The happy little days of the Ye family

Because of the gambling incident, all the juniors in the village were beaten up, and the most unruly second-rate in the village had to keep their tails between their legs for fear that the village chief's whip would hit them.

The three people kneeling in the ancestral hall were whipped until their flesh was bloody. Many children in the village had nightmares that night.

Mother Ye was worried that her children would have nightmares and got up at night.

Although Ye Donglin is a 14-year-old boy, he had just experienced being tricked into going to a casino by his brother during the day. Ye's mother was worried that he would think too much and came to Ye Donglin's room uneasy.

Mother Ye gently opened the door and looked inside, but there was no one on the bed.

"Why is there no one? Where did this kid Donglin go?"

Mother Ye quietly went to Ye Xilin's house next door, opened the door and saw that the two brothers were hugging each other and sleeping soundly.

Ye Mu smiled and shook her head, went into the house, picked up the quilt that fell on the ground, and gently covered the two brothers.

Ye's mother finally came to Ye Qingqing's house. Ye Qingqing was very caring. What happened during the day had no impact on her at all. She slept like a little pig, and her little face was rosy and very cute.

Mother Ye didn't go in. She closed the door gently and went back to the house to continue sleeping.

On the second day of the second grade of junior high school, it was time to return to her parents' home. Mother Ye happily brought her husband and children, carrying a lot of things, and several people arrived at Grandma Ye's house.

As soon as they came in, they saw several baskets and small hoes placed in the yard.

Seeing Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin coming over, several cousins ​​took the two brothers to dig winter bamboo shoots in the back mountain.

Grandma Ye waved her hand and said in disgust, "Let's go, let's go, it's going to make my head hurt if I make a fuss here."

After receiving permission, several teenagers ran out in a swarm.

The second aunt looked at these energetic teenagers and felt that she was much younger. She cheerfully shouted at the backs of those who had been a few years old:

"Come back early for lunch. At noon, we have stewed chicken with bamboo fungus, braised pork and sweet and sour pork ribs."

Ye Xilin was a little greedy when he heard the name of the dish reported by his second aunt, but he was pulled away by the brothers.

The second cousin turned back and shouted to his second aunt: "We will come back when the basket is full."

Since the Ye family collected winter bamboo shoots in the village last year, the winter bamboo shoots on the mountain this year have been targeted by the villagers for a long time.

Starting a month ago, people in the village began to search for winter bamboo shoots all over the mountains and fields.

The second uncle did not go to do corvee service. He took a few cousins ​​to dig a lot of winter bamboo shoots in the mountains.

Years ago, Ye's father had collected two batches of winter bamboo shoots in the village and sold them both to the Liang Family Restaurant in the county.

Although yesterday's incident left the village silent for a day, when they woke up early this morning, the women in the village happily returned to their parents' homes with large and small bags of things.

The men and children in the village carried baskets on their backs and hoes to look for winter bamboo shoots in the mountains.

There are many people in the nearby mountains, gathering together in twos and threes, chatting and digging winter bamboo shoots. You can kill two birds with one stone while killing time and making money.

Ye Donglin and others arrived late, and there was no good spot in the back mountain. The second cousin led a few people over the back mountain to a hill that was not often visited by people in the village.

There is a small bamboo forest at the top of the mountain. Because this bamboo forest is relatively small and far away from the village, no one has come here to dig winter bamboo shoots.

The brothers took small hoes and started digging winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest.

The last time Ye Donglin dug winter bamboo shoots was last year. His skills were not good at first. After a year, his skills were even more rusty. He couldn't find a single winter bamboo shoot for a long time.

Ye Donglin looked at Ye Xilin next to him. He had already dug two fat and white winter bamboo shoots and was happily digging the third one.

The eldest cousin and the younger cousin started digging winter bamboo shoots in the village years ago. Practice makes perfect. They are quick and accurate when digging up winter bamboo shoots. Both of them already had several winter bamboo shoots in their baskets.

Even his second cousin, who was about the same level as him last year, had two small winter bamboo shoots in his basket.

Ye Donglin sighed. He really didn't have the talent to find winter bamboo shoots.

Ye Donglin, who found nothing, simply gave up and looked for herbs in the mountains.

The stalls on the pier do not always have customers. In the afternoon, the pier is relatively deserted, and sometimes there is no customer for a long time.

Ye Donglin simply brought all the storybooks and books on herbal medicine at home to the dock, so that he could pass the time when no one was around.

Among the herbs in the book, Ye Donglin remembered that there were several that could be found in the mountains. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Ye Donglin to find several common herbs on the mountain.

Ye Donglin stood on the top of the mountain and looked forward, and found that the Tang family's stone mountain was in front of him.

This mountain is called Shuangfeng Mountain, which is far away from the village. Ye Donglin rarely comes to this mountain.

Ye Donglin stood on the top of the mountain and looked down, and found a very large chestnut tree not far from him behind the mountain.

Ye Donglin quickly called several brothers over and prepared to go down there to pick chestnuts.

Seeing that this small patch of bamboo forest had been dug out, the brothers walked shoulder to shoulder and walked down the mountain.

This chestnut tree is very big, but I found it a little late. Most of the chestnuts have fallen to the ground, and there are only a few sparse chestnuts left on the tree.

The eldest cousin squatted down and peeled out a few chestnuts on the ground. He found that the inside was still intact, so he quickly called to the brothers and picked up the chestnuts together.

The second cousin asked the others to go away quickly and not stand under the chestnut tree. "Disperse first. I'll knock down the chestnuts from the tree and then we can pick them up together."

After saying that, he turned around and found another long bamboo pole, and slapped it on the tree, and the already endangered chestnuts fell like raindrops.

The second cousin looked at the chestnuts on the ground with a bright smile on his face, "This tree has so many chestnuts."

"Peel off the shell first, otherwise it will be difficult to take it back."

These chestnuts weighed two to three hundred kilograms after they were peeled, and except for Ye Donglin, the baskets on their backs were all filled with winter bamboo shoots.

Seeing that there was nothing to put the chestnuts in, the brothers simply took off their coats and wrapped the chestnuts in their clothes.

Ye Xilin looked at the big bag of chestnuts and the basket full of winter bamboo shoots in his hand, and said with a smile: "Today's harvest is really good."

When the brothers returned home, Grandma Ye and Mother Ye had already prepared meals and were waiting for these skinny monkeys to come back.

When Grandma Ye saw how many people had brought back so many chestnuts, she simply cooked another large pot of chestnuts in the pot.

Before eating, Grandma Ye added a huge piece of wood to the stove and cooked it until after lunch, just in time to eat chestnuts.