The happy little days of the Ye family

Father Ye took Ye Donglin to the county market and paid the stall manager 5 cents for the stall fee.

It takes more than an hour to get to the county from home. The two of them arrived late. There were not many stalls at this time, so Father Ye chose a barely passable location.

As soon as the father and son brought down the winter bamboo shoots, two women came to buy the winter bamboo shoots before they even started shouting.

The woman picked two small, fat and tender bamboo shoots and asked, "These winter bamboo shoots are good. How much do they cost per pound?"

"Sixteen cents per pound, the winter bamboo shoots just dug yesterday are still fresh." Father Ye said cheerfully.

Years ago, Ye's father sold winter bamboo shoots at a temple fair in the county. At that time, the price was 16 Wen per catty. This time, Ye's father also planned to sell them for 16 Wen per catty.

Vegetables are more expensive during the Chinese New Year. In the past few days, winter bamboo shoots in the county have been sold for 17 yuan per pound. When she heard that Ye’s father was still selling them at the same price as before, the woman quickly took two more young bamboo shoots.

"Just these 4."

"Sister, here are 3 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots, a total of 48 Wen." The woman picked relatively small tender bamboo shoots, and the four bamboo shoots were not heavy.

Ye Donglin on the side cleverly helped the elder sister put the winter bamboo shoots into the vegetable basket.

Another elder sister was picking at the stall and picked out a dozen winter bamboo shoots in total, and the winter bamboo shoots she picked were all relatively large.

"I want more, can the price be better?"

Father Ye said cheerfully: "Sister, the price of my winter bamboo shoots is the price a year ago, which is already cheap enough. I can give you a fraction of it at most. If it's more, I will lose money."

"Okay, weigh these winter bamboo shoots for me." The eldest sister was in a good mood because there was a wedding at home, so she didn't bother much about the price with Father Ye.

"Sister, there are 23 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots here, 16 kilograms per kilogram, a total of 368 kilograms. I will charge you 360 kilograms."

Seeing that the woman kept smiling and buying so many winter bamboo shoots, Father Ye guessed that there was a happy event at home, so he quickly started selling rapeseed oil on the stall.

"Sister, I also have freshly squeezed rapeseed oil here, which is good for cooking or making croquettes. Do you want to bring two kilograms?"

The eldest sister opened the lid and smelled it. It was indeed freshly squeezed oil. "How do you sell this rapeseed oil?"

"27 cents per pound."

"Bring me two kilograms." The eldest sister handed the oil jar to Father Ye.

In fact, the eldest sister originally wanted to buy oil to fry the meatballs, but Father Ye happened to be here, so they bought them together.

Father Ye carefully put the oil can back into the eldest sister's vegetable basket, "Two kilograms of rapeseed oil cost 54 cents, plus the 360 ​​cents just now, the total is 414 cents."

The eldest sister took out a large bunch of copper plates from the purse, counted 14 copper plates, took out 4 pieces of silver from the purse, and gave them to Father Ye together.

Father Ye happily took the money and put it in his purse.

Not many people came out to buy vegetables during the Chinese New Year, so the market was a bit deserted, and Father Ye’s stall was further back, making it even more deserted.

Ye Donglin took the initiative to take two relatively good-quality winter bamboo shoots and went to the street a little ahead to shout.

With Ye Donglin's shouting, the stall's business did get better.

Not long after, Ye Donglin brought a middle-aged man over. The man was the butler of a wealthy businessman and was in charge of the house's purchases.

The middle-aged man took two winter bamboo shoots at random. After looking at them, he nodded with satisfaction and asked the accompanying boy to pick the winter bamboo shoots.

The middle-aged man was very generous and bought 100 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots and 15 kilograms of rapeseed oil.

By the time it was time to gather, more than half of the winter bamboo shoots had been sold, leaving only more than 100 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots.

Father Ye asked Ye Donglin to pack up the winter bamboo shoots and drive the donkey cart to the Liang Family Restaurant where bacon was sold.

