Unlike Zhou Qiuyu, who was entirely focused on the pig head, Yi Chichi was greedy.
With no shortage of money, she was extremely willing to spend on food, especially since she also had to support her great-uncle and aunt.
The more meat, the better, naturally.
However, pigs nowadays weren't like the ones later that weigh two to three hundred catties.
Without feed, pigs raised on wheat bran, pumpkins, pigweed, and other green crops could only weigh just over a hundred catties at most.
Therefore, what the villagers could get was limited,
fortunately, the wild boar meat from the last autumn hunt was not a small amount, so the villagers Yi Chichi targeted were happy to agree when they learned she wanted to buy some meat.
Aunt Ma gave her two catties of pork belly,
at 0.85 yuan per catty, whereas at the state-run meat stall, pork prices were between 0.42-0.78 yuan.
But you needed a ticket there.
Buying from villagers required no ticket, so a higher price was normal.
