"Auntie, are you coming to buy boxed lunches again tonight?"

"Come!"

Lin Li packed up the trolley, her bag full of money, and waved to them happily.

"Then we can wait for you here tonight!"

"good!"

After leaving the industrial area, he found a secluded spot, tossed the handcart into his spatial storage, clapped his hands, and returned to his rented place.

Opening the door and standing by the window, looking at the lush green neighborhood, Lin Li felt that life was finally starting to have hope.

He poured all the money out of his bag, and it immediately piled up into a small mountain on the table.

2 yuan, 4 yuan... 200 yuan... 400 yuan!

After counting the money, Lin Li put it back into her bag, opened the door, went to a bank near the community, and opened a savings account.

Looking at the three digits inside, Lin Li's eyes crinkled with laughter!

I turned into a post office and waited in line for a long time before I was able to make a phone call.

"Hello, is this the power company? I'm looking for Lin Laosan..."

Before Lin Li could finish speaking, Lin Laosan's voice came from the other end of the microphone.

"Mom, you finally called me! Have you arrived yet? Is everything alright?"

"Okay, very good. I arrived early this morning, then rented a house in the Shekou Industrial Zone. I called you as soon as I finished my work!"

"It's good that we've arrived safely!"

Lin Laosan's voice was slightly choked up on the other end of the phone.

"You cried?"

"No, I just miss my mom..."

"Okay, I'll call you once a week from now on, okay? Here's my address, you can move aside or write to me!"

"Um"

Lin Li quickly told Lin Laosan the current address and then hung up the phone. Long-distance calls were expensive these days, costing 50 cents a minute.

I spent 2.5 yuan on a five-minute phone call with Lin Laosan.

After paying the phone bill, I checked the time and realized it was almost time for the workers to get off work. I carefully took out the handcart and pushed it to the place where they sold boxed lunches at noon.

Business was booming, extremely booming; it sold out in less than half an hour.

"Auntie, your stroller is too small. Please get a bigger one. I'm too late; I didn't get one!"

As Lin Li tidied up, she agreed, "Okay, I'll go to the market in a bit and buy a big cart that can sell 500 boxed meals."

"good!"

After saying goodbye to the workers, Lin Li went to the market and bought a large cart for 500 yuan.

Today, she earned 800 yuan from two meals and spent 500 yuan, so she only made 300 yuan. But Lin Li wasn't worried at all. Tomorrow, she will sell 500 boxed meals. If she sells them all, she can earn 1,000 yuan. At noon and in the evening, that's 2,000 yuan!

Most importantly, her cost of selling boxed lunches is very low!

On my way back to the neighborhood, I went to the market and bought 50 jin (25 catties) of pork, which cost 200 yuan.

This is her only cost of selling cardboard boxes!

For five consecutive days, Lin Li sold boxed lunches at the foreign company's factory, and each time she sold out completely.

In just five days, she has earned nearly 10,000 yuan!

Tomorrow is the weekend, the factory is closed, and Lin Li plans to take a day off and explore Shenzhen.

The next morning, after getting ready, Lin Li went to the entrance of her residential compound, boarded a bus, and headed towards Luohu District.

As the most bustling and prosperous area in Shenzhen, the streets are lined with shops and a wide variety of goods, as well as cinemas and food streets.

Lin Li went to the busiest seafood wholesale market and bought all kinds of seafood that were not available in the store.

Then I followed the flow of people and strolled around leisurely.

Huh? Lin Li saw a pile of messy stones in front of a jewelry store, and a man in a jewelry store employee uniform was shouting through a megaphone.

"Newly arrived rough stones, newly arrived rough stones, anyone want to try their luck?"

Jade gambling?

In her previous life, Lin Li had only seen jade gambling on television and in movies; she had never seen it in person.

"How much are these rough stones per kilogram?" a middle-aged man with a full beard asked.

"This pile is the original stone from the pit, 200 yuan/kg, and this pile is the scraps, cheaper at 80 yuan/kg."

"Your price is a bit too high!"

"The fact that it's expensive means there are good stones!"

The jewelry store clerk smiled and answered the middle-aged man's question.

After hesitating for a moment, the middle-aged man pointed to three or four rough stones and said, "Weigh these for me!"

"Alright!"

"A total of 21 kilograms, costing 4200 yuan!"

So expensive! It would cost more than two days' worth of boxed goods. Lin Li stuck out her tongue and continued looking.

The middle-aged man gave the money to the shop assistant and asked, "Would you like your stone cut?"

"cut!"

With a wave of his hand, the shop assistant pushed out a stone-cutting machine from next to the jewelry store. A professional stone-cutting master stood in front of the machine, looking seriously at the middle-aged man.

Which piece should I cut?

"This one, please!"

The middle-aged man pointed to a piece of raw stone in the middle.

Lin Li leaned closer to take a look and saw that the surface of the raw stone was covered with a limestone skin and had a weathered, sandy texture.

Wait a minute, she thought she saw a green gas coming out of it. She rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things; there really was a greenish gas coming out.

Lin Li looked at the pieces on the ground again. One piece had a faint white gas, while the other two pieces had no gas at all.

She slowly stomped back to the entrance of the pearl shop and saw that some of the raw stones on the ground had gas, while others did not; some had a stronger gas concentration, while others had a weaker one.

Suddenly, she felt her internal energy being depleted rapidly, and her brain and eyes began to sting. She hurriedly took out a bottle of spiritual spring water and drank it, which made her feel a little better.

After having a guess in her mind, Lin Li suddenly heard someone in the stone-cutting area exclaim, "Green jade has been found!" This made her even more certain of her guess.

"Hello, I want this rough stone."

The shop assistant's attention was already focused on the stone-cutting area next door, but when he suddenly heard Lin Li's voice, he quickly put on a smile.

"Auntie, do you want these pieces?"

"Um!"

Lin Li selected two stones with the highest concentration of purple and green gas, as well as two raw stones without any gas.

If all the stones are green when we cut them later, she will definitely become the target of everyone's attention!

Lin Li, who is always cautious, never does anything risky.

"Auntie, it weighs 15 jin in total, and costs 3,000 yuan."

Lin Li paid 3,000 yuan and was about to head to the stone-cutting area when she was stopped by a shop assistant.

"Auntie, there are stone-cutting machines here too. If you need your stone cut, you can come here."

Lin Li followed the shop assistant to another stone-cutting machine, and soon, it was also surrounded by people.

"Auntie, which piece would you like to cut first?"

Looking at the raw stones on the ground, Lin Li chose one that was emitting purple gas.

The stone cutter picked up the rough stone, went to the stone cutting machine, examined the degree of depression on the surface, and chose a crack to start cutting.

The ear-piercing sound of the cutting machine came over, making people's eardrums hurt.

The stone cutter cut a small flat surface on the raw stone, and the internal texture began to be revealed to everyone.

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