The happy little days of the Ye family

Chapter 547

Ye Qingqing looked at the few broken pieces of silver and a handful of copper plates left in her hands, and sighed. No wonder her grandma often said that if you don't live in the family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. This money is really hard to spend.

Before she got married, she could spend her own money however she wanted. After getting married, she was in charge of her family's money, so she couldn't do as she pleased like before.

Ye Qingqing began to take stock of today's income and write it down one by one.

早上的兔子和猎物一共卖了3两735文，她的卖绣品卖了18两，再加上她奶奶打赏的11文钱，今天进账一共21两746文。

The income is good, but the money is not spent.

Ye Qingqing wrote the income in charcoal on the account book, and then began to calculate today's expenses.

The two of them spent 4 Wen to enter the city, a total of 175 Wen for the meal and the packaged roast duck, and a total of 200 Wen for the two pieces of burlap cloth bought for the father and son.

The things I bought for embroidery at Yangjia Cloth Store cost a total of ten taels of silver.

Roasted rice cakes cost 6 cents, sesame cakes cost 7 cents, three pounds of sunflower seeds cost 20 cents, and beef bones, liver and tongue cost a total of 36 cents.

The dried seafood bought on the street cost a total of 95 cents, sunflower seeds and other vegetable seeds cost a total of 25 cents, and the cheesecloth for the lining cost 125 cents.

She didn't realize it when she bought it, but now that she was calculating the balance, Ye Qingqing became more and more frightened. She had spent so much money just on the street.

Ye Qingqing looked at the densely packed expenses in the account book, frowned and continued to calculate the expenses at the dock.

The shrimp and dried fish I bought at the dock cost a total of 70 yuan, and I spent another sixty-two and a half yuan on things for embroidery at the stalls of merchants in Hangzhou.

There were too many things to buy, and Ye Qingqing's hands were tired after writing.

Ye Qingqing took out the abacus and calculated today's expenses item by item. After calculating for a while, he finally figured out that he had spent 17 taels, 263 yuan today.

Ye Qingqing couldn't believe his eyes, so he counted it twice, and it was still 17 taels, 263 cents.

Is she too good at spending money? Ye Qingqing patted his little head in annoyance.

Ye Qingqing picked up the account book and looked at it carefully. In fact, most of the money was spent on making embroidery items.

Gold thread, embroidery thread, embroidery needles and white silk cost a total of 16 taels and 5 yuan.

However, these are things that are used for making embroidery and cannot be saved. Moreover, if you bought more this time, you can buy less next time.

The other bits and pieces only cost 763 cents, and they were all things eaten or used at home. Although it was a bit extravagant, it was not too outrageous.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingqing felt a little better.

But Ye Qingqing also thought that the Ye family's monthly expenses were only about 8 yuan, and the Ye family had eight people.

There are only three people in the Tang family, but she spent 3 yuan in one day, which seems a bit outrageous.

From the money earned today, after deducting today’s expenses, there are still 4 taels, 483 Wen left. Ye Qingqing counted the remaining silver and found that this number was correct.

In the morning, there were clearly 21 taels, 746 coins left, but in the afternoon, there were only 4 taels, 483 coins left. Ye Qingqing couldn't accept it.

There is actually a lot of bacon at home, and there are game animals almost every day on the mountain. There are also rabbits and ducks raised at the foot of the mountain, as well as fish and a lot of eggs sent by my parents.

In fact, there is no shortage of anything at home, including eggs and meat. There is no need to spend money to buy so many things.

Ye Qingqing, who had just taken charge of the family, reflected on himself: "Except for the cloth and seeds, I still bought too much food."

"Working requires clothes anyway, so just wear old clothes and go up the mountain. You can still wear them after you mend them."

Ye Qingqing sighed in her heart, it's not easy to be a family member. Her grandma has worked really hard over the years.

There are seven members of the Ye family, and it is not easy to spend money on food and drink alone. In addition, everyone in the family is greedy, and there are three worry-free little brats like Ye Qingqing.

Over the years, Mrs. Ye has managed the Ye family in an orderly manner and saved a lot of property. It is really not easy.

In fact, people in the village can basically support their whole family with their family's output, and few people spend as much money as Ye Qingqing does to buy so much food.

Now that everything is lacking at home, Ye Qingqing has made up his mind to save more in the future and not spend money randomly when shopping.

Ye Qingqing muttered, "Grandma is still smart and capable. It's better to go home and learn from grandma when she has time."

Ye Qingqing kept the copper plates for daily expenses and put all the broken silver into the hidden compartment.

The small wooden box containing silver in the secret compartment was almost full, and Ye Qingqing took the opportunity to count the silver in the box.

Before getting married, Tang Xiaojing saved a total of 236 taels, plus Ye Qingqing's 25 taels of savings. When Ye Qingqing first got married, she had 261 taels of silver in her hands.

In the two months since they got married, she and Tang Xiaojing had saved a total of 44 taels, 468 coins, plus the remaining 4 taels, 483 coins today.

Now the two people's small family has a total of 309 taels, 951 coins in savings.

Unexpectedly, he had already saved 309 taels of silver. Ye Qingqing had never seen so much silver before, and he suddenly laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

Tang Xiaojing had mentioned before that before getting married, he and Tang Shan originally planned to pool their family's money to buy another house or shop in the county.

It just happened that they had to serve two months of corvee at that time, so the two of them took the money to offset the quota of the corvee.

Moreover, they also had to perform military service in the second year, and they also had to pay money to offset their quota.

Tangshan considered that a lot of money would be needed and that his son would be getting married soon, so he did not touch the money.

Ye Qingqing was embarrassed to think about the money in Tangshan's hands, but she now had 309 taels, which was actually enough to buy a house or shop in the county.

But I guess there won’t be much money left after buying it.

Of course, you can't use up all the money you have on hand. You have to leave some money aside in case you need it urgently.

Like every corvee and military service, you have to spend a lot of money to get exemptions.

Ye Qingqing estimated that if he saves money for another year and a half, he should have enough money to buy a house in the county by the end of the year or next year.

Ye Qingqing thought that money was dead, so he might as well buy a family property. He already had enough fields and hills, and he couldn't take care of more.

It’s actually quite good to buy a shop or a house to collect rent, as it saves you worry and trouble.

The environment in the county is better than that in the village. Maybe the children of the family can go to the county to develop in the future. It would also be good to buy some property in the county for the children in advance.

Ye Qingqing planned to discuss with her husband-in-law at night about going to the county to buy a family property.