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

Chapter 626 Youth is long gone, what remains is mostly brilliance.
The two chatted and laughed until after 1 p.m., when they both felt hungry and decided to head home.

They also loaded over ten kilograms of silver carp into the bucket.

Yu Dawei left the matter of buying the house to his uncle.

Yu Dawei was also familiar with the Lingqian Jiayuan residential complex. It consisted of semi-detached villas, with a total area ranging from 300 to 500 square meters. Most of them were three stories high, with garages and small yards.

According to the past timeline, when Dawei returned, his aunt and uncle would already be living there.

My eldest son went there once during the middle school entrance exam. He went there after the exam and spent the summer with his aunt and uncle before going back.

The house is decent overall. If the price is based on the price my uncle paid for it, a house of about 500 square meters would cost less than 700,000 yuan, which is less than 1,500 yuan per square meter.

Even so, my uncle said while fishing that these developers still couldn't lose money, which shows how much profit they make.

When I got back, my aunt and Dafu were already home. My uncle asked Yu Dawei to go to Eryan's house and pick up Eryan, her child, and my mother so we could have fish together that night.

Afterwards, Yu Dawei went to Er Yan's house and picked up his younger brother, sister-in-law, and children, taking them all to his uncle's house.

As for the old man's farm, he already knows that Yu Dawei has come. He took the day off today and should be back tomorrow.

Yu Dawei happened to have a plan he wanted to discuss with his father, which was about buying a villa.

He planned to see when the old man would go back to his hometown. If he went back with him now, he would not mention buying the villa. If he still wanted to stay here for a while, he would let the old couple move into the villa he had bought.

When we no longer need to live there, we can just tidy it up a bit.

The only problem might be buying some furniture and appliances for the house. According to my uncle, the villas are all fully furnished, so you can move in as soon as you put in the furniture and appliances.

Yu Dawei bought a villa here partly to provide a place for his parents to live.

He wouldn't feel comfortable if he continued to live with Er Yan's family in Mulunhe, just like in his previous life.

After Yu Dawei brought everyone to his uncle's house, he drove to his aunt's and third uncle's houses.

First, we went to my aunt's house. Her house is located on a mountain in an old residential area for workers. My aunt is still in good health and lives alone in the community.

In my aunt's words, it was "a rare moment of peace and quiet."

My aunt's family has two daughters and a son. The eldest son was a troublemaker. He was idle when he was young, but he settled down after getting married and having children. However, it was too late to regret it. He didn't have any skills and was eventually arranged by his own father to become an apprentice driving a truck.

These days, he drives a truck in other places all year round and is rarely home. However, when his eldest son is not home, his daughter-in-law will bring her grandson to stay at his aunt's house.

So when Yu Dawei arrived, he saw his sister-in-law and aunt chatting in the house, while his children had run off to play somewhere.

My aunt is a rather conservative woman. Although she lives in an apartment building and has lived the life of a city dweller for many years, she is a woman with old-fashioned ideas at heart and is extremely sexist.

In addition, Yu Dawei is the eldest son and grandson of their branch. As soon as they saw Yu Dawei arrive, they stood up happily, took out fruits from the refrigerator, washed the fruits for Yu Dawei, and then asked him about his well-being, worried that Yu Dawei had suffered hardship over the years.

Yu Dawei briefly recounted his experiences working in rural areas and towns over the years.

Even though it had been embellished quite well, the aunt still burst into tears after hearing it.

“It’s all your uncle’s fault for dying so young. Otherwise, would there have been any problem with household registration back then? Poor child, you’ve suffered so much over the years!” Aunt sat on the green sofa, her hands tightly holding Yu Dawei’s big hands, her eyes filled with tears. “Look at these hands, they’re covered in calluses, even rougher than mine.”

"Auntie, I work as a car repairman, so this is unavoidable." Yu Dawei smiled wryly, but he still felt warm inside, just like back then. He felt like the pillar of the Yu family, loved and expected to be by all the elders.

I remember when I was studying here, every time I visited my aunt's house, I would always get a few cents of pocket money when I left. Although it wasn't much, it was quite a lot back then, enough to buy a bowl of noodles outside.

