The happy little days of the Ye family

Honeysuckle has many buds, and the growth time and flowering time are not exactly the same.

Only about a quarter of the honeysuckle can be picked on the first day, and the rest are still relatively small. Some can only be picked after a few days, and some have just grown.

Honeysuckle cannot be picked in one or two days, but must be picked slowly in batches.

Mr. Ye plans to take people up the mountain to pick honeysuckle every three days, so as not to delay the work in the field or affect the picking of honeysuckle.

The sun rises slowly from the east and sets slowly from the west, and it goes by like this.

When the sun set halfway up the mountain, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye urged the people who were still working hard to collect honeysuckle to come over and weigh it. It was not safe in the mountains at night.

After a tiring day, it’s time to go back and eat.

The hard-working people walked down the mountain reluctantly, and finally went home happily with the copper plates exchanged for honeysuckle.

Each family received money in exchange for honeysuckle in the morning, and in the afternoon everyone was as if they had drank ginseng soup. Their eyes were not sore and their legs were not tired, one was more diligent than the other.

At the end of the day, the least one family picked more than 80 kilograms of honeysuckle, and some even picked more than 100 kilograms.

At the end of the day, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye bought a total of more than 400 kilograms of fresh honeysuckle.

Almost all the honeysuckle that can be picked has been picked, and it will take two days to pick the remaining ones.

Mr. Ye has already made an agreement with the people who came to pick honeysuckle to come back in three days to pick the second crop of honeysuckle.

The summer sun is very harsh, and the honeysuckle is completely dry after just two days in the sun.

As soon as the first crop of honeysuckle was dried, Father Ye immediately took the honeysuckle to the county.

There are several pharmacies in the county, and honeysuckle has just begun to be harvested. Father Ye wants to sell the honeysuckle to other pharmacies in the county as soon as possible.

The first harvest of sun-dried honeysuckle weighed about 260 kilograms. Father Ye calculated that the honeysuckle in Xiaohoushan weighed about 1200 kilograms.

The agreement signed by Ye’s father and the drug store is to receive 1000 kilograms of honeysuckle. The extra 200 kilograms will be sold by Ye’s father to other pharmacies in the county at the retail price.

The first drugstore Ye's father found only bought 40 kilograms of honeysuckle, and the second, larger drugstore, only bought 60 kilograms of honeysuckle.

When he was about to reach the third drug store, Ye's father saw Ye Xiayang, the village chief's youngest son, moving honeysuckle to the drug store.

There are only a few pharmacies in the county. One of them has already signed an agreement with Father Ye, Father Ye has already visited the other two, and the fourth one is a step late.

There was no need for Father Ye to waste time in the county, so he simply left the county and came to Yueya Town with the remaining 100 kilograms of honeysuckle.

Crescent Town is larger than Luohe Town, and there are two relatively large medicine shops in the town. The weather is getting hotter, and a large amount of honeysuckle will definitely be needed.

Father Ye was lucky. Both pharmacies collected large quantities of honeysuckle. Each pharmacy received 50 kilograms of honeysuckle, and he sold 100 kilograms of honeysuckle at once.

Today, 200 kilograms of honeysuckle have been sold, and Ye’s father does not plan to sell the remaining several dozen kilograms. While there was still some time, Father Ye went to the mountain village again.

Father Ye met a donkey cart on the way out of the town. The driver of the donkey cart was Yang Dawa from Dashan Village. Yang Dawa came to Yueya Town with the intention of selling honeysuckle, but it was a pity that it was too late.

The two passed by each other without recognizing each other.

The more than 30 pieces of skins that Father Ye collected last time in Kaoshan Village were only enough to make one and a half rabbit skin coats. The other half did not have any skins to continue making, so it was just in time to collect some skins and continue making rabbit skin coats.

Father Ye was lucky this time. In addition to rabbit skins, there were also several wolf skins, but the wolf skins were more or less damaged.

However, it is understandable that when encountering a fierce beast like a wolf, it is good to save your life, so how can you care so much.

This is not the first time that Father Ye has come to collect leather. Ever since he saw good leather in the mountain village, the price of leather in the mountain village has been cut down a lot by Father Ye.

A relatively intact wolf skin costs one tael of silver, a more damaged one costs 800 cents, and white rabbit skin and gray rabbit skin each cost 3 cents less than before.

This time, Father Ye collected 4 wolf skins and 32 rabbit skins from Kaoshan Village.

After collecting the rabbit skins, Father Ye collected some things that Ye Donglin could use for setting up a stall in the village.

Since the Chinese New Year, Father Ye has been either busy selling winter bamboo shoots, wild vegetables or mountain products. It has been a long time since he worked as a salesman. The villages that I often visited before have already been divided up by other salesmen.

When Ye's father hurried home, Ye's mother was making perilla snails and braised loach.

The snails were picked up on the day of fishing, while the loaches were caught while digging the mud at the bottom of the pond.

Ye Qingqing brushed the snails clean one by one, and then Mrs. Ye used a sharp stone to smash off the tail of the snails.

Ye Mu dug out a little lard from the oil can, sautéed the seasoning until fragrant, then put the snails into the pot and stir-fried them. After the fragrance was released, she added water to cover the snails, then simmered over high heat. When the juice was reduced, she added a handful of perilla. Pour a little more rice wine to add fragrance and remove the fishy smell, and the fragrant perilla snails are ready.

The method of roasting loach is actually similar to that of perilla snail, except that a handful of perilla is missing.

In fact, according to Ye Mu, as long as the seasonings are used well, the taste of braised pork can also be cooked in soles.

Ye's mother had just finished cooking, butcher Zhang came to Ye's house again to look after the pigs.

"Aunt Ye, these big fat pigs in your house are incredible. They weigh at least more than 230 kilograms. I have never seen such fat pigs."

Mrs. Ye looked at Butcher Zhang's rough face with a smile and couldn't bear to look at it. "It's time for these pigs to be put out, right? They won't grow any more meat if they continue to be raised."

These 6 big fat pigs are so edible that Mrs. Ye is worried that all the sweet potatoes at home will be eaten up if they don’t go to the slaughterhouse.

"I will catch one now and take it back. Then I will come here every two or three days to catch another. This pig is so fat that it is destined to be sold."

"Okay, you pick the biggest one first and take it back."

"Auntie, do you want to buy some meat at home? If so, I will pick out a better piece of pork belly for Auntie."

"There are several fish in the pond at home, so I won't buy the meat yet." The Ye family is very willing to eat, and there is no shortage of meat at home.

Butcher Zhang picked the largest fat pig, knocked it unconscious, and then tied it up. Sure enough, it weighed 230 kilograms.

Old Mrs. Ye took out Father Ye's small abacus, fiddled with it carefully, and calculated it twice before telling Butcher Zhang: "Twelve cents per catty, a total of 12 catties, a total of 230 taels, 2 cents."

Mrs. Ye calculated slowly, but she didn't expect Butcher Zhang beside her to calculate even slower than her.

Butcher Zhang praised with a hint of embarrassment: "Aunt Ye is really awesome now, she can even do abacus."

"I really know how to make my aunt happy. Give me the money quickly. If you delay any longer, the pig will wake up. It won't be easy if she wakes up halfway."

Butcher Zhang quickly gave the money for the pig to Mrs. Ye, and then happily pushed the big fat pig home.