The happy little days of the Ye family

"Qingqing's embroidery is ready, mother, let's go to the county to sell the embroidery tomorrow." Ye's mother finally remembered the business.

"Okay, your second sister-in-law and Yue Yatou's embroidery has been finished a long time ago. Let's go to the county early tomorrow morning."

"Your second sister-in-law's embroidery thread is almost used up. I just came back to buy some embroidery thread. Yue Yatou also wants to buy some new silk cloth."

Ye Qingqing stayed up late last night doing embroidery. Actually, it was because everyone else had finished their embroidery and they were all waiting for her. She was a little embarrassed and wanted to finish it earlier.

Mother Ye cheerfully demolished her daughter, "This girl, Qingqing, stayed up late last night doing embroidery. When I woke up today, she actually used the wrong stitch."

"The mistake is still the most basic stitching technique. I am still modifying the embroidery at home. This girl is reckless."

Grandma Ye patted Mother Ye's arm with a smile on her face, "You, this mother-in-law is still laughing at her own daughter."

Mother Ye is not embarrassed at all. She is not an outsider and has nothing to say.

"Where's Yue Yatou? Why haven't you seen her?" Mother Ye asked casually without seeing her niece.

At this time, Mrs. Li just came out of the kitchen, "I'm making clothes for Li Yan in the house."

Li Yan is Wang Yueya's fiancé and now works as an accountant in a grain store in the town.

Ye's mother gossiped: "I heard that Li Yan's salary has been increased. Now he gets one or two and a half wages a month. Is this true?"

"I have heard about it, but we are too embarrassed to ask the Li family."

Ms. Li returned to her parents’ home some time ago and saw the Li family beaming with joy. This must be true.

Li Yan's family has a small shop for rent in the town. The Li family has revealed that they want Li Yan to open a small cloth shop by himself in two years.

Ye's mother sat at her parents' house for a long time. It was almost time to make lunch before she happily returned to Ye's house.

Ye's mother returned to the door of Ye's house. At this time, Mrs. Ye was no longer in the small vegetable garden.

At this time, Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing were choosing vegetables in the yard.

"Has the embroidery been changed?"

"Two small places were improved in less than a quarter of an hour." Ye Qingqing raised her little head proudly.

"Mom, go over and take a look. There must be no problem this time."

This peony picture took Ye Qingqing 4 months to complete. It is the most difficult embroidery Ye Qingqing has ever done, and it is also the best embroidery picture.

Ye Qingqing was quite satisfied with the embroidery this time and felt that it would be no problem to sell it for 30 taels of silver.

Ye Qingqing dropped the spinach in his hand and anxiously pulled Ye Mu towards his house.

Ye Mu carefully looked at the embroidery picture modified by Ye Qingqing. This peony picture was indeed good, with solid embroidery skills and good color matching. It looked both delicate and grand.

After two years of hard study and practice, Ye Qingqing's embroidery skills have now caught up with Ye's mother.

In Ye Mu's opinion, this peony embroidery has a tendency of being more blue than blue.

Mother Ye was very proud. Looking at the vivid peony picture, she praised with a smile:

"This embroidery is indeed well done. The embroidery skills are solid and the color is good. It has the style of your mother and me."

Ye Qingqing excitedly took Ye Mu's hand and asked, "Mom, do you think this picture can be sold for more than 30 taels?"

Since last year, Ye Qingqing's embroidery work has increased to 28 taels of silver per piece.

But for more than a year, Ye Qingqing has not broken through 30 taels.

30 taels is the dividing line for the highest level of embroidery workshops in the county. 30 taels and above are the best first-class embroidery products.

Currently, only Ye Mu and the three embroidery ladies in the embroidery workshop have reached this level.

Second cousin Wang Yueyue and Ye Qingqing are both in the second class, and their embroidery is about 28 taels.

The second aunt is a little worse. At the end of the second class, the embroidery is usually around 25 taels.

Ye Mu looked at it carefully again, and finally nodded to Ye Qingqing with satisfaction.

