I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 267 Must

Shen Changsui kept his eyes on his expression, and when he hesitated, he continued, "Boss Wu, you don't know that Xuanda placed an order for a batch of goods from us this spring.

Just a few days ago, I happened to hear that Dada was planning to open a horse market, so I thought after delivering the goods, I would have someone take me in to check out the market.

Of course, I also want to bring a few sample cloths and ask the big and small cloth merchants in the horse market to compare them so that I can get some printing and dyeing business.

After all, there aren’t many opportunities for them to gather in one place.”

After hearing this, the young master of the Wu family complained in his heart: Do you think I should believe it or not?

Shen Changsui just smiled and said, "Originally, this trade fair at Huitong Hall is a good opportunity to get to know each other.

But according to the information I have received, the merchants in the Beijing Market are not the same as those in the Horse Market. "

Fortunately, Lu Guan came back in time and told me the news.

Moreover, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple that you were looking for in your letter was only in charge of the affairs in the capital, while the affairs in the border towns were arranged by the Taifu Temple, which was in charge of horses.

"Have you joined the Huitongguan trade?" The young master of the Wu family was shocked. His seventh uncle risked his life to go to the grassland with Gongwei, but he was not allowed to enter the Huitongguan for trading.

Shen Changsui just smiled and said nothing. The final result of his master's investigation in Beijing has not yet come out, so he dare not make any guarantees before going to Beijing tomorrow.

The young master of the Wu family hoped that one day, he could also join the group. He hesitated for a moment and said, "I have a relationship with a cloth merchant in the northwest.

However, traveling merchants like them who trade in different places often deal in hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth, and they basically choose dyed cloth when they receive the cloth to avoid unnecessary costs caused by reshuffling the cloth along the way.

As for the cloth merchants in the south, many of them have grown into big businesses by dyeing and weaving, and these people basically will not transport cloth to the north for dyeing.

If Miss Shen is planning to leave for the border city in the next few days, I can write a letter to my friends in the northwest to introduce her."

The Wu family was somewhere in between the two, engaging in both weaving and selling. Their purpose was to avoid being ripped off by the cloth trading shops in the south when they purchased large quantities of cloth.

Moreover, his family's focus is in Liaodong, and they seldom take on business in the northwest, so there is nothing wrong with introducing one to them.

It's not that he was unwilling to introduce more people, but the current size of the Shen family was too small, and the printing and dyeing colors were too single, so they really couldn't take on too big an order.

"Thank you very much, Boss Wu. I will have to trouble you again when I need to redistribute the goods in the future." Shen Changsui achieved his goal and made promises for next year.

The young master of the Wu family thought that the other party was talking about the needs of the Huitongguan transaction, so he agreed without hesitation, and the two of them had a very pleasant conversation afterwards.

A long time later, when Shen Changsui came with the handwritten letter from the young master of the Wu family, Shen Xiaoye had already boiled several pots of red pigment with the help of his cousin Lin's family.

The two brothers, Da Niu and Er Niu, delivered the goods out bucket by bucket.

Shen Xiaoye added more ingredients to the newly drawn water and boiled it.

"Xiao Ye." Shen Changsui saw that it was not a big deal, so he called her over and said, "If two brothers were to carry so many paints, wouldn't they be exhausted?"

“My grandmother and I told her to ask someone else to come, but my cousin wouldn’t let us.

She was always worried that someone would see her and steal her business.

This is not my home, I can't just buy a bunch of big iron pots, build a few stoves and let them cool down before asking everyone to come to me." A big iron pot with a diameter of four feet and five inches and a height of more than one foot costs five cents of silver. This is an ironware weighing dozens of kilograms. You need connections to buy it.

Shen Xiaoye took down two of the five large pots at home and used them.

Fortunately, there is a river passing by here, and she chose the riverside as the place for boiling the soup, and built a large partition with several reed mats. This simple anti-theft measure is quite effective.

Phew, this is the difficulty of working on the road. It is different from the previous environment and everyone has to adapt to playing together again, which is somewhat more tiring.

She said, "Otherwise, uncle should go find a few big pots so that I can add the ingredients at the same time.

Then I'll take the pots back and not bury them."

"I'll carry the paint." One pot can boil about 700 kilograms of juice, and you can't put all the burdens on your cousins.

As Shen Changsui spoke, he tucked up the corner of his robe and started working, "Mother, cousin, if you are tired, take a rest."

"It's not that tiring to light a fire." Compared to her eldest daughter-in-law who had to take care of everything at home, Lin felt that she had it much easier.

Lin's aunt also said, "Not tiring, not tiring at all." What's so tiring about making money? Even if she didn't have a job before, she could still receive wages from Xiaoye every month.

Erniu is now helping Xiaoye. Although it is not like what people say outside that she can get paid whether she works or not, as long as she reports to work every day, she will get paid. She has to work harder.

Shen Xiaoye didn't want her aunt to do this tedious task, but since her aunt wasn't around, she really needed her aunt's help. "Aunt, we'll start dyeing the cloth in the next two days. Please help me keep an eye on the printing and dyeing."

"No problem. Wait until Daniu's wife settles the two little ones and comes over, and then we'll keep an eye on them as well." The Lin family's cousin-in-law was very motivated, a true steward:

"The food I brought from home is only enough for one day. I asked the warehouse manager and she has a fixed place to buy food.

"Xiao Ye, let's see if we can ask her to buy it together, or send someone to buy it ourselves."

"Asking her to buy it saves trouble and builds a good relationship.

We are from outside and will be here for a month, so we need the warehouse staff to look after us." Although it was not her own people who did the shopping, her grandmother Lin still made the decision for her.

Shen Xiaoye threw away the idea of ​​asking the village head grandfather to take care of it, and said, "Listen to grandma."

Feeding dozens of people is a big deal. After seeing that everyone had reached a consensus, Lin's aunt went to find the lady.

It's no wonder that as soon as the housekeeper received this task, her enthusiasm towards them immediately increased by three points.

No matter what shovels or wooden buckets the people of Jiuli Village need to borrow, there will be no delay.

By the evening, more than three hundred rolls of cloth had been washed throughout the site.

Once it dries tomorrow, it can be printed and dyed immediately, and the second batch of cloth will be washed out one after another.

To ensure safety, everyone ate in two groups, and Shen Xiaoye's family was the last to eat.

Shen Changsui sat next to her with a bowl in hand and said, "This is different from working at home where you can relax and take your time. The last step of beating the cloth must be changed to treading the cloth.

Otherwise, the women would beat them so hard that their arms wouldn’t be able to bear it.”

"Well, before I came here, I talked to my great grandfather and asked him to order two small sets of stone kicks for us from Shangtian Village, similar to the ones we bought at home.

I hope everyone will be a little tired in the first two days." The small workshop in Jiuli Village inadvertently bought more and more things. Shen Xiaoye said again: "Uncle, I won't go to the capital with you tomorrow.

There are still many things that need to be sorted out here as soon as possible before I can hand them over to my grandparents to deliver cloth to the border town."

If it was just delivering cloth, she wouldn't have to go there in person, but if it was also necessary to expand the customer base, she had to be there.

Shen Changsui took a sip of the mung bean and red bean soup and said with a smile, "I was just about to tell you this.

Once we get the certificate from Huitongguan, I will be in charge of the transaction, and the family will be left to me."