Upon receiving those weighty red envelopes, the household staff and guards all became delighted. Each one was full of spirit, speaking and working with even greater efficiency.
The red envelopes for the residences on Zhang Yang's side and Zhang Tie's side had also been distributed by the mistresses of both households at noon. Both residences were filled with festive cheer and the atmosphere of the New Year.
As the family ate and spoke of Golden Crow City, which would be built next year, imagining all that their family's first city would become, everyone was in high spirits. Zhang Tie's father in particular, upon learning that he would become Golden Crow City's City Lord, seemed to have blossomed into a second spring. He was more energetic than ever, talking