I played as an assistant in ancient times

"Yes, it's probably not enough. We'll need another 5,000 kilograms later." After Shen Xiaoye finished speaking, Doctor Ge couldn't help but take a breath, "I'm afraid there aren't that many in the entire Linghe and Baohe counties."

"I'll take as much as you can get. Mainly, I want to ask you for help. Which medicinal herb store in the city can supply more?" In order to earn back 800 taels of silver, Shen Xiaoye didn't mind the current high price of madder.

Yes, even though you can only earn thirty cents for each piece of red cloth sold to Lu Guan and Miao Dongjia, you can make money from blue cloth!

After this time, she would definitely stock up more madder when it was cheap, even if it was only a few thousand kilograms.

It hurts to think about it. If we dig a few more kilos of madder, it will only cost about 20 wen per catty, which can save several hundred taels.

Doctor Ge thought for a moment and said, "I can give you 1,000 kilograms at 60 cents. You can ask your family to pick it up.

In addition, it is better to go to Tianjin than to the capital to find a drug dealer. The distance between the two places is about the same, but because there are fewer customs checkpoints, the prices are very different.

When trading is carried out in the downstream section of the river, many merchants stay in the downstream because they do not want to be taxed too much on the goods, and it is faster to transport the goods by land after purchasing them.

As for the fixed drug dealers, there are only those, but some of the goods cannot be taken. I will give the list to your grandfather. "

Shen Xiaoye was very grateful: "Thank you."

"You're welcome. It's been a while since I last saw your grandmother change her dressings. Don't be careless." Doctor Ge is a responsible doctor.

Shen Xiaoye suppressed her guilty conscience. Her family had changed doctors. "In order to attend the big market on the 28th, the family was too busy and had to dye cloth non-stop.

Then I used the secret recipe to give my grandmother moxibustion every other day."

Doctor Ge nodded: "Your grandmother can't be too tired.

Moxibustion is very good. Recently, there is a Taoist priest named Hengxi who has registered at Lingxu Temple. He is particularly good at treating external injuries and cold accumulation in the limbs. Our clinic has invited him to see patients ten days a month. You can let your grandmother come and see him."

"Well, I got the secret recipe from Taoist Priest Hengxi." Alas, the circle of famous doctors in the world is so small. Shen Xiaoye was really embarrassed.

Then, even more embarrassingly, Taoist Master Hengxi and a patient lifted the curtain and left the consulting room, "Be careful not to seek cool air."

"Hey, Taoist priest, please stay a while." The patient looked respectful and thanked him again and again before going to get the medicine.

Taoist Priest Hengxi nodded at Shen Xiaoye: "Xiaoye, you came to see me?"

"No." Shen Xiaoye shook her head, then nodded again: "Yes."

"Is that so? I need to go back to the temple tomorrow, so tell me what's going on.

Wait a minute, my consultation hours for today haven't ended yet." Taoist Master Hengxi saw someone enter his clinic.

Doctor Ge saw that they seemed to be very familiar with each other. When Shen Xiaoye blushed with embarrassment, he smiled with some understanding, "I prepared some snacks for the Taoist priest to eat on the way."

Taoist Priest Hengxi also noticed Shen Xiaoye's embarrassment and said, "Okay, don't worry, my dear Ge, I will be back in two days.

Skills come with practice. Linghe County is densely populated with water networks, and many people suffer from cold water. We need to work together to eradicate it."

"Master, what you said makes sense." Doctor Ge didn't mind patients changing doctors. It was very normal.

Shen Xiaoye bowed to the two of them repeatedly, truly a man who saves lives.

After she examined the madder in Jirentang, she helped the Taoist priest carry his things and left. The two of them headed straight for the city gate. "Master, don't you need a carriage?"

Taoist Priest Hengxi: "You please?"

"It's my treat. Renting a head is quite convenient." Shen Xiaoye stopped and was about to walk to the mule and horse trading market on the other side.

Taoist Master Hengxi said, "No need. My senior brother is waiting for me outside the city. Tell me, what do you want from me?"

"Buy some raw materials: lime, alum, gallnut, aged lotus shell, and madder. Can you mix them together?

I need to dye nearly 30,000 pieces of cloth, half of which will be red." Shen Xiaoye paused, hesitated for two or three breaths, and did not continue.

