The happy little days of the Ye family

One person can teach, and a group of people can also teach. Mrs. Ye simply called Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu over and taught the three of them how to make persimmons step by step.

Ye Xilin saw this and came over to join in the fun, followed by a naughty Xiao Qi.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing have often made persimmon cakes with Mrs. Ye in previous years, and they all know the general process and techniques.

It's just that she doesn't have as much experience as Mrs. Ye, and she doesn't knead hard enough, so the effect is worse.

This time, under Mrs. Ye's step-by-step guidance, I still managed to do it well.

As a foodie, Ye Qingqing studies very seriously.

There is also a persimmon tree in the Tang family's Stone Mountain. It grows on the top of the mountain. The temperature on the top of the mountain is cooler and it matures later. It is just ready to be picked now.

Ye Qingqing plans to go home and make persimmon cakes by herself after finishing her studies.

Wang Chunyu and Ye Xilin were beginners, so they were a little clumsy, but they learned very seriously.

These two people have good attitudes, and Mrs. Ye even specially opened a small stove for them.

When the first batch of persimmons were picked and the second process was carried out, all the dates and persimmons on the mountain had been picked.

However, the autumn harvest is not yet over at this time. The chestnuts on the mountains and the sweet potatoes in the fields have not yet been confiscated.

Chestnuts are resistant to blooming. Even if they fall under the tree after they are mature, as long as the burrs on the outside are not removed, there is no problem in keeping them until the end of the year.

If shelled and dried, it can be kept in the cellar for several months.

The sweet potatoes are hidden in the ground, so it doesn’t matter if they are harvested later.

Therefore, the Ye family and the Tang family harvest chestnuts and sweet potatoes last every year.

When the rice and red dates were dried and stored in the cellar, the chestnuts and sweet potatoes were all taken back, and a month passed quietly like this.

Although the Ye family has three huge cellars, they have already accumulated a lot of various mountain goods and grain storage.

The cellar simply cannot accommodate the rice and other grains collected from the 40 acres of paddy fields harvested in the autumn, as well as the red dates from the mountains.

The family had a bumper harvest of red dates. Before the autumn harvest, Ye's father contacted the merchants he was familiar with.

These merchants also came here to collect red dates in previous years. As soon as the dates were dried, they came to Ye's house by familiar routes.

In addition to the Ye family, other people in the village who bought the barren hills also planted a lot of jujube trees. The ones who planted the most were the village chief's family and Ye Mu's natal Wang family.

These two families are also big jujube merchants in the village. When picking jujubes, they don’t have enough manpower, so they hired many temporary workers from several nearby villages to help.

After the autumn harvest, many merchants from other places came to the village, and ox carts and donkey carts transporting red dates could be seen everywhere.

The road into the village was extremely smooth due to the weight of these ox carts and donkey carts.

The Ye family harvested 6600 kilograms of red dates this year, of which 2000 kilograms were of relatively good quality and 4000 kilograms were of average quality.

The remaining 600 kilograms were in the worst quality, as they were all smaller fruits and inferior fruits that had fallen to the ground.

The quality of red dates is different, and the prices charged by merchants are also different. The best ones are 20 Wen per catty, the ordinary ones are 18 Wen per catty, and the inferior ones are 15 Wen per catty.

Grocery stores and stalls on North Street also sell red dates and red date cakes every day.

Father Ye specially kept 300 kilograms of high-quality red dates and 500 kilograms of ordinary red dates, and sold the rest.

1700 kilograms of fine red dates were sold for a total of 34 taels of silver.

3500 kilograms of ordinary red dates were sold for a total of 63 taels of silver.

600 kilograms of inferior red dates were sold for a total of 9 taels of silver.

In total, the red dates from Zhulin Mountain and Xiaohou Mountain were sold for a total of 106 taels of silver.

When selling red dates, some merchants wanted to buy dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, skins and other wild products from Father Ye.

However, the prices collected at the door were relatively low. Father Ye did not sell them and planned to transport them to the dock himself.

