The happy little days of the Ye family

Ye Xilin brought back a large leg of lamb and half a fan of lamb ribs, as well as two rabbits.

They just killed the New Year pig today and couldn't finish all the meat. Ye Mu planned to salt the two rabbits to make them into bacon rabbits and save them for spring plowing later in the year.

As for the mutton, Ye Mu plans to save it for the Chinese New Year.

At this time, Wang Chunyu was cooking in the kitchen, and Ye Qingqing took a small bench and sat down to help light the fire.

Ye Mu and Ye Xilin packed up the two rabbits and just walked to the front yard when Li Yan came to the door with red eggs to announce the good news.

Wang Yueya gave birth to a fat girl weighing 6 pounds this morning.

When picking up the red eggs, Mother Ye specially observed Li Yan and felt relieved when she saw that he was smiling and that he was inseparable from the child and Wang Yueya both inside and outside his words.

"Sister-in-law, the weather has been cold in the past two days. I won't do anything when the child is still a mistress. When the full moon comes, we will come over for a drink."

Li Yan's eldest brother has already given birth to two sons. Wang Yueya's daughter is the first girl of their grandchildren. The Li family takes her very seriously and invites many people over to drink full moon wine.

Mother Ye smiled and said, "Is the Full Moon Wine served in Lijia Village? Or is it in the town?"

“It’s more convenient to place it in the village, since all my family and friends are in the village.”

"Okay, okay, I'll definitely go there."

"Is Yue Yatou doing confinement in Lijia Village?" Li Yan just came over from Wang's house. Seeing that he was not in a hurry to go back, Ye Mu pulled him to talk about Wang Yue Ya.

Ye's mother often went to see Wang Yueya with Li. Li Yan had little respect for her and told Ye's mother in detail about his arrangements:

"Yes, Yue Ya is confinement at home, and I have closed the small cloth shop in the town. We will go back to town after the Lantern Festival."

"There are many idle aunts near the houses in the town. My family and I have already discussed it. When we return to the town, we will choose an aunt to come over and help with laundry and cooking. This will give Yue Ya some leisure time."

After hearing Li Yan's arrangement, Mother Ye patted Li Yan's shoulder cheerfully, "You are a good person. Girl Yue will enjoy the blessings of marrying into your Li family."

Li Yan did not leave his niece alone at her husband's house and went to the town to open a shop. Ye's mother was quite satisfied.

After hiring someone for help, Wang Yueya was able to keep busy. After the Lantern Festival, the family of three went back to the town to live together, which was good.

After Li Yan returned, Ye's mother was also considering whether to ask an aunt to help her when her daughter gave birth to a child.

After the child is born, the two families will still have meals together as they do now, and she can also help take care of the child during the day.

But diapers and children's clothes do require someone to help wash them.

She and her daughter are both embroiderers, so their hands must not be used for regular work, nor can they be washed by the old lady and her daughter-in-law.

Although the son-in-law can be asked to help wash the children's clothes, the children often wet the bed and wear thick clothes in winter, so there are a lot of clothes and diapers to wash. If they have to wash them every day, they will definitely be impatient.

Spend a little money to hire an aunt to help wash the children's clothes and diapers, so that everyone can relax.

After dinner, Ye Mu took Ye Qingqing back to the house and talked about hiring someone to help.

"Mom, you are really smart. I will be confinement at my mother's house when the time comes. I will ask an aunt to wash my clothes, the children's clothes and diapers, so that everyone can save trouble."

Ye Qingqing had planned to let Tang Xiaojing wash diapers before, but now she thought it would be better to hire an aunt.

And they can't always have dinner together at her mother's house. Her mother usually has a lot of things to worry about. She has to worry about the whole Ye family, and she also has to do embroidery.

Asking an aunt to come back to help with laundry, cooking, and taking care of the children like her cousin did, would make her feel much more relaxed.

In this way, she can still do embroidery in her free time. The embroidery skills she has practiced diligently for more than ten years cannot be wasted.

Mother Ye looked at Ye Qingqing's belly, "Looking at your belly, you should have given birth before the summer harvest. After the new year, I will find an aunt to help you."

Ye Qingqing thought of a candidate, "I think Wang Xiaofu's mother, Aunt Chen, is pretty good. Aunt Chen always wears very clean and tidy clothes, and Wang Xiaofu also teaches well."

"The Wang family has little land and life is not easy. I think the Chen family girl would be willing to take on another job to make money. I'll go over and talk to her about it tomorrow."

"Mom, I'll talk to Aunt Chen myself later. I'll go back to discuss it with my husband in the evening."

Ye Qingqing told Ye Mu about her plan again:

"It's not good for us to have dinner together at Ye's house all the time. I plan to pay more money to hire an aunt to come over and do my laundry and help take care of the kids like my cousin did."

"With help, I can have time to continue doing embroidery. I can make much more money than if I hired someone to do it."

"You're right. You can't let go of your skills. If you don't do embroidery for a year and a half, your skills will be wasted. You should go back and discuss it with Jing Xiaozi."

"If someone shares the household chores with him, why would he be unwilling?" Ye Qingqing felt that Tang Xiaojing had no reason to refuse.

"Aren't you afraid that others will say you are a lazy woman? You have to hire people to do laundry and cooking." Mother Ye said with a smile.

"Just say it. People in the small village say I'm a lazy girl. I'm not living a good life and I married into a good family. Those talkative women are just jealous of me."

Anyway, there is no mother-in-law to care about her, so she is not afraid of anyone.

As for Ye Qingqing returning to her parents' home for confinement, this had been agreed upon a long time ago. After all, the Tang family did not have any experienced elders to help take care of her.

After Ye Xilin returned, Li Guoer went back to the house and rummaged through his little vault.

Since the beginning of autumn, Li Guoer and Hunter Li have gone into the mountains several times, hunting many valuable prey and also collecting some precious medicinal herbs.

Autumn and winter are the best seasons for making bacon. Several members of the Li family have gone to Yeboar Ridge several times to hunt wild boars. In the past few months, both the Li family and Li Guoer have gained a lot.

Li Guoer turned over two small wooden boxes and came out. They were full of small pieces of silver and copper plates.

Li Guoer carefully poured all the money in the box onto the table, and then counted the money happily.

After counting twice, Li Guoer finally figured it out. She now has a total of 58 taels and 342 Wen.

"In the past six months, I have saved 58 taels of silver. When I get married, won't I be able to save more than 100 taels of silver?" Li Guoer looked at the money on the table and smiled from ear to ear.

"Xilin's sister used the money she saved before getting married to buy a small shop. Should I also buy a small shop or a small house?" Li Guoer murmured softly.

After hiding the money separately, Li Guoer hurried over to find Yang.

"Mom, I have saved more than 50 taels of silver now, and I will be able to save 100 taels by the end of next year. Do you think I should follow Xilin's sister's example and buy a small shop or a small house by myself?"

"I heard from Xilin that the rent for his sister's small shop is 600 yuan a month, which is enough for the family's expenses."

Yang agreed very much, "Your idea is good. Save your money first, and by the middle of next year, I will ask your father to go to the town to see if there are any suitable shops or houses."

The daughter married off with a shop, and no one in the Ye family dared to look down upon her.