Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 74, have a fate with me

When Sun Erniang rushed over, Liu Jin was taken aback. Zhao Erhu, who had been by Liu Jin's side all the time, also hurriedly stood in front of Liu Jin, for fear that the person in front of him would be harmful to Liu Jin.

Fortunately, Erniang Sun knelt down immediately, which made Liu Jin and Zhao Erhu heave a sigh of relief.

Hearing what Sun Erniang said, Liu Jin also hurriedly looked over. It was okay if he didn't look at it. His face changed drastically when he saw Erniang Sun's baby in her infancy. Big, small, skinny, not even able to cry.

"Get up, get up ~ get up!"

Liu Jin helped Erniang Sun. This Erniang Sun was also very thin and unkempt, with no feminine charm at all. In this winter, she was a refugee, and she didn't know how this orphan and widow survived.

"Our Xishan Coal Industry recruits a lot of people. Can you cook, sew and wash clothes?"

"Yes~ yes, I can cook, I can also sew and wash clothes, I can do everything, I can endure hardships, as long as you give me a stutter, and support us mother and child, I don't need money, and I can sell myself as a slave."

When Sun Erniang heard it, she nodded her head repeatedly as if she had grasped at straws.

"Register her and arrange for her to cook for everyone."

Liu Jin nodded, and then gave instructions to the clerk beside him. After thinking about it, he pulled another clerk over and said, "Go to the city and hire a nanny for this child. This child is malnourished. If this continues, it will not work."

"Yes~"

When the man heard this, he hurried to the city.

"Young master, there is no need to hire a wet nurse, no need, as long as I have enough to eat, I will have milk."

When Erniang Sun heard this, she quickly shook her head and said.

"It's okay, you can feed it yourself when you have milk. Since I met 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 bitter, and women who lost their husbands and had children suffered even more.

"Then I really have a relationship with this little guy. My father passed away when I was very young, and it was my mother who brought me up alone."

"In that case, don't you mind if I give him a name?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help stretching out his fingers to tease the little guy. The little guy was probably really hungry and didn't even have the energy to respond to Liu Jin.

"No, no, it's my son's honor to be able to give him a name. My husband's surname is Wen, so please give me a name."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Erniang Sun was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Liu Jin carefully, a little unbelievable. The son in front of him also lost his father since he was a child, and was raised by his mother alone.

"The surname is Wen, how about the article?"

Liu Jin pondered for a while, thought for a while and said.

"Article? Thank you, my lord, for giving me the name."

Upon hearing this, Erniang Sun 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 cursing again at this so-called Hongzhi Zhongxing in his heart. In the era when even a baby would starve to death, what kind of bullshit Zhongxing was it, but it was all boasted by literati.

This Emperor Hongzhi was actually better for literati, so he was boasted in various ways, just like Song Renzong, some emperors who were not good for literati, many of them were talented and general, but they were sprayed as useless.

"Erhu, take out that chicken leg you hid."

Liu Jin shook his head slightly, then kicked Zhao Erhu and said.

"How did you know I hid a drumstick?"

Zhao Erhu was slightly taken aback, and then reluctantly took out the chicken leg hidden in his arms. He really couldn't figure out how Liu Jin knew he had hidden a chicken leg.

"That's all you have to offer, why don't you hide something when you eat that time?"

Liu Jin took the chicken leg, turned around and handed it to Erniang Sun and said, "Erniang Sun, let's eat something first, I don't have anything else, just a chicken leg."

"Thank you ~ thank you son."

Sun Erniang looked at the chicken legs and couldn't help swallowing. When Liu Jin gave it to her to eat, she quickly accepted it. Then, regardless of her image, she gently tore off a little shredded meat and stuffed it into Wen Wen's mouth.

The little guy was really hungry, shredded meat got into his mouth, and he had no teeth yet, so he swallowed hard. As for Sun Erniang, she tore off a piece of meat and kept it, and she ate a chicken leg in two or three mouthfuls. She even chewed all the bones and swallowed them together. She was so hungry that she hadn't eaten meat for a long, long time.

Seeing Sun Erniang eating a chicken leg, many refugees on the side saw their eyes light up, their saliva flowed out, and their stomachs couldn't help but growl.

"Chen Chenchen, a native of Dagukou, Tianjin, knows how to make bricks~"

"Lu Youliang, a native of Dagukou, Tianjin, knows how to weave rope~"

Here, the buddies brought by Liu Jin are very efficient in handling affairs, constantly singing names one by one, and handing out identity cards one by one.

"Everyone who gets the ID card comes 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 started to take these dozens of people to the Xishan side first, in batches, one batch after another, so that there will be no confusion. Arranging things to come is also more orderly.

"Here we come, nanny is here~"

Liu Jin didn't wait too long, and the man who went to hire the nanny came back with a woman panting.

The woman was cleanly dressed and had a ruddy complexion. She could tell that life was going well. After she came over, she looked at Liu Jin carefully, and seeing that Liu Jin was well dressed, she also nodded slightly and asked, "Master, where is the child? "

"The child is here, you should quickly feed him."

Liu Jin pointed to the little guy in Sun Erniang's arms and said.

"This, son, isn't it your own child?"

When the woman saw the child in Sun Erniang's arms, her face also changed, and she didn't reach out.

"I'm not married yet, where did the child come from?"

Liu Jin looked at the woman's appearance, changed his mind, and immediately understood that there are people in the capital who are going to be nurses, and they are all nurses for the children of people with status and status. In addition to money income, you can often make friends with powerful people.

If you are lucky enough to be a nanny for the princes and grandchildren in the palace, that would be even more amazing. You must know that the great-grandmother Sun of Cao Xueqin, the author of the Red Chamber, was a nanny for the emperor. The field is prosperous and rich.

Now that she is asked to be a nurse for the children of refugees, she is naturally unwilling to do so, and she is not willing to do so.

"This is a reward for you, I just want you to feed this child some milk."

Liu Jin took out an ingot of silver from his bosom, and handed it to the woman with a total of 10 taels.

"Thank you, Young Master, I will feed it right away."

When the woman received the reward, her eyes lit up immediately, she took the money, weighed it slightly, and her smile became even wider, then she took the child in Sun Erniang's arms, found a tree under her back, and started breastfeeding with everyone behind her back.

"The son is so kind and virtuous, the only way to repay him is to be a cow or a horse~"

Seeing that Liu Jin drank milk for her child, Sun Erniang was moved to tears for 10 taels of silver, and immediately knelt down in front of Liu Jin.

You must know that in this era, you can marry a mother-in-law for 3 taels of silver. When you go to a dental shop, there are many who sell children and women, and a few taels of silver is enough. Two denarii.

"Get up, get up, I told you, this child is destined for me."

Liu Jin was not used to the ancients' bad habit of kneeling down at every turn, so he quickly helped Erniang Sun up.

　Thanks to the book friends for pointing out the mistakes about work-for-relief. It is indeed as you said. In ancient times, when manpower output was limited, work-for-relief was indeed not costly, because doing things required a lot of energy. , this also means that more food is needed, and food was the most precious in ancient times, especially in times of famine, thank you for your opinion!

　　
　
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