
Bringing a Ton of Gold Home for the New Year
by Mo Yansheng
About This Novel
Lin Yi, a 28-year-old Beijing drifter, was in a desperate situation: his savings had bottomed out, his rent was due, and his mother's cautious inquiries on the phone were like the last straw. The cross-border e-commerce company he works for is on the verge of bankruptcy, and in his hometown county, his rivaling relatives, classmates waiting to see his jokes, and the hesitant expectations of his parents have all formed a web that he is unable to break free from. Until that cold December morning, the announcement of soil remediation at an abandoned electronics factory near the company suddenly illuminated his almost forgotten professional knowledge - the words about "urban mining" and biometallurgical technology in his master's thesis in materials engineering. A huge gamble begins with all the money on it. After buying 500 tons of "waste soil" and refining it in secret for three months, on that frosty morning, Lin Yi faced a one-ton gold ingot with a purity of 92% in a suburban warehouse. For the first time, he experienced the shock of numbness in his hands and feet.
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