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

Chapter 264 Yu Dawei transforms into an accountant, calculating his meager savings.
"Look at what you're saying, what's yours is yours." Yu Dawei said with a very serious expression, picked up his wine glass and thought for a moment, "By the way, Axe, didn't you break the wrench in the factory a while ago?"

"Um, I think so." Axe thought for a moment and vaguely remembered.

“If one wrench breaks, the whole set of wrenches becomes very difficult to use, and it’s basically useless. You have to compensate the factory a hundred yuan.” Yu Dawei reached out and took the hundred yuan that Fu Zi hadn’t even warmed in his hand. “Alright, this hundred yuan is exactly what you owe the factory.”

Yao Jinfu: "..."

Bro, you're doing this, huh? Okay, okay, you're just like me!

Yao Jinfu smiled wryly, not caring. He knew Dawei too well; he figured Dawei was up to something again after taking the hundred yuan. He hoped it wasn't to rent a room at Chengcheng Hotel for him.

Even spending a hundred yuan to go to the barbershop at the south end of town for a simple wash, cut, and blow-dry would be fine.

After a moment's thought, Yao Jinfu stopped investigating. Without Brother Dawei, who knows what would have become of him in the village?
The group ate and drank until late at night.

Old Ji planned to go home early the next morning, arriving home around noon, and would stop by their town to buy some New Year's goods.

Yu Dawei expressed his respect for this.

As for Axe and Little Agui, they wanted to stay in the factory and even wanted to spend the New Year there.

Yu Dawei didn't say anything, his eyes seemingly preoccupied with other things.

When he returned to Fanfan's repair shop that evening, Yu Dawei sat on a small stool and began to calculate his personal capital.

First, there's the 60,000 yuan I had saved up. During this period, whether I went to Dingcheng or accompanied my wife to the oil city to buy jewelry and clothes, it was all spent on this money.

The factory is self-sufficient in most expenses and can operate smoothly. Therefore, whether it is buying parts for the cars repaired in the factory or replacing some mechanical repair equipment, it is all from the money that has already been earned.

By doing this, Yu Da can keep his accounts very clear, preventing confusion between different matters.

Even when it comes to wilderness rescues and factory repairs, Yu Dawei keeps the accounts separate.

As for Yu Dawei's own capital, after deducting the 15,000 yuan spent on jewelry, there was also the money spent on gas in Dingcheng, paying for driving school exams, giving Xiao Agui red envelopes, etc., which added up to about 6,000 to 7,000 yuan.

Yu Dawei had previously withdrawn two sums of money from the bank, one for 10,000 yuan and the other for 20,000 yuan, totaling 30,000 yuan. He currently has 30,000 yuan left in his savings account.

The money that was withdrawn, after buying things and various expenses, was given to Han Jingfan. It was about six thousand yuan.

Let's not count Fanfan's money for now. I have 30,000 yuan here, plus nearly 28,000 yuan from the factory, which makes a total of 58,000 yuan.

It seems like the money has shrunk, but at the factory, I bought all kinds of repair equipment, repaired the road roller, and also purchased some spare parts and common oils. I also repaired the courtyard wall, added the warehouse for storing equipment on the northwest side, and so on. All of this money was my own investment.

Moreover, with no income from car maintenance, it's like having a broken leg, leaving us to rely solely on repair shops to survive. Considering all these factors, it's understandable that our initial capital accumulation is slower.

Yu Dawei wasn't in a hurry, after all, next spring he wouldn't be working with just two excavators, but with a Hitachi UH03 hydraulic excavator, a small wheeled excavator, and a double-drum road roller.

With the number of projects increasing year by year, Yu Dawei is looking forward to seeing how much his capital will grow next year.

Old Ji sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), a pipe dangling from his mouth, leaning against the window sill covered by a curtain. In one hand he held the "Brigade Leader's Maintenance Manual," while in the other he flipped through the pages of equipment maintenance records from the past two months.

He would occasionally boast to Yao Jinfu about which car he had repaired so well, and which car broke down again shortly after being repaired and had to be sent back to the factory.

Axe sat beside him, holding a teacup in both hands as he listened.

Little Agui lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), turning the coins over and over, counting the five-cent coins that were of varying ages.

Yu Dawei glanced at the group of people, then looked away and used the stove hook to dangle the coal above the grate.

The coal we bought this year was also very cheap, mainly thanks to Brother Duan. He knows people there, so it was naturally cheaper. Yu Dawei also hauled most of it back to his family in a four-wheeled truck.

He hung the stove hook back on the wall behind him, turned his head and started staring at the script again, idly drawing circles on it with his pen.

He thought about how he had traveled back in time from the end of December 1992 to January 1994, a little over a year, but he had accomplished a lot and successfully avoided a regrettable act from his previous life.

