The happy little days of the Ye family

Mr. Ye looked up at the sky. At this time, the sun had climbed to the center. After a busy morning, the three of them were also a little hungry.

Mr. Ye took out a large bag of pancakes from his backpack and called Ye Qingqing and Ye Xilin over to eat.

This pancake is an egg pancake made by Mrs. Ye in the morning, specially made for a few people to eat at lunch.

After eating pancakes and resting for a while, the group went to the bamboo forest in Xiaohou Mountain.

The bamboos in the bamboo forest grew very well, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and each one was thicker than Ye Qingqing's arm.

The high bamboo leaves block the sunlight, and there is almost no sunlight in the bamboo forest.

There are relatively few bamboo shoots in autumn, but scattered bamboo fungus can still be seen. The three of them took their backpacks and started digging for bamboo fungus.

It hadn't rained for a long time, and there weren't many bamboo fungus in the bamboo forest. The three of them had been busy for more than an hour, and they only picked a basket of bamboo fungus.

The three of them, Mr. Ye, carried loads of bamboo shoots on their backs and walked down the mountain with two childish ghosts who made a mess.

When passing by a persimmon tree on the mountainside, Mr. Ye looked up at the tree. At this time, all the persimmons were round and ripe.

Mr. Ye thought for a while and decided to pick all the persimmons. These persimmons were already ripe and would fall by themselves if they were not picked.

It would be a pity if it fell and got broken. I might as well pick them all.

Mr. Ye called the two naughty guys over to work, and the three of them worked for more than half an hour, picking all the persimmons on the tree.

However, Mr. Ye deliberately left some persimmons that had been eaten by birds on the tree. These persimmons were half eaten and could no longer be made into persimmons. He simply left them on the tree as food for the birds.

This persimmon tree is very big. Although it has not been fertilized, the branches are covered with persimmons, and they are not small. Mr. Ye looked at the pile of persimmons on the ground, which weighed at least several hundred kilograms.

Looking at these persimmons, the three of them were happy.

Ye Qingqing said with a smile: "I will soon be able to eat the persimmons made by grandma."

The persimmons made by Mrs. Ye are soft, glutinous and sweet, and Ye Qingqing likes to eat them very much.

A few people came to the foot of the mountain. When Mr. Ye saw that Father Ye hadn't come over yet, he simply started playing pigweed.

The eight pigs we raise at home already weigh about 200 kilograms. They eat more than one pig every day. If they don’t pack ten or eight baskets of pig grass every day, it won’t be enough.

Mr. Ye was very happy when he thought of the big fat pigs at home. He would raise them for about a month before they would be ready for slaughter. When they were raised for slaughter, they would be at least 1 kilograms or 220 kilograms.

For the pigs raised at home this year, Mr. Ye plans to pay for help from Dashan Village to make bacon like last year. The price of bacon is much more expensive than that of adult pigs.

There were many fresh pigweed growing beside the stream. Mr. Ye and Ye Xilin were hunting pigweed, while Ye Qingqing picked watercress and planned to make fried bacon and cold watercress at night.

When Mr. Ye was cutting pig grass, he saw a lot of wild onions. He turned around and said to Ye Qingqing: "Qingqing, why don't you dig some more wild onions by the way? You like to eat scrambled eggs with wild onions."

The wild onions at this time are a bit old, but the taste is more fragrant than in spring. Mr. Ye will dig some back every time he goes up the mountain.

This wild onion is good whether used for scrambled eggs or pancakes. Mrs. Ye especially likes the aroma of wild onions.

Ye Qingqing's voice rose and she responded loudly: "Okay, I'll dig up the water celery later after I finish picking it."

There was a large patch of water celery on the edge of the stream, but it was a bit old. Ye Qingqing only picked the top buds, which made her hands sore. Ye Qingqing only picked half of the water celery in the basket.

Ye Qingqing looked at the water celery in the backpack, thinking that it was enough for dinner, and then carried the basket to look for wild onions.

When Father Ye came to Xiaohou Mountain, he saw pigweed piled up like a hill. When he heard that there were hundreds of kilograms of chestnuts and persimmons, he suddenly felt a headache. How could he transport so much back?

Mr. Ye patted Father Ye's shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay. I'll just walk a couple more times."

At this time, people in the village were either in the fields or on the mountains, and there were few people on the road. Father Ye planned to transport the chestnuts and persimmons back first, and then the pigweed last.

