The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 154 The Last Day

Jiang Cheng didn't drink much at noon because he had to drive. The statistician drank quite a lot, but he was fine and just needed to take a nap at noon.

The dishes in the restaurant were quite large, and Zhu Lan and Zhou Lingying both took some. The main reason was that everyone was quite restrained in eating the dishes, otherwise they would have eaten them all.

After lunch, Jiang Cheng drove the car back home. The statistician took a nap in the back of the car, and then returned to the warehouse of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative at around 1:30 pm to continue loading and delivering goods.

The delivery was finished at about 4:00 in the afternoon, and even then the car was still running slowly. It would take at least half an hour to unload the goods and count them at the supply and marketing cooperative.

With such work efficiency, if some supermarket suppliers in the future hired such people to deliver goods, they would cry in the toilet.

The behavior of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative to put the bill on the restaurant's bill was similar to that of some units in later generations, except that the hotel staff in this era could settle the money immediately by taking the receipt.

In later generations, all restaurants and hotels were privately owned. In order to make money, they had to keep many units on the bill at a certain period of time. Although those units were still there and acknowledged the debt, the government always changes, and some people were transferred away, so it was difficult to settle the accounts.

At around 4 o'clock, Jiang Cheng sent the statistician back to work. Then Jiang Cheng went back to the third transport team to check some things out. Some drivers had also returned, so they played cards in the lounge.

Playing Landlord, there are winners and losers, but the starting bet is one cent, and the game is played with small amounts, mainly for fun. But if you are lucky, you can easily win a few cents, which can buy a lot of things.

Jiang Cheng also gambled, but it was in the 21st century. He didn't gamble on weekdays, but during the Chinese New Year when relatives came and when he went to visit friends. He gambled almost every day during those days, and he played a lot.

Bullfighting, poker, mahjong and the like.

But now Jiang Cheng doesn't want to gamble anymore. If there is real gambling and space, even the God of Gamblers is not as good as him in changing cards. And he can change cards without touching them, so it's meaningless to win.

When he was bored, it was interesting to watch others play cards. Jiang Chengcai drove back home after get off work at five o'clock.

After a day's work, Jiang Cheng no longer felt bored. Without entertainment activities, he really needed something to do.

In this way, I delivered goods for nine consecutive days.

Moon cakes, candies, eggs, cakes, etc. In addition to running in the urban area, they also deliver to the county towns below.

But even so, it is not over yet. There is still one day left before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and all the drivers of the transport teams of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative have to go to work early to deliver fresh fish to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative for sale.

There was no oxygen supply equipment, and no big buckets were used to hold the fish. The fish were put into rattan baskets alive in the early morning. Even if the fish were dead at the supply and marketing cooperative, the eyes and color of the fish showed that they had not been dead for a long time. As long as the fish had not deteriorated, the price of dead fish and living fish was the same.

Jiang Cheng woke up before 4 a.m. Not only the drivers had to get up early today, but many people in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative also had to get up early. Even the supply and marketing cooperatives below had to go to work an hour earlier than usual.

It should be said that the supply and marketing cooperative has been working an hour earlier for three consecutive days. Three days before the festival, they have already started selling moon cakes and eggs. People line up early every morning, and Zhu Lan directly brought the moon cakes back to Zhou Lingying in advance. However, she also used Jiang Cheng's food certificate to mark how many moon cakes were purchased.

There is no holiday for Mid-Autumn Festival these days, but companies do give out gifts during the festival.

Wuzhi Mountain suppressed the two jade rabbits for a night, and Jiang Cheng took his hands away. Recently, he has been a little obsessed with Zhou Lingying's body. When he first got together with Zhou Lingying, she was too thin.

But Zhou Lingying is one of those people whose thin face doesn’t make her look very thin. I only felt her thin when I hugged her for the first time.

It has been more than two months now. Not only have I gained weight, but my skin has also become more radiant.

