Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 22, Scrap Collection and Bargain Hunting
The next day, the purchasing station began formal operation after planning.

The back house of the first courtyard will be used to store paper products and some old electrical appliances and parts, as it is well preserved and does not leak wind or rain. Some old, worthless, large and easy-to-store items will be classified and piled up in the open air in the garden and the second courtyard.

Outside the garden wall is an alley more than four meters wide. The Wang family opened a gate here that is open to traffic. In this way, when the material company comes to collect waste, some small trucks can enter the alley, pass through the gate into the garden in the courtyard, and directly load and unload the waste.

The purchasing station had just been established, and the people and merchants nearby were not very familiar with it. Therefore, there was not much business, but Wang Li and his family of three were not in a hurry. Because they were looking for a job, not for making money, or in other words, they were not in a hurry to make money at the moment. They had a solid foundation, so they could take their time.

But it has to be said that doing business in this era is still easy. After their recycling station opened, it attracted the attention of many surrounding residents and businesses.

There are no entertainment activities now, and everyone will get together after get off work during the day to play chess or chat, which is a disguised way of advertising for the recycling station.

Therefore, the recycling station business is getting better day by day.

Wang Li's parents also smiled more and more. After all, no one doesn't want to achieve results and benefits from their work, and of course the more benefits the better.

Wang Li also gave his father a lot of suggestions on the operation of the recycling station.

There are two main suggestions. The first is to mobilize the elderly residents in the surrounding area to help. Because they are usually free, they often visit each other and chat, and they are more familiar with the situation of the surrounding households. When they have time and energy, they can help collect some waste.

These are some relatively clean and easy-to-sort waste products, such as old books, old newspapers, various copper and iron products, etc.

After that, they will all be taken to the recycling station for sale. The recycling station can increase the price appropriately when purchasing the waste from these elderly people to give them an incentive. After all, no one can resist money.

The second is that Kyoto was recently recovered and the economy has not yet recovered, so there are many unemployed strong laborers. They can be made full-time to help the Siheyuan recycling station, collect various types of waste, and send them to the recycling station to earn the difference. After applying the above two suggestions to the recycling station, Wang Li's father found that there were fewer people selling things individually and more people selling things in groups. He did not receive customers as often as before, and he could not receive many wastes. Now he receives one person selling waste, which is equivalent to more than ten or twenty people in the past. It has improved work efficiency and increased the income of the collection station, and also explained to the superior material recycling company.

Wang Li's life was quite pleasant during this period. He first practiced martial arts every day, then went to school to fish in troubled waters, and when he got home at night, he went to his father's recycling warehouse to look for items he liked.

Wang Li's parents also saw what he did, and they thought it was just a child's hobby that would not affect the operation of the purchasing station, so they ignored him.

Although he didn't know how to collect, he did have a way to deal with it. That was to pick out those calligraphy and painting works that were well preserved, with yellowed paper, which showed that they were quite old, as well as some small bronze products with inscriptions. These were all his collections.

Of course, if there were any jade or porcelain, he would also take a look, but he has not received these things yet.

During this period he had reaped a lot of rewards, having already collected a wooden box of ancient books, a small number of calligraphy and paintings, and several bronze artifacts.

He placed all his collections in a camphorwood box in the corner of the room. For these things, he also asked his father to lock his door.

After all, his family runs a recycling station, and there are usually many people who come to sell their waste. If someone takes away a few things, he will be heartbroken.

After all, he had just started collecting these things, and he valued these treasures very much. Almost every day when he got home, he would play with his collection for a while before going to bed. It was almost affecting his practice of the Golden Body Sutra. Fortunately, he recently felt that the Golden Body Sutra was about to break through, so he should slow down appropriately. Combining work and rest would be more beneficial to his breakthrough.

(End of this chapter)