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

Chapter 193 Reencounter with the Repair Boy
"Don't worry, we're all just working for someone else, we understand how hard it is." Yu Dawei patted the other person on the shoulder. "Besides, not every boss can fix cars. After all, fixing cars sometimes really depends on talent."

“Who can argue with that? Sometimes they give orders even though they don’t understand them, and when they give the wrong orders, they don’t blame themselves, but instead blame us.” The bald young man sighed and led the three of them from the middle of the house to the backyard.

Inside the nine brick and tile houses, there is a passageway directly opposite the main gate. Walking north along the passageway and pushing open the back door leads to the backyard of Changhai Courtyard.

Yu Dawei followed beside the other person, and the moment he stepped into the backyard, he was shocked.

The entire backyard was the same size as his own Fanfan Repair Shop yard, but the ground was piled with all sorts of parts, including some car body shells, but the engine, gearbox, and so on inside were all gone.

Besides the various scattered parts of the excavator, there were also loaders, road rollers, bulldozers, and other equipment scattered around in the backyard, all without any order and messed up on the ground.

This scene is enough to give anyone a headache.

"Ding!"

"Ding, ding..."

Just then, in the very center of the backyard, in a spacious, empty area free of clutter and accessories, stood a thin, bony boy. He wore a tattered, drafty leather jacket, and his hair, like withered licorice, covered his forehead and half of his eyes.

At this moment, he was holding a wrench thicker than his arm in his left hand and a thin steel pipe as long as he was in his right hand.

Whenever the wrench is placed on the screw, he picks up the steel pipe in his right hand, inserts it into the protrusion on the other end of the wrench, and then kicks the thin steel pipe with the help of leverage.

The screws, which were originally very tight, were loosened in the next second.

Around him were various tools for gaining leverage, and a set of open-end wrenches was strapped to his slender waist. Each wrench was inserted into a separate position in the tool bag, and as he moved, the tool bag strapped to his back made a "clinking" sound.

When Yu Dawei looked at the boy, he was first surprised to find that he had run into the boy who was holding the gear ring again, and then he was amazed at how skillfully the boy was using leverage in repairing cars.

When a true master mechanic repairs a car, he usually uses leverage, such as various lever principles, to remove screws that are difficult to loosen.

After learning how to leverage resources, many large screws on construction machinery, including those in difficult-to-disassemble areas, are no longer a headache for these master craftsmen.

Moreover, if you use leverage well, you can even complete car repair tasks with very little effort.

Yu Dawei felt a certain respect for the skinny boy in the distance. At such a young age, he was already quite impressive to be able to use leverage so well.

"Is that little boy in the yard the son of one of your employees?" Yu Dawei asked the bald young man, Yang Zi, curiously.

"Who would let their son do such dirty and tiring work?" The bald young man chuckled, glancing disdainfully at the boy in the backyard. "This kid was brought back by our boss a few years ago."

“His father used to be a well-known wealthy man in our county. He was also among the first in Yushui County to import excavators from overseas. He was cunning and treacherous, and he was also very decisive and ruthless. He was the kingpin in Yushui County! Until a few years ago, his father was reported to the authorities.” The bald man smiled, his expression showing a hint of schadenfreude. “All his assets were confiscated, and in the end, he couldn’t hold on in prison and died.”

"Back then, this kid was probably not even ten years old. Later, his mother probably couldn't stand not having a life of luxury, plus the constant threats and debt collectors coming to their door. She couldn't take it anymore and committed suicide with her son, A-Gui, by taking pills." The bald man pointed his chin at the boy repairing cars in the distance and said, "This kid was lucky to survive. When he was taken to the hospital, his mother was already gone. He was the only one who fought on in his hospital bed. In the end, he survived, but he probably suffered a lot of trauma and has completely lost his ability to speak."

Yu Dawei's eyes no longer showed surprise; instead, a deep, unyielding gloom lingered in their depths.

The boy became mute, likely due to stress-induced speech disorder. The terrifying experience of facing life and death had become a deep-seated trauma for him.

However, what the bald youth recounted next was even more brutal than the boy's previous experiences.

"Among this group of people who owe money, his family owed my boss the most. In the end, we just brought this kid back to fix cars and pay off the debt." When the bald man said this, his eyes were full of indifference as he looked at the boy. "The boss said he would raise him like a dog, and when he grew up, he would make him work for the boss for free for the rest of his life."

