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

Chapter 175: A long line of car repairmen formed?
According to Uncle Twelve, Yu Laonian was a troublemaker since childhood, always mischievous and cunning.

When he was four years old, we went to visit someone's house. Suddenly, he had a stomachache and needed to poop. But instead of going to the toilet, he squatted down in the landlord's place and started pooping. He couldn't just sit in one place, and ended up making a whole "eight-door" mess.

Another time, someone bullied his brother Yu Chen. Yu Chen was an honest man. If he couldn't beat someone, he simply couldn't beat them. Even if he went home with a bruised and swollen face, he wouldn't cry. He would just let his injuries heal and then do it again.

That kind of daring and aggressive spirit is just like Yu Dawei's.

But Yu Laonian was different. He was weak and sickly since childhood and knew he couldn't win, so he didn't fight head-on. Instead, he went home, took some matches, and set fire to the woodpile. Luckily, it was snowing, otherwise the entire woodland behind the village would have been burned down.

These things might have been hateful back then, but now, with the passage of time, those older people who used to criticize these people are long gone, their graves overgrown with weeds.

What remains are the laughter that comes with memories, and the carefree nostalgia of childhood.

The innermost room is where Yu Dawei and the younger generation eat and drink. Nowadays, the younger generation of the Yu family are all secretly surrounding Yu Dawei.

So many of the topics we talked about were related to Yu Dawei himself, and some were about people wanting to do something and asking Yu Dawei for his opinion.

After all, Yu Dawei can be considered a successful entrepreneur now. It's just that they don't know the word "entrepreneurship" yet. They only know that Yu Dawei is now a boss, a so-called successful person.

Sitting across from him, Yu Damin was thinking of following Yu Dawei's example and giving up raising horses to raise cars or something.

Yu Dawei did not refute this, but simply analyzed the risks and investment ratios of car ownership, including the handling of income and interpersonal relationships.

It's not that Yu Dawei looks down on Yu Damin. Even if he were Yu Dawei himself, in terms of interpersonal relationships, he could only be considered to have one foot in the boat. A large part of the reason why many people were willing to befriend him and use his car was because of his technical skills.

This also includes the top leader Huang Fengcang.

Therefore, when it comes to car maintenance, if you don't have the right skills, it's really hard to do this delicate job.

The meal lasted until dark, and then everyone left one by one, emboldened by the alcohol.

Before leaving, Yu Dawei distributed the cut strips of wild boar meat to everyone, and each family that came received a piece of meat.

Even though it's almost 1994, the people in the village still can't afford to eat meat. Wasn't that how it was in Yu Dawei's previous life? During the New Year, he had to sell the fat pigs he raised to make money.

So everyone who got the meat was overjoyed, and the elders were especially gratified, praising the Yu family for finally producing a towering tree.

Yu Dawei simply smiled modestly at this, completely disregarding everyone's praise, and even said a few words that belittled his own worth.

Yu Laonian, who was standing with him at the gate seeing people off, glanced at him absentmindedly, then smiled with satisfaction.

Although being as brave, bold, and daring as Yu Dawei used to be is not a bad thing.

Yu Laonian always felt that these qualities were very good because his older brother Yu Chen also had the same personality.

However, if he were to be low-key, reserved, and humble, then Old Man Yu would feel that this child's future was limitless. Even if he didn't achieve great things, his whole family would definitely be able to eat their fill and stay warm, and even in years of great famine, they would definitely not starve.

After seeing everyone off, Yu Dawei began to care about the two rabbits. The gray rabbit was doing well in the barn, probably because it was hungry; it had gnawed on most of the potatoes.

The injured white rabbit, however, lay motionless on the ground with a small pool of red blood on it.

Shining the flashlight next to it, I saw that the little potato next to it had also been bitten a bit.

It's alright, as long as they know to eat, they won't starve.

Yu Dawei first tied the two rabbits with ropes and pulled them aside, then started rummaging through the old man's storeroom.

He vaguely remembered that a long time ago, the old man had welded a chicken coop that was about half an arm's length long, and it would be perfect for holding rabbits.

After searching for a while, he finally found it in the corner of the north wall. He took it out and put it on the ground. Then he untied the two rabbits and threw them into the cage. After doing all this, Yu Dawei broke off some rotten vegetable leaves from the outer room of the kitchen and threw them in. After adding a small basin of water, he left the old man's house with his wife and children.

He wasn't planning to move the rabbits tonight, and the white rabbit was almost dead. He was thinking that if the two rabbits stayed in the cage for two days and the white rabbit recovered completely, he would take them home to raise.

If the white rabbit didn't survive and died, then he would stew the gray rabbit with potatoes as well.

After resting at home for two more days, Yu Dawei finally felt like he had fully recovered. Both his body and mind were slowly healed by his family and everything around him over the past few days.

