In the early morning, the bright sunlight shines into the warehouse through the glass windows, leaving dappled light and shadow.

After sleeping for eight hours, Xu Ran woke up feeling full of energy, and there was no discomfort in his body, and his body and mind were happy and relaxed.

After changing into a set of sportswear, going out for a run and exercising for about an hour, Xu Ran took some breakfast made by his sister Zhou Ting and returned to the warehouse to prepare for work.

Bang Bang Bang!

I was about to continue my research last night, when there was a knock on the door of the warehouse.

Hiding a few conspicuous items brought back from the fragmented space, Xu Ran went to open the door of the warehouse, and saw that it was Lao Li, the online store employee who received old goods.

Lao Li's full name is Li Dezhu, 47 years old, an old bachelor with no children and no daughters, and his family lives next to the Nanhe second-hand market not far away, and he has been collecting rags and reselling old goods to make a living.

Lao Li is honest, slow thinking, not good at talking, he is still a bachelor in his forties, just because he is too easy to trust others, he has been deceived hundreds of times in his life, and some local people in the vicinity call him a fool Li with contempt.

However, although this Li Dezhu was scolded as stupid, he was a kind person.

When Xu Ran was a child, this Li Dezhu would often come to help the orphanage do things, and he did a lot of work to carry coal and carry the burden, and he didn't want the orphanage to pay him, just take care of the food.

Until now, after so many years, it has become a habit for Li Dezhu to come to the orphanage every morning to take a walk around when he has something to do and help do what he can.

Although others look down on Li Dezhu, Xu Ran has a lot of respect for this person in his heart.

He returned to his hometown and opened an online store, often going to the second-hand market to Taobao to collect some valuable old goods, and sometimes found that Lao Li was always deceived by others, so he recruited Lao Li to help him do things.

Xu Ran pays Lao Li a salary every month, and the money will help him save part of it in the bank, just send him some cash enough for daily expenses, just to prevent Lao Li from taking all the cash out and being deceived by others, but Lao Li has always believed in Xu Ran, and never suspected that Xu Ran would deduct his salary.

Of course, even if Xu Ran is tight on money, even if he works part-time to sell insurance and deliver takeaways, Lao Li's salary will be paid on time.

After Xu Ran opened the door and let Lao Li in, Lao Li's expression seemed to be a little excited, and he didn't know what he was holding in his arms, and he kicked tightly for fear of being seen by others.

Without waiting for Xu Ran to ask, Lao Li Xianbao took out the things he was kicking and said, "Xiao Ran, I found a treasure in my receipt this morning, can you take a look?"

With some confusion, he took the thing wrapped in the rotten cloth, and after Xu Ran opened it curiously, he saw that it was a porcelain bowl that was seriously damaged.

I often go to the thrift market, where there is also an antique area, and after a long time, Xu Ran has become more and more experienced in identifying antique cultural relics.

The porcelain bowl Xu Ran glanced at it a few times, and saw the vague Mongolian logo on the bottom, and he could roughly deduce that this was an old thing that had been buried in the sand for many years, and it was from the Yuan Dynasty.

It's just that this bowl is seriously damaged, there are too many cracks, and it can't be sold for a few dollars on the market, Xu Ran shook his head and said: "Lao Li, this bowl is indeed an antique, but it's not worth much if it's so broken, where did you pick it up?"

Lao Li was convinced that Xu Ran's evaluation was very authoritative, and said: "I went to Liujia Street this morning to collect old goods, and Lao Liu called me to say that he was a little tattered and asked me if I could collect it......

Hearing him say this, Xu Ran couldn't help but stroke his forehead.

Lao Liu's routine is very simple, just mix some broken porcelain fragments with more pressure scales in the old waste carton, Lao Li saw that the other party was an old acquaintance and did not check the bottom of the box and accepted it, which obviously deceived people again.

However, Xu Ran's online store sells second-hand goods, and usually the old things that Lao Li collects have to be refurbished and put on the shelves after Xu Ran's eyes, so he decides to keep them.

And things like old bottles, waste paper, scrap iron, etc., are Lao Li's own private business, and Xu Ran generally doesn't ask.

This time, Lao Li collected the pile of waste paper, even if it was doped with porcelain fragments of the scale, but it was only a loss of ten yuan.

But although the bowl is broken, after all, it is an antique, and if you are lucky, you can sell it for hundreds of yuan, and this Lao Li is also a mistake.

