Chapter 1843 — The Heavenly Thunder Pig's Treasure Hunt, Part Two
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But still—if the Heavenly Thunder Pig really did find some rare treasure, would that not fetch a great deal of money all at once? Better than nothing, at any rate; it never hurt to try one's luck.
Granny Sun had the best route for each day mapped out in her mind, so they followed nearly the same path every day. But today they had not gone far when the Heavenly Thunder Pig raised a claw and pointed in a certain direction, squealing "Oink, oink!"
"Oh?" Gu Mengyao hesitated a moment, but in the end decided to follow the pig's lead. "Granny Sun, let's go take a look in that direction!"
"All right..." Granny Sun was rather puzzled that Gu Mengyao would put her faith in a little pig, but the creature was plainly nothing like any ordinary pig, so she decided to trust it, just this once...
Following the Heavenly Thunder Pig, the three of them and General Mighty chased it all the way to a trash bin in a residential compound. The pig jabbed a claw at the inside of the bin and squealed "Oink, oink!" again...
"What are you squealing for? If there's something good in there, go pick it out!" Shen Yushu scolded the Heavenly Thunder Pig.
"Oink, oink..." The Heavenly Thunder Pig looked at the filthy bin and felt rather aggrieved. It was an ancient spirit beast, after all—when had it ever been treated like this? But thinking of saving Wei Zhao, it had no choice but to trudge reluctantly toward the trash bin.
"Let this old woman do it for you!" Granny Sun, unlike the pig, was not squeamish. Rummaging through garbage was an everyday matter to her; she had no mental barrier about it at all.
With that, Granny Sun began to rummage through the bin, and soon fished out several drink bottles and a few cardboard boxes. But this was an ordinary haul at best—one could find the like in any compound's trash—and to run so far for it had clearly not been worth the trouble.
Still, the bin was nearly scraped clean; Granny Sun had already pulled out everything obvious, and there was probably nothing else of value left in it.
"Heh, we'd best just go about it step by step as usual from now on..." Granny Sun loaded the cardboard and bottles onto the handcart and was just about to leave when the Heavenly Thunder Pig, refusing to let the matter drop, kept pointing at the bin and squealing "Oink, oink!"
Shen Yushu had been rather annoyed at the Heavenly Thunder Pig to begin with, seeing how little had come out of the bin, and was just about to scold it—but hearing it still squealing, she paused in surprise and asked, "Heavenly Thunder Pig, do you mean there's still something good in there?"
"Oink, oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig nodded firmly.
Granny Sun found it quite a marvel to see a little pig so attuned to human nature, one that could even understand human speech. But if it said there was more, then she would trust it once more. She began searching the bin again, more carefully this time, no longer fixing her eyes only on bottles and cardboard...
At last, down at the very bottom of the bin, Granny Sun found an iPhone!
The screen was visibly cracked, but when Granny Sun tested it, the phone actually still powered on. In other words, its owner had probably tossed it aside the moment the screen broke and never bothered to have it repaired!
Granny Sun scavenged every day, so her experience was naturally rich; she often picked up broken phones like this. And this iPhone had nothing wrong but its screen—if the other functions were sound, selling it to a shop that bought secondhand phones would fetch at least a thousand yuan!
This find sent Granny Sun into transports of delight. She had never imagined the little pig possessed such a skill—the proceeds from this one broken phone were equal to two days of her usual earnings!
"Can a broken phone like this really be sold?" Gu Mengyao asked, watching the excited Granny Sun with a rather odd expression.