After finishing the fragrant barbecue, Wen Jiu put away the utensils. After cleaning herself up, she put on her bag and went out.
The garbage area where she lives is a few hours' walk from the nearest urban area, but Wen Jiu has been there several times before, so she doesn't feel too tired. She just treats it as exercise.
It was almost noon before Wen Jiu saw the edge of the city.
She walked into a scrapyard on the outskirts of the city with ease and shouted sweetly: "Grandma Zhao!"
However, after entering the scrapyard, she did not see the familiar old woman. Only a tall and thin young man put down the goods and glanced in her direction.
"Grandma Zhao is out, are you here to sell things?" Wang Nan narrowed his eyes and looked at the thin Wen Jiu.
Hearing this, Wen Jiu just nodded without making a sound, slowly dragging his pocket towards the storage table. Before Wang Nan could help, she neatly threw her pocket on the table.
"Tsk, these things are of average quality," Wang Nan walked to the table and put on gloves, fiddled with the contents of the bag a few times, then smacked his lips and said, "Eighty star coins at most."
While Wang Nan was checking the items, Wen Jiu also observed him secretly. As the saying goes, appearance comes from the heart. No matter how kind he pretends to be, the truth can still be seen in his face.
This man has thin lips and a narrow chin, and is very interested in interests. However, his cheekbones are not high, but he is still a person who can make friends.
There was a simple iron plate hung on the chest of his coarse cloth clothes, with "Aunt Zhao Resource Recycling Station" engraved on it. It looked like he was a helper hired by Aunt Zhao.
"One hundred." Since it wasn't Granny Zhao herself, Wen Jiu didn't mean to be polite and directly gave his estimate.
She has sold scraps here several times in the past month and a half, and the recycling prices for these items are quite high.
Wang Nan did not expect that the price quoted by the seemingly docile and ignorant child in front of him was actually the highest price for these items.
But he is a businessman after all, and he doesn't want to just obey her, so he can cut it off a little bit.
So Wang Nan took out a few things from the bag and said in a good-for-her tone: "Little sister, the price I gave you is definitely the most fair."
"You see there's a lot of wear and tear on the ends of your red gold screws. There are also too many scratches on this printed circuit board."
"Brother, because you are young, I quoted you an extra ten star coins. If you go to another store to sell it, they will quote you seventy cents more at most!"
But Wen Jiu didn't agree with him and insisted on his offer with an expressionless face, "One hundred."
Wang Nan's grin suddenly became much stiffer. He sighed and said again, "Well, let's do this, ninety."
Wen didn't bargain with him for a long time. She silently stuffed the items on the table back into her pocket, then dragged her pocket towards the door without looking back.
This made Wang Nan stunned. He thought that the child would have to play a few more rounds with him, so he left without saying a word.
Not many people have come to sell scrap products recently, so the business they got cannot be lost like this.
Seeing Wen Jiu was about to walk out of the door, Wang Nan gritted his teeth and shouted: "Ninety-five!"
Seeing that she still didn't look back and was even walking faster and faster, Wang Nan was completely at her wits' end and shouted one last time through gritted teeth.
"One hundred! Just one hundred!"
After hearing his offer, Wen Jiu turned around. Different from the indifferent expression just now, she walked towards Wang Nan with curved eyebrows.
After Wang Nan saw her smiling face clearly, he was already hurt by the failed bargaining and became even more depressed.
However, Wen Jiu only walked up to him and stretched out his little hand, waiting for him to pay.
"Alas." Wang Nan clenched his back teeth, took out one hundred star coins from his pocket and slowly handed it to Wen Jiu.
"Thank you, brother." Wen Jiu took the star coin that Wang Nan held tightly in his hand and put it in his pocket.
In this era, banknotes are rarely used anymore, and all payments are made through star network transfers. That is to say, poor people like them who cannot afford smart rings and cannot use star network still use banknotes for transactions.
Wen Jiu collected the money and emptied everything in her pocket. She had the money and was about to leave, but Wang Nan suddenly called out.
"Little sister, can you sell that rope of yours?"
