The happy little days of the Ye family

The father and son played for a while and raised their heads high. Before the little guy had enough, he heard the angry voice of Mrs. Ye.

“It’s time to eat, it’s time to eat~~”

“It’s time to eat, it’s time to eat~~”

Xiaoqi smiled and imitated Old Mrs. Ye and shouted again.

Ye Donglin put the little guy down and led him back together.

"Let's go eat."

"Let's go and eat~"

Xiao Qi is now speaking more and more eloquently, and recently he likes to imitate other people's speech. Ye Xilin often laughs at him for being a good scholar.

There were many people dining in the evening, and the meals were particularly sumptuous, including hare stewed with potatoes, fried beans with bacon, cold cucumber, stir-fried loofah, and a mushroom and egg soup.

Ye Qingqing brought the mushrooms when he came over to taste the pastries in the morning. Ye Mu specially waited for everyone to cook them in the evening.

There were not many pheasants and rabbits in Zhulin Mountain and Xiaohou Mountain. The Ye family did not catch them for sale, but kept them for their own consumption. Therefore, the Ye family never lacked meat.

Even the sweet potatoes and snowballs at home are plump.

It was past the usual meal time and everyone was already hungry.

Seeing a table full of delicious food, everyone stopped talking. For a while, the table was full of the sound of chopsticks picking vegetables and ripping rice.

Wang Chunyu filled Xiao Qi with half a bowl of rice, mixed it with egg custard, and added a piece of rabbit meat, shredded it for him and put it in the rice.

Ye Donglin on the side also gave him two pieces of stewed potatoes that were soft and soft. The potatoes absorbed the flavor of the meat, and the little guy especially liked to eat them.

Although Xiaoqi is young, she has already learned to use chopsticks and can pick up the food in the bowl by herself.

He also ate in a decent manner, holding the small wooden bowl Wang Chunyu made for him and eating very seriously.

However, the little guy's teeth haven't grown yet, so he keeps dropping rice grains from his mouth while eating, and also gets some vegetable juice and rice grains on his body.

But Wang Chunyu didn't say anything to him, and gave Xiao Qi his favorite dishes with a smile.

The little guy spent a lot of time rolling on the ground during the day, and his clothes were not clean at all.

Wang Chunyu thought that since he had to do laundry anyway, he should be as dirty as possible. It was better than chasing after him to feed him like other people.

After dinner, Wang Chunyu took out the pumpkin hair cake newly developed today.

"Dad, sir, this is the pumpkin cake I made this afternoon. You guys have a try and decide the price."

When Wang Chunyu was making pastries in the afternoon, he also made pumpkin steamed cakes.

But I don’t know if this pastry will sell well. Wang Chunyu only made two plates and cut 30 diamond-shaped pastries.

Father Ye and Ye Donglin were very happy to see Wang Chunyu actually make pumpkin hair cake.

The two happily picked up the pastries and ate them.

"This pumpkin steamed cake has a similar taste to brown sugar steamed cake, but it's pumpkin flavored. I think it's quite delicious."

Ye Donglin likes to eat pumpkins, so this pumpkin cake is naturally what he likes.

When Father Ye was young, his family was relatively poor and pumpkins were eaten as food. At that time, he ate pumpkins every day, and he continued to eat pumpkins every day when he grew up.

He was injured from eating pumpkin, but he still didn't like the flowers made from it.

The pumpkin hair cake tastes quite good, but Father Ye really doesn't like the taste.

Although Father Ye didn't like to eat it, he also knew that the pumpkin hair cake was really good.

"This pumpkin cake is very good. You can sell it tomorrow."

After hearing what the father and son said, Wang Chunyu suddenly became happy and said with a smile:

"There are small holes in the cake, so not much grain is actually used. Besides, pumpkin is cheap and less sugar is used."

"I have calculated it. The cost of this pumpkin steamed cake is 10% less than that of brown sugar steamed cake."

Ye Donglin was also very happy to hear that the cost of this new pastry was so low.

"Although the cost of pumpkin hair cake is low, if the price is too low, I'm afraid it will affect other pastries in the shop. It's better to make it the same as brown sugar hair cake."

"I sell them at the grocery store for 4 cents a piece, and daddy, you sell them at North Street for 5 cents a piece."

Father Ye nodded with satisfaction, "I've considered it carefully. I'll just do what you said."

After eating the pastries, the father and son sat on each side of the table, poured out all the money in their wallets, and started counting the money happily.

Father Ye's small stall on North Street is doing very well today.

一天下来，卖掉了2朵绢花、1盒胭脂、4只烤鸡、3罐蜂蜜、3斤梨花酿和2斤梨花酒。

In addition, all the pastries I brought here were sold out.

Including some scattered small things, excluding the cost and the money for renting the stall, Father Ye made a total of 388 Wen today.

As soon as Father Ye finished taking stock, Mrs. Ye on the side stretched out her hand towards him with a smile on her face.

"Hurry up and return half to the public."

"You old lady, why are you in such a hurry? You are indispensable."

Father Ye smiled and put a piece of silver worth 2 cents into the palm of Mrs. Ye's hand.

"The extra six cents will be considered as my filial piety to your old man."

"Hmph, you have the nerve to talk about this six cents." Old Mrs. Ye put the money away and then gave Father Ye a slap in the face.

Father Ye dodged nimbly and provocatively said:

"You can't be too greedy. Mom, if you don't want it, just give it back to me."

"Go, go, don't even think about it."

When it got into her hand, she actually wanted to take it out. What good thing was she thinking?

At this time, Ye Donglin and Wang Chunyu also took inventory of the money on the table, and recovered a total of 1 tael, 512 Wen including the capital.

You have to pay money in advance to purchase groceries at the grocery store. Food, vegetables, and fish brought from home also have to be paid to the family.

There were so many things that he couldn't count everything sold today one by one.

Usually at the end of the month, how much money is spent on purchasing goods and how much money is recovered is used to calculate the total profit of the grocery store.

Based on past situations, the profit from items sold is about 20% to 30%.

A total of 1512 Wen were recovered today. Ye Donglin estimated that today's income was probably more than Wen.

Overall, today's earnings are pretty good.

After both of them made their plans, the happiest person was Mrs. Ye.

"Not bad, my income today is much more than the previous few days."

Father Ye put away the coins on the table and praised his daughter-in-law cheerfully.

"It's all thanks to Xiao Yu. The crystal pear blossom cake and crystal osmanthus cake sold very well today. I also sold them with other items, which made the other stalls around me so angry that their eyes were red."

Then he danced and told everyone about the stall owners who were jealous of his good business.

"Hahaha, those people are so jealous, but there's nothing they can do about it. I can just sulk on the sidelines."

"The other two grocery stalls imitate me all day long, but they can't get pastries, roasted chickens and embroidery, so they can only be jealous of my business."

Some time ago, there were two more stalls selling groceries on North Street, and Ye's father's business was somewhat robbed.

Seeing those people jumping around anxiously today made Father Ye feel bad.

Ye Donglin hugged Xiao Qi and said excitedly:

"The Liu family also sent someone over today to inquire about our new pastries. I guess they are also very angry."

"The Liu family's pastry shop will open tomorrow, so I can bring these three new pastries to compete with them."

"Okay, okay, there's no point in bragging to each other here. Just wash up and rest."

Mrs. Ye started to feel happy when she saw the father and son talking more and more, and quickly urged them to wash up.