There was no other way, Yu Xiaolian could only pray in her heart that the people in her food factory were good kids from poor families.
Steward Liu had purchased all the big fat pigs near Yangcheng a few days in advance, totaling one hundred and fifty heads.
Steward Liu also made arrangements with various mutton vendors to order sheep casings, which are much thinner than pig casings, making them the best choice for making red sausages.
Pigs of this era weren't that big, the heaviest being just over two hundred pounds. Pork sold for twenty wen per catty at the market, but buying live pigs was much cheaper, costing only eight wen per catty. A pig cost around one or two taels at most, rarely exceeding two taels of silver coins.
Yu Xiaolian sometimes felt quite emotional, thinking that people in ancient times really had it tough, eating a meal with meat was a luxury.
Workers at the food factory, for instance, couldn't earn enough in a day to buy even a catty of meat.
