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

Chapter 265 Yu Dawei paves the way for his own employees
These soles aren't available in the market; they're hand-sewn by a wife or mother, filled with cotton to prevent feet from getting cold without insoles.

Of course, summer insoles are a bit different from winter insoles; they're more like stitched, multi-layered soles.

The process is similar to making shoes. First, you draw a pattern, then cut it out. The first step is to make the fabric skeleton, and then you have to apply paste, spreading a layer of paste and laying a layer of fabric. In short, it's not an easy job.

Yu Dawei never cared about making insoles or cotton-padded clothes, so much so that he couldn't remember all the steps involved in tailoring. He only knew that his mother spent a lot of time making insoles every year.

I remember my mom sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) every day for a while, making shoes and insoles for the whole family, just making them little by little.

After gaining a more mature perspective, Yu Dawei finally understood how difficult his mother's life had been all those years.

So he is very grateful to Fanfan for understanding his mother, and also grateful that she bought his mother a gold jewelry piece.

After thinking about it, Yu Dawei felt that he must have opened up to Han Jingfan in the wrong way in his past life, otherwise their personalities wouldn't be so different.

The next day, Yu Dawei made an excuse and left Fanfan's repair shop with Xiao Agui. He first dropped Lao Ji off at the intersection where they were waiting for the bus, and then headed straight for Duan Dahai's scrap metal recycling station.

When Yu Dawei arrived, Duan Dahai was carrying a winnowing basket and walking out. The basket was filled with freshly scooped-out coal ash.

"Why are you here so early?" Duan Dahai was bewildered. Yu Dawei didn't seem to have anything urgent to do so early in the morning.

"Brother Duan, do you remember when I was drinking with Lao Liang before, I talked about the axe?" Yu Dawei closed the car door and walked to the door with Xiao Agui beside him.

Little A-Gui was carrying fried dough sticks, soy milk, and a large bag of steamed buns, about a dozen in total. These were all things his master had bought and brought over.

"Oh, that thing? Wait a minute, I'll go empty the ashes, we'll talk later." Duan Dahai said, and quickly walked out of the yard.

When I returned, the steamed buns and fried dough sticks had already been put into the rice bowl, and the soy milk had been poured into a porcelain bowl.

Duan Dahai lifted the kettle off the stove, took the washbasin from the chair next to him and sat down by the stove, then poured some of the boiling water from the kettle into the basin.

When he got up this morning, he found that the fire in the stove was still burning, so he added some corn cobs to get the fire going again. He then weighed it down with a few pieces of wood and some coal before he started cleaning out the ashes.

Whether it's from inside the stove or in the pit under the kang (heated brick bed), it will always turn to ash if you burn it. Duan Dahai had just taken it out without using a winnowing basket when he ran into Brother Dawei at the door.

"Why did you buy so many buns? There's no way the three of us can eat that many. It's a waste of money," Duan Dahai complained with some heartache as he washed his face.

"I was just worried about Lao Liang staying at your place. These buns look big, but even several wouldn't be enough to fill you up. If Lao Liang were here, he could easily eat five or six without stopping." Yu Dawei picked up a bun from the basin, took a bite, and then picked up the white porcelain bowl on the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) and drank some soy milk. "Where is he? He hasn't come over these past two days?"

"He's made up with his wife, hasn't he? Now he usually drinks here first, then goes home to his wife." Duan Dahai rubbed his face with water from the washbasin. "Have you thought of a solution for the axe?"

“Yes, just like Lao Liang said, buy some cheap fruit and give each family a God of Wealth. They’ll be so happy.” Yu Dawei glanced at Xiao Agui struggling to pick up the buns with his hands and said casually, “Just eat them with your hands. You’re eating them yourself anyway, why would you complain about getting dirty?”

"Oh." Little Agui nodded.

Duan Dahai, holding a towel, wiped his face as he walked into the inner room: "Now that it's settled, let's get started. Maybe Fuzi will come to the village for the New Year this year, and a matchmaker will come to help us find a partner."

Yu Dawei smiled. He actually thought so too. His brother would be 24 this year, and other kids his age in the village were already old enough to run errands.

I was one of the later people to get married in the village.

However, matters of the heart depend on fate. Yu Dawei, after all, is a time traveler, and he knows that it doesn't matter if a man is a few years late, but he still needs to find a partner eventually.

Now, when I occasionally mention a girl to Axe, the boy actually blushes as he listens.

He's really too inexperienced. He's going to be with me in the future, fighting battles in big cities. I can't let him be seduced by all sorts of scheming women along the way.

Having some resistance to the opposite sex is still a good thing.

"Here's what I'm thinking: today I'll buy some oranges, and also some statues of the God of Wealth. That should be enough for the first and second teams of Heshan Village." Yu Dawei finalized some details.

It's not uncommon to find people with bad intentions in the village. There are bound to be a few bad ones, but most are still quite simple and honest, and small favors are quite effective.