"I don't think it's a big problem to get first-class. I've already agreed with your grandma that we will go to the county early tomorrow morning to sell embroidery."

Ye Qingqing was very excited. She had a hunch that this time her embroidery would definitely get a first-class award.

"Okay, the embroidery has been done, so don't think about it anymore. Just think about what you want to embroider next."

For a good embroidery, in addition to embroidery skills, embroidery pattern and color matching are also very important.

Ye Qingqing has a talent for color matching, and has gradually developed her embroidery skills over the past few years, but good embroidery samples are hard to come by.

Weihai County is actually a small county town, and there are not very good embroidery samples.

The albums I bought at the bookstore had already been embroidered all over by Ye Qingqing.

"Mom, let's go to the bookstore after the embroidery is sold tomorrow. I want to buy some new albums."

Ye Qingqing said with a smile: "These embroidery samples at home are no longer worthy of my superb embroidery skills."

Mother Ye pinched Ye Qingqing's small and straight nose, "You are not ashamed."

However, Ye Mu also wanted to buy some new picture albums, but she couldn't always embroider the same kinds of embroidery patterns. The embroidery shop was not willing to accept the same embroidery pictures.

The mother and daughter stayed in the room for a while, then returned to the kitchen and started preparing today's lunch.

Today's lunch meal was relatively simple. Ye Mu steamed a smaller grass carp and made crucian carp soup.

Adding a piece of boiled spinach, the mother and daughter had finished today's lunch without using it for two quarters of an hour.

Ye Mu was serving crucian carp soup when rhubarb suddenly jumped out.

Ye Mu was startled and almost spilled the fish soup.

After a while, Xiao Huang, who had a big belly, came over smelling the fish soup.

Xiao Huang was pregnant, and Ye Mu specially served Xiao Huang a bowl of crucian carp soup.

Xiao Huang drank crucian carp soup happily, and the big tail behind him was almost wagging to the sky.

Da Huang on the side looked at it and drooled, looking at Ye Mu pitifully.

"You're not pregnant, so don't cheat on me by eating or drinking here."

Ye Mu sent Rhubarb away, and she and Ye Qingqing quickly put the food on the table.

At this time Tang Xiaojing also came over.

Tang Xiaojing returned from collecting a batch of herbal medicines from the medicine field on the mountain the day before yesterday. He has been busy preparing herbal medicines at home these two days.

Before Tang Xiaojing came closer, Ye Qingqing smelled a faint fragrance of herbs.

The corners of Ye Qingqing's mouth raised unconsciously, revealing the small dimples at the corners of his mouth, and his big watery eyes narrowed into crescents.

Tang Xiaojing has been dealing with herbal medicine all year round, and his body always carries a faint fragrance of herbal medicine.

Ye Qingqing thought the smell was quite pleasant, at least it didn't smell like sweat.

Tang Xiaojing saw something interesting and quickly helped clear the table together.

Immediately afterwards, Father Ye, Mr. Ye and Ye Xilin came back together.

Last night, Ye Xilin gave Ye's father money and asked Ye's father to help him buy a batch of bricks to build pig pens and rabbit sheds.

Father Ye went directly to Fang Lin and asked for several carts of bricks and bluestone slabs, as well as a lot of tiles.

In the morning, Father Ye took the people from the brick kiln and sent the tiles, green bricks and bluestone slabs to Xiaohoushan.

In the morning, Mr. Ye had already started building a pig pen with the long-term workers of the Ye family.

Pigs will arch the pigsty, so the lower part, which is half a person's height, is made of blue bricks, and the upper part is made of mud bricks.

The same goes for rabbit sheds. Rabbits can dig holes, so the floor is paved with bluestone slabs. The lower half-height part is also made of blue bricks, and the upper part is made of mud bricks.

Blue bricks are not cheap, so you can save a lot of money.

Mr. Ye led several long-term workers to dig foundations and culverts for sewage drainage in promising areas.

Ye Xilin led other long-term workers to smash mud embryos and make mud bricks.