The happy little days of the Ye family

"If these wild geese were sold in Xiaohe Town, they would cost 5 taels of silver per pair." Tang Xiaojing looked at the 5 taels of silver in the cage with delight.

After spending more time with the Ye family, Tang Xiaojing has now become a money fan.

"Five taels of silver? If you hire me to catch more geese later, if you catch them 5 pairs and 10 pairs, I will become rich, hahaha!"

The more Ye Xilin thought about it, the more beautiful it became, as if he saw Yinzi waving to him.

"You have a good idea." Tang Xiaojing said perfunctorily.

"Guoer is a good hunter. When Guoer gets married, we can come over every winter to hunt wild geese."

But considering Li Guoer's strength, it is estimated that the wild geese he shot down will only be able to eat meat.

There were still a few days before Ye Xilin's appointment, and two wild geese settled in Ye's house with good food and good food.

As for the pair of wild geese that Tang Xiaojing caught, he planned to take care of them for a few days to heal their injuries, and then sell them to Xiaohe Town later.

The Chinese New Year is about 20 days away, and Ye Qingqing has to start preparing New Year's goods and New Year's gifts for relatives and friends.

Ye's father's stall already sells various New Year's goods, and with Ye Donglin's grocery store, Ye Qingqing doesn't have to go out to buy New Year's goods.

Ye Qingqing spent a whole morning making a list of all the new year goods he needed.

"Mom, can you help me see if these New Year's goods are enough? Have you missed most of them?" Ye Qingqing took the list of New Year's goods and entered Ye Mu's house.

Ye Mu took the list and looked at it carefully. Ye Qingqing had prepared everything needed for the New Year including ingot candles, firecrackers, red lanterns, couplet window grilles, red ropes, and candy cubes for worshiping ancestors.

Mother Ye smiled happily and said, "Not bad, everything is quite complete."

"Mom, you taught me well." Ye Qingqing hugged Ye Mu's arm and started acting coquettishly.

Before Ye Qingqing got married, Ye's mother had patiently taught her all kinds of matters and relationships in the family. Now that she really has to be the master of the family, she doesn't have stage fright.

Ye Qingqing put away the list handed over by Ye Mu and prepared to ask his eldest brother to help him bring back everything on the list from the grocery store.

The new year brings new atmosphere. When Ye Qingqing was a child, he was most looking forward to wearing new clothes during the New Year, so he made a set of festive new clothes for himself and the Tang family and his son early.

In addition, Ye Qingqing also prepared a set of brand new clothes for each of the four elders of her mother's family.

But before the clothes were ready, Ye Qingqing didn't tell Ye's mother and planned to give them a surprise later.

A few days ago, sister-in-law Wang Chunyu also sent two new sets of clothes to the child in Ye Qingqing's belly.

Because he didn’t know whether it was a boy or a girl, Wang Chunyu used blue fabric so that both men and women could wear it.

Seeing how much fabric he had on hand, Ye Qingqing also planned to make a new outfit for Xiao Qi, so that everyone could celebrate the New Year happily together.

In addition to new clothes, all kinds of delicious food are indispensable during the New Year, and Ye Qingqing also prepared a lot of delicious food.

After the autumn harvest, Tang Xiaojing collected two sacks of sunflower seeds on his hill.

Ye Qingqing kept one bag for daily consumption, and left the remaining bag for Ye Xilin to fry.

I fried half a sack each of the five-flavored and ordinary salty ones, and also prepared a lot of caramel and maltose.

At this time, it was the first year that Ye Qingqing married into the Tang family. She attached great importance to the New Year gifts given to relatives and friends, and she could not lose face.

Tang Xiaojing's uncle has moved to other counties, and other relatives who are not close to him have no contact with him now.

Moreover, the Tang family has had only one male son for two consecutive generations, and the Tang family now only has two distant cousins, Tang Yilin and Tang Erlin.

On the contrary, Ye Qingqing had more relatives.

Ye Qingqing counted carefully, and the only people who needed New Year gifts were the Ye family, the village chief's family, the families of two cousins, Grandma Ye, and cousin Wang Yueya.

