Chapter 038 Thermal Insulation Effect

The pots, bowls, and utensils were not marked, they were all basic items. She put all the pots, bowls, and utensils she had cleared out into a basket, carried the basket with her body, and went straight to the waste station.

When Shen Wenyu saw her coming, she asked directly, "Why are you free to come here today? Do you have something good in your hands?"

"Why isn't it a good thing?" Tang Yuan walked in with a basket and let her see what was in the basket.

Shen Wenyu lowered her head: "Are these also old?"

"Old, but not as old as you think. They are all junk," Tang Yuan said with a smile. Under Shen Wenyu's regretful expression, he poured out the things. "I got these things by chance. There is no use for them. See how much they are worth. There are quite a few intact ones here."

Things were poured out of the basket, and the contents were revealed one by one. Shen Wenyu's expression changed from regret to surprise: "There is still a good pot here. Who is so extravagant that they would throw away such a good pot?"

"Anyway, I got it by chance. The scrap yard must have taken it in, right?" Tang Yuan asked her.

"Take it. If you leave it here, someone will buy it in two days," Shen Wenyu said, and then remembered something. "Oh, your friend is in need of something, right? I think this will suit you."

The friend Shen Wenyu was referring to was Tang Yuan himself.

She thought so and immediately found a suitable one: "Then leave this one alone. When my friend comes, I'll give it to her. The rest are all yours."

"Okay, then I'll calculate it for you."

While Shen Wenyu was counting the money, she looked around Tang Yuan. She had been to the scrap yard a few days ago, and there weren't many new things here. However, when she looked in the corner, she noticed a shabby bicycle.

Perhaps noticing her attention, Shen Wenyu spoke directly: "Don't look at it. If it could be repaired, this thing would not have come to me. When it was sent to me, some important parts were missing. The most important thing is, look at the chain. Without the chain, this thing is pure waste."

The manufacturing process of the chain is relatively complicated, and it can even be said to be the most important part of a bicycle.

Chains are extremely difficult to buy, at least not in China at the moment.

After all, most machines in the country are handmade nowadays, and bicycles cannot be mass-produced. This is also the reason why you need a receipt to buy a bicycle.

If she had enough industrial coupons, she could buy a bicycle. In the past few months, all the industrial coupons issued by the factory were exchanged for grain coupons and cloth coupons by people around her, just to get enough industrial coupons to buy a bicycle that everyone envied.

However, this is the current situation in the Mainland. You don’t need a ticket to buy a bicycle in Hong Kong.

No...the parts of the bicycles in Hong Kong may not be compatible with the bicycles here. In this case, even if she buys a chain, it will not be able to fit the broken bicycles here.

If she could start a bicycle business, it would probably be more profitable than the egg business.

She didn't have much time to think. After Shen Wenyu finished calculating the bill, she quickly came back to her senses and took the money for recycling from her. Before leaving, she didn't forget to say something nonsense: "Same old, keep the good stuff for me."

"Don't worry, if I don't keep it for you, who else should I keep it for?" Shen Wenyu waved her hand and said, "Go and do your own thing."

Tang Yuan then left.

After returning to the game space, she quickly changed into a new identity and came into the dark room again.

As soon as she arrived, she smelled an odor coming through the gap in the window and heard some swearing outside. She got up and opened a crack in the window, and saw someone pushing a garbage truck and all kinds of garbage scattered on the ground.

As soon as the window was opened, the smell became stronger. She immediately closed the window, held her breath, and quickly went out.

The smell in the corridor outside the house was a little lighter than what she smelled when she opened the window, but this place was almost entirely closed and the smell could not dissipate, but the lingering smell was still nauseating.

She quickened her pace and went downstairs. She didn't start breathing deeply until she walked out of the building. At that moment, she even felt like she was alive again.

After coming to her senses, she began to look for related stores.

At the scrap yard, she had just given up the idea of ​​making money by repairing bicycles, and then she thought that there must be a lot of things that Hong Kong has but the mainland doesn't.

You don't need anything particularly fancy, but most things in the mainland currently require receipts. If you want to buy them with just money, Hong Kong is more suitable.

What she wanted was not very rare and she found it quickly: a roll of plastic film and a pair of scissors.

The plastic film could only be bought in rolls, and together with the scissors, it cost her a total of ten dollars. Add the four dollars for the light bulb, and she was left with only four dollars out of the eighteen dollars she earned today.

Tang Yuan returned with the plastic film and scissors, holding his breath and going directly to the game space.

She took out all the tattered clothes she had collected earlier and cut them into smaller pieces with scissors to avoid any problems with special clothing logos or anything else on them.

She put the cut cloth into a bag, then cut the plastic film into a quarter and put it in a basket. The next morning, she carried the basket and bag to the shabby house where she had agreed to meet.

Sun Dong arrived as promised, and as soon as he entered the dilapidated house, he saw what was in front of Tang Yuan.

"Is this... a rag? Why is it so torn?"

