A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

In the following days, Hu Dahai and Guan Asan traveled back and forth between Qunyi Brigade and Hangzhou.

Every time, they would go empty-handed and come back with buckets full of water.

After a day or two, the people of Qunyi Brigade also became very curious.

"Do you know what Hu Dahai has been up to lately? He's been going to the city every day to fetch water. What's the use of that water?"

“I’d like to ask that too. I’ve been observing them for several days now. Guan Asan used to work at the off-season vegetable base, but now we can’t find any of Guan Asan’s people.”

"Does Hu Dahai have some new project in mind? But what can this water be used for?"

"According to Guan Asan, it seems to be some kind of abandoned water. Guan Asan is a man who can't speak clearly, and we couldn't get any information out of him no matter how we asked him."

At Hu Dahai's home, he looked at the buckets of waste photo washing water piled up in the yard, as if he were looking at bundles of ten-yuan bills.

Because some of these photo studios had stored up a lot of waste photo developing fluid for a long time, the amount of photo developing fluid collected this time was particularly large.

He estimated that at least several hundred grams of silver could be extracted from so much waste photo washing water, and with good luck, even thousands of grams.

The 80s were a low point for silver prices, but they were still around 1.5 yuan per gram.

These few hundred grams of silver are worth only a few hundred yuan. Even a small mosquito is still meat.

It may not seem like much, but it's a long-term business. As long as the photo studio is still in operation, they will have to develop photos continuously.

Hundreds or thousands a day, that's several thousand or tens of thousands in ten days.

If more and more photo studios use their best photo developing solutions for Hu Dahai, then the amount of waste photo developing solutions they receive will naturally increase, and the more photo developing solutions they have, the more silver they can extract from them.

However, Hu Dahai did not intend to do this himself, but decided to entrust it to a specialist.

After all, once you've experienced being a hands-off manager, you'll never forget it.

But who should he choose? Hu Dahai was at a loss for words.

Because most of the people under his command already have their own jobs, it wouldn't be appropriate to transfer anyone.

Moreover, this job requires some knowledge and a certain level of cultural literacy.

Many people in the Qunyi team were not even junior high school graduates. Hu Dahai was worried that they would be too slow to get started and that they would not do a good job.

"Dad, what are all these things of yours?"

Just then, Hu Wangfei returned from school and saw Hu Dahai standing in front of these large barrels. He asked him curiously.

Upon seeing Hu Wangfei, Hu Dahai's eyes lit up instantly.

Yes, why didn't he think of that? Someone needs to be cultured and reliable, and isn't Hu Wangfei right in front of him a perfect candidate?

Now, under his tutelage, Hu Wangfei has long since become someone completely under his control.

It can be said that as long as he is allowed to fly east, he will not dare to go west.

In addition, Hu Wangfei is a high school student, and the technology required to purify photo washing water is actually just the knowledge required at the high school level.

So Hu Dahai decided to let Hu Wangfei temporarily take charge of this task and see how it went.

"I see you have some free time lately," Hu Dahai said to Hu Wangfei with a hint of amusement. "I have a job here, I'll give it to you."

"Huh?!" Hu Wangfei was completely stunned, thinking to himself: Dad, have you forgotten that I have to take the college entrance exam in a few months?

He really wanted to refuse, because he was focused on doing well in the college entrance exam, getting into university, and making his father look at him with new respect.

But then I thought, if I refused, wouldn't I miss this rare task that my father had offered to give me?

After thinking it over for a while, he gritted his teeth and said to Hu Dahai, "Okay, Dad, you can just leave it to me with peace of mind. I will definitely not let you down."

How could Hu Dahai not know what Hu Wangfei was thinking? However, Hu Dahai no longer cared about such things. Whether Hu Wangfei passed the exam or not was none of his business.

Besides, Hu Wangfei agreed on his own; Hu Dahai didn't force him in the slightest.

He nodded: "Okay, then keep an eye on it. This might require some of the chemistry knowledge you learned in high school."

"I'll demonstrate it for you once, and from now on you'll have to do it yourself."

As Hu Dahai spoke, he began to operate the machine.

He had already bought all the necessary tools and chemical additives during his previous trips to Hangzhou.

He deftly scooped some waste water from the bucket and placed it in a large, heatable container before beginning the first step of the operation.

About an hour later, Hu Dahai had completed all the preliminary preparations.

"Alright, just leave it here. Come back in three hours and we can extract the silver inside."

After Hu Dahai finished doing all this, he clapped his hands and said to Hu Wangfei.

However, Hu Wangfei on the side did not make a sound and remained standing there blankly.

"Hmm?" Hu Dahai let out a soft exclamation.

This immediately woke Hu Wangfei up.

"Ah, oh, I understand," Hu Wangfei replied quickly.

At this moment, his mind was full of question marks. He had just watched Hu Dahai's skillful operation and his understanding of various potions. He could basically use them without any problems. Hu Wangfei was completely dumbfounded.

Hu Wangfei even felt that the chemistry teachers at his school were far less skilled than Hu Dahai when conducting experiments.

His father was a farmer his whole life, how could he know these things? Where did he learn them?

"Did you remember it?"

Hu Dahai ignored Hu Wangfei's astonished expression and asked calmly.

"I've got it." Hu Wangfei nodded.

While Hu Dahai was operating the equipment, he was taking notes in a notebook. Since refining silver doesn't require very complicated procedures, Hu Wangfei easily remembered everything.

"Okay, try it out."

Hu Dahai pointed to some other equipment and tools on the side and said to Hu Wangfei.

"Okay." Hu Wangfei obediently started operating the machine.

After a period of time, Hu Wangfei's waste washing water had also completed the initial processing.

Hu Dahai was very satisfied. It seemed that Hu Wangfei was indeed a good candidate for a technical job. His hands-on skills were indeed good. No wonder Hu Wangfei had been a technician all his life in his previous life and could not get promoted.

"Good, I'll leave this task to you from now on, but it won't be every day. When you see a lot of stuff piling up here, just do it once."

Hu Dahai made the arrangements.

Hu Wangfei was deeply moved; it seemed his father was still very good to him.

He was concerned about his studies and told to come regularly. He couldn't let his father down and had to perform well.

That evening, after they finished dinner, Hu Dahai and Hu Wangfei extracted the silver particles from the two tanks of chemical additives they had left behind.

They were all tiny silver particles. Under the light, the glittering silver particles dazzled Hu Wangfei's naive eyes.

"My God, Dad, there's so much silver in this water! It must be worth a fortune!"