The happy little days of the Ye family

Ye Xilin and Ye Mu finished picking persimmons. When they arrived at the sunflower field on the top of the mountain, Mrs. Ye and others had already harvested all the sunflower seeds.

Mother Ye was very happy to see the sunflower seeds piled up like a hill, and said cheerfully: "There are so many sunflower seeds, I will fry a few more different flavors during the Chinese New Year."

Usually, the melon seeds fried by Yemu are mostly five-flavored or salty melon seeds.

This year, spicy duck products are available, and Ye Mu wants to try spicy melon seeds, or stir-fry melon seeds with braised pork and aniseed ingredients.

The braised pork with these aniseed ingredients is delicious, and it shouldn’t taste bad when used to stir-fry melon seeds, right? Ye Mu can’t wait to go back and try it.

Ye Xilin likes to eat sweet food. He looked at Ye Mu and said, "Mom, why don't you try frying melon seeds with sugar? Or try adding some honey. Anyway, we have honey at home."

Old Mrs. Ye glared at Ye Xilin, "How expensive is this honey? I keep it to sell honey water on the dock. The honey at home is not allowed to be touched."

Ye Mu has never eaten sweet melon seeds before, and she really wants to fry some sweet melon seeds to try, "Okay, I will add sugar and fry some sweet melon seeds to try at the end of the year."

Old Mrs. Ye looked at these prodigal sons and was about to curse them when Ye Qingqing on the side spoke first.

"The pier is full of stall owners or merchants doing business. It should be quite popular to bring some melon seeds to sell on the pier."

Mrs. Ye thinks it makes sense, "The stall owners on the pier are not always busy. When there are no customers, it is good to eat melon seeds to kill time."

Mrs. Ye didn't say anything anymore. She took out the wild onion pancakes she had made in the morning and a large bag of braised eggs from her backpack.

"You've been busy all morning and you're all hungry. Come here and have something to eat."

Mr. Ye held a pile of half-dried weeds and said, "You guys eat first. I'll light the weeds first and leave a braised egg for me."

"I just know how to eat." Mrs. Ye continued to nag, but she still left pancakes and braised eggs for Mr. Ye.

Mr. Ye lit the weeds in his hand and put them under the beehive, intending to use the thick smoke to drive away the bees.

Old Mrs. Ye was afraid of bees stinging people, so she quickly took Ye Qingqing and others farther away and sat under the shade of a tree to slowly eat pancakes.

After Mr. Ye lit the weeds on fire, he went back to eat pancakes with Ye Qingqing and the others.

When Mr. Ye saw Ye Qingqing wrapping the peeled braised eggs on the pancake and eating it with gusto, he also wrapped the braised eggs in the pancake and started eating hard. After working all morning, he was already hungry.

By the time a few people had finished their lunch, all the bees in the beehive had flown away.

Mr. Ye took Ye Xilin to harvest honey. This was the first harvest of honey since the beehive was placed here.

As soon as he opened the lid of the beehive, Ye Qingqing, who was standing far away, could smell the fragrance of honey.

Mr. Ye looked at the huge honeycomb inside the beehive and said with a smile: "There is really a lot of honey in here."

Mr. Ye took a sharp sickle and cut off more than half of the honeycomb inside the beehive. The honey from the cut dripped down the sickle, and the sweet smell in the air became more intense.

Ye Xilin on the side quickly handed over the bucket in his hand, and Mr. Ye put the hive into the clean bucket.

Seeing Ye Xilin looking at the honey in the bucket eagerly, Mr. Ye broke off a small piece of honey and stuffed it into Ye Xilin's mouth.

Ye Xilin ate the honey and said happily: "This honey is so sweet, and it has a faint floral flavor."

Mr. Ye waved to Ye Qingqing and broke off a small piece of honey and handed it to Ye Qingqing.

Father Ye placed two beehives in this sunflower field. Mr. Ye also opened the other beehive. The honey inside was almost the same as before.

Mr. Ye cut off more than half of the beehive. The two hives filled the buckets to the brim. Mr. Ye lifted them and found that they weighed about eleven or two kilograms.

After the autumn harvest, Father Ye harvested all the honey from the beehives in Xiaohoushan and at home, harvesting sixty or seventy kilograms of honey.

These honey leaves are not intended to be sold in drug stores. They are intended to be used to make honey water and sold.

A pound of honey can be sold for more than 40 Wen at most. If it is soaked into honey water, a pound of honey can earn 140 Wen. Naturally, it is better to sell honey water.

Because of the spicy duck products and spicy braised meat, Ye’s father’s braised pork stall owner has accumulated a large number of regular customers and merchants from Shu.

Now Ye's father can sell more than 20 bowls of honey water every day. The owner of Ye's braised pork stall is famous on the dock and in the county. There are still people in the county who go to the dock to buy Ye's spicy duck products.

Of course, Ye's spicy duck products are still not as good as the century-old shop near the Escort Bureau, but Father Ye's food is not bad in taste and the price is cheap, so he is also famous.

The donkey cart could not reach the mountain and could only stop at the edge of the pond at the foot of the mountain. Before Father Ye came over, Mr. Ye and a few people transported the sunflower seeds from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing were exhausted when they reached the foot of the mountain.

Mr. Ye: "The chestnuts are too heavy. Xiuxiu and Qingqing, you two, don't move the chestnuts. Just stay here and hunt pigweed."

"The pigs at home eat a lot now. In addition, the fish in the pond also eat pigweed. You should kill more pigweed."

The two nodded. Since they were weak, they would definitely not be able to move the chestnuts. They might as well shoot pigweed at the foot of the mountain.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing cut pigweed separately. Yemu was responsible for cutting pigweed and feeding it to the pigs at home, while Ye Qingqing was responsible for cutting pigweed to feed the fish in the pond.

There is also a stream not far from the pond. There are many pigweed and water celery growing on both sides of the stream. You can cut a large handful at a time.

Ye Qingqing threw a large bundle of pigweed into the pond, and half-sized fish fry as big as four or five fingers swam over from all around to eat.

While the fish were busy eating grass, Ye Qingqing squatted on the edge of the pond and fished out a few small fish with a gourd and ladle.

After catching a few fish in the water, they were all scared away. Ye Qingqing had no choice but to continue hunting pigweed. The new pigweed thrown into the river attracted a new batch of fish to come in and eat.

Ye Qingqing also squatted by the water with a gourd and gourd to catch fish, and this time he caught six or seven small fish.

Ye Qingqing kept repeating, and after the pig grass was cut and most of the fry in the bucket had been fished out, Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu carried the fry to the large puddle in Xiaohoushan.

Mother Ye carried the bucket and poured all the fry in the bucket into the puddle. Once in the water, the panicked fish scattered around.

Ye Mu took a closer look and saw that most of them were grass carp, as well as a few carp and a dozen small crucian carp.

The water celery beside the stream grew very well. Ye Qingqing simply cut a few large handfuls of water celery and threw them into the puddle. Greedy little fish swam over from all directions.

Ye Mu also threw several large bundles of pigweed into the puddle and looked at the fish in the water happily, "Eat more, and next year we can also eat fish raised in spring water."

Fortunately, these little fish couldn't understand what Ye Mu said, otherwise they would be too scared to eat.