At this time, there was a voice from the iron gate, and the old doorman and Father Li shouted softly outside, saying that you have not finished digging, and you have locked any door, it has been several hours, don't play for too long.

Li Zhengyi ran over to open the door sweating profusely, gave cigarettes to the three people who came in, and said, "It's almost over, you wait a little longer." ”

The old doorman squeezed into the iron gate, circled around the car, and the three people lying on the ground stood up in a panic, for fear that the old doorman would ignore the old arms and legs, jump up and cut the iron powder to check.

Fortunately, the old doorman just looked at it routinely, which was a habit he had developed for decades. After turning around, I remembered that there is nothing in the factory area now, what else can people do?

The old doorman went outside with Father Li for a while, and when he left, he told the four people who worked harder, don't be lazy, after a while, it will be difficult to walk after dawn, and if something goes wrong, it will be very troublesome.

The four of them did not dare to slack off, and began to divide and cooperate again with their hands and feet, so they were busy for another two hours, and the time was five or six o'clock in the morning before the iron powder of the two iron washing pools was cleaned up.

When they went out, they settled the account first, and the old doorman and Li's father both estimated 20 tons of iron powder on the truck, and the two sides had no objection, so they quickly settled the bill. Before leaving, Li Zheng clearly saw that the old doorman was relieved with a smile, and he also breathed a sigh of relief with a smile in his heart.

Father Li had been looking at the four half-grown sons with strange faces in the car in confusion, wondering what was wrong. When he arrived at the acquisition station, Li Zhengyi discussed with the driver whether he could take a half-day break and then help pull the scrap recycling company.

The driver knew Scarface, although he was reluctant, but because of Scarface's friendship, he didn't say it. I only slandered Li Zhengyi in my heart why he didn't go directly to the scrap company, and he had to run back, and he had to delay for half a day. Li Zhengyi felt that it was inappropriate to delay people for half a day, so he added 200 yuan to the driver's salary, and the driver immediately happily ran to the side house prepared for him by Li's father to sleep.

Father Li went downstairs and saw that the four of them were still smoking and were not sleepy, so he asked, "Why don't you go to sleep?"

Li Zhengyi pulled Father Li to the side of the truck very strangely, and briefly finished talking about the copper block, so shocked that Father Li opened his mouth for a long time and didn't close it. Father Li, who has been picking up scrap for half his life, of course knows the value of copper and sells it well, even more than the current price of scrap copper, which can be sold as new copper.

Li's father was timid and said to Li Zhengyi: "Is it okay to do this?"

Li Zhengyi explained: "There must be no problem, the old doorman is old and very shrewd. He knew that it was safe, so he dared to take advantage of it. ”

Father Li glared and said, "I mean, isn't it appropriate for us to do this?"

Li Zhengyi was very helpless about his father's old-fashioned thinking, and said: "What kind of thinking are you, it's popular to pick up leaks now." Antique dealers all over the world go to the countryside to buy antiques at low prices, can you say that the businessmen who pick up the leaks are not kind? The businessmen are deliberately picking up the leaks, and we are unintentionally picking up the leaks, and I wish I would like to come a few more times. ”

Li's father always felt that what Li Zhengyi said was crooked, and he couldn't find a word to refute it, so he had to shut up, and then watched the four of them start to move the copper pieces they had worked so hard to put in the car into the house. Hearing that and seeing it with his own eyes are completely different things, Father Li has never taken his eyes off the first long copper block, muttering in his heart how much a piece can be sold for. Li's father didn't figure out how much this batch of copper should be worth for a long time, and when he finished moving, he covered the copper and ran upstairs to report the good news to Li's mother.

By the time the copper block was moved, it was already dawn. Li Zhengyi and the four of them were tired and hungry, so they hurriedly ran to the nearest breakfast shop in the shantytown, ate wildly to fill their stomachs, and then ran back to sleep in the dark.

