Bab 265: A Pig (1)

Near the end of the year, the young people who had gone out to work returned one after another!

The atmosphere in the village gradually faded.

Every family was showing off their New Year goods. On the roof, there were sausages, cured meat, cured chicken, cured duck, and so on.

The price of pork skyrocketed at the end of the year when sausages and cured meat were sunbaked.

Normally, pork that cost 12 dollars might increase in value to 20 dollars when it was dried.

The Shi family had also prepared dried meat as the entire family liked this kind of cured food.

Every year, the cured meat would cost almost 10,000 dollars. Each brother would contribute at least 3,000 dollars.

The children liked sausages and beef jerky, so they had to prepare more.

The key behind preparing cured meat was to marinate the things that were prepared to be sundried first. After the flavor entered, they would sun them.

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