The Life of the Richest Man: Starting from Picking up Rags

When he was six years old, a factory accident took away Chen Shanhe's parents. All he survived was a broken family and an old grandfather who suffered from hemoptysis. In order to have a bite to eat, he was forced to drop out of school, carry a bamboo basket taller than himself, and became the smallest scavenger on the Qingjiang River. The children in the town called him a "garbage bug", and Liu Heizi, a local snake, kicked over the stall he had set up so hard and took away the wrinkled coins in his hand. Everyone said that this child without a father and a mother would rot in the scrap heap for the rest of his life. Until that day, he found a rusty copper screw at the bottom of the cold river and exchanged it for a "huge sum" of twenty yuan at Lao Suntou's scrapyard. A flash of lightning flashed through Chen Shanhe's mind: It turns out that what others see as tatters has a different price. From then on, he picked up more than just scrap metal and plastic. He picked up the wealth-making information hidden in old books and newspapers, picked up the technical codes contained in discarded parts, and picked up the ignored opportunities in the warmth and ups and downs of human relationships. From the first grocery store in the town market, to the leader of the wholesale market in the provincial capital, to a business empire spanning real estate and technology. Those who had laughed at him and bullied him could only look up to his name in the news and couldn't believe it - this man who stood at the top of wealth really made his first pot of gold from the scrap heap, bit by bit.