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The beam raising ceremony is scheduled for March 28th, leaving six days for preparation.

Yu Hongdou asked for leave from her grandfather and went to the town with her mother to order food for the banquet.

My second aunt and second cousin are going with us. Their family will start building their house tomorrow, so they need to prepare some food.

"Sister-in-law, have all the stones, mud and sand been gathered?" Xu asked her sister-in-law.

Because of Yu Sanlang's unbridled behavior, the construction of the house exceeded the budget by a lot, and the stones and mud from the second house were temporarily used.

After the house was built, Yu Sanlang immediately went and bought a new one and returned it to the second wife.

However, the spring plowing has recently ended and the people who are building houses have started construction. The materials are a bit tight and are being provided in batches, so Xu asked this question.

"Everything is ready. Your second brother has made some decisions. He wants to make a short eaves like your family, but we won't build a gatehouse." Sun replied to her sister-in-law with a smile, her eyes never leaving the front.

The carriage they took today was the one sent by Tan Bailu, and the driver was Yu Li from the second house.

"Don't worry, second aunt. Second brother is fine." Yu Hongdou thought that second aunt was worried about her second cousin who was driving a car for the first time, so she comforted her in a low voice.

"Well, I'm not worried about him, I just think this horse is good-looking. You said it looks almost like a mule, why does it look so energetic?" Sun waved her hands. She was not looking at her son, but the horse.

Huh? Yu Hongdou looked at Yu Li, who was standing upright because of her praise, and saw him dejected, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

"I think so too. It may be because the horse has long mane on its head, which makes its face look smaller." Xu nodded, not knowing whether she was trying to please her sister-in-law or truly agreed.

Yu Hongdou asked them to look as they said, and then compare the horse in front of them with the mule left at home.

When Yu Song returned, he not only brought the horse and carriage given by Tan Bailu, but also a sturdy mule that was just of working age. He bought it with his own pocket money, spending eight taels of silver.

The mule is young and strong at work. Today, Yu Sanlang took it up the mountain.

From the appearance, horses and mules are very similar, and Yu Hongdou couldn't tell the difference when she was a child.

The grandfather in the previous life taught his cousin, and Yu Hongdou eavesdropped nearby and only then did she know the difference between the two.

A mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey, and is divided into two types: a horse mule and a donkey mule.

A mule is born from a male donkey and a female horse. It looks more like a horse, but is taller than a horse, has long ears, big eyes, and looks very energetic.

The opposite of a horse mule is a donkey mule, which is born from a stallion and a female donkey. It looks like a donkey and a little bit ugly.

The horse in front of me looks energetic because it is of good appearance. Its chestnut body is free of stray hairs and its black mane is flowing and smooth.

Although Tan Bailu told Yu Song that it was an ordinary horse raised at home, most of the horses raised by the Tan family were probably combined with war horses, so this horse looked unusually majestic.

That's why Yu Hongdou gave Tan Bailu the good guy card. At least this person didn't treat them perfunctorily just because her family was country bumpkins. She was content with that.

The differences brought about by identities were not something Yu Hongdou recognized just because she traveled through time to ancient times.

She had this realization as early as the moment she went to her grandmother's house for the summer vacation and her grandmother forced her to cut her hair because she didn't want to see her braid her hair.

The market is one mile away from Xingsheng Town and is held on the 10th, 20th and 30th of every month.

There are vendors selling things here on weekdays, but there are not as many people and variety of goods as usual.

Yu Lizi parked the carriage not far from the entrance of the market. He wanted to stay behind to guard the carriage, so only Xu and Sun took Yu Hongdou into the crowd.

"Hongdou, you must follow your mother closely, okay?" Mrs. Xu reminded her daughter for the umpteenth time.

Yu Hongdou nodded obediently. She must have followed closely. If she didn't, she might become Xiangling, which would be too miserable.

Xingsheng Town is indeed a famous wealthy town in the vicinity, and this market is in no way inferior to the large wholesale markets of later generations.

Yu Hongdou tugged at her mother's clothes, her head shaking like a rattle, and she felt like her eyes were not enough.

The vendors selling straw sandals, straw raincoats, woven baskets and backpacks are mostly gathered at the edge of the market. Further ahead are chickens, ducks, geese and piglets, followed by fabric handicrafts and vegetable and meat snack stalls.

It is much more lively here than in the county town. There are so many vendors and people in the whole market, it is crowded and bustling.

"Mom, chicks." Yu Hongdou reminded her mother not to forget to buy chicks, otherwise it would be difficult to eat eggs in the future.

Everyone in the village raises chickens at home, so it is easy to buy eggs from others. However, if you buy eggs, not only will you have to accept people pointing fingers at you, but you will also easily attract the jealousy of villains.

Xu had discussed with his family before that after moving, they would raise a few chickens, but not pigs, as they were too dirty and he didn't have the energy to take care of them.

"Don't buy them here. There are people in the village who are hatching chicks." Mrs. Xu told her daughter very patiently.

Her husband didn't want her to take their daughter to crowded places, fearing that something might happen and he wouldn't be able to take care of her. But Xu felt that as her daughter grew up, she should be taught common sense, literacy and arithmetic.

After listening to her mother's explanation, Yu Hongdou nodded and stopped giving orders. She just followed her mother and second aunt.

Xu first went to order fish, thirty silver carp, and asked the fishmonger to deliver them to her home two or three days in advance. Silver carp are easy to raise, so they can be kept in a water tank first.

Yu Hongdou was curious. Didn’t they say there were twenty-five tables? Why did they add more tables?

"Prepare five more, firstly in case some fish cannot be kept alive, and secondly so that the leftovers can be taken back as return gifts." Xu explained to her daughter without waiting for her to ask.

Yu Hongdou nodded, and after a moment's thought she realized that this must be prepared for her grandparents and her great-grandparents.

When a beam is raised in the house, the gifts given to the elders must be heavier. They cannot let the elders suffer a loss, so they prepare return gifts to look good and not embarrass the elders in front of other children.

The silver carp weighed about two pounds and cost twenty cents each. Xu first gave a deposit of two hundred cents, told the fishmonger her home address, and asked him to deliver the fish at an estimated time. Then she took her daughter and continued walking.

Yu Hongdou looked back at the fishmonger as she walked.

"Okay, stop looking. He can't run away. He sets up a stall here every day. If he breaks the rules, no one will come to buy fish from him in the future." Sun said with a smile.

She followed behind Xu, thinking that she could take care of the child as much as possible, not only to protect the child but also to prevent thieves.

Seeing Yu Hongdou twisting her neck to stare at the fishmonger, he knew what she was worried about, so he spoke up to explain to her.

"Don't worry, little girl. Zhang Laosan has been here for many years. If he wasn't well-behaved, he would have been replaced by someone else long ago." The passers-by probably thought Yu Hongdou was interesting and added a sentence after hearing what Sun said.

Yu Hongdou smiled awkwardly at her second aunt and thanked the passers-by, but what she was thinking in her mind was that she didn't know whether the check-in location on the person would disappear.

That’s right, there was a bright green light above the fishmonger’s head, and a round-headed, pointed-tailed sign-in icon on his forehead was trembling, with a row of large characters on it.

[Sign-in location: Fishmonger Zhang Laosan, do you want to spend 2 points to sign in? ]