The happy little days of the Ye family

The days passed day by day, winter turned to spring, and two years passed in the blink of an eye.

The past two years have been relatively smooth. After two years of hard work, the villagers of Taohua Village have reclaimed all the barren mountains and wasteland.

A large amount of wasteland has been turned into paddy fields and dry land. The mountains are also planted with honeysuckle and jujube trees, and some are even planted with bamboo forests.

There are more fields in the village, and the lives of the villagers are getting better and better.

The summer harvest has just ended, and the small grain seedlings have just been planted in the fields. Mr. Ye runs to the fields every day.

There were a small number of unplanted seedlings floating in the water. Mr. Ye took the specially set aside seedlings and led his family's long-term workers through each field to carefully replant them.

After Mr. Ye's careful management of the 50 acres of newly opened paddy fields in the past two years, he finally turned the wasteland into a low-grade paddy field.

The yield has also increased from the original 200 jins per acre to [-] jins per acre.

Of these paddy fields, 20 acres are at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain and 30 acres are at the foot of Zhulin Mountain.

Mr. Ye now takes his family's long-term workers to focus on taking care of the family's fields and hills. The number of long-term workers has also increased from 10 to 13 today.

Mr. Ye has already planned to set aside 10 acres of paddy field at the foot of Zhulin Mountain to give Ye Qingqing a dowry.

There are still more than two years before Ye Qingqing gets married. Mr. Ye is confident that he can turn the low-grade paddy fields at the foot of the mountain into medium-sized paddy fields before Ye Qingqing gets married.

In the past two years, Mrs. Ye has concentrated on making headbands and hair ties. Not only did she make them herself, she also hired two helpers from the village, Qiu Shuangzi and Ye Qingmei's mother, Huang.

Mrs. Ye is responsible for designing the pattern and doing the final stitching, while Mrs. Autumn Harvest and Mrs. Huang do some simple processes.

Father Ye found two merchants on the dock to supply them with goods.

Although the price is lower than selling in bulk, it is more stable. Mrs. Ye is very motivated every day.

Old Mrs. Ye is busy making money, and in the past two years, she has slowly delegated power to Mother Ye. All the food, drink and human relations at home have been taken care of by Mother Ye.

Father Ye sells braised pork on the dock every day as usual.

The braised pork served at Ye's father's stall is rich in variety and delicious, and it has become famous on the dock.

Dogwood was still discovered, and at the beginning of the year another stall selling spicy duck and spicy rabbit meat appeared on the pier.

Although Father Ye was the first to make it, and the price was affordable and the taste was good, the business of the braised pork stall has dropped a lot in the past six months.

Father Ye sets up a stall on the dock and is very well-informed. In the past two days, he has received news that the current county magistrate will soon be promoted to the capital city.

In recent days, Father Ye has been worried that the county magistrate is about to be promoted, and many wealthy households in the county have been eyeing the stalls on the dock.

There is also news that someone has already established a good relationship with the newly elected county government and wants to buy the stalls on the dock for exclusive business.

Father Ye and Ye Donglin set up a stall on the dock. They were considered traveling merchants and did not have to pay taxes.

If Father Ye opens a braised meat shop, he will have to register with the Yamen. In addition to paying taxes every month, he may also become a merchant if his business gets bigger in the future.

Therefore, Ye’s father never wanted to open a braised pork shop directly, and he also couldn’t bear to part with the stall on the pier.

Seeing that Ye's father looked sad every day, Mr. Ye pulled him into the room.

"Our family has so much land and two mountains. After all, we are still landlords and squires."

"It's impossible to count merchants. Don't those landlords have a few shops? You're just worrying."

In fact, Mr. Ye also has plans to set up a stall at the pier where the weather is exposed to wind and rain, and the stall is still rented and may be taken back at any time.

Moreover, the business of the braised pork stalls on the pier is not as good as before, so there is no need to stick to the pier.

Mr. Ye feels that his own shop is more stable.

