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When Yu Hongdou gave the crossbow diagram to Yu Erlang, she did so in secret and told his second uncle to keep it a secret.

"Is this a crossbow? Is it a single-arrow crossbow?" Yu Erlang was shocked by the drawings his niece brought.

Yu Hongdou didn't know, but Yu Erlang, who had studied with an old carpenter for a period of time, had heard of it.

There are two types of repeating crossbows. The earliest one refers to one that can fire many arrows with one pull of the trigger.

Later, the single-arrow crossbow was invented, which could fire one arrow each time the trigger was pulled, and could be fired multiple times in succession.

"I heard from my father that Master Wu had a crossbow that was particularly useful. I went to the county town the other day and asked Uncle Shang if he could help me get one."

"Uncle Shang said that this kind of crossbow is small and suitable for the elderly, women and children." Yu Hongdou applied the Spring and Autumn style of writing to her speech and explained it to her second uncle.

Yu Erlang was indeed misled and thought that the blueprint was given by Master Shang, so he did not ask any more questions and just studied it carefully.

"This material is not easy to find. I'll look for it later." Yu Erlang pondered over the blueprint and finally found a solution.

However, crossbows are easy to make, but the materials are rare. A repeating crossbow must take into account the tension and wear of the crossbow string during continuous shooting, as well as the mortise and tenon joints between the quiver and the connecting rod, etc.

"Uncle, please keep this secret for now. We'll give my dad a surprise later. Tell me what materials you'll need and I'll ask Duan Zhuangtou and my brother to look for them." Yu Hongdou winked at her uncle.

Yu Erlang nodded, mistakenly thinking that this was the birthday gift Yu Hongdou prepared for Yu Sanlang: "Your father's birthday is at the end of next month, and Second Uncle will definitely make one for you then."

"Okay, thank you, second uncle. I'll buy you some wine after I sell my toys." Yu Hongdou was extremely grateful to her second uncle.

If her second uncle hadn't reminded her, she would have almost forgotten about her father's birthday.

When she gets home she will talk to her father about paying her second uncle for his labor. Otherwise she will feel bad about him having to work and pay for the materials.

Yu Erlang was delighted by his little niece and was indeed interested in the crossbow. When he went out, his face brightened up. Although he didn't smile, the emotion revealed between his eyebrows was happiness.

As her husband's bedmate, Sun rarely saw her husband, who was so bored that he felt numb, so emotional. Sun was quite happy about this and invited Yu Hongdou to have dinner at home. She wanted to make her specialty pancake boxes tonight.

The living conditions of the second house may not be as good as those of the third house, but Sun's cooking skills are worse than Xu's, especially some vegetarian dishes and staple foods, which taste particularly good when cooked by Sun.

Before the family split up, Yu Hongdou particularly liked the cornmeal tongue biscuits made by her second aunt.

Stir the cornmeal into a thin paste, and after it ferments a little, scoop a spoonful of it into a hot iron pan and cook it.

In fact, it is the classic corn pancake from Northeast China in later generations. However, there is no frying pan at home, so people use the iron pan on the stove. The cornmeal paste will slide down along the curve of the pan, and then stretch a little, becoming an oval with a pointed bottom, so it got the name of ox tongue pancake.

In addition to this, there is the pancake, which looks a bit like the Shandong pancake. It is thin, but not crispy. Instead, it is soft and especially delicious when used to roll up pancakes and fillings.

The pancake box that Sun wants to make is made by rolling the filling in a pancake and then frying it in a pan like a pancake. The outer skin is crispy and the filling is soft and juicy, and it is extremely delicious.

After sending Qian Sanmei home to report to her mother, Yu Hongdou simply sat down in the second room, helping Sister Hu Tao peel peanuts while talking about the gossip she had just heard from the first room.

"Sometimes I don't quite understand whether my eldest sister is smart or stupid." Hu Tao made a venomous comment on the fact that the eldest wife agreed to the marriage without even seeing the bride.

"Maybe the eldest cousin is confident that she can live a good life?" Yu Hongdou was not making excuses for her eldest cousin, but she sincerely felt that her eldest cousin and even her aunt thought so.

"Okay, I wish her everything she wants, but what's going on with eldest brother? There has been no news since Liu left, and he didn't ask about her? Recently, even the Liu family has disappeared. I have a feeling that the Liu family is up to something." Hu Tao was puzzled and suspicious.

Yu Hongdou frowned slightly. Ever since the separation, their third branch had been so busy that they had forgotten about the Liu family.

Liu Yong was so arrogant when he went to Yu's house to catch chickens. He didn't look like a man who could swallow his anger. I hope he won't stab me in the back. I'll have to remind my parents in the evening.

After commenting on her cousins, Hu Tao turned around and talked about her own brother: "Someone has a crush on my second brother, but mom said we have to wait a while."

Holding too many weddings in a row is not a happy thing for relatives and friends. Even though the custom of giving gifts nowadays is to express the intention without seeking extravagance, most ordinary people's families are not well-off, and giving gifts continuously is a bit of a burden.

Yu Hongdou sighed again, her second aunt was indeed the wisest and socially competent one in the second house. If it weren't for the fact that disputes were easy to arise when family members got together to do things, she really wanted to recruit her second aunt to be her secretary.

The next day, Yu Hongdou went to school and paid special attention to the teacher. However, seeing that Gao Hongyang's expression and attitude were normal, she felt relieved and continued to study.

But after class, Niu Niu, who was doing private lessons with her, secretly told her: "My parents had a fight last night."

"?" Yu Hongdou was surprised that Gao Hongyang and his wife were arguing, and even more surprised why Niu Niu would tell her this.

Although she loves to listen to gossip, just because she loves to listen doesn't mean she likes to ask around!

Telling a child about other people's family affairs, doesn't that count as prying into their privacy?

"It's all because of you. My mother said you were just a country girl and it was unnecessary for you to go to school. But you insisted on asking your classmates to teach you how to paint. Aren't you afraid of failure?" Niu Niu looked at Yu Hongdou with his pair of black and white eyes.

To be honest, this child's eyes are too big and his gaze is too direct, which is really scary. If he hadn't used a narrative tone, Yu Hongdou almost thought that she was being bullied.

Although she was innocently blamed, if a normal child heard their parents quarreling over another child, their first reaction would be to vent their anger on that child, right? So Niu Niu was expressing his anger?

It didn't look like that. Yu Hongdou couldn't figure out Niu Niu's true thoughts, so she didn't respond.

As a result, Niu Niu seemed to have really just told Yu Hongdou about this matter. While cleaning the table, he said, "My grandfather said that your father is very capable and you are also smart. He will let me marry you in the future. Husband and wife will be one. You are my daughter-in-law. I can't hide anything from you."

Yu Hongdou was left standing there like a wooden man, asking three thousand questions.

What did he say? Who gets married? Who is his wife? What is the meaning of husband and wife being one?

"What does a little brat know! He's crazy!" It took Yu Hongdou a long time to come back to his senses and he complained harshly.

Marry her? That's a nice thought. Just because he looks like Jourdain, she won't marry him!