I played as an assistant in ancient times

"Xiao Ye, don't worry about the wooden frame on the donkey cart, just keep an eye on the goods on the mule cart." Old man Shen Shanyou grabbed the reins and instructed his granddaughter behind the cart.

"Hey!" When Shen Xiaoye followed the car to Tangjia Market, he found that this time the yamen runners did not allow people and vehicles to enter the market from two directions. Instead, they widened the entrance and held paper loudspeakers to loudly direct which road to enter from.

It seems that County Magistrate Tan found that his method did not work, so he decided to follow the story. After all, a country town is different from a county town with city walls, and there are many small intersections here.

Many people have already set up stalls in the market, and you can also see acrobatic troupes fiddling with things and training monkeys.

The busiest ones are the vendors carrying baskets selling food. From time to time, people buy their cakes, steamed buns, soups and rice. They are happy and shuttle among the crowd like butterflies.

As we approached the large flat land, we could already see a circle of sheds of various colors erected at the edge, and several stalls with goods on display.

Although the colors of the pergolas are different, their heights are all based on the bamboo poles erected by Lingshan Temple. No cloth is allowed to be pulled on the four sides to block the view, and a passable opening is required on the back.

This is to prevent fire, but if the goods are scattered, it will require a lot of people to look after them.

But several monks were walking around the stalls inspecting them in a serious manner, and some monks were carrying water from the water tanks set up around them.

Under the guidance of Little Black Cat, Shen Xiaoye was the first to see Lin Erniu standing on a stool and piling up wooden boards for the stall.

She called out, "Grandpa, go up the gentle slope and turn right to the fourth shed."

"Great-uncle, Geng Ge'er, Xiao Ye." Lin Erniu also saw them and shook his hands vigorously.

Uncle Lin, who handed him the board, said anxiously, "Oh, put it down first before talking."

"It's already been put away." Lin Erniu jumped off the stool and went to meet Shen Xiaoye and the others. He didn't hear his father muttering about him to Shen Changsui on the other side, nor did he see his father climb up to check again.

"Uncle, let me lead the mule." He was particularly fond of animals that could do farm work.

The old man smiled and gave him the bridle. When he returned to the side of the cart and pushed it, he asked, "Where are your two uncles, Changshou?"

"My cousin and his aunt went to borrow a bucket to fetch water. They need to sprinkle water around the stall, otherwise dust will fly everywhere." Lin Erniu stroked the mule to lead it to turn the corner, without any intention of pulling it hard.

Shen Xiaoye was watching Coke on the side. When she stopped in front of the stall to unload the goods, she looked around and said, "The mule carts can still come in and out freely today, but I'm afraid it won't be convenient to come here tomorrow.

It would be best if we could bring all the cloth and water for tomorrow over right away."

"Bring another 200 horses!" Shen Changsui had already laid out all the racks. He took the tons of water handed to him by his nephew and drank it all at once.

The old man hesitated: "There are already more than a hundred horses being unloaded, will it be too much to pull another 200?"

"No!" Shen Xiaoye and her uncle said in unison. She put down the sermon and said, "Grandpa, if there are too many, you can take them home. If there are too few, it is likely that we cannot deliver them in.

And with us guarding tonight, it's absolutely safe."

"You want to stay tonight too? No way." The old man disagreed, but how could he defeat Shen Xiaoye.

After the second delivery of cloth, the little granddaughter really stayed on the flat land and refused to leave. The old man had no choice but to sigh and spread a mat on the cart for her, and kept asking his son and daughter-in-law to take good care of her.

Shen Xiaoye was excited, she was looking forward to making a fortune at the event the next day.

So the next day, before daybreak, she opened her eyes and began to fumble to arrange her goods under the distant lights that were wandering up the mountain.

Unfortunately, until the sun rose high in the sky, there were only pilgrims walking along the incense path, but no customers came to the stalls to look at the goods.

However, the market at the dam mouth was bustling with people and seemed quite noisy.

As Shen Xiaoye was looking ahead with desire, a group of drummers passed by with their drums and music, followed by yamen runners holding ivory plaques to clear the way. The pilgrims on both sides immediately dispersed to make way.

Many stall owners nearby couldn't help but come closer to watch (to join in the fun).

Shen Cungeng, Erniu, Zhuangzhuang and others even ran to the front row, and Huang and Lin's aunt couldn't stop them even if they shouted.

"Is County Magistrate Tan going to do it so formally?" She stood on a high stool and looked over. She saw several figures wearing black gauze hats, green robes and official boots, climbing up the stairs, surrounded by yamen runners holding silk umbrellas.

After that, there were groups of gentry and officials dressed simply, and then some wealthy people dressed in slightly more colorful clothes.

Shen Changsui looked at it for a while and said, "He is in second place. The first place should be the newly appointed county magistrate."

"Huh, he didn't get promoted." Shen Xiaoye was quite surprised.

Shen Changsui shook his head to indicate that he didn't know. After this group of people went up the mountain, more people squeezed up, and the business of selling incense and candles was the only business that stood out in the entire Dapingba.

"I'm so envious. Our business today has kept all the people who came to help busy. That's a victory." This time, Shen Xiaoye invited Uncle Qian and his daughter to help. They will be here soon.

Uncle Lin and his wife, along with their two brothers, Da Niu and Er Niu, joined in yesterday.

There are also Qian Zhuangzhuang and two teenage boys from the Shen family.

So many men were mainly following my uncle to guard the stall. After all, the stall was much bigger than last time. Not only did they prop up the bed frame model with pillars and bed curtains, but they also covered the tables, chairs and other models with printed fabrics.

