Chapter 55 Chinese New Year
The next day, Jiang Xinyu checked the house, put away the curtains and the kang sheet, and then took the car back.
Arriving in the village, she remembered she still had two pig heads left, and without changing her clothes, she went straight to the Kong Family.
Two pig heads, eight pig trotters, two pig tails, a whole basin full. It was Tian Shulan who brought them back.
"Auntie, I didn’t see Kong Mengjie, when I went she was on the day shift, and this morning I came back directly, but Wang Ailing said they would both return on the twenty-ninth of the twelfth month."
"Is that when they get their vacation?"
"Yes, the textile factory is quite busy now."
The next day, Kong Mengjie cleaned the pig heads bit by bit, split them with a hatchet, and spent a whole day slow-cooking them. The courtyard was filled with fragrance all day long.
That evening, she finally ate the pig trotters, which were so tender the bones fell off, and they were truly delicious.
The broth from the braised meat was poured into her space, and the next day she used an oil pot to stew vermicelli, adding a few slices of cabbage.
Jiang Xinyu spent the day eating and drinking, went out twice, returned the big pot to the brigade office, and made a trip to the market to buy two steamers, a skimmer, two new pot lids, and two steam racks. These all needed to be taken to the county. Now she only had five yuan left.