When Father Ye transported a cart full of chestnuts home, Mrs. Ye and Mother Ye had already returned. They were smiling and murmuring in low voices. It seemed that they were quite satisfied with the girl from the Wang family.

Tang Xiaojing happened to be playing with Dahuang and Xiaohuang in the yard, and then Tang Xiaojing was captured and drove the bullock cart to Xiaohou Mountain with Ye's father.

When the two passed by the mountain behind the village, they saw many people in the village threshing chestnuts in the mountain behind.

Father Ye looked at Tang Xiaojing: "Didn't your father say that there are several chestnut trees and other fruit trees in Stone Mountain? They should all be mature by this time, right?"

"It should be all mature. I'll go to the mountain to check it out tomorrow." Tang Xiaojing has been busy with the autumn harvest some time ago, and Tang Xiaojing hasn't gone to the mountain to check it out for a long time.

In addition to a few chestnut trees on the mountain, there are also two persimmon trees and a hawthorn tree. Before the autumn harvest, the trees are full of fruits.

Ye Qingqing likes to eat candied haws, and there happened to be a hawthorn tree on the mountain. Tang Xiaojing thought it would be good to pick some hawthorns and make them into candied haws.

Tang Xiaojing's ox cart was larger and could hold more things than Ye's father's donkey cart. One ox cart could hold both persimmons and pigweed.

Seeing that the donkey cart was still empty, Father Ye simply called a few people to pick all the chestnuts from the chestnut trees.

This year’s chestnut and persimmon harvests have been bumper. Everyone is very happy when they think of the hundreds of kilograms of chestnuts and hundreds of kilograms of persimmons picked today.

After returning home, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye gave a large bag of chestnuts to everyone they knew.

Old Mrs. Ye even took a basket full of chestnuts to Matchmaker Wang's house.

When she came back, Mrs. Ye had already agreed with Matchmaker Wang that she would go to Wangjia Village tomorrow to discuss the matter of Ye Donglin and the Wang family girl seeing each other.

Mother Ye returned to her parents' home carrying a basket of chestnuts.

Grandpa Ye is 52 years old this year and is not within the scope of the corvee, but his eldest uncle, second uncle and eldest cousin are all within the scope of the corvee.

Grandma Ye couldn't bear the suffering of her son and grandson, so she took 20 taels of silver from the money from selling honeysuckle and replaced their family's place as a corvee.

As soon as Ye Mu entered the yard, she saw Grandma Ye and her second aunt sitting on a small bench choosing vegetables.

When the second aunt saw Ye Mu coming back, she stood up and took the basket from Ye Mu's back and said with a smile, "Why did you bring so many chestnuts here?"

Mother Ye was in a very good mood and said cheerfully: "They were all picked in Xiaohou Mountain. This year's chestnut harvest is a big one. In addition to the two chestnut trees in Xiaohou Mountain, there is also a small chestnut forest on the side of Zhulin Mountain."

Then Mother Ye talked about Ye Donglin and the girl from the Wang family.

"Tomorrow, ask the matchmaker to go to the Wang family to discuss the two of them meeting each other. This Wang family girl is quite good. I was worried that he could not find a wife before, but I didn't expect that this boy has found a wife by himself."

The second aunt was very envious, "Donglin is still clever."

Thinking of her silly boy, the second aunt was very disgusted and didn't even get her daughter-in-law back even though she was so old.

Ye Mu then said: "Fengsheng said that in a few days we will be selling our mountain products and red dates on the dock. Do we want to transport our red dates to the dock for sale?"

Grandma Ye waved her hand, "No, we don't have many red dates at home. We can just sell them in the town at the end of the year."

"At the end of the year, people who have been doing corvee work have returned. After doing the corvee work, everyone's body is so weak that they must cut some meat or buy some good things to replenish their health. It's a good time to sell red dates."

Ye's mother's eyes lit up, "Mom, you have a great idea. Set up a stall and sell it in bulk. The price is much higher than wholesale on the dock. I will go back and talk to Fengsheng and set up a stall at the end of the year. red dates."

"There are also temple fairs. There are temple fairs in the town and county at the end of the year. Last year, persimmons and braised pork were sold very well at the temple fairs."

"These red dates can also be sold at the temple fair. Besides, mother, you are good at craftsmanship. It would be good to make some red date hair cakes or red date steamed buns and set up a stall at the temple fair."