The happy little days of the Ye family

It was still dark, so the Ye family got up early.

"Dad, you really don't need me and Dong Lin to stay and help?"

"You two are clumsy, how can you help? You should hurry up and sell the mountain products produced in Zhulin Mountain."

There are more than 80 acres of bamboo forest in Zhulin Mountain. Since I bought it, there is a lot of mountain goods in Zhulin Mountain.

Ye Donglin wanted to stay at home and go to Xiaohoushan to help, but when he thought about setting up a stall at the dock and earning more than 100 yuan a day, Ye Donglin still felt that the dock was his territory. Anyway, he couldn't pick many kilograms of honeysuckle in a day.

The Ye family needs donkey carts to collect honeysuckle, but Ye's father and Ye Donglin also need donkey carts to go to the dock. It happened to be a slack time for the farmers, so Ye's father simply rented a donkey cart from his in-laws' family.

The donkey cart at home is still not enough. Father Ye plans to discuss with Mr. Ye at the end of the year to buy another donkey cart for the family.

My son will be 14 years old at the end of the year, and then he can be allowed to drive the donkey cart and set up a stall by himself.

Father Ye and Ye Donglin drove the donkey cart to the county, and Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye also went to Xiaohoushan.

Mr. Ye asked five families to help pick honeysuckle. The Ye family had a total of 5 acres of honeysuckle land. Mr. Ye's honeysuckle land was divided into five parts, and each family was responsible for 50 acres.

Picking honeysuckle is not a heavy job, and the money is calculated according to the honeysuckle picked. Every household has the whole family, young and old, going out together.

Early in the morning, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye brought dozens of people to the honeysuckle field.

Mr. Ye signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "There are two people from each household. I will teach you how to pick honeysuckle first."

Soon, 10 people came forward. If they finish learning early, they can go pick honeysuckle and exchange money early. These people are much more anxious than Mr. Ye.

"Bees are kept here on the honeysuckle. When picking honeysuckle, please be careful not to get stung by bees."

An energetic old lady smiled and said: "Bees can't kill people, so how can they be so valuable? Master, just teach us how to collect honeysuckle."

"It's better to pay attention. Picking honeysuckle is very simple. You only need to pick off the buds that are in bud. Leave the ones that have bloomed to the little bees to collect nectar."

Mrs. Ye brought over a handful of picked honeysuckle and gave each person a few flowers.

After dividing the honeysuckle, Mr. Ye continued: "Don't pick the ones that are too small. Those like this are just fine."

Then Mrs. Ye took out a few more bags of sulfur and said, "There are many snakes and insects on the mountain. Let's take this sulfur back and sprinkle some on ourselves. Those with old people and children should be more careful."

There were so many of them that the big snake would have run away if there was such a movement, but everyone accepted the Ye family's favor and gratefully took the bag from Mrs. Ye's hand.

Mr. Ye: "Everyone can pick the honeysuckle and bring it over here to have it weighed. We will weigh it on the spot and give you money."

As soon as they finished speaking, everyone hurriedly took their families to pick honeysuckle, talking about how to pick honeysuckle as they walked.

Mr. Ye went to the donkey cart and took out two small benches for Mrs. Ye to sit and rest.

"You haven't worked yet, so how can you rest? I'll go to the pond in Zhulin Mountain to cut grass and feed the fish." After saying that, Mr. Ye ignored him and pulled the donkey cart away.

Mr. Ye originally wanted to go together, but one person had to stay here.

Mr. Ye got up and walked around the honeysuckle field. He saw everyone talking and laughing in the honeysuckle field, talking about family matters while picking honeysuckle.

Mr. Ye didn't bother them. He walked around and went to look for wild eggs in the grass near the creek and the big puddle.

Mr. Ye found several pheasant nests based on his memory. He was lucky. Each pheasant nest contained several pheasant eggs.

“1、2、3····19，19颗野鸡蛋。”

Mr. Ye happily counted the wild eggs. Today's harvest is really good. No wonder Mrs. Ye always said that he was the reincarnation of a pheasant, otherwise why would he always find so many pheasant eggs.

Mr. Ye packed half a basket of pigweed, carefully wrapped the wild eggs in hay and leaves and put them into the basket. He then packed some pigweed and placed them on top. The whole basket was filled to the brim.

When Mr. Ye saw that Mrs. Ye hadn't come back yet, he simply picked up pigweed. Now there are 6 big pigs and 8 piglets at home. They eat too much, and they have to pack seven or eight baskets of pigweed every day.

Mr. Ye had just finished taking two baskets of pigweed, and Mrs. Ye came back.

At this time, someone happened to come over with honeysuckle. Tang Dashan was carrying a basket of honeysuckle on his back and front, and he was also carrying two baskets in his hands.

Upon seeing this, Mr. Ye hurried over to help, "Da Shan, you kid, please take it easy."

Li Dashan said naively: "Uncle Ye, these honeysuckles are so light, they just take up space, otherwise I could lift them with one hand."

Mr. Ye weighed the honeysuckle basket by basket, and then said to Li Dashan: "There are 18 kilograms of honeysuckle in total, which is 36 Wen in total."

The old lady Ye on the side took out a large bunch of copper coins and counted 36 coins to Li Dashan. The young man took the coins and smiled from ear to ear.

Li Dashan stacked the four baskets together, carried them easily with one hand, and walked quickly back to the honeysuckle field assigned to him.

As soon as Li Dashan left, several more villagers came one after another to hand over honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle was paid by the kilogram, and every family, young and old, went out to pick it. The least one family picked more than thirty kilograms of honeysuckle in one morning, and some even picked fifty or sixty kilograms.

In order to save time when we go back, everyone brought dry food with them at noon. When they were tired, they would rest directly under the shade of the trees.

There are many trees on the mountain, which is much cooler than at the bottom. Not to mention that the breeze blowing under the shade of the trees is quite comfortable.

Seeing that the villagers were eating dry food in the fields, Mrs. Ye simply didn't go back and asked Mr. Ye to bring food to the mountain to eat.

As soon as Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu prepared lunch, Mr. Ye came back with about 200 kilograms of honeysuckle.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing have already laid out several huge mats in the backyard in advance. Mr. Ye had asked help to make them in advance, specifically for drying honeysuckle and red dates.

More than 200 kilograms of honeysuckle dried the entire backyard, leaving only two narrow paths where the dried fish was dried.

Ye Qingqing was very careful when chasing away wild cats, fearing that he would accidentally step on the honeysuckle.

Seeing that Ye Qingqing's movements were restricted, the arrogant little black cat became even more arrogant and even jumped onto the bamboo pole where the dried fish was dried, looking down upon Ye Qingqing.

Ye Qingqing angrily slapped the bamboo pole on which the little black cat was standing with the small bamboo pole in his hand. Probably because he was scared, the little cat nimbly jumped up the side wall of the courtyard.

Ye's mother packed the food for Mr. Ye. Ye Xilin also came back from school. Ye's mother called Ye Qingqing to eat.

Ye Qingqing waved the small bamboo pole in his hand to drive away the provocative kittens on the courtyard wall, and then ran to the front yard to eat.