In this day and age, everyone loves a good slab of fat. Seeing her ask for three pounds of pure lean meat, Aunt assumed the child didn't know how to eat well and said, "Yuanchun, that lean meat is tough and stringy; it doesn't taste good at all. Why not get some fatty meat? When you get home, you can render it for oil and make pork cracklings—they’re fragrant and absolutely delicious."
"Aunt, I prefer lean meat."
Crispy fried pork is even better than pork cracklings. However, Yuanchun kept this to herself. In these times, everyone used only a drop of oil to stir-fry vegetables, and some households even boiled their vegetables in water without using any oil at all. If she admitted she wanted to deep-fry lean meat, she would only be inviting jealousy.
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