Chapter 1813: Spending the Holiday Alone 1
While the meat was cooking, Wang Zhenguo began presiding over the meat distribution.
After some calculations, it was determined that excluding the innards, each person could get a pound of lean meat. Meat was distributed by household, and the fat content could not exceed twenty percent of the total; otherwise, one household would get all the fat, leaving none for others.
A pig has only so much fat, and who wouldn’t want it? The fat from the two pigs that went into the pot was set aside and distributed separately among the families.
The meat was categorized into three grades: first-grade fat at ninety cents, second-grade belly at eighty cents, and third-grade lean meat at seventy cents.
It’s cheaper than in the grocery store, equivalent to giving back to the commune members.
For the Lu Family, with ten people, they received ten pounds of meat: two pounds of snowy white fat, three pounds of belly, and five pounds of lean meat consisting of two pounds of loin and three pounds of foreleg. Additionally, Xibao wanted some pig bones and a few pounds of ribs, the former costing five cents per pound, the latter thirty cents. These parts weren’t popular as they were costly and had little meat. The pig leg bones were so cleanly scraped that it felt wasteful to even cook them at home using precious firewood.
In the countryside, firewood was also very precious.
Zhang Yuejin was partial to the Lu Family, giving them rib ribs and marrow-filled long bones.
All the families received their share of the meat, with several pounds and numerous pig innards and bones left. As an expert butcher, Zhang Yuejin could pay for a set of innards; the rest was beyond his reach. About a dozen families with better living conditions eagerly took the remaining bits, dividing it up cleanly within moments, leaving only the pig bones.
The Lu Family did not join in the hustle.
At this moment, the big pot of meat was ready, and when the lid was lifted, the aroma filled the air.