The happy little days of the Ye family

Chapter 771 Organizing the Cellar

The family now has three cellars, and the largest cellar stores the family's food.

The second largest cellar contains various mountain products picked from two hills.

The last, smaller cellar contained bacon and various dry goods collected by Father Ye himself.

Father Ye went to the second largest cellar first.

Last year, Ye’s father sold most of the dry goods such as bacon, dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms and red dates that his family had accumulated after the autumn harvest.

The remaining small part was left to Ye Donglin to sell slowly in the grocery store.

As for the food at home, in addition to the three years of food reserves at home, there is still some excess.

After the autumn harvest, Ye's father also sold some of the grain, and the rest, except for what he ate at home, was kept to buy at the grocery store.

There were not many things in the first two cellars, and they had been sorted out years ago. Father Ye came out after taking a quick look at them.

Then he went to his private cellar.

The cellar is a little messy, and it's all stuff recovered from other villages years ago.

The most abundant items were cured fish, which she picked up while selling goods in Fujia Village before the Chinese New Year.

In fact, the villagers directly brought the cured fish from home to exchange for things.

After returning, Father Ye carefully calculated that the exchanged cured fish actually cost only 8 cents per pound.

It is much more cost-effective to exchange the cured fish for things than to take the cured fish back directly.

There were four sacks of cured fish in the cellar, totaling 302 kilograms.

In addition, he collected a lot of dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, bacon and skins from Dashan Village and Xiaoling Village.

Father Ye packed up everything and found that there were quite a lot of things.

There are 3 sacks of dried mushrooms, totaling 156 pounds.

There are 4 sacks of dried bamboo shoots, totaling 290 kilograms.

There are three kinds of bacon, 230 jins of cured pork, 186 jins of cured rabbits, and 60 jins of cured chickens.

As for the leathers recovered, Ye Mu had already made them into leather clothes before the Chinese New Year.

Father Ye opened the sack containing fur coats. The most common ones inside were rabbit fur coats, one was pure white and 9 were gray.

In addition, there are 2 sheepskin coats and 1 wolfskin coat.

A lot of the money in Ye's father's hands was in these dry goods and leather clothes. It was too risky to keep them there, and he wanted to transport them out and sell them sooner.

He had always transported these dry goods to the dock in the county and sold them.

Father Ye had been selling braised pork at the dock for several years and had accumulated some connections. It was not difficult to get rid of these things.

But this time he wanted to visit Xiaohe Town. There was no harm in finding another way.

Xiaohe Town is further away than the dock in the county. I was so busy a few years ago that I never had time to go there and have a look.

Business has been slow recently, so Ye's father wanted to take the accumulated things to Xiaohe Town and sell them.

By the way, let's see if there are any new and interesting things that we can take back and sell.

Now is not a good time to sell leather clothes. Father Ye plans to keep the leather clothes at home and sell them after the summer harvest.

Father Ye packed up the remaining dry goods and planned to take them to Xiaohe Town tomorrow.

After packing his things, Father Ye was so tired that he was covered in sweat and walked slowly back to the house.

At this time, Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu were sitting on either side of the room, each concentrating on their own embroidery.

The two of them lowered their heads and said nothing. There was only the faint sound of needles and threads threading through silk in the room.

After Father Ye came in, he sat down at the table.

After staying in the cellar for so long and sweating again, he was a little thirsty.

After pouring himself a cup of tea and drinking two cups, Father Ye slowly said:

"I plan to go to Xiaohe Town tomorrow."

After hearing Father Ye's words, both mother and daughter stopped sewing and turned to look at him.

"Dad, do you want to go to Xiaohe Town to find some fresh things to sell on North Street?"

Father Ye played with the cup in his hand and said cheerfully:

"That's right. When I went to sell goods in other villages a few years ago, I collected a lot of dry goods and came back. These things still cost a lot of money."

"I want to take it to Xiaohe Town and sell it, and then buy some things that are not available here and come back to sell it on North Street."

Mother Ye put down the needle and thread in her hand and seriously suggested to Father Ye:

"It takes two hours to go to Xiaohe Town, and the donkey at home can't carry much. You can call Xilin over tomorrow to help."

"Xilin often goes to Xiaohe Town to collect bean dregs. He is quite familiar with Xiaohe Town. It would be nice for you to go together to take care of him."

Father Ye looked at Mother Ye and said with a smile:

"I originally planned to bring Xilin over. It's time for this kid to go out and see the world. He can't just stay at home and raise pigs."

"After you raise this pig, you have to sell it to get the money back. I can't help him forever. Sooner or later, he will have to carry it on his own."

Ye's mother thought that Ye Xilin had been raising pigs at home these years, and that Ye's father had helped sell bacon and rabbit skins, so she felt that what he said made sense.

"You're right. Although Xilin is good at raising pigs, he still has to have a way to sell these things."

As the youngest child in the family, Ye Xilin is now 17 years old and will get married soon.

When a child grows up, he cannot rely on his family all the time, and his parents cannot help him forever.

Father Ye feels that his son is doing quite well in raising pigs and rabbits.

He can take care of the sows at home by himself, from feeding to delivering babies, as well as postpartum care.

However, after the pork in the pig pen became bacon, the rabbits in the rabbit shed became leather and bacon rabbits.

Later, his mother helped to make leather clothes from the leather, and he sold the leather clothes and bacon to the merchants on the dock.

There is still something lacking in how to turn the pigs and rabbits you raise into money.

Father Ye feels that Ye Xiling has grown up now and cannot rely on him all the time. In addition to raising pigs, you also need to know how to do business.

Father Ye plans to teach him more about doing business in the future, and the merchants he knows on the dock will be introduced to him later.

In the future, he will not help sell rabbit skins and bacon. Children must learn to be independent when they grow up.

A manly man cannot hide behind his parents all the time. He must always stand alone and be the master of his own family.

Just being able to raise pigs and rabbits is definitely not enough. If you can’t sell them, your hard work will not be in vain.

Speaking of Xiaohe Town, Ye Qingqing thought about the shopping trip to Xiaohe Town with the Tang family and his son.

"It's a pity that I'm still pregnant, otherwise it would be great to go to Xiaohe Town with you. I haven't gone out to play in a long time."

Ye Qingqing looked at the huge belly in front of him and his increasingly bulky body, feeling a little disappointed.

Since she became pregnant, she hasn't gone to the mountains to pick mushrooms or dig wild vegetables. At most, she just takes a walk in the flat areas of the village.

In the past six months, the farthest place she has been is the town.

Now that I'm too heavy, I can't go to the mall anymore, so I can only go to Wang Yueya's house to sit.

Although Tang Xiaojing was very considerate to her and her family was very kind to her, she was not as free and happy as before she had children.