Liu Yan shouted with joy and hurried towards her with a load full of scraps.
"When did you come back? Why didn't you tell us in advance!" Liu Yan saw Li Manjun's brand new clothes and praised them for how beautiful they were.
Liu Cheng was half a step behind her, carrying a bundle of discarded steel bars on his back, which looked heavy.
Neither of them came from the direction of the school, but from outside the town.
Li Manjun hurriedly stepped forward to help pick them up. He smiled at the two of them and said, "When the matter is done, I will be back."
"You guys went to the village today?"
Liu Yan and her brother looked at each other and realized that the thing was done and the money would come from the sale.
Suppressing the excitement in her heart, Liu Yan explained: "No, there is a factory in the suburbs. The original soy sauce factory building is going to be demolished. When Liu Cheng and I heard the news, we rushed there and collected a batch of scrap steel.
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"I don't have enough money. I only paid a small deposit and I'm just waiting for you to get the money back."
Liu Cheng also said excitedly: "Sister Manjun, my sister and I have discussed these items in the factory. Many bottles still look like brand new after cleaning them up. If we clean them up ourselves, can we sell them directly to others?"
A soy sauce factory?”
If possible, it would be 10 cents or 5 cents more than recycling it as scrap.
Li Manjun didn't expect that he had only been away for four days, and the two of them had bought another abandoned factory building. Even if they couldn't sell it secondhand, they could still make a small profit by selling the scraps.
"Is it a lot?" Li Manjun asked.
Liu Cheng didn't know, but Liu Yan said, "I've seen their old warehouse, and there must be 1,800 of them."
"It's a good soy sauce factory, but I don't know how to quit it." Liu Yan felt it was a pity in her heart.
The town used to be so lively, with soy sauce factories, slaughterhouses, and textile factories. When work came off every day, the streets were filled with the laughter of workers.
Li Manjun handed the bag to Liu Yan and asked her to hold it carefully. After exchanging the burdens with her, the three of them went to the waste station and sold all the waste collected today.
The heavy steel was exchanged for more than fifty yuan, and the waste paper and wine bottles were exchanged for twenty-five yuan, adding up to seventy-five yuan.
Liu Yan said that in the past four days, the school garbage dump could pick up about ten yuan of waste every day. Occasionally, the school would throw away a large object, which could cost as much as twenty yuan.
The output is stable, but not much.
That's why they set their sights on nearby factories that were bankrupt and ready for demolition and construction.
Liu Cheng was a little timid at first, but Liu Yan didn't care. Although she didn't know what it meant to be a white wolf with empty gloves, she decided to rush after seeing Li Manjun's ability to do whatever he asked.
Anyway, if I can't get the money by then, I'll just lose the fifty yuan deposit at most.
Just 50 yuan to pay back? Liu Cheng felt that his sister was crazy.
But it turns out that today, not only did it get back the fifty yuan deposit, but it also made twenty-five yuan in vain.
The soy sauce factory will call for excavators to bulldoze them the day after tomorrow. They don't want to take those bottles in the warehouse. If Liu Yan and her brother hadn't left quickly, they would have packed them up and thrown them all into the waste station for recycling.
As for the steel, iron and other metals that were dismantled from the house, no one wanted to take the trouble to clean them up, so they just let the excavator dig them up with a shovel.
In other words, the Liu Yan siblings offered to pay for these scraps, and the soy sauce factory felt that they had gained money for nothing.
"What price did you quote?" Li Manjun asked on the way to the department store.
Liu Yan: "The steel scrap is 200 yuan, give us a day to clean it up, and sell us eight of the bottles in the warehouse."
Li Manjun calculated in a low voice: "The day is a bit tight, we need help."
There are some fragments about the soy sauce factory in the original memory. The factory building has three rows and is two to three hundred square meters.
With just the three of them pulling it out, it would be a bit difficult to get back the money. The steel nails wrapped in cement bricks took some effort to knock out.
"How about I ask Hao Jian and the others to come again?" Liu Cheng asked tentatively.
Liu Yan agreed, and Li Manjun thought for a while and agreed to use acquaintances to save trouble.
Ever since, the three of them had finalized a plan of action on the road to demolishing the factory together the day after tomorrow.
Liu Cheng called someone, Liu Yan went to his father's friend to borrow a carriage, and Li Manjun looked for tools.
"What are we doing here?" Liu Yan looked at the department store that was about to close in front of her in confusion, wondering what Li Manjun was doing here.
Are you planning to buy sugar and go to the countryside to collect chicken and duck feathers and toothpaste skins?
Now that there is an abandoned factory, Liu Yan feels that the toothpaste skin no longer smells good.
Li Manjun told her about her plans to build a bathroom at home. The two siblings were stunned and followed her into the department store.
When I passed my parents' stall, I was stopped and asked what they were doing there.
The two siblings didn't say anything. They just wanted to see how Li Manjun bought a gas water heater. This thing costs only two thousand yuan.
The Liu family's parents didn't ask, they were speechless and suffocated. The two children are addicted to picking up garbage these days, and they have made hundreds of dollars. They don't know how high the sky is!
The couple looked at each other and decided to go home and give the siblings a taste of fried bamboo shoots and meat.
There are indeed people selling gas water heaters in town, but the sales volume is not very good, and they can't wait for one customer for a month.
Most of them came to ask, and when they heard the price, they waved their hands and said, "Then let's just make do with it. At worst, we can burn more charcoal in the house in the winter, and it will be better than yours!"
Nearly two thousand yuan of charcoal, even if you burn a lot of it every day, it will last for several years. Is it not more cost-effective than this water heater?
Besides, gas is also an expense, it’s just for taking a shower, so why bother.
After asking about the price, Liu Yan also said to Li Manjun: "Why bother? Just boil a kettle of hot water and wipe it in the house."
Liu Cheng was a boy and he had been to every place with water outside the town. He suggested that if Li Manjun wanted to take a quick bath, he should go into the river. That would be refreshing.
"What about winter?" Li Manjun asked with a smile. At the same time, he told the owner of the water heater his home address and asked him to install it now, and he paid half of the money.
The boss was happy, and Liu Cheng and Liu Yan felt their hearts pounding.
Li Manjun thought to himself, when you two get your share later, you won't think so anymore.
After leaving the department store, the afterglow of the setting sun fell on the quiet and peaceful town, as beautiful as a rural oil painting in the hands of an artist.
The three of them came to the empty space behind the town primary school. Liu Yan and her brother looked at Li Manjun expectantly, vaguely guessing what she was going to do.
They just saw her take out the cash for the gas water heater from her purse.
Sure enough, when Li Manjun took out a newspaper "brick", both siblings' breaths were suffocated.
"So many!" Liu Yan exclaimed, then realized what she was doing and covered her mouth to prevent others from hearing her.
Li Manjun asked the two of them to count. Their hands holding the money were trembling. This was the first time they had seen so much money.
A total of fourteen thousand and twenty-five yuan, divided half between two pairs of siblings, seven thousand and twelve and a half cents per person.
