I played as an assistant in ancient times

"Come in, come in." Shen Xiaoye quickly finished her meal, put the bowl in the kitchen, and asked her little guests to sit down.

Just as I told them to wait a moment, a few more women came in and said, "Oh, they're all done!"

"Bright red, and bright red, it's very expensive to buy."

"The pink one is also pretty. It's really beautiful. Xiaoye, can I touch it?"

"We came here with clean hands."

"I can only touch the edges, some of them are not completely dry yet." The last three or four pieces of coarse cloth that were rinsed out were still damp, and Shen Xiaoye quickly washed his hands.

And go up to them and tell them which piece is theirs.

Bian grabbed the big red piece and said, "Xiao Ye, sister-in-law's is done, can I take it?

I'll get the money and send it to you in a minute." She was so happy. She didn't have money when she got married, so she didn't wear a red dress.

Shen Xiaoye couldn’t agree: “Sister-in-law, there is still one step to be completed, and it needs to be rinsed again later.

Also, in the future, you must never use wood ash or alkaline water to wash, as the color will fade immediately after washing.

But I have said before that the indigo from our village will be dyed into blue cloth for free after the color fades. "Indigo is easy to make and cheap.

"With such a beautiful color, I can't bear to wear it more than once after it's cut and made, so I only use warm water to rub it gently when washing it.

"Oh, I can't believe I wove this cloth myself, it's so beautiful." A woman stared at her silver-red cloth with great delight.

Bian and the others laughed: "It's the dyed ones that look good, not the woven ones."

The woman thought so too, but refused to admit it. "They are all beautiful."

"Hahaha……"

The yard was suddenly filled with laughter. The little peaches put their heads together and pointed at various red cloths with their little hands, as if to say which one looked better.

Shen Xiaoye was laughing as she was moving the cloth to a place where there was no tent cloth. The women were quick to help move it.

When uncle Shen Changsui and nephew came back and prepared to remove the shed cloth, they found that the shed in the yard had already been removed and neatly stacked together.

"Hey, Xiaoye, you are amazing. What magical skill did you learn that allows you to be so fast?" Shen Cungeng was circling around the tent cloth.

Shen Xiaoye quickly made a white crane spreading its wings: "You can't learn the immortal skills."

"Tsk." Shen Cungeng hit her outstretched arm. "Hurry up and work. I'll get you the chopping board."

At this time, Shen Changsui put the book back and asked, "Where's grandma?"

"I got up late and didn't see her. Uncle, go look for her." Shen Xiaoye was already collecting the dried cloth. "Grandma may have gone to the village entrance."

As she expected, after taking the medicine in the morning, Lin strolled to the village entrance and looked into the distance. She was waiting for her husband and eldest son to come back.

For some reason, she had been dreaming about her daughter leaving her with her back to her. Touching the broken jade bracelet in her arms, Lin felt a pain in her heart.

The bracelet was a gift from her daughter, but when she was combing her hair this morning, it hit the corner of the table and broke.

Someone who got up early to go to work snored at her. She responded for a while and then went straight out of the village and headed south.

Therefore, when Shen Changsui arrived at the village entrance, he didn't find anyone. He asked his eldest sister-in-law to go to the river where the indigo was grown, but still couldn't find anyone.

When Huang asked him if he had eaten, he also asked: "After I left this morning, did mother get up to eat breakfast?"

"I ate a little after taking my medicine." The house was busy, so we didn't eat at the same time at the table.

Huang felt something was wrong: "What's wrong? Mom is not feeling well?"

Shen Changsui regretted not telling his sister-in-law to observe the old lady more today. He said, "I didn't see her when I came back, nor did I see her at the entrance of the village. She wouldn't go to other people's houses so early in the morning.

This morning before I left the house, I called her several times but she didn't respond. She usually gets up earlier than me."

"Mom doesn't look very good today. I thought it was because she stayed up too late while bleaching cloth last night.

She has been out for more than half an hour. I will go to my uncle's house to check on him, and you go to Qian Wu's house to ask." Huang didn't care about the things on the ground, she tied them up with a rope and threw them by the river. Her mother-in-law would not go out for no reason.

It turned out that neither family had the man, so they searched around the whole village but still couldn't find him.

Uncle Shen Shanxin asked, "Go to the fields at the entrance of the village and ask if anyone has seen her.

"The Changshou family should go to your fields to check. No, you should be able to see her passing by the river. Go to the west end of the village to ask."

Shen Changsui cursed himself for missing the man in the field. He said, "Maybe he went to Erniu's house. Uncle, can you lend me your donkey?"

"Wait, I'll harness the car for you." Shen Shanxin asked his wife to tell Xiao Ye and the other two, and they went to look for it separately.

While they were looking for someone, Shen Xiaoye was using a scraper to scrape off the anti-dye layer printed on the cloth by the ointment. Usually after it dries, it is easy to make the cloth wrinkled when scraping it.

Shen Cungeng was also helping to shave at the other end, but soon he got annoyed and said, "Xiaoye, can't we wash it?"

"I dyed and bleached it last night, has it lost any color?

You have to believe in the wisdom of our ancestors." Shen Xiaoye didn't even look up at him, his hands continued to move.

cha cha cha

The whole yard was filled with the rhythmic sound of her scraping, but Shen Cungeng stopped and said, "Why haven't Grandma and Fourth Uncle come back yet? I'm hungry."

"You eat first. Grandma and aunt have already eaten." When serving the rice, Shen Xiaoye saw a mark of corn paste on the lower edge of the iron pot.

As soon as she finished speaking, the voice of the little black cat rang out: "Shen Xiaoye, it seems that the person you call grandma is leaving very soon."

"Grandma is in good health and walks with a breeze." Shen Xiaoye was not affected. He moved the scraper in his hand quickly, and his rhythm was not disrupted.

However, she heard her great grandmother Qian say, "Xiao Ye, your grandmother is gone."

With a click, a hole was immediately pressed into the scraper in her hand.

Bang! In the kitchen, Shen Cungeng's bowl fell.

The two rushed past Qian Shi almost at the same time, and Shen Xiaoye blurted out: "Is there a kidnapper?"

Then, they rushed out of the gate one after another, one heading east and the other west.

"..." Qian stroked her forehead, "These two kids didn't even wait for me to finish.

Who would kidnap an old woman for no reason? "

She looked at the cloth all over the yard and sat down worriedly, but she couldn't just leave it there unattended.

Shen Cungeng went to look for someone with his mother. Shen Xiaoye believed that the kidnapper would definitely leave the village as soon as possible. However, there were mountains in the east and north of Jiuli Village and no main roads.

So she chose the village entrance as her first choice and planned to search south and west from it.

She bumped into two or three people on the road, and no one knew what she was doing with the broken board.

Before Shen Xiaoye ran to the entrance of the village, he heard the sound of a donkey braying and whipping. When he got closer, he found that it was Shen Shanxin, "Grandpa, can you lend me your donkey?"

As he spoke, the man rushed forward, grabbed the reins and tightened them, jumped onto the shaft of the cart, and slapped the donkey's butt hard with the board in his hand.

The stubborn donkey felt pain and ran away.

"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye. Ouch!" Shen Shanxin slapped his thigh with a whip. He couldn't catch up with the four-legged creature even if he ran.

The fifth aunt came to the village entrance humming a little tune to greet people. Seeing him dancing, she asked, "Dad Changchuan, are you dancing?"