I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 283 Riddle

"Huh?! Do you and I have the same idea?" Shen Xiaoye asked this. The startled little black cat popped its head out of her bag and meowed: What riddles are you guys solving?

"What else?" Lu Guan waved his hand to call Shen Cungeng and the other two over, told them to look after the sheep, and said to her, "Follow me."

"Oh, yes." Before leaving, Shen Xiaoye gave his cousin a bag of change, "If you can't take care of it, find someone to help you.

With it leading the way, the cooks in the camp were easy to talk to.

I'll come back later to help you guys go shopping at the horse market."

Shen Cungeng took it and looked at the cook slaughtering sheep not far away, "I think Lu Guan's suggestion is very good this time.

Not only do you have to spend money to buy fodder for these sheep, but you also have to assign someone to look after them.

Moreover, on the way back, the major merchants brought back more sheep than we did, and they might not sell them along the way even if the price was low.”

He didn't quite understand why his sister didn't want fur but a live sheep.

Shen Xiaoye nodded. She couldn't confess everything, so she just said, "Cousin, do you believe I can handle it?"

Shen Cungeng asked her back: "If I don't trust you, who should I trust?"

Then he said earnestly: "It's not easy to make money, so don't force it if it's really difficult.

At worst, we can put the sheep on the truck and transport them back to Linghe County to sell them.”

"Not really, not really." If Shen Xiaoye really had to go back to his hometown, it would have been better for him not to do so.

Shen Cungeng didn't understand her, but Lu Guan fully understood her behavior and accompanied her all the way to various trading areas to find those relatively weak Dada tribes with few visitors.

As they expected, these Dada people scattered in the corners actually needed the lambs and ewes bought by Shen Xiaoye because their horses were requisitioned after the war and there were not many cattle and sheep left.

But if they wanted to buy from other tribes, they would need to exchange food for it, because the big tribes had more furs.

The two men spoke Dada fluently and bargained fairly, and quickly traded three hundred sheep.

He also contacted several families and used silver to buy furs so that they could use the money to buy salt and food. Even the tax on the horse market was paid by Shen Xiaoye.

The people of these small tribes were extremely happy.

Generally speaking, because Mobei has always used the currency of the Central Plains, which is scarce, few Dada people would use silver to buy things from the Great Zhou.

But who asked Lu Guan to help them contact the officials in charge of the salt market in the mutual trade?

All of this was reported to Boss Zhu by the people who tracked them down.

But Boss Zhu doesn't know that the entire Ma City is under the surveillance of General Wang, and he needs to catch all the spies who use Ma City to deliver information to Dada.

When General Wang learned that Lu Guan was using his uncle’s and his own names to do business for others, he laughed and said, “If I don’t allow them to bring in cloth, I’ll think of another way.

In a short period of time, they bought enough sheep worth 100 taels, and also resold their own cloth."

But the guard said, "General, our people also discovered that the cloth merchant surnamed Zhu who was doing business with Miss Shen was also following them in secret."

"Don't worry about it. Lu Guan must have discovered it long ago." For a man who could sneak into the Northern Tartar camp, General Wang believed in his ability.

But he didn't know that there was a little black cat beside Lu Guan, which exposed everyone who followed them.

He also directed Shen Xiaoye to track back, and soon found out that it was people sent by Boss Zhu.

She complained, “It’s understandable that Boss Zhu wants to know our true intentions.

But it is a bit hard to explain why General Wang also sent people. "

"Maybe it's just something I can do." Lu Guan didn't think he was important. He was using a borrowed rack to push things, and he had some control over the stability of the single wheel.

Glancing at Shen Xiaoye who was pushing another cart steadily, he felt that he was not as good as a girl. The key point was that she had two Dada women helping her push the cart, but he did not.

But, not only did the little black cat see through his embarrassing situation, but it also deliberately circled around his feet to embarrass him, right?

Humph! Lu Guan was so competitive that he controlled the center of gravity of the car and tried not to be distracted by talking to Shen Xiaoye. In this way, the distance seemed to become shorter.

On this side, Shen Cungeng never expected that Xiao Ye only spent half an hour and not only sold the sheep, but also got a lot of fur in return.

He ran over to take the handlebars from his sister and said, "These leathers look good, and the leather tanning skills are not worse than ours in the Great Zhou."

"Only the top layer of saltpeter is good, the bottom layer is just so-so." Shen Xiaoye finished speaking, and then he said to the Dada woman who came with him, "Look at the flock of sheep in front, you made a good deal."

The woman followed her and went into the sheepfold to check each one.

Shen Cungeng put down the car and asked Lu Guan: "Does the Dada people still need sheep?"

"What don't they need?" Lu Guan said secretly. At least the car didn't overturn. "Unload the car. We have to return it."

As soon as they unloaded the car, the Dada women over there picked the sheep. They were skilled in herding and eventually eliminated a dozen weaker ones and kept them.

So when Shen Xiaoye and the others returned the car, the Dada woman asked for a smaller quantity of furs to be delivered.

Shen Xiaoye had no objection to this. She just envied the Dada women, who could drive nearly three hundred sheep to walk obediently with just two people and a whip.

Since the furs can be left to the care of the cooks, Shen Cungeng, Lin Erniu and Zhuangzhuang don't have to stay here anymore. They can go to various trading places. They don't know if there will be any opportunities tomorrow.

In fact, after they leave for the day, they must show a permit to enter the place the next day.

A few people couldn't get in and could only sigh at the city.

Shen Cungeng said with some regret: "If we have a Kanhe, we can earn back several years' worth of money in one year."

Lu Guan said: "It is not easy to get a permit, first of all you need a strong background.

Second, you need to have enough money to purchase tens of thousands of items.

For example, Boss Zhu can bring 100,000 pieces of cloth here at a time, can you do that?"

"One hundred thousand horses, even if it's three cents, that's thirty thousand in cash." Zhuangzhuang got it right again.

Lin Erniu let out a loud breath, but didn't say anything in the end. Even if it was ten thousand taels, Xiaoye couldn't take it out.

Shen Xiaoye did not meet the requirements for the selection of the Kanhe at the moment, so she said, "Wait another two or three years, and then I will definitely get 30,000 to 50,000 pieces of cloth to send over."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Master Shi coming over and said to her, "Miss Shen, you have a lot of cloth, why don't you give me some in the future?"

Shen Xiaoye asked with a smile: "Don't you want it now?"

The master said that he sold all his goods to the big cloth merchants in the market. "If there is any, of course I will buy it."

"No." There were so many people around that Shen Xiaoye would not take cloth out from the space to sell, not to mention that there were several pieces of brocade given by the emperor.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of the makeup brocade she gave to Lu Guanhe and his uncle.

"What about next year? I don't need much, thirty or fifty thousand should be enough." What the boss valued was her low price.