The waiter at the restaurant recognized Father Ye and asked Father Ye and Ye Donglin to sit down.

"Boss Ye, our shopkeeper Liang has gone out for something. He will be back in a moment. You two will wait here for a moment."

"It's okay, it's okay, we'll just wait a moment." Father Ye said cheerfully. Then I took a small bag of winter bamboo shoots and gave it to the waiter who greeted Ye’s father.

The waiter was very happy to accept Ye's father's winter bamboo shoots. These winter bamboo shoots were much more expensive than spring bamboo shoots, and he was usually reluctant to buy them.

The waiter secretly told Ye's father that the bacon that Ye's father sold to Shopkeeper Liang years ago was selling very well, and the restaurant was in short supply of vegetables recently.

It didn't take long for shopkeeper Liang to come back. He was very happy to see Father Ye, "Boss Ye, what good things have you brought this time?"

"There is a bamboo forest on the mountain at home. There are few vegetables at this time, so I dug some winter bamboo shoots. I don't know if Shopkeeper Liang likes them."

When he heard that there were winter bamboo shoots, shopkeeper Liang immediately became energetic and said, "Brother Ye, you are really my noble man. We are short of vegetables at this time. I want all your winter bamboo shoots."

The waiter on the side has already weighed the winter bamboo shoots. "Shopkeeper, there are 158 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots in total."

Shopkeeper Liang took the abacus and calculated it after a while, "158 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots, 16 yuan per kilogram, a total of 2 taels, 528 yuan. Boss Ye, please keep the money."

Father Ye took the money and put it into his wallet, and then said: "Shopkeeper Liang, we can probably dig hundreds of kilograms of winter bamboo shoots on the mountain. I wonder if you want more here? If so, I will keep it for you."

Winter bamboo shoots are rare, so of course shopkeeper Liang will not let them go. "Send them all here. When you send the winter bamboo shoots, bring a few baskets of river sand. You can eat these winter bamboo shoots buried in the sand for more than a month."

There was a lot of sand in the river and the creek, so Father Ye immediately agreed.

"Shopkeeper Liang, there is a hill at home. There are more than a dozen Chinese toon trees on the hill, and there are many kinds of wild vegetables. In about twenty days, we will be able to eat fresh and tender wild vegetables. I wonder if Shopkeeper Liang can harvest the wild vegetables?"

"It's harvested." Shopkeeper Liang was very excited. From the end of the new year to the beginning of spring, there is a shortage of vegetables, and the first batch of toon is even more popular.

"You can have as many Chinese toons as you like, and you can send me ten kilograms of wild vegetables each time. But let's be honest, these wild vegetables and winter bamboo shoots can only be provided to me by the Liang Family Restaurant in the county."

Father Ye thought for a moment and said: "It's okay to only provide it to the Liang family restaurant, but I don't know how many Chinese toons and wild vegetables the shopkeeper Liang can eat?"

"I want all the toona from the first crop, and then I will send 40 kilograms of wild vegetables and 5 kilograms of toon every day. We will discuss the varieties of wild vegetables separately."

"However, the price cannot be based on the price set by Boss Ye. We want large quantities, toon costs 15 cents per catty and wild vegetables for 1 cent per catty."

Thinking that there were spring bamboo shoots on the mountain, Father Ye said: "No problem, do you want more spring bamboo shoots from Boss Liang? But the amount of spring bamboo shoots is huge, so we can't just provide these to the Liang family restaurant."

"We'll talk about the spring bamboo shoots later. This is the contract between the winter bamboo shoots and wild vegetables. You can read it first and then you can sign the contract if it's ok." Shopkeeper Liang handed the contract to Father Ye.

Father Ye read the deed twice and found no problems. Then he handed the deed to Ye Donglin. Ye Donglin was still young, so of course he couldn't see anything.

Father Ye and Shopkeeper Liang made an appointment to deliver winter bamboo shoots in three days, and then left with the deed.

As soon as they walked out of the door, Father Ye could no longer suppress the raised corners of his mouth, and the father and son were filled with joy.