Chapter 176 With ulterior motives
Chapter 176 With ulterior motives
9.2
The next day, everyone went to work as usual.
Jia Dongxu came to the workshop, his eyes wandered around and finally fell on the mountain of waste in the corner.
There was a barely perceptible cunning gleam in his eyes, as if he was planning something.
"Jia Dongxu, this is your task today!" The workshop director handed a task list to Jia Dongxu.
"Director!" Jia Dongxu responded, took the task list and took a quick look at it.
Today's task is not difficult. We just need to turn the workpiece into a shape that meets the specifications.
Completing a total of 20 workpieces was not a difficult task for Jia Dongxu.
"Don't worry, Director, I will ensure that the task is completed!" Jia Dongxu said confidently.
The workshop director nodded, patted Jia Dongxu on the shoulder, and encouraged:
"Jia Dongxu, I have seen your ability. The reason you failed the last assessment was because of your mentality, not your ability."
"Apply for another test next month, and you should be able to pass it."
"Yes, Director!" Jia Dongxu said happily.
As expected, his ability is enough to be promoted to a second-level worker, but his mentality was not good during the last assessment.
The workshop director gave some encouragement and then distributed tasks.
"I have to work hard and practice well this month, and I must pass the assessment next month!" Jia Dongxu vowed secretly in his heart.
"Ding-ling-ling——" the work bell rang and everyone started to work.
Jia Dongxu completed 10 workpieces smoothly, and the workers nearby couldn't help but feel happy when they saw this.
"This Jia Dongxu must have figured out something. There isn't a single broken workpiece so far."
"Yes, if Jia Dongxu does this in the future, our workshop can also compete for the first place, and the benefits will be good."
Hearing the murmurs of the crowd in the distance, Yi Zhonghai turned to look at Jia Dongxu and saw that he looked serious.
Yi Zhonghai thought to himself, "Jia Dongxu finally took it seriously. There will be another test next month, so I can teach him something else."
"I can get promoted to a second-level worker, but forget about the third-level worker."
Yi Zhonghai is still worried about Jia Dongxu and will not let go of the Jia family.
After being busy for a while, Jia Dongxu felt a little tired and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Dongxu, why don't you go out and have a smoke?" suggested a co-worker nearby.
Work requires a combination of work and rest. Besides, they won't compress a day's work to finish it in just one morning.
"Okay." Jia Dongxu thought about it, decided to relax, and nodded.
As I followed my co-workers out, I looked at the waste in the corner.
Just as they were about to leave the workshop, the voice of the workshop director suddenly sounded behind them.
"Jia Dongxu, Ling Daniu, Yang Er, Zhang San, wait a minute!"
They immediately turned around and looked at the director nervously.
The workshop director pointed to the scraps in the corner and said, "You guys are free now, so move all this scrap to the smelting workshop."
"Okay!" Jia Dongxu asked in confusion.
The workshop looked at Jia Dongxu and said, "What? I asked you to move the scrap to the smelting workshop."
"All?" Jia Dongxu asked again.
The director was a little angry: "Of course it's all, what does the workshop need these waste materials for? Jia Dongxu, can you process these waste materials again?"
Jia Dongxu waved his hands repeatedly: "That's not what I meant!"
The director waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, stop talking nonsense and move quickly!" Then he turned and left.
Several people started to move with bitter faces. They originally planned to take a rest, but in the end, they couldn't rest and had to work instead.
Seeing this, Ling Daniu said helplessly: "Okay, move it!"
Someone found a cart and moved the waste onto it.
Jia Dongxu looked at the waste materials, thinking about something in his mind, and moved them slowly.
Others looked at Jia Dongxu's slowness and thought he was being lazy.
They wanted to say something, but when they thought of Yi Zhonghai, they didn't say much.
The move was completed in a short while. "Jia Dongxu, we won't bother you to go with us."
"Huh? Ah?" Jia Dongxu didn't react.
