Before half past six, Li Manjun arrived at the bus stop early and bought steamed buns and soy milk for three people.
At this time, the soy milk was not packaged, and the kettle Li Manjun brought was full of soy milk.
Liu Yan and her brother arrived on time. The shuttle bus driver who was about to go to the countryside looked at the three young people in surprise, "You guys are early enough. Why are you going to the countryside?"
Liu Cheng was holding the thin peanut candy that the two siblings had cooked together last night. It was a bit heavy at nearly thirty pounds. He put the basket on the car's water tank cover and waited for the car to start. It was hot here and the hard candy would soften.
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Putting down the things, he replied with a smile: "Collect the rags."
The driver thought this was really strange, "This is the first time I've seen young people do this."
Li Manjun and Liu Yan found a seat and sat down. The poles and rope bags were tied up and placed beside the car aisle to avoid being in front of other passengers.
"When will the master leave?" Li Manjun asked, taking out the steamed buns he bought and giving them to the Liu Yan siblings.
No one went to the countryside at all in the morning. The driver left so early in order to go to the countryside and bring people to the town. He smiled and replied: "Let's go now."
The car started, went out of the town, picked up the female conductor escorting the car, who was the driver's wife, and drove all the way to the countryside.
Li Manjun and the three of them drank the soy milk separately, ate breakfast, and took a twenty-minute ride to the first village.
Only large villages are open to traffic, and the people living in these villages are relatively wealthy. Many people use toothpaste, and toothpaste costs a lot.
The three of them, Li Manjun, divided their labors and cooperated. Liu Yan and her brother were responsible for exchanging sugar for toothpaste rinds and chicken and duck feathers, while Li Manjun was responsible for weighing other scraps.
Few people went to the countryside to collect scraps. The scraps of copper and iron and used paper wine bottles accumulated by the villagers were immediately sold. Li Manjun's business was developing smoothly than expected.
The scraps were quite heavy in total. Seeing the scraps being carried easily on Liu Cheng's shoulders, Liu Yan winked at Li Manjun with satisfaction. It was a good thing that she had brought such a strong laborer with her.
The main thing is to find old items. Li Manjun always asks people when he meets them: "Uncle and aunt, do you have any old items in your home? Those that are older, forty, fifty, one hundred or two hundred years old?"
The aunts smiled and said, "That's a lot. My pots and jars have been in use since my mother-in-law's generation. They are seventy or eighty years old. Do you want them too?"
Of course, Li Manjun didn't want these old cooking utensils. He twisted a few sticks of candy and handed them to the uncles and aunts to eat sweetly.
"Uncle and aunt, you are well-informed and well-connected. If anyone wants to sell old items or has old items, please help me and pay more attention to them."
"That's easy to say." The uncles and aunts happily agreed.
They are all people from the older generation who have gone through hardships and saved their whole life. At most, they are willing to buy some snacks for their grandchildren to comfort their children. They are not willing to eat them normally, but thanks to the blessing of Li Manjun and the others, they took a few bites of sweet candies.
Liu Yan found that her little friend was much smarter than herself. These small favors cost nothing and took little effort. Why had she never thought of it?
After walking through four large villages throughout the day, the toothpaste skin was basically gone, and the chicken and duck feathers were also collected at more than 20 kilograms. Halfway through, I met a colleague who had arrived late, and I looked at Li Manjun and others.
He was so angry that he scolded them for taking away his business.
At this time, Liu Cheng stood in front of his two sisters. He was full of youthful irritability and had nowhere to vent. Coupled with his tall figure, he said in a fierce tone, "Who are you trying to bully?"
The colleague had no choice but to leave angrily, "You young people will suffer retribution sooner or later!"
Liu Cheng's eyes widened and he took two steps away, "Say it again!"
The man got excited and ran faster than a rabbit.
Liu Cheng snorted, turned back to his two sisters, and patted his chest to assure:
"I can fight five of them by myself. I'll accept them. No one has to be afraid. I'll protect both of you!"
Li Manjun and Liu Yan looked at each other and chuckled.
"Why are you laughing?" Liu Cheng felt inexplicably embarrassed.
Li Manjun gave a thumbs up to the young man and said, "You are great. With you here, your sister and I feel much more at ease."
Liu Cheng could only smile sheepishly, and Liu Yan hit him on the back of the head and called him a fool.
Twenty kilograms of scarce sugar were all replaced, and a lot of scrap metal beer bottles and paper casings were collected. Today's performance was outstanding.
When we were taking the bus back to the town, the driver and master all yelled at them to pay more for each person's fare, otherwise they wouldn't be able to haul so much junk.
Li Manjun thinks it's reasonable. You have to pay to transport a truck this year, not to mention that it takes up more than half of the roof of the car, causing other passengers who brought cargo to complain.
Li Manjun readily added one person's fare, and the driver was satisfied.
When I got off the bus, I paid two yuan for the four people's tickets. In addition to the one and a half yuan for the previous trip to the countryside, today's fare alone cost three and a half yuan.
But all three of them felt that the trip was worth it.
The things were unloaded, and there was a lot of stuff, and they were taken directly to the toll station.
The boss still remembered Li Manjun and was surprised for a while when he saw that she had brought in a lot of scraps today.
"You guys have gone to the countryside? This is a hard job. Isn't it difficult to bring back such a big bunch?" The landlady sighed as she looked through it.
Thirty-five kilograms of scrap iron, ten kilograms of scrap copper, thirty kilograms of paper shells, thirty-eight soda and wine bottles, ten kilograms of chicken feathers, and fifteen kilograms of duck feathers. The latter two items were packed full of cloth bags, which were bulging.
Li Manjun paid 82.4 yuan for the hard goods, of which her own capital was 81 yuan, and Liu Yanna borrowed 1.4 yuan.
Soft goods such as chicken and duck feathers are exchanged for sugar syrup. Two ounces of duck feathers and chicken feathers are exchanged for one ounce of sugar syrup. Both adults and children feel that they have made a profit.
The owner of the scrap station and his wife calculated the amount twice using scratch paper and found a total of 186 yuan.
Li Manjun nodded, "Yes, there are so many."
The lady boss looked at her and sighed while counting the money and handing it to her, "If you have more money next time, bring it to me."
This little girl packs the waste very well. She can pack it with just one step, which is much easier than the messy piles sent by uncles and aunts.
Li Manjun responded with a smile and walked towards the Liu Yan siblings who were standing at the entrance of the alley opposite and couldn't wait.
Liu Yan took out a handful of change and handed it to Li Manjun, "We sold toothpaste skins for thirty-eight and a half yuan this time."
"My side is 186, which adds up to 224 yuan and 50 cents. Let's remove the cost and ticket money first."
Li Manjun took out his capital of 103.5 yuan, leaving 121 yuan.
"How to separate?" Li Manjun asked the two of them, and the sister and brother said they would listen to her.
"Sister Manjun provided the capital. My sister and I are just starting out and just give us some wages." Liu Cheng said sincerely.
Liu Yan nodded in agreement.
Li Manjun thought about it and took 50% for himself, leaving 50% for each of his siblings.
She expressed her idea, and both of them expressed no objection, and each received thirty yuan and twenty-five cents, which was more than a skilled worker working on a construction site for a day.
The point is that the work is not half as heavy as on the construction site.