Today's report, second-hand clothing reuse: In the warehouse of the Public Welfare Mutual Aid Home on Pingyang Road, Weiyang District, West Capital City, there is a warehouse full of old clothes that need to be sold.

There is a businessman named Liu Yuan in West Capital City looking to buy cheap clothes to sell to Africa.

Contact details for the relevant personnel are attached on the second page.

Another day of being a reseller.

However, today is somewhat special. Chen Yiyang glanced at the content mentioned in the report.

It seems like a charity organization wants to sell donated clothes?

This might not be very compliant.

So, Chen Yiyang didn't rush to contact either side first, but after having breakfast, drove to the address of the Public Welfare Mutual Aid Home mentioned in the report.

The organization appears quite modest from the outside.

The office building is very old, and behind it is the warehouse.

Even though it is still morning, there are already staff moving supplies.

When Chen Yiyang walked over, a young man immediately approached to ask what Chen Yiyang was doing.

"I heard you're selling something here?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Oh, you're talking about the clothes in the warehouse. We are indeed looking for someone to sell them."

The young man spoke while leading Chen Yiyang inside.

"My name is Yang Ye, and I'm the person in charge here. Our organization generally assists vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. Our main beneficiaries are the elderly or children from single-parent families."

As Yang Ye spoke, he led Chen Yiyang to their warehouse.

Then he opened the warehouse for Chen Yiyang to see.

Rows upon rows of packed clothes took up almost all the space in the large warehouse.

Chen Yiyang checked and found that these clothes were all second-hand, worn by others.

They were of all kinds and seasons.

"We don't really know how much these clothes are worth, so name a price you think is suitable."

"Hold on." Chen Yiyang waved his hand and said, "To avoid any dispute later, can I ask you a few questions first?"

"You may ask." Yang Ye replied quite politely.

"Where do these clothes come from?"

"They are donated by others." Yang Ye answered.

"You're selling things that others donated?" Chen Yiyang became a bit angry.

"Please listen to my explanation first." Seeing Chen Yiyang upset, the other party immediately pulled him into the institution.

"We're not pocketing the donated goods to sell for money outright. There's a reason for doing this."

Yang Ye spoke as he led Chen Yiyang to an office.

Then he showed Chen Yiyang some video recordings.

These recordings were made by Yang Ye and his team when they went to help families in need.

Not long into watching, Chen Yiyang saw in a video that several elderly people angrily threw a few pieces of clothing back at the institution's staff.

At this point, Yang Ye finally began to explain, "Regarding donating clothes, this concept was largely promoted when we were young.

At that time, rural areas were extremely impoverished, and families in difficulty had a shortage of clothing.

So if they could get second-hand clothes, they were extremely happy about it.

But now, with the country's development, the cost of a piece of clothing is now quite cheap. Of course, there are still many families who consider buying clothes to be a luxury.

However, now many charitable organizations and governmental support departments directly donate new clothes to them. So they really don't need second-hand clothes.

In the past year or two, we've also noticed that if our staff gives outdated clothes to these disadvantaged groups, they feel that we are discriminating against them."

After saying this, Yang Ye paused and continued explaining to Chen Yiyang, "Moreover, the second-hand clothes that people donate to us have actually become a burden for us.

Our staff is already short-handed, and the amount of donated second-hand clothes is too overwhelming, so many old clothes accumulate in our warehouse.

These second-hand clothes vary in quality, and their wear and tear also differ. Sometimes the clothes don't match the seasons.

This means we have to allocate extra manpower to sort these second-hand clothes. When calculating the costs, we found it would actually be more cost-effective to buy new clothes."

After the explanation about why they needed to sell the old clothes in this warehouse, Chen Yiyang finally understood the decision made by this charity organization.

Indeed, having a charity organization allocate personnel to handle a large number of outdated clothes isn't as effective as having them work to earn money to buy new clothes for families in need. It might even be more straightforward.

After explaining to Chen Yiyang, Yang Ye showed many videos of their charity activities.

These videos were fully recorded without any material staged or for showing off.

They were very genuine videos helping others.

This gave Chen Yiyang a good impression of Yang Ye and this organization.

So he returned to the front of the warehouse.

He called the businessman mentioned in the report using his phone.

"Do you have old clothes for sale? Call me via video so I can take a look."

The other party asked Chen Yiyang to start a video call to carefully inspect this batch of old clothes.

"We can only offer ten thousand yuan for these," the businessman replied.

"Why is the price so low?" Chen Yiyang was somewhat surprised.

It's a whole warehouse of clothes, after all.

"Friend, I'm buying your second-hand clothes to directly sell them in Africa. This price is already considered high. Some people buy your old clothes just to recycle them and make new clothes.

