New Year's Eve is a day of family reunion for thousands of families, and this year's New Year's Eve became a reunion festival for the entire village.
The Old Captain, who managed things, had planned on the day they slaughtered the New Year's pig to have a good celebration this year, to sweep away bad luck and hope for a good harvest in the coming year. He specifically kept a pig for New Year's Eve.
In the communal kitchen of Zhang Family Village, many daughters-in-law, big and small, started getting busy in the kitchen. Each of them showed off their skills, deciding to put together the must-have four main dishes of pork knuckles, carp, ribs, and chicken. If there weren't enough pork knuckles, pig trotters would do; if there weren't many mother hens, they were chopped into small pieces with more mushrooms added; if there were not many ribs, more radishes were added.