"In the past two years, my family has saved some money, which is enough to knock down the old house over the academy and rebuild it. As mentioned before, we will build two front shops and a courtyard behind the house."

"If we can't set up stalls at the pier, you and Dong Lin can just open a grocery store and a braised meat shop."

"But that's the third house at the end of the alley. Is the location a little different?" Father Ye was a little worried.

"There are students studying in the academy near the house. These people have money. As long as they have money, they are afraid of no business."

"Besides, it's close to home in the town. You and your son don't have to spend an hour and a half every day rushing to the county."

After some enlightenment from Mr. Ye, Father Ye thought it would be good to open a braised pork shop near the academy in the future.

Ever since Mrs. Ye became the shopkeeper, Mother Ye has become busier and busier. She was still in a hurry at the beginning. Fortunately, she has Ye Qingqing as a little helper.

Now Ye Mu has kept the house in order, and Ye Qingqing has also learned how to manage the house.

Ye's mother has a soft temper. Since she started taking care of the house, she has become much more aggressive, and she has become more and more like Mrs. Ye.

Ye's mother's embroidery has been getting better and better in the past two years. Now a large embroidery picture can be sold for 30 taels of silver. The money earned from embroidery is no less than that of Ye's father's braised pork stall.

Ye Donglin still sets up a stall on the pier, but the items on the stall are becoming more and more abundant.

Moreover, Ye Donglin had separated from Ye's father a year ago, used his own money to purchase goods, and became a veritable boss of Xiaoye.

Over the past year, Ye Donglin's grocery stall has been doing well, and he has already saved his wife's book.

As soon as the summer harvest was over, Ye Donglin celebrated his 17th birthday, and the wedding date of Ye Donglin and Wang Chunyu was set after the autumn harvest.

In half a year, the Ye family also began to prepare for Ye Donglin's marriage.

Ye Qingqing has also grown from a 13-year-old girl to a pretty 15-year-old girl, but she still loves to laugh as before.

Tang Xiaojing's eyes looked at Ye Qingqing with increasing intensity, and he spent more time at Ye's house every day than at his own home.

Even Tangshan joked that his son was almost becoming the Ye family's son-in-law.

Ye Xilin has changed the most. The former chubby boy has turned into a tall and strong young man. He is now taller than Ye Qingqing.

The 13-year-old boy is tall and strong. Many little girls in the village often come to peek at him. The doorstep of the Ye family is almost broken by matchmakers.

However, Ye Xilin was focused on his pig-raising business and had not yet realized what he was doing, so the flirtatious looks from those little girls did not notice him at all.

Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin are still young, and they won't build a house on the homestead they bought next door for a while.

Ye Xilin asked Mr. Ye to build the wall of the homestead first, and then built several pig pens inside specifically for raising pigs.

After two years of exploration, Ye Xilin has become a famous pig farmer from all over the country.

Now the Ye family raises thirty fat pigs at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain, and the Ye family and the new homestead are used to raise sows and piglets.

Now the Ye family has ten sows, which can give birth to dozens of piglets every six months.

Because the Ye family's piglets were only supplied to their own family and the Tang family, Aunt Liu did not fall out with the Ye family and enthusiastically taught Ye Xilin how to care for these sows.

In addition to pigs, there are also two hundred rabbits raised at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain. Ye Xilin is responsible for taking care of the pigs and rabbits at home.

One of him and Mr. Ye are responsible for taking care of the fields, and the other is responsible for taking care of the family's livestock. The grandfather and grandson take care of the Ye family's property very well.

The Tang family is also living a prosperous life. The rabbit breeding farm at the foot of the mountain is getting better and better. Last year, Tang Xiaojing built two new rabbit sheds.

In addition, Tang Xiaojing also raised pigs at the foot of the mountain. With pig manure and rabbit manure, the paddy fields in the valley were getting better and better.

Tang Xiaojing also planted many herbs on Stone Mountain, and Rabbit Mountain also planted some common herbs that were easy to feed.