The happy little days of the Ye family

The children nearby had already spread the news to the whole village that Ye's father was selling goods and farm tools at the entrance of the village.

As soon as the Tang family father and son came back, Ye Qingqing asked:

"My father sells farm tools at the entrance of the village. Are the farm tools at home ready? Do you want to add more?"

After hearing Ye Qingqing's words, Tang Xiaojing suddenly remembered that the summer harvest was about to begin, and the farm tools at home had not been put away yet.

"I would have forgotten it if you didn't tell me. Let me pack up the farm tools at home first."

Before it got dark, Tang Xiaojing quickly pulled Tangshan along to the utility room.

The main thing used in the summer harvest is the sickle. After the grain is harvested, the ground is plowed with plows and hoes. There are quite a lot of farm tools at home.

The father and son dug out a total of 20 sickles, 10 hoes, 8 machetes and 5 plows for plowing the fields.

The south is hot and rainy, and the climate is relatively humid. These farm tools have not been used for half a year and most of them are rusty.

Tang Xiaojing took the sickles to the yard to sharpen them, and found that there were two relatively worn ones, and they still had several holes missing after being sharpened.

These two sickles can no longer be used, and Tang Xiaojing plans to buy two new ones.

Tangshan on the side also re-polished the hoes and machetes, but one or two were too shabby and needed to be replaced with new ones.

Tangshan thought that now that his family had ten acres of paddy fields for his daughter-in-law, the farm tools at home might not be enough, so he planned to buy some more.

Together, the father and son plan to buy 4 more sickles, 1 machete and 2 hoes.

The good news did not leak to outsiders. After dinner, Tang Xiaojing and Ye Qingqing came to Ye's house.

Ye's father didn't make any money from his daughter and son-in-law, so he sold it to them at the purchase price.

Ye Qingqing was not polite to her father, and happily returned with her things.

As soon as the two left, Father Ye patted his thigh and said:

"I still ordered too few farm tools. I would have ordered more. I didn't expect that most of these farm tools were sold in the village alone."

Father Ye took stock again and found that including the original farm tools he had, he still had 8 sickles, 5 machetes and 4 hoes left.

Fortunately, he still had some farm tools on hand, otherwise he would have nothing to sell tomorrow.

Father Ye plans to go to Xiaoling Village and Dashan Village first tomorrow. These two villages have little cultivated land and do not need many farm tools.

The summer harvest is coming soon, and there is still some extra old grain at home. Father Ye plans to sell some of the old grain tomorrow.

After dinner, Ye's father took his two sons with him and went down to the cellar where the grain was stored.

The father and son brought up 5 sacks of corn cobs and 2 sacks of rice.

In addition to food, Father Ye also packed some durable linen and other practical things.

The next day, as soon as the big rooster at home rang twice, Father Ye got up.

Knowing that Ye's father was going to sell goods in other villages today, Mrs. Ye specially steamed a few more eggs in the morning and baked cakes for him to take with him for lunch.

After breakfast, Father Ye went out with a cart full of things.

The first village we went to was Xiaoling Village.

On the way to Dashan Village, we turned onto a path overgrown with grass. This was the only way to Xiaoling Village.

There are not many people in Xiaoling Village, and every household is not rich. In the entire village, only the village chief’s family owns a donkey cart.

Other sellers, unlike Ye's father who owns a donkey cart, are not willing to go so far to Xiaoling Village to sell their goods.

There are not many people walking this path and it is very narrow.

Moreover, the weeds are very lush at this time, and there are lush green grass on both sides that are taller than a person.

Although he has been here several times, Father Ye always feels flustered every time he walks on this path.

I always feel like someone is lurking in the grass, waiting for you at any moment. It's like showing up to rob someone.

The grass in front was particularly lush, and suddenly a person jumped out of the grass.

Father Ye was startled, and when he got nervous, he whipped out the donkey-driving whip in his hand.

"Who is that bastard who dares to attack me secretly?"

The person who was hit was also startled and grabbed the whip on his body.

The voice sounded familiar to Father Ye, and when he looked carefully, wasn't it Fang Jiawang from Fangjia Village? I even bought wine from him last night.

"You little brat scared me. I thought there were bandits trying to rob you."

"I was wronged. I was beaten right after I relieved myself."

Seeing that he was an old acquaintance, Fang Jiawang calmed down a bit, but he was still careless.

"This Xiaoling Village is quite far from Fangjia Village. Why are you here alone?"

"It's unlucky to say the least. My mother asked me to come here to see her, but she didn't like me and kicked me out."

"Then why is it just you? Where is the matchmaker?"

Father Ye didn't quite believe it. He always felt that this brat wanted to do something bad.

"The matchmaker who came with me was called away by others, so I was sent back first."

Seeing Father Ye's defensive look, Fang Jiawang was unhappy.

"What's that look in your eyes? Although I'm a bit lazy and don't like to work, I haven't done anything bad."

Father Ye thought the same thing. Although this man was a lazy man doing nothing, he had never done any bad things.

"Uncle was too nervous just now and didn't see it was you. He didn't mean to hit you."

Father Ye apologized to him sincerely, and then gave him half a catty of bulk rice wine in a bamboo tube as an apology.

Fang Jiafu had escaped quickly just now, but in fact he was only touched a little by the tail of the whip, and it didn't hurt much.

Seeing Ye's father come to the court, he not only apologized, but also gave him wine as a gift. This matter was settled, and he happily went home with the wine.

Xiaoling Village is really remote and the roads are not easy to walk, so few salesmen usually come here.

The people in the village were very happy when they saw Father Ye coming with a cart full of things.

The most popular thing is the food on the car.

Although it is old food from last year, the Ye family has preserved it well and it still looks very fresh.

However, Father Ye only sold two bags of corn and one bag of rice, and refused to sell the rest. He wanted to keep them and take them to Dashan Village.

The things Father Ye brought could be bought with money or exchanged for dry goods from the mountains.

Although Xiaoling Village does not have much arable land, it has many mountains and is quite rich in products.

Every household in the village has a lot of mountain goods. When they knew that Father Ye was coming, they all came with big and small bags of things.

There were also some children who came to him with dried mushrooms in exchange for sweets.

There were not many things, so Father Ye replaced them all. As for whether these little brats would be beaten when they went back, he couldn't control that.

While selling goods, Father Ye also listened to a lot of gossip. And the freshest gossip is that Fang Jiawang came to see each other.

Hearing that the woman asked for a dowry gift of 10 silver, Fang Jiawang simply said no, and was kicked out.

Fang Jiawang didn't like to work on weekdays. He just idled around the village all day long. Girls from good families generally looked down on him.

Most of the people who looked at him wanted to sell their daughters to get more betrothal gifts.

Father Ye was selling things while listening to gossip, and his life was quite comfortable.

Although there is not much arable land in the village, there are still some fields. Ye's father sold 3 sickles, 2 hoes and 2 machetes here.

A lot of other burlap, wooden barrels, tubs, bulk wine, and other odds and ends were also sold.

Father Ye didn't receive much money, but he got all kinds of wild goods in exchange.

Sheep skin, rabbit skin, deer skin, bacon and dried mushrooms are all good things.

If you sell it on the dock later, you can make a lot more money.