96: Women are so scary!

Since the trick didn't work, Ye Su didn't mind. He hailed a car and arrived with Chen Xinyi at a corner opposite the recycling center on Funing Street.

"Take a look, the toy looks like this."

Ye Su sent all the various pictures of the G1 Optimus Prime he had looked up in the car to Chen Xinyi's phone.

"Strange."

Chen Xinyi, who was zooming in on the photos to see the details of the G1 Optimus Prime toy, suddenly stared at Ye Su in confusion:

"You're already here, so why don't you go buy the toy yourself? Why drag me all the way here to help you buy it from the owner? Don't tell me you think the recycling center is dirty, so you're ordering me to do this dirty work for you!"

It was no wonder Chen Xinyi thought that.

Because based on her understanding of Ye Su, this was something he would actually do.

Ye Su looked pained, clutching his chest with his right hand: "How could you think that of me? Can there be no trust between people anymore!"

Chen Xinyi watched Ye Su's dramatic performance with a cold gaze: "No."

Seeing that his bluff didn't work, Ye Su had no choice but to tell the truth: "I had a bit of a falling out with the owner before. I'm worried that if he recognizes me, he won't be willing to sell the toy to me."

Studying the expression on Ye Su's face carefully and seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Chen Xinyi looked speechless:

"Big brother, you're really something. You can even manage to hold a grudge against a random recycling center owner who has nothing to do with you..."

"That was just an accident." Ye Su changed the subject: "Don't ask anymore. Hurry up and go. If the owner takes the toy apart later, we'll have come for nothing."

"Got it."

Chen Xinyi put on her Bluetooth headset, kept the call connected with Ye Su, and walked toward the owner who had already started sorting through the scrap.

"Hello, boss."

The slightly coquettish voice of Chen Xinyi came through the headset, making even Ye Su feel a tingle.

He couldn't hear what the owner was saying through the headset, but Ye Su could see the owner smiling from ear to ear. His attitude toward Chen Xinyi was like night and day compared to how he had treated him last time.

"My family accidentally sold a Transformer toy as scrap yesterday. I asked around and heard it was sold to you, so I wanted to come over and look for it to see if it's still here."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's an optimus prime, an old toy."

Seeing the owner walk into the recycling center, Ye Su waited a while longer before seeing him come out holding a cardboard box. The box had a faint system prompt light glowing on it.

Ye Su hurriedly reminded Chen Xinyi: "That's the toy!"

Then, Ye Su heard Chen Xinyi's voice through the headset:

"Yes, boss, that's the toy. Could you sell it back to me?"

"It's not worth much. This toy was bought by my husband when he was in school. It was just left at home, and my son found it somewhere a few days ago."

"My mother-in-law thought the toy was too old, so she decided to buy my son a new one and threw this Transformer away as scrap. As a result, my son threw a tantrum at home all day yesterday. No matter how much we coaxed him, he wouldn't stop; he just kept insisting on finding this Transformer."

"Oh, he's not that young; my son is three years old this year."

"Boss, you really know how to talk—"

"I did, I went to the supermarket last night and bought him several similar Transformers, but he smashed them all. He cried and said he just wanted this specific Transformer; he wouldn't even go to sleep."

"In the end, I had to coax him by saying I'd help him find the toy today, and he finally calmed down for a bit."

"But as soon as he woke up today, he started pestering me for this Transformer again, so I came over to see if I could buy the toy back."

Listening to the vivid story Chen Xinyi was weaving through the headset, Ye Su was dumbfounded.

Women are truly terrifying!

"What else can you do? You gave birth to them, so you just have to coax them. Only when they grow up a bit can we parents have it a little easier."

"Boss, can you do me a favor and sell this toy back to me?"

"It's not worth much. On e-commerce platforms, one is only twenty or thirty yuan. The ones I bought at the supermarket yesterday didn't even cost two hundred yuan total."

"Boss, please just help me out—"

"How about fifty?"

"Boss, you're really a good person—"

After Chen Xinyi picked up her phone, the call was suddenly disconnected. Then, Ye Su saw Chen Xinyi point her phone at the owner a few times; she must have been transferring money to him.

After taking the toy and waving to the owner, Chen Xinyi strolled slowly away from the recycling center.

Halfway there, Chen Xinyi picked up her pace, and finally, in a few quick strides, she arrived in front of Ye Su:

"You hold it yourself!"

Shoving the Transformer into Ye Su's hands, Chen Xinyi took out the wet wipes she had prepared in advance and kept wiping her hands.

Ye Su worried that teasing Chen Xinyi about the story she had just made up would anger her and make her unwilling to help him next time, so he wisely refrained from mentioning her performance.

However, Chen Xinyi's performance just now gave Ye Su a new idea.

Since there is scavenging intelligence refreshing every day, could he do the same thing as now—let others help retrieve the items while he just lies back and waits to collect the money?

However, to have others do the work for him, the most important thing is that they must be trustworthy and tight-lipped.

As of now, besides Chen Xinyi, the only people around him who could meet these requirements were the three dudes in his dorm.

But considering he had lived with them for almost three years and knew them, Ye Su still had to put a question mark on whether those three dudes were reliable.

So, for now, Chen Xinyi was the only person he trusted who could help him with these things.

"The matter of forming a scavenging team will have to be planned carefully."

Ye Su wasn't in a rush, so he took the Transformer and started inspecting it.

After passing through several hands and even being sold to a recycling center, the outer packaging inevitably had some creases, but fortunately, it was rarely damaged, which could be considered Ye Su's good luck.

Carefully opening the outer packaging and confirming that the accessories and stickers inside were complete, Ye Su finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright, let's go."

After checking the item, he estimated that the ride-hailing car would be arriving soon. Ye Su reached out to take Chen Xinyi's hand to walk out, but Chen Xinyi dodged it with quick reflexes:

"Hey, don't touch me until you go back and wash your hands, or you'll be sleeping on the sofa tonight."

"Alright, alright, so now you think I'm dirty, huh!"

Chen Xinyi nodded without hesitation: "Yes."

"Fine, you think I'm dirty, huh! I hope you can still be this tough after you know how much this box of toys is worth!"

After piquing Chen Xinyi's curiosity, Ye Su walked straight toward the pickup point at the street corner without looking back.

"Wait!" Once Chen Xinyi realized what happened, she hurriedly chased after him, shaking Ye Su's arm: "I was wrong, brother, good brother, tell me, how much is this box of toys worth!"

No matter how much Chen Xinyi acted coquettishly, Ye Su remained unmoved.

By the time they reached the street corner, the ride-hailing car was already waiting there, and Ye Su immediately opened the door and climbed in.

Seeing that her seduction didn't work, Chen Xinyi stomped her foot in anger before following him into the car.