After dinner, Huang Zhu got on his tricycle and went to the hardware store to buy a handy hammer. Since he was going to pick up iron, a hammer was indispensable, and a headlamp was also a must. Otherwise, he would not be able to see without tools at night, so

How else to pick up iron? After thinking about it, he bought another pair of gloves. It would not be good to do without gloves, as it might hurt his hands. Next time, he will wholesale more gloves. From now on, he will have to pick up iron every day. They will be used frequently and will be worn out.

It's big, and wholesale is cheaper. After crossing Yuliang Bridge, we followed the route the driver told us and came to the dumping place.

When Huang Zhu arrived, he found a bulldozer parked there. There was no one on top of the bulldozer. There was also a man sitting on a tricycle. The man looked to be in his fifties. He should be here to pick up iron.

. Seeing Huang Zhu coming on a tricycle, the man greeted him:

"You're here to pick up iron, right! Look, you're also pushing a tricycle."

"Yes, fellow! Will anyone come here to pick up iron at night?" Huang Zhu said. His accent sounded similar to Huang Zhu's, so he should be from SZ City.

"Probably not. I have been collecting for more than a month, and I am basically alone in the garbage dump. In the summer, the first floor of the house next to the bridge is often soaked in water on the river embankment here. The river embankment has only recently begun to be raised.

I was looking at the river embankment here, and basically no one else came to pick up iron. How did you know about picking up iron from the dirt?"

"I live near the demolition area. I saw iron in the demolished brick slag, so I asked the driver who transported the slag. He told me the place and then came here." Huang Zhu said, thinking: "

It turns out that this fellow is here to look at the river embankment. The heightening of the river embankment here has only been started for more than a month."

"It's boring to pick up iron alone at night. When you come, I feel it will be a lot more lively and I won't be lonely." The fellow said again.

"Just don't blame me for stealing your business!" Huang Zhu said to him with a smile.

"I'm not in a hurry to pick up anyone. Sometimes many of them are bulldozed and buried underneath. There's no business grabbing, and besides, the iron is not mine," said the fellow.

While talking, Huang Zhu also parked his tricycle and chatted with this man, waiting for the garbage truck to come and dump the dirt. Through chatting, Huang Zhu found out that this man's surname was Liu, and he was also from SZ City, but he was not with Huang Zhu.

In a town, Huang Zhu asked him how much iron he could pick up in one night. He said that a tricycle could not pull it. He had a place to live not far away because of his work of looking at the river embankment. When he was full, he would push it there.

If you put it there, you can sometimes pick up three or four cars, and you can pick up hundreds of kilograms in one night.

Huang Xiu was not surprised by what fellow countryman Liu said. Sometimes a large iron pipe for fire protection weighs hundreds of kilograms, and iron pipes buried underground can also weigh dozens or hundreds of kilograms. Huang Xiu remembers the demolition of a steel plant in his previous life.

When he was digging the foundation, one night he went to pick up porcelain specimens. An iron picker found an iron trough plate that had fallen from a dump truck. It was thick, wide, and weighed several hundred kilograms. The iron picker insisted on

There was no way to get this big trough board. It wasn't until the next day that I found four or five people at home and brought ropes and wooden sticks. After a lot of effort, I managed to sell it. Another time, an iron picker discovered

I found a fire pipe gate that fell from the dirt. It should be the main pipe buried underground. It also weighed several hundred kilograms. In the end, it took a lot of effort to remove it.

According to what Lao Liu said, if he could pick up several hundred kilograms of iron in one night, that would be an income of three to four hundred yuan in one night. Of course, it is impossible to pick up that much every day. Even if he picks up two hundred kilograms and sells it for one hundred yuan, then

Not bad.

After chatting for about half an hour, it was almost dark at this time. From a distance, I saw the lights of a car sweeping towards me. It must be a garbage truck coming. Huang Zhu turned on the headlight on his head and picked up his belt.

When the hammer comes, put on gloves and make final preparations.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the car to arrive here. The garbage truck stopped in front for a while, and a person got out of the passenger seat. This man walked directly to the bulldozer. He was probably driving the bulldozer. After the man got off the car,

The driver of the garbage truck drove to the predetermined location and dumped the bricks and debris. After the truck drove away, Huang Zhu and Lao Liu stepped forward and started searching.

There were many floor slabs in this truck of bricks and slag, and the floor slabs were broken and exposed the steel bars that were not too thick. When Huang Xi saw this, he knew that the demolition was a board house, that is, the ground above the second floor was not the integral cast-in-situ concrete in the future, but

It was a long piece of cement board with a round hollow in the middle. Huang Xiu did not smash the iron on the board. He saw a steel bar, which was directly exposed. There was no need to smash it, so he picked it up directly. He heard the bulldozer.

When the sound came, Huang Zhu and Lao Liu walked away. After the bulldozer flattened the bricks and debris, Huang Zhu and Lao Liu went over to search again. This time Huang Zhu saw several steel bars on the board were exposed after being crushed by the bulldozer.

When you come out, you don't need to smash them, just pick them up. Huang Zhu bent these thin steel bars, took them and put them on the tricycle.

The bulldozer flattened the pile of bricks and slag and returned to the edge. Another dump truck dumped the bricks and slag down again. Huang Zhu quickly went up to look for it. This time he saw several cement slabs connected by steel bars. Huang Zhu

He pulled it out and dragged up the steel bars and the cement blocks that had not been scattered. Huang Zhu saw that the bulldozer was coming again, so he moved it to a place seven or eight meters away from the bulldozer where it would not affect him.

The smashing started. There were not many cement blocks on the steel bars, so Huang Xiu quickly smashed all the cement. Lifting the steel bars, Huang Xiang estimated the weight, which was at least ten kilograms. Huang Xiang bent it again.

Put it on the tricycle. After the bulldozer was leveled, Huang Xiu went to look for steel bars that could be picked up directly or that were easy to smash. He picked them up and smashed them for several hours until the car could no longer fit them, and some iron bars were placed on the ground.

At this time, Huang Zhu stopped continuing to pick up iron and smash it.

Huang Zhu walked to the side of the tricycle and slowly stuffed the iron on the ground one by one into the gaps where the steel bars were placed before the tricycle. It couldn't fit anymore, so Huang Zhu said goodbye to Lao Liu and started to push the tricycle back.<

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On the way back, Huang Zhu felt that the dregs dumped today were actually not much iron. If you were building a high-rise building and digging a basement, the dregs piled up and the steel bars dumped by a few trucks would be more than those at night. Those are the most important things.

Thick rebar weighs several kilograms or more than ten kilograms, and even half a tricycle may not be able to push it. Also, if the demolition is a factory building, the angle irons, bar irons, steel pipes, and iron ingots inside will be demolished.

, just pick up a few cars, there is more iron than the prefabricated house at night. But I picked up some tonight, so it is not in vain. Even if the car can’t be loaded at night, Huang Xi knows in his heart that these only weigh about 150 kilograms at most.

, because most of them are thin steel bars in the floor slab.

Huang Zhu feels that it will not be very convenient to use this tricycle to pick up iron in the future, because if there is too much iron, the tricycle cannot hold it at all, and if the iron is too heavy, the tricycle cannot push it. It would be better if there is a van. Wait.

After a while, when you have money, you should first apply for a driver's license. Huang Zhu had a driver's license in his previous life. He can drive a car, so it is convenient to drive.

After picking up iron for half the night and pushing the tricycle when he came back, Huang Su felt very tired. When he arrived at the place where he rented a house, Huang Su locked the tricycle, closed the yard gate, took a simple shower and went to bed. Maybe he was too tired.
Chapter completed!