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

Chapter 39 The Eldest Son's Unspoken First Love (Bonus Chapter)

"Yao Meiling, what's wrong? No, doesn't it sound good?" Yao Jinfu was nervous because of Yu Dawei's shocked expression, so he quickly drank half a bowl of wine to calm his nerves.

Yu Dawei sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) in a daze, his mouth agape for a long time, seemingly still not having recovered his senses.

He also took a small sip of the 56-proof sorghum liquor, suppressing his shock.

"So that's how it is, so that's how it is..." Yu Dawei couldn't help but take another sip of wine, then smiled wryly and picked up a peanut and threw it into his mouth.

In my past life, one year during the Lunar New Year, I was welding some iron frames for my eldest son's warehouse. While tidying up, I found a yellowed diary in an old leather trunk.

The notebook is about the same age as his grandfather's; the first few pages are in the handwriting of his aunt, Yu Fang, and are all math notes.

Just as Yu Dawei was about to put it back, he discovered his eldest son's incredible secret on the next few pages.

It is a diary.

Judging from the date, this should be a diary from when he transferred from elementary school to junior high school in Youcheng.

The handwriting was still crooked and messy, as ugly as if it had been pulled out of its bones.

Yu Dawei resisted the urge to hit him, read a few pages, and then discovered that the kid was writing love letters to a girl named Yao Meiling every day in the form of a diary.
It's not really a love letter; it's just a simple record of everyday life, and it never expresses any feelings of liking or love.

But between the lines, one can always sense that longing and affection in Yu Dawei's words.

A diary, written for four whole years (four years of junior high school), all written to the same person.

It would be a lie to say I don't like it, and there are two minor climaxes later in the diary.

One was when he returned to his hometown during his first year of junior high school winter vacation, he learned from his childhood friend that Yao Meiling had dropped out of school.

Another time was after he graduated from junior high school and was admitted to a key provincial school. That summer, he returned to his hometown and saw her at the old supply and marketing cooperative, holding hands with a boy.

She seemed to have a boyfriend. He didn't bother her, just glanced at her and left.

After that, the diary reached its last page, like a curse, or a period.

Yu Dawei closed his diary, still unable to understand who this girl was. Because there were five villages under Heshan Village, there were at least eighty or a hundred people with the surname Yao.

He doesn't know anything about the kids in the same grade as his eldest son. After all, Yu Dawei never went to school once when he was in elementary school.

The main reason is that it's unnecessary. After all, Zhang Baicang from the Zhang family at the east end of Yujiatun is the principal of Heshan Elementary School. Wouldn't it be better to just ask the principal if there's anything wrong?
Therefore, the little girl named Yao Meiling remained a mystery in Yu Dawei's mind. Even at the last moment of his life, he still couldn't figure out which Yao family's child this little girl named Yao Meiling was.

Now it's all solved!

The source of our feelings is here!
Yu Dawei chewed on peanuts, his mind a complete mess.

He's dissatisfied with his life and wants to change it, but what about his son? Is he willing to be changed?
"Brother, what's wrong? Why have you been so quiet for so long? What's wrong with my sister-in-law's baby?" Yao Jinfu asked worriedly. "Did you learn some face-reading skills from your grandfather and figure something out?"

"I'm not in the mood for that." Yu Dawei rolled his eyes in annoyance. "But there is something I need to tell you."

"You said."

Yu Dawei then suppressed the fact that his eldest son had a crush on him and talked about his excavator and his recent work.

When it came to serious matters, Yu Dawei became noticeably more serious. Although they were brothers, he still needed to make things clear.

How much is the salary? How many days off are there for holidays? How is the contract signed? And finally, there are some confidentiality agreements.

Yao Jinfu's incident inadvertently taught Yu Dawei a lesson, making him realize the importance of keeping a low profile. He also forbade Yao Jinfu from talking to anyone in the village about owning an excavator.

If you ask him what kind of work he does, it's better if he can give a vague answer; if he can't be vague, he can say that he found a job operating an excavator.

Try your best to avoid getting into trouble.

It wasn't that Yu Dawei was afraid of anything, but the money he made from raising excavators was enough to make the villagers envious. Not to mention the villagers, even people who worked normally in the city couldn't earn 15,000 yuan a month.

Although it's gross profit, there are still expenses for maintenance, upkeep, drivers, etc., which all require a considerable amount of money.

The amount of money that can be earned is still unimaginable.

Yu Dawei paid Fu Zi a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, with a year-end bonus.

In today's market, excavator operators earn between 800 and 2500 per month for beginners and between 1500 and 2500 for experienced operators. In a market like this in a small town, such wages are already quite high, if not low.

Once an excavator starts working, it works from at least 7 or 8 in the morning until 11 or 12 at night, and sometimes it even works a night shift until 1 or 2 in the morning. It's not uncommon for excavators to work non-stop.

So this is money earned through skill and hard work. To those who don't understand, it might seem like a lot of money, but Yu Dawei thinks it's perfectly reasonable to give Axe two thousand yuan as wages.

All special circumstances were explained clearly, and as for the bonus, it would depend on the specific circumstances of the work that followed.

Of course, this is just the beginning. As more and more cars are maintained in the future, Yu Dawei wants to turn this blockhead into a manager.

We don't need to manage everything; we just need to manage the drivers.

Yao Jinfu wasn't stupid; he just didn't pay attention to things and was too lazy to think too much.

In some ways, he's similar to Yu Dawei in his previous life; otherwise, the two wouldn't have such a good relationship.

After settling this matter, Yu Dawei and Yao Jinfu started drinking again.

Yao Jinfu, like his father, had a huge appetite; he drank about three jin of the five jin of baijiu (Chinese liquor).

On the one hand, I'm happy; on the other hand, I'm very happy.

Yu Dawei is someone whose face turns red when he drinks; he has a slight alcohol allergy and can't drink too much.

The result was that he always clinked glasses with Yao Jinfu, while Yao Jinfu drank in large gulps and Yao Jinfu sipped slowly.

Axe didn't mind at all, and instead chuckled as he talked about his childhood.

He also recalled that when he was noticed by a boss in Hohhot, he was quite excited and always thought that one day he would be able to meet you, brother.

I never expected that not only would I not see the person, but I would also inexplicably get myself into trouble.

Yu Dawei scoffed, "Even if you searched the entire city of Hohhot, you wouldn't find yourself." The place where he studied was actually a town under the jurisdiction of Hohhot, belonging to the EWKZ Autonomous Banner. It was surrounded by mining areas, and there weren't many people in the town. It took at least an hour to get to the city by bus.

As they talked, their tongues became slurred, and eventually they stopped talking altogether. One lay down at the head of the kang (a heated brick bed), and the other at the foot.

Just like when I was a child, after eating and drinking my fill, I would play on the kang (heated brick bed) until I was tired, and then fall into a deep sleep.

The wind outside occasionally rattled the glass, and the candle inside the room, after releasing its last bit of light, turned into a wisp of smoke.

Occasionally, a few barks could be heard from the courtyards on both sides, and an unusually large rooster would stand on the wall and crow loudly at night.

(End of this chapter)