"How can I get good fabrics?" Tang Yuan deliberately let him see the fabrics and took the initiative to say, "I'll make a deal with you. These fabrics and this roll of plastic sheet will be yours. You decide whether to give me more eggs or money."

"What can this be used for?" Sun Dong didn't understand the purpose of these things.

Tang Yuan then gave him a detailed introduction on how to use plastic sheets and rags to keep warm: "As the weather gets colder, your chickens will definitely lay fewer eggs, and some may even freeze to death. If you take these back, not only can they avoid freezing to death, but they may also lay more eggs."

She said yes, but she didn't mean to ask him for money right away. She took the initiative to say, "Take it back first. If it doesn't work, you don't have to pay me. If it does work, you definitely can't owe me."

"That's fine." Sun Dong was confused by what he heard, but it didn't prevent him from understanding the main idea.

Tang Yuan gave him the rags and plastic film.

The scraps of cloth were cut from clothes that could no longer be worn, so she didn't spend any money on them. She did spend money on the plastic film, but a quarter of it was only a few dollars. An egg in Hong Kong is 40 cents a piece, so selling ten eggs would earn her four dollars, which could be directly offset by the quarter of the plastic film.

But she believed that if the plastic film could really be used, Sun Dong would definitely be willing to give more eggs.

"This time there are a total of 140 eggs, I brought them all," Sun Dong poured the eggs into Tang Yuan's basket, "and there are 10 pounds of bacon. The weather has been bad these few days, so we can't dry it well. Sister Fang has to go over there."

Tang Yuan accepted it, calculated the bill and gave it to him, then said, "When you have time, go to the mountain and see if there are any good things. The New Year is coming soon and everyone needs a lot. Anything, the more the better."

"Don't worry, I remember it. I've asked someone to contact Liu Zhiyong and get some of his meat. We can make more money by making bacon," Sun Dong said happily. "By the way, Sister Fang, can you get the cotton?"

Tang Yuan: "How much do you want?"

"Is it really possible?" Sun Dong rubbed his hands habitually, "Then let's have ten kilograms, no, twenty kilograms."

"This stuff is in high demand, and the price is not cheap," Tang Yuan lowered his voice, "I went to inquire before, and the price of cotton that doesn't require a ticket has been raised to 1.5 yuan per pound. There is not much supply there, so just confirm whether you want more or less, and I can ask for you. The weather is cold now, so this stuff is selling fast."

The price of cotton that required a ticket was about RMB 1.16 per pound, and she quoted RMB 1.5, so the price difference for a pound of cotton was RMB 3.4.

But it was tight, even tighter than cotton.

She originally had more than 100 kilograms of cotton on hand. In order to save 100 game coins for a new vest, she sold some of it, and there was not much left. She had thought that she could make more money from this business, but in reality, it was not much.

After all, she now has to support "three people".

Fortunately, the weather in Hong Kong is not cold, so there is no need for particularly thick cotton clothes, and the temperature has not dropped to the lowest point yet, otherwise, if each person needs two sets of cotton clothes, we would have to make six sets.

Tang Yuan put her hands in her pockets, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that she now has a family to support. She definitely can't support three people with just the 15 yuan a month salary from the machinery factory. She really has to find a way to make money.

"Then Sister Fang, can you give me 30 kilograms?" After quoting the price, the amount of cotton Sun Dong wanted increased instead of decreased.

Tang Yuan glanced at him.

Sun Dong smiled and said, "Isn't this needed? Sister Fang, bring it to me. I'll add an extra 10 cents per pound as a reward for your hard work."

Tang Yuan looked at him again and thought that $1.60 wasn't too expensive, and he even offered to raise the price by a dime. However, the price had already been quoted, and she certainly couldn't go back on her word.

"Okay, I'll help you find out, but you have to give me a deposit first, otherwise I don't have the guts to take so much at once."

"Sister Fang, how can you be so cowardly? I must give you a deposit, so I'll give you half of it," Sun Dong said, taking money out of his pocket. "I had twenty dollars in my pocket when I came here, and I'll give you another four dollars. After we buy the cotton, I'll give you the remaining twenty-four dollars."

Tang Yuan took the money and put it away: "I will go and ask for you today. If nothing goes wrong, you can get it tomorrow. You can come the day after tomorrow morning. You can try the effect of the plastic film in these two days. If it works, you have to give me three yuan for this roll of plastic film."

Sun Dong was hesitant.

Tang Yuan made the decision for him directly: "Don't underestimate these three dollars. As long as you have five chickens that keep laying eggs, you can earn back the money in just twelve days. If you have ten, it will only take six days. In winter, the temperature is low. Can your chickens lay ten eggs a day? Do the math yourself."

Sun Dong: “Is it really effective?”

"It will definitely work, but if you don't think this is worthwhile, then you don't even have to take away the plastic film today. It will save you a lot of trouble," Tang Yuan looked at him, "Well, have you thought it through?"

"I'll give it a try," Sun Dong said boldly, hugging the plastic film. "If this works, I can raise a few more chickens in the future."

"Then you can try it. If it doesn't work, bring it back to me intact."

"OK!"