The happy little days of the Ye family

After lunch, Father Ye and Mother Ye were going back. The eldest uncle and the second uncle also have to accompany the aunts back to their parents' home.

The Ye family brothers made an appointment with their eldest cousin, second cousin and younger cousin to dig winter bamboo shoots in the back mountain to earn some pocket money.

The five young boys were carrying baskets on their backs and hoes, and they were excitedly preparing for a big fight. They wanted to move all the winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest home.

The price of winter bamboo shoots is high, so many people in the village come to the bamboo forest to dig winter bamboo shoots. However, digging for winter bamboo shoots requires skill, and even a layman may not be able to dig a single winter bamboo shoot in half a day.

Every year when the winter solstice arrives, people from the village come to the bamboo forest in droves to dig winter bamboo shoots. At first, almost half of the village came.

Many people don't know how to dig or don't have the patience. The number of people digging winter bamboo shoots is getting fewer and fewer every day. By the few days before the Chinese New Year, almost no one comes to dig winter bamboo shoots.

The bamboo forest had just rested for a few days when it was destroyed by several teenagers.

Ye Donglin was very excited and kept talking on the road. "Uncle Erlin is the best at finding winter bamboo shoots. He said there are two tips for digging winter bamboo shoots."

"Generally, if the soil on the surface is loose or has cracks, and the ground feels soft when you step on it, there will usually be winter bamboo shoots. We will dig in the ground with cracks later."

"Look for bamboo whips around bamboos with black and yellow leaves. When you dig out bamboo shoots with sharp shoots, if you run into a young whip and chase after it, there will definitely be winter bamboo shoots when the old whip digs forward."

The other four young boys listened very carefully. After all, if you want to make money by digging winter bamboo shoots, you have to dig winter bamboo shoots.

Each of the five young boys took their handy tools and dug where they thought there might be winter bamboo shoots.

Some people found big winter bamboo shoots in the first dig, while others dug several places in a row without seeing the shadow of winter bamboo shoots, so they went to dig in other places while cursing.

The five young boys dug for two hours in a row, and the ground was dug into pits. Ye Donglin looked at the two lonely winter bamboo shoots in the basket and was a little discouraged. These winter bamboo shoots were too hard to find.

The eldest cousin saw that it was still early, so he hurried back to the few people who were reluctant to leave the winter bamboo shoots.

My eldest cousin was older and had dug winter bamboo shoots before, and he was very strong. He dug out the most winter bamboo shoots. The winter bamboo shoots in the half-carrying basket weighed ten to eight pounds.

The winter bamboo shoots dug by the second cousin and Ye Xilin were about the same, about six or seven kilograms each.

The second cousin started to take care of the fields with his second uncle last year, and he dug spring bamboo shoots a lot. It was not unusual to find so many winter bamboo shoots, but Ye Xilin was just lucky.

Ye Donglin and Cousin Ye, who had only two winter bamboo shoots, were very envious of Ye Xilin. They were still discussing how to find winter bamboo shoots along the way.

The two idiots didn't think about it. Is it possible that the other party's method was wrong? You should find powerful people to learn from. What's the use of two people who don't know how to discuss it here.

The second cousin walking in front asked: "Should I sell the winter bamboo shoots dug today to my uncle first, or should I take them home and wait a few days to sell them to my uncle together?"

The eldest cousin thought more long-term, "Let's take it home first. After my uncle tells the villagers to collect the winter bamboo shoots, we can then take them to my uncle's house to sell them. In the past two days, while the villagers don't know, we hurriedly dig more winter bamboo shoots." .”

A few people came out of the bamboo forest, picked up a lot of pigweed near the creek and put it in their backpacks, covered the dug winter bamboo shoots, and then chased each other back home for dinner.

After returning home, the brothers hurriedly asked their father Ye to call them winter bamboo shoots.

"The winter bamboo shoots dug in Xilin weigh 6 kilograms, 14 yuan per kilogram, a total of 84 yuan."

Father Ye took out a bunch of copper coins from his pocket and asked Ye Xilin to count 84 coins. Ye Xilin took the coins very happily and counted the money with a smile on his face.

Ye Xilin felt happy in his heart. Finally, he was no longer the poorest one in the family, hahaha!

Ye Xilin quickly counted the 84 copper coins. With so much money, he could buy a lot of candies. Thinking of this snack made him greedy again.

"The two winter bamboo shoots dug by Dong Lin weighed 2 and a half kilograms, totaling 35 Wen."

As he spoke, Father Ye took out a bunch of copper coins from his pocket and asked Ye Donglin to count 35 coins.

Although he only dug two winter bamboo shoots, he earned 35 Wen. Ye Donglin suddenly became interested in digging bamboo shoots.

"Half of this money must be paid to the public, and the remaining half is yours."

Father Ye looked at his two sons who were very happy, and stretched out his palms to them in a cowardly manner, indicating that it was time for them to pay.

"I'll give it to grandma myself."

Ye Donglin quickly protected the money in his hand, fearing that his father would snatch it away.

"I also gave it to grandma myself."

Ye Xilin also looked like he was afraid that the money given to Gongzhong would be stolen by Ye's father.

"You two brats, I can't stand your crooked ways."

Father Ye laughed angrily and stretched out his hands to rub their hair into a henhouse shape. The father and son made a fuss.

Early the next morning, Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin went to the bamboo forest in the back mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots with Grandma Ye's family.

Father Ye saw that Tang Yilin and Tang Erlin had nothing to do recently, so he spent money to help the brothers dig winter bamboo shoots.

Different from the previous salary of 20 cents a day, this time the payment was based on the number of winter bamboo shoots, with a pound of winter bamboo shoots costing 2 cents.

Unlike the back mountain that had been raided many times, the bamboo forest in the small back mountain had been nearly half a month since the last time I dug bamboo shoots. There were a lot of winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest.

The brothers dug 80 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots on the first day, and 78 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots on the second day. The two made 316 Wen in just two days.

After the winter bamboo shoots were weighed the next day, Father Ye and the Tang brothers talked about harvesting the winter bamboo shoots.

Tang Erlin repeatedly confirmed with Ye's father whether it was really 13 cents per pound to harvest winter bamboo shoots. After confirming that it was true, he immediately took the whole family to dig winter bamboo shoots in the back mountain and nearby mountains.

By the time Father Ye talked to the village chief about harvesting winter bamboo shoots, the Tang family had already dug two baskets of winter bamboo shoots.

Mr. Ye asked his father, "How many winter bamboo shoots are there at home now?"

"Yi Lin and Er Lin dug 158 kilograms in Xiaohou Mountain. Xiu Xiu's family just sent 260 kilograms. Including what Dong Lin and Xi Lin dug, the total is 450 kilograms."

Ye Donglin dug a total of 15 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots in the past two and a half days, and Ye Xilin dug 17 kilograms. Every day after digging bamboo shoots, Ye's father immediately gave him money. The two brothers were very excited every day.

Then Father Ye said: "There are a lot of winter bamboo shoots at home. Taking advantage of the high price of winter bamboo shoots in the county, I will take the winter bamboo shoots to the county to sell them tomorrow."

Mr. Ye: "There are not enough vegetables in winter. With the Chinese New Year, nearby farmers may not have time to sell vegetables. People in the county must be short of vegetables."

Starting from the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, every household in the village digs winter bamboo shoots in the mountains.

Father Ye set out to sell winter bamboo shoots in the county before dawn.

Also going to the county was Ye Donglin. Starting this year, Ye Donglin stopped going to school and helped at home.

After breakfast, Mr. Ye took the rest of the people to Xiaohou Mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots.