The happy little days of the Ye family

Years ago, Tang Xiaojing caught a total of 9 wild geese, including 6 females and 3 males.

Today Tang Xiaojing caught three more wild geese by the river, including one female and two males.

Now there are 12 geese at home, 10 of which are in pairs, and the remaining two are female geese.

Tang Xiaojing had already inquired in Xiaohe Town, 5 taels of silver for a pair of wild geese, 5 pairs equals 25 taels of silver.

Thinking of this, Tang Xiaojing smiled heartily and said, "Good guy, 25 taels of silver is as much as my income in two months."

However, Xiaohe Town is deserted now, and no merchants will come there until after the Lantern Festival.

Tang Xiaojing planned to keep these five pairs of shining golden geese first.

Ye Qingqing has been busy sewing leather clothes these days. She picked a piece of soft cotton as the lining from the betrothal gift given by the Tang family.

Then piece together the small pieces of leather bit by bit to make a complete leather jacket.

Ye Qingqing's craftsmanship is very good. The splicing parts are not visible at all unless you touch them. They look like they are made of a complete piece of leather.

Tang Xiaojing took the rabbit fur coat that Ye Qingqing had just made and praised it fiercely, "With my wife's skills, I won't sell this rabbit fur coat for less than 4 taels and 5 yuan."

The first finished rabbit fur coat was sold for only 3 taels and 8 yuan. Tang Xiaojing always felt that it was sold too cheap and was very unwilling to do so.

Ye Qingqing specifically asked Ye's father, who had been selling leather all year round, to find out that it was actually the wrong time for them to sell leather.

"I asked my dad. Most leather coats are needed in the north. Merchants from the north usually come to buy them in the summer."

"Then when it gets colder in the autumn, we sell leather coats in the north. It's the end of the year when we sell leather coats. The merchants who buy leather coats have already returned to the north, so our leather coats can't sell at high prices."

After hearing what Ye Qingqing said, Tang Xiaojing also knew that it wasn't that their leather jackets were bad, but that he didn't sell them at the right time.

Ye Qingqing suggested: "I think it's better to keep these leathers and sell them to Xiaohe Town after the summer harvest. I guess the price will be higher."

Tang Xiaojing folded the leather coat, "I thought so too. Anyway, leather coats are durable, so I'll keep these pieces for now and sell them to Xiaohe Town later."

During the Chinese New Year period, whether it is a grocery store or Ye’s father’s stall, food and honey are sold very well.

Business is not so good every day. Wang Chunyu wants to take advantage of the fact that everyone has money during the New Year and make more money quickly.

It happened that Mr. Ye had time to play with Xiao Qi, so Wang Chunyu doubled the quantity of roast duck, roast chicken and pastries.

Father Ye and Ye Donglin were very happy when they came back every day to count the money, but the happiest person was Mrs. Ye.

There are many chestnut trees on the two hills of Ye's family, and the chestnuts at home are piled up like hills.

When Ye Xilin cooks pig food every day, he roasts some chestnuts on the charcoal fire.

This afternoon, Wang Chunyu and the Ye family brothers roasted chestnuts in front of the big pot for cooking pig food.

Suddenly, I had an idea and planned to use these chestnuts to make cakes.

Wang Chunyu packed up half of the chestnuts in a basket and came out, then cleaned the chestnuts, and then used a knife to make a cross on the skin of the chestnuts.

This is the trick Ye Xilin found. Cut the chestnuts in advance, and the shell of the cooked chestnuts can be easily peeled off.

Wang Chunyu cleaned the large iron pot, then put the processed chestnuts into the pot, added water that covered the chestnuts, and cooked the chestnuts.

After the chestnuts were cooked, Wang Chunyu took the chestnuts to the hall. Ye Qingqing and Ye Xilin smelled the aroma and hurried over to help.

The three of them ate the chestnuts while peeling them. After the chestnuts were peeled, one-third of the chestnuts were already missing.

Wang Chunyu spread the peeled chestnut meat on the chopping board, then crushed the chestnut meat with a rolling pin and pressed it into powder.

