I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 119 Good stuff

Lu Guan raised his head and sighed, then said: "I was caught and asked to take the Imperial College exam in a few days."

Shen Xiaoye pointed to the sky with one finger, and he nodded slightly.

"That's great!" When Grandpa Shen Shanyou heard this, he felt that he had won the favor of the emperor.

Lu Guan looked sad again, "Not at all. I haven't even taken a full month of classes."

"But you can just focus on archery and horse riding. Come on!" Shen Xiaoye ran over to help Xuan Shen unload the luggage.

She led the horse and turned into the moon-shaped gate on the west side of the second gate. She was just going to the backyard to collect clothes.

As a result, just after he tied up the two horses, he heard a scream that broke through the sky coming from the backyard next door. The sound was so loud that the mule in the shed became agitated and shook its head and tail. As luck would have it, it hit Lu Guan's horse, which bounced up and hit it with its hind legs, but it hit another horse.

The horse neighed in pain and immediately fought back. The other horses followed suit and neighed, louder than the sound from the next door.

Everything happened in a flash. Faced with several dancing horses, Shen Xiaoye and Xuan Shen did not dare to approach.

"Call my grandpa over, they will destroy the stable." Just as she finished speaking, there was a bang, and the pillar of the crossbeam in the middle of the stable was actually broken by a horse.

The moment the two of them hurriedly retreated, a colorful shadow from the roof flew towards them.

It was too fast. Xuan Shen yelled and turned around to block Shen Xiaoye: "Snake!"

In a flash, Shen Xiaoye kicked him away and dodged to the side. She summoned a scimitar and slashed at the snake.

Unexpectedly, her speed was too slow, and the snake fell to the ground with her knife first. At this moment, with a "meow", the little black cat came running from the alley of her home and jumped towards the flower snake.

Behind it were Lu Guan and his grandfather Shen Shanyou. They heard the noise and ran over, and saw the black cat and the flower snake fighting.

Shen Xiaoye did not dare to turn around and quickly put away the knife. He stood up and saw his grandfather and his grandfather grabbing the bamboo poles by the wall, all their attention on the snake.

She glanced at Xuan Shen and found that he was still lying on his side and struggling to get up. She had just taken the knife with her back to him and put it away quickly, so it was basically not exposed. So she went forward to help him: "Did I kick you?"

"Hiss, no." Xuan Shen endured the pain. He didn't expect Miss Shen to be so agile and strong. His chest hurt so much.

"The old imperial physician will come to check it out later." Shen Xiaoye apologized profusely. Turning his head, he saw that his grandfather had already grasped the snake's vital point, with a long nail inserted there.

Lu Guan said: "The Golden Flower Viper shouldn't appear at this time."

"It's from next door." Xuan Shen said after the pain subsided.

"I'll go find them!" Lu Guan said nothing, jumped up to the top of the wall, and the little black cat also flew up.

There were several screams from the next room, and several male voices could be heard asking, "Who are you?"

"Who of you released the poisonous snake? It injured my family and horse." Lu Guan's sharp eyes swept across the men and women on the wall. Among them was a young man in brocade clothes who was coaxing a pale-faced woman.

The young man in brocade clothes looked up, let go of the woman and bowed, saying, "Excuse me, young master. We don't know where the snake came from. I just came here with my wife to appreciate the plum blossoms and pick flowers, and I didn't expect a snake to suddenly jump out.

Please wait a moment, Geng will come to apologize."

Mrs. Zhu, who was standing beside him, was still in shock. She heard them talking in a whisper and held on to her husband's clothes tightly.

Since the young man in brocade clothes said so, Lu Guan couldn't lie on the wall any longer. He snorted coldly and jumped down. Shen Xiaoye was already helping his grandfather lead out a few horses and tie them to the jujube tree.

She said, "It's safer to build a brick and tile structure."

