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

Chapter 209 You promised you'd be able to drive an excavator, and this is it?
The new gas storage tank couldn't possibly have that much dust.

Yu Dawei sighed. The air tank should have been installed before the engine was mounted, but now the position was awkward and it was not easy to install.

However, he didn't resent Lao Ji. This guy was good at repairing trucks and bulldozers, and although he had repaired road rollers and excavators, he did so less often.

Yu Dawei tried to find leverage points to disassemble the gas tank. After finding them, he disassembled the old gas tank piece by piece, then found the new gas tank and replaced it with the new one.

He then got back on the vehicle, turned on the key switch, and tested the performance of various parts of the road roller.

Construction machinery like this, which requires disassembly and major repairs, takes a considerable amount of time to adjust. You never know if a machine will malfunction due to a lack of proper break-in during long-term operation, ultimately delaying other people's project progress.

Whether Yu Da is maintaining his own car or repairing other people's cars, he adheres to one principle: don't cause trouble for others, which means don't cause trouble for himself.

In his past life, there were several major repairs that weren't properly adjusted. For a whole month, he had to travel from Hohhot to the construction site in the mountains almost every few days to help check what was wrong with the car. This incident had a profound impact on him.

Yu Dawei will need a considerable amount of time to fine-tune the Bomag BW160. Whenever he has free time before the New Year, he will let the Bomag run around the yard a couple of times, or take it outside the yard for a spin.

Although the road roller is very loud when it starts up and greatly affects people's normal lives, there is an engineering machinery rental market outside, and the residential area is quite far away from it, so the impact is minimal.

And so, Yu Dawei's test drive didn't end until evening.

Currently, Lao Ji, Fu Zi, and Xiao A Gui can all handle the work in the yard. He mainly needs to adjust the Bomag road roller.

For example, if the vibration force of the road roller is too small, or if the indicator lights on the dashboard start to flash out of alignment after being used for a while, these are all problems that occur during the continuous debugging process.

Although none of them are major problems, solving these issues is still a laborious process.

However, Yu Dawei was somewhat gratified by A Gui's change in repair habits these past few days. No matter what he disassembled, all the screws would be put into small cardboard boxes or small buckets that were no longer needed for painting, and all the parts would be neatly arranged in one place.

This place looks very clean and tidy, a far cry from the messy backyard of Changhai that I saw before, with all sorts of parts and tools scattered everywhere.

This can be considered Yu Dawei's first good lesson to A Gui, and the other party did make changes, and even did them very well, at least more well-behaved than the two adults next to him.

"Axe, can you please stop throwing your tools around like that! Where am I supposed to find them in the middle of the night?" Old Ji's furious voice rang out in the sunless courtyard.

For someone like Lao Ji, who suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, being missing a 19-17 box wrench is unbearable. He might even refuse to eat or sleep until he finds the right one.

"You have the nerve to talk back to me! Where did you put those two oil pan screws I asked you to put there? It's freezing cold, and I have to play with you looking for screws." Axe retorted, arms crossed, wearing a dog-skin hat, his flashlight trembling as he stared at the ground.

Where the hell can I find this? The oil pan screw is so small.

As a result, the two of them seemed to be locked in a stalemate: if you don't help me find the wrench, I won't let you leave; conversely, if you don't help me find the oil pan screw, you can forget about going back.

"Hmm?" Little Agui came out of the house, holding a big white steamed bun in his hands. He stood at the door with his master and looked at the two long, slanted shadows cast by the searchlight with some curiosity.

He didn't quite understand why the two people weren't going back to their room to eat when the food was ready. He was also puzzled as to why they weren't listening to their master.

"Never mind them, let's go inside and eat." Yu Dawei had originally intended to invite the two of them inside for dinner when he came out.

Seeing that Axe and Lao Ji were truly reaping what they sowed, they didn't care anymore. Whether they found it or not, they didn't deserve to be fed by their master and apprentice.

The day after the BMW was assembled and officially tested, perhaps because it was close to the Gregorian New Year, there were fewer and fewer cars traveling from the north to the south or from the south to the north. The cars, buses, and even vans in the town were almost all repaired.

Some people who lived in town came to pick up their cars a few days after they were repaired, paid the money, drove away, and left a few polite words.

Things like "Happy New Year" and "May everything go smoothly".

Most of the outstanding payments have been settled, but there's still some left. The owner wasn't in town, perhaps too eager to get home for the New Year, so he just left his car there and left. Besides Yu Dawei's excavator, small wheeled excavator, red sedan, and road roller, there are two old Xiali cars and a bus going to Minquan Village; they can pick it up this afternoon after we contact them.

