I played as an assistant in ancient times

"A relative from Xiatian Village came to report a death, saying that his aunt passed away yesterday evening.

Our Shen family is my mother's family, your great grandfather and several elders led the people over." Huang said as she walked into the kitchen, and soon brought two bowls of brown sugar water to the mother-in-law and her husband who were chatting.

Shen Xiaoye washed her hands and face and drank a bowl of boiled water, then went to look at the cloths hanging in the yard. They had basically been scraped, and all that was left was to rinse them again.

Well, there are a few pieces that are very small in size. My aunt has already washed them and is waiting to be dried before collecting the money.

She was about to go into the barn to get a few buckets to rinse at the river, when she saw her aunt bringing her some water. "I don't want to drink it, it's too greasy. Aunt, aren't there any female guests at my mother's house to pay their respects?"

“Someone is going, your great grandmother stayed at home specifically to wait for your letter.

Tell me, where did grandma go?" Huang's voice got lower as she approached.

Shen Xiaoye stretched her head to look at the two people who were chatting happily in the main room, then shrank back behind the cloth and told her aunt the whole story.

"I said, your uncle has been out for a long time and only sent back a few words, which is not good enough.

This time when he comes back, let him stay at home for a while before going on a long journey." Huang Shi didn't want to dwell on her father-in-law's problems, and only criticized her husband.

Shen Xiaoye agreed and said, "Aunt, we just got the news that Lingshan Temple will hold a water and land ceremony on June 28th. We need to set up a stall on the large flat land at the foot of the mountain. Then, uncle will carry the cloth."

"We don't need him for the horses we collected at home, so let him go to Qicuo Ferry to carry the bags.

Let’s not talk about him. Since there is a grand event in Lingshan, the family can prepare more things to sell and let Brother Geng catch more fish.

Another thing is that we can think of a way to make some silk flowers, and…” Huang began to plan, stretching out her fingers to count what else she could do.

Shen Xiaoye didn't disturb her. She turned around and walked to the shade to look at the safflower in the winnowing basket. Except for some thin pancakes that she had pinched out yesterday, the rest were ready to be dried into the sun.

She said, "I'll go see if the dyeing pool is dry."

"Go ahead. No, where has your fourth uncle gone again?" Huang suddenly thought of one less person coming back.

Shen Xiaoye: "There are also the village head grandfather's cow and my great-grandfather's donkey cart.

But my great grandfather isn’t home, and my fourth uncle shouldn’t have been away for so long, so I’ll go take a look first.”

As soon as she finished speaking, she walked to the gate of the courtyard. Huang wanted to say something, but after thinking it over, she gave up.

When Shen Xiaoye found her fourth uncle, she also saw a skinny man in tight clothes blocking the donkey cart. She hurried over and heard the man say, "Why, is it so hard to drink with you? If it weren't for your youth, I would have taught you a lesson long ago."

"I've already apologized, please move aside!" Shen Changsui was not a handsome scholar. He had a blank expression on his face and didn't want to get entangled with a drunk man, but when he saw his niece coming over, he frowned slightly and signaled her with his eyes not to come over.

The skinny monkey was very smart. He noticed the change in his expression and immediately turned around to see Shen Xiaoye around the corner. He said, "Are you from the same family?" with a drunken whiff.

Seeing the little girl staring at him, he said "Huh", and tried to move closer to see more clearly, "Why do I feel like you are the boy who drove the donkey cart this morning?"

When Shen Changsui called out to Xiaoye to stop her from saying anything, Shen Xiaoye had already prepared to jump up and kick the person away, and nodded, "You're right, it's me. If I got you covered in dirt, I apologize."

"Then come and apologize to Master Zhuang and us." Although the skinny monkey was drunk, he still had some clarity in his heart. He knew that he couldn't stop a little girl from drinking to apologize in someone else's territory.

Moreover, that skinny, dark-skinned girl is not as attractive as this young man.

Shen Xiaoye remembered that she seemed to have brushed past several people while driving, but she was sure that there was no collision. She just clasped her fists, but the skinny monkey turned back to Shen Changsui and said:

"She is not suitable, so you can apologize on her behalf and come with me to toast." As he said that, he stepped forward and stretched out his arms as if to embrace Shen Changsui.

Shen Xiaoye didn't even need to look to know that this person would not succeed.

Sure enough, at the moment when the skinny monkey's palm approached Chang Sui, his right hand slapped the skinny monkey's hand back like lightning and twisted his wrist, at the same time, he hit his muscular wrist with his left hand, and pulled the man over with both hands.

"Ah!" As the skinny monkey cried out in pain, Shen Changsui had already leaned sideways and pressed one knee on the skinny monkey's back, making it impossible for him to get up.

"Good! Good trick."

Along with the sound of applause, Shen Xiaoye saw two strong men, one black and one white, coming out of the alley where her fifth aunt lived.

And the dark-faced strong man also said: "I didn't expect that my nephew is a man of both civil and military talents."

