The basic principle of scavenging is "early to rise and late to return". The "golden scrap" from rich families are mostly discarded in the late evening or early morning. I basically "go to work" at four o'clock in the morning and "get off work" at ten o'clock in the evening. My basic tools are a broken bicycle (bought for fifty yuan as second-hand goods), a large iron clamp, and a pair of plastic gloves. During the day, I also wear sunglasses, looking a bit like a "military work team member" during the Anti-Japanese War.
Early this morning, I pushed my cart to "No Man's Land" (the urban-rural junction). There was a garbage pile there like a small mountain, where I could find a few yuan worth of "goods" every day. It was the darkness before dawn, and I was walking unevenly towards the garbage pile when the front wheel of the bike suddenly hit a soft object. I stopped and squatted down but still couldn't see it, so I reached out to touch it. I didn't know until I touched it, and it scared me so much that I jumped - it was a person, and she was a woman. I swear I didn't do it on purpose. As I took out my old mobile phone to call the police, she suddenly groaned "Ouch", then swung her hand and hit my arm, grabbing me in the process.
"Who are you?" She wasn't mute.