Chapter 155 Mid-Autumn Festival

Ye Zhen's planting business is booming. All kinds of fruit trees on the mountain are growing well. All kinds of newly purchased vegetable seeds have been planted. When the lotus flowers in the lotus pond begin to wither, Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived.

Little Brother Ye had gone back to school a long time ago, but the school was on holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now he was running around the mountain like he was having fun, taking his videos, and going to the vegetable fields with Grandma Ye.

There are many snails in the ditches in autumn, so Brother Ye rolled up his trousers and went to touch the snails.

Grandma Ye doesn't understand why young people like to eat snails. According to her, snails are small and have no meat, so they are just eaten as condiments when picked up.

"I'm so idle! What's the point of eating this?"

Little Brother Ye touched the snails and said, "Grandma, you don't understand!" Fried snails are so delicious. You can eat them one by one and drink some ice cola. The taste is no worse than eating crayfish.

There is not much water in the ditch, with slender green water plants floating around. Snails and small river clams are attached to the shallow mud and sand. The small river clams have little meat and are fishy, ​​so the Ye family doesn't like to eat them, so they are usually given to the chickens and ducks as a snack.

Grandma Ye no longer picks up river clams because it’s a waste anyway.

The chickens and ducks at home love to run to the mountains. The wild grasses there taste delicious and they don’t like to eat the rice bran mixed with rice every day.

I have to run to the mountains to pick up chicken and duck eggs every now and then, and the nests I built for the chickens and ducks are no longer useful. It’s such a waste!

In Grandma Ye's eyes, Brother Ye is just like the chicken and duck that don't eat proper meals and prefer to eat those weird weeds.

Don’t know how to enjoy food!

Grandma Ye did not stop them and shook her head: "Okay, I don't understand, you pick them up yourself." She turned around and introduced the radishes she planted to her fellow vegetable lovers with her mobile phone.

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When it is a festival, Aunt Ye will go back to her parents' home for dinner. Grandma Ye has already prepared salted duck eggs. When their daughter returns to her parents' home with her husband and children, her parents will give her salted duck eggs and moon cakes.

Ye Zhen actually doesn’t like the old-fashioned mooncakes, especially the five-nut ones, which are too sweet and the fillings are particularly unpalatable.

However, Ye's father and younger brother were the opposite. They bought a lot of mooncakes for the holidays. Ye Zhen couldn't help but complain:

"Dad, there are so many mooncakes now, why do you buy these? Aren't there other fillings?"

Look at the mooncakes she opened. Each one is packaged with the names of various fillings written on them, such as five-nut, red bean paste, lotus seed paste, and some fruit fillings.

In addition to these, I also bought mooncakes in large, high-end packaging boxes, which are definitely for gifts.

“No way, I bought mooncakes with several kinds of fillings.” Dad Ye didn’t believe it. He even specially bought mooncakes with various fillings, but there were two more of them with five nuts.

Ye Zhen: "What's the difference? They don't taste good anyway."

Dad Ye had no choice. He went to the town to buy some tofu this morning and saw some mooncakes. The packaging looked good, so he bought some. Cost of living in the town was not high, so the mooncakes were just average.

This is how they bought things in previous years, and Father Ye didn’t think too much about it: “Why don’t you drive to the county town and buy some meat and vegetables?”

Ye Zhen certainly knew that this was how they bought the mooncakes in previous years, but every year after giving away the mooncakes, the rest of the mooncakes were eaten by anyone except Ye's father and younger brother, who would eat the five-nut ones.

A mooncake was divided into several pieces and half of it was left.

Fortunately, not many mooncakes were bought this time, so Ye Zhen ran to the kitchen and asked Ye's mother if she needed any more dishes.

"Just take some beef and braised dishes. You can buy the rest. We have no shortage of vegetables at home." Mother Ye was busy inside.

Grandma Ye came back to help process the fish and shrimp. Early in the morning, Dad Ye went to the pond to catch them. After a few months, the fish and shrimp became fat and big.

