The happy little days of the Ye family

Chapter 721 Busy making money

As the end of the year approaches, every household is busy preparing New Year's goods and gifts, and there are large gatherings almost every day in the town.

After being employed by the Li family, Ye's father and Ye Donglin were extremely busy every day.

Father Ye no longer has time to work as a peddler and sell goods. He gets up before dawn every day and goes to North Street early to set up a stall.

The long-term workers of the Ye family are all from Dashan Village. The long-term workers of the Ye family help make the bacon. They put a lot of spices and rice wine into it, and it is very fragrant just by smelling it.

Moreover, the fat pigs raised by the Ye family themselves are used. The fat is very thick, and the bacon made is very beautiful.

Ye's bacon is famous in Beijie.

As soon as Father Ye finished cleaning up the stall, many women came over to buy bacon. Some of them were going to use it as New Year gifts, and some were keeping it for themselves to eat during the New Year.

I bought all the bacon, including dried rabbits, chickens, dried mushrooms and red dates.

Under Father Ye's enthusiastic promotion, most of the people leaving the stall were carrying large and small bags.

Cured pork, cured rabbits and cured chickens all sold well, but no one cared about the dried fish recovered from Fujia Village. After a few days, only a few kilograms were sold.

The Ye family's honey had been sold out before going to the Li family to hire.

Ye Xilin and Mr. Ye went to the mountain yesterday and brought back the latest crop of honey.

Although bees were raised on both hills of the Ye family, Ye's father left some for Wang Lin's tea stall and some for Ye Donglin's grocery store. The honey he brought to the stall was not much.

There is only Ye's family selling honey nearby, although the honey at the stall costs 48 cents per jar, which is several cents more expensive than ordinary honey.

But honey was only available at Father Ye’s place, so everyone rushed to get it, fearing that it would be gone if it was too late.

In addition to dry goods, the best sellers are winter bamboo shoots. A sack of winter bamboo shoots was sold out quickly by people passing by.

During this time, the pastries made by Wang Chunyu were also very popular. In the past, each pastry only required one or two pots, but now the quantity has doubled.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man with a plump figure came up from the stall.

"Boss Ye, bring me a roast chicken, and give me two pieces of each pastry on the stall."

"Okay, Boss Li bought so many cakes today, is this for New Year's gifts?" Father Ye is very talkative and can chat with anyone.

"My wife has prepared the New Year's gift. My in-law's family is having a wedding tomorrow. I'm going over to have a wedding banquet."

Father Ye took a piece of fat and thin bacon and handed it to Boss Li, "This year's pigs are fat and the bacon is very beautiful. Boss Li, would you like to take some back?"

Looking at Boss Li's round figure, he knew it was delicious. After taking the bacon, he said cheerfully: "It's okay, I just saved it for the New Year. I want this piece of bacon too."

Father Ye weighed the bacon quickly and said, "Boss Li, 52 yuan for pastries, 65 yuan for roast chicken, and 80 yuan for two pounds of bacon, totaling 197 yuan."

Just as Boss Li left, two more women who were about the same age as Mother Ye came to the stall.

The two knew each other and made an appointment to come to the stall to buy New Year goods.

The two selected a lot of new year's goods including spiced melon seeds, candies, couplets, window grilles, firecrackers, and ingot candles for ancestor worship.

New Year's goods are different from ordinary groceries. If you can't sell them this year, they will be thrown away.

Father Ye was afraid that he would lose money if he could not sell out all the New Year's goods. Although he selected many varieties when purchasing goods, the quantity of each item was not large.

At this time, almost all the New Year's goods on the stall have been sold. Father Ye estimates that all the New Year's goods on the stall will be sold out in one day.

Just as the two women left, two pretty little girls came to the stall.

The girl loves beauty, so the two of them gestured to each other for a long time with the silk flowers and hairbands on the stall. Finally, one of them left holding a peach blossom-style silk flower, hand in hand.

