The happy little days of the Ye family

At dawn, Mrs. Ye opened the door and came to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

The breakfast in the Ye family was cooked by Mrs. Ye, who was also a daughter-in-law. At first, she felt sorry for Ye's mother being tortured at night, and she also wanted to hold her grandson as soon as possible, so she specifically told Ye's mother not to get up early to make breakfast.

Later, several babies were born in the family one after another. Mrs. Ye felt sorry for Ye's mother to take care of several babies at night, and wanted her to sleep more. In addition, she woke up early as she got older, so there was no need to embarrass her daughter-in-law. The Ye family Mrs. Ye has always made breakfast.

There is one more important thing before making breakfast, which is to cook pig food. In the words of Mrs. Ye, her eldest grandson cannot starve these little ancestors.

The Ye family has two iron pots, one big and one small. The big one is used to cook pig food. In the pot are cut sweet potato cubes and the pigweed that Mr. Ye brought back yesterday, half sweet potato and half half pigweed.

The little piglets are only two months old and don't eat much. This big pot of pig food is enough for them to eat for a day.

After the fire started, Mrs. Ye put a large piece of wood into it and burned it. After the wood was burned, the pig food was cooked.

After taking care of the pig food, the old lady started to make breakfast. Wash the millet and put it into the pot, add water and start to light the fire. After the fire starts, add two pieces of hard wood.

Then Mrs. Ye cut a golden long pumpkin in half, washed the pumpkin seeds and set them aside, peeled the pumpkin flesh and cut it into small pieces and put it into the pot.

The old pumpkin grown at home is very sweet. Even without adding sugar, the millet pumpkin porridge is still sweet. Several greedy cats at home like to drink pumpkin porridge the most.

The washed pumpkin seeds are put in the yard to dry. The old lady will save the pumpkin seeds at home. Once she has saved one or two kilograms, she can make fragrant fried melon seeds. These fried melon seeds are usually used for entertaining guests. .

When the pumpkin porridge was almost ready, Mrs. Ye started making pancakes. There were some leftover wild onions at home from yesterday. Mrs. Ye washed the wild onions, cut them into chopped green onions, and kneaded them into the smooth dough. Not long after, the fragrant wild onion pancakes were served to the table.

Add a small plate of pickled bamboo shoots some time ago, and a simple breakfast is ready.

As the aroma slowly wafted from the kitchen, the three sleeping children were awakened by the delicious breakfast. They quickly got up to wash up and prepare for breakfast.

At this time, Mr. Ye had already watered the small vegetable garden at the door, and Father Ye also filled the large water tank with water. Ye Mu smelled the aroma of wild onion pancakes and quickly moved quickly to separate the embroidery threads and get ready for breakfast.

Old Mrs. Ye felt sorry for Ye's mother and wouldn't let her get up early to make breakfast. Ye's mother also wanted to reduce the burden on the family. When she got up in the morning, she first prepared the tools for embroidering handkerchiefs, and then divided the embroidery threads. After breakfast, she could directly Start embroidering the veil.

When Ye's mother first married into the Ye family, she wanted to do laundry, cook and serve her parents-in-law, but Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye were both sensible people. Ye Mu's hands are meant for embroidery, not rough work.

Even when the farm was busy, she was not allowed to do the work in the fields, and everyone washed their own clothes. Mother Ye usually only needed lunch and dinner, and spent the rest of the time besides taking care of the children and embroidering handkerchiefs.

After breakfast, Mr. Ye went to the backyard to clean the pig pen, while Mrs. Ye went to the back hill to collect pigweed. Father Ye and the two brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin also went out.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing cleared the dining table, washed the dishes, and then returned to the room to start doing embroidery.

"Mom, come here and help me take a look at the handkerchief this time. Is it a good embroidery? I think this is the best embroidery I've ever done."

Ye Qingqing's handkerchief is embroidered with a picture of butterflies playing. The pattern is relatively simple, but the color matching and composition are quite outstanding.

