Chapter 4: Impossible To Guard Against

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Yes, I'll go get it."

Li quickly turned and went to the warehouse.

A few aluminum alloy pieces that were selected were quickly cut open with the hydraulic pliers. Zheng Shouye rushed to check the fracture carefully. 'Good lord, there's stuffing inside!'

The two sellers wore extremely uncomfortable expressions, having been caught in a lie.

Most of these scraps were from dismantled aluminum alloy window frames. These frame designs would leave a lot of gaps to ensure strength and save as much material as possible. It was obvious that these gaps had been taken advantage of.

The few that Cheng Xu had picked out were all filled with varying degrees of concrete. It had to be said that in terms of trickery, these two sellers were quite good. They did not choose to use soft soil, as cement would stick together after it solidified. This way, even if you picked up the aluminum alloy frame and shook it, you wouldn't hear a sound at all.

On the other hand, it was not easy to estimate the weight of frames of different sizes. If it were not for the fact that Li had had much experience handling a lot of aluminum alloy transactions at this time, it would have been difficult for him to keenly detect the difference in weight.

"Gentlemen, the aluminum alloy is now fifteen thousand a ton, and scrap metal is more than two thousand a ton. You've definitely played well." Zheng Shouye did not look angry. His tone was even a little playful

"Mr. Zheng, it's all a misunderstanding. It's our fault for not making things clear in the beginning," the fatter seller quickly replied, his voice a little hurried.

"Oh? Is there anything you didn't make clear?" Zheng Shouye crossed his arms and two more employees came to join him.

The seller wiped the sweat on his face and stammered, "A-actually, we wanted to come here today to sell scrap metal as well, but this batch seems to have been mixed with some aluminum alloy that we hadn't sorted out yet."

Of course, that reason was all nonsense; it was like something a three-year-old child would say.

However, Zheng Shouye did not show the slightest doubt after hearing this. Instead, he laughed in a carefree manner.

"You should've said so earlier. Li, look at this misunderstanding. I almost called the police and said that there was a scam."

He waved at Li again.

"Li, hurry up and help the two gentlemen weigh and calculate the bill. Today's scrap metal price is 2,160 yuan a ton, so let's calculate it at 2,200 yuan a ton. They're big customers, so it's fine for us to suffer a small loss. Go on."

"Thank you so much, Mr. Zheng." The seller wiped the sweat off his face one final time and forced a smile.

The aluminum alloy, which could have been sold for tens of thousands of yuan, was now treated as scrap metal and could not even be sold for 10,000 yuan.

The two sellers wanted to cry, but had no tears. However, they felt better afterwards when they realized that they had indeed earned close to 10,000 yuan without being arrested.

Cheng Xu, who was standing at the side, also agreed with Mr. Zheng.

If you tried to pull the wool over my eyes, it was only fair that I do the same to you, right?

Another way to look at it was that Zheng Shouye was also afraid that if he had pushed the two sellers too hard, an unexpected situation would have occurred.

"Xu, I'm truly indebted to you this time." Zheng Shouye sighed as he put his arm around Cheng Xu's shoulder after the matter was settled. "If it weren't for you, I would have suffered a great loss today. Speaking of which, I really didn't expect you to have such a good eye. College students are indeed different."

Li, who was standing at the side, looked at Cheng Xu and smiled.

"It's nothing much. It's just some experience that my grandfather passed on to me." Cheng Xu could only pin the blame on his grandfather, and they naturally did not ask further.

After weighing and settling the steel ingots that Cheng Xu had brought, Zheng Shouye gave him another 10,000 yuan.

"Mr. Zheng, there's really no need. I just took a casual look around, and you're giving me so much money," Cheng Xu said as he declined.

"Just take it. No matter how many times or how many pieces you looked or touched, your conclusion was what was valuable." Zheng Shouye forcefully stuffed the money into Cheng Xu's pocket. "I still think I'm giving you too little money. Don't refuse it."

Cheng Xu did not stand on ceremony and accepted the money.

"Mr. Zheng, I still have something to ask you."

"Ask me anything you want. I'll tell you everything I know." Zheng Shouye was overjoyed at this moment. He felt closer to Cheng Xu than his own son.

"It's like this: Do you have any channels for old mobile phones or old motherboards? "

Zheng Shouye slapped his thigh and said, "then you've asked the right person. There are often people who come to me to sell these things. However, I find them troublesome and energy-consuming, so I usually don't accept them." He then asked, "Why do you ask? Are you trying to make gold?"

"I do have some thoughts about that," Cheng Xu chuckled.

"It's not that I don't support you, but I have to remind you that this line of business is very complicated. Besides, these things use all kinds of chemicals, which are harmful to the human body, and they're nasty pollutants. You have to be careful."

Then, Zheng Shouye leaned in and whispered, "I've heard that if you don't have the qualifications, you'd be breaking some kind of law. You have to be very careful."

"Thank you, Mr. Zheng. I would not do this randomly. I studied materials in university, so I have some understanding in this area."

Cheng Xu took a sip of the mineral water Li passed to him and continued, "Another thing is that my teacher has been working on this topic recently, so he can also support me in the technical aspects and other areas as well."

"Well, when you put it that way, I feel completely relieved. Do your best then!"

Zheng Shouye patted Cheng Xu's back and gave him the phone numbers of several distributors.

Before he left, Li dragged a large box of scrapped mobile phones to Cheng Xu's three-wheeled motorcycle.

"Li, there's really no need. How much is this? I'll pay for it." Cheng Xu was also a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, just take it. Brother Zheng said it's free. Besides, it's useless to us. You can just use it for practice." Li also waved his hand, indicating that it did not matter.

"Then thank Mr. Zheng for me. I'll be taking my leave now!"

"Take care, and be careful."

With a few rumbling sounds, Cheng Xu got onto his three-wheeled motorcycle and returned to his scrapyard.

Looking at the large pile of phones, Cheng Xu almost could not resist trying his Breakdown power on them.

The price of scrapped mobile phones was at least a few dozen yuan per 500 grams. This large box of mobile phones cost nearly 2,000 yuan.

He had seen on the internet that a ton of scrapped mobile phones could produce 100-200 grams of gold.

Cheng Xu was filled with enthusiasm at the thought of finally securing a source for gold.

After wiping his sweat three times, Cheng Xu finally finished disassembling the large box of mobile phones.

[Gold: 6.7g]

Looking at his interface, he seemed to be one big step closer to his goal.

As for the 10,000 yuan that Mr. Zheng had given him, Cheng Xu had no intention of going to the gold shop to buy gold with it. If he took the gold he recycled and sold it at the gold shop, it would be at a greatly reduced price tariff. But if he bought it himself, it would have to be at the market price. In that case, he might as well use the money to buy alchemy materials.

As Cheng Xu pondered this, he dialed a number on his phone.