"I'd like to, too. But you don't know that bricks are particularly hard to buy right now. Cities everywhere have not been repaired. The brick factories in the capital are centrally managed by the Ministry of Works. Officials' families have to go through several approvals to buy bricks in large quantities." Lu Guan didn't know about this before. It was only when he discovered that there were special soldiers guarding bricks in the camp that he learned about this strange rule.

It can only be said that the northern barbarians of the previous dynasty had wreaked too much havoc on this land, and the two generations of emperors before and after the Great Zhou Dynasty have not yet restored China to its former glory.

He pushed Shen Xiaoye away and said to Shen Shanyou, who was squatting beside the dangerous shed to check the roof, "Don't worry about it, old man. I'll find a craftsman."

"It's not a big job and I can do it myself. Do you have any wooden pillars at home? I can just replace the top and use them." Shen Shanyou observed the four corners of the stable. They were all made of adobe pillars and there was no damage.

Lu Guan nodded: "Okay, I'll go look for it.

"Scrophularia," he saw that the boy's face was still a little pale, and changed his words: "Come on, there is medicine in the bag, you go and apply it first."

Seeing them leave, Grandpa Shen Shanyou looked at his granddaughter, he was a little puzzled: "Xiaoye, what weapon did you use just now? It was shining brightly."

"Ah?" So grandpa saw it? But seeing his puzzled look, he must not have seen it clearly. Shen Xiaoye hesitated for a moment, raised his left wrist, and there was a wide silver bracelet without any carvings.

She touched it lightly with her right hand. With a slight clicking sound, the bracelet straightened instantly and she pulled out a slender short blade from it.

"This is it, Taoist Qingxi lent it to me.

He said he could be unexpected in times of danger."

"It's a good thing." Shen Shanyou took it and flipped through it before returning it to her, saying, "Master Qingxi sent us to the county town and then returned to Taixu Temple.

He said he was going to see if the nearly 10,000 kilograms of madder you asked Taixu Temple to buy had arrived."

"After autumn, all kinds of medicines sold at Taixu Temple are cheap, and madder is only 20 to 30 cents per pound.

They helped us deliver it home, and it only cost thirty-five cents, which was more economical than going to Tianjin." The family was really in chaos at that time, and she couldn't spare anyone to go hundreds of miles away to buy madder.

Shen Shanyou nodded and returned the hidden weapon to her: "The Taoist priests have helped a lot, and I will reward you handsomely in the future.

As for this, I will discuss with him whether I can buy it. "

"Okay." Shen Xiaoye secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the father and son quickly cleaned up the mess under the stable.

She patted her body and said, "Lu Guan may not have found the wood, so let's not wait any longer." She had to wash her hands before putting away the clothes.

But when the father and son turned to the front, they found two servants standing in the main courtyard, and the new cook had just brought out hot tea from the east kitchen.

She walked over quickly and said, "It's the owner of the house next door. I heard from Xuan Shen that there is a scholar."

"Then we won't go in." Shen Xiaoye and Grandpa went straight into the west wing, "It seems that my uncle has gone to entertain the guests."

Meow, the little black cat said hello and ran away to eavesdrop in the corner.

However, it always wanders around here casually, sneaking into the main living room from under the cotton curtain, and lying next to Shen Changsui very openly.

Unexpectedly, several people in the room had already finished talking. Mr. Geng stood up, apologized again, took the snake, and was sent out by Lu Guan.

The little black cat felt lonely after hearing this, and meowed at Shen Changsui in dissatisfaction. He squatted down and patted it, saying, "It's useless for you to have a poisonous snake, but he can use it to find the person who released the snake."

"Uncle, what did that family say?" Shen Xiaoye lifted the curtain and came in.

Shen Changsui shook his head: "Just apologize, Mr. Geng said he is already investigating the cause.

By the way, the old imperial physician’s servant just came to order several dozen rolls of printed red cloth.”

Shen Xiaoye was concerned about something different: "The old imperial physician is not coming to see the patient today?"