Ye Mu nodded, "It's indeed good. Compared with the previous ones, this one has more charm."

Yes, Ye Qingqing has been embroidering butterflies continuously for a month. This butterfly pattern uses some basic embroidery techniques. After practicing this embroidery pattern, Ye Qingqing can learn more difficult embroidery techniques.

"Great, I finally passed the test. Mom, when are we going to town to sell embroidery? I have already embroidered ten handkerchiefs here."

This month, except for following Mrs. Ye to dig wild vegetables in the mountains in the evening, Ye Qingqing spent the rest of the time being pressed down by Ye's mother in the room to learn embroidery. She had long wanted to go out to play in the town.

Ye Mu has also embroidered ten handkerchiefs here, but Ye Qingqing's handkerchiefs are not on the same level as those embroidered by Ye Mu.

The handkerchief used by Ye Mu is a fine silk handkerchief, and the needle and thread used are the best gold thread in the town. The butterflies on it are lifelike as if they are about to fly out.

"Butterflies embroidered with gold thread are noble. When can I use gold thread to make embroidery?" Ye Qingqing looked at the delicate and noble handkerchief in Ye Mu's hand and felt extremely envious.

"You still have to learn. Don't look at the high price of this handkerchief embroidered with gold thread, but its cost is also high. If the embroidery is broken, it will be a big loss."

The handkerchief in Ye Mu's hand was paid by Yangjia Embroidery Shop for 200 Wen each, and the cost of the handkerchief was 100 Wen, which means that Ye Mu's wages for making a handkerchief were 100 Wen.

If Ye Mu uses ordinary needles, threads and materials to make a handkerchief, Yangjiaxiu Embroidery Shop will give her a handkerchief of 25 cents at most. After deducting about 10 cents of capital, she can only earn 15 cents from making a handkerchief.

It looked like she was making a lot of money, but Ye's mother also wasted a lot of gold thread before slowly practicing it. Not to mention that she didn't make any money in the first two months, and she also put in a lot of gold thread, but Ye's mother didn't make any money. My mother was heartbroken.

"You have just mastered the embroidery method now. Let's embroider two more handkerchiefs to consolidate it. Then go to the town to sell embroidery during the big market in a few days. By the way, I will buy some fabric and come back to make new clothes for you."

Ye Qingqing and the two brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin all started drawing money. I eat a lot every day, but I don't grow any meat at all. Instead, my body is stretched upwards, and my sleeves and trouser legs are much shorter.

Doing embroidery is very hard on the eyes. Grandma Ye worked as an embroiderer when she was young, but her eyesight was broken before she was 30 years old. Ye Mu paid great attention to rest when doing embroidery. From time to time, she would take Ye Qingqing to walk around together, and occasionally go to the backyard to feed the chickens.

The family raises ten chickens, and they can produce six or seven eggs every day. When Mrs. Ye makes breakfast, she boils three eggs to replenish the health of her three grandchildren, and Mother Ye makes various delicacies with the remaining eggs.

After lunch, Ye's mother and Ye Qingqing continued to do embroidery, while Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye went to their family's land.

Mrs. Ye and Mr. Ye first went to the paddy field at home. They came here carrying pig manure. The pigs raised at home were fertilized with sufficient fertilizer. With the pigs raised at home, the annual output of the paddy field at home was one-third higher than that of others. About one.

After applying fertilizer, the two went to the corn field at home. There was only two acres of corn planted. The food that Ye's family usually eats is rice and corn grown at home.

In addition to rice and corn, the Ye family also grows five acres of sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes have a high yield and are not picky. Every year, the Ye family grows five acres of sweet potatoes, keeping a small part for their own consumption and the rest for feeding the pigs.

Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye are determined not to sell the food grown at home, and keep it all for their own consumption. They eat well, so the three children of the Ye family are much taller than other children of the same age, and they are in good health and seldom get sick.