The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 148 Pregnancy and Report
Jiang Cheng was strolling outside just now, watching people fishing in a city river not far away. In some places in the river, there are long stone steps where you can wash clothes.

Jiang Cheng teased some fishermen who had been fishing for a long time but had not caught any fish, and the ones they did catch were not very big. Jiang Cheng directly "fished" a big fish out of a river step. Then someone broke through the defense. They had been fishing for a long time but had not caught any fish, but Jiang Cheng directly fished out a fish weighing several kilograms.

Someone was so angry that he packed up his fishing rod and left while cursing.

Jiang Cheng came back and lay down in his room again. The chicken was already being braised. Zhou Lingying saw that it would take a while to cook the chicken, so she also went to her room.

"Jiang Cheng, let me tell you something interesting." Zhou Lingying walked into the room and said to Jiang Cheng with a smile.

"What interesting things can you say? You've told us everything about the neighbors in the yard." Jiang Cheng responded with a smile. Anyway, Zhou Lingying would often tell him about the trivial things in the yard.

"It's not other people's business, it's the business here." Zhou Lingying said with her legs spread open in a somewhat indecent manner.

Jiang Cheng was a little confused, and put down the half-cut cucumber in his hand, a little afraid to guess. He was afraid that Zhou Lingying would no longer be satisfied with just a man's body, such as the half-cut cucumber he put down~~.

"Are you ashamed? There's nothing wrong with that." Jiang Cheng said calmly. He didn't want his wife to play too much. If she wanted to play too much, he had to teach her. This couldn't be developed independently.

"Jiang Cheng, my period should have come a long time ago this month. I'm so annoyed every time it comes, but it hasn't come yet. Do you think it's because we do that too often that it doesn't come?" Zhou Lingying said in an inquiring tone.

Jiang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his wife had not started to go astray in that aspect. It was just a menstrual problem. Her period had not come.

Jiang Cheng came to his senses and looked at Zhou Lingying in disbelief. Didn't she know what it meant that she didn't have her period? She was probably pregnant.

But I heard that many women in this era really don’t understand this because no one teaches them about it. Many women in this era have made jokes. Some women thought they were going to die when they had their first period, and they bled every day.

Many people don’t understand pregnant women. Many of them think they have gained weight after a few months of pregnancy and don’t care if they don’t have their period. Or they know they don’t have their period but don’t understand and don’t tell anyone.

"Yingying, let me touch it." Jiang Cheng said excitedly. He might become a father, and he wanted to touch Zhou Lingying's belly.

"It's broad daylight." Zhou Lingying looked outside the house, then stood up and closed the door slightly, and continued: "Hurry up and touch it twice. I want to go out and see how the chicken is cooked."

Jiang Cheng did not explain her misunderstanding, and he knew that he was too excited to explain it clearly. Jiang Cheng stood up and hugged Zhou Lingying, touched her belly and whispered in her ear: "Yingying, you didn't have your period, you might be pregnant."

Jiang Cheng's words stunned Zhou Lingying. She had been with Jiang Cheng for more than two months, and she had always wanted a child. Women of this generation were more obsessed with having children, which might also be related to external pressure.

If someone doesn’t get pregnant after being married for about half a year, people will gossip about them. And people in this era will think that if someone can’t get pregnant, it’s the woman’s problem, like a hen that can’t lay eggs.

Some people in the yard said behind Zhou Lingying's back that she couldn't lay eggs, because when Jiang Cheng moved in, he told the neighbors that he had been married a long time ago before he even got together with her.

Others have always thought so. Chen Li even told Zhou Lingying privately and asked her to find some folk remedies to try.

Zhou Lingying could ignore the opinions of outsiders, after all, she knew that she had only been with Jiang Cheng for a short time. But from the moment Zhou Lingying married Jiang Cheng, she wanted to have a child for him.

"Jiang Cheng, are you telling the truth?" Zhou Lingying asked.

"Let's go to the hospital for a check-up after dinner. We'll know whether you're pregnant or not then." Jiang Cheng said with concern.

Zhou Lingying nodded happily, and immediately went out with a smile to see how the chicken was cooked. Don't let the juice dry up, or even the chicken meat get burnt.

After Zhou Lingying left the room, Jiang Cheng suppressed his excitement, as he was afraid of making a mistake.

At lunch, Jiang Cheng no longer used Zhou Lingying as his companion. Before, he saw that everything she ate was delicious. When there was something delicious to eat, Jiang Cheng would eat it first, and then Jiang Cheng would give it to Zhou Lingying as a "reward".

For example, when it comes to braised pork, Jiang Cheng doesn't want to eat something too fatty. So he asks her to bite off the fat, and Jiang Cheng eats the leaner parts. For example, when eating fish, Jiang Cheng likes to eat the fish head, and also likes to eat some tender parts of the fish.

When eating chicken, the chicken skin was too fatty, so Zhou Lingying bit it off.

The two of them were perfect dining partners. Jiang Cheng didn't like to eat fatty food after he had enough fat in his body. But Zhou Lingying always thought that Jiang Cheng loved her, so she gave him the fatty food and ate the lean food herself.

