The happy little days of the Ye family

Ye Qingqing had been pampered since she was a child and had never done any heavy work. She was already panting from exhaustion after climbing out of the small valley.

Tang Xiaojing looked at Ye Qingqing who was extremely tired and asked her to sit down and rest for a while.

Then he took the big basket from behind Ye Qingqing and gave Ye Qingqing only the small basket made of banana leaves.

When going down the mountain, Tang Xiaojing was carrying a large basket of mushrooms on his back, Ye Qingqing's basket in his left hand, and two small baskets full of mushrooms in his right hand.

Ye Qingqing, on the other hand, followed obediently while holding the small basket made by Tang Xiaojing.

Tang Xiaojing's hands were full of things and he couldn't hunt anymore.

Fortunately, there were also Rhubarb and Xiaohuang. The two big guys were originally hunting dogs. They walked halfway through the dense forest and hunted two hares and a pheasant.

Tang Xiaojing didn't have any more hands to hold, so he asked Ye Qingqing to take the lighter pheasant. Two fat rabbits weighing more than seven kilograms were carried by Dahuang and Xiaohuang all the way down the mountain.

Da Huang and Xiao Huang easily carried the rabbit down the mountain and walked to the side of the bullock cart with their heads held high.

Tang Xiaojing put the mushrooms and pheasants they were holding into the bullock cart.

Xiao Huang, who was behind him, jumped onto the cart nimbly, put the rabbit in the corner of the cart, and then came between the two of them, wagging his big tail behind him to take credit.

Ye Qingqing saw Xiao Huang's actions and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Xiao Huang is so smart."

Tang Xiaojing patted Da Huang's big head and said with a smile: "Xiao Huang has been smarter and calmer since he was a child, while Da Huang is carefree and lively and naughty."

Upon seeing this, Big Yellow followed suit and put the rabbit on the oxcart. Then he jumped between the two of them and squeezed Little Yellow away.

Xiao Huang has a good temper and doesn't care about it. He jumped on the bullock cart and sat obediently.

After squeezing Xiao Huang away, he raised his head and looked proud to praise me.

Ye Qingqing couldn't help laughing and rubbed Dahuang's big, fluffy head.

"Rhubarb is so cute."

Tang Xiaojing still resented Dahuang for snatching his eggs at noon, so he patted Dahuang's big butt hard.

"This guy is stupid, not only naughty but also heartless."

"Stingy guy, it's just one egg. I'll cook two for you when I go back." Ye Qingqing protected Rhubarb from Tang Xiaojing.

"I'm hurt and need your comfort..."

"Go, go, go." Before Tang Xiaojing could finish speaking, he was pushed away by Ye Qingqing.

Before leaving, Tang Xiaojing didn't forget to take away the rabbit skins from the morning.

After returning home, Ye Qingqing took Tang Xiaojing to the backyard and divided the mushrooms without taking a rest.

The two poured the mushrooms they brought back onto the ground, picked and divided them into four piles of mushrooms, one large, three small, and four.

The big pile is of intact ordinary mushrooms, and the remaining three small piles are of morels, gallinobacteria and damaged mushrooms of different quality.

Ye Qingqing filled half a basket with mushrooms of different quality and prepared them for dinner.

Tang Xiaojing took the rabbits and pheasants to the well to clean them up.

"First pick up the pheasant, chop the chicken into small pieces, and eat mushroom stewed chicken in the evening."

"Okay, Qingqing is good at cooking and everything she cooks is delicious."

For dinner, Ye Qingqing made stewed chicken with mixed mushrooms, boiled spinach, and loofah and egg soup.

The aroma wafting from the kitchen woke up Dahuang and Xiaohuang who were still snoring. The two big guys came to the kitchen to beg for food from Ye Qingqing.

As soon as Ye Qingqing prepared dinner, Ye Donglin came over happily.

"It smells so good, Qingqing, your cooking skills have improved again." As soon as Ye Donglin came in, he was greedy for the rich smell of meat.

Hearing Ye Donglin's voice, Ye Qingqing was very happy, wiped the water on his hands, and walked out quickly.

"Brother, why are you here? All the fabrics I brought have been sold out?"

Ye Donglin lightly flicked Ye Qingqing's forehead, "Little money man, you only think about money, can't big brother come and see you?"