They pushed the cart away.
Looking at their departing backs, Jia Dongxu was thinking about something.
When he returned to his workstation and looked at the 20 workpieces left to be processed, a sudden idea came to him.
"No one will see it, right?"
Jia Dongxu looked around and saw that everyone was busy with their own work and no one noticed his actions.
So he put his mind at ease, picked up a workpiece and started processing.
Measure, mark, check, then start turning.
There is a strange sound "click".
He turned the workpiece into two halves.
Everyone in the workshop was attracted by the unusual sound, and all their eyes turned to Jia Dongxu.
"Sorry! Sorry! I wasn't paying attention and broke the turning!" Jia Dongxu apologized quickly.
"It's okay! Be more careful next time!" said a worker nearby.
It was just a broken workpiece, which was not a big deal for those of them who often processed workpieces.
Although they are first-class workpieces, they are occasionally turned out to be broken.
No one paid attention to Jia Dongxu and turned around to continue completing the work at hand.
After breaking a workpiece, Jia Dongxu was secretly happy: "The noise just now was too loud. Let's be quieter and do it bit by bit."
Jia Dongxu broke one, pretended to think about it, picked up another one, and completed it successfully.
But the third one, Jia Dongxu broke it carefully, and this time there was no strange noise.
He looked up at everyone: "No one saw it, let's get on with it!"
Jia Dongxu couldn't help but feel secretly happy in his heart, his plan was already half successful.
A busy time.
Before leaving get off work, everyone handed in today's work.
The director looked at the workpieces that Jia Dongxu had completed, picked one up and looked at it carefully: "Not bad, today's workpiece was completed well!"
"Thank you, Director!" Jia Dongxu thanked.
When the director looked to the side and saw Jia Dongxu's failed workpiece, his brows suddenly frowned and his face suddenly became gloomy.
When the workers around Jia Dongxu saw this, they immediately moved away from him, fearing that they would be implicated.
A quick look at Jia Dongxu's failed workpieces revealed that there were 10 of them, each of which was in pieces and no trace of its original form could be seen.
The workshop director opened his mouth, wanting to say something to Jia Dongxu, wanting to say:
"Jia Dongxu, you are really a talent. You can actually break 10 of the workpieces of a first-class worker. Even an apprentice is not as good as you!"
But in the end he sighed, said nothing, and walked away.
The workers nearby breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately they were not affected.
Jia Dongxu felt relieved that he was not scolded.
There are 30 workpieces, at least 20 are completed, 10 are damaged, and the damage rate is 33%. Even an apprentice can make that many mistakes.
After the inspection, everyone packed up and prepared to go home.
“Ding-ling-ling——” the bell for the end of get off work rang.
Jia Dongxu held his stomach and said to Yi Zhonghai in pain:
"Master, please go back first. I need to go to the toilet. My stomach hurts so badly."
Yi Zhonghai looked at Jia Dongxu's painful expression, nodded, and left without saying anything.
Jia Dongxu went to the toilet without stopping.
There is a small forest next to the toilet. Jia Dongxu moved the stone in the corner of the toilet and revealed several broken workpieces hidden behind it.
"With these scraps, I can complete my own scrap task, and the extra ones can be sold for some money, killing two birds with one stone!" Jia Dongxu thought secretly.
These workpieces were deliberately damaged by Jia Dongxu today. They were broken into pieces and their original shapes could not be seen. They could not be recognized as workpieces from the steel rolling mill.
Jia Dongxu put down a few more pieces of waste and then returned the stone to its original place. Jia Dongxu looked around carefully and felt relieved when he saw that no one had noticed.
He left the steel mill openly, walked around to the grove, and took the waste away. Holding the waste, Jia Dongxu was very happy.
"With so much scrap, I can go to the black market tonight and sell it to make some extra money!"
Each courtyard has a target task for iron materials, which everyone must complete, and thus the buying and selling of scrap materials was born.
