I rely on infrastructure systems to build a prosperous village

"Miss, I saw Chen San enter the son-in-law's study."

At this moment, the woman in her forties who was dozing on the chaise longue opened her eyes.

"Go and call Chen San over to me."

"Yes."

After a while.

"The servant greets the young lady."

Chen San, who came hurriedly, bent down and bowed.

"Tell me, what news did you report to the study?"

Chen San lowered his head, his eyes dark and unclear. He was hesitating about how to start speaking when he was interrupted by a cold voice.

"Think it over and tell me. I don't like people lying to me. You know what happens to people who lie to me."

The woman sitting on the chair at the head of the table casually fiddled with her fingers stained red by cardamom and said.

As soon as these words came out, Chen San shuddered, and cold sweat could not help but seep out of his forehead. He hurriedly said, "Miss, my son-in-law has been asking me to find out about his junior sister Wu Mohan. I found out that she is now in Lijia Village in An County."

When the woman heard the name "Wu Mohan", a fierce look flashed across her eyes. She clenched her hands tightly, and her long nails dyed with cardamom dug into her flesh without her noticing.

"Okay, go down quickly. Do you know what to say and what not to say?" The old woman standing next to the woman shouted sternly.

"Yes, yes, I know." He said and quickly retreated.

Seeing Chen San leave, the maid beside her immediately bent down and pried open her hands. Looking at the bleeding nail marks on her palms, she said distressedly, "Miss, does it hurt? Wet nurse will apply some medicine on you."

"Nanny, why is it that after all these years, he still can't forget that bitch? What's so good about that bitch? Why didn't she burn to death in the fire back then?"

Seeing that she was about to go crazy, the old woman quickly put her arm around her shoulders and said softly, "My poor young lady."

"Nurse, go find someone..." At the end of her words, the woman made a gesture of wiping her neck.

Looking at the old woman's hurriedly leaving back, the woman's face twisted and a hint of viciousness appeared in her eyes.

"Wu Mohan, I didn't kill you back then, but this time I'm going to make sure you die without a burial place."

The next day, Lijia Village.

"Send this letter to your young master on Friday. Also take these two bags of potatoes and sweet potato seedlings. I've written down the planting instructions in the letter. Go quickly in the carriage."

"Yes, ma'am."

Friday put the letter in his arms, picked up the things on the ground, and walked towards the backyard.

"Madam, those three people have already arrived at the village entrance."

"Oh, that's pretty fast. Let's go and take a look."

As he said this, he walked towards the village entrance with his hands behind his back.

"Sister, wait for me, we want to go too." Li Hang and Li Run quickly caught up.

The entrance of Lijia Village.

The three men were dressed in rags and covered in dust. One of them, his lips chapped and his eyes tightly shut, lay motionless on the ground. The other two knelt on either side of him, silently weeping. By this time, the village entrance was already crowded with onlookers.

"Oh, what a sin! Are these three half-grown children here to escape disaster?"

"Who knows? Look at the person on the ground, he's breathing out more than breathing in."

"Someone went to call Doctor Xu and the village chief."

"Alas, if we didn't have Lan girl, our escape would probably be the same."

"Pah, pah, pah, you stinky mouth, we have Lan girl now, everything is fine."

……

"The village chief is here, and Doctor Xu is here too."

When everyone heard this, they quickly made way for him.

The village chief came over and saw a person lying on the ground, so he quickly asked Doctor Xu to go over and take a look.

After a while.

"It's nothing serious, just hungry." Doctor Xu said after taking the patient's pulse.

When the two people kneeling on the ground heard that the person lying there was not seriously injured, they wiped their tears and breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's going on with you?" the village chief looked at the two of them and asked.

"We came from Da'ao Village in Songshan County, Jinzhou. Our village has no river, and all the wells we dug are dry. My uncle took advantage of us because we have no parents and occupied the few acres of our family's thin land. Not only that, he also drove us out of the village to occupy our house. We had nowhere else to go and had never traveled far, so we just took a random route. It rained a few days ago, and we were very happy, thinking we could find a good place to live, but unexpectedly, a flash flood broke out along the way. Fortunately, we ran fast and escaped the disaster."

With red eyes, the boy told the story of what had happened one by one.

"Alas, these three poor brothers."

"Isn't it? This black-hearted uncle."

"What should we do? Poor kids! The younger one looks about 14 or 5, and the older one is probably 16 or 7. They're all half-grown children."

……

Standing at the back of the crowd, Li Lan couldn't help but twitch her lips as she heard such a sob story. Zhou Liu, standing beside her, couldn't help but frown, thinking: This kid is really good at acting and making up stories. He won't act like this and make up stories to deceive his wife again in the future, will he? No, I have to be careful of him from now on.

"So what are your plans now?" the village chief sighed.

Upon hearing this, the two lowered their heads, silently shedding tears. After a moment, one of them raised his head and said, "Grandpa Village Chief, can the village take us in? We'll do anything, as long as we have food to eat and a place to sleep."

"This……"

The village chief didn't know how to answer for a moment. It was not that he didn't want to. Nowadays, every family couldn't get enough food, so how could there be any extra food for these three children?

At this moment, Li Lan came forward, looked at the people on the ground and said, "It's not impossible to give them food and a place to sleep, but I have a condition."

"Lan girl, you can't do that."

"It's okay, Village Chief, I know what's going on."

After hearing what she said, the village chief didn't say anything else.

"The premise is that you must sell your bodies to me. When you earn enough silver, you can redeem yourself. How about that?"

The two looked at each other, then looked at the person lying on the ground, gritted their teeth, and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, on Saturday, I'll go back and draft a few sales agreements for them to put their fingerprints on."

"Yes," Zhou Liu replied with a smile. He thought smugly, "Let you show off, then sell yourself out." He wondered if the palace official would burst into laughter when he learned of this. He chuckled softly at the thought.

Everyone looked at their departing backs, but did not leave immediately. Instead, they continued to discuss the matter on the spot.

"This Lan girl is kind."

"Isn't it? You may say it's selling your body, but it can help you survive. And Lan girl isn't that mean."

"Hey, who do you think that guy is next to Lan girl?"

"I heard Zhang say the other day that two nephews from her mother's side came over. I heard they've been studying for a few years."

"Really? I wonder if you mentioned your wife. No, I have to go talk to Zhang."

……

When they returned home, Li Lan asked Li Hang and Li Run to go out and collect some dry firewood so that they could boil some water for the uncles who helped build the house.

In the main room, Li Lan and others were sitting at the dining table.

"Saturday, have you finished writing?"

"Ma'am, it's finished."

"Let's do the whole act, sign it."

The three of them looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled bitterly, picked up the charcoal pencils, signed their names, and pressed their fingerprints. They thought to themselves: Don't mess with girls anymore.

"The house is still under construction. You'll have to sleep in the main room for the next few days."

Li Lan pointed to several folded simple beds piled in the corner of the main room.

"Okay, girl."

……

At three quarters past the hour of You, many people came to the main hall of the village chief's house.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's start the meeting."

As he spoke, he took out a yellowed piece of paper folded into several layers and spread it on the table. The drawing on it looked like a map of Lijia Village, and it was a very detailed map, including the location and number of houses, as well as the nearby mountains, farmlands, roads, and even the location of the toilets were all very accurate and clear.

When everyone present saw this, they were so shocked that they were speechless.

"This, is this your drawing?" Li Guangnian, the old scholar who was invited, couldn't help but point at the drawing on the table and asked in a trembling voice.