Taoist Priest Hengxi is such a smart person. He asked her to walk to the side of the road where no one was. "She tent?"

"Well, I haven't collected enough money to buy the cloth yet, so I came to you to ask for some advice." Shen Xiaoye told the truth.

Taoist Priest Hengxi thought for a moment and said, "It's not easy to borrow money, but Lingshan Temple has a pawnshop that can lend money. How much do you want?"

"Two thousand or four thousand taels, I only need it for half a month." There was no way, Shen Xiaoye didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Taoist Priest Hengxi: "Even if you lend it for one day, the interest will be calculated on a monthly basis, and you will have to pay back one thousand and fifty taels for one thousand taels.

Think carefully, if you borrow it you will have to pay them an extra hundred taels."

"Think it over carefully. If you miss this time, you will miss countless times in the future." Original accumulation is too important.

Taoist Priest Hengxi said, "I have no problem with the surplus goods here. I still have one or two thousand catties of madder, but you have to pay me eighty cents, otherwise I don't want to explain."

Everyone in Taixu Temple loves to spend money, and it would be a disaster if my uncle-master spends several hundred taels of silver to make a pill.

"Sure, could you please bring it here? I'll pay for the travel expenses." Shen Xiaoye breathed a sigh of relief. The two batches of raw materials could dye at least more than 3,000 pieces of cloth.

Taoist Hengxi agreed, and when the two found his senior brother at the ferry outside the city, the Taoist Qingxi was eating flower rice and fishing.

Seeing his junior brother coming over, he asked, "Shall I rent you a fishing rod?" He then greeted Shen Xiaoye and said, "Didn't your cat come? What a pity."

It's interesting to see kitten fishing.

Shen Xiaoye shook his head, looked around and saw no carriages or horses, and said, "I'll rent a donkey cart for you."

“No, you can leave later.

Senior Brother, you actually drank Lihuabai, are you rich?" Taoist Master Hengxi stopped Shen Xiaoye and walked around Senior Brother and sniffed.

Taoist Qingxi muttered as he untied the gourd and gave it to him, "Half!"

"Senior brother is still the best." Taoist Master Hengxi poured half of it into the gourd in a few strokes.

Qingxi: "Humph, we made a thousand taels from Feng Shui this time. You can go into the city again and bring some things back to your fellow apprentice brothers."

"So many!" Taoist Master Hengxi took a silver note, which was actually worth one hundred taels.

He couldn't help but sit down and ask, "Brother, it's more than that, right?"

"Just one thousand." Taoist Qingxi lifted the fishing rod and found that the fish was off the hook.

It would be strange if Taoist Master Hengxi believed him: "Brother, do you want to earn a few dozen taels by lying in the temple without going into the mountains to press acupuncture points?"

"Nonsense, who would want to go into the mountains to look at graves when they can just lie down." Taoist Qingxi became alert again after saying this. He made money from fortune-telling and feng shui based on his skills and would not do anything illegal.

Hengxi pointed at Shen Xiaoye who was pretending to look at the scenery and said, "She needs to borrow 3,000 taels and return an extra 100 taels in ten days."

Qingxi moved her fingers to let him come closer, and then asked: "Is she your daughter who has wandered into the secular world?"

"Tsk." Hengxi slapped his hand away and stepped back. "Do you want to struggle or not? Just one word."

"It's too low. Those monks want five." Qingxi is also knowledgeable.

Hengxi said: "How can we be the same as them? Saving the world and the people is the tradition of our sect."

"Well, our master didn't tell us to lend money to help the people." Taoist Qingxi neither agreed nor denied it.

Shen Xiaoye knew it was her turn, so she squatted down and said, "Friends share money, Taoist Priest Hengxi and I are friends, which means we are also your friends.

After the turnover is over, it would be nice to prepare some thank you gifts, but I don’t know what you need, so I would like to ask you to buy it yourself.”

"Hiss, about this matter..." Taoist Qingxi hesitated for only a moment, then said, "I only have two thousand one hundred taels."

Hengxi raised his eyebrows, knowing that his senior brother was the best at making money, compared to senior brother Zhangguan who was good at spending money... Oh, bah, they have different responsibilities, and they are both good senior brothers.

Here Shen Xiaoye hurriedly said: "Seventy in ten days."

