Ideal

"Longrong Ward was going to be relocated."

Xu Sanniang's mouth fell open in surprise. "Where did Big Brother Tu Shan hear that?"

"Your eldest sister didn't tell you?"

"She didn't."

"Isn't the director of the City Construction Department your eldest sister's lover? This decree probably came from him." Tu Shan Jun cracked open the sunflower seeds on the table, picked out the kernels, and chewed them. They were still tasteless—not as flavorful as Spirit Wine.

"If they had the money to relocate us, they would definitely settle everyone properly."

Tu Shan Jun was not worried about such matters. Relocation was a good thing. At worst, they could renovate the courtyard.

The orphanage was under the Relief Department. No matter how run-down it was, it was still an official office of the Heavenly Mechanism Prefecture, so there would basically be no trouble—unless that young man's head got hot and he decided to move everything in Longrong Ward away and replace it with new establishments, such as inns, markets, pleasure boats...

But that was obviously impossible.

This was not work that could be finished in a moment. It would probably take at least a year and a half.

No one even knew whether the news was true or false. Perhaps tomorrow, that young man would find it troublesome and casually toss the matter to his subordinates.

Xu Sanniang had wanted to say she would visit Sister Gongsun's residence to ask about it, but after thinking it over carefully, she smothered that thought.

She truly had been avoiding Sister Gongsun somewhat. The two of them were not of the same path. It was not that Xu Sanniang looked down on women of the pleasure quarters. Rumor had it that Sister Gongsun came from a prominent branch of the Hehuan Sect, and that was