Autumn 2017, Jinling City

Standing at the door of the newly opened supermarket in Xinjiekou for 4 hours under the residual poison of the autumn tiger, the reward was 80 yuan.

"Xiao Han, do you have 20 yuan in change?"

Han Yi took out 20 yuan from his pocket and handed it over, exchanged it for 100 yuan in the foreman's hand, and said with a smile: "Brother Xu, then I'll go first!"

"Okay. Pay attention to the phone these two days, and I'll let you know when I'm alive. Brother Xu, who had dark skin in Han Yi's mouth, gestured over the phone and said.

Han Yi nodded, turned around and walked across the road.

......

Han Yi used to scoff at the phrase that people are poor and short-minded, just as someone said that poverty is caused by laziness, and he also disagreed with this sentence.

However, after going to college, Han Yi had a thorough understanding of the phrase "people are poor and short-minded".

Someone has made statistics on how much college students spend in a month.

Eating is the main thing, 2 to 3 pieces of a glass of milk or soy milk for breakfast, and then 3 steamed buns and the like, 2.5 pieces are about the same, breakfast is about 4-5 pieces; Chinese food and dinner, eat a little better at least 12 pieces, eat about 10 fast preference, generally 7 pieces are enough, add 5 pieces for supper.

The cost of eating a day is 5 + 7 × 2 + 5 = 24, and it costs 720 yuan a month.

Daily necessities, men's facial cleanser, shower gel, and Shufujia can also deal with it if it doesn't cost 5 yuan. For the rest of the shampoo and laundry detergent, add a piece for a month 20-50 is enough.

But girls are definitely not good, all kinds of facial cleansers, conditioners, masks, soaps, perfumes, aunt towels, etc., ranging from 150-300 a month.

There are also school supplies, internet fees, water bills, electricity bills, snacks, etc., how can it cost 100 to 300.

Add a piece of mess, and the living expenses of college students for a month are calculated: 1500 for the local tyrant type, 1200 for the well-off type, only 1000 for food and clothing, and 800 yuan for life.

And what about Han Yi? He used to live on only 300 yuan a month.

800 yuan is barely enough to make ends meet, and 300 yuan can't even fill your stomach in college, so how can you have ambitions and "small goals"?

However, due to family conditions, 300 yuan is already the limit that the old couple facing the loess with their backs to the sky can come up with.

In order to make his life go on, since the first half of his freshman year, Han Yi gave up all his rest and entertainment time and devoted himself to making money.

In the summer, he sells mats, popsicles, and sandals, and in the winter, he sells warm babies, electric hot water sticks, and hot water bags, cigarettes, beer, bread, instant noodles, spicy strips, melon seeds, TT, and aunt towels.

In order to reduce the burden of the old couple, from the first half semester of the freshman year to the senior year, Han Yi never asked the family for a penny. But the consequence of this is that he has failed 6 courses, and he doesn't want a graduation certificate now, which is probably a completion certificate.

Because of this, he began to prepare early for graduation.

The small shop in the dormitory was watched by a few well-connected buddies for him, and he made time to go out and do odd jobs.

Distributing leaflets, posting small advertisements, basic English tutoring, moving a small bench to the door of a tertiary hospital in the middle of the night to hang an expert number, etc., he will not refuse anything that can make money.

Of course, the premise is that you can't break the law.

Han Yi has long figured out one thing, what is the purpose of going to university, and what is the purpose of finding a good job. What is the purpose of getting a good job? Nonsense, of course, for money.

In addition to money, reading is also to broaden one's horizons, increase one's knowledge, and shout after you have had enough to eat: Ah, the sea, you are all water......

The latter one has nothing to do with Han Yi, he has a clear goal, he goes to college to know how to make money, and at the same time does not let himself face the loess with his back to the sky for the rest of his life like the old couple in the family.

......

Walking through the long street, passing through the underpass, and getting on the overpass, the afterglow of autumn swayed on the stainless steel fence, refracting the glow of the flowers, making Han Yi, who was sweating on his forehead, squint his eyes slightly.

