Chapter 944 - 0944: Old Friends Help 2
The fare was calculated by segments, with each segment being four stops long. If you rode for five stops, even though it was only one more stop, it would cost an extra three cents. That’s why many locals preferred to walk the last stop home.
Feng Qingxue and Lu Jiang, both outsiders, were deeply impressed by such meticulous thriftiness.
After getting off the bus, they headed straight for the waste station.
The staff at this waste station were much stricter than Mu Yangdong, quite unsociable and hard to deal with. It took Qingxue a lot of soft persuasion and insistence just to gain entry, only for the couple to end up greatly disappointed with the scarcity of waste items inside.
They found out that the waste had been cleared out the day before yesterday, meaning all the waste items had been shipped off to factories—paper mills or steel plants, and so forth.
Since the previously collected items had been taken away, and the newly scavenged items hadn’t been brought in yet, the place naturally seemed empty.
After a whole day’s work and careful identification, Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue found only two valuable paintings and calligraphies, one law-post and about twenty pieces of porcelain. Porcelain was not easy to recycle, so they planned to hand it over to the foreign trade department as craft items to be shipped to the southeast coast for export in exchange for foreign currency.
They took some of the cups, dishes, and bowls in their hands, claiming they were going to use them in their daily lives, and managed to take them out.
There was an especially beautiful coral bonsai, a radiant red. Qingxue wanted to take it, but it was too conspicuous a position.
If the bonsai disappeared, it would undoubtedly raise suspicion among the staff.
Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue could only leave with regret, heading back to the state-run hotel where they were staying.