The happy little days of the Ye family

After the vegetables in the shop were sold out, Ye's grocery store became deserted.

Ye Donglin was really bored, so he simply took out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, polished the ink in the inkstone, and prepared to copy the script.

Just after I wrote a few words, Aunt Yang and Aunt Hu came over happily after watching the excitement from the Liu Family Pastry Shop.

The two of them are the most gossipy and well-informed people in the neighborhood. They can always be found wherever there is excitement.

"Boss Xiaoye, the Liu's pastry shop in front has opened, and it's very lively there." Aunt Yang's voice came over before she entered.

Aunt Yang's voice was so loud that Ye Donglin, who had just calmed down, was startled. His hands shook and he drew a long horizontal line directly on the rice paper.

Looking at the ruined rice paper under his pen, Ye Donglin felt distressed. Pens, inks, paper and inkstones are not cheap.

As soon as Aunt Hu came in, she saw Ye Donglin writing something on the counter and came forward with a curious look on her face.

"Boy from the Ye family, are you still literate? What are you writing?"

Before Ye Donglin opened her mouth, Aunt Yang, who came in with her, had a look on her face that said, "You don't know this." She proudly explained to her:

"You don't know, Boss Xiaoye has been studying for several years, and the notices posted outside are written by him himself."

She really didn't know about this. She couldn't read either. She usually didn't read the notices posted at the door, and she didn't care who wrote them.

But that's not the point. The two of them came here mainly to talk about the situation of the Liu family's shop.

Ye Donglin put down the brush in his hand and moved a chair for each of the two aunts very politely.

"The two aunts also saw it. The shop was deserted and idle, so I copied the words and put them in the shop for rent."

"Boss Xiaoye is really secretive." Aunt Hu was not polite to him. She dragged the chair over and sat down.

Aunt Yang on the side even crossed her legs, as if she were at home.

Ye Donglin grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds and distributed them to the two aunts.

These two people usually love to join in the fun. Ye Donglin guessed that the two people must have just come from the Liu family's shop and happened to inquire about the situation there.

Seeing that Ye Donglin was so smart, the two of them took the melon seeds and started eating them.

Aunt Hu was eating melon seeds while talking to Ye Donglin about what she had just seen.

"The Liu family's pastry shop has been renovated. The surroundings have been painted, and the tables and shelves inside are all newly made. It looks great. Even the pastries sold there are very exquisite."

Aunt Yang on the side was very disdainful, "What's the point of looking good? The red bean cake and mung bean cake are actually sold for 18 Wen per catty, let alone the 25 Wen per catty of peach cake. Isn't this a money grab?"

Aunt Yang is a good cook and can also make some simple pastries, such as red bean cake and mung bean cake.

Red beans and mung beans only cost a few cents per catty, and white flour only costs eight cents per catty. Although sugar is a bit more expensive, it is not used much, and the cost per catty will never exceed eight cents.

18 Wen weighs a pound of pastries, doesn't she think she's being wronged? She didn't want to be fooled. With this money, she might as well buy meat.

Aunt Yang was chewing melon seeds and said with a look of gloating:

"Then Liu Yi is not honest. The pastries in the shop are very expensive. When I went there just now, most people came to join in the fun, and few people paid for the pastries."

In fact, Aunt Hu was originally interested in the cloud cakes and peach cakes in the shop just now.

But the price was too expensive. When I was still struggling, I was pulled away by Aunt Yang who came with me.

When leaving, Yang said plausibly:

"You can buy two kilograms of meat for 25 cents. How can you run away with this money to buy meat? How can the pastries be as delicious as meat?"

Liu Yi happened to be behind the two of them at that time. When he heard Aunt Yang's voice, the smile on his face disappeared immediately and he looked at their backs gloomily.

After the two aunts finished chatting with Ye Donglin, they left with satisfaction.

But before leaving, Aunt Hu bought half a roast chicken. She didn't buy any pastries, so the money she saved was just right to buy meat.

Aunt Yang was stingy and was reluctant to buy roast chicken. She only spent a few pennies on some leftovers such as duck intestines and duck liver.

Although it is not serious meat, it is still a meat dish, and it is also very good to take it back as a snack.

Life is lived by people. Rich people live their lives the way rich people live, and ordinary people live their lives the way ordinary people live.

After the two aunts left, Ye Donglin glanced at the empty grocery store, then lowered his head and continued copying the script.

Ye Donglin was very economical. Copying a book for the Liang brothers cost 15 yuan in wages. He could save money by not copying it himself.

15 cents can buy a pound of meat.

The young boys in the academy often go to Ye's grocery store to buy pastries after class.

They have long been tired of eating the old pastries. Although there are new pastries recently, they still like the new and hate the old after all.

After coming out of the academy, a group of people went to the Liu family's pastry shop, laughing and joking.

People nearby felt that Liu's pastries were too expensive. Some people came to watch the excitement in the morning, but in the afternoon there were not many people in the shop.

Liu Yi was still worried at first, when suddenly seven or eight well-dressed young men rushed into the shop.

One look at the way these people were dressed, he knew they were from the academy.

Liu Yi and his eldest son Liu Youcai enthusiastically introduced various exquisite and beautiful pastries in the shop to these young men who were not short of money.

The originally deserted shop suddenly became lively.

The pastries in the shop are sold by the catty. These people actually don’t have much money on hand, they only have enough to buy half a catty to try.

So they discussed it, each person picked a kind of pastry, bought half a catty, and then shared it together.

Liu Yi said with a smile:

"The shop is newly opened today. Anyone who buys cakes in the shop in the past three days will receive two candies for free if they spend ten cents or more."

Knowing that if you spend 10 cents or more, you can get two candies for free, it turned into cakes worth 10 yuan per person.

Although each person only bought 10 cents, there were so many of them, and two of them picked several kinds of pastries in a row.

Looking at these prodigal boys, the Liu family and his son were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths.

After coming out of the pastry shop, these teenagers wanted to go to the grocery store and read a book.

They have all developed a habit. After coming out of the academy, they always go to the grocery store involuntarily to see if there are any good story books or travel notes.

They looked at the pastries in their hands and felt a little embarrassed to carry pastries from other places, so they unanimously decided to finish eating before going over.

At this time, Ye Donglin, who was in the grocery store, was sitting uneasily, stretching his neck to look outside.

I thought to myself, those brats who usually come here long ago, why haven’t they seen anyone yet?