They used high-interest loans to buy agricultural equipment!
This incident was like a thorn in his side, piercing him for the rest of his life. At the moment he traveled back in time, he finally found the culprit who stole the equipment and returned the agricultural machinery. As a result, he successfully met Lao Liang, now the owner of Hongwei Parts Store.

Incidentally, he used the returned money, along with interest, to repay the loan sharks. This matter concerning agricultural machinery, a knot in Yu Dawei's heart that would never be untied in his entire life, was finally resolved.

Then he came up with the idea of ​​owning vehicles, and in a year he not only acquired three construction vehicles, but although they were all dilapidated when he got them, they have now become excellent work vehicles.

In addition, he also owns a repair shop with a land area of ​​more than four acres, which would be considered a large repair shop in any city.

Yu Dawei was very satisfied with the repair shop. Later, when the shop's capital snowballed, he would build a special repair shop for it, so that everyone wouldn't be shivering in the cold wind while repairing cars in the winter.

Of course, besides these, he also had his own car, a Fiat 126p with a twin-cylinder engine. Although its top speed was only a pitiful 100 mph, it was enough for getting around the town and villages.

This little car even accompanied him on various expeditions and rescue missions, making it a true hero among Yu Dawei's vehicles.

Finally, there's the newly modified Daihatsu minivan. This is currently the worst-performing used car investment Yu Dawei has made. Although he didn't invest much money, it's just a matter of time. By the time he finishes this car, it will be close to the Chinese New Year.

Yu Dawei can only wait until next year to see if it can truly shine for him.

After talking about cars, he also had another asset, which was his eldest apprentice, Jiang Gui, whom everyone liked to call A-Gui or Little A-Gui.

During this time, as A-Gui gradually adapted to the northern climate and soil, he was no longer so thin and had grown a little taller.

Xiao Agui has a unique talent for mechanics; he can grasp anything he sees or learns almost instantly. Yu Dawei had previously taught him some theoretical basics of mechanical repair, and within a few days, the little guy could use that theoretical knowledge to answer questions fluently about mechanical structures.

This made Yu Dawei even more determined to send Xiao Agui to school. He could fix cars anytime, but he had to study. Even if he couldn't study for many years, he would at least be able to read.

What troubled Yu Dawei was whether to enroll him in first grade, preschool, or put him in the town to go directly to middle school, according to his age.

He was still a little worried that if he sent him to a preschool, the child would be mocked by those little kids and suffer psychological trauma.

Yu Dawei still needs to find time to discuss this matter with Xiao Agui.

Or perhaps he hired a private tutor from town, not specifically to teach Xiao Agui, since he also has a good-for-nothing daughter named Er Yan at home.

His second younger sister was naturally averse to studying, but the importance of education was self-evident, so Yu Dawei had no choice but to ask the teacher to re-teach her.

At least someday in the future, we hope that Er Yan will have a college diploma or vocational high school diploma, so that she won't be so poor in terms of education and end up working as a cleaner in a state-owned enterprise in Hohhot for half her life.

He doesn't deny that his second sister's future life is very happy, but he hopes that his sister can take a small step up from her current happiness.

Unbeknownst to him, snow began to fall outside the window on the north wall. It was pitch black outside, and Yu Dawei could only see a few snowflakes falling through the blurry plastic sheet.

I currently have a total of 58,000 in cash assets, which is definitely enough to handle various matters and deal with any emergencies next year.

Four months later, in May, the maintenance service fee for the two Ackerman trucks at the Eighth Bureau Oil City Branch will be paid out, totaling 50,000 yuan.

The first thing he'll do then is pay back the 30,000 yuan he owes Xiaobai.

Speaking of Xiao Bai, it seems like Yu Dawei hasn't seen him for a while. I have to say, he does miss him a bit after not seeing him for a while.

Although Xiao Bai is a bit older than him, Yu Dawei feels more like he's dealing with his younger brother. He enjoys joking around with him and finds it quite fun.

Yu Dawei picked up the tea mug from the stove. Because the fire was burning constantly, the white tea inside was at the perfect temperature, and he took a big gulp.

He then got up, stretched, and sorted through his accounts for the year, finally able to get a good night's sleep.

He had another mysterious matter to attend to tomorrow, but he couldn't let Axe know about it.

It would be best to find a reason to bring Xiao Agui along, to do something fun with him, so that he can open up his closed-off heart a little bit more.

Having made up his mind, Yu Dawei shoveled some more coal from the small pile behind him and put it back into the stove.

After finishing, Yu Dawei took off his shoes and got onto the kang (heated brick bed).

Before that, he also followed Lao Ji's example when getting on the kang (heated brick bed), taking out the insoles from his cotton shoes and warming them up on the kang headboard. This way, the insoles, which were already wet from walking, would be warm and fluffy to wear the next day.

(End of this chapter)