The happy little days of the Ye family

Compared to the Tang family, the father and son were so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists.

Mr. Ye and Ye Xilin, who grew up in the village and worked with the fields every day, seemed to be at ease.

Of course, the family's 43 acres of paddy fields cannot be managed by just the two of them.

Like the Tang family, Ye Xilin had already hired 10 more part-time workers in Dashan Village to help.

The grandfather and grandson, together with more than a dozen long-term and part-time workers in the family, went to work in the fields when the sky was still gray.

The grandfather and grandson had just been busy for an hour when Li Orion brought Li He over to help.

Ye Xilin was a little flattered when he saw the Li family and his son.

Only sons-in-law have ever come to help the family of their future sons-in-law. I have never seen a future father-in-law bring his brother-in-law over to help his future son-in-law's family.

In fact, hunting is not allowed in spring, and there are no herbs to collect in the mountains. Yang and the two of them are in trouble at home.

Moreover, Ye Xilin has come to hire him, so this son-in-law can no longer run away. Yang is also determined to have a good relationship with the Ye family.

The father and son are idle at home, so they might as well go to the Ye family to help.

To be honest, Li Orion and Li He didn't want to come. It was because of the Yang family that she reluctantly came to the Ye family to help Ye Xilin.

Although the two of them were not very happy before going out, they both had smiles on their faces when they arrived at Ye's house.

The father and son acted very approachable, completely different from the Orion Li that Ye Xilin met at Li's house.

Even Li He, his brother-in-law who liked to fight against him, became much more well-behaved.

Ye Xilin saw Li Orion talking to Mr. Ye very friendly and looked at him curiously.

When Orion Li talked with Mr. Ye, he still looked cordial. When he turned to look at Ye Xilin, he had a look of disgust on his face.

Ye Xilin:......

The Li family has no land, and this is the first time for father and son to plant rice.

When they went down to the paddy field, the two of them staggered and couldn't stand firm at all.

If it weren't for Ye Xilin's support, the two of them would have fallen down several times.

The two finally got used to the mud in the field and finally managed to stand firm, but they found that they couldn't pull their feet up.

Li He was young and had an impatient temper. He exerted force on his legs, and without saying a word, he fell back and sat down in the paddy field without pulling his legs out.

"Hahahaha, Li He, you are too weak." Li Orion was the first to laugh at his son.

The long-term rice transplanters nearby were also from Dashan Village. When they saw Li He falling in the field, they all laughed.

Ye Xilin wanted to laugh, but was afraid that his brother-in-law would be unhappy, so he could only cover his mouth and snicker.

Although Li He was thick-skinned, his face turned red with embarrassment at this time.

Fortunately, he was flexible and quickly got up on his own. After moving for a few times, he pulled out his foot.

Then he walked a few steps in the paddy field. After he felt that he could move freely in the paddy field, he took the seedlings from Ye Xilin's hand.

Li He imitated Mr. Ye's movements and planted rice seedlings in the paddy field very obediently.

Ye Xilin followed Li Orion step by step, teaching his future father-in-law how to transplant rice seedlings very carefully.

He even kept asking for help, which made Mr. Ye's eyes sore for a while.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Ye Xilin quickly found a topic.

"Uncle Li, although there is little cultivated land in Dashan Village, there are still some fields. Why doesn't the family buy some fields to grow food?"

Li Orion smiled heartily and said, "You yourself said that there is less farmland in the village. How can those families who have fields be willing to sell their fields unless they have to?"

When he first separated from his family, he planned to buy a few acres of land to grow food, but after waiting for several years, he didn't see anyone selling the land in the village.

Mr. Ye knows this deeply, "Before the government encouraged land reclamation, it would be difficult to buy land."

Li Orion looked at the large paddy field in front of him, and then said:

"Farming is so tiring, but after working hard for half a year, the little grain I grow is not worth a few taels of silver if I sell it."

"It's better for me to go hunting in the mountains for a month and make more money."

At least one month of hunting at the end of the year is enough to buy food for the family for a whole year.

Later, Li Orion and Yang Shiye also discussed that if they couldn't buy the land, they might as well not buy it.

After all, they didn't know how to plant the land they bought, so they might as well concentrate on hunting and not waste all their energy.

Mr. Ye has been dealing with the fields all his life, but he still feels that farming is safer, but hunting is still too dangerous.

Although I make a lot of money, I risk my life to make it.

But Ye Xilin quite agrees with what Li Orion said.

Just like when he raises pigs at home, he can earn seventy or eighty taels of silver a year.

As for the 40 acres of paddy fields at home, after deducting taxes and wages of long-term workers, we can only earn thirty or forty taels of silver at most.

But if the family only has a few acres of land, they can only maintain food and clothing.

That’s why people in the village are poor. It’s because they can’t make money from farming.

A dozen people have been working in the fields all morning and have planted a large paddy field.

At a glance, there is a lot of greenery.

Mr. Ye estimates that in about three or four days, he will be able to plant all the 40 acres of paddy fields at home.

However, just because the paddy fields are planted does not mean that they can rest.

Xiaohoushan and Zhulinshan, these two hills have large bamboo forests. This is a good time to dig spring bamboo shoots.

After planting the seedlings, they have to go to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots and make dried bamboo shoots.

In addition to spring bamboo shoots, various mushrooms also appeared on the mountains with the moistening of spring rain.

The grandparents and the Li family's father and son leave early and come back late every day, so they are very busy.

It took four days to finally plant all the more than 40 acres of paddy fields owned by the Ye family.

After the paddy fields were planted, Li Orion and Li He also went back.

Although hunting was not allowed at this time, the weather was getting warmer and there were still mushrooms on the mountains. The father and son went back to pick mushrooms.

There are 13 acres of slope land at the foot of the two hills of the Ye family. In addition, the Ye family originally had two acres of corn fields and 5 acres of sweet potato fields.

Mr. Ye and his family's long-term workers worked hard for six days before planting all the dry land in his family.

Mr. Ye planted 8 acres of peanuts, 8 acres of sweet potatoes and 2 acres of corn on these dry lands.

The Ye family can be said to be the fastest group of people in the village to complete spring plowing.

After finishing the spring plowing, Mr. Ye divided the family's long-term and part-time workers into three parts.

Some went to the mountains to pick mushrooms, some went to Zhulin Mountain to pick bamboo shoots, and the last part went to Xiaohou Mountain to pick bamboo shoots.

The spring bamboo shoots and mushrooms on the mountain are transported back to Ye's house one by one.

There were so many mushrooms that the Ye family could not dry them in the front and back yards, so they were all transported to the drying field at the entrance of the village to dry.

The spring bamboo shoots are temporarily stored in Ye's backyard.

By the time the bamboo shoots at home were piled up like a hill, many families in the village had already finished their spring plowing.

Mrs. Ye hired 10 temporary workers from those who had finished their spring plowing to help make dried bamboo shoots.

There are more paddy fields here in the Tang family, and it took a full six days of work to plant all the paddy fields.

Then it took another five days to plant the remaining 5 acres of sloping land with corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts.

After finishing the spring plowing, Tang Xiaojing didn't care about the mushrooms on the mountain and asked his father to take care of the long-term workers.

Ye Qingqing's belly has grown a lot in the past month and a half, and she will probably give birth in another ten days and a half.

He wanted to go back and guard Ye Qingqing.