The happy little days of the Ye family

When giving New Year's gifts, Tang Xiaojing was catching ducks in the river beside the paddy field and accidentally discovered several geese drinking water by the river.

A pair of wild geese can be sold for five taels of silver. Tang Xiaojing had an idea and planned to hunt down a few more pairs of wild geese.

Wild geese shot with bows and arrows are easy to die, and they have to recover from their wounds for a while after being shot back. They can only be sold after they are healed.

Tang Xiaojing planned to follow Ye Xilin's example and make some traps to catch wild geese.

Early in the morning, Tang Xiaojing brought some corn kernels and millet from home, which birds like to eat, to the river.

In addition to food, there was also a large bundle of fine linen rope and several large backpacks.

Tang Xiaojing first took out the hemp rope and made four sets. Each set contained some corn kernels and rice as bait.

Then he walked downstream, used short branches to support one side of the big backpack, and then put some food under the backpack.

After setting four traps in a row, Tang Xiaojing returned to the place where he had placed the traps.

One of the four traps caught a wild goose, and Tang Xiaojing ran over excitedly.

"Hahaha, I'm really lucky today."

Tang Xiaojing grabbed the struggling gray goose, untied the hemp rope around its feet, locked it in a large cage, and then restored the condom to its original shape.

Tang Xiaojing took a closer look at the three sets that had not caught the wild geese just now. In fact, the grain inside the sets had signs of being tampered with, but he was cautious and did not touch the sets.

Tang Xiaojing put some food into the three sets, and then went to check the traps downstream.

At the end of the day, Tang Xiaojing ran back and forth between the two traps. Although he was a little tired, he gained a lot and caught 5 wild geese.

On the second day, the geese seemed to have learned the lesson and were very cautious when eating. They ate everything inside the trap, but nothing was caught.

Tang Xiaojing squatted by the river for a whole day and only caught two wild geese.

On the third day, the food in the trap was no longer eaten, and few wild geese were seen flying over all morning.

The wild goose was not caught, so Tang Xiaojing was not willing to go back empty-handed and went up the mountain to hunt with Rhubarb.

Xiao Huang's belly is now very big, and he is expected to give birth to a baby in a few days. Tang Xiaojing did not let him go out, and kept him at home to raise the baby.

The price of mutton in winter is high, and the skin of wild goat is also a good material for making leather jackets.

Tang Xiaojing took Rhubarb to a place on the mountain where wild goats were found.

A man and a dog had just waited at the edge of the spring for a while, when two wild goats came over to drink water.

Tang Xiaojing took out his bow and arrow and shot it directly into the leg of the wild goat. The other one was frightened and ran away quickly, but unfortunately it was caught up by Dahuang from behind.

Da Huang bared his teeth and drove the wild goat that was about to escape back to Tang Xiaojing, and then the two poor little guys were tied up by Wu Hua Da.

After returning home, Tang Xiaojing skillfully peeled off the sheepskin, and then removed the oil from the internal organs such as the intestines and liver and installed them.

Mutton Tang Xiaojing kept the haggis, a leg of lamb and half a fan of lamb ribs to eat at home.

In the afternoon, Ye Xilin was going to the county to deliver winter bamboo shoots to several restaurants. He also asked him to take the mutton to the Liang Family Restaurant and sell it.

In the evening, when Ye Xilin brought over the money from selling the mutton, Tang Xiaojing had almost finished processing the sheepskin and was rubbing the sheepskin vigorously with plant ash.

Ye Xilin was a little curious when he saw Tang Xiaojing rubbing sheepskin with plant ashes, and stood aside and watched for a long time.

When Tang Xiaojing saw Ye Xilin's interest, he didn't hide it and simply told him how to tan leather.

Ye Xilin was still a little embarrassed. This was a recipe for leather tanning that the Tang family had discovered themselves.

But Tang Xiaojing doesn't care, since the amount of leather is not much anyway, the business of the two companies will not be affected.

"What's the point of being embarrassed? This is just a piece of earthwork. You may not be able to make the leather out of it even if you know it."

"..." Ye Xilin was speechless for a moment.

Tang Xiaojing patted Ye Xilin's shoulder mysteriously and said specifically:

"Read the books you bought from Shopkeeper Wang before, and don't mess around with them before you get married."

Tang Xiaojing originally planned to take his brother-in-law to broaden his horizons, but when he came back, he thought that his brother-in-law would not turn 17 in another month. Would he learn bad things by reading these albums so early?

The more Tang Xiaojing thought about it, the more worried he became. If anything happened, Ye Qingqing would have to skin him.

Speaking of the album, Ye Xilin's face turned red all of a sudden.

Ever since reading Shopkeeper Wang's book, Ye Xilin had indeed dreamed of Li Guoer for several nights in a row.

This morning I secretly got up to do laundry, but Father Ye almost discovered me.

Seeing Ye Xilin hemming and hawing like a shy little daughter-in-law, Tang Xiaojing also found it funny, "You can't beat the Li family girl. You are probably the one who is being bullied, hahaha."

Ye Xilin didn't want to talk to this person and turned around to leave, but was caught by Tang Xiaojing and forced to do hard work.

The two of them worked together to dig a large pit half a man's height and buried the two processed sheepskins in it.

Ye Xilin was just about to go back when he remembered that the money for the mutton had not been given to his sister.

One and a half wild goats were sold for a total of twenty taels of silver. Ye Xilin gave the money to Ye Qingqing.

In the past three days, Tang Xiaojing caught 7 wild geese, but 5 of them were female, 2 were male, and there were only two pairs of wild geese.

Tang Xiaojing did not let go of the three extra female geese, but continued to raise them.

Maybe I can catch the male geese later, and when they are matched later, I can take them to Xiaohe Town and sell them.

"If the extra male goose from last time had not been let go, it would have been paired with the extra female goose this time." Tang Xiaojing muttered with pity.

As the end of the year approaches, there are quite a few people going to the county to buy New Year goods and give New Year gifts. There are many more people in the town going to the county than before.

In the past, when people from Tangshan took carts to the county, there would be as many as five or six people on one trip, and when there were few people, there would only be two or three people.

During this period, when Tangshan went to the county, he would take at least seven or eight people on the bus, and he could earn more than 100 yuan in one day.

Business is good. Tangshan goes out early and comes back late every day, going out in high spirits to make money.

Today, Tangshan brought eight guests back from the county. Two of them had too much stuff, so they paid extra for them to be delivered to their homes.

It took a lot of time to send people home. When Tangshan returned home, it was already dark.

However, Ye's father and Ye Donglin just returned home. Seeing Tangshan's return, Ye's mother and Wang Chunyu hurriedly served food.

Ye Mu made mutton soup and put two crucian carp bigger than a palm in it. After a mouthful of mutton soup, it was so fresh that it almost touched your tongue.

In addition to the mutton soup, Ye Mu also stewed a large leg of lamb with stewed radish and potatoes. Everyone was very satisfied with this dinner.