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

Chapter 210 Teaching Duan Dahai to Operate an Excavator, Realizing a Man's Ultimate Dream

It's as if Boss Liang's wife has a tracking device on him; she arrives almost as soon as he rests with Duan Dahai.

Without saying a word, he took Boss Liang home. Duan Dahai watched the whole thing, and even when he saw the two of them leave, he saw the look of despair in Boss Liang's eyes as he sat in the passenger seat of his pickup truck and looked at him.

Fortunately, Mr. Liang got through the ordeal without any major incident. After all, he had become a man who could hardly hold his head up anymore, so it was understandable that he occasionally couldn't pay much of his dues.

So, Sister Liang symbolically took away all of Boss Liang's private savings and treasury. It was at this moment that Boss Liang realized that the other party had known where he had hidden his money all these years.

"So I've been thinking about how to get my little stash back." Boss Liang pressed his hands against the plastic sheeting on the window, watching Duan Dahai hammer nails into it, while chatting with Yu Dawei. "I've saved more than 600 yuan in that jar this year. If I lose that money, forget about treating you guys to meals. I might have to mooch meals from you two every day."

"I don't really care," Duan Dahai said, holding the nail in his hand and continuing to hammer it in. "I'm quite bored living alone in such a big place. If you're really starving, I can give you some food, just please don't touch my excavator afterwards."

"Old Duan, don't you understand? This isn't about food; it's about a man's dignity." Boss Liang looked indignant. "Which man doesn't have a secret stash of money? It's like a man's last pair of underwear, and what did Xu Guiling do? What did she do! She took off my underwear!"

"How can I tolerate this? How can I tolerate this?" Boss Liang wiped his face with his hands, looking up at a 45-degree angle with a sense of melancholy. "Without my little treasury, what's the point of making any more money?"

"Hold it down." Duan Dahai forcefully interrupted the other person's sorrowful emotions.

"Oh." Boss Liang didn't dare to be negligent, after all, once the plastic sheet was removed, the wind blowing through the window cracks was already blowing on Duan Dahai's face.

"Well, I don't have a secret stash of money." Yu Dawei's first sentence was still neutral, but his second sentence almost made Boss Liang furious: "I manage my own money, and I give a small portion to my wife for living expenses."

"Old Duan, listen to this! Is this something a human being should say?" Boss Liang's eyes reddened. "Isn't it natural for a man to earn money for a woman? How can you be different from me!"

“Exactly, Dawei, I look down on you too.” Duan Dahai started to chime in for Boss Liang. “Men should let women manage their money, otherwise how can they show their status in the family? Just tell her when you need money, and if she doesn’t give it to you, be firm, pin her down until she submits.”

"You get out too. Neither of you is any good. All you do is rub salt into my wounds." Boss Liang put his hands down and sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), indicating that he didn't want to do anything at the moment and felt very wronged.

Yu Dawei took over the task of pressing down the plastic sheeting from Boss Liang, his tone slightly calmer: "Brother Liang, I don't think you can keep going like this. With women, you either conquer them mentally or physically. You can't always be the one being conquered by them, right?"

"Hmm, that makes sense." Duan Dahai couldn't help but nod in agreement with Yu Dawei after hammering the third nail into the window frame.

"Bullshit! If I could conquer her, would I have lived such a humble life all these years?" Didn't Liang Hongwei ever think about one day rising from the ashes and singing his own song?
It wasn't just that she gradually drove me to the brink of collapse. Back when we got married, she seemed so beautiful and intelligent, but who knew she would change so much after we got married?

It's not that she's changed a lot, it's just that inside her beautiful and intelligent exterior lies a terrifying tigress. Who could stand that?

Yu Dawei and Duan Dahai exchanged a glance, and they could probably sense that Boss Liang was truly heartbroken.

Although the two of them joke around with him in a silly way, neither of them is the type to actually rub salt into the other's wounds.

Duan Dahai was also helpless about this. Although his wife was cold to him, she had a sharp tongue but a soft heart.

Take his recent purchase of an excavator as an example. When he got home, he told his wife that he had bought the excavator on installment for 200,000 yuan. His wife argued and made a fuss, but in the end, he coaxed her and she took out the family savings book so that he could buy it in full, so that he wouldn't feel uneasy about owing someone else money.

Old Duan was touched by this, but as much as he was touched, he knew that installment payments had their advantages. The money saved at home could be used for unexpected needs, which was good enough.

He explained the pros and cons to his wife, and she didn't have any further thoughts. She even wanted to come and see what the excavator looked like when she had time.

But is that the woman, Mr. Liang's wife?
His wife had lived in the town since she was a child, and her family was much better off than those in the village. Boss Liang, who was from Heshan Village, was already at a disadvantage by marrying her, not to mention his sister-in-law's unforgiving nature.

