The happy little days of the Ye family

Before buying New Year goods, a few people went to Yangjia Cloth Store and Chenjia Cloth Store and bought a lot of embroidery thread and embroidery cloth, which will be used to make embroidery after the new year.

After buying these, a few people started buying new year's goods.

Ye's mother and others came to a pastry shop. Second aunt tied the donkey cart under the tree at the door of the pastry shop, and they entered the pastry shop together.

As soon as we entered the door, a clever little boy came up and greeted us: "What do the guests want to buy? We have pastries, candies and various dried fruits."

"Brother, please introduce some cheap pastries and dried fruits to us." Seeing that the brother had a good attitude, Grandma Ye directly told a few people's requests.

When I heard Grandma Ye say that she only wanted cheap pastries and dried fruits, the little brother was still very enthusiastic and started to introduce it to a few people with a smile.

"These are red bean cakes and mung bean cakes, both cost 15 cents per catty. This is osmanthus cake, made with glutinous rice flour and fresh osmanthus, costing 20 cents per catty. This is peach cake, made with eggs, flour and sugar. People in the county like to use it to entertain guests, but the raw materials are relatively expensive, costing 25 Wen per pound."

After the boy finished talking about the pastries, he led a few people to the other side of the room.

"The ones here are dried fruits. The most common ones are peach, apricot and green plum preserves. These three kinds cost 25 cents per pound. Although they sound expensive, the preserved fruits don't weigh on the scale. You can eat a pound of preserved fruits." It’s been a long time.”

Ye Mu knows how to make sweet-scented osmanthus cakes. She planned to go back and pick some fresh sweet-scented osmanthus to make her own. She only ordered 3 pounds of peach cakes. Preserved Fruits Ye Qingqing picked a pound of preserved peaches and a pound of preserved green plums.

Ye Mu’s osmanthus cake was taught by Grandma Ye. Grandma Ye also planned to go back and make her own osmanthus cake. She ordered 2 pounds of peach cakes and a pound of preserved peaches. My second cousin liked to eat preserved green plums, so Grandma Ye ordered another pound of preserved green plums.

After coming out of the pastry shop, they went to the medicine shop. They often make braised food at home, and seasoning ingredients are indispensable. Mother Ye asked for a large bag of aniseed ingredients for making braised food, and Grandma Ye also asked for some aniseed ingredients commonly used in cooking.

Fabrics and cotton have already been made into cotton-padded jackets and bedding. Firecrackers, red lanterns, couplets, and sugar candies, etc., Ye’s father bought a lot of goods from the county, and these can be taken directly from Ye’s father’s goods.

After buying pastries and ingredients for cooking, it seemed that there was nothing left for them to buy. They stood on the roadside and stared. In the end, Grandma Ye spoke up and went to eat first.

A few people found a small noodle shop and ordered 5 bowls of egg noodle soup. The weather is cold, so eating a steaming bowl of egg noodles is so comforting.

The noodles are very chewy and the soup base is good, but it's a bit expensive, costing 9 cents a bowl.

Ye Qingqing was addicted to the ghost story there last time. After eating egg noodles, Ye Qingqing asked to go shopping in the bookstore. Mother Ye and Grandma Ye agreed when they saw that nothing happened.

In Xiaonian, every household was cleaned and a lot of old books were cleared out. When Ye Qingqing and others came to the bookstore, the shopkeeper and his assistant were sorting out the old books collected in the past two days.

Ye Qingqing's eyes lit up when he saw the two piles of old books. The shopkeeper happened to recognize Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu and enthusiastically invited several people to come and pick out books.

"In the past two days, the shop has collected a lot of old books, including picture albums, storybooks, travel notes, and other miscellaneous books. You can choose whatever books you want."

"This pile is all in good condition, and only costs 50 yuan a book at half price. The pile next to it has some damage, but it doesn't affect viewing, and it costs 30 yuan a book. Please be careful when rummaging through it, and don't mix up the books. ”

When Grandma Ye and her second aunt heard that these old books cost 30 yuan or 50 yuan each, they wanted to leave immediately. However, seeing that Ye Qingqing and her daughter had already started reading, Grandma Ye could only glare at her house. The prodigal daughter.

Ye Mu wanted a picture album, and she was looking through the pile of intact books. After some searching, Ye Mu actually found an embroidery pattern album. The embroidery patterns in it were more complicated than the embroidery patterns that Ye Mu usually used. A few, but very nice.

This book probably came from some wealthy family or embroidery thread. It was cheap to Ye Mu. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy such an embroidery album.

Mother Ye showed the picture album to Grandma Ye who was standing aside to look at it, and continued to look through it to see if there were any other good things.

Grandma Ye and her second aunt were a little bored waiting, and casually looked through the picture album in their hands. Unexpectedly, it was an embroidery sample. Grandma Ye quickly covered the picture album and signaled her aunt not to speak, for fear that the shopkeeper would find out that the book was a good thing.

Grandma Ye held the book in her arms and took her second aunt to help Ye's mother find a picture album.

Ye Qingqing took her cousin to read on the other side. The pile of books they looked through were all priced at 30 yuan each. Since the prices were the same, Ye Qingqing picked thick books to read and learned from Mrs. Ye's careful calculation. very good.

Ye Qingqing was very lucky to find a collection of stories and a collection of travel notes among those unusually thick books.

Ye Qingqing liked to read both travel notes and story books. He happily put the two books aside and continued to read other thinner books.

The two piles of books totaled sixty or seventy books, and Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing were dazzled by the selection.

Ye Qingqing had just sold her embroidery and had money in hand. She magnanimously asked for five of the thickest books. They had more pen and ink and paper, so they were worth more.

5 books, one of which is a collection of travel notes and the other is a collection of story books. These two books were carefully selected by Ye Qingqing. Ye Qingqing just browsed the remaining three books casually. They were probably travel notes and stories. Ben and the like.

In addition to the embroidery pattern album they had just found, Mother Ye and Grandma Ye also found a picture album, which contained various flowers and flowers in different states.

This picture album was found by the second aunt, who asked for it, and they planned to exchange it.

Mother Ye flipped through the pile of books, and then noticed that this little girl Ye Qingqing actually picked 5 thick books, and joked: "Your mother will praise you for being smart when she sees them."

Ye Qingqing was not embarrassed at all, and said proudly: "Pen, ink and paper are so expensive, of course I have to buy thick ones, and what I want are story books and travel notes. I can read them anyway."

Grandma Ye felt that what her granddaughter said made sense, "Qingqing is right, pens, ink and paper are so expensive. Yueya, you know how to read, help your brother and your brother pick two books."

Then he said: "I'll buy you a copy too."

The old lady also made several taels of silver from selling silk flowers and patterns these two times. In addition, she just found two good picture albums, and she was willing to buy books for her grandchildren.

"Milk, I have money, I can buy it myself."

Ye Qingqing's second cousin also studied in a school in the village. When her second aunt saw Ye Donglin coming back from school every day, she taught Ye Qingqing how to read. She also asked her eldest son to teach her daughter and younger son how to read.

The cost of going to school is so high, so if I teach the two younger children to share the tuition equally, my second aunt is not so worried about the tuition fees, and she pressures her older son to help the two younger ones learn to read every day.

Several people browsed in the bookstore for almost an hour and finally picked out 11 books.