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After buying the storage units, the next step was to clean up.
Four storage units were cleaned up in one day. Hans lamented, "Sh * t, we're going to have to stay up all night!"
Li Du shrugged. "There's a saying in my hometown: 'Money is hard to earn, sh * t tastes bad.' Since we want to earn money, we have to work harder."
Hearing his words, Hans nodded thoughtfully. "This saying makes sense. Yeah, sh * t tastes bad, d * mn it!"
Li Du stared at him in shock.
Hans reacted and smiled. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You've eaten sh * t before?" Li Du asked in surprise.
Hans snorted. "Who hasn't been young and frivolous?"
"Does being young and frivolous mean eating sh * t? Sh * t, you're a kid who ate sh * t. Ah Meow, let's go. We won't go near him! "Li Du said in a disgusted tone.
Ah Meow's face was full of disgust.
"F * ck!"
Although Prescott had the reputation of being the home of rodeos, and the locals were grumpy, Li Du felt that the people here were good-tempered.
"No one even stayed to see what we got. They all left. These guys have no desires," Li Du said, looking at the empty space outside the door.
Hans opened the door of the last storage unit and said, "Of course. It's raining so heavily, who would be stupid enough to stand outside in the rain? Also, do you think the people here are good-tempered? "
"Yeah, there's not much competition during the auction."
"First of all, these are all trash storage units. No one will compete for them. Secondly, they're not cowboys. If you've been to livestock auctions or agricultural auctions, you'd know how popular they are! "
The golden rule of cleaning storage units was to start with the valuable ones. People were the most patient at the beginning, and it was easiest to find valuable items.
Only the last storage unit was something that Li Du had said was valuable. Hans came to tidy up the unit with great enthusiasm.
His enthusiasm was worth it. Soon he found the safe in the corner, and then he shouted excitedly as he moved the safe out.
"How do we open it? We don't know the password, "Li Du asked.
Hans said, "I didn't know what to do at first, but luckily we still have a storage unit that can help."
He went to the second warehouse and opened it. There was a complete set of tools inside. Then, he found a sledgehammer and brought it back. He put down the safe and knocked on the combination lock.
Ah Meow, who was washing his face, was shocked. "Meow!"
The combination lock was broken. Li Du opened the door and shook his head regretfully. "Damn it, Ge Ba Zi. It was a good safe. Good stuff. You destroyed it just like that."
"There's no need to do this. You can't open the safe, stupid kid." Hans threw away the sledgehammer and pushed the safe down. A pile of documents and a pistol fell out.
Seeing the two pistols, he shouted excitedly, "Sh * t, what luck! We found a gun! "
Pistols in the United States were not very valuable. Normally, a new gun would only cost a few hundred dollars. Better ones like the Desert Eagle and HK series could sell for thousands of dollars.
However, Americans had an unusual passion for guns. They would be very happy to get their hands on a gun at a storage auction.
Opening the holsters, two black pistols with smooth shapes appeared in front of them. The two guns were almost identical, with walnut handles carved with intricate patterns.
Seeing these patterns, Hans shouted happily, "Good luck! This is the M1911 Crown, a collector's edition of the M1911, and it's a dual pistol!"
"What?"
"You know the M1911, right? It's the image of the United States Army. It entered the army in 1911 and was retired in 1985. It went through World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. This is probably the most produced pistol in the United States. "
"Doesn't that mean it's not valuable?" Li Du wondered.
"Yes, an ordinary M1911 is not valuable, but this is a dual pistol Crown. Look, there are markings under the handles. This is a left pistol, and this is a right pistol …"
Li Du moved closer to take a look. Sure enough, there were 'L' and 'R' marks under the handles.
"These two guns are the collector's edition produced by Browning to celebrate the end of the Persian Gulf War. The recoil is reduced so that people can dual wield them. I saw them in 'Gun Power' when I was a kid. They're so beautiful!"
After saying that, Hans could not help but give them a kiss.
Li Du asked, "You like them?"
"Of course, they're sweethearts!" Hans said matter-of-factly.
Li Du patted him on the shoulder and said, "Very good, then they belong to you. You can use them to decorate your room."
"Huh?" Hans looked at him in shock.
"Didn't we have an agreement? If someone really likes them, then don't ask for the price. They belong to him, "Li Du said.
Hans looked at him, touched. "Li, I don't want to say thank you again, but I'm very grateful to God for meeting you in my career!"
Li Du felt very guilty. He had been playing tricks …
Because there was not enough time, the two of them split up to deal with the storage units. He went to the fifth storage unit, opened his leather bag, and took out the stack of toilet paper.
The toilet paper became thicker in his hands. Looking closely, he could see that it was a bit like the grass mats in his hometown in the summer, which were woven with strips of grass.
The words on the paper were crooked, and he could not understand any of them. There were some old-fashioned negatives in the bag, but they were all exposed and became useless waste.
He found a box to store the toilet paper carefully, then found Hans and said, "Look at these papers. Can you identify them?"
Hans took it and looked at it. "Let me see. Hey, this is good stuff. If I'm not wrong, this is ancient Egyptian papyrus. Do you know papyrus?"
Li Du shook his head.
"In China, there's a kind of writing device called bamboo sticks, right?"
"It's bamboo slips," Li Du corrected.
"Yes, this is the bamboo slips of the Egyptians, but the production method is more complicated and advanced. They come from papyrus, which is a kind of aquatic plant that grows in the Nile Delta. It's upright, hard, tall, shaped like a reed, and its leaves can grow up to one meter long.
"The stem can extend out of the center, which is amazing. It can be more than four meters tall, and the cross-section of the stem is triangular. What do you think of?"
Li Du asked, "Well, the stability of the triangle?"
Hans rolled his eyes. "No, it's the Egyptian pyramids! Papyrus was an important part of the Egyptian civilization. They used this papyrus to make paper, which was the earliest and most convenient writing material in history. It was used by the Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, and Arabs for thousands of years. "
"So this is an antique?" Li Du patted the paper.
Hans shook his head and laughed. "Maybe, but I'm more willing to believe that it's a fake. At least it's a fake when combined with these words."
Li Du frowned. "Why?"
"Don't tell me there were pens in Egypt thousands of years ago. Can't you see? This is pen writing! Ha ha! "Hans laughed out.
Li Du looked carefully. Indeed, from the handwriting, it looked like pen writing.
That's better. He patted the paper and said, "I like them very much. I think they have a mysterious flavor."
Hans shrugged. "Just like the gun belongs to me, these papers belong to you. I know what you're thinking. Do you think this records information about the treasure? "
Li Du said, "No, it's because I like mysterious things."
"My sister is actually a mysterious girl," Hans immediately said.
Li Du raised his middle finger and laughed. "Hannah is a simple girl. If she knew you said that about her, she would cut off your eyelashes with a table knife!"
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