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

Chapter 194 is all about irresponsibility.
“These are all friends introduced by Brother Jun, and judging from what Brother Jun said, you’ve come all this way, so it’s only natural that we should take care of you. Even if we don’t care about you, we have to care about Brother Jun.” Boss Chang, with his big belly, smiled. “Let’s look at the cars first. If you like any of them, I’ll give you the biggest discount.”

"Thank you, Boss Chang." Yu Dawei stood up, nodded, and smiled. Then, the group followed Deng Zhijun and left the west room first, heading to the courtyard.

"It's alright, go ahead and choose whatever you like!" Boss Chang replied, then picked up the untouched water glass on the coffee table and drank the water in one gulp.

"Master, how did that used excavator you went to see today go?" The bald young man felt much more at ease after Yu Dawei left without mentioning Boss Chang at all. He then turned around and poured his boss a glass of water, looking at him with a fawning smile.

"Don't even mention it! I don't know how that Zhang Erlengzi next door found out about this. He's the damn idiot! Something that could be recycled for tens of thousands of yuan is being sold for over a hundred thousand! He's such a fucking moron!" Boss Chang angrily slammed his empty water glass onto the coffee table. "Damn it, if I ever get the chance, I'll make sure he pays the price!"

The bald young man kept comforting him, but in his heart he looked down on his master for this. Although the equipment rental company next door was not as big as yours, they had their own sales channels and were doing just as well.

Besides, if you hadn't gone to such lengths to recruit Deng Zhijun to your side for cooperation, would he have turned against you?

When you were operating construction machinery, they helped you a lot. They even had the workers in the yard help you with the work, and they didn't charge you a single penny.

Not only does my master not know how to be grateful, but he also tries to betray me.

Others might not know these things, but Yang Zi had been with his boss for so many years, how could he not know the ins and outs of it all?

He guessed that his master must have seen the other party leave first, and then felt unbalanced and started to raise the price to buy back the equipment, so that in the end neither of them could get it.

He knew his master's character all too well. If he hadn't been blind enough to have worshipped such a bastard, he would have run away long ago.

After finishing his water, Boss Chang left. The bald young man didn't care about what happened after that and went back to the east room to continue sleeping.

Led by Boss Chang, Yu Dawei and his two companions inspected many excavators in the yard. They were of various sizes and brands, including many domestic brands, but Boss Chang and his team had refurbished them into imported vehicles.

Moreover, this guy has an incredibly thick skin. He probably learned from Deng Zhijun that Yu Dawei and the other two were all newbies in the industry, so he started shamelessly calling a deer a horse. Any random brand, when he said it, was something that was absolutely unique in the world.

Of course, while it is indeed unique in some respects, he didn't want Brother Duan to treat the excavator he bought like a grandfather for the rest of his life.

The yard was filled with various assembled engineering equipment. After everyone had walked around, Boss Chang began to get a little impatient and turned to Deng Zhijun with an inquiring look.

What's going on here? Wasn't it supposed to be easy to handle? Why aren't you tempted by tens of thousands? It means you're poor. But you're not tempted by tens of thousands? Is there something fishy going on here?

Deng Zhijun glanced at the three of them furtively, a sense of unease creeping into his mind.

After looking around the courtyard, the three of them adopted a "no initiative, no refusal, no promises, no responsibility" approach!

It's just like his usual way of dealing with women other than his wife in real life.

“Brothers, we’ve looked around, both new and old, big and small brands, high and low prices, we’ve seen it all.” Deng Zhijun couldn’t help but stop Yu Dawei and the other two, smiling as he asked, “Haven’t you found one you like?”

"That's right, let me tell you, ask around in the whole Yushui County, which company has as much construction equipment as us? You guys aren't thinking of buying an excavator, are you just sent by the neighbor to cause trouble?" Boss Chang was also unwilling to stand up for himself, and stepped forward to stand with Deng Zhijun. His face was very unpleasant, and he was still holding a grudge against that bastard next door.

Boss Liang and Duan Dahai behind Yu Dawei were sweating bullets. The other party had suddenly blocked their way. Was he about to start a fight?

Although both of them were born in Northeast China, one of them never dared to offend anyone since childhood and always stayed at the back of the group. He was neither annoying nor liked, and he had never been in a fight in his life.

The other one was bullied from childhood to adulthood and is not very strong, so he would be at a disadvantage in a fight.

Just as Boss Liang and Duan Dahai were lost in thought, Yu Dawei smiled faintly and spoke up at the right moment: "Brother Jun knows what you're saying. We came all the way from the Northeast just to buy a handy excavator, right? And you say you came just to tease someone you've never met before?"

“Boss Chang, you’re overestimating yourself a bit. You’re nobody in our area, practically unknown. We don’t even know who you are.” Yu Dawei shrugged and smiled at the two of them. “So I think you’ve misunderstood the three of us. It’s just that we didn’t like the car in your yard, not that you, Boss Chang, are a bad person. Please don’t underestimate yourself.”

