The happy little days of the Ye family

"Dad, why don't you work with me to collect mountain goods?"

The more Father Ye thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible. Dashan Village was surrounded by mountains, and there were a lot of wild animals and prey there. He would definitely be too busy to do it alone. Mr. Ye is experienced and capable. If father and son cooperate, they will get twice the result with half the effort.

"It's not impossible." Mr. Ye thought for a moment and said.

Although collecting mountain products is not as profitable as collecting mountain products in Xiaohoushan, it is easy, and there are much more mountain products in Dashan Village than in Xiaohoushan.

"I'll go back and discuss it with your mother."

Mr. Ye has already made up his mind to collect mountain goods with his son, but he still has to go back and talk to Mrs. Ye.

"The bacon and honeysuckle collected this time cost a total of eight taels of silver. How much are there in total?" Father Ye turned around and asked while driving the donkey cart.

"Let me take a look!" Mr. Ye took out the book he just registered.

"86 kilograms of honeysuckle, 80 kilograms of cured wild boar, 30 kilograms of cured pheasant, and 48 kilograms of cured hare. How much did you sell the bacon at the dock last time?"

The weather is getting hot soon, and we won’t be able to make bacon later. This should be the last batch or two of bacon this year, so we can’t sell it too cheap.

"The cured wild boar is 35 Wen per catty, the cured pheasant and the cured hare are 24 Wen per catty." In fact, after Ye's father came back, he also felt that the price was cheap, but it was just once and he had no experience.

"It's cheaper. The bacon in Dashan Village has a lot of spices added, so the cost is a little higher than ordinary bacon. Are the bacon from other stalls on the pier the same price?" Mr. Ye asked again.

"There was no bacon on the dock the day I went there, but I asked other stall owners and they all had the same price. However, the bacon sold by others before was not as good as ours." Father Ye is getting more and more at a loss now.

Mr. Ye took out a piece of bacon, a rabbit and a pheasant from the donkey cart. Just smelling the smell made the father and son drool.

"This bacon has been marinated with a lot of spices. I fried it last time at home. A few bastards still remember it and clamor for it all day long." In fact, Mr. Ye himself was also greedy.

Mr. Ye thought for a while and said: "Let's do this. If you buy more than 20 kilograms, the wild boar will be 36 cents per catty, and the pheasant and wild rabbit will be 25 cents per catty. If you buy less than 20 kilograms, you will be charged an extra penny per catty."

"Okay, then sell it at this price."

"There are dried bamboo shoots at home, go back and ask your wife to make fried dried bamboo shoots with bacon." Thinking of the fragrant fried dried bamboo shoots with bacon, Mr. Ye is getting hungry.

"I still know how to eat it. These dried bamboo shoots and bacon are a perfect match. Leave two kilograms of cured wild boar meat, a rabbit and a pheasant to eat at home."

Thinking that he would be able to eat delicious bacon and stir-fried bamboo shoots when he returned home, Father Ye happily slapped the donkey pulling the cart a few more times.

"Why did you bring so many things back? There's more than five taels of silver here, right?" Mother Ye asked curiously after seeing so much honeysuckle and bacon.

"After receiving the goods, half of the money, 5 taels, was used up. Dad gave 3 taels of silver. There are a total of eight taels of things here." Worried that Ye's mother would be angry, Ye's father looked at Ye's mother cautiously.

"A lot of bacon! Mom, let's make bacon and stir-fry bamboo shoots tonight."

Ye Qingqing, who was making hair ties with Mrs. Ye in the house, smelled the scent of bacon and ran out quickly.

"Okay, okay, let's make bacon and fried bamboo shoots tonight." Mother Ye pinched the little greedy cat Ye Qingqing's chubby little face.

Ye's father took a piece of cured wild boar meat about two kilograms from the donkey cart, and also picked out a fat rabbit and a fat pheasant, and handed them to Ye's mother to put them away.

Ye Qingqing, the greedy cat, followed Mother Ye to the kitchen.

Mr. Ye looked at the mushrooms and dried bamboo shoots drying in the yard. They were almost dry.

"The weather has been good these two days. The dried bamboo shoots and dried mushrooms on the first day have been dried. How about taking the mountain products at home and the things collected today to the county tomorrow to sell them?" Mr. Ye looked at Father Ye and said. .

"Okay, you can take the remaining dried bamboo shoots to the county later with the mountain products from Dashan Village and sell them in the county." Father Ye quickly went to take out the family's ancestral pig weighing scale.

"16 kilograms of bamboo fungus, 76 kilograms of dried mushrooms, 756 kilograms of dried bamboo shoots, and 6 kilograms of dried fungus." Mr. Ye never expected that he would have so many dry goods stored at home without even realizing it.

Mother Ye brought a bowl of water to Mr. Ye and Mr. Ye. There were too many things. After weighing the mountain goods, Mr. Ye and Mr. Ye were already sweating profusely from exhaustion.

After finishing the headband on her hands, Mrs. Ye ran out in a hurry. "Good harvest. Are the hair ties and headbands Qingqing and I made sold out?"

"I sold most of them. I took 40 sticks to Dashan Village and there are still about ten sticks left. Here, I sold 54 coins in total."

Father Ye handed the remaining hairbands, headbands and copper plates to Mrs. Ye.

Old Mrs. Ye looked at the remaining headbands and headbands and found that most of them were colored. The solid-color ones were almost sold out, but thinking about it, not many people in the village were willing to buy headbands and headbands for their daughters.

"Mom, dad and I plan to go to the pier tomorrow to sell the local products and the things we collected today. I will also take the hairbands and headbands you and Qingqing made to the pier to sell them."

Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing have made hundreds of hair ties and headbands during this period, and they will definitely not be able to sell them all in the town.

"Okay, Qingqing and I will sort it out and bring it to you later." After saying that, he went to pull Ye Qingqing, who was eating secretly in the kitchen, back into the house.

Not long after, the grandfather and grandson came to find Ye's father with a lot of colorful headbands and hairbands.

"Dad, this is a solid-color headband. This is a solid-color headband. There are 220 of them in total. They cost 2 cents each."

"There are two kinds of colorful hair ties, 160 in total. These are sold for 5 cents each."

"There are three types of colorful headbands. The ones with bows and small balls cost 5 cents each, a total of 165. The headbands with small flowers cost 50 cents each. There are 8 headbands in total."

"Your little workshop does a great job."

Father Ye looked at these colorful hairbands and headbands. They were no worse than those sold in the county.

"In this way, for more than 100 sticks, the price you just mentioned will be the same. For less than 100 sticks, add one penny for each stick."

Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing haven't gone out to play much recently in order to make these headbands and hairbands. Father Ye still feels sorry for them.

After Ye Mu prepared the meal, Mrs. Ye asked Ye Mu to bring a bowl of bacon and stir-fried bamboo shoots to her family, and she also borrowed a donkey cart. There are so many things that one donkey cart is not enough.

When Ye Mu went out, her bowl was filled with fried bacon and dried bamboo shoots, and when she came back, her bowl was filled with pheasant and stewed mushrooms.

"You kid, I asked you to deliver food, but why did you come back with a bowl of pheasant stewed with mushrooms?"

"My father caught this pheasant in the back mountain. There is also a nest of pheasant eggs, a total of ten."

"My father-in-law is really lucky."

Early the next morning, Mr. Ye and his father drove a donkey cart to the county dock.

There was a lot of stuff this time, so Father Ye rented two adjacent stalls.

Mr. Ye and Father Ye arranged the things they brought one by one on the stall.