Chapter 63 According to the customs of Zibo City, the days leading up to the New Year are the busiest: frying tofu and meatballs, steaming buns, slaughtering chickens, stewing meat—everything to prepare the dishes that will be eaten before the Lantern Festival. That way, meals could be served as soon as guests arrived. But now that all four members of the Qian family were in the Imperial Capital, and there weren’t any visiting relatives, they simply skipped all of it. The kitchen at home was fully…