"Hey, okay," the young man finally reacted.

He quickly took the money from Jiang Xiaobai's hand, and took out a handful of crumpled coins from his pocket, preparing to give Jiang Xiaobai change.

"Okay, there's no need to change the remaining thirty cents. You can find two quilts and we'll go and have a chat."

Jiang Xiaobai waved his hands and said, already minding his own business and walking towards a shady place aside.

The tall young man was stunned on the spot. What does it mean that there is no need to change the remaining thirty cents?

He felt that he had heard wrongly, and really wanted to catch up and ask Jiang Xiaobai if the thirty cents were just for him.

Is this a reward for yourself? I have long heard that there was a reward for the cart puller, but I am a beer seller, do I also get a reward?

After being stunned for a moment, he quickly reacted.

"Aunt Liu, I'll lend you two cups and a stool, thank you."

The young man rushed to the small restaurant in the alley to get a quilt and a stool, then rushed out again before he finished speaking.

By the time the restaurant director heard the voice and raised his head, there was no one there anymore.

However, the owner of the restaurant didn't care too much. Although this young man was very popular, he ate at his restaurant every day.

Over time, we became familiar with each other. Besides, the stools and cups were not afraid of being lost and were not valuable.

"Come on, buddy, sit down." As soon as Jiang Xiaobai arrived, the young man came over and put the stool on the ground and said.

Jiang Xiaobai was not polite. He had been tired for a day and wanted to take a rest. He hooked his feet on the stool and reached it under his buttocks, then sat down.

"Brother, your accent sounds like you are not a native of our capital. I'll pour you a glass. You can try our Beijing's real beer and cool down by the way. It's too hot today."

The young man said while pouring beer for Jiang Xiaobai.

"Okay, try it." Jiang Xiaobai didn't ask the young man how he knew he was not a local.

Every place has its own accent, and locals can recognize it at a glance. There is nothing strange about this.

“Dude, how long have you been doing this scalping thing?”

Jiang Xiaobai took the cup and took a sip, which was a pleasure.

Of course it would be better if there is cold beer.

"What kind of cow? Scalper?" The young man looked at Jiang Xiaobai with some confusion. He didn't understand.

Looking at the confused expression of the young man, Jiang Xiaobai remembered that at this time, there was no such thing as scalper.

"You stand in line to buy beer and then sell it to others. How long have you been doing this?"

Jiang Xiaobai asked.

"Oh, I've been doing this for more than two months." The young man also sat down beside him.

"Pour yourself a glass, too," Jiang Xiaobai felt more favorable when he saw that the young man didn't pour it for him.

People who know the rules will always make people like them.

"Okay, thank you." Seeing Jiang Xiaobai say this, the young man was not polite and poured himself a glass of beer.

"Why did you think of doing this?" Jiang Xiaobai asked curiously. To be honest, he was quite interested in young people.

If scalpers were placed in later generations, it would not be surprising at all.

But now, in the late 1970s, at the beginning of reform and opening up, if you can work as a scalper, it means you really have a certain economic acumen.

"When I came back from going to the mountains and countryside, I was not assigned a job. I was just hanging around and waiting to die all day long. My family was annoyed to see it. Plus, I was already very young, so I didn't have the shame to ask for money from my family.

I also thought about opening a restaurant or something, but I didn’t have the capital, so I just did this to earn some pocket money.”

The young man smiled bitterly and said, if there was a way, who would be willing to do this, but after doing it for a while.

But he thinks it's quite interesting to do this, he earns a lot of money, and he has freedom of work.

"Are you an educated youth? Where did you join the queue and which class were you in? I am also an educated youth."

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile.

Of course, when an educated youth meets an educated youth, there is no such thing as tears in his eyes, because there are educated youth everywhere in this era.

However, having the same experience made the distance between the two of them suddenly become closer.

Jiang Xiaobai also learned the young man's name, Zhou Guomin.

"Didn't the street arrange any work for you after you returned home?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.

"The street department arranged for us to come here. With so many educated youth returning home, we went to the street department several times, but the street department just asked us to wait. But how long have we been waiting?"

Zhou Guomin shook his head and said, in fact, a large part of the reason for the liberalization of individual industrial and commercial households is that a large number of educated youth have returned to their hometowns, and the state has no way to arrange jobs for people like me.

"That's right." Jiang Xiaobai nodded. There are not that many job arrangements for an army of millions of educated youths.

"By the way, brother, what are you doing now?" Guomin looked at Jiang Xiaobai curiously and asked.

"I should be considered one of the last batch of educated youth. I just joined the team and caught up with the resumption of the college entrance examination. I didn't pass the exam last year, but I passed the exam this year. Now I'm studying at Beijing Normal University."

As Jiang Xiaobai said, Zhou Guomin showed an envious look on his face.

College students are equated with state cadres.

What's more, students from Beijing Normal University can be assigned a particularly good job unit as long as they don't offend anyone during their studies.

That's a promising future. If someone is inspired, if nothing else, he can become the director of a national ministry or commission, there will be no problem.

But he is different, he is just a homeless person.

"When we joined the queue, no one thought that the college entrance examination would be resumed. Those who had the means were looking for connections to return to the city. Those who had no means were working honestly in the countryside. They didn't even have enough to eat, so they couldn't think of studying.

There are even some people who got married and had children directly in the countryside. When they returned to the city this year, those who got married did it without telling the organization, leaving their wives and children in the village..."

When Zhou Guomin talked about it, he also looked sad.

"Yes, it is indeed not easy." Jiang Xiaobai nodded. There were many movies and TV dramas about educated youth in his previous life, but most of them showed the romantic side.

But only by being born in this era and experiencing it personally can you understand that romance is nothing.

The rat droppings and pebbles in the polenta can get stuck in your throat. Even if you don't feel full, it's still romantic.

"By the way, Brother Zhou, are you familiar with this area?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.

"It's familiar. My family is from this area. I have lived here since I was a child. I can find every alley with my eyes closed. Do you think I am familiar with it or not?"

Zhou Minguo said with a smile.

"How much money can you make in a day doing this?" Jiang Xiaobai continued to ask.

"Not necessarily. Sometimes it only costs one yuan a day. If the weather is very hot, you can earn around one yuan and a half.
Chapter completed!