Those clothes aren't hygienic at all. If you sell to them, you'll end up in trouble too. So you're better off selling to me."

"Alright." Chen Yiyang nodded in agreement to the price.

After finishing the talk, Chen Yiyang went to find Yang Ye.

"I contacted a businessman for you, who will come to take away the clothes from the warehouse. But the offer is only ten thousand yuan."

"That's not bad." Yang Ye nodded happily and said, "We can use this money to buy a batch of new clothes to donate to families in need."

"By the way, I'll give you the contact information of the other party. If you have similar needs in the future, you can sell to them. They take the clothes to Africa to sell."

"No need." Yang Ye waved his hand and said, "We already publicized not to donate old clothes a while ago. We won't have this hassle in the future. The batch of old clothes in the warehouse have been piled up for a long time now."

"Alright." Chen Yiyang nodded and didn't say anything more.

After leaving, he found the donation page of the institution and donated ten thousand yuan.

He also called the merchant buying the clothes, instructing him to transfer the payment directly to Yang Ye.

Later in the evening.

Chen Yiyang received a call from Zhang Yuling.

"I've contacted Wei Dong, he wants you to send him screenshots of those notes or take the notes with you to meet him."

"In that case, I'll make a trip myself." Chen Yiyang thought for a moment and decided to personally travel to the Imperial Capital.

To hand over the notes to the other party himself.

This felt safer.

So he called the junior accountant, telling him he was going to Imperial Capital for a couple of days.

After putting the female mathematician's notes into his suitcase, Chen Yiyang bought a ticket for tonight's flight from West Capital City to Imperial Capital.

At ten o'clock in the evening.

Chen Yiyang arrived at Imperial Capital Airport.

Zhang Yuling drove over to pick him up.

"Should I tell Xu Xiaosheng you are here in Imperial Capital today?" Zhang Yuling asked after Chen Yiyang got in the car.

"Better not for now." Chen Yiyang didn't know how busy he'd be during this visit to Imperial Capital.

Besides, he and Xu Xiaosheng had been separated for only a few days.

The longing wasn't that intense yet.

Meeting now wouldn't be meaningful.

"Alright. Wei Dong is quite busy too. I'll just take you straight to see him."

Zhang Yuling drove Chen Yiyang directly to Imperial University.

"Wei Dong usually stays in the dorm, bring your things and we'll go see him directly."

Chen Yiyang got out of the car and retrieved his suitcase, but only took a few notebooks and didn't carry all of them.

Following Zhang Yuling, they went into the dormitory area of Imperial University.

Chen Yiyang and Zhang Yuling found Wei Dong's dormitory.

The single-room lodging for single teachers at Imperial University was just a single room. But it had all the necessary living facilities.

If there weren't other requirements, it wouldn't be a problem to stay here overnight.

After meeting Wei Dong.

Chen Yiyang understood why Zhang Yuling called him a peculiar person.

Because when they arrived at Wei Dong's dormitory door, the door was already open.

Wei Dong was sitting inside solving problems.

After they entered, he only glanced at Chen Yiyang, seeming not to speak.

Zhang Yuling patted Chen Yiyang, motioning for him to give the notes to Wei Dong.

Chen Yiyang quickly handed Wang Rui's notebooks to Wei Dong.

Wei Dong took the notebook, and immediately opened it to read.

"He's just like that." Zhang Yuling was somewhat helpless too.

She said to Chen Yiyang, "He will probably take a while to finish reading. Shall we go have some dinner first?"

"At this late hour, is there still anywhere to eat around here?" Chen Yiyang checked the time, it was already past 11 PM.

He didn't expect that this top school in the country still had night meals available at night.

"Yes, there are a few cafeteria stalls open till the early morning, we can have some late-night snacks."

Chen Yiyang was naturally very curious about Imperial University, this prestigious institution.

If possible, he would surely want to take a good tour here.

However, at this hour, it's too dark to see anything clearly outside.

Having late-night snacks seemed like a nice choice.

So Chen Yiyang and Zhang Yuling went to the cafeteria.

There were quite a few options for snacks here, Chen Yiyang ordered a spicy hotpot, and Zhang Yuling went for some sugar-fried chestnuts.

The two chatted while eating at the cafeteria.

Time passed until after midnight.

After finishing the meal, Chen Yiyang and Zhang Yuling returned to Wei Dong's dormitory.

But Wei Dong was still absorbed in studying those notebooks.

Zhang Yuling called him several times, but seeing Wei Dong not respond.

She helplessly said to Chen Yiyang, "You should find a place to stay nearby for tonight. Judging by his current state, he'll probably respond tomorrow."

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