When he got home, Zhang Yaohua saw a three-jumper parked in front of his house, and on the body of the three-jumper, there was a large pile of paper, plastic bottles, rotten rubber shoes, broken copper and iron and other garbage.

Get! Zhang Yaohua knew what he was doing.

In the past, those who collected garbage used to enter the village by bicycle, or simply carried a flat load into the village, carrying garbage at one end and small snacks at the other.

When Zhang Yaohua was a child, he often kept the toothpaste bottles that had been used up at home and sold them for money. The previous toothpaste bottle seemed to be made of aluminum, but now it is rarely seen.

Not to mention, there were so many aluminum products in the past, such as pots and lunch boxes for boiling water at home.

But later, it was rumored that aluminum products were unsafe and would be poisoned or something, so everyone rarely saw them.

From a scientific point of view, there is some truth.

Those of us who have studied chemistry know that aluminum is a metal that is relatively active and easy to oxidize, forming an oxide film, which can protect aluminum from continued oxidation to a certain extent. But if you come into contact with something like table salt, that oxide film may be broken down and then absorbed by the body.

Of course, in theory.

In fact, the food we eat now may be more serious than the heavy metals in the aluminum pot, so there is no need to care about the poisoning of other people's aluminum products.

In addition to toothpaste bottles, there are also duck feathers, etc. Duck feathers are quite valuable, and they used to be five cents for a duck, or a few dollars a pound.

The previous five cents was a lot of money for children!

As for the rotten rubber shoes, only really greedy children will sell them. When Zhang Yaohua was a child, his rubber sandals were broken, and they were scalded with red-hot tongs, and they were glued back to continue to wear. If the sole is rotten, then there is no way but to sell.

And some people, for the sake of the penny or two, do not hesitate to break their shoes and sell them. In the end, it is inevitable that the adults will be beaten.

Zhang Yaohua said hello to the garbage collector, although he was collecting garbage, there was no need to look down on people.

"Big brother, let's go in and have a cup of tea!"

"No, no! Not thirsty. Do you smoke? As he spoke, the garbage collector pulled out a pack of cigarettes.

At this time, Ah Zhen took out the garbage from the house that could be sold for money, and she usually accumulates it, just waiting for this moment!

When the garbage collector saw the pregnant woman, he silently stuffed the cigarette back into his pocket.

Zhang Yaohua saw this detail and understood, and smiled at him: "I don't smoke, thank you, big brother!" ”

"Oh! By the way, how much is a pound of paper now? Zhang Yaohua thought of the two large cabinets of books, homework books, test papers, study materials, etc.

That was since he was studying, almost all textbooks, materials, etc., had not been sold. It's not that he doesn't want to sell, it's that his parents don't allow him to sell.

They have a saying here that selling books makes you stupid. People with poor grades like Zhang Yaowei will be sold if they are sold, anyway, it's like that, is there still room for decline?

Zhang Yaohua is different, his academic performance has been good since he was a child, so naturally he can't affect his academic performance for that little money.

"Six cents a pound, you can sell it for about a dollar when you pull it to the recycling bin." The eldest brother who collected the garbage confessed to Zhang Yaohua.

Seeing him so honest, Zhang Yaohua nodded and said, "Then big brother, wait a minute, or go in and have a cup of tea!" I'm going to tidy it up, it's a bit much. ”

Get! Hearing Zhang Yaohua say this, the eldest brother who collects garbage is not polite.

"Then it's troublesome, begging for a drink."

Ah Zhen went to pour him tea.

Zhang Yaohua returned to his room and opened the two cabinets that were more than one meter high. In order to hold these books, etc., the family specially asked a carpenter to build them.

I have to say that the family has invested heavily in him.

"You want to sell it?" I don't know when, my mother appeared behind Zhang Yaohua.

"Hmmm! I don't study anymore, what are I going to do with it? Get in the way! ”

"Can't they use it for future voyages?" Mom asked.

"The textbooks have been changed now, and they are not of much practical use. However, I'll still keep some of it, don't pick it! ”

Explaining this, the mother will no longer obstruct it, and her son's words make sense.

The Xinhua dictionary doesn't seem to be of much use, but everyone used to have a copy! When you see a word you don't understand, you look it up in the dictionary to understand the meaning of that word and how to pronounce it.

Zhang Yaohua even turned out the abacus he bought in elementary school, and now he can still use it, but he is not proficient. When I went to junior high school or high school, I basically used a calculator.

Especially in high school, the school even asked us to pay for a special calculator! Other calculators can't be brought into the exam room, so you can only buy theirs.

That is also equivalent to collecting money in disguise.

It's just that in terms of children's education, parents have a relatively high tolerance and don't make trouble.

Zhang Yaohua picked up a notebook, thought about it, or stayed.

It is commemorative, and above are the lyrics he copied when he was a child. I believe that many post-80s and 90s generations have done this kind of thing.

On the notebook, the most is sung by Zhuo Yiting, and then Beyond, and there are some classic old songs, such as Mao Ning's sound of the waves, Ye Qianwen's blessing, Guangliang's fairy tale, Tai Zhengxiao's thousand paper cranes, Ren Xianqi's heart is too soft, Xiaogang's dusk, etc.

Full of memories!

Zhang Yaohua moved out all the test papers first, good guy! Just these test papers, there are a hundred and dozens of catties. Some of them have been bitten by bugs, but it's not a big problem, waste paper recycling! Who cares about that?

As Zhang Yaohua brought out those books and materials one by one, the eldest brother who collected the waste products had bright eyes and a smile on his face.

Today is the time to return with a full load.

These waste papers alone can fill his three jumpers.

He hurriedly helped, found a snakeskin bag, put the books and other books into the snakeskin bag, weighed them, recorded them in the notebook, and let Zhang Yaohua's family take a look at them, and if there was no problem, he would move the weighed ones to his three jumpers.

Don't underestimate those books, they are still very heavy.

Of the two large cabinets, only a stack of one meter high was left in the end, and all the others were sold to the eldest brother who collected the scrap, which was close to a terrifying 1,000 catties.

This made Ah Zhen and the others stunned, although they knew that there were two large cabinets of books in the eldest brother's room, but they didn't expect it to be so heavy.

Even if it's six cents a pound, that's hundreds of yuan!

Only my mother was a little distressed, how much money did the family pay for those books? If it weren't for the training of my son to become a college student, how much would I lose?

"Five hundred and forty-six yuan, count it as five hundred and fifty! Do you want cash, or do you want a transfer? The big brother asked with a smile.

"Cash!"

In my hometown, it's better to bring some cash, sometimes you do need it. Like before, I have to ask my parents for a red envelope.

"Okay." The eldest brother took out five hundred-dollar bills from his small fanny pack, and one fifty-dollar bill. He deliberately turned out a few relatively new banknotes for Zhang Yaohua.

(End of chapter)