After selling out the red dates, Ye's father and Ye Donglin continued collecting chestnuts in the village.

Last year's honey chestnut cake sold well, but later Tang's and Ye's chestnuts were not enough.

This year the father and son plan to save more chestnuts in advance.

After the autumn harvest, Father Ye was extremely busy. He was not only busy collecting chestnuts, but also busy going to the dock to sell all kinds of mountain products he had accumulated.

Half of these dry goods were produced on the hill above the family home, and the other half were collected by Yue Ye's father when he went to sell goods in the village below.

There were so many things that the family's donkeys and the Tang family's cows were tired and thin.

The number of dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, and coats in the cellar was gradually decreasing, while Mother Ye had more and more money in her hands.

Not only Ye's father but also Ye Xilin were busy.

Autumn is a good time for making bacon. The big fat pigs in the pig pen were made into bacon one after another by Ye Xilin.

In addition, he also accumulated a lot of wax rabbits and rabbit fur coats in the second half of the year.

The small box Ye Xilin used to store the silver could no longer hold it.

After the autumn harvest, Tangshan and Tang Xiaojing shuttled between Stone Mountain and Rabbit Mountain every day.

Ordinary herbal medicines take a short time to grow and are shipped home one sack at a time.

As for precious herbs such as Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonum multiflorum, Gastrodia elata, etc., Tang Xiaojing carefully selected a small number of relatively old ones.

Most of the rest is left on the mountain to continue growing.

These are all treasures. In a few years, the herbs on the mountain will grow.

Even if he doesn't work, he can still live comfortably relying on the herbs from these two mountains.

The father and son also went to a small stone valley. The ginseng and various herbs in it grew very well, but it was a pity that they were not old enough.

The Millipedia that was cut last year has now grown many new branches, and it can be harvested again next fall.

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The autumn harvest is when the small animals in the mountains gain weight. Whether they are pheasants, hares, or large wild boars, they all grow very plump.

While the Ye family was busy with the autumn harvest, the Li family was not idle either.

Li Orion took Li Guoer and the others to various deep mountains and wild forests to hunt and collect various valuable herbs every day.

On the cliff, the four of them also hunted two lone sika deer.

Li Guoer also found a wild ginseng tree that she had longed for.

It's a pity that the wild ginseng is not very big, only about eleven or twelve years old, and it sells for a total of 12 taels of silver.

Except for two sika deer and a wild ginseng tree, most of them were common prey such as wild goats, pheasants, and hares, and some less valuable herbs.

However, although the price of these ordinary prey and herbs is not high, the quantity is relatively large.

Li Guoer's little treasury is getting richer and richer, and she has to take it out every few days to count it.

Li Guoer was very busy in the mountains every day. When Ye Xilin came to Li's house several times, she went into the mountains.

For this reason, Ye Xilin still felt a little aggrieved.

Li Guoer was so careless, and since the two of them hadn't seen each other, they didn't notice Ye Xilin's mood at all.

Li Guoer was busy going up the mountain to make money every day and counting money in his spare time. Li Guoer had no time to care about him.

Ye Xilin went there several times and finally caught Li Guoer at home.

Looking at Ye Xilin's sad eyes, Li Guoer remembered that the two of them had not seen each other for nearly a month.

I had promised to make him shoes and a purse before, but I was so busy that I forgot about them.

Li Guoer suddenly felt guilty.

Li Guoer stretched out her little hand and tentatively tugged Ye Xilin's sleeve, but saw that the man was still ignoring him with an arrogant look on his face.

Then she boldly hooked Ye Xilin's slender fingers.

At first, Ye Xilin was very arrogant and ignored her.

Li Guo'er was about to withdraw her hand in embarrassment, but Ye Xilin held her hand in turn.

Li Guoer was very bold at first, but now that her little hand was held, she became shy.

Then Li Guoer was hugged by Ye Xilin in a daze.

Holding his sweetheart in his arms, Ye Xilin wished he could marry him home right away.