"But I don't know if he inherited his dad's amazing car repair genes. He was already able to disassemble and reassemble things when he was just over ten years old. In less than two years, he had mastered the gearbox of a bulldozer and the engines of all kinds of construction machinery. And his repair speed is getting faster and faster." The bald young man stood at the back door and looked at the boy in the backyard, his eyes clearly filled with envy and jealousy. "Don't let his monkey-like appearance fool you, this kid is incredibly strong. If you ask who has the best repair talent in our yard, it's definitely this kid!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Dawei felt no joy, but instead felt a nameless rage rising from the depths of his heart!

How could such a young child possibly have the strength to repair cars, comparable to an adult?! He's overworking himself, just like his father, Old Man Yu, did in his youth. He was already frail and sickly, and quite thin, but in his efforts to repair the production team's high-powered engine, he pushed his body to its limits, ending his repair career twenty years prematurely.

Back then, his back pain was caused by overexertion, which led to a sudden twist and fall. Yu Dawei's fourth uncle, Yu Huai, once said, "Thanks to the blessings of our ancestors, otherwise if your father had used any more force back then, his lumbar vertebrae could have been twisted and dislocated."

This shows how severely the old man's health was overtaxed at the time, and he wasn't even thirty years old yet.

Compared to the old man's overexertion of his body in his youth, this boy started when he was only ten years old. If he continues like this, how many years do you think he has left to live?!
Therefore, how could Yu Dawei not be angry?

Most importantly, all the experienced mechanics knew about the concept of "penetrating force," and anyone who made a living repairing cars with a little technical knowledge understood the dangers of this. Yet, in the entire courtyard, not a single person told this withered and thin boy.

They're really treating them like dogs.

"So he works like this every day?" Yu Dawei turned his gaze back and looked at the bald young man.

At this moment, the boy is repairing the gearbox of a Shantui bulldozer. When he passed by Yu Dawei earlier while carrying a gear ring, Yu Dawei guessed that the boy's family was probably repairing the gearbox of a bulldozer.

But to his utter surprise, the one who was actually repairing the gearbox was this young man. There were scattered parts all around him, and it was midday, when everyone else was sleeping and he was still working.

The bald man seemed oblivious to the emotional turmoil of the "Northeast apprentice" beside him. Pointing to the empty bulldozer frame next to the boy in the yard, he said, "This kid is skilled. We all have to work for him now. After all the parts are disassembled, we'll finish up and take the disassembled parts off."

"Later on, we'll also assist him with repairs and help him assemble various engineering machinery parts." The bald young man seemed to realize he had said too much, so he quickly changed the subject, saying, "Since the three of you have already seen the backyard, why don't you go and rest in the west room?"

"Okay." Yu Dawei nodded, turned around and went into the house without saying anything more.

There was one thing he was certain of: the "master craftsman" he had fantasized about assembling things with countless times now seemed to be a teenager.

This sounds a bit far-fetched, but that illogical, unconventional installation method, upon closer inspection, does indeed seem unlike the typical thinking of adults. Furthermore, the lack of prior repair experience during installation makes it more like a child playing with building blocks.

When he replaced the "master craftsman" in his mind with the boy, he could find the shadow of the boy "building blocks" in both the excavators in the yard and his own wheeled excavator.

“Ah Gui…” Yu Dawei murmured, but was overheard by the bald young man next to him.

"Yes, his name is A-Gui. He's quite famous in the car repair circle in Yushui County." The bald young man led Yu Dawei into the west room and poured a glass of water for the group. "This kid does nothing but repair cars all day long. You guys must be laughing at him."

"Thank you." Yu Dawei took the water glass, a cold smile creeping across his face.

Whose child doesn't love to play and run around? When would they ever be thinking about fixing cars all the time? It's all because of your boss and jealous people like you that they're forced into it.

Yu Dawei hid his emotions well. His mind was in turmoil, so he only thought about dealing with Deng Zhijun's matter first and then thinking about other things later.

Duan Dahai and Boss Liang were sitting in their chairs, each clearly preoccupied with their own thoughts.

Mr. Liang sat to the side, wanting to say something to Yu Dawei several times, but he hesitated to speak because there were outsiders present.

Duan Dahai remained remarkably calm, showing no emotion whatsoever, and simply remained unusually silent.

Not long after they started chatting, footsteps were heard outside. Deng Zhijun and a middle-aged man with a beard walked in one after the other from the door of the west room.

The middle-aged man was short and stout, with a belly even larger than Mr. Liang's. His face was sparsely dotted with freckles, and his jet-black hair looked as if it had been coated with horse oil.

"Brothers, this is Boss Chang, the owner of Changhai Equipment Rental." Deng Zhijun walked into the room and began to introduce him to Yu Dawei and the other two. "He's a generous and righteous man!"

(End of this chapter)