A strong technological nation starts with repairing mobile phones

Chapter 1: The Sudden Appearance of a System

"Old shrimp, do you also replace the cover and bracket for a defective screen?"

After checking all the mobile phones, Chen Jinghong looked up at the man opposite the counter.

Lao Xia is an old customer. Unless he is too busy or there are other special circumstances, the other party will only ask him to repair their screens.

His main business is to purchase large mobile phones from market stall owners, and then replace the screen assembly, or if the screen functions normally, replace the cover and bracket, as well as the middle frame, rear glass, battery, etc.

A fancy mobile phone will be refurbished and then sold at the price of a new or nice phone. The profit of almost every phone is over 800 or 900 yuan.

As for Chen Jinghong himself, he rented a counter about one meter long on the first floor of Huaken Building next to Feiyang. His main business is replacing covers and brackets. More than 95% of his customers are backpackers like Lao Xia.

Of course, compared with backpackers like Lao Xia, his profit is pitifully low. The profit from replacing a cover or bracket is only about twenty yuan.

Lao Xia looked helpless: "Replace it. Recently, the market price of disassembled screens is extremely high. The cost of replacing an assembly will increase by at least 1,500 yuan. I might as well sell it at the price of a defective screen, which will be 700 to 800 yuan less."

These mobile phones on the desktop are all Fruit 11. It has only been about eight months since its release in September 2019. Currently, there are few perfect screen assemblies for disassembled phones in the market and they are extremely expensive. It is simply unrealistic for Lao Xia to replace a perfect screen.

Under the current circumstances, backpackers like Lao Xia who refurbish large-sized mobile phones have never considered replacing the perfect screen assembly. Basically, they just replace the broken glass cover and bracket and sell them.

"Understood! Come and get it tomorrow afternoon!"

Lao Xia's batch of 18 mobile phones requires Chen Jinghong more than ten minutes to replace one, and it takes about five or six hours to replace all of them.

Seeing that it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, Chen Jinghong could only leave it until tomorrow for the replacement, so he could only ask the other party to come and pick up the goods tomorrow afternoon.

This batch of mobile phones should have been brought directly to Chen Jinghong by the other party after they had just finished shopping in the market, otherwise it would not have been possible for them to be brought to him so late.

After all, the counter owners in Feiyang Market start work at around 6 pm, and the peak time is 8 pm, which is exactly the time when people scan their phones and take them over.

Seeing that Chen Jinghong was about to collect the mobile phones and put them in the safe, Lao Xia hurriedly stopped him.

"No! I have to ship this batch of goods out tomorrow. Can you help me overnight? I'll give you five bucks more for each unit."

Adding five yuan per machine, eighteen machines can increase the profit by ninety yuan, and the overall profit can reach five hundred yuan.

Chen Jinghong secretly calculated that at his own speed, he would be able to finish the task by about three in the morning, which would be enough time for him to go home and sleep without affecting his work tomorrow.

"Okay! I'll change it for you overnight. I'll send it to your studio around four o'clock when I'm done."

Lao Xia smiled and said, "Sure, I'll sleep in the studio tonight. If you come over later and I don't open the door, call me!"

Chen Jinghong didn't say anything else. He just made an OK gesture and turned around to start disassembling the machine and preparing to replace the cover bracket.

Seeing Chen Jinghong's actions, Lao Xia turned around and left the counter without paying any attention.

In the following period, no backpackers brought machines to replace the covers, so Chen Jinghong replaced several machines in one go.

Time quietly came to half past eleven. Except for Chen Jinghong, everyone else at the counter had already turned off the lights and left work. At this moment, a message came from Chen Jinghong's cell phone.

The message was sent by Chen Jinghong's wife. It turned out that she was worried that he had not returned home until 11:30, so she sent a message to inquire about the situation.

"These phones are in urgent need of customers. It will probably take until around 3 or 4 o'clock to replace them all. You can go to sleep first and don't have to wait for me!"

Chen Jinghong recorded a message and sent it over, the tone of which was full of love.

Less than ten seconds after the message was sent, his wife immediately sent a voice message back.

A gentle voice came from the phone: "Well! Yuanyuan just kept shouting for her daddy! I just coaxed her to sleep, be careful when you come back later!"

Chen Jinghong inadvertently revealed a happy smile on his face, and immediately made an understanding expression. Then he put the replaced mobile phone into the vacuum machine and took out a new one and started to disassemble it.

If asked what was the most correct thing he had done in his life, he would say without hesitation that it was marrying this wife.

Although my wife Xu Qing is not very pretty and does not have a stunning appearance, she is not a rich woman who cannot support me.

But in the past seven or eight years, his wife has followed him without regrets and gave birth to a playful and lovely daughter. Chen Jinghong is already very grateful.

Even though Chen Jinghong's counter makes a profit of more than four or five hundred yuan from a single customer, its actual net profit is only about fifteen or sixty thousand yuan a month.

After deducting the rent of the counter of more than 3,000 yuan, plus my own rent of more than 3,000 yuan and living expenses of more than 5,000 yuan, I can only barely survive. As for saving money, it is almost better than nothing.

The end of these hard days is in sight, but so far his wife has never complained and has always supported him silently behind the scenes, which makes him feel full of guilt and love.

The time soon came to three o'clock in the morning, and Lao Xia finally had only one mobile phone left in his batch.

