Xianyu Infrastructure, I have a lot of troops in my hands

Ever since the return of the lady from the second house, the people in the outer courtyard have become restless, because most of the servants in the outer courtyard have some connection with the second house of the Xie family.

Xie Xian was secretly annoyed that she had been blamed for the orphanage, but she didn't know that there were many people who fanned the flames. The people in the second house were just the same clan as Xie Xian, but Xie Xian was the straw that broke the camel's back for them.

The clan members were not familiar with the new female heir of the second branch, but although Xie Xian did not escape the conspiracy this time, she was not afraid of trouble.

A few days later, she took her two only maids to see the new project.

In the orphanage, there were a few young boys with yellowish complexion and black heads and faces, and the clothes they wore could barely cover their bodies.

There was a charcoal fire burning in the innermost room, and black smoke drifted out through the broken window. There was a sand pit on the ground opposite, and a few naked kids were crawling around in it. I don't know what they picked up from the sand, and they raised it to Xie Xian with a giggle.

Xie Xian took a half step back. It was really like playing with urine sand. She frowned and watched. She had been mentally prepared, but she didn't expect it to be more difficult than she thought.

Qingdai and Xie Miao also looked unhappy. They had only heard that the orphanage was poor and weak before, but they didn't expect the conditions to be so bad.

There were wooden boards stacked next to it, which looked like they could be used as beds at night. The wooden furniture was also missing parts, and a lame boy came in with a broom and was shocked when he saw the little girl holding the poop ball to Xie Xian.

"Daya, put it down!" He was so anxious that his face turned pale. He had just gone to the outer courtyard to get a broom, but he didn't expect the lady to come in. The older girls in the next room heard the sound and came over in a hurry.

"Greetings, my lady!" Several little kids were lying on the ground in confusion. Xie Xian nodded gently, and kept her body stiff to carefully maintain her balance, for fear that she would be accidentally tripped by the crooked stool.

Seeing that she was frowning and not talking, Qingdai said to the little boy: "You all know what happened in the sect!"

"I heard about it in the outer courtyard." Yudan looked at Xie Xian cautiously, and when he saw that there was no expression of disgust on her face, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qingdai glanced at them and asked, "How did you live in the past?" She didn't believe it. With the conditions, the orphanage should have been closed long ago and it would not be their turn to take over.

Could it be that someone was so bold as to intercept it?

Yudan felt a little guilty. When his brothers left the day before yesterday, they kept saying how lucky they were to be left, so all the better things in the house were moved away.

Except for clothes, bedding and some rags, everything that was pleasing to the eye was taken away by them.

Seeing his hesitant look, Xie Miao sighed: "My daughter has just accepted this job. From now on, the second house will be your home. My daughter has lowered her face to ask for a birth contract. Now there are still some people in the outer courtyard who talk nonsense. If you can't even trust you."

Seeing Xie Miaomiao's embarrassed look, Yudan became anxious: "It was Brother Shan Gou and his gang. They got the job in the inner courtyard and said they wanted to vent their anger."

Each of the brothers who left the yard had their own fate, but Shan Gou had never gotten along with Lu Mu and the others. Although he was only a teenager, he was willing to do anything to get the attention of the manager and a reward for food.

In the morning, Lu Mu and his brothers were still indignant and threatened to cause trouble for Shan Gou.

Yudan was in a bit of a dilemma as the youngest brother. The conflicts among several people were not important at the moment. The most important thing was to win the eye of the lady from the second house. Otherwise, how would these younger sisters survive?

God knows, the managers of several rooms have made an agreement this time to take away all the men and only keep me, a useless one. Hua'er and the others are still young, and I hate myself for not being able to do even this small thing.

Xie Xian sighed in her heart. To be honest, she had complicated feelings towards the clan. Although such conditions were unbearable, compared to the starving people she saw along the way, the Xie clan had done a good job. She also admired their humanity, seeing that these little girls still survived.

Xie Family Rules: People have ancestors, just like water and trees have their origins, which should not be forgotten. Parents’ boundless kindness is the same as heaven and earth. Do not use your power to bully the lonely and widowed, and do not kill animals for the sake of greed.

Seeing that she had to start over from scratch, she was relieved. Girls are good! Women are not valued these days, no wonder the elders agreed so readily. If there were several young boys, Xie Xian would have to wonder what the clan was up to.

Xie Xian asked Qingdai to hire two ladies from the outer courtyard to help take care of them, and asked Siji to help buy some linen clothes and bedding, and to take care of these little guys from head to toe. Only then did she open a new courtyard and completely change her location.