"It's Uncle Qianzhuang." Shen Changsui had no intention of standing up, he just bowed his head in greeting.

The man under his legs called out, "Master Zhuang?"

"Houzi, you are drunk. Why don't you go to bed and rest? Why are you acting crazy outside my house?

You are so blind to mess with my nephew. Do you know that he is a new student in Jiuli Village? "Qian Zhuang approached and raised his toes to kick his subordinate's legs.

Hou Zi hurriedly said: "Master Tongsheng, I was wrong. Please don't hold my fault against me. Ouch..." He was not pretending. His hands and waist were really painful from being twisted.

Shen Xiaoye thought that the name suits him, he is really a monkey and his expression changes so quickly.

As for the money shop, she had only heard of it but had never seen it. When she saw it today, she found that it did not look as fierce as the villagers said.

She knew her uncle didn't want to take up the subject so she didn't let him go. So she said at the right time, "Uncle, grandma wants you to go home. There's a funeral at the relatives' place in Xiatian Village."

Then, he performed a non-standard bow to the bank. Of course, none of the children in the village could do it accurately, but the meaning was conveyed. "Greetings, Grandpa Zhuang."

"Oh." Qian Zhuang couldn't remember who she was for a moment.

Zhou Xiang, who had been silent behind him, raised his eyebrows when he heard this. This meant that he was ignoring the marquis and also diverted Mr. Zhuang's attention.

"Uncle Zhuang, I'm sorry for disturbing you today by rushing over.

I have something to do at home, so I'll leave first." Shen Changsui continued with Xiaoye's words, and used his strength to throw away Houzi's arm and stood up neatly with his fists clasped.

After they left with the donkey cart, Zhou Xiang squatted down and said, "Houzi, are you sober yet? Get up now?"

"Brother Zhou, I can't get up. My waist and arm are injured." Houzi groaned. He was mostly sober when he was thrown to the ground just now. After hearing Master Zhuang calling him nephew all the time, the remaining drunkenness had long gone.

Zhou Xiang untied his belt and lifted his shirt, and saw a purple bruise on the right side of his waist and back. The boy was really ruthless.

Qian Zhuang massaged his arm twice and asked in a deep voice, "What did you do?"

Hou Zi felt wronged: "I, I just think his eyes are more charming than Boss Yao on the stage, so I want to ask him to drink with me."

"Asshole, do you know where this is? This is my home, and you come to ruin my reputation." Qian Zhuang raised his hand and hit him on the head.

Zhou Xiang had no sympathy at all. Hou Zi was a loyal and capable person, but he didn't care about the food he ate.

He patted his wound and sighed, "You'd better ask the Dragon King to bless him so that he won't bear grudges. A 14-year-old student is not terrible, but a 24-year-old scholar is terrible."

Hou Zi's screams were muffled by Qian Zhuang, but he could still be heard saying, "Ah... it's not that easy to win."

……

Shen Xiaoye and her uncle were unaware of the latter incident. She asked curiously, "Uncle, he didn't say anything too extreme before, did he?"

"What white thing did you just say?" Would Shen Changsui tell her that a man called him a white face? He regretted that he hit her too late.

Shen Xiaoye: "I don't know which family, my great grandfather took my cousin to pay his respects.

That just occurred to me, Qianzhuang, if he took Dabao as his son, wouldn't that make him a different generation?"

Shen Changsui explained: "When they say being the fifth aunt's grandson, it also includes great-grandson. Sometimes they call it great-grandson in colloquial language."

"This news came out too quickly, didn't it? His gang isn't on the river in the county town."

"It's a coincidence. Stop gossiping. Is the dyeing pool usable?"

“I haven’t had time to see it yet.”

However, after they drove the car home and arrived at the East Courtyard, Shen Changsui touched the coating in the pit and knocked on it, saying, "It can be used. There is dirt inside. Even if it is only used this time, it can be applied thicker next time.

I just need to rinse the woad now."

"A few large wooden stakes must also be rinsed clean and dried, so they can be used to press down the grass in the pond." Shen Xiaoye pointed to the tree stumps left in the corner.

He also said, "I think my great-grandfather's donkey can be used again for transporting goods back and forth to the river."

Oh, Shen Changsui: "You are not allowed to drive a donkey cart in the village. I can't even drive you. I don't trust you."

She is used to having fun, and if you ask her to drive normally, she can't restrain herself.

Shen Xiaoye failed to achieve his goal and had to go home obediently, but an unexpected surprise suddenly came.

It turned out that some families in the village who had watched her family dyeing cloth passed by her house one after another this morning. Seeing the red and pink cloths fluttering in the yard, they finally took out the cotton or linen they had saved and asked for indigo dyeing.

Huang was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. People continued to come to her to explain that this was a feasible thing, and that not everyone could dye cloth well, so she was not afraid that someone would learn it and then lose her business.

Grandma Lin was also happy. After paying for the rinsed red cloth and taking it away later, she ate an extra spoonful of lunch.