Tomorrow, he plans to first visit his own repair shop, and then go to town to ask Boss Liang about spare parts. After that, he plans to take a short business trip to the oil city and spend two or three days there to do some minor repairs on the two Ackerman excavators at the oil city equipment factory.

Going to the repair shop to take a look is a must, since once I, the absentee boss, leave, there's basically no one else around. Duan Dahai does have a spare key, but I don't go there every day.

Now that they have cars, they no longer need the old man's four-wheeled vehicle for getting around, and the old man has come up with the idea of ​​selling the four-wheeled vehicle.

His reasoning was simple: "I have a feeling that four-wheeled vehicles will become less and less valuable in the future, so it's better to buy them early and maybe I can sell them for more money."

Yu Dawei remained noncommittal, but as domestic industry develops faster and faster, four-wheeled vehicles will become an essential tool for every household in the village, and their prices will definitely be cheaper. In addition, with inflation, the face value of money will no longer be proportional to its value, so selling early might really earn a lot more money.

The day before he left, Yu Dawei returned with a lot of wooden planks, which he chopped into pieces with an axe and placed neatly next to the doghouse outside the door.

Han Jingfan did not show much reluctance about Dawei's departure, because she was not unable to live alone, and in fact, she did not dislike living alone in a small courtyard, quietly enjoying her life.

Does she have feelings for Dawei? Yes.

Is there love? Yes, there is. But besides being husband and wife, they are also independent individuals. Yu Dawei has his car to repair and maintain, while Han Jingfan has her own life and her own interests.

So perhaps more than reluctance, she felt mutual respect for him, which is the wisdom that comes from reading.

Before leaving, Yu Dawei brought back the two rabbits he had been raising at his grandfather's house. Luckily, they didn't end up as rabbit soup.

The white rabbit was much better by the third day, while the gray rabbit, who had a big appetite, seemed to have gained a little weight in just a few days.

Yu Dawei brought the iron cage back with him, supported it with two old, long benches, and placed it next to the duck carcass, right under the window.

Then the iron cage was placed on top, and a layer of cotton quilt and a layer of canvas were laid on top of it. Finally, bricks and stones were placed on top to weigh it down and prevent the strong wind from blowing the quilt away.

This way, the two rabbits can be kept alive to the greatest extent possible. The water is frozen solid, so chickens, ducks, and geese can only drink water at mealtimes. Hot water is poured on the ice to melt it before they can drink.

However, this was already a great blessing for the two rabbits. After all, living in the snow, especially in the Northeast, they were constantly worried about being eaten and could not always find food. Although they were two adult rabbits, they were as thin and small as if they were only a few months old.

Yu Dawei could tell that Han Jingfan really liked raising rabbits. If it weren't for his wife, he would have turned those two rabbits into spicy rabbit heads on the very first day they were brought home.

The next day, when Han Jingfan left, she made Yu Dawei a bowl of braised noodles early in the morning. The hot soup made him feel warm all over.

Before dawn, taking advantage of the warmth from the kang (heated brick bed) and the stove, the two cuddled in bed for a while longer before Yu Dawei drove off towards the town.

The Fiat 126p has a top speed of 105 km/h. After Yu Dawei drove the car to Northeast China, he never exceeded 60 km/h, mainly because of the slippery roads.

First, he went to a tire shop in town and got four anti-skid tires of similar size. He also bought a can of antifreeze engine oil. After the shopkeeper helped him change the tires, Yu Dawei was able to speed across the snow without any worries.

Our first stop was Mr. Liang's parts store.

Inside the house, Boss Liang was roasting potatoes in the stove while doing his accounts.

Upon seeing Yu Dawei finally return, Boss Liang excitedly pulled him to sit down: "You, you really know how to be thoughtful, you actually came back!"

"What's wrong?" Yu Dawei was completely bewildered, as if something terrible had happened.

"Not long after you went to Qingcheng, the owner of the restaurant next door told me that people were knocking on your little repair shop every day asking you to fix their cars. Sometimes there were as many as ten people knocking on the door in a single day." Boss Liang slapped his forehead, feeling extremely regretful for Yu Dawei. "That's all money! If the shop can be this popular even when it's closed, imagine how successful it will be when it's open! You'd better go back and check on it."

Yu Dawei sat on the stool, not yet able to process what Boss Liang had said.

Ten or so people knocking on the door every day looking for car repairs? Even if you add up all the construction machinery in the town, it doesn't seem like that many people would do that.

In his past life, he ran a repair shop in an oil city, and he had never seen so many customers come to him for car repairs in a single day.

That's fucking weird!
Before Yu Dawei could say anything more, Boss Liang pushed him out the door.

"By the way, Brother Liang, what about road roller parts..."

"I've already put the parts in the small room at the factory for you. Go to the factory and take a look as soon as possible."

"That's...ok."

(End of this chapter)