After sleeping until the afternoon when the sun was in the west, Li Yong yelled to go back, and his grandmother was not at ease at home alone. Lin Wenxing actually didn't want to go back, thinking that the waste collection business was good, but he couldn't stand up to his father's prestige, so he could only rush back with Li Yong.

When he left, Li Zhengyi stuffed them with 500 yuan, and at first the two of them didn't want it, saying that the brothers were just doing a favor to each other, how could they ask for money. It wasn't until Li Zhengyi said that with copper blocks, he could make a lot of money by picking up leaks, and the two of them reluctantly accepted it. As for Cui Zi, he won't give it for the time being, and it would be better to wait until the end of the month to let Li's mother send it to him.

The iron powder was directly sold by the recycling company, because it was a door-to-door delivery, and the recycling company raised the price a little, at 620 yuan a ton. After the iron powder is weighed, there are 16.8 tons, deducting the freight and labor costs, not counting the copper block, and the net profit is more than 2,000 yuan.

A total of 60 copper blocks were dug out of the two iron pools, and the net weight was equal. Li Zhengyi and Cui Xingfa deliberately dragged out one and weighed it on their own scale, and found that the net weight of one was 85 kilograms. In this way, the total weight of this batch of leaked long copper nuggets is 5.1 tons, which is more than 91,000 yuan according to the current copper price of 18,000 yuan per ton.

When Li's father and mother learned the calculation results, they immediately smiled from ear to ear. Li Zhengyi picked up the waste this time, and he got back almost a year's scrap profits from the acquisition station at one time.

Mother Li said: "At the end of the month, I came to pull the goods and let them pull them back, and the price should be higher than theirs." ”

Li Zhengyi hurriedly dispelled Li's mother's thoughts: "Don't sell it yet, the price of copper will only get higher and higher, it will not fall, and the longer you hoard it, the higher the price." ”

Mother Li asked, "How do you know that the price of copper will get higher and higher?"

It's hard to answer this question, and I won't tell my parents that if I come back from rebirth in the future, I know that the price of copper will rise to a maximum of 80,000 yuan before it will slowly fall back. Li Zhengyi didn't dare to say it explicitly, so he had to make an excuse, saying that when he was running the industrial zone outside, he knew a lot of scrap peers with good vision, and they all said that the price of copper would rise, and the increase was not low.

Li's father and mother were skeptical, but they still followed Li Zhengyi's thoughts. Poor Li Zhengyi knows nothing about the memories of his previous life, and the copper price he knows is up to more than 80,000 tons, which is not wrong, but it must be hoarded until 2007. And from the second half of 2001 to the second half of 2003, the price of copper not only did not rise, but also fell slightly, the lowest was only about 14,000 tons. Copper prices really began to rise rapidly from the second half of 2003 to 2007, which was the craziest period for copper prices.

This night, Li Zhengyi pulled out the idea of opening an Internet café in his heart and thought about it. Counting his family's current assets, it is roughly estimated that all assets are about 100,000 yuan, and in a few days, the profits of the acquisition station will accumulate for a few more months, and 100,000 yuan of funds can be pulled.

The problem now is that if you go to your favorite Qingyun School District to open an Internet café, the funds of 100,000 yuan seem to be a bit small. Now renting a space with about 50 computers requires at least 100 square meters, and the rent of a good lot in the school district is less than 30,000 yuan a year, paid quarterly, and the expenditure is about 15,000. A computer is about 4,000 yuan, 10 is 40,000, 50 is 200,000, and other operating costs such as network fees, electricity costs, and labor costs add up, and the initial capital is at least 250,000.

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked. Li Zhengyi has not seriously budgeted for the funds of Internet cafes, and now it is roughly estimated that a small Internet café will have a minimum start-up capital of 250,000 yuan. Now it's less than 100,000 yuan, or is it only this money that has been picked up and leaked, and it will take until the Year of the Monkey to accumulate slowly?

Why don't you rent a smaller venue, buy fewer computers, and come to a pocket-sized Internet café? Li Zheng shrank in the quilt and thought about it for a while.