The cover plate is separated skillfully, the glue is removed and the glass cover plate is perfectly attached, and then placed in the vacuum machine for final bonding.

After repairing the last mobile phone in one go, Chen Jinghong finally had time to stretch his body and drink some water.

"Drip!"

Five minutes passed quickly and the vacuum defoamer made a dripping sound.

The moment Chen Jinghong turned on the vacuum machine and touched the screen, he found a translucent panel appeared out of thin air in front of him.

[Event: Apple Phone 11 Pro - Replace the screen cover]

[Maintenance Person: Chen Jinghong] [Maintenance Proficiency: 30+/100 (Simple)] (Simple/Beginner/Proficient/Mastery/Excellence)

[Proficiency Points: 0.1]

【General points: 1】

[Item status: After a simple repair using inferior materials, the item has been restored to 40% of its original quality! ]

Looking at the translucent panel in front of him, Chen Jinghong's mind went blank. His head was full of question marks and he had no idea what was going on.

It took a full five minutes before he responded.

"Is this a golden finger? A system?"

At this moment, he was so excited that he couldn't help but tremble all over. After all, if the golden finger system really appeared, he knew what it meant.

Thinking of this, Chen Jinghong quickly took out a bracket, applied glue and installed it.

As expected, after installing the bracket and waiting for the glue to dry and dealing with the residual glue, a translucent frame appeared in front of his eyes again.

[Event: Apple phone 11pro-replacement of screen assembly bracket]

【Maintainer: Chen Jinghong】

[Maintenance proficiency: 19+/100 (easy)]

[Proficiency Points: 0.2]

【General points: 2】

[Item status: After simple repairs with inferior materials, the item quality has reached 42% of the original quality! ]

"Sure enough, it's really the system! I made a fortune by relying on it!"

Looking at the translucent screen in front of him, Chen Jinghong could no longer hold back and roared to the sky.

In an instant, the empty market was filled with his laughter. Only when he heard the echo did he react. Embarrassed, he quickly stuck his head out from behind the counter to look around, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he was sure that there was no one else. He didn't want to be thought of as a psychopath.

After reinstalling the finished assembly, there was no system panel this time. Chen Jinghong guessed that this was not considered a repair so there was no panel.

"System!" Fearing that it was just an illusion, Chen Jinghong quickly recited in his heart.

【Name: Chen Jinghong】

【Universal Points; 2】

[Proficiency Points: 0.2]

【Maintenance technology; click to open the fold】

Looking at the completely different panel in front of him, Chen Jinghong finally confirmed that he really owned the system. He also confirmed that the system he had just installed did not count as maintenance, so he put his mind at ease.

After the panel disappeared, Chen Jinghong did not stand there in a daze, but immediately packed up the batch of mobile phones that had just had their panels and brackets replaced.

Lao Xia Studio is behind the Huaken Building. It is not the first time that Chen Jinghong has delivered mobile phones to his studio. He walked to his door with ease, holding this batch of mobile phones.

It was so late that the door of Lao Xia's studio was still open and the lights were brightly on inside. It seemed that the person on the other end of the phone was really anxious and was waiting for him so late. Chen Jinghong was originally prepared to call him to wake him up.

"So fast, are you done?" Lao Xia, who was lying on the sofa playing with pesticides, heard the noise and looked up, smiling and said, "Sit down first and I'll pay you later."

"Yeah!" Chen Jinghong sat down directly and did not sit idle. He immediately took out the mobile phones one by one and placed them in order.

It seems that Lao Xia Wangzhe’s skills are not good enough. Chen Jinghong waited for less than five minutes before the sound of failure music came from the other party’s mobile phone.

"Damn! What a bunch of idiots. These elementary school students are still not asleep so late!" Putting down his phone, Lao Xia shouted unhappily.

Then he stood up and began to check the batch of mobile phones that Chen Jinghong had placed. Since Chen Jinghong only replaced the cover and the bracket, the other party finished the inspection in less than ten minutes.

"Brother, your cover replacement skills are getting better and better! None of these dozen machines have residual glue or large gaps. If I don't look carefully, I can't tell that the cover and bracket have been replaced!"

After checking all the mobile phones, Lao Xia couldn't help but look up and sigh.

Chen Jinghong's technique in replacing covers and brackets went from being so unskilled that he had to replace one or two assemblies almost every day to being so skilled that no traces of replacement are almost visible.

Lao Xia was involved almost from beginning to end. After all, Lao Xia came to Huaqiangbei almost at the same time as Chen Jinghong and could be considered one of Chen Jinghong's first clients.

"It's all thanks to the continued support of old customers like you. I can only try my best to improve my skills!"

Seeing the pop-up of the 800+ yuan transfer from Lao Xia on his phone, Chen Jinghong looked up and smiled slightly, saying, "Got it! I won't bother you anymore, I'm leaving now!"

"Brother, tell me the truth, how much can you make by replacing the cover bracket? Why don't you also do a big flower machine like us? Think about it, you and I entered the industry almost at the same time.

I have done 700 to 800 in the past two years, and I just bought an apartment at the beginning of the year. Why are you still guarding that small counter? The market is so big, let’s make a fortune together!”

Seeing that Chen Jinghong was about to leave, Lao Xia, knowing his recent situation, couldn't help but mention the idea of ​​working together to make a big flower machine again.

(End of this chapter)