Those dilapidated stone houses are only two houses away from the inkstone pool. Because they are next to the river, the foundations are a bit loose, which is why sand can be dug out from the houses.

I asked someone to look at it and they said that this piece of land is not a good place to build a house. Not only is it difficult to dig a foundation, but there is sand and gravel underneath and it is too close to the riverbed. It is also unstable when the water rises every year.

Sighing at her wallet which had just started to improve, Xie Xian waved her hand and said, "I'll rebuild it." The second house was under construction, and Xie Xian asked someone to draw the blueprint. Although she had some ideas in her heart, she could only make a reasonable layout due to the reality.

Xie Ruiwen looked at Xie Qiyan and asked excitedly: "Ayan, is Sister Xian really going to reject that whole movie?" He had no choice but to be really curious.

That piece of land was originally good, but it became dilapidated after the river changed its course and was flooded for several days. In the following years, the second branch of the family had few descendants, and only widows and orphans sought shelter, so it became an orphanage.

Xie Qiyan was a little uncertain: "Even the blueprints are ready." Looking at the blueprint titled "Entertainment Plaza" in his hand, he fell into deep thought. Would his clansmen really not talk about taking over this Heisei Garden?

Xie Xian just asked him to give a suggestion. As for the renovation plan of the street park in the old residential area, it must be implemented. Besides, the profit of the orphanage in the future may depend on it.

The little fat boy was attracted at the first sight. There was a huge sand pit next to the water. The creek bank was paved with bluestone. The water was shallow enough to only reach the ankles. There were seesaws, racks of different heights, climbing poles, and a spiral ladder scattered around.

He had seen swings and seesaws before, but the others were obviously just toys for kids. Although he was past the age of playing around, these made him feel like a cat scratching his head. He and Xie Qiyan spent the whole morning guessing what was drawn on the picture.

When the craftsmen come in, the stones will be removed one by one and the ground will be leveled. The extra old bricks will be stacked aside for other uses. Yudan also has a task recently, which is to watch the children in the yard picking up pebbles by the river, as long as they are palm-sized.

The lady said that picking up these things could be used to pay for food. He remembered clearly that day that the lady said she would not support idle people, and that anyone who was over six years old and able to move had to work to earn a living.

Thinking about yesterday's vegetable steamed bread, Yudan drooled. It was the first time in more than ten years of his life that he had eaten dry rice. If this happened every day, he would be willing to do anything.

Seeing that everything was on track and there were special people to cook the food in the stove, she became free again after transferring Xie Miao here.

On a whim, I thought of taking inventory of the collection in my own library. In this era, a family with tens of thousands of volumes could be considered a top aristocratic family, and everyone valued books.

But the reality was not as expected. Looking at the old lady falling in front of him, Xie Xian's expression was a little strange.

There was a small bluestone bridge across the bamboo forest in the outer courtyard. The old lady was wearing a light blue gown and her hair was tightly tied up with a shiny oily bun. She glanced at Xie Xian who was standing on the other side of the bridge.

The old lady sat on the ground with her legs curled up and moved with difficulty, but she seemed afraid of getting her clothes dirty so she only dared to rub against the red and yellow fallen leaves.

Xie Xian raised her eyebrows and looked back across the bamboo forest. Today the place was quite quiet. In the past, this was where servants from various courtyards came and went. But today, even though she had been standing there for almost a cup of tea, there was not a single soul around.

Seeing that Xie Xian had no intention of coming forward, the greasy-haired old lady glanced over there several times and became a little restless.

She turned around and pretended to have just noticed Xie Xian and shouted, "Girl, come and help me."

Xie Xian grinned and stood still. She was waiting, not knowing what the next big drama would be. She had seen the theme of helping the elderly many times in her past life.

But she didn't expect that she would meet him when her soul traveled to ancient times. She was amazed that the life of a noble lady from an aristocratic family was so colorful.

I was planning to go to the library today, but it looks like I can’t go.

The old lady seemed to have been sitting on the ground for a long time, her sad face a little distorted: "Girl, why don't you come over and help me." She pretended not to know me.

Xie Xian took a few steps back when she heard this. In an era without surveillance, if you don't have enough money, you need to be cautious when helping the elderly.

Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, Xie Xian secretly wondered if it would be a bad idea if she just left like this. After a while, a noise was heard from the bamboo forest, and two servants came forward to help the old lady up.

Although the servants tried their best to cover it up, Xie Xian still saw the surprise on their faces. It turned out that what she thought was right. This was a trap for her.

