The backyard was swept with cold wind, where Lady Gu, an abused daughter-in-law, was washing intestines, but the front yard was bathed in sunshine, filled with laughter and cheerful voices.
Old Master Lian was assigning pork.
The pig's head had to be reserved for offering to the gods, and a good portion of the meat was to be kept aside for Erlang's wedding feast. The remaining pork, pig's tail, trotters, liver, heart, lungs, and miscellaneous bones and scraps of meat, were having the large bones removed, as they would soon be part of the feast everyone in the family was going to enjoy, hence the bones still had some fatty and lean meat attached.
Only then would it be the turn to set aside the meat for the family's New Year celebration.
"For Old Fourth Family's share of meat, start cutting from the back leg," Old Master Lian had not forgotten his previous promise to divide meat for Lian Shouxin.