The happy little days of the Ye family

Father Ye had not been to Fujia Village for several years. When he arrived at the entrance of the village, two tall, fierce-looking big yellow dogs suddenly jumped out.

The two big yellow dogs bared their teeth and barked wildly at the big green donkey. The donkey stopped and started to become restless.

Fortunately, in the open space at the entrance of the village, many women gathered together to do needlework and chat, and they called back the two fierce dogs.

Ye's father hasn't been to Fujia Village to sell goods for a long time. People in the village have long forgotten Ye's father. The aunt in the village questioned him for a long time when he saw him alive.

Knowing that Father Ye was a salesman who came here to sell goods, I remembered that he was the former salesman Ye.

There is a big banyan tree at the entrance of Fujia Village. People in the village like to gather here on weekdays. Father Ye parked the donkey cart under the tree and moved the things down quickly.

There is a large open space next to it, and there are six young children playing the game of eagle and chicken.

Seeing a salesman coming, there were two greedy children. They left their friends and ran directly towards Ye's father.

"Uncle, do you have any candy?" A five or six-year-old girl asked with her head tilted and a milky voice.

"Yes, maltose costs two yuan for one penny, and maltose costs one penny for one piece. Which one does the little girl want?" Looking at the soft little girl, Father Ye's voice became softer unconsciously.

"I want two yuan for one penny." The little girl took out a copper plate from her pocket and stretched her chubby little hand in front of Father Ye.

"Okay, uncle, I'll get you some candy." Father Ye gave the little guy two pieces of candy, and then happily took the copper plate.

Looking at the chubby little girl in front of him, Father Ye immediately thought of Ye Qingqing's childhood. The little girl used to be so greedy. Every time the salesman came, she would be the fastest runner.

One time, she accidentally dropped some candy on cow dung. The little girl cried so miserably that half the village could hear her.

In the end, Father Ye bought two more pieces of candy and coaxed the little girl to get better.

Time flies so fast, and in the blink of an eye, the little girl who used to follow me around has become a child.

"I want a piece of maltose and two pieces of caramel." The older boy next to him interrupted Father Ye's memories.

"Okay! Take it, don't drop it on the ground."

The two children ate the candies and ran back to find their friends. However, the children who originally played together had already run home to look for adults to get money.

Seeing that all their friends were gone, the two children held hands and went home together smiling.

The children at the entrance of the village ran home acting coquettishly and wanted to buy candies. People in the village gradually learned that a salesman was coming. As soon as Father Ye packed up his things, a lot of people gathered around the stall.

Father Ye opened his voice and started shouting:

"The rouge and gouache that everyone in the county loves to use, all kinds of beautiful fabrics, couplets, spring lights, red lanterns used for the New Year, and delicious candy and spiced melon seeds, come and take a look!"

It's the end of the year soon, and people in the village are waiting for the salesmen to come and buy new year's goods. Soon the stalls are crowded with people.

The small bundles of rags were almost delivered when we were in Fangjia Village, and now there are only three bundles left.

However, there are still about 10 bundles of large pieces of cloth on the stall, and Father Ye plans to give these as gifts.

"Aunts, aunts, and ladies, if you buy anything over 50 yuan from the stall, you will receive a bundle of large pieces of cloth as a gift. The more you buy, the more you will get."

Father Ye picked up a bundle and showed it to the people around him, "The one I have is enough to make clothes for a child. Buying it alone costs 5 cents per bundle."

The women at the stall became more active when they had something to give. Those who were rich would pull some fabrics to make new clothes for their families, and buy some couplets. In one fell swoop, they had saved 50 Wen.

For those who are in a tight situation, several people can work together to get the cloth and then divide it up. Such a big piece of cloth can be used for many purposes.

"Mr. Ye, give me 10 feet of this red fabric. It's red and festive. It's perfect for making new clothes for the children. I also want the red headband on the side. Please bring me a roll of white thread."

"I want two couplets and two Chunhui. This rabbit looks good. Give me half of it."

"Mr. Ye, I want a box of rouge. I don't want a cloth. Can you give me a silk flower?"

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Fujia Village is close to the Luo River. It not only has a lot of fertile farmland, but also can make money by fishing in the river. It is much richer than ordinary villages.

Just now in Fangjia Village, most of the items sold were coarse linen cloths. When they arrived in Fujia Village, most of the items sold by the women were fine linen items.

Other rouge, gouache, facial oil, and hair oil were also sold very well. Father Ye was so busy that he almost had no time to collect the money.

A shrewd aunt pulled Ye's father and asked: "Seller Ye, can you exchange the dried fish for the things on the stall?"

The fish in the river doesn't cost anything. If you can exchange the dried fish for something, it's much more cost-effective than buying it directly. For a moment, everyone in the stall became quiet and looked at Father Ye neatly.

"Yes, in addition to exchanging dried fish for things, I also accept embroidery items, including embroidered pictures, purses and handkerchiefs."

Fujia Village is close to the town and relatively wealthy. Many of the wives in the village were married from the town, and there are many women who can do embroidery.

Knowing that dried fish can be exchanged for items and embroidery items are collected, everyone in the stall immediately ran away.

Two other aunts wanted to return the things they just bought and exchange them for dried fish, but Father Ye refused.

After a while, many people came back with dried fish, which they could exchange for things. These women did not care about those who had only two pennies, and were very generous with their money.

The fabrics were bought in whole pieces, and the fat and thin cured pork belly and rabbit were very popular. Several red lanterns that had never been sold were replaced.

Several men came over with dried fish and brought back some beautiful fabrics and silk flowers for their wives.

There were also a few little kids who went home and stole the dried fish from the house, then came to Father Ye in exchange for candy.

Father Ye saw that several children felt guilty. He knew without thinking that these things were stolen. He did not dare to collect their dried fish for fear that the adults at home would come and make trouble.

Father Ye persuaded them to take the dried fish back or bring the adults over in exchange for sweets.

Several children were unwilling to leave, and soon two women with canes came and chased their children all over the village.

The two naughty children were beaten until they screamed. When they heard the screams of their friends, the remaining three children quickly took the dried fish home.

But it was already too late. After a while, there were several more angry roars from women in the village, followed by the sounds of being beaten and wailing.

Those who had exchanged their goods quickly ran back to watch the excitement, and some even bought two handfuls of melon seeds from Father Ye.

After a while, several women selling embroidery came to the stall.

Several embroiderers made good embroidery work. One of them was about the same level as Ye Mu, but she only made small embroidery pictures.

The remaining three are at the same level as Wang Duoduo and others, and they make small embroidered pictures and exquisite embroidered handkerchiefs.

It was almost the end of the year, and they had saved a lot of embroidery products. They originally planned to go to the county to sell them and then buy new year goods. When they heard that a seller was collecting embroidery products, they came over to have a look.

Originally, they thought that Father Ye was just an ordinary salesman and the price he offered wouldn't be too high, so they didn't hold out much hope.

Unexpectedly, the price offered by Father Ye was even half a cent higher than the price of the embroidery shop in the county, so he quickly ran to his house again to get all the embroidery items.

Because these embroideries were sold in the county, the workmanship and materials used were very good. Father Ye accepted all the embroideries that were brought over.

Father Ye brought a cart full of things before going out, and now he has sold most of them, and returned with half a cart of dried fish and a large bag of embroidery.