After becoming pregnant, Ye Qingqing's memory deteriorated a lot. For fear of forgetting, she used paper to write down the people who needed New Year's gifts one by one.

As soon as he finished writing, Ye Qingqing suddenly remembered that he had missed Shopkeeper Liang and Shopkeeper Wang from the county, and quickly added them.

Shopkeeper Liang has business dealings with the Tang family, and shopkeeper Liang has taken good care of Tang Xiaojing in the past few years. Although he does not lack this annual gift, it would be unreasonable not to give it to him.

As for Shopkeeper Wang, let alone that, he must prepare a big gift both emotionally and rationally.

"Mom, this is my first time in charge of the Tang family's New Year's gift. Please help me with the details." Just after lunch, Ye Qingqing went to find Ye Mu again.

"Okay, then tell me what your plan is." Ye Mu put down the needle and thread in her hand and asked Ye Qingqing to come and sit down.

Ye Qingqing handed the list of New Year gifts to Ye Mu, and at the same time said:

"In addition to my parents' family, the ones who want to give New Year's gifts are the village chief, Uncle Yilin, Uncle Erlin, grandma, cousin, shopkeeper Liang and shopkeeper Wang.

"Except for the ones at home and Shopkeeper Wang's which are heavier, the New Year's gifts I prepared are the same for the remaining ones."

"A cured chicken, half a cured rabbit, a home-raised old duck, and a big bag of chestnuts. Do you think these are enough?"

Mother Ye looked at it carefully twice and couldn't help but praise: "Most of the preparations are meat. You have made a big investment."

"But you are a new daughter-in-law, and it is your first time to prepare the Tang family's New Year's gift. It's better to prepare more, and make it more decent so that others can't fault it."

Seeing Ye Mu's approval, Ye Qingqing continued proudly:

"Shopkeeper Wang has a good relationship with Mr. Wang, and if it weren't for the recipe he gave us, we would also have researched a good method of tanning the leather. We must prepare generous gifts for this year."

Ye Mu agreed very much, and Shopkeeper Wang was capable. Ye Mu also hoped that the Tang family could continue to have good relations with Shopkeeper Wang.

"It's not easy to get the recipe for leather tanning. You really should prepare a big gift for Shopkeeper Wang."

"As a new year's gift from Shopkeeper Wang, I plan to give you two plump hens, two wax rabbits, a piece of waxed pork belly and a bag of dried mushrooms."

Seeing that there were a lot of things, but they were all produced by the family, and there was no need to spend extra money to buy them, Ye Qingqing didn't feel bad.

"Okay, I think it's good, but you can discuss it with Jing Xiaozi when you go back and see if he has any other ideas." Mother Ye felt that her daughter had grown up suddenly after getting married, and she felt a little emotional for a while.

Ye Qingqing was working hard at this time, talking carelessly to Ye's mother about the New Year's gift for her mother's family.

"As for our own family, I will refer to the New Year gifts that my family gave to grandma's family in previous years. A piece of fine linen cloth, a rabbit, a chicken and a duck. What do you think, mother?"

"There is no need for the cloth. Just change the cloth into chestnuts." The cloth still costs money, and Mother Ye feels sorry for her daughter.

Ye Qingqing hugged Ye Mu's shoulders and said with a smile:

"There are a lot of chestnuts at home. If you want to eat them, I will ask my husband to send a basket over later. This cloth is a tribute to you from my daughter, so you can accept it with peace of mind."

"Okay, okay, then I will wait for my daughter's filial piety!"

When Ye Qingqing went out, Ye's mother specifically told her that Nian Li should remember to discuss it with the Tang family's father and son.

Walking to the door, Ye Qingqing turned around and complained deliberately, "Okay, Mom, you are getting more and more verbose."

Mother Ye put her hands on her hips and glared at her, "You little white-eyed wolf, who am I doing this for?"

"For me, for me, mother, you are the best." Ye Qingqing smiled and walked briskly to find Tang Xiaojing.