The happy little days of the Ye family

Ye Donglin drove a donkey cart to Juren Alley with a cart full of fresh vegetables, fruits and various grains.

At this time, people in the alley had already gotten up, smoke was floating from every house, and there was a lot of people around.

The most lively one is the small shop selling breakfast in the alley. It has three floors inside and three floors outside, and is crowded with people queuing up to buy breakfast.

Those who are willing to spend money on breakfast these days are generally from poor families, and most of them are well-dressed people.

Many of them are familiar faces who come to the grocery store to buy food.

Ye Donglin drove the donkey cart and looked up into the alley. A little boy with dark skin and a round figure ran towards him.

The little guy looked to be only four or five years older than Xiao Qi. He held a pancake in one hand and a small book bag in the other as he trotted over, not forgetting to take two bites of the pancake.

Looking at the scholar running all the way with breakfast, Ye Donglin seemed to see Xiao Qi in the future.

"This little bastard is lazy and loves to eat. It seems like something he can do. We need to keep an eye on him from now on."

The Ye family is now considered a small landowner and is in urgent need of a child or scholar to protect the family property.

Xiao Qi, who was playing in the mud at home, didn't know that Ye Donglin had already arranged a lot of books for him before he went to the academy to study.

In the alley, in addition to the scholars rushing to the academy, there were also men rushing to work, and women carrying vegetable baskets to buy vegetables.

Everyone is busy with their own things, full of fireworks.

As soon as Ye Donglin opened the door of the grocery store, two familiar women came into the store.

"Aunt Hu, Aunt Yang, it's so early today." Ye Donglin greeted the two of them enthusiastically.

Mrs. Hu smiled and said: "It's getting earlier and earlier now, but you have to get up early. Are there any fresh vegetables today?"

"There are a lot of wild vegetables today, and there are also freshly grown lettuce and lettuce. They are all very fresh and juicy."

As he spoke, Ye Xilin brought in two baskets of vegetables from the donkey cart.

"Chinese toon costs 5 yuan a bundle, and other vegetables cost two yuan a bundle. The two aunts can choose whatever they want."

Seeing the first batch of fresh wild vegetables, Hu and Yang's eyes lit up, and they quickly walked over and picked them up.

Hu's family has three sons, plus his parents-in-law, daughter-in-law and grandchildren, there are a dozen people in his family.

I picked two bundles of Chinese toon and three large bundles of fresh wild vegetables in one go.

I also ordered 3 eggs, so I could make scrambled eggs with Chinese toon at noon.

Mrs. Hu stood up and looked around the grocery store, and finally picked out two crucian carp and a few pieces of tender tofu, preparing to make crucian carp and tofu soup at noon.

Ye Donglin took the abacus and fiddled with it.

"Chinese toon costs 5 cents a bundle, and other wild vegetables cost 2 cents a bundle. This is 16 cents, eggs cost 3 cents, tofu costs 3 cents, and crucian carp costs 10 cents. The total is 32 cents."

Mrs. Hu counted the copper plate in her hand twice before reluctantly placing it on the table.

Yang, who was behind him, spent a long time choosing, and finally got only a bunch of water celery and a bunch of lettuce.

In fact, there are quite a few people in Yang's family, but she has always been stingy.

In addition, I spent a lot of money during the Chinese New Year, so I only wanted two bundles of vegetables, and I was not even willing to spend money on eggs.

You can buy less vegetables, but you have to buy less food. Li gritted her teeth and ordered another 5 pounds of cornmeal and 10 pounds of sweet potatoes.

Ye Donglin sent the two of them out of the door, and then many women came to the shop one after another to buy vegetables.

At the beginning of spring, before the vegetables had time to grow, the wild vegetables sent by Ye Pingan were particularly popular.

Almost everyone who came in had a handful of wild vegetables. In just half an hour, most of the various wild vegetables they brought had been sold.

However, the fresh vegetables seem to be a good business, but the vegetables are all taken from other people's hands. In fact, the profit is very low.

The profits of vegetables and grains are not high, but small profits but quick turnover, and it can also build popularity for the grocery store, are still good.

Without these two things, the business of the grocery store would probably be a lot worse.

When Wang Chunyu delivered the freshly baked roast chicken and duck, the grocery store was at its busiest.

Now that the Lantern Festival has just passed, everyone has little money, and during this period, the family has eaten a lot of good food, and they are no longer craving for meat.

Roast duck and chicken, which have always been popular, have become less popular now, and no one has even taken a look at them after being there for a long time.

Wang Chunyu walked over to the shelf where the pastries were placed and took a look. He found that one-third of the pastries he had brought over in the morning, except for the cheapest pumpkin hair cake and brown sugar hair cake, had been sold.

The more expensive crystal pastry cakes were sold for less than a quarter.

Seeing that the business in the grocery store was not good, Wang Chunyu did not rush back. Instead, he helped Ye Donglin while carefully observing the situation in the grocery store.

Grains and vegetables are necessary every day, and they are no different from before.

However, there are far fewer people buying live fish, seasonings, drinks, cakes and other high-priced dry goods.

And even if you want to buy it, you only buy a little bit, not a large amount.

After the vegetables in the shop were sold out, the grocery store suddenly became deserted.

Wang Chunyu opened the drawer on the counter. It was full of copper plates and there were very few broken silver.

There seems to be a lot of copper plates in this drawer, but if the cost is excluded, the profit in it is only about 40 cents at most, which is more than half less than usual.

Wang Chunyu looked at the almost untouched roast duck and chicken on the shelf and sighed inwardly.

The young couple sat at the counter and discussed whether there was any way to make the business better.

Wang Chunyu is good at making pastries, and the methods he comes up with are also related to pastries.

"Our pastries have been sold for a long time, and everyone may be tired of them. I will research some new pastries as soon as possible."

In fact, before the Chinese New Year, the two of them noticed that the sales of cakes in the grocery store were getting worse and worse.

But Wang Chunyu was still in confinement at that time and had no time to research new pastries.

Two days ago, Wang Chunyu just got out of confinement and got into the kitchen. It's a pity that the two pastries I tried were unsuccessful.

Either it tasted bad, or the cost was too high, which made Wang Chunyu feel a little irritable.

Ye Donglin held his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly suggested:

"I seem to still have some hawthorns at home. Before it gets too hot, I thought I might as well make some candied haws to sell. There are still a lot of children in this alley."

Wang Chunyu patted the table excitedly, "The candied haws on a stick is good. The hawthorns are picked in the mountains. There are no other costs except sugar. I will make candied haws on a stick when I go back later."

Apart from pastries and candied haws, the two of them could not think of any other better way.

After all, this is the off-season, and everyone has no money, so naturally they won’t spend more money to buy things.

There was no good way to change the situation, so Ye Donglin and Wang Chunyu decided to halve the number of pastries, roast duck and chicken they made every day.

After all, the cost of these things is not low. If you don't go out, you will lose money.

Business at the grocery store has been slow recently. When he returned to the village, Wang Chunyu went to the Wang family first.

I explained to Wang Daqiang and others that the business of roast ducks and chickens is not good now, and the number of ducks and chickens to be killed in the future has been reduced by half.