"Jiang Cheng, you're awake. There's boiled water in the thermos. Do you want me to get up and make you breakfast?" Zhou Lingying felt her chest relax, knowing that Jiang Cheng was awake. Jiang Cheng had said during dinner last night that he would get up very early this morning. "No need. The Supply and Marketing Cooperative will provide free breakfast today. You can go back to sleep." Jiang Cheng gently patted Zhou Lingying's butt and said.

Zhou Lingying nodded, covered herself with the quilt and continued to sleep.

September is just a few days away. The temperature difference between morning and evening is quite large compared to noon. I have to find something to cover my stomach at night.

Jiang Cheng turned on the light, opened the door, and washed up briefly, which took only a few minutes. Then he returned to the room, turned off the light again, and went out with a flashlight.

Jiang Cheng rushed to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative before 4:30. The drivers of the third transport team had arrived a week ago, but compared with other transport teams, they had less than half the number of cars.

Captain Du had already arrived at Transport Team 3, and after Jiang Cheng arrived, they waited for a few minutes before everyone was there.

In the third transport team, Captain Du held a brief meeting for a few minutes. The content was very simple. After today, the drivers of the third team will start to go to various transfer stations or foreign trade ports to transport goods from foreign trade to domestic sales.

After delivering the fish this morning, the Transport Team 3 had no work to do. It was a collective rest for most of the day. At around 8 or 9 in the morning, everyone had to come here, and Captain Du would go to collect the Mid-Autumn Festival benefits for everyone. After everyone received the benefits, they could go home and rest.

After the meeting, Captain Du directly asked Jiang Cheng to drive. He got in the car driven by Jiang Cheng and led the team to the place where the fish were loaded.

The truck attendants will not come here today. Everyone will go to the fishery units that cooperate with the Supply and Marketing Cooperative to load fish. When the fish are loaded on each vehicle over there, a truck attendant will get on the vehicle, and then we will just have to deliver the fish according to the truck attendant's route.

Jiang Cheng drove very steadily on the road. He was driving in the lead, followed by a row of other cars, all of which were Liberation trucks. It was quite spectacular.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect to drive directly to the dock and load the fish from the fishing boat into a large basket. There was already a driver from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative waiting here.

Because Jiang Cheng took the lead, he was also the first one to load the truck. After loading the fish, he went to deliver the goods.

When loading the goods, Jiang Cheng could still see the fish jumping around, but if they were put directly into baskets, those large water baskets without oxygen, most of the fish would be dead by the time they were delivered to the supply and marketing cooperative.

But in this era, dead and alive fish are all sold at the same price, and people only look at whether the fish's eyes are white. Even if there are fish that are slightly white, they will also look at the gills and the surface. As long as they are not spoiled, people will buy them.

In later generations, as long as the fish was turned over, the price would be much cheaper, and no one cared whether the fish was freshly dead or not.

After Jiang Cheng's car was loaded with the goods, a driver would get on the car and deliver the goods as quickly as possible to ensure that the supply and marketing cooperative had fish to sell at six o'clock.

Under the guidance of the driver, Jiang Cheng arrived at the first supply and marketing cooperative to deliver goods in more than ten minutes. The main entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative was not open, but residents were already queuing at the front entrance waiting for the door to open and buy things.

Someone was on duty at the warehouse behind the supply and marketing cooperative very early. Jiang Cheng drove the car directly to the back and started unloading the goods immediately.

The boxes of fish are unloaded and weighed. There may be a little less water on the way, but the weight change is not that big.

The fish on the truck were from two stations, and after unloading, we had to rush to the next supply and marketing cooperative. When we arrived at the second supply and marketing cooperative, although it was not yet time for the supply and marketing cooperative to open, the fish were unloaded directly at the main entrance, saving the need to move the fish from the back to the front when the door opened in a few minutes.

After delivering the goods, Jiang Cheng took the driver back to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. The canteen of the headquarters provided free breakfast today, so they went back to the canteen to have breakfast.

But there are still many people at the head office who cannot have this breakfast, because only the front-line workers come to work so early. Many people still go to work at 8 o'clock, and there is no breakfast for them when they come at that time.

　I will try to update more tomorrow, I am weak today~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)