Chapter 692 - 339: Giving Birth_1
Yixiu and others approached the baby carriage. Plump little Jielun was lying there, gnawing on his fleshy little fists, his eyes big and round like glass marbles, and still black in color with deeper sockets; his skin was paler than that of Great Qian People, and his fluffy hair was tinged yellow. Hearing people approaching, he took his little fist out of his mouth and started calling out to them "ah ah," occasionally blowing a tiny bubble.
Jingjing, delighted, took Jielun’s hand and said, "Little brother is so pretty, oh so pretty, I also want Mom to have such a pretty little brother."
Mingming also liked Jielun, tugging his ears and pinching his nose. He was a bit rough, but Jielun was good-natured, waving his arms and kicking his legs.
Auntie Pan said with a bitter smile, "The child is indeed handsome, but–sigh–when he grows up... well, it’s good that his eyes are black."
People from my previous life all liked mixed-race kids; many celebrities and models took pride in having foreign lineage, and indeed, they were charming. But now, people with foreign blood were somewhat discriminated against and had more difficulty finding wives or husbands. Only someone like Pan Ying, who couldn’t get married due to her age and ugliness, would end up with a foreigner like Jack.
Yixiu laughed and said, "Auntie Pan, don’t worry, if a man truly has abilities, he will not dread finding a wife. Besides, with all the silver his father has earned for him, are you still afraid there won’t be any good girls willing to marry him?"
After hearing this, Auntie Pan laughed again. Jack owned ten percent of the shares in the Glass Factory and even received a monthly payment of two hundred taels of silver. By this calculation, he could earn a few thousand taels of silver a year, which was more than many officials or merchants could earn.
Moreover, the master had already returned Pan Ying’s servitude contract to her, and she was now a free person. Nowadays, many of the families who used to laugh at them were now envious. They said Pan Ying was a lucky star, that although she found a foreigner, he was a capable and money-earning foreigner, crucially working for the Crown Prince Mansion and Xiangen Marquis Mansion.
The Emperor had already transferred all the shares of the Glass Factory previously held by the Prince Ning Mansion to the Crown Prince Mansion. Nowadays, Xiangen Marquis Mansion owns forty percent, the Crown Prince Mansion thirty percent, Prince Shou Mansion and Jack each own ten percent, and the Fu family and Pan Yang each own five percent (Jack was omitted in earlier texts, now corrected).
After talking for a while, the sky started to sprinkle raindrops, and the group hurried home. The young mother worriedly said, "Brother Jiang might get caught in the rain on the road."