Chapter 9: Picking up the rags

Ask for a collection for a collection, ask for a collection, say important things three times, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

After breakfast, Li's father said to Li Shiyu: "I went out with your mother, and I won't come back to eat at noon, there is leftover rice in the pot, so you can heat it up and eat it yourself, and come back in the evening to make it." ”

Li Shiyu would stay at home there, so he said: "I'll go with you, you are not very familiar with the tricycle now, I can help ride it when there are many people on the road." ”

Father Li also made sense when he heard it, anyway, he has a car now, and he can't be tired: "That's okay, you can go along, but don't run around, there are traffickers here, be careful of being caught." ”

Li Shiyu hurriedly agreed.

Mother Li put all the leftovers into the lunch box, put it in the car, and the three of them set off.

In the 90s, with the great development of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the locals sold their fields and land, basically all of them got rich, and people got rich so much that they would not cherish many things, as long as they didn't want them, they would throw them away.

So this picking up waste is really picking up, turning over the garbage heap is a common thing, lucky to be able to come across house decoration, factory equipment to install some packaging paper shells or something, the rest are in the household garbage turned over Coke bottles, cans, waste electrical appliances and so on.

People as old as their parents have gone to the garbage heap, Li Shiyu has no reason not to go, and he will follow it, it is sour, it can only mean that it cannot be spoken.

However, there are a lot of recyclable things in this era, basically except for household garbage, everything else is in the range of recyclable, such as glass bottles, toothpaste skin, plastic, and even wood will be pulled back by parents to cook on the fire.

"Having a car is convenient, not tired at all, and the speed is much faster, I used to ask you to buy it but refused to 。。。。。。。。 "It's only been half a day today, and the number is about the same as a normal day.

Mother Li is very happy, when she expresses her happiness, she will also complain about Father Li, in fact, when she is unhappy, she will complain even more, and she will talk more.

Father Li had long been accustomed to such things, so he just smirked on the side.

At noon, a family of three sat on the side of the road, eating the food they brought over, the meal was already cold, and Li Shiyu was full of bitterness with the chili sauce brought by the family.

In the past, the two of them would pick more than 100 catties at most, but now they have a tricycle, and they won't go back if they don't fill the car.

The afternoon work was similar, but there were surprises, Li Shiyu picked up a good radio.

This is a relatively old-fashioned radio, very big and heavy, and Father Li is not very happy to take it: "What to do with this thing, I can't sell it, and no one will accept it." ”

"If you can't sell it, you can listen to it yourself, and it's okay to listen to the radio at night. Li Shiyu replied.

Mother Li helped beside her: "Yes, listen to it at night, otherwise you won't be able to sleep too early." Anyway, there are tricycles now, so it's easy to bring. ”

Two to one, Father Li has nothing to say.

"Have you ever picked up such an appliance before?" asked Li Shiyu.

"There are often radios like this, but no one collects them, the fire is not easy to burn, and it is still dead, everyone will not pick it up when they see it, and there will be some others, and we will only pick up those small electrical appliances, which are too big to be cost-effective. ”

Father Li said while rummaging through the garbage heap: "Especially the TV, sixty or seventy pounds, it's not easy to take, we usually break it and take the copper inside." ”

"Is it good that someone has lost all the TVs?" Now a TV is the cheapest one like the one bought at home during the Chinese New Year, which costs more than 500 sets, and Li Shiyu is even more surprised that no one has picked it up if it is lost.

"Last year, we bought more than 500 of them, so why don't we just pick one up and bring it back?

Father Li listened to Li Shiyu's words, and with an expression that he knew you would ask: "It should be good, you can often see what is lost, it can't be all bad." In the past, Uncle Tang from the next village was the one who had come to our house for dinner, so he picked one up, thought about taking it back, and put it in the grass shed and was rained within a few days. ”

"We have a house to put in now, we can pick it up!" Li Shiyu felt that this was a way to make money: "When the Chinese New Year is over, they will definitely be willing to take it back." ”

Li's father has always been loyal: "This is not good, they are all from the villagers, ask them to take it and store it with us, and take it back during the New Year." ”

As soon as she heard that there was money to be made, Mother Li immediately became energetic: "What's not good, if there is no us, they can buy a TV for 100 yuan? ”

Father Li has always given in to the strong Mother Li, as long as Mother Li decides something, he basically will not object: "That's right, I can't pick up many sets anyway." ”

Li's father's words reminded Li Shiyu that if you rely on your luck to pick it up, you really can't pick it up, and if you can't pick it up, you just buy it, and I don't often hear shouts about recycling old household appliances or something in the future: "Dad, I think we'll just spend money to collect it." ”

"What to collect?" Father Li never thought that he would collect anything as a person picking up rags, and he didn't react for a while.

"Just collect these old appliances, and you can also collect waste products. ”

"What else do you collect for waste, they have to throw it away anyway, just pick it up when the time comes, what are you going to do with that unjust money!"

When Li's father heard this, he figured it out, and said to Li's mother: "What do you know, if you pick up waste, it depends on luck, and if you encounter it, it will be yours, and the number of waste will be much more." ”

"Yes, Mom! We still pick up scrap, but at the same time, we can collect one-tenth of the price of the acquisition station, or two-tenths of the price, although the income is less, but this is additional income, and it does not affect our picking up waste. ”

Mother Li was finally explained: "That's okay, but in this case, I'm afraid that one car is not enough." ”

Father Li saw that Mother Li agreed: "Then tomorrow we will buy another tricycle, I will ride one, Shiyu will ride one, and you will help Shiyu push it in the back." ”

Pulled a car full of scrap to the scrap collection station and sold it, a total of more than 130 yuan, fifty or sixty yuan more than usual, and much easier than usual, Li's father and Li's mother felt that this car was really worth buying.

After going back, Li's mother, who has always been stingy, went to the vegetable market to buy a pound of meat, 2 yuan, a rare luxury, and usually went to pick up vegetables that others didn't want in the evening.

In the evening, Li's father also drank two taels of inferior liquor, and Li's mother didn't say anything.