The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 142 Yuan Datou is the victim
"Driver, driver~~."

Jiang Cheng, who was sleeping, was suddenly awakened by the shouting outside the car. His instinctive reaction was to cover Zhou Lingying first.

When he came to his senses, Jiang Cheng found that he was half asleep. It was the first time he took Zhou Lingying to sleep in the car, and he thought she was at home.

When they were at home, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were always "frank with each other".

Zhou Lingying, who was sleeping in the car now, was fully dressed. Jiang Cheng was only wearing shorts and a vest when he went to bed last night, but because there was some movement in the woods, he also put on his clothes, and he didn't take off his pants when he came back.

I looked at the sky outside the car and then at my watch. It was just past four o'clock.

Jiang Cheng got up, sat in the passenger seat and looked out the window. There were actually several men there, and they brought a lot of things.

"What can I do for you?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"Master, do you want anything? We have good stuff here." Seeing the driver in the car stand up, the leading man asked.

Damn it! Jiang Cheng looked at the people outside the car and felt a little panicked.

Jiang Cheng had heard something from his driver colleagues. In some places, except for girls who are hitchhiking or well-dressed people who are talking to you, try to avoid other people.

Especially in some remote places, when a few people suddenly appear.

Jiang Cheng looked at his wife behind him. He didn't want his wife to be covered in scum. He had never used his spatial ability on anyone before. If he met a bad guy today, he might have to give it a try.

"What good stuff is that? Let me see it." Jiang Cheng asked.

"Master, why don't you get out of the car and take a look? It's not convenient to see from the car." The leading man looked around and said to Jiang Cheng.

"Just watch, forget it if it doesn't work." Jiang Cheng replied. In this remote place, the other party was still looking around, which made him feel even more that something was wrong.

"Then Master, please wait a moment."

The leading man said this, and then went to discuss with the others, and soon the others came to the car window.

One of the men took out a package from a basket and handed it to Jiang Cheng. It was wrapped in cloth and felt heavy.

Jiang Cheng also took it out of curiosity. It seemed that the other party was indeed here to sell something.

Zhou Lingying had woken up a long time ago and had been sitting in the back watching what was going on. When she saw Jiang Cheng taking out a package, she also stretched her head to watch.

Jiang Cheng opened the cloth wrapping and found that it contained dozens of silver dollars, or Yuan Datou coins.

This thing is still pretty good in the future era. Ordinary Yuan Datou coins are around 1,000 yuan. But Jiang Cheng doesn't know what collections are. He knows that some years and some versions of Yuan Datou coins are quite expensive, but he can't tell them apart now.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng has never considered increasing his wealth through collecting. If he wants to collect, he can store some brand new banknotes in space now. They will be more valuable than this Yuan Datou in the future.

Jiang Cheng didn't need to collect antiques and calligraphy and paintings. It didn't matter if he sold them for tens of millions. It would be better to buy a few courtyards in the 1980s in the old city, which could be used for living and renting. In the 21st century, a courtyard would be worth hundreds of millions.

Not to mention that Jiang Cheng has a cheat, even if someone doesn’t have a golden finger and can travel through time, they won’t rely on collecting and waiting for items to slowly appreciate in value to make money.

"How much is one of your Yuan Datou coins?" Jiang Cheng asked. He was just curious but had no intention of buying one. But if it was cheap, he wouldn't mind buying some to keep at home.

After hearing Jiang Cheng's question, the people outside the car discussed it for a while, and the leader said, "One dollar each, what do you think?"

Jiang Cheng smiled and shook his head. Although he had only traveled to this era for a month, he still had the memories of the original owner. Although the silver content of this Yuan Datou was very high, it would be worth more than one yuan even if sold at the silver price. But in this era, although there were gold and silver jewelry stores in the county and urban areas, these stores only sold and did not recycle.

It is the banks that recycle gold and silver, and there is a strange requirement when the bank recycles it, they will ask you to register the origin of your gold and silver.

If you can’t explain how it came about, then I’m sorry, not only will we not recycle it, we will also force you to hand it over.

In the city of Sijiu, some rich young men often collected this privately before 1966, and then treated it as silver to the bank. Some red merchants would also directly treat some to the bank, but ordinary people were reluctant to sell it.

And between 1966 and 1968, those who had "old" things either destroyed them themselves or buried them.

Rich people all tried to go overseas. This Yuan Datou is now just a valuable toy, one dollar a piece, which makes Jiang Cheng a sucker.

But it doesn’t mean that there is no way to cash in Yuan Datou. Some people still have a way to melt it down and make it into some items to give to people in need.

For example, gold and silver are very popular in Xiamen, but ordinary people can't go there at all. Rural people need a certificate to go to the county town, let alone go out of the province.

Why is gold and silver popular in Xiamen? Because there is a small wave of people going abroad. Since last year, Xiamen has allowed people to go abroad. But the requirement is that they have direct relatives overseas, such as husband and wife, parents and children, but not brothers.

However, as long as one person leaves the country, basically many people can leave the country. For example, if Jiang Cheng leaves the country, Zhou Lingying and his parents can apply for leaving the country as direct relatives, but if Jiang Cheng's parents leave the country, Jiang Cheng's sister can apply for leaving the country as parents from abroad.

Even Zhou Lingying's parents can apply for their daughter to leave the country while she is abroad, but it's just a bit cumbersome to go back and forth.

And the rule is that the dead are alive, and if the conditions are not met, there are many ways to apply for leaving the country, such as being adopted as a son by a foreign person, or marrying a foreign person.

But no matter how you leave the country, you have to work and survive when you first go abroad, and the domestic currency is difficult to use. Taking gold and silver with you is the best option.

In addition to Xiamen, the same is true in Bao'an County, Guangdong. You may not have heard of Bao'an County, but everyone must know the city of Shenzhen.

Shenzhen is the renamed Baoan County, which is close to the sea, and across the river is the Xiangjiang River. Gold and silver are also very popular there, and they become hard currency when they are brought to the Xiangjiang River.

"Master, how much do you say for each one?"

"No more."

When Jiang Cheng heard the other party wanted one dollar for each coin, he took the Yuan Datou coin out of the car window and tried to return it to the other party.

The other party quickly asked Jiang Cheng how much he could offer, but since he quoted this price at the beginning, Jiang Cheng had no intention of bargaining.

However, the other party felt that Jiang Cheng was a driver and thought he should be rich. Moreover, they all saw that there was a dead wild boar and a yellow deer with some meat removed in the trunk of the car. Jiang Cheng was not sure what kind of animal it was, but the people who lived nearby knew it.

In fact, there are sambar deer in some places with rivers on the other side of the mountain. A sambar deer can weigh several hundred kilograms, which is considered a large deer. The yellow deer is a small deer, weighing at most about 30 kilograms.

The leader of the other party discussed with the people around him for a while. Anyway, he thought that Jiang Cheng was rich, so he said to Jiang Cheng again: "Driver, can you come down for a while, or let me get up, and I will show you something again."

"Okay, you guys move aside." Jiang Cheng replied. He could see that the people in front of him were not bad people, but he still couldn't figure out why they appeared here so early.

With the golden finger, Jiang Cheng was not afraid of the other men, so he asked them to step back so that he could open the car door.

After Jiang Cheng went down, the leader took out a stick from his trouser pocket and showed it to him. It was a really great treasure.

(End of this chapter)