The happy little days of the Ye family

Winter passed and spring came, and eight years passed in the blink of an eye.

During these eight years, a lot of things have changed quietly and silently.

Mr. and Mrs. Ye's hair was originally half white, but before they knew it, it had turned completely white, and their straight waists gradually became less straight.

The impetuous old lady Ye has many more wrinkles on her face. She looks much friendlier than when she was young, and is often surrounded by a group of naughty kids.

Old Man Ye no longer goes to the fields. He goes fishing in the river with a few old men in the village every day with a smile on his face.

I can smell the aroma of grilled fish at home every now and then.

After these years of experience, Ye's father and mother have become the new stabilizers, managing the entire Ye family in order.

The dozens of acres of paddy fields reclaimed at home were finally turned into top-quality fertile land under the careful care of Ye's father.

With dozens of acres of high-quality paddy fields, two small hills planted with fruit trees and honeysuckle, a farm, and several houses and shops in the county and town, the Ye family can be considered a truly wealthy family.

Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin have also grown a lot over the years and have become the pillars of the Ye family.

Not only did Ye Donglin and his wife manage their two shops near the academy very prosperously, but the income from their newly purchased farm also increased year by year.

Xiaoqi, the eldest brother, is now as tall as Ye Donglin. He always has a smile on his face, and looks like a young man full of vigor and vitality.

Although he looks childish, he is smart and is highly valued by the teacher.

The 13-year-old Tangtang learned from Ye's mother and became a well-known embroiderer in the neighborhood at a young age.

Although I can't make large embroidery patterns yet, I can make small ones quite well, and one of them can be sold for more than ten taels of silver.

Since the beginning of last year, the number of matchmakers coming to the Ye family to propose marriage has increased day by day, but Ye Donglin and Wang Chunyu have all rejected them.

Firstly, he wanted to keep his daughter for a few more years, and secondly, he wanted to wait for Xiaoqi to pass the imperial examination and then choose a good family for her.

The 11-year-old Xiao Ba is also studying at Qingsong Academy, but his talent is obviously not as good as his brother's, and he always falls asleep in class.

Fortunately, this kid is good at arithmetic, and Ye Donglin plans to let him take over his job and manage the family shop in the future.

Ye Xilin and his wife not only raise pigs and rabbits well, but in recent years they have also started raising wild goats.

Every year, the two of them sold a large number of sheepskin coats and rabbit fur coats to the north, and they had two more places to hide their silver.

The 12-year-old Xiao Yuanbao is also studying at Qingsong Academy. Although his talent is not as good as Xiaoqi, he is much better than Xiaoba.

Like Ye Xilin, the little guy is born with better luck than the average person.

Not only can I often pick up good stuff, but when taking exams, most of the questions I encounter are those that I know the answers to.

The little guy is studying in Class B now, and it is estimated that in two years he will be able to try for the examination for Tongsheng.

As for her younger sister Baoer, she perfectly inherited her mother Li Guoer's strength. She looks sweet, but in fact she is a hidden strongman.

Baoer didn't learn any of Ye's mother's embroidery skills, and Li Guoer felt that being a hunter was too dangerous.

So the couple decided to send her to Doctor Li in the village to learn medicine.

After a few years, although his medical skills were not yet complete, his technique in preparing medicinal materials had reached perfection.

Thanks to this trick, Baoer never ran out of pocket money and could often help his brother and father.

When Tang Xiaojing came back to the village, he often taught her how to grow some simple and easy-to-grow herbs.

At the end of last year, Ye Xilin bought a small hill specifically for Baoer to grow herbs, and said that he would leave the hill to her as a dowry in the future.

In addition to the brother and sister, Li Guoer gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, a few years ago.

Those who had previously disliked her strength now regretted their actions to the point of tears.

The Ye family is doing well, and the Tang family's life is also getting better and better.

Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan would return to the village from time to time, and the farmhands in the family did not dare to be perfunctory.

Cured meat, cured rabbits, rabbit fur coats, and sheepskin coats had to be shipped to the dock every once in a while and exchanged for small coins.

With the nourishment of the feces of various small animals, the paddy fields reclaimed in the valley have become top-quality farmland, and the yield is increasing year by year.

The two hills that had been plucked clean are now covered with various valuable herbs again.

In a hidden corner of the small valley, there are three wild ginseng trees, one large and two small.

The newly purchased farm has a high yield of grain and peanuts, and can earn one or two hundred taels of silver every year.

The hill, which was originally a barren mountain, is now covered with various herbs, making it a Feng Shui treasure land.

The two wild ginseng plants moved from the small valley are now growing well.

At the beginning of the year, Tang Xiaojing also discovered that there was a small wild ginseng seedling next to it.

The father and son were busy with the family's fields and herb planting every day, while Ye Qingqing was busy with embroidery.

After her two children went to school, she had more time and her embroidery skills became more and more sophisticated. Now she is a well-known embroiderer in the county.

Seeing that people living nearby were all interested in taking imperial examinations, Ye Qingqing specialized in making large-scale embroidery pictures with auspicious meanings such as fish leaping over the dragon gate and auspicious stars shining brightly.

After finishing the work, she would directly put it in her mother's bookstore for consignment. Now each of her embroidery works can be sold at a high price of 100 taels.

I make two or three embroidery pieces every year and live a very happy life.

Over the years, the family has saved several thousand taels of silver. Ye Qingqing also wants to buy a large farm after her eldest son passes the imperial examination.

The 14-year-old Chenchen is now a head taller than Ye Qingqing. The mother and son look more and more alike. When they walk out, one can tell at a glance that they are biological mother and son.

Compared to Xiaoqi's high-spirited and aggressive personality, Chenchen is more reserved and gentle, and is often criticized by the other two brothers as a smiling tiger.

The 11-year-old Yangyang looks very much like his uncle Ye Xilin in both temperament and appearance, being naughty all day long.

Compared to his biological brother Chenchen, the little guy and Xiaoqi look more like biological brothers.

The big guy is still young and undecided. One moment he wants to learn medicine from Manager Wang, the next he wants to grow herbs with his father, and the next he wants to become a high-ranking official.

He learns everything and knows a little bit about everything, but he is not proficient in anything, which often makes Ye Qingqing very angry.

It’s strange to say, Ye Qingqing originally wanted to wait for her two sons to go to college and then have a little girl.

No one knew what was going on. Both the couple had good health, but they just couldn’t conceive a third child.

Later, Yangyang became more and more naughty, so Ye Qingqing gave up the idea of ​​having another daughter, for fear that another devil would come.

Xiao Shitou has been living in the Ye family. The three brothers often study and play together, and their relationship is getting better and better.

He and Chenchen are only half a year apart in age. Now they look the same height and look somewhat similar. Even their temperaments seem very similar.

In addition, the three brothers stick together every day, so they are often mistaken for being twin brothers.