The happy little days of the Ye family

When the young couple arrived at Ye's house, the front yard was quiet and bursts of laughter came from the backyard.

Pushing open the door, Hongshu ran over and shook his big tail at the two of them.

Looking for laughter, the two came to the backyard and found that everyone was here.

There are two large bamboo cages on the ground, each containing 2 geese.

Xiao Qi squatted on the ground and curiously looked at the geese inside.

The little guy was quite brave. He put his little fingers into the cage and touched the smooth feathers of the wild goose.

"Hey, you have a good harvest today." Ye Qingqing happily walked to Mrs. Ye.

Old Mrs. Ye started to show off again with a beaming smile:

"There are a lot of wild geese over there in the fish pond. Your brother and I set up seven or eight traps and caught eight wild geese in one afternoon."

Thinking that these little things cost 5 taels and 5 cents a pair, four pairs of wild geese were equivalent to 22 taels of silver. Mrs. Ye was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth.

But then Mrs. Ye said with a pity on her face:

"But these little things are really smart. They caught three in the first time, two in the second, and only one in the next few times. There are fewer and fewer geese that have been fooled."

Tang Xiaojing next to him also echoed: "I was like this before. Even though I changed my position every day, I caught fewer and fewer geese."

At this time, Ye Xilin came over with two broken bowls with holes in them and water.

"I was pretty lucky today. I caught 8 wild geese, including 4 males and 4 females."

Ye Qingqing: "What a coincidence? There are exactly 4 females and 4 males?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty lucky."

"This is a pair of wild geese. Do you want to take them to Xiaohe Town and sell them, or keep them and raise them?"

"We will keep these four pairs of geese. In two days, I will go to the fish pond with my grandma to set up traps, and then catch some and bring them back to Xiaohe Town to sell them."

Tang Xiaojing reminded: "Li Orion said before that wild geese fly from the north to spend the winter in autumn, and then fly back to the north after spring."

"If you want to catch wild geese, you have to be faster, otherwise they will all fly away."

Old Mrs. Ye pulled Tang Xiaojing's sleeve and asked anxiously: "So soon? Are you sure you will fly away at the beginning of spring?"

"Li Orion said this before, but I didn't pay attention to these wild geese before. I don't know if it's true."

Mrs. Ye and Ye Xilin originally planned to take a day off tomorrow, but they immediately decided to catch wild geese early tomorrow morning.

I was afraid that it would be too late and all these precious geese would fly away.

At this time, Wang Chunyu brought some corn kernels to feed the geese.

I couldn't help but laugh a little when I saw the little guy squatting on the ground, looking at the geese in the cage with both curiosity and fear.

"Duck, duck~, mother, there are so many ducks and ducks~"

Wang Chunyu smiled and corrected the little guy, "This is a wild goose, not a duck."

"Duck duck~, it's duck duck~"

"Okay, you said duck and duck are ducks and ducks." Wang Chunyu replied slightly perfunctorily.

Ye Xilin looked around in the backyard and found that there was no place to keep these geese, so he lifted the cage into the donkey shed.

At least the donkey shed can protect you from wind and rain, so you won't have to worry about it even if it rains.

Speaking of rain, in the middle of dinner, it suddenly started to rain lightly.

The happiest person in the house is Mr. Ye. Spring rain is as precious as oil, and farmers are waiting for the rain to plow in spring.

The rain gradually increased from light to heavy, and by the time we had eaten dinner, it had turned into moderate rain.

It rained and the weather got a little colder.

Tang Xiaojing was afraid that Ye Qingqing would catch a cold, so he hurriedly went to her old room to get a coat and put it on her.

It was still raining outside, so the three Tang family members were not in a hurry to go back and stayed in the hall to peel chestnuts together.

During this period, the newly launched honey chestnut cake sold well.

Father Ye's small stall on North Street can basically sell out 30 pieces of honey chestnut cake every day.

In fact, 40 yuan should be able to be sold out, but Father Ye thought that rare things are more valuable, so he only took 30 yuan to sell them.

Moreover, there were other pastries on the stall. I couldn’t buy the chestnut cake, so I bought other pastries on the way, which boosted the business of the entire stall.

However, the chestnut cakes at Ye Donglin's grocery store are not as good. Recently, they can only sell about ten yuan a day.

Most people in the Ye family are greedy, and they eat and peel chestnuts every time. Wang Chunyu specially cooked half a basket of chestnuts.

These days, the Ye family’s after-dinner pastime is peeling chestnuts.

The family sat together, peeling chestnuts, and chatting about recent events at home or interesting gossip.

Ye Qingqing's favorite thing is to eat chestnuts while listening to all kinds of gossip in the village and town.

Seeing that the rain outside did not get lighter, but instead became heavier, Father Ye stretched his body and said:

"It's raining, so I can take a break tomorrow."

Father Ye has not rested for more than half a month since he went to North Street to set up a stall on the fourth day of the new year, and he is indeed a little tired.

Mr. Ye beside him suddenly said:

"The family doesn't have enough workers. If you have a day off tomorrow, you can just plow the fields."

Father Ye didn't listen to what he said and said with a playful smile:

"You old man, you have a dozen long-term workers in your family and only a few donkeys. How can I plow the fields?"

Mr. Ye threw a chestnut shell over and said, "What do you mean, neither big nor small. We don't have enough donkeys at home, so it wouldn't be a good idea for you to go down and pull the plow."

Ye Qingqing saw the various pastries on the table out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly thought of Yan Da Da's shop.

"Brother, there is a pastry seller who wants to rent the small shop owned by the Yan family that you mentioned before. Is there any room for rent later?"

After hearing Ye Qingqing's words, Ye's father and Mr. Ye stopped quarreling, and everyone else also took a fancy to Ye Donglin.

Ye Donglin said calmly: "I heard from the nearby aunt this morning that the owner of the Liu family pastry shop went to the Yan family's small shop again today."

"I went to the shop specifically at night to have a look. The notice for leasing was gone. It must have been rented out."

Wang Chunyu suddenly felt worried when she thought about the cakes she had made.

"The pastries I make are of ordinary flavors. Opening a new pastry shop will probably have an impact on the grocery store's business."

Ye Donglin patted the back of Wang Chunyu's hand and comforted:

"It's okay. There is no rent for the shop, and the food is produced by ourselves. Our pastries are famous for being cheap and affordable."

"If the Liu family's pastries are sold at the same price as ours, there will definitely be no profit. The price is too high, and those women nearby are so smart that they will definitely not go to the Liu family to buy pastries."

Father Ye also said: "You are too arrogant to belittle yourself. All the rich families on North Street come to the stall to buy pastries, which shows that your pastries are not bad."

"Pastry like red date cake, brown sugar hair cake, water chestnut cake, and this honey chestnut cake are all very popular among the ladies on North Street."

After hearing what the father and son said, Wang Chunyu felt better. After thinking for a while, he spoke again:

"Mung bean cake, rice cake and sweet-scented osmanthus cake. The cost of these three pastries is relatively low. If business is not good in the future, you can lower the price a little and grab them from nearby people."

"Water chestnut cake, red date cake and the newly released honey chestnut cake are always bought by scholars when they come over to rent books, so they probably won't have much impact."

Ye Qingqing suggested: "Sister-in-law, the oven at home is not common in this town. You can use this oven to research new pastries."

"Qingqing is still smart. I'll do some more research and see if I can get two new pastries."

She can only make those kinds of pastries, and she will get tired of them after a long time, so she still needs to research new pastries.