The waste from garbage stations, repair shops and other places where there is waste has been taken away, and no one can get the waste.
But the target task had to be completed, so this deal was born.
Where there is demand, there will naturally be trade.
Yesterday, after Xiao Zheng left, the Jia family handed over all the waste materials. Jia Dongxu went to the black market in the evening and learned that he could buy and sell waste materials.
"Since the scrap can be sold, and there happens to be a pile of it in the factory, and we don't need it anyway, it's not impossible to take it out secretly and sell it!" Jia Dongxu muttered to himself.
This is what happened today. If the waste in the corner was not transported to the smelting workshop, Jia Dongxu would not want to damage the workpiece.
But since his wish was not fulfilled, Jia Dongxu had no choice but to resort to this last resort.
"Although I will be looked down upon by the Director again, compared to the money, Director, hum! That's nothing!"
Night, around eleven or twelve at night.
Jia Dongxu quietly opened his eyes, glanced at Jia Zhangshi, Qin Huairu and Banggeng who were still immersed in their dreams, and then got up carefully.
Jia Dongxu did not tell them that he was selling scraps because he did not want to give the money he earned to Jia Zhang.
"This money is mine, I earned it with hard work, there is no way I can hand it over!!" Jia Dongxu thought to himself.
Once Jia Zhang is told, half of the money will have to be given to her, which is absolutely impossible for Jia Dongxu.
After a simple packing, Jia Dongxu carried the waste to the black market.
"Look, how much are these scraps worth?" Jia Dongxu asked nervously. In front of him stood a scrap buyer.
Du Bi Da picked up the workpiece, looked at it carefully, and looked at Jia Dongxu with surprise and confusion in his eyes.
"Your scrap doesn't look like an ordinary thing!"
Jia Dongxu's heart tightened: "Don't worry about what it is. I just want to ask you if you want to accept it. If you don't want to accept it, I will find someone else."
Jia Dongxu tried to hide his nervousness with a tough attitude.
After saying that, Jia Dongxu picked up the waste and prepared to leave.
"Hey, hey, hey, I'll take it! I'll take it!" Du Bi Da immediately grabbed Jia Dongxu's arm and said hurriedly.
Du Bi Da looked at Jia Dongxu. Although he didn't know how Jia Dongxu got these waste materials, this was the black market, so it didn't matter how he got them.
Du Bi Da took out a scale and put the waste materials on it, which weighed about 3 kilograms.
"You should know the price of iron. It's 1 yuan per pound. You have 1 pounds here, so it's 3 yuan."
After saying that, Du Bi Da was about to take out 3 dollars.
Jia Dongxu was not satisfied with the price: "Comrade, if you do business like this, I won't do business with you anymore."
"This is a black market, the price should be at least double, at least 2 yuan."
"Besides, this scrap material is in great demand right now. Not to mention 2 yuan, even 3 yuan will be bought. Why are you and I doing this?"
Du Bi Da originally thought that Jia Dongxu didn't understand the market and wanted to take advantage of him, but he didn't expect that Jia Dongxu was so knowledgeable.
"Comrade, I miscalculated, I miscalculated, don't be angry!"
Jia Dongxu ignored him and turned to leave.
"Hey, comrade, I was just joking, don't go!" Du Bi Da quickly grabbed Jia Dongxu.
But this time Jia Dongxu ignored him, broke free from his restraints and prepared to leave.
"Comrade, I'll give you more money, I'll give you more money!" Du Bi Da said quickly.
Jia Dongxu stopped, looked back at him, and asked, "How much?"
"2.5 per pound, is that okay?"
After listening to this, Jia Dongxu prepared to leave without looking back.
Du Bi Da quickly explained: "Comrade, this price is not low. Even if this scrap is in short supply, it still has a price. If it is too expensive, others can't afford it. I also want to make some money."
After hearing this, Jia Dongxu thought about it and felt that what he said made sense.
