Chapter 636: A Simple Life
And then there's another big head, which is the waste collected when sweeping the garbage.
A mineral water bottle can be sold for five cents if it has a lid, an aluminum beverage can be sold for one cent, and iron cans cannot be counted by the number, but if there are more, they can be sold as scrap iron; scrap newspapers and cardboard boxes are now sold at 1.8 yuan and 2.5 yuan per kilogram respectively at the scrap collection station.
So Lao Liu carefully swept the floor, carefully rummaged through the trash can, and carried a hemp bag with him, which could fill a hemp bag at the end of the day.
In the eyes of others, people are a sack of garbage, but in the eyes of Lao Liu, it is more than a dozen yuan.
More than a dozen yuan, enough for Lao Liu Tou and his wife to spend a whole day.
Because of the expenses of this whole day, Lao Liu Tou always picked up very energetically.
The key is that picking up garbage is the same as winning the lottery, and I don't know when it will make a windfall. For example, last week, Lao Liu Tou picked up a whole bag of pearls.
This whole bag of pearls, Lao Liu Tou didn't dare to sell it as a scrap, so he quickly handed it over to the company. The company did not dare to slack off, and according to the logo on the package, it contacted a pearl processing factory.
As a result, the pearl processing factory said that these pearls were defective and were thrown away.
Now, Lao Liu is rich.
Lao Liu's wife spent 30 yuan to buy a rope and tassel from the wholesale market to string chains, and strung these broken pearls into bracelets and sweater chains, and then set up a small stall at the entrance of a nearby middle school, the bracelet was five yuan a string, and the sweater chain was ten or twenty yuan a string, and after a few days, it was actually sold for three or four hundred.
It's a windfall!
Although this kind of thing is not very common, it can be very surprising to pick up something special from time to time.
And Lao Liu Tou still had a heart, and picked a more chic pink pearl in that bag of pearls, thinking about saving some private money to make a pearl ring for his wife.
That's right, looking at his wife making bracelets and sweater chains with a smile on her face every day these days, Lao Liu Tou thought of when the two of them were young.
At that time, Lao Liu Tou, as an intellectual who went to the mountains and went to the countryside, cut the queue to the village where his wife was, and the two fell in love for a long time, and then made a private decision for life.
There was no phoenix crown and xia veil for marriage, no firecrackers and gongs, and no big banquets, but I invited a few relatives and friends to have a meal, and even the marriage certificate was pulled later.
In retrospect, I didn't even have a ring.
For decades, his wife has never asked for it, but Lao Liu Tou knows that he is a woman, and his heart to pursue romance will never get old.
Therefore, he really wants to make a ring for his wife in his lifetime.
Besides, in another month it will be the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the two, fifty years, that is called a golden wedding......
Lao Liu Tou suddenly felt that although he was old, he swept the garbage every day, and read magazines from time to time.
Listening to gossip, my thinking is still quite up to date.
Those rich people threw flowers worth hundreds of thousands into the moat, which was not romantic in Lao Liutou's eyes.
Romance is to accompany you to old age, and then both of you are still healthy. If you want to define it like a young man, then Lao Liu Tou just feels that he still owes his wife a ring.
With the hidden pearl in his pocket, Lao Liu was picking up the garbage in the flowerbed bushes with fire tongs.
This month, the price of scrap purchase has risen a few points, a few days ago, there were city leaders to visit the sanitation workers, and they got an additional 300 condolences money, which the old Liu Tou did not tell his wife, it was a private money.
Sometimes saving money for private housing is also quite happy, at least in Lao Liutou's opinion.
If it is almost five hundred, you can make a gold ring, and then inlay this pink pearl, which is properly fashionable and generous.
With this in mind, I continued to pick up the trash in the flower beds.
Now the city is everywhere to publicize, all kinds of civilization construction, what is not to throw objects from car windows, polite zebra crossings, and high-definition probes to capture, and you have to be fined if you take pictures.
The means are tough, and it seems that the effect is good, but what is the real effect, sanitation workers like Lao Liu Tou have the most right to speak.
The garbage from the flower bed of more than ten meters has been picked up, and it has filled a whole garbage bag.
Civilized and civilized, on the surface, it is Sven, but secretly? Old Liu Tou couldn't help but shake his head.
At this time, a red light flashed under Old Liu's eyes, and then disappeared into the grass.
Old Liu Tou couldn't help but wonder: Could it be some kind of electronic toy?
Old Liu Tou frowned.
A lot of low-quality electronic toys, those batteries will rot after only a few days of exposure to the air, and then flow out those alkaline liquids, which are simply deadly to the plants in the flower beds.
Lao Liu Tou has swept the ground for ten years and hates it.
And he himself had been tricked, and after picking the rotten battery directly from the flower bed, the skin on his hand was also corroded and stung for several days.
Because of this, now Lao Liu uses a clamp to pick up garbage, and his waist is not sore and does not hurt his hands.
So, at the position of the red flash just now, Lao Liu Tou stretched out the fire tongs.
"Click!
The fire tongs made a sound against the clamp, but apparently, listening to the sound, and the feeling in the hand, it was not clamping the thing.
Could it be a mistake?
"Click! Click......"
This time, Lao Liu Tou obviously felt that there was something hard that was caught by pliers, but just like that, it was a little smooth, or too small, and it jumped off after being clamped.
There was no way, Lao Liu put down the fire tongs, took out a glove from his pocket, and put it on his right hand.
With his left hand picking up the bushes, Old Liu's gloved right hand began to grope in the field. Sure enough, I quickly touched a hard thing, which seemed to be a small circle.
Pulled it out.
This is......
Obviously, this is a standard ring with a ring and a red gemstone on it.
Lao Liu Tou raised the ring in front of him, and looked at it carefully under the light, it was quite large, at least much larger than the pink pearl he had hidden.
Such a dazzling red gemstone, it should be crystal, right? The ring is silver, is it pure silver?
Lao Liu Tou recalled that when he read the magazine during the day, there was a strange crystal ring on it, which seemed to be also red, and it was so big, 925 sterling silver, it had to be thousands!
Who lost such an expensive thing?!If you lose it, you should die in a hurry, right?
When Lao Liu Tou realized this, he quickly looked around left and right.
But it's almost twelve o'clock in the evening, and there are very few cars on the road, let alone people.
Although there was a last time I picked up the pearl garbage thrown away by others and handed it in as a treasure, and then was laughed at, when Lao Liu Tou picked up this ring, he still thought of handing it over to the unit for the first time.
However, it is still a matter of time, and the regular workers are all standard 9 to 5, so they must have gone to bed by this time.