The happy little days of the Ye family

When Father Ye returned home, the house was quiet.

Mr. Ye went to Xiaohoushan, Mrs. Ye went to the fields to weed the rice, and Ye Qingqing and her daughter were doing embroidery in the room.

Ye's father was moving things. Ye Qingqing and Ye's mother heard the sound and hurried out.

"Why are there so many things? Are you going to collect mountain goods?" Ye Mu looked at several bags of dried mushrooms on the ground and wanted to go over and help.

"I went to Dashan Village to sell things, and I brought back some mountain products and bacon. The things are heavy and you can't move them."

Ye's father handed the five-pound large honeycomb to Ye's mother and asked her and Ye Qingqing to wash out some clay pots and use them to store honey later.

Ye Mu asked Ye Qingqing to boil a pot of water in the kitchen, then went to the utility room to find a few one-pound clay pots, and went to the pool in the backyard to clean them.

Ye Mu put the cleaned clay pot into boiling water and scalded it several times, then put it on a shelf in the yard to dry. After the water dries, it can be used to hold honey.

"Lots of bacon."

Ye Qingqing couldn't help but swallowed as he looked at the baskets of bacon, chickens and rabbits. But knowing that these were all for sale, Ye Qingqing was sensible and didn't shout for food.

"Bring this piece of bacon to your mother and let her cook it tonight. Let's taste it first."

Ye's father and daughter looked so cute and wanted to eat that they wanted to laugh. Since they wanted to sell it for money, of course they had to taste it first.

"This bacon is so fragrant. It must have been marinated with a lot of aniseed ingredients." Ye Qingqing took the bacon and smelled it again. There were at least several kinds of aniseed ingredients.

"Dashan Village is surrounded by mountains, and there are a lot of prey and spices in the mountains. Dashan Village is relatively far from the town and county. People there like to use spices to make bacon into prey, which can be easily preserved. Their village's I heard the bacon is quite delicious, I want to try it today."

When brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin returned home, Ye's father and Ye's mother had already filtered the honey and got three and a half kilograms of honey and many sweet honeycombs.

A family of three was resting in the yard with honey water.

"The smell of honey water." Ye Xilin smelled the special fragrance of honey as soon as he entered the door.

"There's honey water to drink!" Ye Qingqing's voice turned sweet as she drank the sweet honey water.

"Your father collected a large beehive weighing more than five kilograms today. He soaked it in honey water for you all and put it on the table to get it yourself."

Brother Ye eats well. Brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin are obviously half a head taller than their peers of the same age. Mother Ye is deeply pleased to see the tall and lively brothers.

"There is still a foot and a half of goose-yellow fabric. You can use it to make hairbands. The hairbands you made are beautiful, and the little girls are vying for them." Father Ye suddenly said.

"Where are the other items? Are they all sold out?"

“I still have two boxes of facial grease and some good-quality needlework, but I’ve already made my money back.”

"As long as the business is back, the rest of the things are earned." Knowing that the items were almost sold out, Ye Mu was very happy.

"There are still too few things. I'll sell off the local stuff and buy more stuff. If there are more stuff, I can negotiate with the store to lower the price."

"Cheap little things like hair ties and large pieces of cloth sell quickly, so you can buy more. You can also buy women's household items and good-quality fabrics. Although there are fewer people asking for these, the profits are high. "

"Tomorrow I will go to the county with you to sell mountain products. My embroidery patterns have just been finished, so I can stop by the show." Ye's mother actually wanted to visit the place where Ye's father purchased goods.

"Okay, the people here to buy things are children and women. Actually, Xiu Xiu, you know better than me about what to buy."

"There's me, I'm going too." Ye Qingqing also wanted to visit the county.

"You can't go. We have things to do tomorrow and we don't have time to care about you. You can go and play with your friends."

Ye Qingqing pouted and reluctantly agreed.

During the meal, Ye's father gave Mrs. Ye the money from selling the insoles and soles, and he also gave her the money for Ye Qingqing's handkerchief.

"There are still some rags at home. I will make a few more pairs of insoles and soles. I didn't expect that there are still people who want these things." Old Mrs. Ye took the money and smiled from ear to ear.

Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin on the side saw Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing making money. They were extremely envious and wanted to make something for Father Ye to help sell.

When the two of them thought that in addition to going to school during the day, they also had to shoot pigweeds. They had no time at all. They were immediately discouraged. It was so difficult to make money!

"It's the first day of selling, how is it? Have you got your capital back?" Mrs. Ye looked at Father Ye and asked.

"I collected some mountain products and bacon from Dashan Village. The villagers who got the money bought a lot of things, leaving only two boxes of flour and some good-quality needlework. The capital was basically recovered."

"That's good, it'll be good if the capital is back." Mrs. Ye drank the honey water and felt very happy.

"The mountain village is surrounded by deep mountains. In previous years, some merchants went to collect mountain products and bacon. How much did you collect? What's the price?" Mr. Ye was very interested in the things recovered from Dashan Village.

The things sold by the peddler are not worth much, the things that are valuable are the things recovered.

"I collected them according to the price of the grocery store. I received 20 catties of dried mushrooms for 180 Wen per catty, 30 catties of bacon for 30 Wen per catty, and 20 catties of cured chicken and rabbit for 20 Wen per catty. I collected about ten kilograms of fresh honeysuckle."

"Is there honeysuckle so early?" Mr. Ye asked curiously.

The honeysuckles near Taohua Village have been cut back and planted by the villagers. The newly planted honeysuckles are still small. There is no need to expect to collect honeysuckles from the mountains in the village this year.

"It's ready to be picked, but there aren't many. It should be the first flower of the year."

"Tomorrow Xiuxiu and I will go to the county to sell all the things we collected today, and then bring back some more. What we got last time was still too little."

Mr. Ye originally wanted to go to the county together, but he kept silent after knowing that his son and his daughter-in-law would go to the county to sell things together tomorrow.

"My embroidery has been finished. I will sell the embroidery and Qingqing's handkerchief tomorrow."

The embroidery picture Ye Mu made this time was a picture of Guanyin giving birth to children. The embroidery picture is not big, but it is very delicate and noble. It is expected to fetch a good price.

"Then I will bake more pancakes tomorrow and you can take them with you on the way." The son and his daughter-in-law have a good relationship, and Mrs. Ye is also very happy.

It would be great if the family was in harmony and everything was harmonious, so she wouldn't be that evil mother-in-law.

Before dawn the next day, Father Ye and Mother Ye set out for the county with a cart full of things.

As soon as the bacon was put out, a slightly fat man came forward.

"This bacon is quite fragrant. There must be a lot of spices added to it. How are they sold?" The man picked up a piece of cured wild boar and smelled it. Then he picked up a cured chicken and a cured rabbit and looked through it carefully.

"Everything is collected from the mountain people. There are many wild spices in the mountains. These bacon not only smell good, but taste even better."

"You are the first customer of this stall, so I won't come here for free. I will directly quote you the real price. Cured wild boar is 36 yuan per catty, and cured rabbit and chicken are 25 yuan per catty. No bargaining."

The price quoted by Father Ye was indeed the real price. The price was only 1 penny more than ordinary bacon, but it contained a lot of spices and it smelled really good.

"I bought it sincerely. How about giving me a penny? Cured wild boar is 35 cents per catty, and cured rabbit and chicken are 24 cents per catty. I want all these meats."

Father Ye: "I still have 180 kilograms of dried mushrooms here, which were just harvested this year. If you harvest them together, I will give them to you at the same price."

"How much do these dried mushrooms cost per pound?" The man looked at the dried mushrooms and found that they looked OK and were picked up quite cleanly.

"Dried mushrooms are 25 Wen per catty. If you want them all, I'll give them to you at 23 Wen per catty."

"It's too much. I only need 80 kilograms of paper."

"Okay, I'll give you 23 cents a pound, and the bacon will be as you just said."

“80斤干蘑菇是1840文，30斤腊野猪肉是1050文，40斤腊鸡腊兔子是960文，一共是3850文。”

After the man walked away, Ye's father started to play with the abacus. After calculation, he actually made 550 Wen, which was almost as much as his monthly salary at the grocery store.