The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 14: Wild Thoughts
Zhao Yuxia wanted to go back to her parents' home, but she wanted to wait until Jiang Cheng went to the city. Her parents, Jiang Cheng's grandparents, had passed away one after another a few years ago. But she still had a brother, and his family there was not doing well either.

As for the other relatives of the Jiang family, he should have visited them according to reason. But his uncle Jiang Dahai had a conflict with Jiang Changhe in his early years. In the 1950s, Jiang Changhe, like many rural people, went to work in the city.

Later, for some reasons, the city carried out a staff reduction policy to give jobs to unemployed young people in the city and to ensure food production. Almost all the rural people who moved to the city were sent back to continue being farmers.

Jiang Changhe did save some money, but his uncle Jiang Dahai was jealous and said that if he didn't have to stay at home to take care of his parents, he would have gone to the city to work. So he asked Jiang Changhe to take out half of his earnings to support his parents in their old age.

Jiang Changhe did not agree to Jiang Dahai's request. When he was working in the city, Jiang Changhe gave his parents a few yuan every month. Now that he has no job, he has no income and can only live on work points. Jiang Changhe has to consider his children.

So they broke up and split up. Jiang Changhe used the money he earned to build these mud brick houses.

At that time, Jiang Cheng's aunt Jiang Xiaoxi also stood on the side of her uncle. As a married daughter, she had no worries in her back. She said she stood on the side of her uncle, but in fact, she wanted to gain a reputation of being filial to her parents without doing anything and just talking.

This is why Jiang Changhe is now in poor health, his eldest son Jiang Quan died unexpectedly, and the family has no food and can only buy food on credit from the brigade. If there were a few good relatives who could take care of each other, life would not be so difficult when Jiang Cheng was not back.

Jiang Cheng went back to his room and lay down. He asked his sister Jiang Yan to come over for dinner. They had agreed to this last night. Jiang Yan should come over today with her brother-in-law and children. When Jiang Cheng went to the army, Jiang Yan was still unmarried, so she didn't know who her brother-in-law was. If Jiang Yan was bullied, Jiang Cheng, as her family member, could support her in the future.

In the summer, in the countryside, we only go to work early in the morning and finish early. When it is hot at noon, we stay at home. In July and August, we may get up at 5 o'clock in the morning to work in the fields and finish work at around 10 o'clock. If it is too hot in the afternoon, we go to work at around 3 o'clock and finish work at around 6 o'clock.

So before dinner time, my sister-in-law finished work and went home. She didn't rest when she got home, but went to the kitchen to help with the work. Women are like this, they have to do work outside and do all the housework when they come back.

But now Zhao Yuxia doesn't go out to work, she washes clothes early, and doesn't have to worry about hygiene. This life is much easier for Li Xianglan, and now she eats well and has more energy to work.

"Yingying is here. Jiang Cheng is resting in the house. You can go to his room."

Not long after Li Xianglan came back, Jiang Cheng was lying in the room when he heard a greeting from outside, and then the half-closed door was pushed open.

Zhou Lingying is the type that gets more attractive the more you look at her. Seeing Zhou Lingying enter the room, Jiang Cheng couldn't wait to get up and pull her to sit on the bed.

It’s not Jiang Cheng’s fault that he has no future. In his previous life, Jiang Cheng was single for so many years. If he had a girlfriend as beautiful as this one, he wouldn’t have to spend so much money.

"Lingying, you are so beautiful. I missed you last night." Jiang Cheng said shamelessly. There are many kinds of 'missing', there are beautiful misses and there are also fanciful misses.

Zhou Lingying had some resistance to Jiang Cheng's frankness, but it was not strong enough, and she blushed again. Then she thought about how she was thinking about her future with Jiang Cheng in bed yesterday, so she said shyly: "Jiang Cheng, I miss you too." Jiang Cheng took Zhou Lingying's hand and said seriously: "You must be tired from working this morning, let me massage your shoulders."

"Ah~." Zhou Lingying let out a surprised cry, and then she felt a pair of big hands on her shoulders, massaging them. She had never been in a relationship before, and she didn't know if other people would get so close to each other so quickly in private, but it did feel good to have her shoulders and neck massaged. So she continued to say, "Jiang Cheng, thank you."

"No, we are a couple." Jiang Cheng said with a smile. The thin shoulders and neck feel really good. Unlike rural people who don't want delicate women when looking for a partner, they dislike those who can't do farm work.

The two stayed in the room for a while, and then Jiang Yan came with her husband and children. Zhou Lingying was embarrassed to stay with Jiang Cheng all the time. She was going to be the daughter-in-law of the Jiang family in the future, and she couldn't just be a guest here. She had to help in the kitchen and treat it as her own home.

Jiang Cheng also had to go out to greet his sister and brother-in-law, so he went out with Zhou Lingying.

Jiang Yan got married a year after Jiang Cheng went to the army. She was more than 17 years old when she got married, and now she is in her early 20s. She is two years older than Zhou Lingying. When Zhou Lingying first came to Jinhe Commune and lived in Jiang Cheng's house, she actually met Jiang Yan, her husband and their children.

Therefore, Jiang Yan did not expect that Zhou Lingying, the educated youth who had previously stayed at her mother's house, would become the partner of her second brother, and if they got married in the future, he would have to call her sister-in-law.

Jiang Yan has been married for three years and is now the mother of two children, the older one is two years old and the younger one is a few months old.

"Brother, come back, my brother is really~"

"Yanzi, your second brother knows everything. You came here today for fun, so don't talk about this."

When Jiang Yan saw Jiang Cheng, they were both her brothers, so she naturally thought of the deceased Jiang Quan. She wanted to say that her eldest brother had a miserable life, and that he finally had a wife and three children, but he died. But her mother heard her talking about this and stopped her immediately.

"Yan Zi, this is the candy I brought from the army, try some. This must be your brother-in-law, come on, go inside and sit for a while." Jiang Cheng didn't continue the topic of his deceased elder brother. He was the least saddened one in the family. He had memories and emotions, but they were not his real relatives after all. It was good enough that he could help the original owner of the body take care of everyone.

"Hey, brother." The man standing next to Jiang Yan responded to Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Yan's husband's surname is Chen, and his name is Chen Changgen. He lives in the next village, Chenjiagou. He is one year older than Jiang Cheng. But no matter how much older he is, he is still Jiang Cheng's brother-in-law, and he has to follow Jiang Yan and call Jiang Cheng "brother".

Jiang Cheng said he wanted to chat in the house, not in his own room, but in the main house where his father lived. Then he asked his father Jiang Changhe to come to the table in the living room and chat together. As for the women and children, they all went to the kitchen to get busy. When talking about things, women should not participate.

(End of this chapter)