Chapter 21: What Jin Xuan Heard
【Two more updates, please collect and recommend! There is another update tonight, hoping for everyone's support! 】Duan Yue carefully cut open the loofah, eyes wide with excitement, wanting to see what magical changes had occurred in these loofahs after being transformed by the culture medium?
The rind, pulp and general calabaza are consistent, the only thing that makes Duan Lei's pupils shrink is the seeds deeply buried in the pulp. Unlike the black seeds of ordinary calabaza, the seeds that have engulfed the calabaza are silver-white, each one like a star in the Milky Way embedded in the green pulp, exceptionally dazzling.
According to the introduction on the material, after the calabaza is ripe, the seeds in the pulp are pure silver. Although there was still a hint of doubt in his heart, Duan Lei had already confirmed that these were indeed silver.
Without much hesitation, Duan Yue picked all the calabazas from the vine and carefully washed out all the seeds, concentrating them in a glass dish. Looking at the small particles shining with silver light in the glass dish, Duan Yue's excitement was beyond words.
After obtaining these technical materials from Dingdang, Duan Lei invested all his savings and pushed himself to a situation where he was only allowed to succeed and not fail. For the past month, he has been neglecting sleep and food, putting all his energy into cultivating the swallow grass, and the hardships are naturally not worth mentioning to outsiders.
Now, after a month of hard work, I finally saw the glittering silver in front of my eyes, as if a golden road had been paved for me!
With this silver, Duan Yue finally had a chance to catch his breath, as he was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Previously, Duan Yue had brought nearly a thousand liters of silver-containing waste liquid from the school laboratory. After being absorbed by the loofah sponge, all the silver elements it contained were resolved and crystallized into loofah seeds. Of course, photographic studios or printing plants have higher silver content in their developing waste liquids, which will be Duan Yue's main target in the future.
After measurement, these silver weighed up to 5000 grams. At the current market price of 5 yuan per gram, this silver can bring in over 20,000 yuan for Duan Lei, and his main cost is only the expense generated by purchasing waste liquid. Of course, the investment in configuring culture medium and laboratory equipment is not included, as long as Duan Lei continues to carry out the business of refining silver, the cost may be further reduced.
These silver melons are unlikely to be sold directly, otherwise fools can see that these silver melons are not man-made but natural products. Duan Lei must first dissolve these silver melons and cast them into common silver bars before they can be sold.
When buying experimental equipment at the beginning, Duan Yue considered the current situation and bought a special electric furnace for dissolving metals. The melting point of pure silver is only 960 degrees Celsius, and the difficulty of operation is not great. Soon, Duan Yue dissolved the silver melon seeds into **, and poured them into a silver bar shape.
Cleaned up the lab and re-soaked more calabaza seeds in culture solution, closed the laboratory doors and windows, Duan Lei put on a silver bar and rushed to the city.
This time Duan Yue didn't ride a bike, but instead took the interval bus from Cai Village to the city center and soon arrived at Hai City Central - Beijing Road.
There are nearly a hundred cities across the country that have a Beijing Road, but as soon as you mention Beijing Road, people's first reaction is Haicheng's Beijing Road.
This is one of the most famous and prosperous commercial streets in the world, also one of the earliest established commercial streets after the opening of Haicheng. It is known as "China's First Commercial Street" and is among the world's top commercial streets along with New York's Fifth Avenue, Paris' Champs-élysées, London's Oxford Street, and Tokyo's Ginza. This is a golden land where countless merchants gather, a window for Haicheng to open up to the outside world, and a shopper's paradise for both domestic and international customers.
Duan Yue got off at the intersection of Beijing Road and looked at the densely packed billboards on both sides of the pedestrian street, as well as the bustling crowd, took a deep breath, and secretly encouraged himself.
Duan Yue did not foolishly carry the silver into those famous jewelry stores such as 'Chow Tai Fook' and 'Chow Lok Fook' located on the pedestrian street, but instead slipped into a small alleyway beside the pedestrian street.
When Duanshuai started to do the experiment of swallowing, he had already learned from his classmates in Haicheng that the alleys on Beijing Road were crowded with large and small gold shops, which was the best place for sales.
As he walked into this small alley, known as 'Golden Alley' by the locals of Haicheng, Duan Lei suddenly found that it was in stark contrast to the bustling Beijing Road outside. It was unusually quiet. Looking through the shop doors, one could occasionally see a customer or two sitting inside talking softly, and there were no endless streams of customers coming and going.
Duan Lei didn't know that most of the shops in Jin Xiang were the headquarters of some old gold shops, and they rarely did business with individual customers. The main clients here were group clients or partners from other places. Therefore, when Duan Lei walked into the alley with a backpack, several security guards in uniform stared at him warily.
Duan Yue walked a short distance in the alley, not knowing which gold shop to enter. Later, he had no choice but to casually find a store called "Yonghe Building" and went inside.
"Sir, may I help you with anything?" As soon as we entered the Yonghe Building, a salesgirl wearing a cheongsam dress came up to us with a smile.
Seeing a stranger at the door, Li Jie felt a little strange, but soon excluded this unusual emotion and smiled. Li Jie guessed in her heart that this young man who looked like a student should have mistakenly entered Jin Xiang and did not know that the shops in Jin Xiang had no retail business and generally did not receive individual customers.
"Do you accept silver here?" Duan Yue's voice was slightly tense, after all, it was his first time doing this kind of thing.
"Accepting silver?" Li Jie was slightly taken aback, but she quickly regained her composure and smiled, saying: "We also have this service here, sir. Please take a seat, let's talk slowly!"
Normally, Yonghe Building rarely does business with strangers, but Li Jie looked at Duan Lei's face, which was slightly flushed due to tension, and made an exception for some reason.
"Clang!" When Duan Yue put the backpack on the coffee table, the silver inside made a considerable noise. Experienced Li Jie quickly picked up that there was no small amount of metal in the bag.
"Sir, I don't know what specifications of white silver you want to sell? How much is there?" Li Jie asked after they sat down.
"Pure silver, 999, a total of five kilograms!" Duan Yue didn't waste any words either, and directly took out the silver from his bag and placed it on the tea table.
Duan Yue knew that the shops on Jin Xiang handled countless gold and silver every day, so his small amount of white silver would not be noticed by them. The probability of being blackmailed was too low. It's better to be straightforward than to hesitate.
Li Jie took a look at the silver bars on the tea table and knew that they were privately melted and cast, because the shape of these silver bars was not regular. However, judging from their color, the purity of these silver bars was not bad.
She took a silver bar and scratched it with a needle, leaving an inconspicuous mark on the surface. After feeling its weight again, Li Jie could basically determine that these silver bars had a high purity and were of good quality.
However, Li Jie really didn't dare accept these silver bars of unknown origin!
