The happy little days of the Ye family

When the people in the village set off to do the corvee work, Tang Xiaojing and Tangshan had almost collected the herbs on Rabbit Mountain and Stone Mountain.

The father and son go out early and come back late every day, picking half of the herbs from various years on the mountain, while all the ordinary herbs are gone.

Ordinary herbs have a short planting time. They are replanted in spring and can be harvested again at the end of next year.

As for the dendrobium trees in Stone Mountain, Tang Xiaojing planned to let them grow longer and harvest them again at the end of the year.

After picking herbs on the mountain, the father and son went to their backyard.

The Tang family's backyard is quite large. In addition to the chicken pen and cowshed, the rest of the area is also planted with herbs.

The land in the backyard was not suitable for growing precious medicinal materials such as Polygonatum, Gastrodia elata and Polygonum multiflorum. Tang Xiaojing only planted some mint, prunella vulgaris and wild chrysanthemums.

Ye Qingqing did embroidery for a while, and when he saw the father and son picking herbs in the backyard, he also followed them to join in the fun.

The chrysanthemums were in full bloom at this time. Ye Qingqing carried a small basket and picked all the chrysanthemums that were in bud.

Chrysanthemum has the effect of clearing the liver and improving eyesight. If embroidery hurts her eyes, she would often make chrysanthemum tea to drink.

After Ye Qingqing married into the Tang family, she often picked and prepared herbs with her father and son. She studied very seriously and was considered a semi-experienced expert.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if she stops doing embroidery in the future, she can still support herself by relying on her craft of preparing herbal medicine.

When Ye Qingqing came in just now, he forgot to lock the backyard door.

While the three of them were busy working in the backyard, several of the family's dogs sneaked in to play.

Xiaohuang and Xiaohua were chasing and fighting in the medicine field and trampled many herbs. However, Rhubarb and Black Bean, probably because they were hungry, chewed up several chrysanthemums in a row.

Seeing the wasted herbs, Ye Qingqing went crazy and spanked the rhubarb closest to her several times.

Seeing that Ye Qingqing was angry, several dogs jumped on Ye Qingqing, trampling on more herbs.

The last four dogs were picked up by the scruff of their necks by Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan and driven out of the backyard without mercy.

Looking at the silly dogs scratching at the door, Ye Qingqing said viciously:

"You don't have any dinner for today."

These common herbs in the backyard require almost no processing, they can just be dried in the sun.

During this time, the Tang family's front and back yards were filled with all kinds of medicinal materials, and the house was filled with the aroma of medicinal herbs as soon as they entered.

Tang Xiaojing planted a particularly rich variety of medicinal herbs, and many of them were rare and precious medicinal materials.

Dr. Li came here twice and bought a lot of medicinal materials that were missing.

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After Ye Xilin returned that day, Li Guoer told her family about hunting wild geese to sell.

Mrs. Yang always supported this matter. Her daughter was getting married soon, and she had long since stopped wanting Li Guoer to go hunting in the mountains.

It is better to hunt wild geese. The nearby lakes and streams are not far away and there is no danger.

The next day, the four people were divided into two teams.

Li Guoer and Li Orion set a trap in a nearby small lake.

Brothers Li Feng and Li He went to lay a trap near the creek in Pheasant Mountain.

Dashan Village is surrounded by mountains and there are quite a lot of wild geese. It only took 3 days for four people to catch 4 pairs of wild geese.

But the number of wild geese is also limited, and these little things are very clever.

After setting the trap for a few days, all these little things flew to other places.

In the next few days, no matter how many traps were laid by several people, they could not catch the wild geese.

I heard from Ye Xilin that for a pair of 5 taels of silver from Dayan, there are 60 taels here, and a few people are not greedy.

After catching the wild geese, Li Guoer couldn't wait to send the rabbit to Ye's house, and discussed selling the wild geese in Xiaohe Town.

Although Li Guoer doesn't like being a female celebrity and her clothes are not very good, she is a good shoe maker.

When making shoes for Ye Xilin, I also made a pair of shoes for each of the four elders of the Ye family.

In addition to shoes, Li Guoer also brought a large bag of various kinds of bacon that Yang packed for her.

My daughter is about to marry into the Ye family, so she has to behave well, and she can't have a bad impression before she gets married.

As the saying goes, it is not strange to be polite to many people.

Mother Ye was overjoyed with the shoes made by Li Guoer and a large bag of bacon.

"Xilin is able to marry a wife as good as you, Guo'er, because this kid has accumulated good fortune in his previous life."

Ye Xilin on the side was not happy, "Mom, do you think you can talk like that? I'm not bad either. I need to have good craftsmanship and good looks."

"Shameless, I will thank God if you don't get angry in the future. I won't bother to care about you if Guo'er takes care of you from now on."

Li Guoer had been getting along with Ye Xilin for a long time, and she also knew that this man had a particularly irritating mouth and was also mean.

However, Ye Mu, a mother-in-law, could say it, but Li Guoer couldn't say it to Ye Xilin in front of her, so she just smiled.

"The sow at home gave birth to a litter of pink and tender piglets half a month ago. They are very cute. I will take you to see them."

Ye Xilin felt that Mother Ye was too much of a hindrance here, so he pulled Li Guoer's sleeve and led him to the homestead where the pigs were raised.

Seeing that the two of them were sticky, Mother Ye didn't follow them. She smiled and put away the shoes and bacon that Li Guo'er had brought.

He turned around and discussed with Wang Chunyu what gift to give to his future in-laws.

Wang Chunyu suggested: "Mom, doesn't the Li family have no land? Why don't we bring back some grain? It just so happens that this year's new grain has also arrived."

"Yes, yes, the food is pretty good. Let Xilin go to the cellar to carry a bag of rice and a bag of cornmeal later."

Ye Xilin took Li Guoer's sleeve and walked out. After losing sight of his mother, he quietly held his soft little hand.

Li Guoer was very courageous, so she just let him go when there was no one around. Anyway, the two of them were going to get married in about a month.

After a while, the two came to the innermost pigsty.

A chubby sow, followed by 10 pink and tender piglets.

Li Guoer thought it was just an excuse, but she didn't expect that this man actually took him to see Piggy.

Idiot, how can anyone take a girl's house to see pigs?

However, even if Li Guoer dislikes them, she still likes these little guys.

"These little piglets are quite cute. How long do you have to keep them before you can eat them?"

Of course, Li Guoer prefers them to be made into braised pork.

Ye Xilin looked at Li Guoer, who was staring straight at these little piggies, and the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously.

"These little piglets are only half a month old. They will be almost ready to eat by the Mid-Autumn Festival next year."

The two of them didn't shy away from it at all. In front of these little piglets, they discussed when to kill the pigs for meat.

It's a good thing these little guys don't understand, otherwise they would definitely be furious.

Li Guoer asked again: "How many types of pigs do you raise now?"

"We have a total of 18 breeding pigs at home, including 15 sows and 3 breeding boars."

Li Guoer glanced at Ye Xilin thoughtfully, "These breeding pigs are quite happy. Each of them only has five wives."

Ye Xilin didn't react, and said with envy: "Isn't that right? Life is more nourishing than other people."

"It seems you are quite envious."