The happy little days of the Ye family

When Mr. Ye came back from town, he did not go home directly, but went to the bamboo forest in Xiaohou Mountain first.

It takes three-quarters of an hour to walk home from Xiaohoushan. Mr. Ye specially drove the donkey cart there to take the father and son home, and also brought back the winter bamboo shoots.

The winter bamboo shoots in Xiaohoushan were almost dug out. The father and son worked in the bamboo forest for a long time before digging more than 50 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots.

When Father Ye saw Mr. Ye driving a donkey cart to pick up people, he was so happy that he shouted: "Dad, you are really my biological father."

This way you don’t have to carry the heavy winter bamboo shoots back.

When Mr. Ye saw Father Ye looking weak, he couldn't help but kicked him.

Father Ye ducked away with a smile and called his two sons to go home for dinner.

Mr. Ye and Father Ye carried the winter bamboo shoots to the donkey cart on Jiaoshan Mountain together. Ye Donglin and Xilin followed behind with hoes and sickles.

After carrying the winter bamboo shoots to the donkey cart, Ye's father ran to the trap in the big water hole to check. Two of the four traps were intact, and the other two had obvious signs of being tampered with.

Father Ye opened the first trap, and there was a skinny, ugly rabbit inside. It looked like he was very hungry and came out to look for food. When he came to drink water, he was trapped in a trap.

Father Ye tied up the ugly rabbit and threw it into the basket behind him.

The second trap was empty, and the prey that fell into it ran away at some point. After checking the trap, Father Ye found some weeds and restored the trap to its original state.

When looking for weeds, Ye's father also searched in the nearby grass, but unfortunately he couldn't find wild eggs.

Father Ye took the ugly rabbit back to the donkey cart. Mr. Ye was a little confused looking at the thin and weak ugly rabbit. Now he had not eaten much meat. He wanted to fatten it up, but he was afraid of raising the rabbit to death.

The two fluffy little rabbits that Ye Qingqing bought were raised to death the day after they arrived home. Qingqing and Ye Xilin were sad for several days.

Mr. Ye was afraid that the ugly rabbit would not survive the third day, so he would just eat it.

"Braised rabbit for dinner."

"Great, let's go back quickly." Ye Xilin was greedy again when he heard that there was braised rabbit to eat, and quickly urged Ye's father to get on the donkey cart.

"You idiot, you eat at night instead of at noon, there's no point in going back now!" Father Ye untied the rope tied to the toon tree, got on the donkey cart and took a cart of people back.

On the way, Mr. Ye told Father Ye that he wanted to deliver winter bamboo shoots to the Li Family Restaurant in the town.

"The contract you signed with Liang's Restaurant only stated that they could only provide ingredients to one restaurant in the county, but Li's Restaurant belongs to the town and will not affect the county's business, and the price is the same, so I agreed. .”

"This is a good thing. The Liang Family Restaurant can only eat a limited amount. Dashan Village should also be able to harvest a lot of winter bamboo shoots. I will go to Dashan Village to talk about harvesting winter bamboo shoots."

Mr. Ye: "In the afternoon, I made an appointment with the villagers to harvest the winter bamboo shoots. I will stay at home to harvest the winter bamboo shoots. You can go to the mountain village."

"Okay, then I will go to the mountain village in the afternoon."

After lunch, people from the village came to Ye's house one after another to sell winter bamboo shoots.

Although they have no worries about food and accommodation in the village, it is more difficult to earn some cash. Many farmers suffer from lack of means.

Last year, Ye's father collected dried vegetables and charcoal in the village, and the villagers made a small profit. This time, when they learned that Ye's father was harvesting winter bamboo shoots, every household came out.

The bamboo forest in the back mountain has been dug up to pieces by Grandma Ye's family and the Tang family who knew the news in advance. However, in addition to the bamboo forest on the mountain behind the village, there are also many bamboo forests on the nearby mountains.

In the past two days, people in the village went out early and returned late, and brought a lot of winter bamboo shoots to their homes. In one afternoon, Mr. Ye collected more than 600 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots.

Mr. Ye paid cash for collecting winter bamboo shoots. Everyone in the village was very happy after receiving the money from selling winter bamboo shoots. After taking the money home, they hurried up the mountain to continue digging winter bamboo shoots.

It was getting dark, and Ye Qingqing's uncle and second uncle came over again pushing a cart of winter bamboo shoots. The price they charged for winter bamboo shoots was a penny more than the people in the village. The brothers came here late to avoid the people in the village.

"The eldest brother has 126 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots, and the second brother has 138 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots. They are both 14 cents per catty. The eldest brother has 1764 cents, and the second brother has 1932 cents."

The eldest uncle and the second uncle were also very happy when they got the money. Together with the winter bamboo shoots delivered two days ago, they made more than three taels of silver in just four days. This was something they never dared to think about before.

Unfortunately, my uncle's family will return to town early tomorrow morning. My uncle and my cousin have even agreed to go back to the village to dig winter bamboo shoots during their break.

The uncle is already the shopkeeper of a dim sum shop, and he doesn’t think it’s shameful to go back to the village from the town to dig bamboo shoots in the mountains. After all, no one would be dissatisfied with the money.

As soon as the eldest uncle and the second uncle left, the Tang brothers also pushed the cart to the door.

Father Ye and the Tang brothers grew up together and have always had a good relationship. The price of winter bamboo shoots is 14 cents per catty. Aunt Tang specially told her two sons to wait until everyone is gone before going to the Ye family to deliver winter bamboo shoots.

"The total is 168 kilograms, and the total is 2352 Wen." The Tang family was not divided into families, and the winter bamboo shoots were all counted together.

Aunt Tang was the housekeeper of the Tang family, and the two brothers had never seen so much money. Tang Yilin's hands trembled as he took the money from Father Ye.

Mr. Ye looked at the piles of winter bamboo shoots in the yard and said guiltily to his father, who had just returned from Dashan Village:

"People from the village sent 600 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots, and Xiuxiu's family and the Tang family sent another 432 kilograms, and 1032 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots have been collected."

"Including the 150 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots dug from our own bamboo forest, we now have a total of 1182 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots. Have we harvested too many winter bamboo shoots?"

Ye's father was also dumbfounded. He only calculated the output of the two bamboo forests in Houshan and Xiaohoushan, forgetting that there were also bamboo forests in the nearby mountains. Plus the winter bamboo shoots in Dashan Village, this was far more than Ye's father expected. Much more.

Father Ye was very upset. He should not have signed an agreement with shopkeeper Liang to provide only their family.

The amount that the Li Family Restaurant can eat is not much. If the Liang Family Restaurant only needs the three or four hundred kilograms of winter bamboo shoots mentioned last time, wouldn’t the taken back winter bamboo shoots be smashed on your hands?

Mr. Ye: "Tomorrow, you first send 900 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots to the Liang Family Restaurant, and I will send the remaining 282 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots to the Li Family Restaurant."

"Today we have made an agreement with the people in the village and Dashan Village that we will collect winter bamboo shoots the day after tomorrow. This will remain unchanged for now. Tomorrow we will deliver winter bamboo shoots to Liang Family Restaurant and Li Family Restaurant, and we will discuss it when we get back."

"Winter bamboo shoots can be stored for more than a month buried in river sand. Even if the two restaurants don't require much, they can just keep them and sell them slowly."

After all, Mr. Ye had experienced strong winds and waves, and he quickly arranged things.

"Dad, you are right. After the Lantern Festival, all the merchants at the pier should have returned. Then I can go to the pier to set up a stall and sell winter bamboo shoots to foreign merchants at the pier."