The crushed chestnuts cannot be used directly, so Wang Chunyu brought a filter and put the processed chestnut powder on the filter to filter.

The filtered chestnut powder will be more delicate and the taste will be softer and more delicious.

Wang Chunyu divided the obtained chestnut powder into three parts. One part added a little honey, one part added a small amount of syrup, and the last part added nothing.

Then Wang Chunyu took out three mooncake molds. The three molds were all different shapes.

One is round, one is square, and one is in the shape of a small flower.

Wang Chunyu put chestnut powder into the mold, then pressed it with his hands, and finally pushed the round chestnut cake out gently.

The finished chestnut cakes come in three flavors, the round one with sugar added, the flower-shaped one with honey added inside, and the square one with original flavor.

Among the three types of chestnut cakes, the most successful one is the one with honey and syrup. The two are moister and the shape is more beautiful and less likely to fall apart.

The original one broke into several pieces with a little force, and it tasted very dry and choked my throat.

Wang Chunyu put three kinds of chestnut cakes on plates and took them to the hall.

"Grandma, mother, the chestnut cake is ready. Come out and try it."

"Oh, it's coming."

Old Mrs. Ye's room was closest to the hall and she came over immediately. Mother Ye followed closely, and the two of them came forward and backward.

As for Ye Qingqing and Ye Xilin, the gluttonous siblings, they ran over after smelling the smell.

The siblings had already eaten.

"It's delicious. The ones with honey and syrup are the best, but the original ones are a little less interesting."

Ye Xilin originally liked to eat chestnuts, and this chestnut cake was very popular with him. When Mrs. Ye came over, she had already finished the third piece of cake.

Ye Qingqing tasted it in small sips, "I think the one with honey tastes the best, and the one with syrup is okay, but I think it's a bit too dry."

As he spoke, Ye Qingqing picked up another plain piece. Before it was put into his mouth, the pastry split into two pieces in his hands.

The taste is just ordinary chestnut flavor, not as delicious as sugar and honey, and it tastes very choking.

"Sister-in-law, this original flavor is not very good, but I think the other two are good and quite delicious."

When Mrs. Ye was young, her family was of modest means. When she was a child, she often went to the mountains to pick chestnuts for food, but she had long since become tired of eating chestnuts.

In her opinion, the chestnut cake made by Wang Chunyu was nothing special and not as delicious as other pastries.

Ye Mu already had a lot of knowledge about pastries, and she tasted all three flavors of chestnut cakes before speaking out.

"The original flavor is not very good. It falls apart without even exerting any force. If it bumps a few times on the road, it will probably be all broken when you go to the grocery store."

"The ones with honey added have a refreshing aroma, and I think they are the most delicious. However, the cost of honey is high, and the cost of pastries with honey will also increase."

"The syrup is cheaper and tastes good, so it feels more affordable."

Wang Chunyu himself concluded that the original flavor has basically been eliminated. As for adding honey or adding sugar, both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

In the evening, everyone came back, and Wang Chunyu took out the chestnut cake again and let everyone try it.

Ye's father thinks that the one with honey is more delicious, and since the honey is produced at home, the cost is actually nothing.

Ye Donglin thinks that this chestnut cake is a fashionable pastry that can only be eaten in specific seasons, and it is okay to be more expensive.

As for Mr. Ye, he just took a piece of pastry, crushed it and concentrated on feeding it to Xiao Qi, without expressing any opinions.

Wang Chunyu saw that both father and son thought it would be better to use honey, so he planned to make a batch of honey chestnut cakes tomorrow.

The mold used for the chestnut cake is a mooncake mold, which is not big, but honey is added inside, and peeling the shell is troublesome, so the price is not cheap.

The father and son agreed that the honey chestnut cake would cost 5 cents a piece in the grocery store, while Father Ye would sell it for 6 cents a piece in North Street.

Tang Xiaojing knew that the Ye family was going to sell chestnut cakes, so he brought all the chestnuts that were piled up like a hill at home.

Brother Ming settled the accounts, and the father and son were embarrassed to take so many chestnuts for nothing, so they bought all the chestnuts from the Tang family at normal prices.