Xu Ran still had a lot of things to do, so he didn't delay with Lao Li, and said, "Lao Li, I'll give you a hundred yuan for this bowl, what do you think?"

Lao Li shook his head: "I don't want any money for you, anyway, I don't even want Old Man Liu, I can't sell it in the second-hand market!"

Xu Ran directly gave him a hundred: "No excuse, just take it for you, I'm planning to make some empty space in the warehouse to put other things, you don't have to go out to 'run business' for the time being!"

"Okay!"

Lao Li didn't say much, and began to work very quickly to move things and make space.

The business Xu Ran said was that he entrusted Lao Li to help him pay attention to the old goods that the seller intended to sell and had some value, or whether there was any demand, and collected the information back to him, so that he could negotiate with the seller to negotiate the acquisition and sale.

The same is true of another farmer's aunt.

With Lao Li's help, the efficiency is much faster, but in less than an hour, part of the old goods in the warehouse that occupy the space are vacated and cleaned up.

After finishing the work, Xu Ran took a bottle of water to Lao Li to let him rest for a while, and then took Lao Li's motorcycle three-wheeled motorcycle to go out to the second-hand market together.

The Nanhe second-hand market is on the outskirts, just three or four minutes by car.

There are quite a few people who visit the second-hand market every morning, and they are people from ordinary families, who come here to buy some cheap and affordable old goods.

Although Xu Ran opened an online store, his warehouse used to be used as a physical store to invite some customers in need to buy goods, and it was not necessarily limited to Internet operations.

And those customers are the customer supply and demand information that Lao Li and Aunt Zhou usually search for in the streets and alleys.

Because Xu Ran made full use of some of the professional knowledge he learned in college, the old goods provided have been renovated to a certain extent, and the price is about the same as the second-hand market.

Some netizens feel that the cost performance is very high, and they will give all 5 points for praise, and will pay attention to visit from time to time, while some people get benefits, and always have to pick all kinds of faults to give low scores to lower the reputation score of the online store, but next time they will continue to place orders to pick up cheap.

On the contrary, it is the local netizens in Xiacheng, generally after placing an order online, they will personally come to the door to inspect the goods on the spot, and after being satisfied, they will directly confirm the payment to the full praise and leave.

Xu Ran didn't plan to 'buy' in the second-hand market today, but he was more familiar with some merchants in the market, and after turning around, he bought four water storage tanks at a very low price.

Four polyethylene PE water storage tanks are the same size, in the shape of an oval capsule, with a volume of about 1.5 cubic meters, Xu Ran bought some materials according to the size, and asked the merchant to DIY on the spot A shelf that can stack four water storage tanks up, then put the empty cans and shelves on three wheels, and let Lao Li pull them back to the warehouse.

Of course, Xu Rantao came back from four water storage tanks, not just to store water, his main purpose was to target that fragmented space.

Through last night's experiment, Xu Ran had already found out part of the reason why he could only bring back small items with a total weight of ten catties from the fragmented city in space, which was the problem of water resources.

Last night's experiment, Xu Ran brought three liters of mineral water, and when he entered the space, he inexplicably lost a little, and drank a little when he searched the building halfway to rest, and when he finally came out, the bottle was completely empty, and the remaining mineral water was gone.

Especially after coming out, Xu Ran will also feel that the water in his body has decreased, but it is not as serious as the first time, and the mysterious metal block consumes less energy than the first time.

Therefore, this obviously illustrates a problem, that is, that space is extremely short of water resources, Xu Ran wants to bring items out of that space, and replacing them with water resources is the best way to save the energy of metal blocks.

After the tricycle pulled back the four large water cans and put them in the vacant space vacated by the warehouse, Xu Ran had nothing else to ask him for help, and Lao Li left.

Xu Ran returned to the office, put the few experimental items he brought back from the Fragmented City last night on the table, and continued the rest of the testing work.

Facts have proved that the experimental specimens that were brought in and brought back after only seven or eight hours were brought in, the molecular structure of the materials did not change in any way, at most the surface layer went through the process of decorroding and oxidation, but the effect was several times better than that of Xu Ran's professional refurbishment.

As for the other experiments brought back from the space, they have to use some professional testing tools.

Xu Ran is now strapped for money, and she can't even pay the rent, where can she afford professional instruments, and her cousin Zhou Ting is about to start high school, and her expenses Xu Ran has to help her implement them, and she doesn't want to make her aunt so tired.

Therefore, Xu Ran had to make a sum of money first.