Jiang Weiguo first realized he might lose his authority over the family's New Year's Eve dinner when it was just two hours before the dinner on the eve of the Lunar New Year.
Due to the experience last year when they couldn't buy pork during New Year's, Mrs. Jiang had called their neighbors, the Li family in October, asking them to keep an eye on the good pork in the village and to reserve half a pig in advance.
The pig was slaughtered on the afternoon of the eve of Lunar New Year.
The Jiang family members' flight arrived at eleven o'clock the night before the eve. Fortunately, everyone was wealthy enough to afford first class plane tickets. If they had taken first class on the high-speed train as before, they might not have made it to city z by the time the pig was slaughtered.
