"I'm not a beggar," the girl had protested.
"I know," Jiang Jiusheng had said, removing her guitar from her back. "I want to hire you. I am a busker. Would you like to be my assistant?"
Sounding doubtful, the girl had answered, "But I wouldn't know what to do."
"It's very easy. You just look after the guitar case and collect the money for me," Jiang Jiusheng had explained, tossing the guitar case on the ground. Taking a seat on a piece of paper on the ground, she had begun tuning her guitar. "If we make more, I can give you a bigger share."
She had agreed, at which point she had picked up the guitar case.