The happy little days of the Ye family

The dirty dishes, chopsticks, large iron pots, and large pottery pots used for soup were casually placed by the pool by several people.

Mrs. Ye couldn't wait to take Father Ye back to the hall to take stock of today's income.

Father Ye poured all the money in his wallet on the table, and everyone started counting the money with smiles on their faces.

Mrs. Ye counted the few broken pieces of silver, and the remaining three counted the copper plates.

"1 article, 2 articles, 3 articles..."

Father Ye gathered the copper plates and silver together, counted them again, and then said, "There are 689 coins in total. This is all the money I got from selling braised pork and braised pork rice today."

"In addition, I sold nine kilograms of rice wine today and earned 45 Wen."

Mrs. Ye on the side rushed to say: "Then today's income is 734 Wen."

Ye Qingqing looked at Father Ye and asked, "Dad, how much does it cost to make braised pork rice?"

Father Ye began to calculate, "The total cost of pig head, offal, pig trotters, pig tail and ribs is 180 Wen. 5 jins of dried tofu, 5 jins of dried bamboo shoots and 10 jins of lettuce cost 90 Wen in total. The rice is about 100 Wen. , here is a total of 370 texts.”

"The bowls, chopsticks, deep plates for holding the braised pork, and the table cost a total of 290 Wen. We sold 200 Wen of aniseed ingredients. It takes about a quarter to make the braised pork once, which is 50 Wen."

Ye Mu reminded: "There is also a stall fee, which is 300 cash a month, and a stall fee of 10 cash per day."

Father Ye continued: "The fixed cost per day is 430 Wen. The upfront cost of bowls, chopsticks and tables is 290 Wen."

"Excluding the cost of making braised pork rice and the initial cost of bowls, chopsticks and tables, we made a total of 14 Wen today."

Father Ye is quite satisfied with the result. At least he has made back all his capital. Starting tomorrow, he will be able to earn about 300 Wen per day without counting the upfront costs.

Ye Mu: "If you don't count the cost of bowls, chopsticks and tables, you will earn 304 silver today. If you can sell out the braised pork and braised pork rice every day, you can earn [-] taels of silver a month."

Although the money earned from selling braised pork rice is not as much as Ye's father made from collecting mountain goods and bacon before, it is more stable than before. If he could earn eight or nine taels of silver every month, that would be pretty good.

However, Mrs. Ye was not very satisfied, "The cost is still too high."

"If you sell dried bamboo shoots at the dock, it will cost 13 Wen per pound. Don't you have dried beans and eggplants that have been dried at home? You can put dried beans and eggplants in braised dishes, but don't put dried bamboo shoots."

Ye Mu on the side also said: "There is also wild rice. Wild rice can also be used for brine."

Father Ye naturally wanted to reduce costs, "Then replace the dried bamboo shoots with dried eggplants, dried tofu and lettuce for tomorrow's vegetarian dishes."

"The day after tomorrow's braised dish includes dried beans, dried tofu and wild rice. The two combinations are changed every day."

After discussing the braised dishes, Father Ye went to Butcher Zhang's house and ordered three more pounds of ribs every day.

Mrs. Ye, Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing had just cleaned the things when a shout came from the front yard.

"Aunt Ye, are you at home?"

What came was a woman in her 30s, holding a basket and standing in the front yard of Ye's house.

The woman is the daughter-in-law of Ye Qiushao, Ye's father's brother, and everyone calls her Qiushao's wife.

Lady Qiu Harvest is a famous loudmouth in the village. Many of the gossips that Old Mrs. Ye knows were told to her by Lady Qiu Harvest.

The two have a very good relationship, and they often get together to chat and gossip. There is no big or small thing in the village that they don't know.

Mrs. Ye walked quickly to the front yard, wiping the water on her hands as she walked.

Seeing Mrs. Autumn Harvest, Mrs. Ye quickly stepped forward to greet her.

"Aunt Ye, I came here to exchange some eggs with you. My natal brother just had a son and is preparing to send some eggs over."

"It's a coincidence. I just replaced the eggs at home two days ago, and now I only have seven or eight eggs at home."

"It's okay, I want as much as I want."

Mrs. Ye quickly went back to the house and took out eight eggs. The Autumn Harvest Lady took out 8 copper coins and gave them to Mrs. Ye.

The Autumn Harvest Lady changed the eggs and did not leave. Instead, she whispered to Mrs. Ye about the village gossip.

"Widow Wang in the village has taken a fancy to Tangshan. She has been blocking Tangshan at the entrance of the village for the past two days."

Mrs. Ye frowned and said, "Isn't Widow Wang only 20 years old? Shanzi is almost 30. Isn't the age difference too big?"

"The difference in age is a bit big, but I can't stand the fact that they are rich. Ever since the Tang family bought two cows, many old girls and young widows in the village have been eyeing Tangshan."

Widow Wang said excitedly: "There are only two fathers and sons in the Tang family, and there is no mother-in-law. Widow Wang is pretty. If she can win over Tangshan's heart and give him a son, won't she be able to gain a firm foothold in the Tang family?" , are you living a good life?"

"Jing boy is already over ten years old, and he will be able to marry a wife in two or three years. They say that if you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather. After Jing boy gets married, let him be separated from you, Tang Isn’t the house just Widow Wang’s, she’s very talented.”

Old Mrs. Ye's expression was not very good. She had only thought about inspecting Tang Xiaojing before, and had forgotten that Tangshan might marry again. If she married a powerful woman, wouldn't Qingqing suffer a loss?

People have selfish motives. If Tangshan married a wife and had another son, the family would definitely not be as peaceful as it is now.

It seems that this grandson-in-law still needs to think about it again.

The Autumn Harvest Lady was so excited that she didn't notice Mrs. Ye's face, and then said:

"In addition to Widow Wang, there is also the eldest girl from the Wang family at the head of the village and Yingzi from the back of the village. I heard that these two families are eyeing Tangshan."

"In fact, it can be said that they are eyeing the Tang family's cow. I heard that the Wang family wants Tangshan to use a cow as a betrothal gift. This is a really big appetite."

"Shan Zi eats at my house every day, and I haven't heard of anything happening?" Mrs. Ye didn't believe it.

Lady Autumn Harvest said proudly: "This is still being planned. Someone let me know the information."

"What about Widow Wang? Did she really go to the entrance of the village to block the mountain?"

"Of course it's true. I went to the fields to pull weeds yesterday and came back late. I saw Widow Wang dressed up and standing at the entrance of the village."

"Tangshan was driving an ox cart back. Widow Wang stepped in the middle of the road and forced Tangshan's ox cart to stop."

Halfway through his words, Mrs. Ye was so excited that she asked, "Then what? What happened next?"

"Then the bullock cart stopped in Tangshan, and Widow Wang went up to chat with her. The two pulled each other twice. For some reason, Tangshan pushed Widow Wang aside, and then quickly drove away with the bullock cart."

The Autumn Harvest Lady smiled gloatingly and said, "Don't you see, Widow Wang's face is so dark that her eyes are about to spit fire."

After talking about the gossip, the Autumn Harvest Lady left with the eggs in her hands with satisfaction.