The happy little days of the Ye family

The village chief is a good village leader. He taught the people in the village how to plant honeysuckle. Every household in Taohua Village has planted honeysuckle.

Those who have spare money buy one or two acres of wasteland for planting, but most families plant honeysuckle in their front, back, backyard and vegetable gardens. After all, buying land costs money.

When the Ye family and the village chief's family were looking for people in the village to pick honeysuckle from the mountains, people in the village also picked their own honeysuckle.

The Ye family and the village chief's family both picked honeysuckle once every three days. On the first day, they went to the mountains to pick honeysuckle to earn wages. On the second day, they picked their own honeysuckle. On the third day, they took care of their family's fields. This time was just right and nothing was delayed.

The villagers all got up early and stayed up late, getting up earlier than chickens and going to bed later than dogs, but they were all full of energy and high spirits.

The Ye family and the village chief's family planned to sell the first crop of honeysuckle to the county. Most of the villagers did not own donkey carts, so they basically sold it to drug stores in the town.

The honeysuckle in the town costs 50 cents per pound, and every household has several pounds of honeysuckle. The villagers are all happy with the money they get from selling the honeysuckle.

The villagers who got the money were very happy. Every household in the village was discussing whether to buy some wasteland to grow honeysuckle, and everyone was gearing up to do something big.

The first crop of honeysuckle was sold at a high price, but unfortunately the second crop of honeysuckle dropped from 50 cents per catty to 45 cents, and only a little was collected, saying that this year's honeysuckle was enough.

The quick-thinking person immediately thought of selling honeysuckle in other towns. Not to mention the low price, he soon discovered that other towns did not accept honeysuckle.

Only then did everyone realize that honeysuckle had been planted in many villages in Luohe Town for some time, and the drug stores in several nearby towns had already collected enough honeysuckle for this year and the first half of next year.

Things are more valuable when they are scarce, and anything in excess is worthless. The price of honeysuckle dropped from 50 to 40 cents.

This price was the same as the purchase price from the pharmacist that the village chief found, so the villagers didn't bother and just waited for the pharmacist to come to collect the honeysuckle.

In the first half of the summer harvest, the drug dealer Ye Xiayang contacted finally came to the village to collect honeysuckle flowers.

The drug dealer collected more than 3000 kilograms of honeysuckle in the village. More than 2000 kilograms belonged to the village chief's family, and the rest was brought by other villagers and people from several nearby villages.

When the first crop of honeysuckle was sold, the villagers thought they could make a fortune from the honeysuckle. Later, they found out that there was too much and it was worthless, so they had to reconsider whether to plant honeysuckle.

Everyone who had sold out their honeysuckle was calculating the profit from growing honeysuckle, and several families got into quarrels over this matter.

Most of the villagers with poor financial resources did not dare to take risks. Except for a few courageous families who bought one or two acres of wasteland to grow honeysuckle, most people in the village planted a few honeysuckles in their yards and vegetable gardens.

Some people simply pull out the vegetables in the vegetable garden and plant honeysuckle. Anyway, there are plenty of wild vegetables in the mountains, so it doesn't matter if you eat less vegetables.

After selling the honeysuckle, the Ye family is also calculating the profit from the honeysuckle.

叶老太太拿出账本，翻开金银花的记录说道：“今年一共卖1200斤的金银花，100斤是在县里卖的，55文一斤一共5两5钱。另外100斤是在月牙镇卖的，50文一斤一共5两银子。”

“剩下的1000斤是县里的药铺过来收的，43文一斤一共43两。金银花的总进账是53两5钱。”

After talking about the income, Mrs. Ye talked about the expenses again, "Last year, it cost 2 taels of silver to hire someone to grow honeysuckle. The shopkeeper of the harvest medicine shop spent 3 taels of silver, and it cost 2 taels to hire someone to pick honeysuckle." Money, these cost a total of 4 taels and 7 yuan."

"Excluding expenses, the honeysuckle at home made a total of 46 taels." Mrs. Ye closed the account book, and the wrinkles on her face turned into flowers.

The savings at home are increasing, and Mrs. Ye sometimes wakes up laughing from her dreams.

Father Ye was so excited that his face turned red, "Good guy, you can earn back the money you spent to buy a mountain by planting honeysuckle for a year."

Ye’s mother is also very happy, and Grandpa Ye followed the Ye family to buy slope land to grow honeysuckle, and he also made a lot of money this year.

Mr. Ye on the side poured cold water on a few people, "Although honeysuckle is not as profitable as the villagers expected, 40 yuan per pound of honeysuckle is a great good thing for farmers who work in the fields. It is expected that there will be more money next year." More people plant gold and silver flowers, and the more things are worthless.\"

"In the first year, everyone just followed the trend and planted some to try. After making money, they will definitely plant more. Many people in the village are considering buying wasteland to grow honeysuckle. The price of honeysuckle will definitely fall next year."

"It doesn't matter if the price drops. What if we stop collecting the honeysuckle? What will happen to the honeysuckle all over the mountains and plains?" Mrs. Ye was also worried now.

Father Ye: "Have you forgotten the wharf in the county? There are many merchants from other places at the wharf. The merchants sell goods. This honeysuckle can be sold to these merchants. Besides, there are too many honeysuckles, so of course there will be merchants who come here to collect the honeysuckle. .”

Mr. Ye doesn't go to the county often, and he really forgot about the dock in the county. "You are right. Anyway, the money earned this year is enough. It doesn't matter from now on. If it can't be done, it's not bad to keep bees and collect honey." "

The Ye family currently has a relatively rich family fortune, and everyone has the skills to make a living. Mr. Ye himself has the skills to raise pigs, so he is very confident.

Father Ye added: "Not only the honeysuckle, but also the jujube trees on the mountain. The jujube trees planted last year will bear fruit this autumn. Next year, many people will follow the trend and plant jujube trees."

“After selling the first crop of honeysuckle, the village chief and I discussed making Taohua Village the home of honeysuckle and red dates.”

"With fame, we can attract many merchants to come to the village to collect honeysuckle and red dates, so that we don't have to worry about things being thrown into our hands, and the villagers can also make more money."

Mr. Ye was about to say something when he was interrupted by Mrs. Ye on the side, "I have a lot of spare money at home. Old man, please check with the village chief to see if you can buy good paddy fields."

Fields are the root of a farmer's family. No matter how profitable the family's mountains are, Mrs. Ye still wants to buy the fields.

Mr. Ye wants to buy land more than Mrs. Ye, but no one is selling it.

"The weather has been good in recent years, and every household is doing well. Everyone in the village wants to buy fields, but almost none has been sold."

However, Ye's father disagreed. "If we don't sell the food at home, it will be enough for our own food after paying taxes. Moreover, we still have 15 acres of sloping land in the small back mountain. If we buy more land, we won't be able to manage it."

Ye's family is not large, but they have a lot of property and ways to make money, and the family is almost overwhelmed. Father Ye has now paid attention to Ye Xilin and plans to let Ye Xilin help at home next year.