"Here." Taoist Qingxi took out a tattered cloth bag from his arms and gave it to his junior brother, meaning that he was responsible for it and if he couldn't get it back, he could come back to him.

Taoist Master Hengxi didn't even look at it and passed it to Shen Xiaoye: "A little."

When she pointed at it, Qingxi once again looked at his junior brother and asked: Is she really not your daughter?

Hengxi rolled his eyes, then moved his fingers slightly to make a few secret signals. Qingxi couldn't help but look at Shen Xiaoye twice.

After the little girl checked, she said happily: "Master, I will give you a written agreement."

"No need, you can't run away, go back." Hengxi waved at her and sent her away.

After she thanked him and left, Qingxi asked, "Is it her?"

“That should be the case. The first time she arrived at the mountain gate, the old pine tree had already shed its leaves.

And soon, a black cat and a leopard appeared beside her.

The treasure of the previous dynasty that the Master Brother had been speculating about was discovered by her." Taoist Master Hengxi no longer looked serious.

He said, "Brother, it's not too much to try. What if she runs into us one day? We won't lose anything."

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As soon as he finished speaking, his senior brother hit him on the head with a whisk.

Qingxi: "You didn't lose much. I paid two thousand taels."

"It's not like I won't come back. I'll still earn seventy taels for you!" Hengxi snatched his wine gourd and took a big gulp.

Qingxi quickly snatched it back. The two brothers, who were almost a hundred years old in total, were actually playing around by the river grabbing wine...

Meanwhile, Shen Xiaoye happily returned to the city and used the change she had to buy some vegetables and fruits to cook at home.

I didn't want to go into the kitchen, only to find that there was no oil, salt, sauce or vinegar. My aunt took them all home last time.

She was just hesitating whether to buy more when there was a knock on the gate.

"Who is it?" Shen Xiaoye opened the door and saw Madam Fang.

The other party smiled before he spoke: "I see the padlock is not there, so I guess you are at home."

"Aunt, please come home and have a seat. I didn't see you at the last fair." Shen Xiaoye let the guest in. Since there was no tea, she washed some peaches to entertain the guest.

Madam Fang stopped her from working, and the two chatted for a while before she said her intention, "I was thinking of getting a few dozen more rolls of white cloth from you. I don't need fine cloth, just the coarsest cloth will do."

"Sure, when can you get it?" Since business came to him, of course Shen Xiaoye would do it.

Madam Fang sighed, "It's only a day or two. She's a distant aunt of mine, and she lives in the countryside, so she can get by.

But the children, after dividing the things in front of the bed, ignored her, and now they are holding their breath.

I will provide financial and labor support for her funeral. I have prepared sackcloth, but none of those who are supposed to wear it are willing to agree.

They didn’t even prepare mourning cloth for their relatives.”

"Aunt, you are so kind. How many pieces do you need?" What could Shen Xiaoye say? She should be able to get a few dozen pieces of coarse cloth from Derun tomorrow.

Madam Fang was unsure, "Take the fifty first, can you return the extra?"

"Okay, just be careful not to get it dirty." Shen Xiaoye thought about it and reminded: "Auntie, is it far away? If it's not far, you can bring 30 pieces first. If it's not enough, my family can deliver it at any time.

Otherwise, after this is done, the host’s children will have to divide the things.”

“Oh, the thing you reminded me of is in Yangzhuang, ten miles south of the city.

How much can you give me for thirty pieces of coarse cloth? "Mrs. Fang didn't have high hopes.

Shen Xiaoye said, "Two cents a piece."

"What about...the fifty horses?" As soon as Madam Fang asked, the courtyard door was pushed open from the outside.

Shen Cungeng ran in first and said, "Oh my god, Lu Guan's carriage is going too fast. My heart, liver, spleen and lungs are about to fall out.

Oh, are there guests here? I'll go get a bucket of water first."

"Or, I'll come again tomorrow." Mrs. Fang saw him running away again and stood up to leave.

Shen Xiaoye thought for a moment and said, "Fifty pieces can be sold at 1.8 cents, but no returns or delivery."

"Then, how about 1.9 cents for thirty horses?" Madam Fang proposed again.

Shen Xiaoye thought about it and decided that although the profit was small, it would be more profitable than this batch of dyed cloth, so he nodded in agreement.