The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 118 Jiang Cheng Appears
A lot of people suddenly came to the front yard to watch the fun. Older women of this era have a unique way of cursing.

There is a starting point for cursing, and people like to kick their feet while cursing to increase their momentum. They also point their fingers at people, preferably with an angry look.

If the people from the subdistrict office weren't here, this matter would have been endlessly criticized.

But things always have to be resolved. Even if Zhou Lingying had her reasons for throwing feces, she had gone too far.

Nowadays, when women and aunts get together, there are too many cases where the daughter-in-law says how the mother-in-law is, and the mother-in-law says how the daughter-in-law is. Not only does it talk about their own family, but also about other families. But it is too late to find someone to throw feces at like Zhou Lingying. I am afraid that most people in the whole yard will be thrown feces at.

So in front of everyone in the yard, the people from the street office gave Zhou Lingying a lecture. But the incident of throwing feces was not something that could calm Li Meihong's family down with just a lecture.

The man spent a long time cleaning the windows to remove the manure, but the stench took almost a day to dissipate. So the street office wanted Zhou Lingying to compensate the man with some money or something, and let the matter go in front of the neighbors in the yard.

After being taught a lesson, Zhou Lingying realized her mistake and agreed to compensate the other party some money.

"Compensate us one dollar and we'll let it go," said Li Meihong.

He asked for one dollar at the first request. If he dared to ask, he could buy 20 kilograms of corn flour. Of course, that was assuming he had the coarse grain coupons.

"At most, I'll give you 30 cents." Zhou Lingying bargained. When she was working in the Youth League, she only earned 30 or 40 cents a day. Giving 30 cents was like giving the other party a day's wages.

The gap is too big, and the debate has started again.

At this time, outside the yard alley, a truck drove to the empty area at the intersection, and Jiang Cheng came back.

If he hadn't passed by Qinglan Lake on the way, he would have had plenty of time and fished for a while. He also shot two wild ducks with his air gun and caught one at close range with his space gun.

When Jiang Cheng got home, he had to take a lot of things back. First, he had to take out the dishes made by Zhou Lingying's mother, as well as the watermelon, hen and meat, pig blood, and a bag of rice bran sent by the reclamation farm.

Lotus root starch, milk candy, soap, toothpaste and toothbrush, towels, malted milk, canned food, soda, scattered grains and flour, scallion wrappers, various seasonings. Of course, the clothes that needed to be washed were also taken out.

After just a casual cleanup, the pigs and sheep I bought, and a lot of other things that I hadn't taken out, were already quite a lot.

Fortunately, many things added together only make up a small pile, just with many varieties. The largest amount is just a bag of rice bran, dozens of kilograms of lotus root powder and grain flour.

Jiang Cheng first took some of the things home, including three dead wild ducks, two living hens, and a bag of watermelons on his back.

I carried the things through the alley into the yard, and immediately saw a bunch of people in the yard. It was obvious that there was some fun to watch.

It’s just that these neighbors seem to be quite close to his house.

Jiang Cheng's sudden appearance also attracted almost everyone's attention.

Someone shouted, "Master Jiang is here."

Some people whispered exaggeratedly to the people around them, "Oh my god, Zhou Lingying's man is back."

There were also women who wanted to see the situation escalate and said, "Li Meihong is finished (cut off her goods)"

Anyway, the noisy sounds just now are gone, and most of the sounds are people talking.

Seeing everyone watching his reaction, Jiang Cheng realized that something seemed to have happened in his home, so he took his things and hurried over. When Jiang Cheng approached, everyone consciously made way for him.

Zhou Lingying also knew that Jiang Cheng was back, but she didn't dare to say anything when she looked at him, mainly because she didn't know how Jiang Cheng would look at her because of this incident. Seeing that Zhou Lingying and her parents were fine, Jiang Cheng was no longer worried. As long as no one was hurt, it wouldn't be a big deal. With someone from the street office present, Jiang Cheng asked about the situation.

After learning about the situation, he apologized for asking them to come here for this matter. He took out a watermelon from the bag and gave it to the people in the street office, asking them to go back and he would take care of the matter here.

He also asked them to say hello to Director Li An of their unit on his behalf, and that he would visit the street office tomorrow.

The people from the street office were allowed to leave before the problem was solved. According to the principle, the street office had to solve the main problem for Li Meihong before they could leave.

They didn't know Jiang Cheng's identity, but after standing in the yard for a while, they heard people around them say that Jiang Cheng had driven a long way away again and brought back so many good things. He was worthy of being a driver of a big car.

He was a car driver, and he also knew Li An, the director of their unit. Jiang Cheng asked them to leave. If he didn't give them this little face, he would have no time to stay in the street office, which is the place that understands the ways of the world.

At Jiang Cheng's request, the people from the street office left directly, and Li Meihong and her family did not dare to say anything.

"Yingying, give her one dollar and the matter will be settled." Jiang Cheng didn't want to let so many people in the yard watch his show just for one dollar.

"Jiang Cheng, we've already talked about 80 cents." Zhou Lingying said in a low voice.

"Then give me 80 cents. After you give me the money, come with me to get the things from the car. Lock up these two chickens first." Seeing Zhou Lingying's stubborn look, Jiang Cheng said with a smile.

Jiang Cheng gave the watermelon and the dead duck to his mother. Seeing his father Jiang Changhe sitting on a stool in the corridor, with his legs and feet able to move, he knew that the treatment in the hospital was effective.

After giving Jiang Changhe a cigarette and asking about his health, Zhou Lingying went back to her room and counted out eighty cents. In fact, when Jiang Cheng was not here, they were still bargaining. Zhou Lingying had already agreed to pay fifty cents, but who knew Jiang Cheng would come.

After paying compensation to Li Meihong, her family did not dare to say anything and went back. Although some of her family members had jobs, when they came to trouble Zhou Lingying, they still shouted at home that her husband was just a driver, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

But Jiang Cheng just said a few words and made the people from the street office leave, and Li Meihong's husband and son didn't dare to say anything. In addition, Jiang Cheng gave them money directly when he came back, without saying a word to them, which made them dare not say anything.

Zhou Lingying put the chickens in the cage, then came to Jiang Cheng and said weakly, "The chickens are locked up, Jiang Cheng, let's go get something from the car."

"Let's go." Jiang Cheng stopped talking with Jiang Changhe and responded to Zhou Lingying with a bit of pretended indifference.

Jiang Cheng could see that Zhou Lingying was afraid that she would be blamed for what happened just now. To Jiang Cheng, Zhou Lingying did something a bit unkind. But Jiang Cheng was not a very positive person, and he was impressed by Zhou Lingying's courage to do this.

The two of them were walking in the alley. There was no one in the alley at this time, and even if the children were playing, they would go back home to play.

"You are incredible. You actually dare to do such a thing, and you even find someone to do it. Who did you find?" Jiang Cheng patted Zhou Lingying on the butt and said, feeling good.

Now Zhou Lingying didn’t know whether Jiang Cheng slapped her butt to punish her or to touch her butt intentionally. She hoped that Jiang Cheng slapped her butt because he was not angry and wanted to touch her.

"I went to your workplace and asked your apprentice Feng Hua to do it. I asked him to throw the manure at Li Meihong's house at night."

"What, who are you looking for~~?"

Jiang Cheng was a little shocked. Zhou Lingying had only been to his workplace once and had only met his apprentice once. She actually went to his apprentice to do this. She really took advantage of her status as the master's wife.

　I had a very bad day today. The power went out last night and I couldn't keep up with the 2,000-word manuscript I wrote, so I've only just finished it now.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)