After washing his hands in the sink, Tang Songyuan slowly rushed to the cafeteria for a midnight snack.
The late night snack is nothing special, just ordinary noodles.
However, Tang Songyuan, like most workers, filled a bowl without being picky and ate it with great gulps.
While eating, Liu Wei walked out of nowhere.
Looking at the people eating late-night snacks, he said loudly: "There was a big hole in the screen just now. Except for the people in the mechanical maintenance team, the rest of us will not work overtime tonight. Go back and rest early..."
Being able to stop working overtime is a happy thing for everyone. Someone immediately cheered:
"Haha, I'm full after get off work. Let's go shopping in Fengqing Street!"
"Old Huang, you've been tired for a long day, can you still walk around?" another person said.
"Nonsense, do I have to do it myself?"
"It's been a tiring day...can't you enjoy yourself?"
The small cafeteria was suddenly filled with a happy atmosphere.
In less than ten minutes, the workers who were busy eating in the canteen just now left and dispersed.
Some workers whose homes were nearby went home directly.
The Tang, Song and Yuan homes were seven or eight kilometers away from here, and a dormitory was arranged for him here, so he rarely went back.
But there was a situation today, and he needed to leave as soon as possible with the piece of gold ore he picked up, but he did not leave immediately.
After eating the noodles, Tang Songyuan returned to the dormitory in a leisurely manner as usual, washed up, and then lay on the bed and played with his mobile phone.
But his attention has always been on the warehouse Liu Wei planned.
He has reason to believe that Liu Wei is looking for opportunities to give workers a holiday, isn't it just to find an excuse to create opportunities for him to refine the ore himself?
And now that he has all the materials ready, he should be able to get started as soon as possible.
If your butt is not clean, don't blame me.
Lying on the bed and scrolling through Douyin, it was already past three o'clock in the middle of the night. When Tang, Song and Yuan were about to fall asleep, there was still no movement in the warehouse.
Including Liu Wei under the perspective of perspective, he was sitting in the office playing with his mobile phone like no one else.
He still forced himself to sleep and closely monitored the other party's situation.
He won't be going to work tomorrow anyway, so he has a lot of patience to spend with the other party.
When the time came to 3:50, Zhang Zhengye found Liu Wei in high spirits. The two said a few words, and then Liu Wei found the young man from before, and the three of them walked towards the warehouse together.
Liu Wei opened the warehouse door carefully, and then asked the young man to guard the door. Only he and Zhang Zhengye entered the warehouse.
Then Liu Wei, under Zhang Zhengye's arrangement, found a large open glass and started pouring hydrochloric acid into it...
They are indeed secretly preparing aqua regia to refine gold! ! !
Observing this movement, Tang, Song and Yuan were determined.
He immediately stood up from the bed, put on his clothes, shoes and socks, and walked quietly towards the awning.
This time, he did not set the motorcycle on fire. Instead, he pushed the motorcycle out of the sand factory gate first, and then made a phone call while observing the movement in the warehouse.
It took almost half a minute for the call to be connected, and an impatient voice came from the other side of the receiver:
"What are you doing? Why are you calling me in the middle of the night?"
In addition to this sound, Tang Songyuan also vaguely heard the sound of playing mahjong.
Damn it, you are still playing mahjong so late. How addictive is this?
Why is my heart so big...
Tang Songyuan twitched the corner of his mouth, covered the phone and said, "Mr. Xu, after dinner tonight, Liu Wei asked all the workers to get off work."
"But when I got up to go to the toilet just now, I discovered that Liu Wei was doing something big!"
The person on the other end of the phone was Xu Guanglin, the big boss of the sand factory.
Tang Songyuan deliberately did not mention Zhang Zhengye because Zhang Zhengye was considered Xu Guanglin's partner.
And Liu Wei's level is just a higher-level migrant worker.
"What a big deal!"
Xu Guanglin's tone was still impatient, and then he played a card: "Eighty thousand!"
Tang Songyuan continued: "I also discovered it accidentally. Mr. Xu, please don't say that I snitched..."
"If you have anything to do, just tell me quickly. I called you in the middle of the night and you were still gibbering. I'm afraid you feel uncomfortable without being scolded by me, right?"
Xu Guanglin's mood was on the verge of anger. He probably lost a lot tonight.
Tang Songyuan then said: "I saw Liu Wei picked up two pieces of gold ore on the production line. He bought a lot of chemicals today and is now refining gold in the warehouse..."
Naturally, he didn't see with his own eyes how Liu Wei picked up the ore, but he might as well say so first.
It might be okay to pick it up elsewhere, but it's hard to say on the production line.
And the default rule is whoever picks it up gets it, but if Liu Wei and the others were caught by Xu Guanglin while refining, it would be hard to say.
"What did you say!"
As expected, Xu Guanglin on the other end of the phone couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up suddenly and almost overturned the mahjong table.
Yuan Yan of the Tang and Song Dynasties confirmed it to him: "It's absolutely true. Even if I fabricate it out of thin air, I can't fabricate such an outrageous thing."
"I can still smell the smell of chemicals here. I don't understand these. Is it harmful to inhale these gases?"
In fact, when he was in middle school, he heard from his teacher that gold ore would be dissolved by aqua regia to form tetrachloroauric acid, which would then undergo an electrolysis reaction to produce highly pure metallic gold.
Finally it is melted at high temperature and cast into the desired form.
However, Xu Guanglin did not let him continue, and hung up the phone without giving any response.
Listening to the busy signal on the other end of the phone, Tang Songyuan smiled, started the car and rode to a hidden corner next to him that was not illuminated by street lights.
About twenty minutes later, a car hurriedly drove through the gate of the gravel factory. Xu Guanglin quickly got out of the car with three or four strong men.
At this time, Liu Wei had just configured the proportion of aqua regia and had not yet achieved the optimal dissolution effect.
Under normal circumstances, the oxidation capacity of aqua regia reaches its maximum half an hour after it is prepared, so it is always prepared in advance or temporarily.
Xu Guanglin and others strode to the door of the warehouse. The young man guarding the door was here for the first time and obviously didn't know Xu Guanglin yet.
Seeing the other party's fierce aura, he immediately stood up with some uncertainty and asked doubtfully: "Who are you looking for?"
But Xu Guanglin didn't bother to talk nonsense to him, and raised his hand to pull him aside.
Then he reached for the warehouse door, only to find that it was locked from the inside.
After pulling it for a few times, there was no movement. Xu Guanglin became angry, looked at a strong man behind him and said, "Boy, kick it away!"
The strong man looked at the wooden door, took a step back without saying a word, quickly raised his foot and thrust it at the door lock.
There was a bang, and the door was kicked open instantly.
As soon as he caught his eye, he saw Liu Wei holding a pair of pliers holding a piece of gold ore with a dog's head, and he looked like he was about to pour it into a measuring cup containing aqua regia.
"stop!!!"
Xu Guanglin roared angrily: "Stop it, you idiot and a waste of money!"
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