The happy little days of the Ye family

Different from the bustle in the market in the early morning, there are only a few people in the market at this time.

The stall owners who sold the remaining items also began to sell them at reduced prices. The stall owners behind the stalls were shouting hard and trying to attract customers.

Father Ye and his group started shopping at the east end. The east end mainly sells fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as live chickens, ducks and geese. There are also two stalls selling game from the mountains.

Vegetables, fruits, chickens and ducks are all available in the village, which is not unusual. Brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin ran to see the game stall.

One stall sold wild boar meat. The burly uncle chopped up the ribs and handed them to the customers in front of him. At this time, there were only some bones and about two kilograms of ribs left on the stall.

Wild boar meat is leaner and less fatty, and the meat is denser than domestic pork. Therefore, the price of wild boar meat is slightly cheaper than domestic pork.

After some haggling with the stall owner, Mrs. Ye bought all the ribs and bones on the stall. The bones are cooked in soup and noodles at night, and the ribs are marinated and eaten slowly.

Another stall sold pheasants and rabbits. There was also a dead pheasant and two living rabbits on the stall.

The little rabbit was white and shrunk into two small fluffy balls. Ye Qingqing couldn't move his eyes away. Ye Xilin also liked it very much. The two little guys stayed at the stall and refused to leave. He must buy it and take it home to raise.

Wild rabbits are timid and generally cannot be raised. Mrs. Ye saw that the two little rabbits were only the size of Ye Qingqing's fist. She estimated that they would not live for two days after taking them home, so she would not allow them to be raised.

"The mother rabbit is already dead. These two little ones are too small to survive if they are released. It is better to buy them back and raise them for the little ones. Maybe they can survive." The stall owner also wanted to finish selling and go home as soon as possible. I want to convince Mrs. Ye.

"Uncle, how much do these two little rabbits cost?" Ye Qingqing has money herself. If they are not expensive, she will buy them herself.

"One piece costs 5 cents, two pieces cost 8 cents."

In the end, Ye Qingqing bought two cute little rabbits by himself. Why did he buy them by himself? Because Ye Xilin didn't even have a penny in his pocket.

Going down are the grocery stalls, including stalls selling ironware, stalls selling various wood products, stalls selling rouge and gouache, and stalls selling pots, pans, pans and other groceries. Father Ye and the others just set up their stall here.

Father Ye bought two wooden hairpins from a carpenter, one in the style of an orchid and one in the style of a peach blossom. Although the craftsmanship was average, they were well polished and had no burrs at all.

Ye's father gave the orchid-style hairpin to Mrs. Ye, and he personally inserted the peach-blossom-style hairpin into Ye's mother. Ye's mother blushed and asked her daughter if she looked good.

When Mr. Ye saw his father helping Mrs. Ye tie the hairpin, he immediately helped Mrs. Ye tie the hairpin.

Mrs. Ye and Mother Ye were in a good mood, and the family continued to visit the market while talking and laughing.

Almost all of the remaining stalls sell food, including steaming big steamed buns, fragrant little wontons, sesame cakes and pancakes sold while being baked... and the stalls selling candied haws and sugar paintings are the ones with the most people. , little kids in a circle.

Today is a big market, and everyone is tired and hungry from shopping. There are obviously more people at these food stalls than at the stalls selling agricultural products and groceries in front.

Father Ye and Mother Ye originally planned to go to a restaurant to have a good meal, but the children at home were reluctant to leave. The fragrant snacks on the roadside were more attractive than the feast in the restaurant.

Father Ye had no choice but to take a few people to a wonton stall. Seeing that the wontons here were not big, Father Ye ordered a bowl of small wontons with meat for each person.

At this time, the owner of the wonton shop was so busy that the rolling pin banged on the chopping board, and the white and fat little wontons kept rolling in the soup pot.

After ordering the wontons, Father Ye gave each little guy ten cents and asked them to buy their favorite snacks.

Ye Xilin immediately jumped up and ran to the stall selling sugar figures, Ye Qingqing also happily ran to the stall selling fried cakes, and Ye Donglin went to the stall selling sesame cakes.

