When Sun Erniang rushed over, Liu Jin was startled. Zhao Erhu, who had been following Liu Jin, also quickly blocked Liu Jin's front, fearing that the person in front of him would come and harm Liu Jin.
Fortunately, Sun Erniang knelt down immediately, making Liu Jin and Zhao Erhu breathe a sigh of relief.
Hearing Sun Erniang's words, Liu Jin also quickly looked over. It was better not to look at it. When he saw it, his whole face changed drastically. Sun Erniang's infant baby was very thin and malnourished for a long time. It looked very deformed.
Big, small, skinny, and weak to even cry.
"Get up, get up~ get up quickly!"
Liu Jin helped Sun Erniang up. This Sun Erniang was also very thin, unkempt, and had no feminine charm at all. In this winter, she was a refugee, and she didn't know how this orphan and widowed mother survived.
"We are hiring a lot of people here at Xishan Coal. Can you cook, sew, wash clothes, etc.?"
"Yes, yes, I can cook, sew and wash clothes. I can do anything. I can endure hardships. As long as you give me food to eat and support our mother and son, I don't need any money. I can sell myself as a slave."
When Sun Erniang heard this, she nodded as if grasping a life-saving straw.
"Register her and arrange for her to cook for everyone."
Liu Jin nodded, and then gave instructions to the guys next to him. After thinking about it, he pulled another guy over and said, "Go to the city and hire a wet nurse for this child. This child is malnourished. It won't work if this continues."
"Yes~"
When the clerk heard this, he quickly walked into the city.
"Master, there is no need to hire a wet nurse. No, as long as I have enough food, I will have milk."
When Sun Erniang heard this, she quickly shook her head and said.
"It doesn't matter. When you have milk, you can feed it yourself. Since I encountered this child, I naturally have no reason to ignore it."
Liu Jin smiled and said, then looked at the infant child and asked, "Have you chosen a name?"
"Not yet. Before the child was born, his father died and there was no time to name him."
Sun Erniang shook her head and said. When she said this, tears welled up in her eyes again. In ancient times, women's lives were miserable, and women who lost their husbands and had children suffered even more.
"Then this little guy and I are really destined. My father passed away when I was very young, and it was my mother who raised me up alone."
"In that case, do you mind if I give him a name?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help but stretched out his fingers to tease the little guy. The little guy was probably too hungry and didn't have the strength to respond to Liu Jin.
"No, no, it's my son's honor that the young master can name him. My husband's surname is Wen. I also ask the young master to give him a name."
Hearing Liu Jin's words, Sun Erniang was slightly startled, and looked at Liu Jin carefully. It was a bit unbelievable that the young master in front of her also lost his father when he was young, and he grew up relying on his mother alone.
"The surname is Wen, how about we call it Wen?"
Liu Jin pondered for a moment, thought for a while and said.
"Article? Thank you, Master, for the name."
When Sun Erniang heard this, she quickly hugged the little guy and bowed to Liu Jin together.
"You're welcome. It's fate that we met."
Liu Jin shook his head, and couldn't help but cursed the so-called Hongzhi ZTE again. In an era when even a baby would starve to death, it was not a bullshit ZTE. It was just a boast made by literati.
Emperor Hongzhi was actually kinder to the literati, so he was praised in various ways. Just like Song Renzong, some emperors who were not good to the literati, many of whom were great talents and strategists, were criticized for being useless.
"Erhu, take out the chicken leg you hid."
Liu Jin shook his head slightly, then kicked Zhao Erhu and said.
"How did you know I hid a chicken drumstick?"
Zhao Erhu was stunned for a moment, then reluctantly took out the chicken drumstick hidden in his arms. He really couldn't figure out how Liu Jin knew that he had hidden a drumstick.
"You're only good at this, why don't you hide something when you eat?"
Liu Jin took the chicken leg, turned to hand it to Sun Erniang and said, "Sun Erniang, let's eat something first. I didn't bring anything else, just a chicken leg."
"Thank you~Thank you, sir."
When Sun Erniang saw the chicken legs, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva. When she saw Liu Jin offering it to her, she quickly accepted it. Then, without caring about the image, she gently tore off some shredded meat and stuffed it into Wen Zhang's mouth.
The little guy was really hungry. The shredded meat went into his mouth. He didn't have teeth yet, so he swallowed hard. As for Sun Erniang, she tore off a piece of meat and kept it. She also finished a chicken drumstick in a few mouthfuls.
Even the bones were chewed up and swallowed together. She was really hungry and had not eaten meat for a long, long time.
Many refugees on the side saw Sun Erniang eating a chicken drumstick. Their eyes shone brightly, their saliva flowed out, and their stomachs couldn't help but growl.
"Chen Chenchen, a native of Dagukou, Tianjin, knows how to make clay bricks~"
"Lu Youliang, a native of Dagukou, Tianjin, knows how to weave rope~"
Here, the guys Liu Jin brought over were very efficient in their work. They kept chanting names one by one and handing out identification badges one by one.
"Everyone who has got the identity card, come here. Let's go to Xishan first, eat first, and start working after eating."
Dozens of people have already obtained their identity cards, and some of Liu Jin's men began to lead these dozens of people to Xishan, passing them in batches, one batch at a time, so that there would be no confusion.
Arrange things in a more orderly manner.
"Here, the nanny is here~"
Liu Jin didn't wait too long. The guy who went to hire a nanny also came back panting with a woman.
The woman was cleanly dressed and had a rosy complexion. She knew that her life was good at first glance. After she came over, she looked at Liu Jin carefully. Seeing that Liu Jin was well-dressed, she nodded slightly and asked, "Master, where is the child?"
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"The baby is here, feed him quickly."
Liu Jin pointed at the little guy in Sun Erniang's arms and said.
"Isn't this, young master, your own child?"
When the woman saw the child in Sun Erniang's arms, her expression changed and she didn't even reach out.
"I'm not even married yet, so where can I have children?"
Liu Jin looked at the woman's appearance, his mind changed, and he understood instantly that there are people in the capital who work as wet nurses, and they are all wet nurses for the children of people with status and status. Generally, except for those with good pens, Liu Jin looked at the woman's appearance.
In addition to earning money, you can often make good friends with powerful people.
If you are lucky enough to be able to be a nanny for the princes and grandsons in the palace, that would be even more amazing. You must know that the great-grandmother of Cao Xueqin, the author of The Red Chamber, was a nanny for the emperor.
The place is full of glory and wealth.
Now if she is asked to be a wet nurse for the children of refugees, she will naturally be unwilling to do so and not happy to do so.
"This is a reward for you. I just want you to feed the child some milk."
Liu Jin took out a piece of silver from his arms and handed it to the woman with a total of 10 taels.
"Thank you, Young Master, I will feed it right now."
When the woman received the silver reward, her eyes immediately shone. She took the silver, weighed it slightly, and her smile became even brighter. Then she took the child in Sun Erniang's arms, found a place under a tree, and started breastfeeding with everyone on her back.
"Young Master is so kind and virtuous that I can only repay you by being a cow or a horse~"
When Sun Erniang saw Liu Jin drinking milk for her child, which cost ten taels of silver, she was moved to tears and immediately knelt down in front of Liu Jin.
You must know that in this era, you can marry a mother-in-law with 3 taels of silver. If you go to Yahang, there are many people who sell their sons and daughters. A few taels of silver is enough. Even a good-looking little girl cannot spend 10 taels.
Two silver coins.
"Get up, get up, didn't I say that this child is destined to me."
Liu Jin was not used to the ancient people's bad habit of kneeling at every turn, so he quickly helped Sun Erniang up.
