The happy little days of the Ye family

Fruit is rare, and every household in the village will plant two or three fruit trees in the yard.

Jujube trees, persimmon trees, and pomegranate trees can be seen everywhere in the village. Every summer, the fruit trees bloom, and the village is filled with the fragrance of flowers.

The little bees that have made their home in Ye's house have been circling on various fruit trees every day since they settled down in Ye's house. The honey in the beehive is getting more and more every day.

Father Ye even goes to Xiaohoushan every few days to check on the condition of the beehives.

The tiny buds of the 20 acres of honeysuckle planted first are in full bloom. The industrious little bees come in and out several times a day, accumulating a large amount of honey in the beehives.

There is no need to worry about the beehives on the top of the mountain. The flowers of the two huge date trees alone are enough to keep the bees busy in this box, not to mention there are several fruit trees nearby.

Father Ye's business as a salesman has almost stabilized. There are six big markets a month in the town. At each big market, the Ye family will go to the market to set up stalls. In addition to the previous groceries, they also sell braised pork.

Every time there is a big gathering, Ye’s father will braise a pot full of braised pork, which includes a pair of pig offal, four pig trotters, a pig tail and a big pig head.

The day before the big market, Ye’s father would go to the county to purchase goods and bring a pot of braised pork to the dock to sell.

The braised pork sold on the pier is also a pig's water, with four pig's trotters, a pig's tail and a big pig's head.

Ye's father made an agreement with the owner of the pork stall, and he helped Ye's father save the things in advance, and the meat was also delivered to Ye's house.

Ye's father also learned how to make braised pork from Ye's mother, freeing Ye's mother, and Ye's mother had more time to do embroidery.

Except for the two days of the big market and going to the county to pick up goods, Father Ye drove his donkey cart to various villages to sell goods during the rest of the time. Occasionally, he would also collect some things made by the villagers and help sell them on his behalf.

During the busy farming season, every household is busy at home, and the villagers haven't gone to the market for a long time. Father Ye's salesman's business is very prosperous during this period.

The second batch of dried fish was also sold in various villages.

Mr. Ye is busy working in Xiaohoushan and taking care of his family's fields every day.

The dozens of ducks he raised before weighed two or three kilograms. Every day, Mr. Ye would take the ducks to the creek in Xiaohou Mountain.

The little ducks will find food in the creek by themselves, which saves trouble and food. Every time Mrs. Ye sees these little ducks, she smiles from ear to ear.

The taste of summer bamboo shoots is much worse than that of spring bamboo shoots, and the quantity is also smaller. Every time Mr. Ye goes to Xiaohoushan, he will dig up a basket of bamboo shoots and take them home. These bamboo shoots are made into dried bamboo shoots by Mrs. Ye.

Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing's headwear workshops have also stabilized.

Ye Qingqing also needs to do embroidery, and can only allocate a small amount of time every day to make some expensive colorful hairbands and headbands.

In addition to working in the small vegetable garden at home, Mrs. Ye spends the rest of her time making hair accessories.

Ye Mu is busy doing embroidery every day, and the large embroidery picture in her hand is only half finished.

Brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin go to school every day. After school, they go to Xiaohoushan to play with their friends and shoot pigweed.

Everyone in the Ye family has their own things to do, and everyone is busy happily and diligently.

One month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the grain at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain is about to be harvested.

There are about 4 or 4 acres of sloping land in Xiaohou Mountain. Father Ye has planted 2 acres of soybeans, [-] acres of corn, and [-] acres of sweet potatoes. Only a few acres of land near the stream are still empty.

Old Mrs. Ye originally wanted to keep a few acres of land near the creek to grow wild vegetables, but now the wild vegetables in the town cannot be sold at a high price, and it is not cost-effective to go to the county to sell wild vegetables. Father Ye plans to plant these fields with grain or rape. .

The ten acres of grain in Xiaohoushan would probably take more than ten days to be harvested by the Ye family alone. Father Ye didn't want his family to work so hard, so he specially invited a few strong men in the village to help harvest the grain.

Father Ye grew up in the village. He knew who was good at work and who was cheating and cheating, and the people he selected were all capable.

It took a few people five days to collect the food in Xiaohoushan.

After the soybeans were harvested, they were exposed to the sun on the drying field. The summer sun was so fierce that they dried out in three or four days, and the beans inside fell from the pods.

After drying, use a big wooden stick to beat the soybean vines hard to remove the soybeans inside the pods.

A total of 4 kilograms of soybeans were harvested from 1000 acres of land.

Just break off the corn and dry it in the sun. After drying the corn in 4 acres of land, it weighs 2500 kilograms. If you rub the corn kernels and grind them into cornmeal, it will weigh about 1400 kilograms.

The sweet potatoes are grown in the sandy land near the creek, and the yield is pretty good. More than 2000 kilograms of sweet potatoes were harvested from just two acres of land.

These lands in Xiaohoushan were all opened up this year. The fertility of the land itself is not enough, so it is normal for the yield to be low.

The rice, corn and sweet potatoes harvested by the family before were enough to feed the family. Father Ye and Mr. Ye planned to sell this batch of grain in Xiaohoushan.

Mr. Ye wants to make corn into cornmeal and then sell it. This way the price will be higher, which is more cost-effective than selling corn cobs directly.

Old Mrs. Ye found a few nuns in the village to help with the corn grinding. Several old ladies sat around, grinding the corn and chatting about various gossips in the village.

This job is almost like playing. Every day, I chat happily about various gossips in the village, and I can earn 20 yuan a day. The aunts and aunts who were not selected regretted not being friends with Mrs. Ye.

It took several old ladies two days to grind out all the corn, and Ye's father used the family's donkey to grind all the corn into cornmeal.

Ye's father came to the town with 400 kilograms of cornmeal. Instead of selling the corn directly to the grain store, Ye's father drove a donkey cart to sell cornmeal to various restaurants in the town.

Generally, when a grain store goes to the village to collect grain, cornmeal costs 5 cents per catty. But when buying grain from a grain store, cornmeal costs 6 cents per catty.

The cornmeal that Ye's father sells to restaurants is half a penny cheaper than that sold in grain stores, and most restaurants are willing to buy Ye's father's corn.

In less than half a day, Father Ye sold out all the 400 kilograms of cornmeal he brought.

Father Ye took the remaining 1000 kilograms of cornmeal to the county and sold it to various restaurants and roadside pancake stalls in the county.

The food in the county was half a cent more expensive than in the town. Father Ye sold all the cornmeal he had at six cents a pound.

Cornmeal from four acres of land was sold for a total of 8200 wen.

Sweet potatoes are not picky and have a large yield. Every household in the village will grow some sweet potatoes. The price of sweet potatoes is low, and you can buy two kilograms for one penny.

Mr. Ye felt that the price was too low and was unwilling to sell them cheaply, so he put all the recovered sweet potatoes in the cellar and kept them to feed the pigs.

The six pigs at home are well-fed and chubby, much bigger than the other pigs in the village.

After collecting the grain, Father Ye asked a few people to plow the ground. On the four acres of land originally planted with soybeans, Father Ye planted corn.

On the land originally planted with corn, Ye's father plans to plant rapeseed in early autumn, so that there will be rapeseed flowers for bees to collect nectar from late autumn to late winter.

The few acres of land near the creek are planted with rapeseed in late autumn. The rapeseed planted later will bloom from winter to early spring.