“Sigh, it seems like our Yu family can’t live without this thing. Your grandfather was a cart driver back then, and your father was too. He even went to school to learn how to repair carts. And you are too…” Auntie leaned back on the sofa and suddenly laughed again, “You found a good wife who gave you a son.”

"Your name is Yu Muyu, right? I saw you this morning. You're a really good kid. I can't let you ever do anything related to cars again in your life."

She knew all too well how hard it was to repair cars. She had once returned to the village and seen the second brother, who was lying under a car in the dead of winter, his face covered in black grease, repairing a car for the government.

When she got up, she was shivering from the cold. In addition, the second child was already weak. When she saw her younger brother like this, she burst into tears.

Thinking about this, my aunt started wiping away tears again.

Yu Dawei offered a wry smile and comforted her. He had always known that his aunt was someone who was very easily moved to tears, so even though he knew that his aunt would give him pocket money when he came over as a child, he didn't dare to come too often.

I was afraid that my aunt would start crying again as she talked.

After giving all the mountain produce and gifts to his aunt from the car, Yu Dawei prepared to leave. Before leaving, he invited his aunt to visit his uncle's house, but she refused.

Don't let her easy pity fool you; when she was younger, she was quite cold-hearted, and the younger generation in the family were all afraid of her, except for Yu Dawei.

She didn't like crowded places either, and at most she watched Yu Dawei drive away with a bit of reluctance.

Only when Yu Dawei's car could no longer be seen in the long corridor of the community did the aunt turn her gaze away, and slowly walk back to her house with her cane.

Afterwards, Yu Dawei met his third uncle again, thinking that nothing more would happen. Unexpectedly, he suddenly received a call from Huang Linlin, who told him some good news.

Ai Yongqiang and Meng Kai should be able to arrive in Hohhot the day after tomorrow.

The class's academic representative took this opportunity to host a class reunion at the Solon Banner Hotel in Hohhot.

Over the years, Huang Linlin said that since their class reunions had ended, the academic representative had been responsible for organizing them, making her the central figure among the classmates. Yu Dawei listened with amusement while driving, his phone to his ear. He could clearly hear the strong hint of jealousy in Huang Linlin's voice on the other end of the line.

This reminded him of the two of them who often competed with each other in high school. It was a pity that although this class monitor was also very good at studying, she was always a step behind Huang Linlin in math and biology.

"Are you going?" Huang Linlin asked again.

"Go ahead, this might be the last time you see Meng Kai and Ai Yongqiang," Yu Dawei sighed.

“The two of them will definitely arrive at the airport in Hohhot. Since you’re going, why don’t we go pick them up together?” Huang Linlin said.

"They came back together?" Yu Dawei had heard from Huang Linlin that Ai Yongqiang was in Australia and Meng Kai was in California. Their coming back together must have been pre-arranged.

"According to Snotty, they were together. They probably met up during their layover in Kyoto." Huang Linlin hasn't just been selling her body these days. There are too many people selling their bodies now, so she's always been thinking about doing something else.

So she reads all kinds of news, big and small, both domestic and international, but there's nothing she can actually use for it; at least it has absolutely nothing to do with ordinary people like her.

“Okay, then the day after tomorrow, I’ll pick you up, and then we’ll go to the airport to pick up these two. Tell Snotty that I’m back, and have her tell Ai Yongqiang and Meng Kai that I’ll be waiting for them at the airport,” Yu Dawei said.

"Okay." Although Huang Linlin didn't want to pay attention to the snotty-nosed girl, she still did as she was told.

"By the way, these past few days your husband..." Yu Dawei didn't finish his sentence, mainly because he couldn't bring himself to say it. After all, it was someone else's family matter, and he even regretted asking.

“It’s nothing. He came back once, but I scared him away with a knife,” Huang Linlin said.

"You, you should think about it again." Yu Dawei didn't say anything more and hurriedly hung up the phone.

When I got back to my uncle's house, everyone was there, and dinner was almost ready. Dabing came over after get off work; he was itching to have a drink with his older brother yesterday.

Yu Dawei knew that this brat was definitely getting revenge on him. Back in school, he had taught him math, and at that time the boy was already in the third year of junior high school, and he couldn't even do the simplest linear equation.

Yu Dawei criticized him a lot, and when he got angry, he would kick him, making Yu Dabing howl in pain.