Half of the embroidery items that had been taken back had recently been sold. Fortunately, Ye Qingqing brought over a small embroidery picture and a few gold silk handkerchiefs to fill the shelves with embroidery items.

There are more varieties, and more and more people come to see the embroidery.

It’s just that Ye’s mother’s large picture has not been sold. As time passed, Ye’s father became a little anxious.

Just as Ye's father was considering whether to lower the price, the woman who had taken a liking to Ye's mother's winter plum picture came back to see Ye's father with her maid.

The woman really liked Ye Mu's embroidery, but she always felt sorry for the money and didn't want to buy it. After returning home, she couldn't forget it.

So I brought my maid over to the stall early in the morning to see if the embroidery picture was still there. If it wasn't there, forget it.

If the embroidered picture is still there, it means that the picture of winter plum blossoms is destined to her.

Ye's mother's embroidery pictures had been on the stall for nearly two months. When the woman came back to look at the embroidery pictures, Ye's father was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

The woman was already worried about the silver, so she and Ye's father negotiated the price for a long time, and finally Ye's mother's embroidery was sold for 52 taels of silver.

If Ye Mu's embroidery pictures were taken to the Li Family Embroidery Shop in the county, they would only be sold for about 33 taels. Now the embroidery pictures have been sold for 52 taels, which is a full 19 taels more for each embroidery picture.

Embroidery products are highly profitable, and Father Ye plans to take advantage of the stall's recent good business to collect more embroidery products.

Normally, Father Ye would start packing his things and go back when the sun had set halfway up the mountain.

It's the end of the year, and the streets are very lively. Until the sun sets at the bottom of the mountain, there are still people buying things at the stalls.

The town was not far from Taohua Village, so Father Ye simply continued to set up a stall and went back later. It was not until the sky darkened that the items on the stall could not be seen clearly, and Father Ye reluctantly packed up and went back.

Not only is Ye's father's business booming, but Ye Donglin's grocery store is also booming.

Wang Chunyu is now busy making pastries every day, and has already helped Ye Donglin make roast duck and chicken. He has no time to make bean sprouts this year.

However, Mrs. Ye didn't want to let go of the money. She learned how to make bean sprouts from Wang Chunyu and sprouted many white and tender bean sprouts.

The originally empty grocery store first had shelves selling pastries, and some time ago, shelves selling roast duck and chicken were added.

Recently, there have been many large baskets filled with bean sprouts and winter bamboo shoots, making the shop very crowded.

However, the woman who came to buy vegetables did not mind the crowd at all, and thought it would be better if there were more vegetables and other foods.

There are few fresh vegetables in winter, so women who come to buy vegetables recently bring bean sprouts and winter bamboo shoots.

The roast duck at the grocery store only costs 60 yuan a piece, which is a full 80 yuan cheaper than the roast duck at Baijia Restaurant and Zhangjia Restaurant, which costs 20 yuan.

Anyway, it’s not something I eat at home, so I can save a little bit. Many people came over to Ye Donglin to buy roast duck as a New Year gift.

I bought all the roast duck, and of course Ye’s pastries are indispensable.

Ye Donglin has been busy since the morning. He was busy until it was completely dark before closing the door and going back.

At this time, the Bai's restaurant next door was very busy. Ye Donglin looked inside curiously. There were several fathers and sons from the academy chatting and drinking together, and people who lived nearby were eating inside.

Ye Donglin is even happier than Bai Yaowen that the business of the Bai family restaurant is good. After all, they buy their vegetables, fish and various seasonings from the grocery store.

Compared to the Ye family and Bai family, the Yan family braised pork shop seems much deserted.

No matter how delicious the braised pork is, you will get tired of it if you eat too much. Now that there is a small restaurant with good taste, the business will naturally not be good.

The father and son go home together every day, and what they talk about most is the Yan family's braised pork shop. Hearing that their business is now cold, Ye's father feels very comfortable.

"Deserving it."