The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 158 Full Cooperation with Director Hou
After Jiang Cheng left, Zhou Lingying went to Wang Yuzhen's house. Her husband had gone to work, so it was just her and the two young children, one two years old and the other still breastfeeding, so it was okay to say some things in front of such young children.

"Wang Yuzhen, let me ask you a question. When you are pregnant, what should you do if your man wants to do that?" Zhou Lingying asked shamelessly. They are all women, and they often talk about men behind their backs, so they are not too restrained.

"Let him hold it in, what else can he do?" Wang Yuzhen said.

"Can a man hold it in?" Zhou Lingying asked tentatively. She wondered if different men were different. Anyway, her man would always ask her for help when he couldn't hold it in.

Wang Yuzhen finally understood what was going on with Zhou Lingying. Even though there was no one else in the room, she still whispered in Zhou Lingying's ear what to do.

"Yes, my man is like that too. Besides this, are there other ways?" Zhou Lingying nodded in agreement, but she was still trying to ask other questions. She was mainly curious about how a man could make a woman do that, and wondered how other men were.

"What else could it be? Lingying, you are pregnant now, what does your man ask you to do?" Wang Yuzhen asked curiously.

"No, it's just like you said. I just thought that men could hold it in when a woman is pregnant."

Zhou Lingying covered it up, and then started chatting with Wang Yuzhen, asking when Wang Yuzhen would have a third child. Wang Yuzhen gave birth to a boy and a girl, so she only had one son. If she didn't have another, she wouldn't be able to call on her brothers for help in the future when she had a fight.

Wang Yuzhen said that they would continue to have children after the younger one was weaned, and she would definitely give birth to two boys so that they could take care of each other when they grow up.

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At about six o'clock in the evening, Jiang Cheng arrived at the reclamation farm in Fuzhou. It is worth mentioning that the Jiefang truck is much easier to drive than the Yellow River truck, and the yardage is also higher, but the low load capacity is a major drawback.

Jiang Cheng told Zhou Lingying that he came here to get poultry. In fact, he had some in his space. Last time he got dozens of chickens and ducks, all of which were in his space. This time he came to see if there were any pigs.

Director Hou did not expect that Jiang Cheng would go from being a transporter at the Changcheng Bus Station to working for the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, but precisely because of this, he felt that Jiang Cheng could take over so many goods, probably because he had followed the Supply and Marketing Cooperative route.

They are really wild, and they are doing it through official channels. Unlike them, they can only find someone to get it secretly, and they get it on the black market. In fact, this is very risky. Once the person who helps them deal with the goods has problems, if he betrays them, it will be troublesome.

That evening, Director Hou arranged a reception dinner.

Jiang Cheng came so frequently, almost once a month. This gave Director Hou another idea. Instead of taking the risk of cooperating with some people who deal in goods in the black market, if Jiang Cheng's side is stable, it is better to cooperate with Jiang Cheng completely.

There are more than one or two people handling goods in the black market, although there are leaders. But in any case, there are risks when there are too many people, mainly because those people are poor and will only bring back the money after selling the goods.

How could Jiang Cheng be so straightforward, paying right after the goods were delivered? Moreover, the risk was small, and the profit was the same. Selling things to Jiang Cheng was cheaper than on the black market, but those who cooperated with Director Hou also had to share the profits.

So whether it is selling Jiang Cheng or letting the cooperation people deal with it, Director Hou's profit is the same. Therefore, when Jiang Cheng appeared today, Director Hou planned to cut off the cooperation with the black market group. The premise is Jiang Cheng's attitude, whether he has the ability to cooperate with this side for a long time.

If we really want to cooperate, it will be all-round, including chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep and fish. If the cooperation is good, it will be no problem to go deeper in the future.

"Brother Jiang, I know you are a capable person. You must be able to handle the goods here. From now on, all the goods here will be left to you. I don't plan to contact the people in Shitang Village anymore. What do you think?" Director Hou raised his glass and toasted Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng pondered for a while. Cooperating with Director Hou was like having a fixed channel. At least he had a place to spend his money, and he was more motivated to sell fish. So he raised his glass and clinked it with Director Hou, saying, "Brother Hou, thank you for your care. I will call you in advance when I come here. But how much can you pack today? I will leave tomorrow."

"Brother, when are you leaving tomorrow?" Director Hou asked.

Last time, Jiang Cheng was called up so early to load the goods, not because the farm couldn't deliver them because it was too late. It was because it was better to get up early to deliver them to Shitang Village, because there would be too many people and too many eyes. Now Jiang Cheng has his own way to transport the goods, so Director Hou naturally arranges the time according to him.

"I don't need it too early, seven or eight o'clock are fine." Jiang Cheng replied.

