The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 13 Birdie
If the educated youth started dating with the locals, let alone becoming a team leader, their status as educated youth would be revoked soon. Whether they were male or female educated youth, if they married with the locals in the commune, they would basically live with the locals.

Now that Zhou Lingying is dating a local, the question is no longer whether she should be a team leader, but why she would be willing to date a local rural person.

Other educated youth who came a few years earlier may have grown old and reached the age of marriage, but they did not receive the news of returning to the city. It was normal to get married and have children in the local area, but Zhou Lingying was only 18 years old, and she often encouraged everyone by saying that they would return to the city sooner or later.

There are some things that Zhou Lingying can't say directly. She can't say that some things are just a belief. Everyone goes to the countryside to train themselves and improve themselves. It's okay to endure hardships, but no one has ever told everyone how many years they will stay in the countryside, or what goals they can achieve before they can go back.

Everyone talked about their ideals and the future, saying that everything would be fine, but no one told everyone when that day would be.

Dating a local has always been a heavy topic among the educated youth, and it is hard to say whether it is right or wrong. Zhou Lingying herself was unwilling to say more, so everyone pressed her.

The topic also began to shift to who would be the team leader after Zhou Lingying stopped being the team leader. If Zhou Lingying didn't want to be the team leader because of other things, everyone would persuade her, but now that she was dating a local, there was no point in persuading her.

In just one night, the news that Zhou Lingying was dating a local spread.

The news first spread to the female educated youth dormitory next door, and then the gossipy female educated youth told the male educated youth, and everyone thought that Zhou Lingying and Li Mingjun would become a couple in the future. Now some people really want to know what Li Mingjun will think when he finds out that Zhou Lingying is dating a local.

At night, everyone went to sleep after chatting for a while, as they had to get up early to work tomorrow. Zhou Lingying lay on the bed, thinking about her time with Jiang Cheng today, and she smiled unconsciously, and fell asleep while thinking about it.

The next morning, Jiang Cheng woke up from his bed. His body was really strong, and he had to take a break in the morning. But during this break, Jiang Cheng also thought about the arrangements for the next few days.

Stay at home today, go to the county tomorrow, buy some rice and daily necessities. Then report to the city on the third day. It is true that Jiang Cheng has a portable space, but there are too many restrictions in this era. If he wants to earn money to treat Jiang Changhe, he still has to report early.

Without a job as a driver, no matter how much Jiang Cheng gets, he can't convert it into money. Only if he has money can he take Jiang Changhe to see a doctor.

Jiang Cheng thought about the arrangements for the next few days and got up, and went outside to wash up. His sister-in-law Li Xianglan had already gone to work in the production team, doing some work with less work points, which would not be very tiring. It was impossible for the whole family to sit at home and rely on Jiang Cheng alone to support them. If Jiang Changhe's disease could be cured, the Jiang family would have no burden.

Jiang Cheng's mother was outside processing the fish he had caught the day before yesterday. She had already salted it yesterday. If she hadn't, it would have gone bad in one day. Today she had to hang it outside to dry and make salted fish. If she wanted to eat it, she could eat one fish for many days.

If the remaining rabbit is not processed today, the meat will go bad. Either smoke the rabbit or make it into bacon rabbit.

Yesterday I caught a rabbit and a fish, but I didn’t finish both.

"Chengzi, I cooked porridge this morning, as well as yesterday's dishes. They are all on the table. Just wash up and go eat. Can you tell me what to do with the rabbit that was left over from yesterday?" Zhao Yuxia saw her son washing up and walked up to him with a smile on her face and asked. Now that her second son was back, she didn't have to worry about many other things anymore. She had been very comfortable these two days.

"I'll go to the mountain later to see if there's any harvest. We'll talk about the rabbit when I come back." Jiang Cheng replied. In fact, he was 100% sure that he would get something. If he really couldn't catch anything, there would still be rabbits in the space. He asked Zhao Yuxia to wait for him to come back, in fact, he wanted to get some dried rabbit or something so that they could be processed together. Hearing Jiang Cheng's words, Zhao Yuxia nodded immediately. Yesterday, everyone ate rabbit meat and fish to their heart's content. So even if there was some leftover, there wouldn't be much. If Jiang Cheng said to continue stewing the rabbit, Zhao Yuxia would have no objection. At most, after his son went to work in the city, everyone would start to eat sparingly.

After Jiang Cheng washed up, he went to the main living room to have breakfast. The leftover fish from yesterday had turned into fish jelly after a night, and it was delicious when eaten with porridge.

After breakfast, Jiang Cheng took a sack and some rice from the kitchen and went up the mountain. There were many birds and small animals on the mountain this morning.

Jiang Cheng came to the place where he found the pheasants last time, scattered a lot of rice within a five-meter range, and then sat behind a tree waiting for the birds and pheasants to come and eat.

This method is similar to setting traps to catch birds in the mountains before, except that Jiang Cheng did not make a big cover. Instead, he used a wooden stick to support it, tied a rope to the stick, and held the other end in his hand. When a bird entered the middle of the trap, he could pull the rope to catch it.

After a while, birds appeared. In those days, many birds could be caught in the future. Even sparrows became protected animals in the future, but now they are one of the four pests.

Now Jiang Cheng doesn't care what kind of bird it is, as long as he catches it, it's meat. If he doesn't eat it, someone else will eat it later. If he has the chance in this era, he will definitely try all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and the sea.

With the portable space, catching birds is a bit like fishing. After a while, there will be one or two more birds in the space. And pheasants also appeared. Pheasants look pretty, but they are not as big as domestic ones.

Feeling that the time spent in the mountains was almost up, Jiang Cheng began to do some cruel things. Nowadays, when people face various animals, the first thing they think about is whether they can be eaten. Even mice are eaten when they are caught, let alone other animals.

The dead birds and pheasants were put into sacks, and two rabbits were taken from the space before going back down the mountain.

When he got home, Jiang Cheng saw his mother chatting with an old lady at the door of the house. He threw the heavy sack at the kitchen door and prepared to go back to his room to lie down for a while.

"Chengzi, wait a minute." Zhao Yuxia stopped Jiang Cheng who was about to go back to the house, then walked to his side and said, "That's Aunt Wang, our neighbor. She must have seen you catching fish the day before yesterday and came here today to exchange food for a fish. Her daughter-in-law is pregnant, and she wants to get a fish to nourish her."

Jiang Cheng stopped walking after hearing what his mother said. He thought for a while. He had plenty of fish, but he couldn't take any more out. Besides, the fish could be kept for a long time if they were salted. There were many small birds in the sack. If they were not eaten, they would not last long. Besides, no one would use small birds to make bacon or smoked meat.

"Mom, there are a lot of birds we caught in the sacks, as well as pheasants and rabbits. The bigger ones can be made into jerky or something, and it would be a waste if we don't eat the small ones. Go ask Aunt Wang if she wants any birds. If not, you can just exchange a fish for food from her." Jiang Cheng said, and was about to go back to the room, but after taking two steps he turned around and asked her to stew the rabbit from yesterday, and then stew a pheasant, and all the small birds as well.

There was some leftovers yesterday, so I cooked so much today because someone else was coming for lunch. She was considered a guest, but not. It was Jiang Yan, the married daughter of the family. When a married daughter returns to her parents' home, she is considered a guest, but it is impossible for her to wait for food like a guest when she returns to her parents' home.

(End of this chapter)