I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 181 How Much

Jiuli Village, Shen Family

Huang couldn't help but glare at her husband, "You brought this person here, and now you're just handing him over to someone else to send him away. You have no end in sight.

Besides, Master Yi's family also followed the carriage, so Madam Yuan was left alone and powerless."

Lin said unhappily, "You kid didn't even say hello to me. I can go with her to support her."

"Mother, wife, you two have never met her, yet you are so sure about Yuan's character." Shen Changshou was troubled. He couldn't abandon his wife, who got angry from time to time, for someone else.

Besides, Yuan even refused the help from Mr. and Mrs. Pan. He was just an ordinary citizen who could only drive a cart, so he was not important.

So he said, "Besides, Shicun is no other than Mr. Pan's bodyguard, and his kung fu is better than mine."

"What do you know?" Lin and Huang, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, expressed their dissatisfaction in unison.

They felt that life was not easy for women in this world, and they felt sad when they heard Yuan's decision.

Shen Changshou naturally didn't understand why his two closest people kept scolding him and pushed him out of the kitchen.

Huang said, "Go and call dad and cousin Lin to come for dinner, as well as uncle and aunt."

"Uncle won't come. They've been avoiding me these past two days, using the excuse of weeding woad.

It’s better not to shout, lest they feel uncomfortable.” Shen Changshou followed her lead and withdrew.

Huang waved her hand impatiently, "You decide for yourself."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of horse hooves coming closer and closer. She frowned and turned back to the kitchen. Are the Wang family here again?

The next moment, Shen Changshou outside the door called out in surprise: "Xiao Ye, why are you back? Have you sold out the cloth?"

This was a code word agreed upon by the two of them, referring to spy work.

Shen Xiaoye jumped off the horse and led it in: "Almost."

Shen Changshou took the reins and asked her with his eyes who was behind her?

Before Shen Xiaoye could respond, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came out of the kitchen in a hurry.

One of them was holding a spatula, the other was holding a fire stick, and they both asked with a smile, "Xiaoye, are you hungry?"

"Hungry." Shen Xiaoye trotted over and stood between them and said, "It smells like wild vegetable pancakes. Are they out of the pot?"

"It will be ready soon. Come in and eat." Huang pulled her into the kitchen. All she could see was Xiao Ye, and she didn't notice that there was a stranger at the door.

But Grandma Lin saw it, she caught the little black cat that rushed over, put down the fire stick, and said with a smile: "Changshou, please invite the guests into the house to warm up by the fire."

Xia Chen clasped his fists and bowed, then followed Shen Changshou to tie the two horses to the tree before entering the main hall.

At this time, Shen Xiaoye had already brought in a basin of charcoal and said, "It's from the stove. There's still red ink in it."

He then introduced: "Uncle, this is guard Xia Chenxia who was sent by Lu Guan to escort me."

"Guardian Xia, this is my uncle, and the ones you just saw were my grandmother and aunt.

You stay here to warm up for a while, and we'll have dinner soon." She had just said the same thing to her grandmother and her husband in the kitchen, and now she came to unify her words with them.

Xia Chen stood up and nodded slightly: "Thank you for troubling Miss Shen."

Shen Changshou also nodded, "Go ask grandma to open the door of the barn, and we will feed the horses some bean feed later."

"Okay." Before Shen Xiaoye even walked out the door, he heard him say, "Please ask the old man to come back for dinner for me.

"Hey." She is familiar with the job of running errands.

However, she had only been away from home for a few days. When she came to the wasteland she bought this time, she saw a stone foundation and a half-person-high adobe house frame.

Under the command of the headman, none of the workers slacked off.

But when people saw Shen Xiaoye running over, they would stop for a moment and talk to her: "Xiaoye, you're back."

"Xiao Ye, are you looking for Uncle Bashan? He is mixing mud at the back of the house."

"Xiao Ye, I have a distant relative who wants silk cloth. Do you have any cheap silk?"

She responded to all the calls one by one, and found her grandfather whose face was covered in mud, and her cousin Lin who had come to deliver wood.

"We'll leave after everyone gets off work." Grandpa Shen Shanyou waved for her to come closer and whispered, "There are materials all over the ground now, we have to protect them."

"Is someone here?" Shen Xiaoye couldn't help but look back at the people who were building the house.

Uncle Lin said, "Well, there are seven or eight less rafters than what my uncle put here last time."

"What's missing?" Shen Xiaoye was unhappy. Why had she never heard of anyone stealing materials for building a house from other people before?

Shen Shanyou: "Keep your voice down. Everything else is fine, but as the host we have to be more careful."

"Grandpa, do you know who took it?" Shen Xiaoye thought of it immediately.

Shen Shanyou: "Don't be too serious, the wood has been moved to the house now."

"I'll watch, you and my uncle go back and eat for me." Shen Xiaoye snatched the shovel from him.

When Shen Shanyou heard her emphasize the word "cousin", he immediately realized that he had neglected his nephew who was working silently. "Okay, you don't need to mix it anymore after delivering these few shovels."

After saying that, he took his wife's nephew home, leaving Shen Xiaoye to supply mud and mortar.

When another worker mixing mortar not far away saw Shen Shanyou leaving, he quickly came over and said, "Xiaoye, the wood from your house was taken away by Qian Er's wife.

She was not convinced that the mountain people sent the cloth to your house."

"So?" Shen Xiaoye looked at this enthusiastic elder from the same family.

The man said, "Don't be so foolish as to sell cloth on credit to him.

Many people in our Shen family don’t have a stable job.”

Shen Xiaoye just nodded slightly and didn't respond to his words. When she bought the cloth on credit, she had informed everyone.

Now some people are tempted only when they see those companies making money.

"Xiao Ye? Do you understand?" The relative was worried when he saw that she didn't say anything.

Shen Xiaoye sighed and said, "Tenth Grandfather, if anyone in your family wants to sell cloth, they can ask my aunt for help."

"But your aunt said that she won't accept credit starting this year." The tenth grandfather didn't dare to speak to his cousin Shen Shanyou, but he could still ask the younger generation for help.

Shen Xiaoye didn't believe it, so he asked, "How many pieces do you plan to buy on credit?"

"Two hundred horses?" Grandpa Ten held up two fingers.

Shen Xiaoye shook her head, "I can't buy on credit."

"A hundred horses?"

"..."

"Fifty, fifty will do."

“Tenth Grandfather, I bought tens of thousands of kilograms of dye a few days ago, and my family can no longer buy cloth on credit.

And the cotton and cloth we harvested all took up money.”

"Is it really impossible?"

"Fifty-one hundred is really not enough. If it's ten horses, I can still make do with it."

"Forget about ten horses." Grandpa Ten was quite disappointed. Huang had said that she could buy ten horses on credit.

Seeing him walk away in disappointment, Shen Xiaoye suddenly changed her mind and chased after him, saying, "Grandpa Shi, do you have a place to sell them? Why do you want so much at once?"

The Tenth Grandfather stopped and asked, "Do you remember the bank?"

Of course Shen Xiaoye remembered: "Well, he hasn't seen my fifth aunt since he brought her to Tianjin last year."

Master Shi said, "Last time when you and your gang were transporting goods to Jinmen, you met your fifth aunt. She said there were many villages on both sides of the river.

I thought about letting your uncle try to sell cloth. It's not worthwhile to make a trip for less than 50 pieces of cloth. "

"Why didn't you tell my grandfather?" Shen Xiaoye was quite puzzled.