The large vehicles included an excavator that hadn't been inspected yet, a loader, and a dump truck.

These few big trucks alone are enough for Lao Ji to play with.

Although the workload has visibly decreased, Yu Dawei has calculated that his daily income can still be maintained at around 600 yuan, which is considered a high income.

Besides debugging the Bomag road roller, Yu Dawei now has some free time again, and he plans to take some time to buy all the tools listed on his previous shopping list.

But before that, he had to go see Brother Duan. One reason was to check on how well Brother Duan was operating the excavator. Before he left, Brother Duan had confidently said, "This thing isn't something anyone can do with their hands."

To put it bluntly, it's about saving face in front of Boss Liang. However, if it's something as simple as walking or digging a hole, Yu Dawei thinks that with Brother Duan's talent, it shouldn't be a problem.

When he arrived, Yu Dawei exclaimed, "Wow!"

Duan Dahai wasn't practicing operating an excavator at all; he was clearly repairing windows. Boss Liang, whose winter is usually the off-season, was also there, fitting newly purchased, appropriately sized panes of glass into the old window frames.

"Hey guys, what's going on? Is the excavator upside down, or are you two just feeling too hot in here?" Yu Dawei had been hanging out with them for a while and had learned to make a few sarcastic remarks.

Luckily, he was quick-witted. This time, he made sure to park his little red car outside the yard by the east wall, so that it wouldn't accidentally turn into a pile of scrap metal after it came in.

“It’s not my fault.” Duan Dahai held the glass in both hands and began to gently install the glass panel along the three sides of the wooden frame. “This guy insisted that he could operate an excavator and wanted to teach me. As a result, he sat in the cab and I was standing by the door. He fished out of the cab and not only did he throw me out, but he also made a big hole in the window.”

"It has to be something other than the wall that's being smashed, otherwise this winter, I'm afraid I'll have to go back to the old compound and squeeze in with your employees." Duan Dahai complained for a long time, but his expression remained calm, and he didn't seem to be really angry.

Yu Dawei glanced at the newly replaced door frame next to him and roughly guessed a certain possibility.

"Couldn't you two practice a little further away when you start the excavator?" Yu Dawei pointed to the open space just inside the gate. "Look at the east wall, it's enough for you to walk back and forth two or three times. If that's not enough, there's a large open space to the west. Why do you have to carve houses and cause such a ruckus..."

Boss Liang sighed helplessly: "It's all because of Lao Duan's stubbornness. He insisted that this location was good, with the car right under the window. Even if someone came to steal the excavator, he could see it. Otherwise, if it's too far away, he's afraid the excavator will be stolen and he'll end up with a lot of debt."

Upon hearing this, Yu Dawei was truly speechless. He put his hand to his forehead and smiled wryly, "Alright, it's my fault. I'm late. Today we won't do anything else but teach you two how to operate an excavator."

"Hey? You're not busy anymore?" Boss Liang looked at Yu Dawei with some joy. "The road roller was installed so quickly? Didn't you say it would take at least seven days and at most half a month?"

“That was just me alone. Now that I have Lao Ji, Fu Zi, and A Gui, can the repair speed compare to that of one person?” Yu Dawei picked up a broom and helped sweep the broken glass shards from the windowsill. “These three people together are equivalent to one and a half Master Lü. I feel very reassured having them work in the factory.”

"That's why I say this apprentice is worth taking on. Once he's fully recovered, let him work with you on repairs for another two years. Who knows, he might even become more skilled than you." After aligning the hinges on the window frame, Boss Liang inserted them downwards, and the window fit perfectly against the side frame.

"Done!" Boss Liang let go and waved his sore arm.

"What's done? I still need to nail a plastic sheet inside the house, otherwise with this strong wind and howling outside, and my yard being in the windy south, how am I supposed to sleep in winter?" Duan Dahai rolled his eyes, picked up his tools, and went inside.

"I'll listen to you, as long as you don't make me lose money," Mr. Liang said, indicating he didn't care.

"No need, Dawei is here too, you can treat us tonight." Duan Dahai opened the door and walked into the house, followed by two other people who entered the inner room one after the other.

"Cough cough, Lao Duan, you're being unreasonable. My wife punished me the other day and just took away my savings. I've been eating scraps and vegetables these past few days, my pockets are emptier than my face." Boss Liang almost burst into tears as he said this.

A few days ago, after the three of them returned from the oil city, Boss Liang knew that he was physically exhausted, so he started to lie down at Lao Duan's place to recover his energy.

The result... well...

(End of this chapter)