We keep them in basins at home after catching them. Together with the half bucket of snails that Brother Ye picked up, we have several dishes now.

Ye Zhen nodded, took the key and was about to go out, and Grandpa Ye called her from behind:

"Ye Zi, wait, I'm going too."

Ye Zhen turned around, looking surprised: "Is there something going to the county?"

This is really big news. After he became ill and couldn’t walk, Grandpa Ye never left Shanbei Village except to go to the hospital.

Later, after Ye Zhen had taken care of his family's health, he stayed in the fields on the mountain every day.

According to Grandpa Ye, he had not been to the county for almost ten years. If he were to go there by himself, he would even forget which bus to take.

The world outside is changing with each passing day. The roads have become much wider, houses have been built one after another, and there are cars on the road one after another. The routes we used to take were serviced by shuttle buses, but now they are all public buses. Grandpa Ye really doesn't know which bus to take when he goes out.

This may be a common problem for most older people, especially in rural areas, where the elderly don’t like to hang out in busy places.

The old man turned his head away embarrassedly, took the bank card that Ye's father had applied for him, and got into the car.

"Nothing, just a holiday, I bought your grandma some jewelry." His expression was calm, and he tried to appear casual.

Oh! Ye Zhen was shocked. He didn't expect that the old man still remembered what he said before.

The old man said, how could he not remember it? That big and shiny jade bracelet was worn by Grandma Ye, who dangled it in front of him every day, and Grandma Ye even mentioned it specifically.

Ye Zhen got in the car and applauded Grandpa Ye vigorously, with an exaggerated expression:

"Master, my grandma will be so happy when you buy the jewelry. I will kill her favorite rabbit and stew it for you. I guarantee that the other old men in the village will be envious to death."

"For your kindness, there is no old man in the village who can compare to you."

Ye Zhen praised him vigorously, making Grandpa Ye feel flattered. The old man sat up straight, looking a little unnatural:

"I'm going to buy a gold bracelet later, but I don't know what kind your grandma likes, so I'll need your help to choose one later."

"no problem!"

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After arriving in the county, Ye Zhen took Grandpa Ye straight to several well-known gold shops.

There were many different kinds of bracelets inside, and the gold bracelets were shining brightly. Ye Zhen ignored some of the hollowing, beading and other crafts and chose a simple and plain wide-brimmed gold bracelet.

Anyway, it’s always a good idea to buy the bigger and heavier ones!

After choosing the bracelet, I went to the market to buy some meat, picked some seeds, and then went home.

When I got back, Aunt Ye and her family had already arrived.

"Aunt, uncle."

Ye Zhen greeted them, helped Ye Ma serve tea and snacks, and cut the melons and served them out.

A few people were chatting in the yard. Soon, the dishes were almost all served. Sitting at the table, Aunt Ye could no longer hold back and asked curiously:

"Second brother, why has our village changed so much?"

Isn’t it a big change? A beautiful new house has been built in the village. That’s where the village office is located.

The fields are neatly planted with watermelons. The watermelons are growing well now, and lush leaves can be seen from afar.

Everyone she met in the village was in high spirits. Was this still the small mountain village she knew?

That closed, remote, rustic and dull place.

Father Ye took a sip of wine, looking contented: "You can't tell, can you? Maybe when you come next year, you'll find that our village is more different."

After all, it’s Chinese New Year money. I’ve sold so many strawberries, not to mention domestically, but now I’m selling a lot of them abroad. The price is even higher than in China, and yet there is still a shortage of supply.

When the Chinese New Year comes, the watermelons in the village will be on the market, and the price will not be too low.

The money was coming in in large amounts, and everyone would share it during the Chinese New Year. I'm afraid that everyone in the village would line up to build houses before New Year's Eve.

The villagers' ideas are so simple and unpretentious. If they have money, they will build big houses, repair roads, and decorate their homes with all kinds of nice things. When Aunt Ye comes next year, that will be a big change!