In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 125 Han's brother-in-law asked him to fix his car

When Yu Dawei returned to his grandfather's house, it was already afternoon. He had walked back from Jiangxiagou, mainly because the two villages were not far apart.

It's roughly the distance from Yujiatun to Hanjiagang Village, about a 30-minute walk.

The first thing Yu Dawei did when he got home was to settle the bill with his father about the car sale. He would take 10% of the 8,000 yuan, which would amount to 800 yuan.

Yu Dawei knew that the old man was a very principled person; if he wanted eight hundred, he would never accept a thousand.

Knowing his father's temperament well, Yu Dawei didn't dare to give him a thousand yuan, so he counted out eight hundred yuan and handed it to the old man.

Yu Laonian accepted the money with satisfaction. Even though he was well-informed, he hadn't expected that this second-hand, broken hand tractor could be sold for such a high price after being refurbished.

According to his previous thinking, four or five thousand yuan would be the maximum, and he would only get four or five hundred yuan at most.

Actually, four or five hundred yuan is fine.

But now he has received eight hundred yuan, which is equivalent to two months' wages for someone else if he did hard labor.

"Sigh, it seems times have really changed. We need to change our thinking about car maintenance too," sighed Mr. Yu. Through this experience of refurbishing his old car, he thought of many things he had never dared to do before.

He used to be very cautious.

When he had nothing, he could gamble recklessly, but after winning the first time, he was terrified of what would happen if he lost next time, especially since he had five children to support.

For more than a decade afterward, he lived off his past achievements, and eventually, he was eliminated by the times.

In fact, every company has this characteristic: it doesn't innovate or reform.

Once you're wealthy, you won't dare to gamble with your life anymore, and you'll eventually be swept away by the tides of time.

In his previous life, Yu Dawei gave his eldest son some life motto, one of which was: "You must constantly hone yourself, endure more hardship than others, walk paths that others dare not walk, and take risks that others dare not take."

When Yu Dawei said those words, he was also trying to encourage himself.

Go on adventures, gamble big, venture out... and then lose everything.

Later, in the final days of his life, as Yu Dawei walked on the snow-covered ground, he summed it up with a single sentence.

It's the premise of the previous sentence, which can be summed up in just five words: "Plan before you act."

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After returning home, Yu Dawei lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) and calculated his current assets.

Two excavators, one an old Hitachi, are still working on section 9, but it's estimated they can only work for a month and a half at most. He plans to give Axe a break then, and he'll take his two little brothers somewhere for a stroll, have some hot pot, and treat it as a team building activity.

After all, from April until now, almost November, Axe hasn't had a single day off.

He works intensely every day, and also takes care of maintaining this old excavator.

Of course, the year-end bonus shouldn't be forgotten. Both Axe and Barbarian get a share; they all deserve it.

Manzi hasn't received a salary for the past six months, as he's been taking him around "extorting money" from people. As the big boss, he has to give Manzi a bonus.

It also lets his mother see that her son can earn a living with his own hands, and that he has a skill that many people envy.

Next year, once Yu Dawei sees that Manzi's skills have indeed stabilized, he can start preparing to pay him a salary.

The small excavator is now parked in Brother Duan's scrap metal recycling station, still the same old place where he usually repairs vehicles.

I originally wanted to give Brother Duan some money, as a way of paying for it myself.

But Brother Duan treated him like a younger brother and refused to accept anything, including the two steel plates he had taken. He put them in the truck bed without saying a word and didn't ask for a single penny.

Yu Dawei was deeply moved and planned to go to town again in a while to treat Brother Duan to a meal at the best restaurant in town, and also give him two bottles of good wine. Brother Duan was a wine lover and he would definitely like it.

With the more than 7,000 yuan he earned today, Yu Dawei now has a total capital of 50,000 yuan.

Fifty thousand yuan is definitely enough to build a house. In fact, Dawei thinks that if there are no other expenses, taking fifty thousand yuan to the capital to treat Dafeng should be enough to cure her illness if he is frugal.

He had been to the capital a few times in his previous life and only knew that prices were ridiculously high, so he couldn't really judge the situation. He could only try to save as much money as possible.

Yu Dawei has a clear mind: he needs to take care of his own life first, and then take care of the people around him, taking it one step at a time, without rushing.

In just over a year, he acquired two excavators and 50,000 yuan. The speed at which he accumulated capital was astonishing, even to his father, Yu Laonian, if he knew the specific details.

And this was back in 1993, when money was still considered money.

Over the next couple of days, Yu Dawei plans to tidy up his garden.

The cucumber vines are now withered and yellow, and the ground is covered with old cucumber seeds.

Mature cucumbers are several sizes larger than cucumbers in their green stage. They can be eaten raw, but they don't taste as good.

As for cooking methods, old cucumbers can be stir-fried with sliced ​​meat, which is already a very luxurious way to eat them, as there's meat to stir-fry with them. Usually, old cucumbers are stir-fried with green peppers, or stir-fried with potato slices, or simply dry-fried without adding anything else.

