The happy little days of the Ye family

All the mountain goods accumulated before were sold, the honeysuckle was exchanged for silver, and the family's big fat pig was taken away by Butcher Zhang. The Ye family, which has been busy since the New Year, can finally live a few days of leisure.

It was already broad daylight, so Mrs. Ye slowly opened the door and came to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

Old Mrs. Ye put half of the bean dregs into the big iron pot, then added sweet potatoes and pigweed, and finally added enough water. This pot was the little piggy's breakfast.

The eight little piglets are now 8 months old, and they eat more and more every day. This big pot of pig food is only enough for them to eat one meal.

Mrs. Ye, who had to cook three meals of pig food every day, was a little annoyed and planned to ask Father Ye to order another large iron pot to cook the pig food today.

After the fire started, Mrs. Ye put a large piece of wood in and burned it, and then made breakfast for her family.

Mrs. Ye washed a bowl of rice and put it into the pot, added water and started to light the fire. After the fire started, she added two larger pieces of wood.

Then I took out two fist-sized sweet potatoes, washed them, cut them into small pieces, and put them in a pot to cook sweet potato porridge.

Home-grown sweet potatoes are very sweet. Even without adding sugar, this sweet potato porridge is still sweet, filling and delicious. The Ye family eats sweet potato porridge for breakfast seven days out of ten.

When the sweet potato porridge was almost ready, Mrs. Ye started making pancakes. She made corn pancakes and added salty and oily salted duck eggs. A simple breakfast was ready.

As the aroma slowly wafted from the kitchen, Ye Qingqing and Ye Xilin, who were still sleeping, were awakened by hunger. They quickly got up to wash up and prepare for breakfast.

At this time, Mr. Ye had already watered the small vegetable garden at the door, and Father Ye and Ye Donglin had also cleaned the pig pen.

Mother Ye was packing up the embroidery of mother and daughter in the house, and after breakfast she was going to the county to sell embroidery.

During breakfast, Mrs. Ye said: "The eight pigs at home are eating more and more, and a pot of pig food can only last one meal."

"Feng Harvest, go and order another big iron pot and come back. From now on, the two pots of pig food will be cooked together. Cooking pig food three times a day is a waste of time."

Father Ye drank the porridge and took another piece of tortilla, "Okay, after breakfast I will go to Blacksmith Fang to order the iron pot. Are there any farm tools you want to buy at home? I will buy them from Blacksmith Fang together."

Mr. Ye: "The summer harvest is only half a month away. Come back and buy two sickles."

Ye Qingqing also raised his head and said, "Dad, the scissors at home are too dull. I brought a pair of scissors back with me."

Father Ye suddenly remembered the fabrics that had been at home for a long time. "The batch of defective fabrics I bought at the dock last time haven't been sold yet. I happened to be free today. When I went to Fujia Village, I took the fabrics with me and sold them on the way. ”

Ye Donglin on the side rushed to the pier to set up a stall, ate breakfast in a hurry, and drove the donkey cart out.

Father Ye rented a fixed stall for Ye Donglin at the pier, and Ye Donglin went there to set up the stall every day.

Because the stalls are fixed, Ye Donglin doesn't have to get up early every day to grab a spot. He can have breakfast at home before going to the pier.

Because it was a fixed stall, the stall gradually accumulated a number of regular customers, and Ye Donglin's small business gradually got on the right track.

Ye Donglin earned 3 taels of silver in the first month of setting up his stall. After switching to a fixed stall, he could earn about 6 taels and [-] taels of money every month.

Seeing his son so capable, Father Ye was the happiest. After all, [-]% of the money earned belonged to him.

Ye Xilin, who was still studying hard in school, was extremely envious when he saw the money Ye Donglin took home, and wished he could immediately follow his elder brother to set up a stall.

It's not that he doesn't cherish the opportunity to study, it's that he is not a material for studying at all. He is just good at reading and writing. He also didn't daydream about taking the scientific examination. It would be a waste of money to continue studying later.

Ye's father said that he should finish studying this year and go home to help next year. Ye Xilin was very happy. After another half a year, he would be liberated.

After breakfast, Ye Mu, Ye Qingqing, Grandma Ye, second aunt and second cousin went to the county to sell embroidery together.

On the donkey cart, Grandma Ye opened the four embroideries one by one.

The second aunt and cousin all embroidered flower pictures, which were pictures from the album that the second aunt had obtained in the county.

My second aunt is embroidering peonies. Both the embroidery cloth and the thread are of the highest quality. The peonies embroidered are lifelike, rich and gorgeous. It is an excellent embroidery picture.

The plum blossoms embroidered by my cousin are large pictures the same size as those of my second aunt, and the little girl has made rapid progress, and the plum blossoms embroidered are lifelike.

Looking at the plum blossom pattern in front of her, Ye Qingqing couldn't help but praise: "Second cousin is so awesome. It only took 3 months to embroider such a large pattern."

Ye Qingqing likes this gentle and quiet second cousin very much. The two have been very close friends since childhood.

What Ye Qingqing did this time was the Eight Immortals' birthday congratulations picture that Ye Mu had embroidered before. There were many embroidery techniques used in this embroidery picture. Ye Qingqing's completion was pretty good, and it can be seen that he has made a lot of progress.

Ye Mu promised Ye Qingqing that after the embroidery was finished, she would teach her to use white silk and gold thread to make the glittering gold thread handkerchief.

Among the four embroidery pictures, the best one is still that of Ye Mu. What Ye Mu embroidered this time was a landscape painting, and the embroidery pattern was adapted from the landscape painting in the album.

The group of people laughed and laughed along the way, and soon they arrived at the Li Family Embroidery Workshop that they often visit.

Shopkeeper Li is already very familiar with Ye Mu and others, and he is very enthusiastic when he sees Ye Mu and others coming over.

The Eight Immortals' birthday painting that Ye Mu made last time was bought by the county magistrate's wife. Shopkeeper Li has very high expectations for Ye Mu to bring the embroidered picture this time.

Shopkeeper Li opened Ye Mu's embroidery pictures first, and his eyes lit up when he saw Ye Mu's landscape pictures.

Landscapes are generally painted more, and embroidery like Ye Mu's is not common, but things are rare and valuable, and people from scholarly families like this kind of embroidery.

In the end, shopkeeper Li paid 25 taels of silver for Ye Mu's landscape painting.

Mother Ye was very happy to get the silver. Even though the silver was the same as the Eight Immortals birthday picture last time, the previous picture used a lot of gold threads, and the cost was a full 8 taels of silver.

This time the embroidery was not suitable for gold thread, so it only cost 5 taels, so the actual money earned was 3 taels more.

The embroidery designs of the second cousin and Ye Qingqing were both praised by Shopkeeper Li.

This time both of them made large pictures, but Ye Qingqing made a slightly smaller one. Shopkeeper Li paid 12 taels of silver for the plum blossom picture of the second cousin, while Ye Qingqing paid 13 taels of silver for the Eight Immortals birthday picture.

Shopkeeper Li also liked my second aunt's peony painting very much and paid 20 taels of silver for it.

Before they left, shopkeeper Li politely asked Ye's mother and second aunt whether the two little girls were interested in becoming embroiderers.

Although several people usually do embroidery at home, and there is no time limit for doing embroidery at home, so they can have enough rest, but the embroidery lady is different.

The embroiderer worked too hard. Grandma Ye was an embroiderer when she was young and her eyes and body were damaged early on. Therefore, she did not approve of her two granddaughters becoming embroiderers and politely rejected Shopkeeper Li.