With the Lunar New Year approaching, every household needs to buy Spring Festival couplets, as well as images of the God of Wealth. Last year, Yu Dawei's family had an old man who delivered these items door-to-door. However, the old man charged money, while Yu Dawei's family received them for free.

This stuff, with a little bit of fruit, isn't worth much money on its own, but it's a good way to increase Axe's favorability in the village.

While finalizing the details, Boss Liang arrived at Duan Dahai's place right on time for breakfast.

My wife was so exhausted from my own antics yesterday that she couldn't get out of bed, so I had no choice but to come to Lao Duan's place for some food and drinks.

Unexpectedly, breakfast consisted of steamed buns and fried dough sticks. The steamed buns were made with cabbage and fried dough sticks, which are quite expensive at the morning market.

Boss Liang's eyes gleamed as he spun around, startling Little A-Gui next to him, who also sped up his eating of steamed buns.

During the conversation, Yu Dawei reiterated the story of the God of Wealth statue and the gift of oranges.

Boss Liang slapped his thigh and said, "You should have said so earlier! A friend of mine in town was selling a truckload of oranges this year. He first supplied them to the town store, and then to the supply and marketing cooperatives and small shops in various villages. In the end, he still had a lot left that he couldn't sell. That's why he was thinking of driving the truck to the county store to ask around."

"If you need oranges, we can get some from him, but I need to ask him first, I don't know if he's gone yet!" Boss Liang immediately put on his shoes, got out of bed, and with a steamed bun in his mouth, was about to drive over.

"Let's go together then. We can take the steamed buns to eat on the way. I'll drive my little red Fiat." Since Yu Dawei was already full, he let Xiao Agui take the remaining steamed buns and they drove straight to the fruit wholesale store in his little red Fiat.

What happened next was quite lucky. The group intercepted the other party's truck in front of their house, got four boxes of fruit, bought a lot of plastic bags of different colors from a hardware store, and finally got some from a wholesaler of God of Wealth statues.

After tidying up these things, everyone drove straight to Xinglong Village and Shanwopeng Village in Heshan Village.

Today is February 1st, the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month. Every household begins to tidy up their yards and walls. Some clean-loving families will also clear the snow from their gardens.

It snowed heavily last night, so clearing it wasn't too difficult. But as the snow layer gradually thickens and eventually hardens, it becomes much harder to clear.

"We're about to enter the village, what do you guys say?" Boss Liang was driving his little red car, with Yu Dawei in the passenger seat and Duan Dahai and Xiao Agui in the back.

"Park the car to the side, then take the supplies and deliver them to each household. Once you've delivered to the first group, move on to the second." Yu Dawei glanced at the cigarette butts in Xinglong Village. Every household's cigarette butts were already emitting wisps of smoke, indicating that most people were already up and it was time to get started.

So, Yu Dawei, Boss Liang, and Duan Dahai got out of the car, took the goods, and delivered them to each household, taking the initiative to "pay New Year's greetings to the villagers of Yao Jinfu."

If there are elderly people in the family, give them more fruit.

The car had limited capacity, so the oranges were all unpacked and put in the front trunk, and another box was placed under Yu Dawei's feet.

Yu Dawei had roughly calculated that there would definitely be enough oranges. When he passed by Yaoshan and went to Teacher Yao's house, Yu Dawei specially delivered the box of oranges he was carrying. This box was originally prepared for Yao's second brother and sister-in-law and Teacher Yao's family.

Moreover, she took the opportunity to explain the whole story. Yao's second sister-in-law knew very well what her brother-in-law did at Fanfan's repair shop and what he did with Yu Dawei.

What's scary is that they're too outspoken and say things too bluntly, otherwise their public image will collapse.

Afterwards, the group continued to provide assistance to the villagers, but Yu Dawei did not give anything to the families who had previously been particularly hostile to Lao Yao's family.

After Axe's mother passed away, those women who had been bullied by Axe's mother for most of their lives finally got a chance to take revenge.

At first, they only made a fuss about some trivial matters. But after Yao Jinfu went to jail, it was as if the human form had found a transformation device, and he suddenly transformed into a black giant, desperately smearing Yao Jinfu's family.

There are two or three such families; Yu Dawei just found out about them at his second sister-in-law's house.

When passing by several houses, Yu Dawei deliberately had Xiao Agui park the car at the intersection in front of the other party's yard. The car door was opened, and fruits and other things were exposed, but he just didn't deliver them to your house. His main purpose was to disgust people.

As it turned out, one woman, who was over forty years old and had a sharp, monkey-like face, couldn't stand it anymore. She came up to Yu Dawei and said sarcastically, "This axe has really made a fortune. I heard that every household in the west end of the village is sending him the God of Wealth and fruit. People who don't know better would think he's made a million or two."

Xiao Agui was sitting in the driver's seat, still savoring the feeling of driving the car, when he was suddenly startled by a sarcastic remark from the woman next to the car door. He turned his head and was taken aback.

That displeased look on his face was exactly the same as the one he had seen with Boss Chang Hai before.

(End of this chapter)