A pair of fashionably dressed young men and women approached, either looking down at their mobile phones, or whispering to their boyfriends and girlfriends, occasionally glancing at the T-shirt with the words "Opening Reward" printed on Han Yi's chest, with a honeyed smile in an instant.

Han Yi didn't care, and the afterglow swept past the endless stream of cars under the bridge and the high-rise buildings standing on the horizon, and his heart was full of pride.

What are you afraid of when you send out leaflets? What's wrong with being laughed at? Wasn't Ma Yun and Ma Hua 20 years ago licking their faces and pulling investment everywhere?

You are wearing the clothes of "opening big reward" today, just to stand on the skyscraper opposite one day, point to the crowd below and say, "That's me before!"

Overcome the budding self-esteem with the Ah Q style spiritual soothing method, and stride forward with your head held high.

As soon as I got off the overpass, there was a burst of yin and yang rap under the railing in the shade.

Han Yi looked over, and there was a white and fluffy head under the railing, shaking his head with the tune.

"Pity me today I have no money, every moment is like a long time, and I have also carried Gao Xuan lightly on a fat horse, and pointed out that thousands of people drive the mountains to ......"

Now Han Yi heard it clearly, it turned out that he was singing the song "Lotus Falling".

I have been in Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, for three years, and I have seen a lot of ways to ask for food, such as kowtowing, pretending, pretending to be crazy, selling stupidity, crying miserably, etc., but it is the first time he has heard someone sing the lotus falling.

Han Yi heard his dead ghost grandfather say that because the original version of the song Lotus Fall was too low-level and vulgar, it was sorted out and adapted after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is rare to see people who can sing it now.

I was curious, so I stopped and wanted to listen to two more paragraphs.

"Today's gold is gone, who recovers, friends are separated from the group of hounds to cook... Who can be embarrassed by two in a lifetime, don't complain about grandma and don't complain about God..."

Han Yi walked over.

The singer was an old man, estimated to be sixty or seventy years old, wearing an old tunic that had been patched up, but it was not dirty and miserable like the usual food, but it was very clean.

The old man raised his head and saw that his dim eyes seemed to light up the moment he saw Han Yi, but then he lowered his eyelids and continued to shake his head and sing.

Han Yi stood in front of him and listened, and the old man sang so comfortably that he seemed to have forgotten that there was an "audience" standing in front of him.

"Is it okay to sing with Hanako?" asked the old man when he suddenly raised his eyelids.

Han Yi grinned and said happily: "It's right to sing, but you don't pronounce the words completely, and you don't have a little charm, and it sounds like a pirated disc." ”

The old man became interested, "So you can sing?"

"No, it won't. But I've heard people sing it, and it's much better than you. The person Han Yi was talking about was his grandfather, who had been babbling and singing in his ear all day long for as long as he could remember.

The old man didn't think so, looked him up and down with a smile, and then stopped talking.

Han Yi understood the "rules", touched it in his pocket, and found Grandpa Zhang Mao, and there was not a penny for the rest.

He put Grandpa Mao back in his pocket, coughed and said, "What, it's not very convenient for me today, I'll talk about it another day." ”

As if he had seen through him, the old man reached out and groped under the cushion, took out a piece of cardboard, and said happily: "You can scan the QR code." ”

"......" Han Yi was almost not angry. I've heard of receiving gifts and scanning QR codes, but I haven't seen people who scan QR codes when asking for food.

"No money. "After saying that, raise your legs and leave.

The old man said in a faint voice: "The world probably can't escape a sharp word, but what about it~~"

Han Yi, who had already walked out two meters, sighed and took out his mobile phone, opened his WeChat wallet and looked at it, there was still 214.5 left on it, turned around and walked to the old man, scanned the QR code, filled in 4.5, entered the password, and the payment was successful.

Nodding at the old man, he walked into the crowd.