Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP

"Ah, given the situation now, I don't want anything else." The homeowner's son slapped his thigh and said directly to Chen Yiyang, "Besides the house, I don't want anything else.

By the way, you might as well have someone tear down all the floors and wall coverings in the house. Otherwise, the bugs inside won't be thoroughly eradicated."

"In that case, the costs could get complicated." Chen Yiyang said, feigning difficulty.

"Just start working, and once you're done, we can settle this and come up with a fair price. How about that?"

"That works." Chen Yiyang nodded in agreement.

After sending off the homeowner's son, Chen Yiyang called for a cleaning company.

The company's manager walked in, took one look, then immediately ran out, covering his mouth.

He ran to a tree pit, leaned on the tree, and started vomiting.

He vomited for over twenty minutes.

The manager then held up three fingers to Chen Yiyang. "Thirty thousand. If it's not thirty thousand, don't even think about discussing this."

"Alright." Chen Yiyang nodded. He figured that at least half of the thirty thousand was compensation for mental anguish.

He then told the manager, "However, you need to prioritize cleaning near the basement. I have things in the basement that I need to take."

"Sure." The manager nodded in agreement.

Due to the high price of the job and its difficulty,

the manager was concerned that Chen Yiyang wouldn't pay afterward, so he asked for fifteen thousand upfront as a deposit.

While the manager instructed his employees to bring the equipment for cleaning, Chen Yiyang drove off to buy some protective gear and stored it in his car.

In the afternoon,

the entire cleaning crew arrived.

Chen Yiyang put on the protective gear, covering himself from head to toe, and followed them inside to inspect.

But within ten minutes, he regretted it and walked out of the room.

Wearing the protective suit, he couldn't smell the stench emanating from inside the house.

However, the visual scene was terrifying.

Lifting a cover would result in dozens of cockroaches crawling out.

Kicking a basket on the floor could scatter five or six rats.

Several employees from the cleaning company couldn't handle it and left first.

The more daring employees, armed with insecticide, advanced inch by inch.

After spraying the clutter on the floor, they dragged everything outside the house.

These items were just too filthy.

Chen Yiyang felt embarrassed to leave them on the street for sanitation workers to clean up.

So he spent a few hundred yuan to hire a garbage truck.

They loaded all the trash onto the garbage truck.

Even so, the work progressed very slowly.

The original homeowner practically used the house as a warehouse, crammed full of things.

A single garbage truck was filled within an hour and had to leave.

The cleaning company had no choice but to bring in a few more employees from a fellow company to help.

Fortunately, by nightfall, the area near the basement was mostly cleaned up.

Chen Yiyang then donned his protective gear, walked over, and knocked off the rusted basement lock with a wrench before entering.

Unlike the insect-infested scenes upstairs, the basement was passable.

The basement wasn't filled with clutter, just some tools for cutting jade stones and a few boxes.

Since these were just iron lumps, insects and rats didn't favor the area. So, while covered in dust, it was not infested.

Chen Yiyang quickly inspected the area.

Aside from the box filled with jade, as mentioned in the report, there was nothing else.

He carried the box full of jade out.

By then, the sky had turned dark.

The curious onlookers had dispersed.

Except for the cleaning company staff, no one else was around.

Chen Yiyang took the box to his car and placed it in the trunk.

"You guys keep working. I'm heading out," Chen Yiyang said to the cleaning crew.

"We probably won't finish today; it'll have to be tomorrow."

"Just contact me when you're almost done," Chen Yiyang said, then remembered something.

He had promised the homeowner's son to find people to strip the floors and walls for inspection to prevent insect and rat nests.

So he asked the cleaning company to recommend a renovation company and contacted them to come the next day.

Once the cleaning company cleared away the junk, the renovation crew would scrape the walls.

Leaving the street behind, Chen Yiyang dragged the box with jade directly back to his apartment.

After wiping down the entire box with alcohol wipes, he opened it.

Inside lay a pile of strangely shaped, uncarved jade stones.

Chen Yiyang took photos of these items and sent them to his friend Ah Niu in the jadeite industry whom he met in Jin City.

After seeing the pictures, Ah Niu called Chen Yiyang.

"Where did you get so much waste material, my friend?"

"Waste?" Chen Yiyang was startled, thinking he might suffer a loss this time.