Ignoring the increasingly unpleasant words behind her, Xie Xian pouted and turned away.

"Hey, why did you leave?" Liu Yunren became angrier and angrier the more he thought about it. His plan today had failed, and he had suffered a lot. The most important thing was that he got nothing.

She stared at Xie Xian's back with her triangular eyes, hating him secretly. But she didn't know that the two rough maids behind her exchanged glances, hiding their expressions of watching a good show, and casually echoed a few words before saying nothing more. They all said that the second wife was hard-hearted, and today I finally saw it.

However, they only received a small reward from Old Lady Liu, and there was no need for them to offend the group of timid people in the second house for such a large sum of money.

They were not originally prepared to take on this matter, but someone from higher up took this opportunity to test the waters. Otherwise, Old Lady Liu would not be able to accomplish this big task on her own.

Xie Xian didn't take it seriously. She looked at the childish tricks. Who was she looking down on? Or maybe the old lady was just teasing her, and she was so excited for a long time.

She went back to the inkstone pool and walked around it twice, but felt that there was not much fun, so she went to the new orphanage.

Several little kids were playing around in the yard in their new clothes. Older kids were picking up pebbles from the river and placing them in order under the big tree in the courtyard.

A rather childish voice could be heard from afar: "What are you picking up these broken stones for?" The voice's ending trembled a little, as if the person was not used to saying such overbearing words.

Xie Xian slowed down her pace and before she could turn around the screen wall, she heard Yudan's voice saying, "We are working with the lady. If you want to play, go away. We still have to take turns to eat."

His face was sunburned red, and he was afraid that it was not arranged neatly. He felt a little impatient and replied without even raising his head.

But the baby seemed a little annoyed, and said in a delicate voice: "Who do I think it is? I don't even like you unlucky guys."

Now on the construction site, the bluestone bricks have been moved away, leaving a large area of ​​land, which is filled with sand, stone and mud. The pebbles are planted one by one on the ground to form a specific shape. Looking at it suddenly, it looks like colorful flowers, very beautiful, and attracted a group of children in the morning, looking at it from afar.

When Xie Xian approached, she saw a little boy wearing tiger-head shoes and a brown jacket, standing with his hands on his hips, confronting Yudan in a rather arrogant manner.

Behind the doll followed a male servant in blue with half-closed eyes. He was not flustered when he saw Xie Xian, but slowly bowed his head and saluted.

When Yudan saw his mistress coming, he felt confident and stopped answering, just fiddling with the stone in his hand.

The little baby was getting annoyed, and when he saw Xie Xian coming over, he said something rude: "Who are you?"

Yudan shrank back behind Xie Xian, who raised her eyebrows and looked at the boy: "Who are you?"

The boy seemed to be stunned when hearing such a reply for the first time.

Xie Xian looked around and said, "Where did this shorty come from?" He ran over here, shouting and yelling.

"Yudan, you haven't finished your work yet, go quickly. Otherwise you won't have anything to eat at noon." She pointed at Yudan to go away.

Shorty Cui Can was so angry that he jumped up and down. Who was Shorty? Although he was already seven years old, he was the shortest among all the brothers.

His grandfather and brothers all loved to touch his head. The most annoying thing was that his nickname was Dun Dun, which means honest and kind according to his father's wish that he would be healthy.

Yudan was stunned, watching his mistress make the noble little kid in front of him jump with anger just with a single sentence.

Cui Can just said a few words in the tone of his cousin, but he didn't expect the counterattack to be so fierce, Cui Futou Chan.

Xie Xian ignored him and checked the construction progress by herself. Cui Can's fat face turned red with anger.

It's not that he is irrational, but he usually relies on his status to occupy a dominant position among his peers. In the Cui family, he has his father and brothers watching over him and teaching him. Since he arrived at his aunt's house, he has been treated as a guest of honor and obeyed in every way. The clansmen of the third house also know that he is a distinguished guest of the mistress's family, so they naturally dare not neglect him.

Xie Xian glanced at the brown Jin Yuan jacket he was wearing. This familiar temperament coming towards her, probably means he is the child of the third cousin.

Seeing the arrival of the lady, the craftsmen worked even harder, and the two hired maids did not dare to neglect them during these days. Although the wages paid by the second house were high, the requirements were also high.

They were wondering what was wrong with the second daughter of the house. She even ate at the orphanage and specifically wanted to eat from the same pot.

At first they wanted to be lazy, but when they saw the lady doing this for several days in a row, they knew that this matter could not be changed, and they did not dare to be negligent in private.