The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 105 The Order for Fertilizer Delivery
Nanjing in 1972 already had a certain industrial foundation.

Jiang Cheng drove to the transport station and registered his certificate. The transport station in other places did not check how you came here. Jiang Cheng took a detour to Nanjing, and naturally his own unit would handle it. Now the transport capacity of various cities is insufficient. For many cities, they hope that your driver will detour here to share the pressure.

At Nanjing Transportation Station, the dispatcher found him a lot of orders heading to Changcheng, most of which were for mechanical parts and components.

If it is just neighboring cities, the list will be even bigger, including fresh agricultural products, grains, agricultural and sideline products, daily necessities, wood, coal and the like.

There are many forest areas around Nanjing, where you can haul timber. But it can only be transported to surrounding cities, and loading and unloading alone will take a lot of time, which is not suitable for trucks returning to the city.

As for coal, Nanjing is not actually a coal producing area, but Nanjing has good railway transportation. Many trains transport large amounts of coal to Nanjing for transit and then to other areas.

Anyway, there are a lot of orders, but the only ones suitable for Jiang Cheng are some industrial products and chemical products.

Jiang Cheng looked for a long time and found a good order.

The transport order of Nanjing Chemical Industry Company is to deliver fertilizer to an agricultural and animal husbandry integrated reclamation farm in Fuzhou County. In fact, this chemical industry company has many orders to Changcheng, but many of them are transport transfer stations.

If you send it to the transport transfer station, you basically won't get any benefit. Jiang Cheng no longer cares about money, but he cares about supplies. At least he can eat and drink freely. Now, through exchanging in restaurants, he doesn't lack some basic seasonings.

And then there is the issue of clothes. It doesn’t matter how nice they are, you have to have enough clothes to change into for the four seasons. To be honest, when Zhou Lingying married Jiang Cheng, he didn’t buy her any new clothes. She didn’t have any cloth coupons, and she didn’t ask her family for them. Although rural areas also distributed some cloth coupons, they were too few.

Jiang Cheng had never been to the Pigeon Market, thinking that with his profession and the golden finger of portable space, it would be easy to get cloth coupons. But the actual situation was that the cloth coupons for a whole family were only enough for one person to buy a new set of clothes in a year.

So if he goes back to Changcheng this time, he thinks it would be better to find out about the pigeon market in Changcheng. He has plenty of money, so it would be best to find a ticket scalper and buy some tickets directly.

After asking the dispatcher to call the Chemical Industry Company, they said that a Huanghe heavy truck from Changcheng would go there to load fertilizers from a county town called Deshengguanlin Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Comprehensive Reclamation Farm in Fuzhou, and asked the Chemical Industry Company to prepare the goods to be loaded in advance.

The process is actually the same at each transport station. After confirming that there are no problems, Jiang Cheng signs to accept the order. As long as the order is accepted, Jiang Cheng has to go unless there is a special force majeure reason.

You know, he just needs to sign the order, but the chemical industry company may have arranged for people to sort it out in advance, and the company will also call the unit to be delivered to inform when the goods will be shipped.

In other words, long-distance invoices will not tell you the specific delivery time. If some other units need to deliver something and it is urgent or the distance is short, it is possible that it is delivered at night.

Some deliveries are made at night, and the factory has arranged for loaders to work overtime at night. It is normal to wait until the early morning. If your driver does not go, how much manpower and material resources will be wasted.

Therefore, if you accept an order and fail to load the goods according to the agreed time, you will be subject to severe penalties.

After receiving the delivery order, Jiang Cheng went back to Zhou Lingying's house. When he went upstairs, Jiang Cheng picked up some more things in his hand, a wild duck, garlic and ginger. Condiments are limited for urban residents to buy. If there is no limit, drivers will buy a lot of ginger and pickle some tender ginger, which can be used as a meal on the road. Another thing is chili sauce, which is the favorite of many drivers, but you have to transport agricultural products to have a chance to get it.

Arriving on the third floor, Jiang Cheng saw his mother-in-law Liu Xiaofang sitting by the door picking vegetables. It seemed that she did not go to work this morning and took a leave to stay home to entertain him, her son-in-law.

"Mom, I thought you all went to work. I went to the station and brought back some things." Jiang Cheng said to his mother-in-law while holding something.

"Jiang Cheng, can you still get things in Nanjing?" Liu Xiaofang said in surprise.

"Drivers are like this. If you see a fellow driver with good stuff, you can share some. If you meet on the road, you will help each other." Jiang Cheng said misleadingly. On the road, they will help each other, but if there is good stuff, they will hide it in private. Even the stationmaster of the transport station will not know what the driver brings back from outside.

"Your job is really good. Yingying is lucky to be with you." Liu Xiaofang took the things in Jiang Cheng's hand. She had no reason to be polite to her son-in-law.

Jiang Cheng nodded with a smile, then said, "I promise to raise Yingying to be plump and white."

"Mom believes you. By the way, why did you go to the station? Was it work?" Liu Xiaofang asked.

"Yes, I have to go to the Chemical Industry Company to pick up fertilizers in the afternoon. I took a whole day to get here, and if I don't go to pick up the delivery order and stay here for another day, it will be difficult to teach the company when I return." Jiang Cheng explained.

"You're not leaving this afternoon, are you?" Liu Xiaofang asked anxiously. Over the past year and a half, she missed her daughter Zhou Lingying very much, but she had no way to see her.

With the appearance of Jiang Cheng, Liu Xiaofang completely transferred her love for her daughter to him. Caring for Jiang Cheng was the same as caring for her daughter Zhou Lingying.

"I have to go load the goods in the afternoon and come back after that. I have to leave early tomorrow morning. Mom, Yingying told me that she wanted to eat the braised pork with pickled mustard greens and fried loofah with eggs that you made. Can you make them for her? I'll bring them back to her." Jiang Cheng said. He had space, so he wasn't afraid of them going bad.

When Jiang Cheng said this, Liu Xiaofang was completely excited. For more than a year and a half, being able to cook for her daughter was a luxury for her. But she still asked rationally: "Jiang Cheng, the weather is so hot, won't it go bad if I take it over?"

"No, I can drive there in two days. I'll put some ice on the road and cover it with clothes so it won't go bad." Jiang Cheng explained. As for how to get ice, if he can't find a place to get ice, he can just buy popsicles. They cost one cent each, and he can buy ten for ten cents.

Anyway, it's just for show. Jiang Cheng put it in the space, but when the weather is cold, there is no problem bringing the prepared dishes back to Nanjing.

Liu Xiaofang nodded. She had bought a lot of meat to entertain Jiang Cheng today. She bought some fattier meat and planned to make braised pork for Jiang Cheng to eat.

I won’t do that now. Anyway, I’ll let Jiang Cheng bring the braised pork with pickled mustard greens to his daughter, and he can have it if he wants.

(End of this chapter)