The stir-fried dish has a slightly sour taste, and is both smooth and crunchy, making it very delicious.

Yu Dawei now picks all the old cucumbers in the yard, puts them in a basket, and puts them in the storeroom to eat whenever he wants.

In August or September, Han Jingfan sowed some radish seeds on the south side of the garden. Now, about two months later, the radishes have grown.

Yu Dawei also pulled all the radishes out of the ground and put them all in the warehouse.

The same goes for the chili peppers; most of them are already ripe and red. Quickly pick them, then dry them outside on the windowsill. String them together with thread and hang them on the outside wall. When you want to eat them, pick a couple, roast them briefly in the stove pit, then chop them up with scissors and add them to the stew.

As Yu Dawei was happily tidying up the garden, he heard the sound of a four-wheeled vehicle coming from the street behind him.

Yujiatun is divided into three streets. His house is located on the southernmost street, and there are usually very few cars passing through the passageway outside his yard.

Moreover, judging from the noise, it seemed to be getting closer and closer to the gate of my own yard.

"Woof woof woof!" Gou Shengzi was wandering around the yard when it was the first to react. It quickly rushed to the gate and barked wildly at the approaching four-wheeled vehicle, its eyes fixed on the man in the vehicle like a wild wolf.

Over the course of several months, Gou Shengzi grew to be increasingly unattractive.

Its face, with its irregular black and white markings, resembled a yin-yang face. Coupled with its fierce and menacing personality, everyone in the village who passed by avoided it, fearing it might rush out of the yard.

Gou Shengzi is unconventional and not as well-behaved as the other three puppies, nor as cute.

However, under the restraint of Dawei and its mother Dabai, Gou Shengzi still knows its limits and is very clear that its territory is only this yard.

As long as people outside don't approach the yard or come in, it will only give them a couple of verbal threats.

Yu Dawei was annoyed by Gou Shengzi's barking and was about to turn around to kick it when he suddenly saw a familiar face standing at the gate.

The other person was not tall, had a buzz cut, and wore simple clothes, including soles sewn by his family in the village.

"Big brother? What brings you here?" Yu Dawei walked over curiously, then kicked Gou Shengzi away. "This is a guest, get out of the way."

"Ouch~" Gou Shengzi got kicked by its owner again, but it's okay, it's used to it.

Its bright eyes remained fixed on the newcomer. If the newcomer dared to bully the chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, pigs, or the owner's family in the yard, it would bite them to death!

"Your dog is pretty fierce! Does it bite?" The man walked in and glanced at Gou Shengzi, but he didn't show any fear or timidity. His family had always kept dogs and was used to their barking.

"This is the kitten born to the big white dog we brought back from your house. It's the most troublesome one of all, nothing compared to the other three." Yu Dawei asked the man curiously, "What brings you here?"

Actually, this person was none other than the brother-in-law who bought a second-hand four-wheeler when we visited Old Han's family during the Chinese New Year.

He is also Han Jingfan's older brother, Han Guoqiang.

Yu was quite surprised to see his brother-in-law come over, since he had heard about what happened during the Spring Festival from his mother-in-law.

He showed off his secondhand four-wheeled vehicle, only to have the cylinder explode, and in the end, he was too embarrassed to come looking for himself.

He thought that, given his brother-in-law's way of doing things, they wouldn't see each other again until the Chinese New Year.

It seems that this is not the case.

"Sigh, my car broke down, and I wanted to ask you to take a look." Han Guoqiang's eyes flickered, and his tone became much softer.

He didn't really want to come, but his wife kept asking him all sorts of questions, and when he was selling grain, his younger brother and brother-in-law, who worked at their family's grain depot, also kept asking him questions.

They act as if they know everything just because they live in a village.

In the end, he took the initiative to ask his mother, who was the one who frequently visited Xiao Fan's house, and should know whether Yu Dawei had maintained the car or made any money.

But Mom didn't say anything, and she didn't know what was going on either.

Nowadays, the gate of Old Han's house is almost worn down by the villagers, who insist that he help them set up a line and ask Yu Dawei to put in a good word for them.

So he came despite the pressure from all sides, and of course, he also had his own desire to find out the truth.

"I see." Yu Dawei saw through the other party's purpose at a glance and was speechless.

The Han family still has the ability to change their tune depending on the wind; they've even gone so far as to shamelessly try to curry favor with us.

When the child's mother started breastfeeding, you didn't come over. You just asked the old lady to bring some money.

Now that they hear I'm rich, they don't care about face or dignity anymore, and they drive over to find me.

I reckon they're thinking right now that if they have money, they'll try to get close to them; if they don't have money, they'll just leave as soon as possible.

Yu Dawei couldn't help but feel angry and immediately wanted to find a reason to get rid of the other party.

(End of this chapter)