Director Hou laughed when he heard the time. If they were leaving at 7 or 8 o'clock, they could start preparing at 4 or 5 o'clock. They didn't need to get up too early to arrange for people to slaughter pigs or something, which would make it difficult to sleep at night.

After setting the time, the two discussed the quantity at the dinner table. They would take five pigs, four sheep, and a few baskets of eggs.

"Director Hou, I have something to ask you. I see you have a militia here. Can you help me get some rifle bullets?" Jiang Cheng asked when the dinner was about to end.

In Jiang Cheng's space, there are still seven wild boars that he caught in Yihuang County last time that he has not dealt with. He doesn't have many bullets for his rifle. He accompanied Zhou Lingying back to Jinhe Commune during his break a while ago, but forgot to ask Secretary Wang for bullets. "How many bullets do you want?" Director Hou asked.

"Can you give me a hundred? I'm going hunting on the way." Jiang Cheng said.

Hearing Jiang Cheng say this, Director Hou breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he wanted some bullets for hunting. He thought Jiang Cheng wanted a lot of bullets, so he had to be alert and even cancel the transaction.

"It's no big deal. I'll send you a box tomorrow," Director Hou said.

"Brother Hou, do you have any good wine? Sell me two bottles and I'll give them as gifts." Jiang Cheng said. Director Hou now treats him to Fenjiu, which is already pretty good. Zhou Lingying's father likes to drink, so he plans to get two bottles over there.

"It's just two bottles of wine, no big deal. Don't worry about whether to sell them or not. I'll give them to you as gifts." Director Hou said readily.

Jiang Cheng toasted Director Hou with great gratitude. In fact, dealing with people like Director Hou is quite straightforward and makes you feel comfortable. Many things will be laid out directly and openly.

The two chatted for a while and then ended the dinner. Director Hou asked Jiang Cheng to pack the unfinished dishes in a lunch box and take them with him on the road tomorrow.

Asking Jiang Cheng to pack up the leftovers is a sign of respect for him in this era. Even leaders cannot eat lavish meals often these days.

In the future, people of Director Hou's level would not even pay attention to leftovers, even if they were to eat all the delicacies from land and sea in big restaurants.

Jiang Cheng didn't hesitate and went back to the car to get his lunch box and pack it up, then rested in the room arranged by Director Hou.

At around five o'clock the next day, Jiang Cheng was woken up by the people assigned by Director Hou. Just like last time, everything was ready, and the sheep were weighed and slaughtered. The sheep were already being slaughtered for Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Chengchuan got dressed and left without washing up. It didn't matter if he washed up later. He drove straight to the place where he had been last time.

Director Hou was already directing the operation. When he saw Jiang Cheng's car coming, he weighed the eggs for Jiang Cheng to see first, and then loaded them into the car. He then weighed the tied pigs one by one. The five pigs weighed more than 900 kilograms, which were slightly fatter than the pigs bought last time.

After weighing, Director Hou gave Jiang Cheng two bottles of Fenjiu, and then gave him a small wooden box, which was very heavy.

Jiang Cheng opened it and saw that it was rifle bullets. There were more than a hundred bullets, at least several hundred. And that was not all, they even gave Jiang Cheng a wool blanket. It was made of pure wool, and although the workmanship looked ordinary, it was very nice to cover it with in the autumn night.

The pigs were slaughtered immediately after being weighed. Jiang Cheng only took half of the pig offal this time, as he also wanted to get some offal for those who had to get up at three or four in the morning.

As for the pig's blood, which was prepared while the pig was being slaughtered, Jiang Cheng also asked for a basin of it.

While the pigs were being slaughtered and loaded onto the truck, Director Hou arranged for someone to use some of the pig blood to make pig blood soup, and also cooked some boiled eggs.

After everyone is done with their work, they have a bowl of pig blood soup and two boiled eggs.

Jiang Cheng didn't even brush his teeth, and started eating with everyone else. The pig blood tasted great with a little salt and some chopped green onions, and with two eggs, the breakfast was perfect.

This time Jiang Cheng spent almost all his money, mainly because he hadn't been selling fish recently. Yesterday he sold more than 500 kilograms of fish to the enamel factory and earned more than 200 yuan.

Now eggs cost more than 120 yuan, more than 200 kilograms. Four sheep cost 40 yuan. Pigs cost more than 830 yuan. This time it is nearly 1,000 yuan, and Jiang Cheng did not resell the pigs he bought last time.

After paying the money, Jiang Cheng had more than 100 yuan left. If he had not sold fish at the enamel factory, he might not have had enough money.

After packing all the things and having breakfast, it was already past seven o'clock, just in time to set off.

This time, it was Director Hou who got in Jiang Cheng's car and sent him to the outside of the reclamation farm. After all, with him showing up, the guards here were just pretending to check.

(End of this chapter)