Wang Nan stared at Wen Jiu with shining eyes, his gaze fixed on the bundle of ropes at her waist.
Seeing his expression, Wen Jiu understood immediately. It seems that the price of this rope is not low, otherwise this iron rooster would not be so active in asking.
So Wen Jiu took off the rope and held it in his hand. After thinking for a moment, he made a sweet smile and said, "Sell it. I picked this one up too."
Hearing Wen Jiu say that he picked it up, Wang Nan immediately made a calculation in his mind, and said in a blink of an eye: "This rope of yours should be an imitation, not very valuable."
"Is that so, big brother?" Wen Jiu pouted and scratched his hair, like an innocent child, "How much can it be sold for?"
Wang Nan suppressed her excitement and took two steps pretending not to care, "It's only four hundred star coins."
In order to prevent Wen Jiu from getting suspicious, he added a few words.
"Brother is also thinking that the cold season is about to come. Seeing that you are so young, you are quite pitiful. He wants you to buy more things to protect yourself from the cold, so that's why we set this price."
"In fact, we usually don't collect imitation products like this."
After saying that, he secretly glanced at Wen Jiu, who was thinking with his head down, and waited patiently.
He offered four hundred star coins. This kid didn't know how long it would take him to pick up garbage to earn this amount.
Unexpectedly, Wen Jiu suddenly raised his head and smiled at him: "In that case, I won't bother you."
She quickly tied the rope back around her waist and ran out of the door in a flash.
Only Wang Nan was left standing there blankly.
Wen Jiu ran for a while before stopping, and thought about Wang Nan's words for a while. Seeing that he wanted this rope so eagerly, the price was probably more than four hundred. She would have to go to several scrap stations and ask in order to estimate the appropriate price.
With this in mind, Wen Jiu walked towards another scrap station she knew. But before she took a few steps, she saw an old woman with gray hair walking tremblingly in her direction.
"Grandma Zhao!" Wen Jiu recognized Grandma Zhao at a glance and ran to her side with a smile.
Grandma Zhao looked at Wen Jiu running over, coughed twice and smiled kindly, "Oh, good girl. I haven't seen you here for a long time."
"I haven't come here since I haven't gained much lately," Wen Jiu took the initiative to take the bag from Grandma Zhao's hand, and helped Grandma Zhao move forward slowly, "Isn't it true that I will come to you as soon as there is goods?"
Wen Jiu has always been a good talker. As long as she wants to talk, there is nothing she can't talk about.
However, when she supported Aunt Zhao, she took advantage of the situation and took her pulse, and immediately realized that Aunt Zhao was probably coughing due to cold.
So Wen Jiu continued: "Grandma Zhao, what did you do when you went out just now? I just went to the scrap station and I didn't see you."
Grandma Zhao replied with a smile: "Oh, I went out to see a doctor. Recently, I have a bit of a cough."
Wen Jiu understood that Grandma Zhao often gave her high prices when she came to sell scraps and took good care of her.
So Wen Jiu thought for a while and said, "Well, I heard others say that drinking more ginger juice can relieve coughs."
Grandma Zhao was a little confused after hearing this, but the feeling of coughing came back to her. She could only cough violently for a while before saying in a weak voice: "What is ginger?"
Only then did Wen Jiu realize that it seemed that many ancient Chinese plants did not exist in this world. Even if they did exist, many of their scientific names were different from what she knew.
So Wen Jiu took out a piece of ginger from his pocket and said, "That's it. Just mash it and boil it with water, remove the residue and drink the soup."
In fact, it is best for Grandma Zhao to drink more ginger and apricot soup when she has symptoms like this, but Wen Jiu doesn't know if there are almonds and licorice in this world.
Grandma Zhao took the ginger from Wen Jiu and looked at it, "Good girl, is this what you are talking about? We all call it horseradish, and it tastes very spicy."
Wen Jiu nodded, "That's it. Grandma, you can give it a try."
After saying that, she stuffed the remaining ginger into Grandma Zhao's pocket.
Grandma Zhao didn't want to let down Wen Jiu's kindness, so she thanked Wen Jiu and started talking to Wen Jiu again.
Until walking back to the scrap station.
