The happy little days of the Ye family

When Father Ye came back from the county, he and Mr. Ye calculated the income from bacon.

“这次的腊肉一共卖了18两980文，扣除在大山村做腊肉的1280文，总共是赚了17两7钱。”叶父自己也没想到这腊肉能赚这么多钱。

Father Ye then said: "By the way, there are also pig heads, pig's trotters and pig's trotters. Five big pig heads are about 880 yuan, five pairs of pig's pig's trotters are a total of 5 yuan, and the pig's trotters are a total of 150 yuan. This is 160 yuan. "

Mr. Ye: "That is to say, 5 pigs earned 18 taels, 890 wen. This is too much money. If you calculate it again, how much money can you make if you sell these five pigs directly to Butcher Zhang?"

Father Ye fiddled with the small abacus and flew up. After a while, he calculated it, "There are 5 pigs, one weighs 220 kilograms, one weighs 210 kilograms, two pigs weigh 200 kilograms, and the smallest one weighs 190 kilograms. The total is 1020 Butcher Zhang said that these five big fat pigs cost 12 taels per jin, so the total is 12 taels and 240 fen."

The old man patted his thigh, very happy. "That is to say, if we turn the raised pigs into bacon, we can earn more than six taels of silver. Let's raise more pigs for next year."

"I want to raise more piglets. After the Chinese New Year, I will go find out which family has piglets."

"Feng Harvest, how much oil residue did you buy from the oil mill in Crescent Town? The money for this oil residue should be quite a lot, right?"

"The oil residue costs one penny and ten kilograms. In the past six months, I bought about 900 yuan of oil residue. After excluding the money to buy the oil residue, the five pigs made a total of 5 taels and 17 Wen. The difference of 990 cents is 10 taels."

Since the New Year, the Ye family has set up a stall in the town every morning. The Ye family’s New Year pig is killed on the afternoon of the 27th of the new year.

The pig that the Ye family slaughtered weighed about 200 kilograms. Butcher Zhang and the Ye family's father and son spent a lot of effort to hold down the big fat pig and drag it out of the pig pen.

Butcher Zhang took out his silver knife, raised and lowered the knife, and skillfully sent the big fat pig to reunite with his other brothers and sisters.

Mr. Ye handed the wooden bucket containing pig blood to Mrs. Ye aside, saving it for making blood sausage later.

Everyone liked the blood sausage she made last time. Mrs. Ye plans to make more this time. Now that the weather is cold, the food can be stored.

Old Mrs. Ye had already boiled a large pot of hot water. Butcher Zhang skillfully scalded the pig skin to remove the hair, and soon scraped the big fat pig clean.

The fat, white pig was carried onto a long wooden board, and Butcher Zhang cut the fat pig into two parts.

Half of the big fat pig owned by the Ye family was sold to Butcher Zhang, and the remaining half was kept for the family to eat and give as New Year gifts.

The white layer of fat meat made Butcher Zhang more and more happy as he looked at it. Everyone is short of oil and water these days, and their favorite thing is big fat meat.

Butcher Zhang has long been eyeing the big fat pig of the Ye family. The meat that he eats during the Chinese New Year is waiting for the big fat pig of the Ye family.

"Uncle Ye, your pigs are really well raised. Look at how thick the fat is."

Mr. Ye is very proud, "These pigs eat better than humans. They are fed four times a day. If they don't grow more meat, they can't afford to eat so much food."

Butcher Zhang had a handy knife, so Mr. Ye asked Butcher Zhang to cut the half of the Ye family's pig into several large pieces, and then cut six pieces of meat each weighing about a kilogram.

Butcher Zhang wiped the knives one by one and put them away.

Butcher Zhang gave Mr. Ye the money to buy the pig, then he loaded half of the big fat pig onto the cart and pushed it home happily.

Along the way, many villagers saw Butcher Zhang's half-fat pig. Such fat pigs were rare. Butcher Zhang sold a lot of meat on the road.

Most families in the village raise pigs, but there are still a small number of people who do not. Many people go to Butcher Zhang to buy meat.

Mrs. Ye had already planned this half pig of the Ye family. The pig head and offal are used to make braised pork, which will be sold in the town tomorrow.

I will save the pork trotters to make soybean braised pork trotters during the Chinese New Year.

A pig leg was reserved for Ye Mu to use when she returned to her parents' home in the second grade of junior high school. The other pig leg was kept as a New Year gift for Ye’s uncle, who taught Ye’s father how to keep bees.

Keep 4 pounds of pork for New Year gifts, 15 pounds of fresh pork to eat during the Chinese New Year, and the rest will be made into bacon for later consumption.

Mrs. Ye prepared four identical New Year gifts, including one pound of pork, one pound of dried fish, one pound of persimmons and one pound of dried bamboo shoots.

These four annual gifts are for Mrs. Ye’s natal family, Mr. Ye’s sisters, the village chief and Ye’s mother’s natal family. Four identical annual gifts, no one can find fault with them.

In order to thank her cousin for teaching her father the art of beekeeping, Mrs. Ye prepared a large pig leg, a pound of peach cakes, a large dried fish and a pound of red dates as a heavier New Year gift.

Tomorrow will be the 28th of the Lunar New Year. Father Ye and Ye Qiushi will go to give some gifts to Cousin Ye and Uncle Ye tomorrow morning.

As soon as Mother Ye marinated the pig's head and sewer, Grandma Ye brought her granddaughter over to give her a New Year gift.

The New Year's gift from Grandma Ye was a pound of pork, a duck, a pound of peach cakes and a pound of red dates.

As soon as Grandma Ye left, the village chief came over with a basket to give New Year gifts.

Knowing that the Ye family had just killed the New Year pig, the village chief deliberately did not send the meat. Instead, the New Year gifts were an old hen, a pound of red dates, a pound of dried mushrooms and a few apples.

Early the next morning, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye took their two grandsons to the town to set up a stall. After practicing these days, Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin are now able to skillfully deal with the women in town who like to take advantage of them.

Ye Donglin won't go to school next year, so he can just follow Ye's father to set up a stall and work as a salesman. Father Ye is very busy now, and it would be easier to have a little helper.

Father Ye carried the New Year's gifts in large and small packages and rode in Ye Qiushi's donkey cart to deliver New Year's gifts to Cousin Ye and his uncle, and also wished them a happy new year.

The Ye family was quiet, with only Ye's mother and Ye Qingqing at home.

Mother Ye put the New Year's gifts that Mrs. Ye packed yesterday into a basket, and took Ye Qingqing to her parents' house to give the New Year's gifts.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing sat at Grandma Ye's place for a long time. Ye Mu saw that it was getting late, so she sent another New Year's gift to the village chief's house.

When Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing arrived at the village chief's house, only the village chief's daughter-in-law, Li, was at home. Mrs. Li was very enthusiastic and sent Mother Ye a plate of freshly made sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

There are many sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted in the village, and every household makes sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Among them, the sweet-scented osmanthus cake made by the village chief’s wife is the most delicious.

Ye Qingqing was very happy to see the osmanthus cake. The osmanthus cake made by Aunt Li was the most delicious.

Ye Mu took the sweet-scented osmanthus cake home and took Ye Qingqing to the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the village to pick a lot of fresh sweet-scented osmanthus.

In fact, the Ye family also has two sweet-scented osmanthus trees, but Ye’s mother wanted to keep the sweet-scented osmanthus trees to collect nectar for her own bees, so she went to the village to pick the sweet-scented osmanthus trees.