"Sir, do you want a newspaper?"

A half-sized man with a dirty cap and a huge cowhide satchel appeared in front of Lynch.

The boy, who looked to be only about eleven or twelve years old, looked at Lynch expectantly, and opened his satchel, revealing the newspaper inside.

These children are under the management of various "mastheads", which are not newspaper headlines, but the managers of those newsboys.

By virtue of certain connections or means or other means, they have firmly controlled the mobile newspaper market in certain areas, where only their own newsboys can sell newspapers, and no one else can enter, and the newsstand is not among them.

Every morning they would gather outside the newspaper office to load the newspapers with the heat of the machines onto the carts, pull them back to their "bases", distribute them to the half-grown children, and drive them out into the streets.

Every child will have a sales standard, a minimum limit, and if it is below this limit, they will be beaten, or starving, and only after this standard will they be able to enjoy the food, but there will be no reward.

Orphanages and some poor families have taken away the money they are paying for, and all they have to do is work as much as they can in exchange for a shelter from the wind and rain and two meals of food to live on.

Some may think that this is hell, but for those who live in an abyss of despair, these children are like being in heaven.

Lynch took out a dollar bill from his pocket and chose two newspapers, the local newspaper was a fifty-tenth copy, and the national newspaper was only a dollar a piece.

The newsboy kept thanking Lynch for his patronage, and even did not forget to take off his hat and bow, for Lynch, one dollar and two newspapers may be just an unavoidable part of life, but it is also the salvation that this child wants most every day.

The child prepares to leave, but is called back by Lynch.

"Is there anything else I can ask you to serve, sir?" asked the half-grown child.

Children like him are often more adaptable to this society than those children who have good family conditions and are still in school.

It's the worst of times, but it's also the best of times.

He asked, "Want to make money?"

The child nodded immediately, "I dream of Mr., but I don't do anything illegal." ”

Where there is light, there will be darkness, and the brighter the darkness sets off the light, then on the contrary, the light will make the darkness darker.

Some people use children to sell newspapers, but there are also people who use children to commit crimes, these are not really top secret rumors, and everyone is blinded by wealth in the process of this society is booming.

As long as you can make money, there will always be someone to do it, no matter what kind of work it is.

Lynch shook his head, "Do you have ninety-seven?"

Although the newsboy hesitated, he quickly took out ninety-seven cents from his pocket, and he had some change in his pocket, which was arranged to be placed in everyone's backpack when the masthead came out.

The money does not belong to them, and when they go back, the masthead will count it, and if someone loses the money, or if they lose it, they will be starved or beaten, which also makes the children very sensitive to money.

Looking at the ninety-seven cents out of the child's hand—all coins—Lynch pulled out another dollar, put it in the child's left hand, and took it from his other hand.

"Sir, there are still three points missing, I'll find you ...... now", the newsboy thought that Lynch had to change change, and city traffic was generally ten and twenty-five cents, one within five kilometers and the other five kilometers away.

It doesn't matter if it's a bus or a subway, they don't give change, and if you give fifty cents, they'll only give you two tickets instead of one and change.

This also makes many people more or less prepare some change on their bodies to avoid losses.

Lynch stopped the newsboy and asked repeatedly, "Do you want to make money?"

The newsboy hadn't reacted yet, and he was a little uneasy to be able to take advantage of him so openly for the first time, he hesitated for a moment before nodding and saying, "Yes, sir, I dream of it!"

The smile on Lynch's face gradually appeared as if the child had seen the sun that had just risen, not dazzling, the light was gentle, but it could tear through the darkness and light up the whole sky!

"Do you have ninety-seven points?", he asked again.

After a brief moment of stunned, shocked and overwhelmed, the newsboy hurriedly took out the ninety-seven points in his bag and held it in the palm of his hand.

His face flushed, and he could see that he was excited, nervous, apprehensive, and a little suspicious, and his clear eyes looked at Lynch, seeing what this guy was going to do.

Lynch took out another dollar, put it in the newsboy's hand, and took the ninety-seven cents in his other hand, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to make money?"

At this time, the newsboy trembled with excitement, and he nodded again and again to find all the change that could be made up of ninety-seven cents, "It's all here, sir......"

Lynch counted twelve dollars and put them in his hand, and put all the change in his pocket, "Looks like you've only got that much." ”

The newsboy was a little excited, although he had only exchanged fourteen dollars of change from Lynch, and his own income was already forty-two cents, nearly half of a dollar.

You must know that no matter how good he is doing his current job, he will not get even a penny, and the masthead will give all the remuneration to the welfare institute.

This newsboy is the child who grew up in the welfare home, and in the words of the welfare institute, they should do something for the welfare institute, after all, the welfare institute raised them so big, and they didn't ask for anything in return.

Generally speaking, as long as they are not adopted after the age of 10, the chances of being adopted later are very small, except for some girls, who are adopted for other reasons and purposes.

However, the welfare institutions do not take care of it, when the children are over 14 years old, they can refuse to be adopted, and after they are over 16 years old, they must leave here and enter the society alone.

In other words, boys over the age of 10 are basically "marginalized" in welfare institutions, and it is difficult to earn adoption subsidies and adoption donations from these children, so they must go to work.

They have to compensate for the work they have paid for the years of raising them in the welfare institutions, and it doesn't matter if it's right to do so, because no one cares about this, and everyone's eyes are only fixed on things that have something to do with their own vital interests.

How to integrate into society as soon as possible after being kicked out of the welfare home, and find a place to stay, is the biggest headache for these children at the moment.

If they can get some money before they leave, it doesn't take much, as long as they can survive for a short time, they have a chance to survive.

Lynch's act of exchanging change allowed the kid to discover a bright avenue, just like he asked earlier - do you want to make money?

And his own answer - to dream of it!

After putting the money away, the newsboy asked with some hesitation, "Sir, will you be here tomorrow?"

Lynch nodded, "I'll be here until lunch, and if I'm not there, then I'll be there the next day!", he tapped his finger on his wrist, "You still have enough time to ......"

These children, who had begun to come into contact with society, immediately understood what Lynch meant, and about ten minutes later, a group of newsboys surrounded the area, and some people kept coming.