Chapter 43 - Not A Pig’s Hair for You (1/2)
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That night, the second household were having a pork leg.
Baoshan brought the pork leg home which was also bought from his friend. A whole pork leg which weighed around 2.2 pounds.
Li Hongmei was cooking while Xiao Baofeng and Xiao Baozhu were practicing writing Chinese characters and naturally Ye Xiaoxian was going to cook dishes.
She was about to pick up the pork leg and clean it up when Xiao Baoshan took it over ahead of her. He scalded the fine hairs off the pork leg with fire, sc.r.a.ping them off, then cleaned it and finally chopped them into chunks before they handed them to Ye Xiaoxian.
He said, “You’re skilled in cooking so thank you for all your efforts.”
“Don’t mention it,” Ye Xiaoxian smiled. She took the chopped pork leg and it didn’t take an hour before they had done the braised pork leg.
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The second household was having juicy pork leg while Wong Mudan was making a big fuss again at the side of Old Mr. Xiao.
“Pa, do you know that the second household is having pork leg tonight. I was just seeing that Baoshan was dealing with the pork leg. Lord, the pork leg was huge and fat. It looks just fine.”
“What? They’re having pork leg?” Old Mr. Xiao was opening his eyes wide.
Different from pig’s offal, a pork leg is even dearer than fat pork. Only a well-off family can afford it.
Old Mr. Xiao’s household would have pork legs several times a month because his elder and third sons were working as attendants in the government office and they had fixed wages.
“I’ve seen it clearly this time, so pa, don’t wrong me this time. Third Sister-in-law has seen it too. Ju, right?”
Chen Ju was not quite that straightforward as Wong Mudan but she was oily-tongued as well and was good at stirring up troubles. So she nodded. “That’s right, pa. I saw it too. I remembered that the second household has promised that they’ll share every goodies they have with you. But how come they only remembered to share pig’s offal with you but not pork legs?
Old Mr. Xiao was losing his temper and decided to go and ask the second household what was going on.