I played as an assistant in ancient times

"Master Hengxi? You don't live in Lingshan Temple?" Shen Xiaoye looked at the sky. It was almost time for the city gates to close, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many people walking in the alley just now.

Taoist Priest Hengxi came in and helped to move the cloth. "I live in Lingxu Temple in Dengxianfang at the back."

"I see." She really thought that the Taoist priest would stay in the Buddhist temple forever. The guests were helping to move the cloth, so Shen Xiaoye naturally had to help move it too.

Huang also advised: "Master, take a rest. I will make tea for you."

"It's good to stretch your arms and legs." Taoist Master Hengxi picked up several pieces of cloth and asked Shen Xiaoye, "Do you have enough sumac?"

"Enough. Do you have a few hundred kilograms of unused madder?" Shen Xiaoye's eyes suddenly lit up when she heard his question. The remaining sumac at home could dye at most 200 pieces of cloth. She wanted to use the cheaper madder she grew herself to dye the cloth, but it could only be harvested in autumn.

Taoist Priest Hengxi almost tripped over the threshold. "What are you thinking? I'm just worried that you won't have enough dye after buying so much cloth.

However, the price of madder has fluctuated from 2 cents to 9 cents in recent years, and you will suffer a great loss if you buy the wrong one. "

"It's enough for the family to dye more blue cloth. I just want to go to Lingshan Temple to cut another 2,000 kilograms of woad so that I can buy from them regularly in the future." Shen Xiaoye found that her method of planting woad roots was improper, and only a few plants survived in the East Courtyard.

Shen Changsui coughed twice at this time, "Xiaoye, there won't be another twenty wenqianjin.

Later, I saw other people going up the mountain to cut indigo, but they only cut one or half a load at most. Some people ate it as a fresh vegetable, while others dried it and drank it as indigo leaf tea, and there was only one chance a year.

If we collect more than a thousand kilograms, we will need to negotiate the price with the abbot."

"In this case, I have to calculate how much more silver I have to spend on the cost." Shen Xiaoye thought about the prices in the pharmacy and was working out how much a pound of fresh leaves cost when her uncle pushed her away from the door and said, "Look how embarrassed you are. Is this worth thinking about?

You can use the price of coarse tea, which is ten copper coins per pound, to work out the price of one and a half copper coins per pound.

If you think it is too expensive, you can talk to the master in the temple and see if you can buy 2,000 kilograms for two and a half taels of silver.

The family is doing this as a long-term business, so it’s not good to always take advantage.”

Taoist Priest Hengxi couldn't help but praise: "Fellow Taoist Changshou's words make sense."

Shen Xiaoye: "Is it that simple?"

"It's that simple." The Taoist priest and my uncle said in unison.

I don’t know if Shen Xiaoye was worried about this or if it was too hot in the new place and she couldn’t sleep well, but she got up in the middle of the night to find water to wash her face.

She was originally walking very quietly for fear of waking everyone up, but the little black cat, who was also not sleeping and was climbing around patrolling the territory, woke up her aunt.

Huang didn't allow her to wash with cold water, and prepared to boil a pot of hot water for her.

After she washed herself, she sighed again, "The city is said to be prosperous, but it is not as cool as the countryside. It seems that your fourth uncle is right to follow the Taoist priest to Lingxu Temple to rest. After all, there is water drawn from the moat there."

"They each have their own advantages. It's warmer in the city in winter because there are more people. Let grandma live here then." Shen Xiaoye handed her aunt a glass of water.

He then said, "I think this courtyard can be bought for no more than 40 taels. Why is grandma willing to spend 12 taels to rent it for two years instead of buying it?"

"The yard here is not as comfortable as the two-courtyard yard in Qiu County. Our family doesn't have a big business, and your grandmother has no plans to buy a house in the city at the moment.

Renting a larger place will also make it easier for you to sell cloth in other towns in the future." Huang didn't drink the water, but let her lie down and continued to fan her.

“Go to sleep, and go home early tomorrow to ask the villagers to bleach the cloth so that you can sell it as soon as possible.

Seeing that you collected a lot of cloth, I started to get nervous again.

It was a coincidence that when your uncle came back to get the money today, the old man was looking for someone to replace some old gold and jade ornaments in the house."

Shen Xiaoye: "No wonder my uncle took two fifty-liang silver ingots. I thought there was no address for redeeming the tickets in the county.

Aunt, is there any share for you here as well?"

Huang: "All the tickets have been redeemed, and your great grandfather has a little grandson again. The old man accompanied him to the provincial capital yesterday and only came back this morning." There was some envy in her words. Her cousin's wife had two sons and two daughters, but she only had one child, Geng Ge'er.

Shen Xiaoye flipped through the pages and asked, "Could it be that the coarse cloth that my uncle said my grandfather collected was collected in the capital city?"

"Maybe he picked it up on the way."

"Will Grandpa's family hold the banquet at home or in the capital?"

"Don't know yet."

"I won't go to the capital. My cousin from Uncle Changshun's family always shows off her clothes and friends..."

Seeing that she fell asleep while talking, Huang fanned her with a palm-leaf fan for a while before closing the mosquito net, blowing out the light and leaving.

In the main room, Shen Changshou turned over and asked, "Are you asleep?"

"Yeah." Huang just responded and found that her husband had fallen asleep. She shook her head, not knowing whether he was awake or not.

But what is certain is that Shen Changshou was the first one to get up the next day. He even knocked on Shen Xiaoye's window and said, "Get up now. Buy your favorite salty tofu pudding."

"Coming." Shen Xiaoye stood up quickly and looked up. It was just dawn, so he had time to practice boxing.

After a quick fight with his uncle, the courtyard door was pushed open and Shen Changsui came in with breakfast in his hand: "Lingxu Temple's three-fresh buns go perfectly with Zhang's tofu pudding."

"Don't buy it on the street next time. We still have the ingredients we prepared at home yesterday." Since they weren't cooked in the morning, Huang was worried about leaving them here, so she had to take them back.

After dinner, they loaded the carts and left. As soon as the first cart arrived in the alley, it attracted the attention of the neighbors. One or two even came forward to ask, "Mrs. Huang, are you selling the cloth on the cart?"

"My two sisters-in-law, do you want some natural white cloth?" Although Huang had just moved in, she had already gotten to know many people thanks to her excellent cooking skills. When she visited the neighbors to deliver food yesterday at noon, she had already gotten to know many people.

Madam Du smiled and said, "As long as it's cheap and of good quality, I'll definitely buy it in several feet."

"They are all top-quality white cotton cloth, seven cents a foot." Shen Xiaoye took out a piece and opened it to show the two neighbors.

Madam Qu knew it was good material as soon as she touched it, but she said, "We are neighbors, how about six coins?"

"Aunt, you're joking. The cloth shop charges eight cents a foot, and I charge seven cents just because we're neighbors.

Look at our cloth, it's two feet and five inches wide, and weigh it, it's not empty." Shen Xiaoye would never drop the price so much, this is a county town, too low a price would ruin the market.

Lady Qu shook her head. She felt that she was too young to be in charge of the family, so she said to Huang: "I want two horses. Is six coins per foot okay?"

"This..." Huang received Shen Xiaoye's silent poking and gesturing, "The cloth is top-quality cloth. You all know that it costs a lot to transport it from hundreds of miles away. Six coins is really too low.

It would be better to charge 2.6 cents per horse, so that we can earn some money for our trip."

The two ladies, Qu and Du, looked at each other, and the latter said, "How about two horses for five cents? I want two too."