The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 106 Red Book and Badge
Scrambled eggs with loofah is actually a very ordinary dish overall, except that the eggs are a little hard to buy. But some people just like it and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Liu Xiaofang plans to buy some loofah and edamame in the afternoon. Edamame is now on the market in Nanjing. Her daughter also likes to eat edamame.

Fortunately, Jiang Cheng brought back a duck, and with some fish and shrimp, and a few stir-fried vegetarian dishes, it would be fine.

Liu Xiaofang went out this morning not just to buy groceries, but also went to Zhou Dongming's eldest brother's house and asked Zhou Lingying's uncle to come over to meet his niece Xu. He also notified his eldest son Zhou Fanyi, and many people came to eat lunch today.

When there are wild ducks, Liu Xiaofang immediately goes to boil water to prepare for depilation. Whether it is domestic chickens and ducks or wild ones, the feathers will be left. If it is wild rooster feathers, they can be made into decorations, which are long and beautiful.

The long and short hairs will be made into shuttlecocks for kicking. As for the others, they will not be wasted and can be sold at the purchasing station.

Some families with poor financial conditions would use boiling water to disinfect the fur, dry it, put it into cloth bags and then sew it into bedding.

Anyway, the feathers of chickens, ducks and geese are all useful these days and will not be thrown away as garbage.

Liu Xiaofang was handling various things, and Jiang Cheng basically just watched from the side. It's not that he didn't want to help, but he was not skilled. He had no rules for plucking the duck feathers, while his mother-in-law plucked the feathers according to what she was doing, and it was fast and clean.

Jiang Cheng was mainly chatting with his mother-in-law. Before he got off work, a guest came.

Zhou Lingying's aunt Zhou Siyuan came. Zhou Siyuan also had a job, working in the Women's Federation. She encouraged women every day, saying that we should hold up half the sky. But in reality, she still instilled the old idea of ​​supporting the husband and raising children in her daughter.

Zhou Siyuan's job was not found until long after she got married. Her elder brothers Zhou Hewang and Zhou Dongming worked together to help her get a job at the Women's Federation, contributing money and effort.

It's fine to shout "hold up half the sky" outside, but if you dare to do that in the Zhou family, you will be beaten. The two brothers worked hard to get her a job, not so that she would say I want to be as strong as you.

After Zhou Siyuan came, Liu Xiaofang naturally introduced herself to Jiang Cheng.

Then the aunt was very enthusiastic towards Jiang Cheng and spoke politely. But for some reason, Jiang Cheng felt that the politeness was a bit fake.

Unlike his mother-in-law, who always praised him by saying that he was a good person, good-looking, and had a good personality, his aunt Zhou Siyuan always asked about and praised his work. It seemed that if Jiang Cheng was not a driver, she would not be so enthusiastic.

Not long after, another guest came. Jiang Chengdu knew it was his uncle Zhou Hewang, who looked very similar to his father-in-law Zhou Dongming, without any introduction. But his aunt also came with him.

In fact, my uncle would also come, but he hadn't finished get off work yet, and Zhou Hewang found an excuse at work to come early.

Zhou Hewang was wearing a cadre uniform, which looked quite impressive. He was just a section chief of the Cultural Bureau, but don't underestimate a section chief. The Cultural Bureau was popular in this era. They promoted the spirit of the higher authorities everywhere, and even radio stations and movie screenings were under the jurisdiction of the Cultural Bureau.

Zhou Hewang came here to visit his nephew-in-law, but he brought something to Jiang Cheng, a red book of quotations from the emperor, and a jade badge of the chairman.

In this era, red books and badges can protect the house and drive away bad people. Especially the jade badges, which are not available to ordinary people. The supply and marketing cooperatives also sell badges, which are made of plastic, iron, copper, and ceramics.

As for silver and jade, they are basically not available on the market and are only circulated internally. As for gold, that's even more impossible.

In Jiang Cheng's original owner's memory, he also memorized the Quotations, which he memorized in the army. The military service center in the army also sold badges, but at most they were made of copper.

Jiang Cheng put away his things, immediately took out a cigarette and gave one to Zhou Hewang, then started chatting with everyone. This new son-in-law would basically ask about Zhou Lingying's situation every time an elder of Zhou Lingying came. How did he get to know Zhou Lingying, how is he doing now, how much is his salary.

Even if Jiang Cheng has told people this several times since yesterday afternoon, he still has to answer obediently.

Anyway, he has a military background, a good job, a good appearance and a good height, so people are basically satisfied with Jiang Chengdu.

It was not until about 12 noon that Zhou Lingying's elder brother Zhou Fanyi came with his wife and children. Zhou Fanyi moved out at the end of last year, and he did not get a house, but his wife's unit did.

Why didn't he get a share but his wife did? Because Zhou Fanyi's father-in-law is a director of the street office.

To be honest, Jiang Cheng's deepest feeling about the Zhou family is that this is a state-owned enterprise family from the post-era.

Parents have jobs and help their children, and their children marry and find employed people. As long as they survive a period of layoffs, they will definitely be the envy of everyone in the 21st century.

This is because he is not in the tobacco unit, otherwise he will develop in a family style. As a son-in-law, Jiang Cheng may not do anything, but he can get into the unit and become a big boss in the future.

But think about it, in this era, young people without jobs are arranged to go to the countryside. When young people in the city get married, it is normal for both parties to have jobs.

Of course, there are many neighbors like Jiang Cheng who have children who have jobs but they are just odd jobs or something, and they may not have much future.

But in the 21st century, in some of the movies and TV dramas that Jiang Cheng has watched, marriage is about nothing and everything is so beautiful and simple.

But in reality, when families like the Zhou family look for a partner for Zhou Xingcai, they always give priority to girls with jobs. Isn't this a good match?

Maybe you don’t need any dowry to get married, but there are still different levels.

Jiang Cheng looked at the people in the Zhou family, including those from the Cultural Bureau, the Women's Federation, the factory, and local units. He felt that if he married Zhou Lingying, even if he was not a driver, he would have no room for maneuver. After the opening up, the Zhou family would probably make proper arrangements for Jiang Cheng.

Everyone enjoyed the lunch very much. Jiang Cheng drank one glass of wine from a goblet and stopped drinking because he still had to drive to load the goods later.

With this one drink, he would not be able to drive in the future. But it was nothing now. The main reason was that Jiang Cheng couldn't shirk his responsibility. In this era, there was no such thing as drinking and driving. For drivers, the more they drank, the more energetic they would be.

Jiang Cheng had one drink and still had two hours to sober up, so it wasn't a big problem. Even in this era, he wouldn't joke about other people's lives.

So he walked for a while at noon, and at two o'clock, he set out to pull fertilizer.

Those who plant trees will enjoy the shade. Even though the chemical factory is a very large one, the people who received Jiang Cheng still took the initiative to offer him two packs of cigarettes.

But the strange thing is that Jiang Cheng didn't ask for anything, and the people here gave him eight empty bags for fertilizer. The bags are good, more convenient to use than sacks, and it's worth a try if it's free.

　That’s all. Take a rest and work harder tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)