The happy little days of the Ye family

Father Ye returned home with half a donkey cart's worth of dried fish. As soon as he entered the door, he could smell the rich smell of spiced melon seeds.

Sunflower seeds are easy to grow, and they can be grown by scattering the seeds randomly in the mountains.

Everyone in the Ye family likes to eat melon seeds, and melon seeds can be sold for money. Mr. Ye grows a lot of them every year.

How can we celebrate the Chinese New Year without melon seeds? Ye Mu took Ye Xilin to fry melon seeds together in the afternoon.

There is a basket full of fried salty sunflower seeds and a small plate of original pumpkin seeds in the hall.

Now in the big iron pot in the kitchen, the five-flavored sunflower seeds are fried.

Ye Mu is the best at frying melon seeds, but Ye Mu is weak and will be exhausted after just one pot of frying. Ye Xilin will fry the rest, with Ye Mu responsible for directing and seasoning.

When Father Ye came to the kitchen in search of the smell, the spiced melon seeds in the pot were just ready to be cooked.

Father Ye was not afraid of burning it, so he took a melon seed directly from the pot and fried it at just the right temperature. It was fragrant, crispy and tasted very good.

At this time, there were sounds of chopping firewood outside. Father Ye came out with melon seeds and saw Tang Xiaojing chopping firewood in the open space next to the kitchen.

The Ye family has a large family and they have to make cakes every day. Firewood is used up very quickly, so Tang Xiaojing comes over every once in a while to help chop firewood.

Father Ye became more and more satisfied with Tang Xiaojing when he saw that his son-in-law was so smart.

At this time, Mrs. Ye and Ye Qingqing were sitting in the hall cutting window grilles. The grandfather and grandson spent the whole afternoon cutting a lot of window grilles with various patterns.

Except for a small part that was kept for the two families, Mrs. Ye planned to let Father Ye sell the rest at the stall.

The Chinese New Year is just a festive and lively time, so someone must have bought some window grilles to put on them.

Early in the morning, Father Ye came to North Street to set up a stall with a cart full of things.

"Couplets, spring lights, firecrackers, melon seeds, candies, red lanterns, beautiful fabrics, all kinds of rouge and gouache, everyone is passing by. Don't miss it. Come and take a look!"

Father Ye didn't come yesterday, and some people who planned to buy things for New Year gifts were disappointed. Today, as soon as Father Ye laid out the things, a lot of people came to the stall.

"Boss Ye, bring me six cans of honey." It was Butler Yang who spoke, followed by a young boy.

Member Yang thought the honey he had bought as a New Year gift was good, so he asked Butler Yang to come over and buy a few more cans to eat at home.

"Well, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. Butler Yang, would you like to see the firecrackers, couplets, Chunhui, and the red lanterns? You see how festive it is."

As he spoke, Father Ye took a pair of particularly large lanterns and handed them to Butler Yang.

"Bring me four pairs of this red lantern, and six pairs each of Chunhui and couplets."

Butler Yang saw that the bacon on the stall was fat and thin, and smelled particularly fragrant, so he added, "Bring me 5 kilograms of this bacon."

Big customers came as soon as it opened. After seeing off Butler Yang, Father Ye was as happy as if he had eaten honey in his heart, and the corners of his mouth never dropped.

Just after Butler Yang left, another mother and son came to the stall.

The young man had already carried large and small bags of things and looked exhausted, but the woman next to him was still in high spirits.

After looking at the things on the stall, the woman said:

"Boss Ye, bring me 3 jars of honey, 3 pounds of red dates, 3 pounds of dried mushrooms and 3 pounds of dried bamboo shoots. Give me a piece of this blue cloth on the side."

"Okay, the stall has a new batch of New Year's goods, including sunflower seeds, firecrackers, couplets, spring lights and window grilles. Would you like to take a look, Sister Liu?"

"What a coincidence, I already bought everything just now." Sister Liu shook her head and left with her son, who was almost bent over from fatigue.

After a while, an old acquaintance came to the stall.

"Cook Li, what do you want to order today? This bacon rabbit is very fat, and this bacon is alternately fat and thin, crystal clear. It doesn't matter whether it is used to make bacon rice or stir-fry."

Chef Li smiled and said: "The brown sugar cake you gave me before was pretty good. Give me 6 yuan. I also want one of these bacon rabbits. I don't need the bacon. I still have the ones I bought last time."

"Do you have cured pork ribs? Although these cured pork ribs have no meat, they taste great when used to stew dried mushrooms."

"Yes, yes, I just brought a few kilograms here." As he said this, Father Ye took out a small basket from the back of the stall, which was filled with bacon and cured pork ribs.

Chef Li selected for a long time, and finally selected a few spare ribs with more meat. Seeing that the bacon on the side was good, she also ordered a small piece of fat and thin pork belly.

Father Ye quickly put the things into Cook Li's basket, and then gave Cook Li a small bag of spiced melon seeds.

Father Ye saw that the melon seeds on the stall had not yet opened, so he quickly took out a few handfuls and gave them to the people at the stall to taste them.

The fried melon seeds at the stall taste really good, especially the five-spice melon seeds, which are fragrant and crispy and much more delicious than ordinary salty melon seeds.

Melon seeds are not expensive, and you have to prepare some to entertain guests during the Chinese New Year. Everyone buys them by the pound.

Father Ye was weighing melon seeds for the guests. The little girl who had bargained half the price with Father Ye last time and bought ready-made clothes for 82 yuan is here again.

The little girl spent a long time choosing at the stall, and finally selected a headband with small flowers and a pink ready-made garment.

Seeing the little girl coming to buy ready-made clothes again, Father Ye was very happy and sold the clothes at the same price as last time.

He originally took a few pieces of clothing back to the stall to sell because of the tailor's skill, but he didn't expect that after so many days, he only sold one piece.

Father Ye regretted it very much. If he had known it earlier, he would not have taken this ready-made garment.

The people on North Street are all wealthy, and they must all go to the shops to have their clothes made tailor-made. You can't see clothes made of linen like this on the street.

These clothes can be said to be Father Ye's most failed purchase.

Giving New Year gifts is not just about giving food. Things given by wealthy people will be more respectable. Many people will look at the small embroidery pictures on the stalls.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the small embroidery pictures I recently took back are all filled with festive patterns, which is just in time for the occasion. Two small pictures were sold in one morning.

After the last customer at the stall left, Father Ye, who was thirsty and tired, was about to go next door to buy wonton noodles and come back when a mother and daughter came to the stall.

The little girl on the left, Ye's father, still has the impression that she was the person who bought the small embroidery pattern made by Ye Qingqing before.

Next to the little girl stood a woman dressed richly and with a beautiful face. The woman looked very young. At first glance, Father Ye thought she was the little girl's sister.

"Mom, their embroidery is pretty good. Let's decide after seeing this one."

After hearing what the little girl said, Father Ye knew that she was the little girl's mother.

Father Ye knew at a glance that the mother and daughter were not short of money, so he immediately took out the two large pictures made by Mother Ye and Mrs. Li.

The little girl liked the picture of winter plum blossoms made by Ye Mu, but the woman next to her liked Li's picture of peonies more.

"Giving New Year's gifts is just a happy and good start. This picture of cold plum blossoms is cold and has a bad meaning, so it is not as good as this picture of peonies."

The little girl has just gotten engaged, and her future mother-in-law likes embroidery very much. This embroidery picture is a new year's gift for her future mother-in-law.

"For those who are celebrating the Chinese New Year, this peony picture is a good gift. It makes people happy just to look at it." The woman took the peony picture and liked it more and more as she looked at it, so she immediately decided to get this peony picture.

Although the woman was not short of money, she was also very economical. She bargained for 55 taels of embroidered pictures, and finally spent 48 taels on the peony picture.

This peony picture was collected at 29 taels. Just from this embroidered picture, Ye's father earned 19 taels of silver, which made him very happy.

It’s the Chinese New Year, and everyone is willing to spend money. Today, Ye’s father almost sold something that usually lasts for several days.