Could it be that these jadeites aren't very valuable?

"It's not exactly waste. These should be jadeite raw materials left after bracelets were made," Ah Niu explained over the phone.

"Look at these jadeites, aren't they like slabs? But the middle part has been hollowed out."

"That's right, this box has about ten pieces of jadeite like this, all with a bracelet-shaped hollow in the middle," Chen Yiyang replied.

"This shape is because some rather bold jadeite merchants only make bracelets and nothing else.

So when they buy large jadeite, they directly cut it into slabs and hollow out the parts used for bracelets, leaving the rest to sell to others for further processing.

I see that your batch of jadeite is of very good quality. Even though the middle part has been hollowed out for bracelets, the leftover scraps are probably too precious to have been sold. How have they been preserved until now?"

Facing Ah Niu's question, Chen Yiyang had to answer, "These jadeites were bought from a jadeite merchant. He said they were leftovers from a long time ago, forgotten, and only recently rediscovered."

"Brother, how much did you buy this batch of jadeite for?" Ah Niu asked with great interest.

"Why don't you tell me how much this batch of jadeite is worth first?" rebutted Chen Yiyang.

"I'll conservatively estimate, at least two million."

Ah Niu quoted a price that surprised even Chen Yiyang.

"Isn't it supposed to be waste? How can it be so valuable?"

"Yes, it's waste, but it's waste left from making bracelets. Do you know what jadeite is used to make bracelets?

Only the best quality jadeite with the least impurities is worthy of being made into bracelets.

Even though these leftover scraps can't be made into bracelets, they can still produce high-quality jadeite jewelry.

My two million is a conservative estimate. If you actually put them on the market, you might get up to three million if priced reasonably."

"Alright then," said Chen Yiyang, after listening to Ah Niu. "I'll drive to Jin City tonight. Help me contact your acquaintances in the industry. Tomorrow morning, they can come and look at the goods. We'll do the transaction on the spot, cash for the goods. How about it?"

"No problem," Ah Niu immediately agreed.

After their first collaboration, Ah Niu and Chen Yiyang had met several times for tea and chats.

So he trusted Chen Yiyang, knowing that helping out would eventually benefit him too.

Carrying a box worth two million jadeite, Chen Yiyang couldn't sleep.

He got out and put the box of jadeite back into the car's trunk.

Then he drove his Hongqi car all the way towards Jin City.

Driving from Jin City to West Capital takes more than seven hours.

If Chen Yiyang drove by himself, it would definitely be fatigue driving.

He wouldn't be so careless, risking danger for millions.

So about three hours into the drive, he parked at a rest area, ate something, and waited.

Soon after, a car stopped here.

Zhou Jianjun got out and approached.

"Boss," Zhou Jianjun greeted Chen Yiyang.

When Chen Yiyang joined the peeled fruits and vegetables factory, Zhou Jianjun also started earning an additional salary as Chen Yiyang's driver.

Now, he earns more than ten thousand a month with very simple job duties.

So any request from Chen Yiyang was executed without question.

After receiving Chen Yiyang's message, he took a taxi, instructing the driver to bring him to the rest area.

"Get in the car, you drive and we'll continue to Jin City," ordered Chen Yiyang, letting Zhou Jianjun drive.

While he himself took a nap in the back seat.

Upon arrival in Jin City, dawn was just breaking.

Chen Yiyang told Zhou Jianjun to head back while he carried the box of jadeite to his apartment for a nap.

By nine in the morning.

He took the box to Ah Niu's shop.

By then, quite a few people had gathered at Ah Niu's shop.

Hearing that a batch of cheap jadeite already showing its quality was for sale, many colleagues came to see the situation.

Even after a nap, Chen Yiyang, still a bit lacking in energy, carried the box into Ah Niu's shop and opened it for inspection.

Just as Ah Niu had said.

The quality of the jadeite was exceptionally high.

Moreover, some jadeite came from old mines, now hard to find unprocessed.

Every boss present began to bid.

Ah Niu stood beside Chen Yiyang, helping to judge whether the prices were reasonable.

Chen Yiyang offered about fifteen percent less than the market price, but only if paid on the spot.

By lunchtime.

The entire box of jadeite had been sold completely.

Chen Yiyang received a total of three million one hundred and twenty thousand.

Apparently, Ah Niu's earlier estimate was really conservative.