"Brother Jun, don't you think what I said makes sense?" Yu Dawei wasn't finished speaking; he wanted to get another person to take his side. Deng Zhijun could clearly sense that Chang Hai was on the verge of exploding. He quietly reached out and frantically patted the other man's back, hoping to calm him down.

But unexpectedly, at this moment, that little bastard of a man pulled me back, insisting that I give him a ruling.

What could he say? If he agreed with the other party, Lao Chang would inevitably receive more kickbacks afterward, or even end up getting nothing in return. But if he didn't admit it, the deal would fall through, and he would have to come up with some more complicated plans, which would really be a loss for him.

"Actually, there's no need for Boss Chang to be angry." Seeing that the two people opposite him were somewhat unstable, Yu Dawei didn't add fuel to the fire. Instead, he took the lead and said, "I see you have a backyard, right? I imagine the things there are no worse than the things in the front. Why don't you take us to see it? If we're right about one of them, wouldn't that be great?"

Upon hearing this, Boss Chang's expression softened slightly, but the smile on his face had completely disappeared. He glanced at Yu Dawei indifferently and said, "It's not that I don't want to take you, but there's no intact excavator in the backyard. My backyard is usually used for car repairs."

"That's perfect! What if there's a car that's been repaired? Wouldn't that be cheaper than a refurbished car?" Yu Dawei's eyes gleamed with anticipation.

The two people opposite were speechless.

Just to save a little money on paint, these three probably don't have much money to spare.

"Alright, since we're already here, let's go take a look." Boss Chang sighed helplessly, glancing at Deng Zhijun out of the corner of his eye.

I was about to curse this guy out in my mind. Where did he find these three poor bastards?

Deng Zhijun also regretted it a bit. He originally thought that since the other party ran an auto parts store and a fairly large scrap metal recycling station, everyone should have some. But now, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that these three people might not even be as good as the people in the village.

He even "sacrificed" one of his brothers for this, and he felt cheated when he thought about it.

When the group arrived at the backyard, the same boy in tattered clothes was still there. He seemed completely unaware of them and continued to rapidly disassemble the bulldozer's gearbox parts.

"Look around, all we have here are scrap metal, not a single finished excavator," Boss Chang said, turning to look at Yu Dawei with disdain.

Yu Dawei's gaze swept carefully over every corner of the yard, not even missing the pile of parts not far away. Boss Liang and Duan Dahai beside him were a little confused about what Brother Dawei was doing.

However, due to their long-standing tacit understanding, the two remained silent and simply watched Yu Dawei's performance.

“Indeed.” Yu Dawei nodded, turned his gaze away, and then pointed with slight surprise at the boy in the distance, “Who is that little boy? You’re leaving him here working alone in the middle of the day?”

"Him?" Boss Chang glanced at him with a sneer. "He's just a dog, an immature little pup. His father owed me hundreds of thousands back then. Money was much more useful a few years ago than it is now, and he ended up losing all my savings!"

"So I'm paying for my father's debts. If this kid wasn't somewhat useful, I would have kicked him out long ago." Boss Chang seemed to feel that just saying it wasn't enough to vent his anger, so he shouted at the boy who was dismantling the equipment, "A-Gui! Get over here."

Upon hearing this, young A-Gui paused, his hands gripping the wrench, before placing the greasy wrench on the old planetary gear rack and numbly walking towards Boss Chang.

His thin clothes contrasted sharply with the unmelted snow in the corners of the ground, but Boss Chang seemed not to notice.

He was wearing a thick down jacket and stood on the steps, but he didn't think about whether the little boy in front of him could withstand such cold: "Where is the gearbox being repaired?"

Boss Chang's voice was clearly tinged with anger. Today had been a day of bad luck for him, and now he had to put up with the attitudes of the three idiots next to him over a mere fifty or sixty thousand yuan. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became!

"Ah, ah..." The boy couldn't speak, he just made two symbolic "ah" sounds, and then stretched out his oil-stained hands and kept gesturing in front of his chest.

Yu Dawei noticed very carefully that three of the boy's fingers were frostbitten, with three obvious dark red spots on the knuckles. In this kind of weather, not only were they not given warm clothes, but they weren't even given cotton gloves for repairing cars. What kind of grudge did they have against his father?!
He felt that things weren't as simple as Boss Chang had made them out to be.

PS: Thank you to lazywetry, Deng Y Jie, and Leo's White Fish for the generous donations of Qidian coins!

Boss, boss, may you make a fortune! Boss, boss, may you be overjoyed! Boss, may good fortune be with you every day, may money come to you even while you sleep! Bosses are happy! Bosses are joyful! —Han Jingfan
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