The happy little days of the Ye family

All the food at home has been planted, and most of the rabbits and plums in the rabbit shed have been taken away.

But there are still some small rabbits and dozens of breeding rabbits in the rabbit shed, and there are still more than 30 half-sized pigs in the pig pen at the foot of the mountain.

Rabbits and pigs are inseparable from care. Since the family's long-term laborer went to join the corvee, Mr. Ye and his father moved to the foot of the mountain to prevent anyone from stealing rabbits and pigs at night.

Mr. Ye took his father and Ye Donglin together, and the three of them took care of the rabbit shed and pig pen at the foot of the mountain every day. Occasionally, when they were free, they went to the bamboo forest to collect bamboo fungus.

Ye Xilin wakes up early every day and goes to work till dusk to cut pig grass, cook pig food, and carefully take care of the ten breeding pigs at home.

Although busy, the Ye family has basically returned to its previous peaceful days.

Mr. Ye and his father moved to live at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain. Mrs. Ye and his mother always slept uneasily at night.

When the sky was still gray, Mrs. Ye and Mother Ye got up, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked to the kitchen.

Old Mrs. Ye plans to bake some wild vegetable, green onion and egg pancakes. The men in the family do strenuous work. If they don't eat, they won't be able to bear it.

Ye Mu on the side cooked a large pot of sweet potato porridge and boiled eggs for everyone.

The salted duck eggs pickled years ago have been eaten long ago. There is no time to make them during spring plowing, and the freshly made ones are not ready to eat yet.

Without the salted duck eggs, Ye Mu would cook a large pot of hard-boiled eggs every day during this period.

The family's braised pork shop is not open for business, and the family has accumulated a lot of eggs and duck eggs.

There have been a lot of things at home recently, so Mrs. Ye didn't take eggs or duck eggs to the town to sell.

Yesterday, Mrs. Ye took Ye Qingqing, and they made all the duck eggs at home into salted duck eggs.

As for the eggs, Mother Ye made them into various delicious dishes. During this period, everyone lost weight, so it was just a good time to replenish everyone's health.

Before having breakfast, Mrs. Ye packed the breakfast boxes for Mr. Ye and Father Ye.

When Ye Donglin went to Xiaohoushan later, he took the breakfast of father and son over.

Ye Qingqing used to eat slowly. After more than a month of busy work, Ye Qingqing now eats at a speed that has caught up with the rest of the family.

After the family quickly finished breakfast, they went to do their own things. Ye Qingqing packed up the dishes and went to the backyard to clean them.

Ye Donglin carried the big food box, and Ye Xilin pulled the cart. The two brothers came to Xiaohoushan together.

Father Ye and Mr. Ye lived in the house where Chang Gong lived before. The father and son got up early in the morning to cook pig food.

When the brothers arrived at Xiaohoushan, Mr. Ye and Father Ye had already fed the pigs and rabbits.

Mr. Ye took the food box from Ye Donglin and asked, "Is everything okay at home?"

Ye Donglin smiled and said, "Everything is fine."

Father Ye and Mr. Ye went back to the house to have breakfast. Ye Xilin beside them had already picked up a sickle to kill pigweed.

Since the beginning of spring, sows have become pregnant one after another, and now there are three pregnant sows at home.

The pregnant sow ate more and more day by day, so Ye Xilin could only take back some more pigweed.

Ye Donglin picked up the broom and went to clean the rabbit sheds. Now there are three rabbit sheds in the Ye family.

One of them raised breeding rabbits, and the remaining two rabbit sheds raised rabbits that had not yet grown up.

One is raising a little rabbit that has just been born, and the other is raising a half-grown rabbit.

The Ye family has dozens of acres of fields and is very short of fertilizer. When Mr. Ye goes up the mountain and sees animal excrement, he will pick it up and refill it.

All the rabbit excrement that was cleaned up was collected by Dong Lin and poured into the manure pit for fertilization.

Mr. Ye and Father Ye quickly had breakfast, and then the father and son went to clean the pig pen.

All the cleaned pig manure and dung water flowed into a large pit on the side, and the farmyard manure was used to fertilize the family's fields.

After cleaning the pigsty, Father Ye and Mr. Ye started to weed the pigs again. They all said that the half-grown pigs eat the poor me, and the half-grown pigs also eat much older pigs.

There are more than 30 half-sized pigs. Even if sweet potatoes and bean dregs are added to the pig food, the pig grass will cost four carts.

Father Ye and Mr. Ye basically spent the whole day cooking pig food and hunting pig grass.

Ye Donglin carried two backpacks in his hands and a large backpack behind his back. He used a sickle to cut young grass to feed the rabbits.

When he first started raising rabbits, they always struggled to survive. Later, Mr. Ye slowly discovered that rabbits cannot drink water, not even the dew on the grass.

Therefore, the grass for rabbits must be cut after the sun comes out and the dew has dried.

Although most of the rabbits were transported away, the rabbits in the three rabbit sheds also ate a lot. Ye Donglin had to cut young grass several times a day to feed the rabbits.

The men of the Ye family are busy outside, and Ye Qingqing and others at home are not idle either.

There was no grease in the breakfast dishes, so Ye Qingqing quickly washed them and then started cleaning the front and back yards.

After breakfast, the pig food had already been left to cool. Mother Ye and Mrs. Ye carried the pig food to the pig pen to feed the pigs.

Wang Chunyu also carried a small hoe and went to the abandoned small vegetable garden at the door to weed and turn over the ground.

It's a little late to plant vegetables now. We need to plant them quickly, otherwise there will be no vegetables to eat in the summer.

When he came to the small vegetable garden, Wang Chunyu found that there were many wild vegetables growing in the vegetable garden.

Wang Chunyu was very happy that the vegetables were available today.

Wang Chunyu quickly went back to the house, took out a small basket, and dug out all the edible wild vegetables.

After Mrs. Ye and Mother Ye finished feeding the pigs, Ye Qingqing had already cleaned the yard and fed the chickens.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing still have to make embroidery. The smell in the pig pen is strong, and Mrs. Ye won't let them clean the pig pen.

Mother Ye and Ye Qingqing wore gloves to carry water outside the pigsty, while Mrs. Ye was cleaning inside the pigsty.

The three of them worked hard for most of an hour before cleaning all the pig pens in the house.

After cleaning the pigsty, Mrs. Ye went to the small vegetable garden and weeded and plowed the ground with Wang Chunyu.

Everyone thinks they taste good if they eat wild vegetables occasionally. But if they eat them every day, they won’t be able to bear it. Mrs. Ye also misses the various vegetables she grows.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing took the wild vegetables dug by Wang Chunyu to the backyard to wash. After washing, it was time to prepare lunch.

At noon, Mr. Ye and Father Ye would come back for lunch, while Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin stayed at the foot of the mountain to take care of the rabbits and big fat pigs.

Because they had to bring lunch to the brothers, the Ye family's lunch was brought forward a little earlier, and Ye's mother and Ye Qingqing also started making lunch early.

Ye Mu thought that everyone had worked hard during this period, cooking all kinds of delicious food every day.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing made lunch, braised fish cubes, fried bamboo shoots with bacon, scrambled eggs and cold wild vegetables.

Although there are not many dishes, there is a big bowl full of everything.

As soon as Ye's mother and Ye Qingqing finished cooking, Mr. Ye and his father came back with a cart of pigweed.

In addition to pigweed, Mr. Ye also caught a large bucket of fish, which was enough to feed the family several meals.

After lunch, Father Ye and Mr. Ye hurried back to Xiaohoushan, and they had to deliver food to the brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin.