I played as an assistant in ancient times

Shen Xiaoye was slightly startled. She ignored her uncle's glare and continued to follow him, "Did you see anyone else nearby? Can you see thirty meters away?"

"There's no one else here, so look a little further in the mountains." The little black cat observed the surroundings diligently. It saw Shen Changsui stop about ten meters away from the two wild animals that were confronting each other.

The leopard pounced on the wild boar alertly, then made a feint and ran away... "Why didn't your uncle use a crossbow to shoot the leopard, but let you use it?"

Shen Xiaoye had no time to answer. When her uncle drew his bow and shot arrows at the wild boar, she raised her bamboo crossbow and shot an arrow, hitting one of its eyes accurately.

Whoosh, whoosh..., several sharp arrows shot at the still somewhat confused wild boar. By the time it realized why the leopard was running away, it had already been hit by an arrow. It howled in pain and wanted to turn around and fight back.

Unfortunately, its speed was not as fast as that of Shen Xiaoye's nephew and uncle. The arrows kept shooting like strong wind and heavy rain. The wild boar failed after rushing a few meters and died.

Shen Changsui fired another arrow before he approached to check, then pulled out the arrow swiftly. The arrowheads were made of iron.

He said to Xiao Ye who was walking towards him, "Your speed and accuracy are both very good. Your practice was not in vain."

For some reason, the old man in the family was good at archery, and once had a hard bow that broke when he was defending the city of Qiu County.

"Hehe..." Shen Xiaoye was about to accept all of it with a smile, but then he heard his uncle say, "After returning, write a three thousand-word self-examination for not obeying orders and instructions.

Check your hands now and disinfect again if it gets worse."

"Alas..." Shen Xiaoye suddenly wilted.

The little black cat instinctively felt that she was punished, and meowed several times with glee.

"Go back and call someone." Shen Changsui didn't plan to carry the wild boar weighing more than 200 pounds back by himself.

Shen Xiaoye checked the wound and found it was not serious. He looked at the arrow holes on the wild boar and said, "How can I explain the bow and arrows to my family? We should show some respect if we ask someone to come. Why not use space to move it?"

"No, it's dirty and smelly." The little black cat disagreed at first.

“The crossbow is still with the little black cat, and I prepared the bow and arrows secretly.

After killing the pig, we made a pig-killing dish in the threshing ground and shared it with everyone, and then used the meat to exchange for food with the villagers. "The prey had to be approved by everyone before it could be brought back. No matter how fat the pig was, only 50% of the meat could be obtained. Shen Changsui did not plan to go through the trouble of selling it to the county town.

He said, "Tell the relatives in the nearby villages that they can exchange food for it, and then take the opportunity to spread the news that we are collecting cloth."

"My uncle is wise. When the time comes, we can occupy a place by the river to dye the cloth. No one will be embarrassed to say weird things." Shen Xiaoye immediately made the connection.

Shen Changsui laughed: "I don't think so much, go quickly."

"Hey! Uncle, don't forget the hatchet and pay attention to the leopard." After Shen Xiaoye finished his long-winded words, he ran down the mountain.

The injured leopard never appeared again, and it took half an hour for the villagers to carry the big wild boar out of the forest.

Ignoring the cheers of the patrol team, Huang glared at Shen Xiaoye fiercely and said, "Come with me home."

"Aunt, I was wrong." Shen Xiaoye admitted his mistake quickly and with a very sincere attitude.

But Huang said she no longer trusted her since she had just returned after noon. After checking her hands, she scolded her severely in front of her mother-in-law and resolutely forbade her to go up the mountain again in the near future.

However, Lin found that she didn't seem to resist as much as yesterday, so she asked her to sit in front of her and handed her lunch and asked, "Tell grandma while you eat, what are your plans?"

"No one is wiser than grandma." Shen Xiaoye smiled at her flatteringly, "Didn't Taoist Master Hengxi sell us 300 kilograms of sumac at a low price? I want to go to Wuzhong Mountain with my fourth uncle to get it."

"No, we don't even know where Wuzhong County is." Huang's voice was loud. She was guarding her son but he was not behaving himself. What would happen if he went away?

Lin pressed her hand and told her to sit down and not to worry, "Wuzhong County is less than a hundred miles to the east of us. Go through the forest at the end of the village, take the path over Fushan Mountain, and you can see it after crossing the river.

However, I haven’t agreed to let Sui Ge’er go yet.”

"Why?" Lunch was a stew with lard and Sanhe steamed buns. Shen Xiaoye ate it with relish. She thought her uncle had done the ideological work last night.

Lin was silent for a moment, and waited until she finished eating before saying, "It would be great if Taoist Master Hengxi was willing to give us the money, but if we want to collect the cloth, we don't have the capital.

For example, Qian Wu's wife Tang relies on her loom to make money. If you take the cloth, can't you pay for it right away?"

"Absolutely not." Shen Xiaoye thought that no one would be willing to do that, so she took the water handed to her by her aunt and drank it.

Lin said, "Besides, there are few people who grow cotton in large quantities here. Most of them grow half an acre of cotton and add some mulberry and hemp to pay taxes. It takes a lot of trips to collect cloth, so when your grandfather and uncle come back, their wages should be enough to collect a few pieces of linen.

When the time comes, they will follow the Taoist priest to transport goods and collect cloth from various villages."

"Grandma, sumac is too expensive. It's not suitable for dyeing coarse linen, right?" What's more, we don't know when grandpa will be back.

And Shen Xiaoye knew from what she heard that if her uncle couldn't go, she couldn't go either, "Master Hengxi and my uncle have agreed on a one-year repayment period, so we don't have to rush to collect the cloth.

During this time, we can do some work to earn money from collecting cloth, or make dyes to help some families dye red cloth or blue indigo cloth for a fee.”

"If you want to make money, you don't have to rush to transport goods." In short, Lin would not let the children run hundreds of miles on their own without adult supervision.

She winked at Huang, who nodded and said, "Yesterday I showed the lotus-red and water-red handkerchief you dyed, the blue square-necked half-sleeved double-breasted shirt and the pink Hundred Birds Facing the Palace skirt you dyed last year to the women in the village, and they thought they were very good.

They also knew that the blue cloth dress I was wearing was dyed by us ourselves, but they had never heard that we were willing to help other families dye their clothes before.

Mrs. Cui also borrowed a handkerchief, saying that she wanted to ask her parents if they liked the color. Her niece was getting married in the winter and wanted to make two red quilts for the wedding. However, the red Songjiang cloth in the county cloth shop cost eight cents of silver per piece, and the bright red one was priced at one tael.

The colors of cheaper local fabrics are not as eye-catching.

Today, her parents wrote back that they liked the white cotton cloth they wove and wanted us to dye it. They also said it doesn’t have to be bright red, as long as it can be dyed the same as the handkerchief, and they are willing to pay 200 coins for the dyeing fee.”

"Really? That's great." Shen Xiaoye stood up quickly, but her happiness didn't last for a few seconds. She asked worriedly, "Aunt, did you tell them that the color will fade easily?"

Huang also picked a few families with good financial conditions to promote it: "Of course they said it, do you think the fabrics they bought from the fabric shop will not fade?

The quilt doesn't need to be taken apart and washed every few days. It doesn't need to be washed with wood ash or added with spices, so it can last for many years.

People just want to have a good time, and look proud when they present the marriage certificate."

"It can be done this way. In fact, it is faster to just use heparin to dye it rose red." Shen Xiaoye thought so too. Plant dyes will basically fade, the only difference is the length of time. The main thing is that it is natural and has no side effects, and fading will not hurt the skin.