Chapter 1843 — The Heavenly Thunder Pig's Treasure Hunt, Part Two
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"Of course it can. This iPhone is the latest model—only the screen is shattered; the other functions should be fine. At a secondhand shop it would fetch at least a thousand yuan!" Granny Sun said.
Gu Mengyao's face flushed at once. This was the first she had ever heard that a battered phone like this could still be sold for money. In the past, whenever her phone had given trouble, she had simply thrown it away—it would never have occurred to her to sell it!
"Not bad at all, Heavenly Thunder Pig!" Shen Yushu said, looking at it with admiration. "Keep it up. If we can earn lots of money every day, Brother Arrow will wake up sooner, and when he does, I'll have him upgrade you!"
"Oink, oink!" At Shen Yushu's words, the Heavenly Thunder Pig nodded happily.
After leaving that place, the three of them did not return to their old spot; instead they began scavenging along the streets near the compound. This time they had not gone far before the Heavenly Thunder Pig once again pointed in a direction and squealed "Oink, oink!"
This time Granny Sun had learned her lesson. Without waiting for a word from Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu, she pushed the cart and ran after the Heavenly Thunder Pig—she was afraid that if she were a step late, someone else would get to the good stuff first!
The Heavenly Thunder Pig led the way in front, winding this way and that until they reached another residential district, where a family was in the middle of moving house. Beside the moving company's truck lay an old-fashioned refrigerator and some old furniture, cast out on the ground.
The Heavenly Thunder Pig pointed at the old refrigerator and furniture and began to squeal.
"Excuse me—are you not keeping these things?" Granny Sun hesitated a moment, then walked over to the moving truck and asked a man who was clearly the employer.
"No, we're not. We've bought a new place; these things are old and don't work too well anymore. If you want them, they're yours." The employer waved his hand carelessly as he spoke to Granny Sun.
The refrigerator was not very old either, and looked as though it still worked. Among the discarded furniture were a brass bed headboard, along with some angle iron and wooden boards.
Brass beds like that had long gone out of fashion. The employer had presumably made his fortune and bought a new house, and this old-fashioned piece, which would only clash with modern decor, was certainly not going with him.
"Then thank you kindly!" Granny Sun said, and began loading the refrigerator and brass headboard onto her handcart.
From Granny Sun's experience, the refrigerator could sell for three to five hundred yuan at least, and the brass headboard alone, sold as scrap copper, would fetch several hundred more. Together the two came to nearly a thousand yuan!
The movers glanced at Granny Sun with a touch of envy. Plainly they too had hoped to ask the employer for these old things at the end, but never expected someone else to speak up first!
In the blink of an eye, two thousand yuan had dropped into their hands, and Granny Sun came to admire the Heavenly Thunder Pig in earnest! With this little creature along, this was no scavenging—it was simply picking up money!
In one morning's work, Granny Sun and the other two made three trips to the secondhand goods market and the used-phone market, and more than three thousand yuan landed straight in their hands!