Ye Qingqing rubbed his forehead and complained: "You still have the nerve to say that you haven't even come to the Tang family to see me a few times."

"You run home twice a day and you still need me to come here."

There was a wall between the Ye family and the Tang family. Every time Tang Xiaojing went out, Ye Qingqing would run home with the embroidery.

Ye Qingqing can be seen at Ye's house almost every day, and Ye Donglin has the illusion that his sister is not married yet.

Taking advantage of the break in talking, Ye Donglin also looked at the Tang family carefully and saw that the Tang family's life was good.

Judging from the scent that often wafts to Ye's house, we can also tell that the food is also very good. After marrying into the Tang family, Ye Qingqing's face even became a little rounder.

Looking at Ye Qingqing's round face, Ye Donglin nodded with satisfaction, this brother-in-law is okay.

"The 8 pieces of fabric you brought have been sold out. Each piece of fabric is 98 yuan, and a total of 784 pieces of fabric have been sold."

Ye Donglin came here to give Ye Qingqing money for selling fabrics.

Ye Qingqing took the broken silver and copper plates from Ye Donglin and said with a smile:

"The fabric is 70 Wen per piece, the total cost is 560 Wen, and the profit of this batch of cloth is 224 Wen."

Ye Qingqing counted 23 copper coins and gave it to Ye Donglin, agreeing to give him [-]% of the reward.

Then Ye Qingqing ran back to the kitchen and filled Ye Donglin with a large bowl of mushroom stewed chicken.

"I was just about to send the chicken over. Brother, please take it back. There is no need to send the bowl back. I will bring it back when I go back tomorrow."

Ye Donglin happily took the chicken, "I'm sorry. I was greedy for the smell of the meat as soon as I came in."

After dinner, Mrs. Ye called the whole family into the house.

Father Ye and Mother Ye knew that they were going to settle accounts, but it was the first time that Ye Donglin, Wang Chunyu and Ye Xilin gathered in Mrs. Ye's house, and they didn't know what they were going to do.

Seeing that the three little ones were still confused, Mrs. Ye explained calmly:

"According to the rules of the family, everyone must pay half of the money they earn to the public house, and the public house is responsible for everyone's food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Any money left over will be purchased as family property."

"There will be an inventory every month at home. In the past, when you were still young, I didn't let you participate. Now that you have grown up, you can also participate in the inventory at home in the future."

The three people who participated in the home accounting for the first time were very excited. They took money from home every day, but they were actually very curious about how much money the home had.

Ye Mu on the side took out a thick account book. This was the account book since she took over. It recorded in detail the income and expenses of the family in the past two years.

Ye's mother opened the account book and talked to the younger members of the family about Gongzhong's money.

"The money saved by the family before was used to buy fields and shops and houses in the town. Now there is a total of 513 taels of silver in the public account."

The three of them were very surprised. Their family had purchased so much property, and they didn't expect to have so much money in savings.

But after thinking about it carefully, I think it's very reasonable. After all, brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin can earn 70 to [-] taels each a year.

Coupled with the money earned by other people in the family and the family's property, it is indeed not a small amount.

Then Ye Mu talked about last month's income.

"There are two houses and a shop for rent in the town. Putting the three together, the rent was 2 taels and 4 yuan last month."

"The other is the silver that everyone turned in to the public, a total of 14 taels of silver."

"The wild products and honeysuckle on the mountain haven't been sold yet, so we don't count this for now. The total income last month was 16 taels and 4 yuan."

No one dared to speak out and listened carefully to Ye Mu's words.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Ye Mu then talked about the family expenses.

"There are 13 long-term workers in the family now, and they earn 550 cash a month. A month's wages are 7 taels, 150 cash."

"In addition, the various expenses for food, clothing, housing and transportation totaled 608 Wen."

Mother Ye glanced at the account book and said, "The total expenses for this month are 7 taels, 758 taels, and the balance is 8 taels, 642 taels."

Ye Xilin was a little puzzled, "There is so much money in the public account. It stands to reason that there is more than this balance in a month?"

Mr. Ye, who had been silent, explained:

"It looks like the balance isn't much, but most of it is mountain products and honeysuckle in the cellar, and the red dates at the end of the year are also a big profit."

Old Mrs. Ye warned with a serious face: "Wealth is invisible, today's events are rotten in my stomach, and no one can say anything."

The three juniors nodded desperately.