The happy little days of the Ye family

As soon as the first rooster crow sounded, Ye Donglin and Wang Chunyu got up. At this time, the sky outside was still gray.

Wang Chunyu kissed Xiao Qi, who was still sleeping soundly, and then the two of them put on their clothes in the dark, opened the door softly and went out.

Now that the weather is getting hotter day by day, all kinds of vegetables and fruits in the vegetable garden have matured one after another.

Luffa, cucumber, winter melon, eggplant, beans, water spinach, leek and lettuce, all kinds of vegetables have a bumper harvest.

The young couple each carried a large backpack and came to the small vegetable garden carefully tended by Mrs. Ye.

Mrs. Ye is very good at tending the vegetable garden. Although the vegetable garden is not big, it has a full range of vegetables and they all grow very well.

They both picked some of various seasonal vegetables.

They also wanted to eat the vegetables in the garden, so the two of them didn't dare to pick more. They picked enough vegetables for several people.

Although it's not enough, there's nothing we can do about it.

Mrs. Ye and Wang Chunyu are usually busy with other things, and the small vegetable garden is not big enough to grow many vegetables.

As soon as the two of them finished sorting the vegetables, Wang Xiaofu and Ye Pingan came over with a cart to deliver the vegetables.

The two of them brought home-grown vegetables. The two families had already discussed it before planting vegetables, and the two families planted different vegetables in a staggered manner.

Therefore, the vegetables they brought were all of different varieties.

Wang Xiaofu raises a lot of chickens at home. In addition to the vegetable cart, there is also a basket full of eggs.

Last night, Mrs. Chen wiped every egg and kept them very clean.

Ye Pingan's family planted a lot of mung beans last year. Now that the weather is hot, it's the perfect time to drink mung bean soup. Ye Pingan specially brought 10 kilograms of them over.

Ye Donglin settled accounts every day, and soon he calculated the prices of the things they brought.

Wang Chunyu took out the money from his wallet, and then grabbed a handful of candies for each of the two half-year-old children.

"Thank you for your hard work, Ping An and Xiao Fu. You can take these candies and eat them."

After Wang Chunyu became a mother, she saw these well-behaved and sensible children with loving faces.

"Thank you sister-in-law!"

"Thank you sister-in-law!"

After getting the candy, Ye Pingan and Wang Xiaofu were as happy as the Chinese New Year, pulling the cart and happily going to hunt pigweed.

The two moved very quickly, and soon they were carrying all kinds of vegetables onto the donkey cart.

Thinking that there was not much food in the grocery store, Ye Donglin went to the cellar to get some cornmeal and rice.

In the past, grocery stores only sold corn cobs and corn kernels. Later, Ye Donglin thought that he had donkeys at home anyway, so he simply ground them into cornmeal.

The price of cornmeal is much higher than that of corn cobs and corn kernels. Anyway, I have a donkey at home, so it only takes a little effort.

There are two types of rice, namely shelled rice and polished rice that has been shelled.

Ye Donglin took a sack each of cornmeal and husked rice, and half a sack of polished rice.

In addition, Ye Donglin also took 2 sacks of sweet potatoes.

People in the village think that life in the city is good, but in fact life in the city is not easy, and some are even worse than those in the village.

Not only are the houses in the city expensive, but they are also very small. Many families have more than a dozen people living in a few small houses.

In addition, there is no land, so a family has to spend money to eat, drink, and drink. Many people eat sweet potatoes and porridge every day.

Among all kinds of grains, sweet potatoes are cheap and sell best.

After packing up the food and vegetables, the young couple moved two large buckets of fresh fish to the car.

After packing their things, Father Ye and Ye Donglin set off to the town with a cart full of things to make money.

Grain and fresh vegetables are necessary for every household.

Ye Donglin's grocery store relies on the output of these families to turn all the nearby women into regular customers.

In addition to the pastries and roast duck and chicken made by Wang Chunyu, basically everything you want to buy can be found in the grocery store.

And the grocery store is right at your doorstep, which is even more convenient than going to the market. People nearby will come and hang out when they have nothing to do.

When Ye Donglin came to the door, several aunts were already waiting at the door.

These women were not idle either. Aunt Yang danced and talked about the latest happenings, while the other women cheered and followed along.

Seeing Ye Donglin coming, Aunt Yang immediately approached him, pulled him and said:

"Boss Xiaoye, wasn't Yan Dafu's braised pork shop rented to the Liu family? I found out this morning that the Liu family's pastry shop is planning to open the day after tomorrow."

When he heard that Liu's dim sum shop was about to open, the smile on Ye Donglin's face immediately disappeared.

Aunt Hu on the side came over again with excitement on her face.

"Their shop is finally going to open. It's been two or three months since I bought it, right? Why hasn't it been opened for such a long time?"

Aunt Yang said mysteriously again: "I heard that the Liu family spent a lot of money to renovate the entire shop. I heard that they even added a kitchen."

"Furthermore, the Liu family also hired a fortune teller to calculate the opening day. They said the day after tomorrow would be a good day, so they deliberately waited until the day after tomorrow to open."

Ye Donglin had long known that Liu Yi had rented Yan Dafu's shop and planned to open a pastry shop nearby.

The grocery store also sells pastries. Usually when the boys from the academy come to rent books, they often buy pastries to fill their stomachs.

Another pastry shop opened not far away. Wouldn't it compete with our own shop for business?

If you don't go to so many places and have to open a new shop next to him, the business of both companies will definitely be affected.

Fortunately, Ye Donglin was well prepared. Over the past few days, he had already figured out the details of the Liu family.

The Liu family lives at the end of Juren Alley. The head of the family is Liu Yi, who is about the same age as Ye's father.

Liu Yi has two sons and two daughters in his family, all of whom are married.

Liu Yi opened a pastry shop over there in the market, called Liu's Pastry Shop.

Ever since he learned that Liu Yi rented Yan Dafu's shop, Ye Donglin has been to Liu's pastry shop several times.

I heard that Liu Yi's mother used to be a maid in a wealthy family. She helped in the kitchen and could make several kinds of exquisite pastries.

Therefore, the pastries sold by Liu's Dessert Shop are all relatively delicate, such as cloud cakes, peach cakes, and other exquisite and beautiful pastries.

Liu's pastries are exquisite and taste good, but they are not cheap.

The most common pastries such as osmanthus cake, red bean cake and rice cake cost 18 yuan per pound.

Those exquisite pastries and peach cakes cost twenty or thirty cents per pound.

As for Ye Donglin's pastries, although they don't taste particularly good, Wang Chunyu uses enough ingredients and a lot of sugar.

In addition, the price is much cheaper than other pastry shops, so it is very popular among children and women nearby.

Although the positioning of the two shops is different, there are only so many people. The two pastry shops still had an impact on their business, and Ye Donglin was somewhat worried.

At the end of the day, Ye Donglin was a little absent-minded, always thinking about how to retain the nearby guests.