The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 107 Departure from Nanjing
At the Nanjing Chemical Industry Factory, Jiang Cheng came out after loading the fertilizer. He loaded six tons of fertilizer, and the pile was quite high.

In fact, the overall length and width of the Huanghe JN150 truck are similar to those of the Jiefang truck, except that the front of the truck is a little higher, and the engine and some automotive parts are designed under the front of the truck.

It can carry more cargo entirely due to its high-horsepower engine, but it sacrifices the speed of the vehicle to achieve a load capacity that is twice that of the Jiefang truck.

But it makes no difference whether or not the speed is sacrificed. On the roads of this era, even if the Yellow River heavy truck can only run at 60 mph, it rarely reaches the maximum speed.

If you can really drive at 60 mph, you won't need to drive all day to go 200 or 300 kilometers. The same is true for a Jiefang car that can drive at more than 70 mph.

Jiang Cheng packed up most of the goods in a deserted place and drove back to Zhou's house.

At dinner, Jiang Cheng was forced to drink two glasses by his father-in-law, which made him practice his alcohol tolerance. In the afternoon, his mother-in-law bought a few aluminum lunch boxes and put some braised pork with pickled mustard greens and fried eggs with loofah and edamame in them.

As for the house key that was placed on the table in the morning, it was for Jiang Cheng to keep. From now on, Zhou Lingying's home in Nanjing is also Jiang Cheng's home, and he can just come back when he passes by.

"Jiang Cheng, take off your clothes. Mom will wash them for you. If I wash them at night, they will be dry tomorrow morning."

"Mom, don't bother with that. I have a lot of clothes in my car. I'll ask Yingying to wash them right away when I get home. There's no rush to wear them."

After dinner, Liu Xiaofang saw that it was getting late. It was troublesome to take a bath here, so she used a large wooden tub in the kitchen. It was convenient for children to take a bath. She put a bucket of water on the flat roof and let it dry for half a day before taking a bath.

Jiang Cheng didn't come here to take a shower, he just wiped his body and it was fine. But Liu Xiaofang knew that Jiang Cheng had sweated a lot today, so she wanted to wash his clothes.

"Let Yingying wash them. Yes, now that you're married, you should let her wash the clothes." When Liu Xiaofang heard Jiang Cheng's answer, she immediately agreed.

"Mom, I'm going to sleep in the car tonight. There's a truckload of fertilizer in it, and I have to keep an eye on it at night." Jiang Cheng said.

Jiang Cheng wanted to sleep in the car because he was not used to sleeping with others. He felt uncomfortable, so his parents-in-law planned to arrange for him to sleep in the same room with Zhou Xingcai.

Jiang Cheng didn't know why, he could sleep with children, but felt uncomfortable sleeping with slightly older men. This problem was also gender-selective, if it was the opposite sex, strangers would want to sleep in each other's arms, and they wouldn't feel awkward sleeping together because they were unfamiliar.

Hearing Jiang Cheng say this, they did not stop him. They just asked him what time he would leave tomorrow. If he left early, they could prepare breakfast for Jiang Cheng to eat before leaving.

And because he knew that Jiang Cheng was leaving tomorrow morning, Zhou Dongming specially bought a string of firecrackers to see him off and wish his son-in-law a safe journey.

Of course, it was also a bit of a show-off. It was just a festival to light firecrackers, so there would definitely be a lot of people asking why. This question revealed that the Zhou family had a driver who drove a big car.

Let everyone know that Zhou's daughter went to Changcheng to work in the countryside, but she still lives a good life. She can find a driver as a man in the countryside. So what if you can leave your daughter in the city with a job? Those of you who have a job and ability in the city can also find a driver to marry us.

So Jiang Cheng simply wiped himself in Zhou's kitchen and went to sleep in the car.

The next morning, after breakfast at about six o'clock, the Zhou family went downstairs to see Jiang Cheng off. After Jiang Cheng started the car engine and sat in the driver's seat to say goodbye to his parents-in-law and his second brother Zhou Xingcai, firecrackers went off and Jiang Cheng also set off.

Jiang Cheng drove from Nanjing towards Ma'anshan, then passed Wuhu and went to Xuancheng.

Ma'anshan is a city in Anhui Province. Anhui has many mountainous areas. Ma'anshan is a city named after the word "mountain". There are many mountainous areas, including big mountains. Those who drive on the highway in the future will know that there are many tunnels there, all of which are opened from the mountains.

So when Jiang Cheng passed through Ma'anshan, he saw many animals on the roadside, many birds, and squirrels in the trees.

Jiang Cheng was itching to do it. The original owner of this body had been a soldier, and even a car soldier had to train. Usually, he had to do formation training, physical training, and occasionally shooting training.

Just like the cooks in the army, it is impossible to just cook, they need training. It's just that the training intensity is different from that of other arms.

So Jiang Cheng can shoot a gun, especially a rifle, and he is pretty good at it. As for the pistol, it is not good to shoot too much.

Jiang Cheng was tired of using space to catch things, mainly because he didn't have time to catch the animals running in the mountains and flying in the sky during transportation.

Jiang Cheng decided to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in Ma'anshan City to buy an air gun. He wanted to buy a rifle, but the supply and marketing cooperative didn't have any rifles for sale.

In this era, many people had rifles, but they were definitely not purchased from supply and marketing cooperatives. Rifles were generally only owned by armed departments and were distributed to militias in many places.

So people who have rifles are generally from the militia.

Some hunters modified their own guns, and those hunters who had rifles had basically joined the militia.

When they were still a few kilometers away from the urban area of ​​Ma'anshan, Jiang Cheng saw people in military green uniforms from afar. They must have arrived near the important military area and were checking vehicles.

Jiang Cheng was so scared that he quickly put the fertilizers in the space into the trunk. Now his trunk was only loaded with less than two tons of fertilizers just for show.

When the troops check your vehicle, they mainly check if you are carrying any prohibited items. But they will also check your transport list. If you only have this much on your vehicle out of six tons of cargo, you will have to find a reason to explain it.

After inspection, Jiang Cheng drove for a distance before putting the fertilizer into the space.

The six tons of fertilizer were stacked quite high in the back compartment. If they were not put in the space, they would have to be tied up with ropes, otherwise the fertilizer would probably fall off on the bumpy road.

When he arrived in Ma'anshan city, Jiang Cheng randomly asked about a supply and marketing cooperative and went in.

As expected, guns were quite common in that era. Basically, every supply and marketing cooperative forced people to buy them. I saw one at the supply and marketing cooperative where Zhu Lan worked in Changcheng last time.

But at that time Jiang Cheng had space and felt that he didn't need a gun to catch things, so he didn't think about buying one.

"Comrade, what do you want to buy?" The salesperson at the supply and marketing cooperative saw Jiang Cheng staring at the place where the air guns were placed and knew that he might be interested in guns, but he only asked what he wanted to buy, not whether he wanted to buy a gun.

"I want to buy a gun, but I have only shot rifles and don't know much about air rifles," Jiang Cheng replied.

The salesman at the gun sales counter was a man. Regardless of whether he could shoot a gun or not, salesmen in this era had the obligation to explain the product. So he told Jiang Cheng about the quality of air guns and the prices of some guns in the supply and marketing cooperative.

(End of this chapter)