What's even more interesting is that my aunt made a few bunches of artificial flowers to decorate the place. Among all the colorful flowers, the highlight is the colorfulness.

While Shen Xiaoye was getting bored, many people from Jiuli Village followed Chief Qian up the mountain. Behind the crowd, grandparents came over with a few people who came to help, and everyone greeted each other.

Great Grandfather Shen Shanxin glanced at the stalls and said, "Xiao Ye, you shrunk the room and arranged it here, right?"

"Hehe, that's about right." Shen Xiaoye let Xiao Lizi, who was a little nervous, stand behind and follow her aunt.

The great grandfather said: "After the first round of the Dharma Assembly on the mountain is over, there will be all kinds of acrobatics and it will be lively here.

We, the older ones, will go up first and come back to take care of you later."

"Well, take care, great grandpa and great grandma." Shen Xiaoye watched them leave, and asked Lin who was behind them, "Who is watching over us at home?"

Grandma Lin smiled and replied, "We have asked Qian Er's wife to take care of it. Just focus on selling the goods and drink more water. You won't have time to drink later."

Just as my grandmother said, after the second round of bells rang in the temple, some people had already come down from the mountain. Many women stopped in Dapingba to look at the goods in each stall.

The cries of hawkers were heard everywhere, and buyers paid their coins promptly.

Shen Xiaoye's place was undoubtedly eye-catching, after all, there were four young men with his cousin, holding paper trumpets, hanging brightly colored cloths, standing on high stools and shouting about the big rewards for printed cotton, with the lowest price being only eight cents per foot and the highest being no more than ten cents.

This bold move instantly attracted a lot of attention, and people kept coming over to ask for the price.

Shen Xiaoye and her aunt and several others seemed overwhelmed, but fortunately, grandma and others came down the mountain in time and joined in to help the guests collect cloth.

While the stalls on the dam were busy, a group of jugglers came down the mountain to the center of the square, and the crowd became even more agitated.

There were peaches hanging on the towering bamboo poles. A boy in colorful clothes was leaping into the air along the side of the pole. Following him, several monkeys were fighting for the peaches, which drew cheers from the crowd.

If you get too close, the monkeys walking on the ground and beating gongs will ask for money.

Shen Xiaoye was too busy to watch, but just as she cut half a piece of cloth for a female customer, she saw the customer pointing up and exclaiming with her face suddenly changing.

"Sister-in-law." She hurriedly supported the guest, looked in the direction she pointed, and was instantly filled with disbelief.

It turned out that a monkey was holding a baby, jumping from a bamboo pole onto a big tree at the dam mouth, and looking around.

Before the cheers from the crowd died down, a scream was faintly heard: "Help! My child."

However, the whistle and the human voice drowned out this tiny cry for help.

On this side, Shen Xiaoye's heart sank, and he patted the cat on his shoulder and asked it to chase and see what was going on.

Just as the little black cat flew up the tree, several figures appeared climbing up the tree. Then the juggling monkey stopped grabbing the peaches and slid down the pole again. The crowd shouted again and pushed back.

Seeing the crowd was about to retreat towards this side, Shen Xiaoye shouted: "Uncle, open the door."

Shen Changsui immediately ran to the cloth rack behind the stall and kicked open a hole that could lead to the evacuation of the flat floor, allowing the people in the shed to jump down from there first.

Several cousins ​​also jumped off their stools and stood in a row with my grandfather and several other men outside the shed. When there were women coming over with children in their arms, they let them in.

Although there were weeds and rows of willow trees at the bottom of the dam, there were not many people there, only a few old men enjoying the cool air and one or two men in sackcloth clothes.

Fortunately, when half of the guests had gone down, the pushing and shoving stopped, a gong was struck, and many yamen runners, patrol soldiers, and monks formed a human wall to stop the crowd.

Only then did Shen Xiaoye realize that the monkeys were scattering and charging into the crowd, and were being caught by the circus troupe and yamen runners.

There was also a big monkey with a swaddling cloth hanging around its neck, which climbed up a shed amid screams, and jumped over several sheds at an extremely fast speed. Some of the sheds collapsed and tripped up its pursuers.

The crying of the baby and the woman so close to him instantly made his scalp tingle.

My uncle and his friends wanted to help, but there were too many of them and they couldn't run fast enough.

Shen Cungeng shouted, "It seems like it's about to jump over here."

"Uncle, grandpa, it's coming and breaking the poles and ropes." Shen Xiaoye didn't say much else. There were several pairs of scissors and high stools on the stall.

She quickly pulled out a pair of scissors from the stand and distributed them to her family. Then, while pushing the guests out, she quickly opened a few rolls of cloth and asked two people to stand outside the stall and pull at both ends. For a moment, people under the stall were in chaos.

Fortunately, after the big scene, the family reacted quickly and picked up the high stool, ready to knock over the shed poles at any time. Uncle Lin, Uncle Qian and the others obeyed the orders and cooperated, and quickly spread out several pieces of cloth under the shed.

"It's jumping over here!" Following Shen Cungeng's real-time broadcast, Shen Xiaoye saw the monkey flying from the shed in front to his own shed and shouted, "Smash it!"

Click click

The poles and diagonal ropes of the awning were broken at the same time, and the awning cloth fell down with a plop.

The monkey wanted to jump again but had no support. The hoarse cry of the baby was in the cloth. Shen Changsui lifted the cloth and said, "Cover it."

The other people tried to block it at the same time, and those nearby crowded over to try to wrap up the monkey.