This afternoon, Jiang Cheng gave all the chicken legs to Zhou Lingying and kept feeding her. But as he was feeding her, Jiang Cheng was a little confused. Isn't it said that pregnant women have a poor appetite at the beginning? But Zhou Lingying didn't have any symptoms at all. After dinner, the two rested in the room for a while. At one o'clock, they went to the hospital for a check-up, registered an appointment, and went directly to the Chinese medicine doctor to feel her pulse, without taking an X-ray.

Checking whether she was pregnant or not only cost one registration fee. The old Chinese doctor was very calm and said congratulations to Jiang Cheng after taking her pulse. Zhou Lingying was indeed pregnant. Jiang Cheng immediately took out a pack of cigarettes and gave it to the doctor in the hospital. He didn't bring any candy, otherwise it would be nice to give the doctor some wedding candy.

It hasn't been long since I got pregnant, so there's not much to pay attention to. Apart from not doing that, everything else is fine.

After leaving the hospital, Jiang Cheng took Zhou Lingying to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

"Jiang Cheng, should I write a letter to tell my parents about my pregnancy, or can you go to Nanjing?" Zhou Lingying asked on the way.

"Don't worry, let me take a look at the situation in the next two days. I will definitely find a way to visit your parents." Jiang Cheng said.

That day, Station Manager Xu told him a lot about how the Supply and Marketing Cooperative runs transportation. Although it is not as independent as the transportation station, if it goes to purchase, it will basically go to many cities. Nanjing is also a city with good industry, and it also goes there to purchase.

Soon the two arrived at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperative on the first floor of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative was actually not called the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, but the First Supply and Marketing Cooperative of XX District.

The Supply and Marketing Cooperative is actually this office building. There is a sign next to the office building that says "Gan Province Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative". The sign starts with the province, unlike other places, which start with the city district.

For example, the supply and marketing cooperative of FZ City may be 'FZ City Supply and Marketing Cooperative'. The prefix does not include the province, because it is not a provincial capital, and the unit is not at the provincial enterprise level.

So they are all supply and marketing cooperatives, and Changcheng is just a city. But the supply and marketing cooperatives here are provincial cooperatives, not city and district cooperatives.

Whenever there is an important meeting or something, the presidents of the head offices in other cities have to come here.

Therefore, those who can enter the Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative actually have a higher status than those in the provincial supply and marketing cooperatives. This is just like the officialdom in ancient times, where local officials cannot be compared with officials in Beijing.

This is also the reason why the Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative wants to rapidly expand a transport team, which can directly put pressure on the transportation department.

When they arrived at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Jiang Cheng asked Zhou Lingying to go to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative first. He went to the office hall of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative on the other side to ask where the Human Resources Department was.

At the transport station, there is only a personnel department because there are not many staff members. But at the supply and marketing cooperative, there is this department, which is an internal department.

Because the Human Resources Department here is not just responsible for managing the employees in this building. The directors of the various branches and some important staff of the county headquarters are all managed and appointed here. Therefore, there are many employees who manage personnel here, so it is called the Human Resources Department.

Jiang Cheng took his file information to the Human Resources Department. The HR clerk who received him was very enthusiastic when he learned that Jiang Cheng came here to work as a transport driver.

There is no way, the status of drivers is high, don't think that this is a provincial supply and marketing cooperative. If you dare to treat the drivers unfairly, the union will still stand up for the drivers.

If the drivers go on strike at the headquarters, most of the leaders will be finished. They will not be able to distribute goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives below, and the whole thing will be paralyzed.

Units like transport stations and supply and marketing cooperatives are very dependent on car drivers, and drivers have a very high status in the company. If you offend the driver, and he takes people to purchase goods on the road, and he tells you that the car is broken down at any time, you will be very upset, and you will not change your job or transfer him without a legitimate reason.

After Jiang Cheng's information was registered, an officer from the Human Resources Department took him directly to the new transport team.

Employees like Jiang Cheng who were transferred from outside are different from those who are new to the job. At least the level, salary, family background, etc. can be skipped directly, and Jiang Cheng's file at the bus station can be directly registered.

Jiang Cheng followed the clerk to the newly expanded transport team, which turned out to be a warehouse. There was a row of carports outside the warehouse, which were obviously newly built not long ago, and a row of new Jiefang trucks were parked in the carports.

The Jiefang truck is much easier to drive than the Yellow River, and it is also more familiar to Jiang Cheng, because he remembers that he drove a Jiefang truck in the army.

The only downside is that the cab has only one row of seats, but these days people and goods are not mixed, and there is no such thing as overloading. The rear compartment can accommodate 10 to 20 people. Many people who go to the army are picked up by a Jiefang truck, with a few benches in the back, and the truck is loaded with new recruits and they leave.

It’s the same in the army. When we have a mission to go somewhere, we just bring a car full of people. When we get to the destination, it’s just like the omnipotent vans in later generations, with a bunch of people getting off the car.

(End of this chapter)