Now that I have a stable job, and I've discovered that I can drink much more than my older brother, isn't this my chance for revenge?

It's a pity that he didn't expect that there was an aunt in the family who was particularly protective of his older brother!

Upon seeing that the eldest brother's face was flushed after drinking a glass of wine, the aunt immediately began to berate the other three brothers who had been urging him to drink, demonstrating her fierce protectiveness of her children to the fullest extent.

The three brothers were immediately put to their own devices. Back then, although all three of them had their flaws, none of them were as arrogant and domineering as Yu Dawei!
But look again, whether it's the eldest aunt, the youngest aunt, or the grandmother... they all protect the eldest brother!

Fueled by alcohol, the three brothers could no longer hold back and began to pour out their grievances!
“You wouldn’t believe it, when Grandma was at my house, I never got a single peach that Dad bought! When my older brother came, Grandma somehow found all the peaches, and they were all rotten inside! She wouldn’t give them to me, she gave them all to my older brother.”

After downing half a glass of baijiu, the soldier's expression was one of intense hatred. If a single glance could reveal a hint of jealousy, he must have been jealous of his older brother countless times over the years.

“Who says otherwise? Look at me now, what’s wrong with transferring the property to my aunt’s house?” The second brother, Yu Dasheng, also started complaining, his face flushed. “When my eldest brother came, he had a single study room! As for me? When I came, I had to stay in the living room.”

"Stop it, don't drag me into everything." Yu Dawei started to lose his temper. "Why did you live in the living room back then? Didn't you say later that it was during an important period of your uncle's rise to power? Besides, were you going to disturb him in the study or something?"

"Let me say something fair," Yu Dafu said, raising his hand with a flushed face. "Auntie, aunt, and even grandma all side with eldest brother, that's undeniable, but also understandable."

The old aunt, who had been listening to her brothers drinking and chatting, looked a little better after hearing what Yu Dafu said.

"Why do I say that?" Yu Dafu looked at the two brothers beside him who were complaining. "On the one hand, it's because the eldest brother is the eldest grandson of our family, and on the other hand, it's because the eldest brother looks the most like our grandfather! Whether it's his personality or his appearance! You two didn't know this, did you? I heard it from our grandmother."

"So my eldest brother's position in our family is naturally protected! When Grandma was sick, when I went to see her, she would ignore me, but when my eldest brother went, she would practically get off the bed to cook for him."

Yu Dafu picked up his wine glass and looked at his elder brother: "Brother, we really all envy you, so you have to drink this glass that your younger brothers brought. You also have to make up for the wounds in our hearts."

"I'm fed up with you bunch of drunkards. Come on, don't toast me one by one." Yu Dawei knew that these three guys were digging up old stories to try and get him drunk.

There's no way to avoid it now, and even my aunt can't stop me, so let's go for it.

"Big brother was really spoiled by Grandma. When Grandma passed away, she waited until Big brother took the train from our hometown to come here and saw Big brother before she could close her eyes in peace. Big brother, I've always envied you since I was a child..." Da Bing suddenly burst into tears, whether he was excited from drinking or something else.

It startled his brothers next to him.

His wife said, "That's just how he is; he cries when he's drunk." Dafu and Dasheng also confirmed this.

Yu Dawei breathed a sigh of relief; he had thought the boy had suffered some kind of trauma from his childhood.

The four brothers drank intermittently for another round. The women and children had already left the table. It was only then that Guo Qiang returned from working overtime.

Then the group started drinking again.

Yu Dawei and his second brother-in-law stopped short of drinking and left. Guo Qiang was a heavy drinker no less than Dabing, and he couldn't outdrink him, so it was best for him to leave the battlefield as soon as possible.

That night, he lay in his study, feeling excited about seeing Meng Kai and Ai Yongqiang the day after tomorrow.

These two best friends used to cause me a lot of trouble back in school. They'd sneak out with classmates during self-study periods, go swimming in the reservoir together, and both chase after the same pretty girl, only to get beaten up by her three older brothers afterwards...

Besides that, we studied hard together, led our classmates in protesting the cafeteria's terrible food, fought with the neighboring class, and led our grade in fighting with the students from No. 2 Middle School.

Youth may be gone, but what remains is mostly wonderful memories.

(End of this chapter)