"Okay, 2.5 is 2.5. If you lie to me again, don't blame me for being rude!" Jia Dongxu threatened.
Upon hearing the threat, Du Bi's face changed and he became murderous, but no one could see it because of the mask.
Looking around, I saw that there were people doing business here, so it was not a place to do business.
"That's right, that's right!" Du Bi Da said with pretended enthusiasm.
"2.5 per pound, 3 pounds in total, I'll give you 7.5."
After the calculation, Du Bi Da took out the money and handed it to Jia Dongxu.
Jia Dongxu took the money, held the thick stack of banknotes tightly in his hand, counted the banknotes one by one, and thought to himself:
"It's so easy to make money like this, 7.5 each time, 10 for 75 times, which is much more than my salary!" Jia Dongxu was secretly delighted.
"Why don't we just do this from now on? Break a little bit every day and sell it on the black market. This is easier than working."
All kinds of beautiful fantasies began to emerge in Jia Dongxu's mind, as if he had already seen himself living a rich life.
"No one will see it anyway, so I might as well make some money now. If I don't do it, someone else will."
Jia Dongxu's greed overcame his reason, and he decided to continue.
At this time, Du Bi Da watched Jia Dongxu counting the money enthusiastically, and then looked at the workpieces, weighing the pros and cons in his mind.
"Why do you have to go against money? It doesn't matter if you kill people early or late, just make the money first!"
This thought flashed through Dubida's mind.
Du Bi Da suddenly didn't want to kill Jia Dongxu and wanted to keep him.
"Comrade! Comrade!" Dubida shouted.
"Well! Is there anything wrong?" Jia Dongxu came back to his senses.
"Comrade." Du Bi Da pointed at the workpiece.
"Will you get all these scraps in the future? If you can, I will do long-term business with you. I will keep the current price. I will charge you whatever you have!"
Hearing this, Jia Dongxu felt a surge of enthusiasm in his heart.
"Really? You want them all?" Jia Dongxu asked.
"Really, I want them all!" Du Bi Da nodded, and he also understood that Jia Dongxu could get a lot of waste materials.
Jia Dongxu's idea coincides with that of the person on the other side. Everyone wants to make money.
"Okay, I can get a lot, but not so fast, like this, 3 days."
Jia Dongxu raised three fingers and said, "Okay, let's do it within three days. I'll get you another batch in three days."
Hearing this, Du Bi shook his head and said, "Three days is too long. Two days will still be the same as today, both 3 jins. It would be better if it were more."
Hearing this, Jia Dongxu lowered his head to think for a while, but he quickly made a decision.
Jia Dongxu thought to himself: "I can make 2 kilograms in 3 days. I can make 3 kilograms in one day. 2 days is not difficult. I can also use waste materials to make up for it."
After thinking it over, Jia Dongxu decided:
"Okay! Two days is two days, but I'm not sure how much more it can be."
"It's okay, it can be more if you can, but if you can't have more, 3 kilograms will be fine. Your safety is the most important!" Du Bi Da said.
Hearing Du Bi's comfort, Jia Dongxu felt warm in his heart.
He was dealing with these waste materials secretly and felt uneasy, but he was actually comforted by a stranger.
"Don't worry, I will definitely give you more if I can. We will still trade here in two days!"
"Okay, let's do the trade here. I'll wait for you!" Du Bi Da said.
After the two chatted for a while, Jia Dongxu said goodbye and left.
Du Bi Da looked at Jia Dongxu's back and no longer had the intention to kill him. Instead, he looked like a lamb to be slaughtered.
Du Bi Da clenched the hidden knife and said, "Don't rush to kill him. Wait until you make enough money, then get rid of him."
Jia Dongxu had no idea that he was being targeted.
At this moment, he held the money in his hand and felt warm in his heart with Du Bi Da's comfort.
Jia Dongxu returned home happily and felt relieved when he saw his family still sleeping soundly.
He took off his clothes and lay down on the bed with peace of mind.
(End of this chapter)