Donkey carts were used to transport the medicine back and forth, and several wives from the same family came forward to help. Most of the indigo grass was quickly washed, and Shen Xiaoye also brought back the peeled roots, which could be sold to the herbal medicine shop after a little processing.

She thought Lingshan Temple was really generous, allowing anyone to pick indigo grass. What she didn't know was that other people were only allowed to cut the grass above the roots, but only his family dug it up with the roots.

Shen Xiaoye was still the chief commander, and asked everyone to put ten-jin bundles of indigo grass upside down into the dyeing pool. There were only a hundred bundles weighing a thousand jin, and they were soon placed in the pool by Shen Changsui.

Then bucket after bucket of water was poured into the pool. When the pool was full, several clean and peeled wooden stakes were placed on top.

She said: "It's OK, the next step is to wait for it to ferment."

"Is that all?" Qian Jin's wife Liao Dujuan asked.

Shen Xiaoye nodded seriously, "The preliminary work has been completed, and the rest can only wait."

Everyone was disappointed, as they thought there was some secret, but it turned out to be just letting the grass rot.

Of course, what they didn't know was that Shen Xiaoye had to observe the changes in the pool water every day. Because of the temperature differences in different regions, fermentation might take overnight in the south, but three days in the north.

And she was not idle during these three days. First of all, she had to visit the Lin family with her uncle and cousin the day after the blue grass fell.

But she didn't expect to meet Yue Jinxuan at the entrance of Wuli Village.

As soon as the other party saw Shen Changsui driving the donkey cart, he jumped off the carriage road and said, "Brother Changsui, this fine cotton shirt you are wearing today really suits you."

Then he looked at the two people on his left and right. Haha, a young man in a green shirt with arrow sleeves and a young girl in a pink long skirt. "Who are the left and right protectors?"

"No, they are just a golden boy and a jade girl." Shen Changsui said without any modesty.

Yue Jinxuan was amused: "Very, very much.

Oh yes, I have prepared a gift for you."

"No need, I have something prepared here." Shen Changsui pointed to the thing covered with cloth on the donkey cart.

Yue Jinxuan didn't know what it was, but he didn't persuade him to accept the things he had bought for him.

The procession of carriages and horses drove into Wuli Village, but it did not cause any surprise to the villagers. After all, there were many more carriages and horses on the night when the eldest master of the Lin family returned.

Furthermore, in recent days, many people have come to visit Master Lin on horseback or in carriages.

However, when the car arrived at the village, Shen Xiaoye did not go to Lin's house with everyone. She went to Erniu's house for something.

The courtyard wall of the Lin family is also an earthen wall, and only the main house is made of bricks, while the others are still adobe houses.

Shen Xiaoye looked to the bottom and saw Lin Erniu chasing his little nephew in the yard, while his little niece was sitting in the cradle crying.

"Brother Erniu, are you looking after the kids at home?"

"Xiao Ye." Erniu grabbed his nephew and spanked him twice. The little guy didn't cry, but laughed and played with his uncle.

"This brat, he was so happy to make his sister cry.

My parents, brother and sister-in-law have all gone to the melon field to unload the watermelons." Lin Erniu was tired, so he simply left his nephew behind and went to coax his niece.

The little nephew looked at Shen Xiaoye curiously. When he saw her handing him a handful of candy, he reached out to take it. But when he was about to take it, he pulled back and turned around and shouted, "Uncle, can I have some?"

Lin Erniu finally wiped his niece's face clean: "Eat, and say thank you to Aunt Xiaoye."

"Thank you, Aunt Xiaoye." After his nephew ate one, he turned around and put another one into his and his sister's mouths.

Shen Xiaoye was looking at Coke, Erniu rubbed his nephew's head helplessly, "Sit over there and eat, don't finish it all."

He then said to Shen Xiaoye, "You sit down too. You are dressed so nicely. What are you going to do?

Also, why did you come here alone? "

Shen Xiaoye didn't sit down, but walked up to him and whispered quietly, causing the little boy who was eating candy to tilt his head and look at him curiously.

After a moment, Erniu nodded, handed his niece to her and said, "Please help watch her while I go find someone."

After saying that, he took his nephew and left. The child was still reluctant: "Sister, sister."

“Don’t worry, you won’t get lost.” Lin Erniu picked him up and threw him on his shoulder, and the nephew immediately forgot about his sister.

He strode towards the Lin family's old house and was welcomed in through the corner door with familiarity.

Shen Changsui and others who had arrived at Lin's residence before him were still waiting outside the gate.

"Fourth Uncle, there is a queue in front of us." Shen Cungeng looked at the carriage roads.

Shen Changsui: "It's okay, we can't wait long."

"I believe in Brother Changsui." Yue Jinxuan was very flattering, although he also knew that he had to wait. What was a student? There might be successful candidates waiting in the carriage ahead of them.

But not long after, a servant of the Lin family came over, asked if it was Master Shen, and then took them to the side door and drove directly through the door...