Ye Xilin was born in the year of the pig, so he asked the stall owner to draw a big fat pig. He took the candy painting with the big fat pig and went to the stall next door to buy half a catty of roasted chestnuts.

There was half a pot of scalding hot oil in the huge iron pot, crispy little twists, and big soft dough sticks, which made Ye Qingqing's mouth water.

As the richest child in the Ye family, Ye Qingqing boldly bought four large fried dough sticks and a pound of small twists.

The meat inside the sesame cake is roasted with fat, and both sides are fried until golden and crispy. You can tell it is delicious just by smelling it. Ye Donglin spent all the money he had on buying sesame cakes, and soon the 13-year-old boy's stomach was like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much he ate, he couldn't get enough.

When the stall owner brought the wontons over, the table was already filled with various snacks.

"These chestnuts are delicious. When I go to the mountains to pick chestnuts in autumn, mother, please make sugar-roasted chestnuts for me." Ye Xilin, a foodie, is already thinking about roasted chestnuts for his next meal.

"We'll wait until you get the chestnuts back." Mother Ye ate the small twists Ye Qingqing bought and had no time to talk to him.

"This sesame seed cake is good, fragrant and crispy." Mr. Ye likes the sesame seed cakes that Ye Donglin bought.

Father Ye tore the fried dough sticks into small pieces and soaked them in the wonton soup. The crispy fried dough sticks were filled with soup, making them even more delicious.

Several people were sweating profusely after eating, and everything on the table was devoured.

After eating and drinking, the family rested for a while before driving the donkey cart back home slowly.

Father Ye and Mr. Ye were driving the donkey cart outside. Mother Ye and Mrs. Ye were sitting in the donkey cart with several children.

Unable to wait to get home, Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing started counting coins on the donkey cart.

"1 Wen, 2 Wen, 3 Wen... 161 Wen, 162 Wen, milk, 60 hair ties and headbands sold for a total of 162 Wen."

"Yes, that's the number. Each of us has 81 cents."

Old Mrs. Ye counted 81 copper coins with a smile on her face and happily put them into her purse. Ye Qingqing also smiled and put the remaining copper coins into his purse.

Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin on the side could only watch helplessly as their grandfather and grandson counted the money.

Ye Qingqing saw that the brothers were a little pitiful, so he generously gave five cents to each of them. Ye Donglin was a little shy, so he accepted the pocket money from his sister with a blushing face.

"You are still young, there will be opportunities to make money in the future." Mother Ye gently touched the little heads of Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin.

"Hey, people in this town are rich, let's make more colorful hairbands and headbands, and make them more styles."

"It is indeed more cost-effective to make colorful ones. We will think about it when we go back and come up with a few more styles."

Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing are gearing up and preparing to go back and have a big fight.

Ye’s mother felt that this business could last for a long time. In order to support her grandfather and grandson, Ye’s mother specially provided them with the large piece of cloth she cut today for free.

Mrs. Ye was very happy, and Ye Qingqing even hugged her mother happily.

After returning home, Ye's father couldn't wait to take Ye's mother back to his room to count the money. Father Ye poured all the money he had earned in the past two days on the bed, and the two began to count it.

"Excluding the unsold items, I made a total of 3923 coins in the past two days, of which 3300 coins were money for white silk and patterned fabrics, and 623 coins were money earned from buying goods." Mother Ye counted the money and felt that Father Ye had been cheated by the grocery store. Getting laid off is a really good thing.

Father Ye kept the capital and the money he earned separately. "The white silk and patterned fabrics are defective fabrics bought at the dock. This depends on luck and does not happen often. This does not count for the time being. Just look at the money earned from setting up a stall." Less."

In just two days, he earned a month's wages. Father Ye was very happy and planned to bring in more things next time.

"Next time I go to the county, I can buy more things. During the big market, I will go to the town to set up a stall. At other times, I will go to nearby villages to collect mountain goods and sell things on the way."

Although this period of time was very tiring, Father Ye felt it was worth it and he already planned to take his eldest son to do it together next year.