Chapter 364_1

At noon, there was a bustling pig-slaughtering feast. Quite a few families from the village came to weigh out some pork. No one took a lot; some got a pound or two, and others took three or four pounds. Lin Yue was thinking about buying pork for the New Year, so she asked Zhao Erhu to reserve sixty pounds from the village chief. She wanted to make cured meat and sausages, though that might not be enough, but the village chief's pig weighed only a bit over two hundred pounds. After the scattered purchases by the villagers and what the chief's family kept for themselves, only so much was left.

Zhao Erhu saw Lin Yue buying so much meat to take home. He initially thought it was unnecessary, but then he worried it might disappoint his young wife, so he simply agreed with her. He paid the Silver and carried the sixty pounds of pork back home. Lin Yue also bought the offal to make sausages, with the pig's large intestine being essential.