The happy little days of the Ye family

After Grandma Ye returned, Father Ye said cheerfully: "This rabbit fur coat can be made mainly because of my mother's skills. Do you want to buy something for me to express your gratitude?"

Mother Ye packed up the finished rabbit fur coat and put it in the cabinet. She turned around and said, "Today is the beginning of spring. It will get warmer day by day. How about I make new clothes for my father and my mother? By the way, I’ll also make spring clothes for Qingqing’s grandpa and grandma.”

If she wanted to make clothes for her parents alone, Mother Ye was afraid that Mrs. Ye would think too much, so she might as well make one for each of them.

"That's good. Is it too tiring to make four sets of clothes? Let's invite my daughter to do it together."

Mother Ye smiled and said, "If Qingqing hears this, she will definitely get angry with you."

"You heartless person, I don't feel sorry for you. Besides, Qingqing is a 12-year-old girl. There's nothing wrong with learning more about female celebrities." Father Ye said with a smile.

"In the blink of an eye, my chubby little sweetie has almost become a big girl. I don't know who will get an advantage in the future."

"No, my daughter is still young. We won't talk about this for a few years." My daughter is still young, and Father Ye doesn't want to talk about this topic.

"You might as well worry more about Dong Lin's marriage. This boy looks like me. Even if he is dull, he won't find Xiao Qingmei in advance. He doesn't have the charm of me at all."

Ye's father and Ye's mother's families are close to each other. They grew up together and found a daughter-in-law for themselves early on. The chicken thief's father Ye had made an agreement with Old Mrs. Ye early on, and the mother and son ran to Grandma Ye's house all day long.

Both families know each other well, and they grew up together. With the help of Mrs. Ye, Father Ye successfully married Mother Ye.

"Mom knows a lot of people. Mom and I will sum it up. But don't worry, Donglin is only 13 years old. He has to be 16 or 17 years old to get engaged."

Mother Ye said that the child was still young, and silently screened the girls in the village who were similar to Ye Donglin's age, including girls from several nearby villages.

"I don't care about family background. The main thing is that this girl has good character and personality. She just doesn't hold her back at home. My father said that a good wife will bring prosperity to three generations, but she must take good care of her son and not marry a family troublemaker."

Father Ye still attaches great importance to his daughter-in-law's character and character.

"I know this well. You should give Donglin a hard time. If you like any girl, you must tell us. You can't mess around in private."

"If he wants to see which girl is pretty and mess around in private, see if I don't break his legs."

Ye Mu moved the small cabinet in the corner, dug out a small clay pot from the ground, and took out a large and small wooden box from the locked cabinet.

"Since we are talking about marriage, let's take stock of our little family's savings today."

There are 5 taels of silver in the small clay pot. There are 4 taels in total. This is 20 taels. Then Ye Mu opened the small wooden box, which was full of broken silver, ranging from one tael to one penny. Ye Mu counted a total of 3 taels of silver.

The big wooden box contained money for Father Ye's business. During this period, he purchased a lot of goods and even bought leather, so he spent a little too much money. There wasn't much money in the wooden box, most of it was copper plates, and there were only a few small amounts of broken silver.

Mother Ye poured out the silver and copper plates from the wooden box, and the couple counted them one by one. There are a total of 2 taels of 589 coins in the big wooden box.

Ye's father spent a total of 6 taels of silver on purchasing goods and leather. The family had about 1100 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots collected from the village and Dashan Village, and the cost was about 14 taels.

Father Ye's business money has now been turned into goods. The family has 800 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots reserved for the Liang family restaurant, and 300 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots to be sold during the Lantern Festival. If they sell all the winter bamboo shoots, they can get the money Come back most of the time.

23 taels are removable deposits, and Father Ye used about 22 taels for business turnover. Most of this money was earned by Father Ye this year. There was not much left over from the previous savings to buy a donkey cart.

In addition to these, there is more than one tael of scattered money in the drawer under Ye Mu's dressing table, which is used for daily household expenses.

Although most of the expenses were paid by the father, the pocket money of Ye's father and several children, the money they spent on shopping to honor their parents, and the occasional snacks and meat, still cost one or two hundred cash per month.

Mother Ye held the small clay pot and carefully placed the silver inside.

Ye's mother looked at Ye's father and said: "Now there are 23 taels of silver in the family. The usual betrothal gift in the village is two or three taels of silver, and the maximum will not exceed 5 taels. Including the silver used for betrothal, betrothal and marriage, 10 Two silver coins is more than enough."

"I plan to prepare 10 taels of silver for Donglin to get married, and the same goes for Xilin. Each of the brothers will receive 10 taels of silver, so as not to say that we are partial in the future."

Father Ye took the small clay pot, hid it back in the deep pit underground, and then moved the cabinet back to its original position.

Father Ye also agreed, "This is good. Anyone who wants extra betrothal gifts can earn it themselves."

Mother Ye added: "When we first got married, we planted about 20 trees, and they all grew well. They were just used for dowry and betrothal gifts when they got married."

"Qingqing will marry into someone else's family in the future. It is inevitable that she will not live comfortably at home. She needs to prepare a little more for the dowry. 3 taels of silver will be used to prepare the dowry, and the remaining 12 taels of silver will be given to Qingqing. She has money in her hands and in her heart. I also have confidence.”

Nothing is more reassuring than money. Father Ye nodded and said: "From now on, all the things sent by the man, including the bride price, will be brought back by Qingqing."

When Mother Ye thought that her cute and lovely daughter would become someone else's daughter-in-law, her mind was full of thoughts. After a while, she said again:

"Money is easy to be calculated by others. Do you want to use the money at the bottom of the box to buy it and exchange it for paddy fields? No one can steal or rob these paddy fields. There is still a harvest every year."

"Qingqing is still young and won't get married so soon. Let's not talk about this." The two of them became more and more sad as they talked, and Father Ye quickly interrupted the topic.

Father Ye locked the two boxes containing the silver back into the cabinet. "I haven't saved enough money yet. Whatever I say now is empty talk, I still have to work hard to earn more money."

"Stop talking about these sad things, I'm going to do embroidery. I've been doing embroidery on the rabbit fur coat these days, and I haven't even touched a few stitches on the embroidery." Ye Mu hurriedly came to the embroidery stand and continued to embroider. Taste.

Ye's father looked at Ye's mother's reckless appearance and laughed softly. Seeing that Ye's mother didn't notice, Ye's father quietly slipped out.

As soon as he left the room, he saw Ye Donglin collecting firewood in the yard. Father Ye put his arm around Ye Donglin's shoulders and pulled his son into the corner for a friendly exchange.

Father Ye's beating also allowed Ye Donglin to avoid some calculations in the future.