I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 147

"Alas, you are still young after all, and you can't help but get emotional because of a few words from the head of the village.

Your father can remind her that if she doesn't want to go out, she should stick to it to the end, and if she does go out, she should just be generous and shoulder the responsibility." Lin sighed in the inner room.

Huang said, "How can everyone be like Sui Ge'er? She is just right."

Lin thought about it and it made sense. She took out some silver from the lottery and said, "Yes, you can give it to the village head."

Huang followed the order and put the silver on the table, "Uncle Head, my mother asked you to write an IOU."

"Okay, I'll fight." Captain Qian agreed immediately. He didn't expect that everyone would be able to get the money together so quickly. If we talk about being righteous, it has to be the Lin family.

Shen Xiaoye watched the headman leave as he wished, and he was no longer in the mood to go with his grandfather to level the wasteland and make bricks.

With some doubts in my heart, I came to my grandmother to ask for help: "In theory, the village head grandfather can still pay for everyone with twenty or thirty taels of silver.

Why do you have to bring our family along?"

"This is the future you have to face after becoming a wealthy family in the village. If you become rich enough to be famous throughout the county, the first people that the court will think of when there is a levy of taxes are these people.

You didn't resist the probing attack of the village chief at the beginning, so you should be more generous and get the good result. "Lin reminded her.

Shen Xiaoye asked again: "But this is not an assignment by the imperial court, it is a formal corvée, and we cannot help every time.

Besides, we didn’t make much money last year.”

You should know that the miscellaneous corvée labor was not limited to civilian labor, but also included delivering goods on foot, building city walls, repairing roads, dredging silt and building embankments, etc.

Seeing that her grandmother and uncle were smiling at her, she suddenly realized that she had been in the habit of making decisions recently and had not let her grandfather take control, thus leaving the head of the family out in the cold.

"Grandpa, you won't be angry that I took his job, right?" Shen Xiaoye asked after realizing it.

Lin said: "Why don't you ask him and you will know?"

"Hehe, grandpa shouldn't do that." But Shen Xiaoye still picked up the jumping little leopard and went to find grandpa.

The little black cat chased after him and said in a voice transmission: "You are partial to one and neglect the other."

"You are narrow-minded and jealous of everything." Shen Xiaoye said this, but slowed down his pace, bent down and picked it up in his arms.

The little black cat was satisfied, so he gave her a piece of news: "I heard the sound of horse hooves coming this way."

"Is my uncle back?" Shen Xiaoye was just waiting for him to go to the Qi family in the next county to see how much cloth she had woven.

So after she went out the door, she didn't go east, but instead went west to meet her uncle.

But the person she welcomed was not her uncle, but Master Wu Qi.

As soon as the other party saw her, he dismounted and said, "Miss Shen, I have a business for you."

"You're most welcome." It's good to have business, she likes it.

So he immediately invited Master Wu Qi and asked, "You came alone? Without an entourage to run errands?"

"No need. What place in Linghe County am I not familiar with? Even your village and Shangtian Village, I have been here several times.

Hey, is the one you are holding a leopard?" Master Wu Qi was attracted by the little leopard, "It's a young leopard at that.

It's a coincidence that I saw a big leopard captured by soldiers patrolling the border in Jizhen a few days ago."

"Meow!" The little black cat first scratched the naughty little leopard and sent a message to Shen Xiaoye to ask quickly.

Of course she had to ask: "Is it a female leopard? There is a scar behind the right buttock?"

“I don’t know if this is a female leopard, but it does have an arrow scar on its buttocks.

What, you still recognize him?" Master Wu Qi fixed his eyes on the little leopard.

Shen Xiaoye nodded hurriedly, "It might be the little leopard's mother. Master Wu Qi, please forgive me. Let's make it short. I'll go over there and take a look."

"I'm looking for you to come to Ji Town to help me make an appearance. Then, let's talk on the way together." Master Wu Qi said hurriedly:

"Don't worry. Those soldiers seemed to want to present it to someone. It was still in the cage when I left."

"Let me tell my family first." Shen Xiaoye ran home.

Master Wu Qi laughed: "I didn't expect that the guests would be invited before the business was even discussed."

On this side, Shen Xiaoye told her grandmother this, and the old lady thought for a while and said, "You have to go. The big leopard is a grateful person and often brings wild animals to our home."

In winter, venison, mutton and other such things were always delivered to the house and thrown over the wall.

"If captured by the border troops, we will probably have to find someone to redeem us. That place is close to Taixu Temple, right? Let's go find Taoist Master Hengxi." My aunt Huang no longer makes tiger-head shoes.

Lin also meant this, but she said, "There's no rush. Please invite the guest in first, and then find out what the business is, so that we can make arrangements."

"Oh oh, I just lost my composure in a hurry." Shen Xiaoye ignored the little black cat's message and went ahead. After leaving the two little ones to grandma and going out to ask Master Wu Qi, the grandfather who had returned home had already entered the courtyard with others.

She said, "Seventh Master, please sit down first. I'll make you a pot of hot tea."

Mr. Wu Qi was the one who followed the host's wishes, and he had met Mr. Shen before, so the two of them soon started chatting animatedly.

By the time Shen Xiaoye came over with hot tea, the two of them had already become brothers.

After she served him tea, Wu Qiye told him about his business: "It's like this, last year Liaodong ordered a batch of cloth from my family, but you also know that Derun's cloth can't be shipped out now.

I tried to find someone to send him off for us, but the border town wouldn't let him go, and many border generals also avoided Derun.

I heard that your family is familiar with General Lu, so I want to borrow your favor to deliver the goods to the buyer, and then I will give you 10% of the profit."

"Seventh Master, I'm sure you've heard about the situation in the capital. I'm afraid that merchants can't leave now.

To avoid suspicion, why don't you postpone your business for a few months?" Shen Xiaoye's heart trembled. She was not afraid of making a trip, but she was afraid that the goods would be given to Dada people, which would be a disguised aid to the enemy.

Master Wu Qi said, "No, no, no, my goods need to be delivered to the shops in the border town.

Now I can’t get out of the checkpoints, I’m completely blocked.”

"Brother Wu, you can send a message and ask the other party to come and pick it up." Shen Shanyou knew the seriousness of the matter.

Wu Qiye smiled bitterly: "They came, but they couldn't take the goods away.

I have been trying to smooth things over since the beginning of the year, and I have spent a lot of money to earn this batch of cloth, but they just won’t let me go.”

"Maybe Mr. Qi's goods were targeted because he had not changed vehicles.

Also, can other merchants' goods be shipped out now?" Shen Xiaoye thought it was impossible. Blocking the supply of materials was also one of the means used by the court to deal with the northern barbarians.

Although the three tribes of Wengniute had been driven to the Baicheng area by the Great Zhou, they always found ways to trade for supplies from the border areas.

My uncle once said that the northern border defense line of the Great Zhou was not a continuous Great Wall, but a series of offensive frontier positions erected in the border areas.

"I changed cars and escorts, but it seemed like someone was watching me all the time. I just couldn't get out.

Don't worry, the cloth of my Wu family has always been good, and it is definitely not the kind of private goods that cannot be seen in public." Master Wu Qi had no other choice but to come to her house to try.

Shen Xiaoye and grandpa looked at each other and refused: "I'm sorry, I can't send you off.

But if you are willing to transfer this batch of goods, I can distribute them to you in Beijing."