If it were Duan Dahai, he probably would have withered before he even turned thirty. It's truly remarkable that Lao Liang has managed to hold on this long. "Brother Liang, actually, it's not that difficult to get your wife's secret stash back," Yu Dawei suggested, offering his advice.

"What should we do?" Boss Liang turned to look at Yu Dawei, his eyes filled with a glimmer of hope. After all, besides the money in the vat, his usual pocket money had also been taken away by these tiger women.

“Since you can’t suppress your sister-in-law mentally, then conquer her physically.” Seeing that Brother Duan was almost done with just a small corner of plastic sheeting, Yu Dawei let go of one hand. “Uncle Si in our village is quite skilled in medicine and has some knowledge about certain parts of a man’s body. I’ll ask him if he has any folk remedies for you later.”

"It works?" Boss Liang's eyes lit up.

"I don't know if it will work or not, but I don't think anyone in our Yu family has ever had trouble having children. They're all still very energetic in middle age. Sometimes I see middle-aged men going to Uncle Si's house to get medicine, and they come out with a sly smile on their faces. They won't answer any of my questions, just saying that kids don't know anything." Yu Dawei recalled for a moment, "Anyway, I'll ask around for you when we get back."

"My God! Is our Fourth Uncle really that amazing?" Boss Liang excitedly grabbed Yu Dawei's free hand with both of his. "Brother Dawei, whether my little treasure can be redeemed depends on you."

Yu Dawei nodded with a wry smile.

Old Liang is completely under his sister-in-law's thumb. If he doesn't show some manly prowess, he'll probably have an even harder time in the second half of his life.

"Ahem, Dawei, well..." Duan Dahai, who had just finished nailing the window, turned around and said somewhat embarrassedly, "If our Fourth Uncle really has a good formula that won't harm the body, you should get me some too. Women at this age... sigh, you know..."

"Alright, alright, you two..." Yu Dawei shook his head with a wry smile again, feeling as if he had shouldered the responsibility of a middle-aged man's rise.

After chatting for a while, the windows were fixed. Taking advantage of the time they had in the morning, Yu Dawei began to seriously teach Duan Dahai and the other man how to operate an excavator.

The main instructor was Brother Duan. As for Boss Liang, he would also be involved in the construction machinery parts industry in the future, so it wouldn't hurt for him to learn from him.

The three of them went outside. Yu Dawei took the lead and got into the excavator cab, followed closely by Duan Dahai and Boss Liang, who squeezed into the cab on either side.

"The excavator has a total of eight gears: left hand, extend and retract, turn left and right, right hand, dig inward and unload outward, and advance, retreat, and rise." Yu Dawei started the engine and sat down with a serious expression, holding the handles in each hand. "Watch me give you a simple demonstration first."

Yu Dawei moved slowly; all he had to do was imprint the basic operations into the minds of the two men.

Yu Dawei had already explained to Brother Duan how to turn on the switch, how to pull the safety lock, and how to increase the throttle when he first brought the excavator back.

This isn't the real challenge. The main difficulties with excavators lie in operation and terrain. Some spaces are quite narrow or steep, which makes operation particularly challenging.

Yu Dawei once witnessed a person using excavator skills to climb a mountainside with a slope of nearly 70 or 80 degrees. If he wasn't careful, the entire excavator would overturn.

Having been reborn, Yu Dawei felt that among all the people he knew, only Yao Jinfu could do this.

"I gave a general overview of the operation, and then I'll focus on walking. We have two pedals on our feet, right? Stepping on both forwards together makes you walk forward, and stepping on them backwards makes you walk backwards. If you want to turn outwards, step on your left foot forward and your right foot backwards, and vice versa." Yu Dawei explained to the two of them while demonstrating the operation.

"Dawei, didn't you turn when you used the controller just now? So, should we turn using the controller or the pedal?" Boss Liang huddled in a corner on the right, making sure not to block Yu Dawei's view.

“Two concepts. The handle can only rotate the vehicle body, but the two tracks won’t move at all.” Yu Dawei tried to turn the handle again. “And what we call ‘moving’ refers to the tracks moving forward or backward.”

“For example, if we want to control the Kobelco excavator to go to the gate, then you have to control the pedals.” Yu Dawei put his feet on the pedals and his hands on the tops of the two handles connected to the pedals. “The handles are connected to the pedals, which are also for easy operation with both hands.”

"When we're moving, we must raise the boom and forearm like I just did, and then move on." Yu Dawei controlled the Kobelco excavator to the door, then turned back and walked back to the original position.

(End of this chapter)