The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 171 Uncle Zhou Lingying also spoke
At around 9:30, Xie Xiuyun returned to her room.

According to the time, the bride's escort is coming soon. The bride cannot leave the room by herself and must be escorted out.

This also includes the meaning of "waiting to be married in the boudoir", which means that a girl stays in her boudoir waiting to get married.

It was past ten o'clock when Xie Xiuyun's father, who had been waiting at the door, hurried back and shouted that the bride-picking party had arrived. He asked people to quickly get firecrackers and set them off as soon as the bride-picking party arrived at the door.

When Xie Xiuyun's relatives heard that the bride-picking party was coming, they also went out to see how Xie Xiuyun's partner would come to pick her up. If her aunt was right, and there wasn't even a bicycle, that would be fun.

But when he went out, he saw a Jiefang car with a "囍" character pasted on the front of the car.

"Xie Lao San, your daughter's boyfriend is here to pick her up. He didn't come in a car, did he?"

"Xiuyun's boyfriend's brother-in-law is a car driver. Although he is from another place, he is a driver for the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He can come to Nanjing at least several times a year."

Xie Xiuyun's father smiled and said that he was the third child in his generation, and many of his peers and elders called him that.

In this era, if a bicycle is equivalent to a car in later generations, then driving a car to pick up the bride is almost the same as driving a plane to pick up the bride in later generations.

When the Xie family's relatives saw the car with the Chinese character "囍" on it approaching, none of them were not shocked. It was not until the car arrived at the door and Xie Xiuyun's brother lit firecrackers that everyone came back to their senses from the shock.

Zhou Xingcai opened the passenger door and got out of the car, wearing a white shirt, green military pants, and black leather shoes. There was a small red paper flower pinned to the pocket of his shirt, which made him look quite handsome.

Xie Xiuyun's uncle and aunt had seen Zhou Xingcai before, and they thought he looked pretty good. But Zhou Xingcai was wearing work clothes at that time, which was completely different from what he wears now, especially his pair of leather shoes, which were not something you could buy casually.

Zhou Xingcai's uncle, brother and two friends also got out from the back of the car immediately to accompany him to pick up the bride. Those who came to help Zhou Xingcai pick up the bride today basically tried to wear decent clothes.

For example, Zhou Xingcai's uncle was wearing a cadre uniform, and everyone else was also dressed neatly. Even if the clothes were not new, at least they were not patched.

Only Jiang Cheng, the errand boy, was dressed casually, just work clothes for the company. Jiang Cheng himself also had the same set as Zhou Xingcai, after all, Zhou Xingcai's clothes were originally bought by him, and there were not many styles of clothes these days, so he chose the same set so that he could change and wash them during breaks.

After everyone got off the car, Jiang Chengcai turned off the engine and followed the last of the bride-picking team. He wanted to finish the bride-picking procession, have lunch, send some people back, and then go back to Changcheng.

But Jiang Cheng clearly didn't say a word and walked at the end. Damn it, Xie Xiuyun's father didn't treat the new son-in-law who was walking in front well, but instead gave him a cigarette and chatted with him politely.

It was a nice wedding procession, and it only took a few steps from outside to inside. Jiang Cheng somehow got together with his uncle Zhou Hewang, and then dealt with the elder relatives of Xie Xiuyun's family.

Zhou Hewang was the section chief of the Cultural Bureau, a cadre after all. But the Xie family's relatives were all chatting with Jiang Cheng and listening to him talk about his travels.

There was no other way. Jiang Cheng could only honestly "explain" the various materials he could get in order to support Zhou Xingcai. Except for some things that could only be obtained through connections, other specialties could be sold as long as everyone went there.

For example, the ham from Jinhua costs the driver a month's salary for one ham. And the brown sugar from Yiwu is cheap. You don't need a ticket to buy it there, and it's cheaper than white sugar.

Anyway, many people were tempted by what they said, but their status meant that they could not ask Jiang Cheng for help. Even if Xie Xiuyun's parents wanted Jiang Cheng to bring something, they had to wait until their daughter got married and let her find Zhou Xing before asking Jiang Cheng for it. "Jiang Cheng, the ham, brown sugar, lotus root powder and so on you mentioned. Next time you have a chance to come, can you bring some for me? I can give you the money first."

The one who spoke was Zhou Zhongwang. Not only did the people from the Xie family want to find Jiang Cheng as a partner, even he, a section chief in the Cultural Bureau, was tempted.

It’s just that it was the first time that Jiang Cheng came to Zhou’s house, and as the eldest uncle, it was difficult for him to speak up.

But now, hearing what Jiang Cheng said, anyone can buy it just by passing by. This does not require Jiang Cheng to pay favors, Zhou Hewang could not help but speak to his nephew-in-law.

Although those things can be bought as long as you go there as Jiang Cheng said, but now everyone is restricted from going out of town.

To go out of town, you have to take the train, and at his level, you still need a certificate from your employer to buy a train ticket. In addition, you have to have a reason to go out of town, and your employer will not issue you a certificate just because you say where you are going.

Even if the company gives you a certificate and you have applied for leave, it is not easy for ordinary people to go on a long trip. It is not a business trip or something. You have to bring your own dry food when you go out. It is a problem to eat without national food coupons.

It can be said that Jiang Cheng said it was easy, and many things were within easy reach. But for people like them, if they really had to go there themselves, the effort and cost would be huge.

People in later generations often say that in this era, it only costs a few yuan to take a train to a far place, but you have to think about it, the salary of an ordinary worker is only more than 30 yuan. Even this more than 30 yuan has to correspond to the income of middle- and high-end people in later generations.

A train ticket of a few dollars is equivalent to a few days' salary. If we calculate based on the income of about 6,000 people in later generations, it is not cheap to take a train with a few days' salary.

In addition, the train is slow, everything is slow, and the round trip fare is eight or ten yuan. Food and drink on the way, plus the time and wages lost. If you just go to buy lotus root powder and brown sugar, unless you are selling it, the cost is many times more expensive than the black market stuff.

Jiang Cheng said all these things lightly, but they really moved Zhou Hewang. He was only 46 years old, less than two years older than Zhou Dongming. He was also considered to have experience and ability in the company, and he wanted to move up in his position.

Zhou Hewang asked Jiang Cheng to help bring the food, not for his family to eat. Otherwise, his family couldn't afford the Jinhua ham that cost eight yuan a pound.

"Uncle, there is no problem with letting me bring things. But I travel to many places now, and I may not come here once every one or two months. But I will definitely come here once this year. If you can wait, there is no problem." Jiang Cheng said.

Jiang Cheng's space was filled with everything Zhou Hewang wanted, but he really couldn't take anything out. He had already brought a lot of things this time, and it would be a bit exaggerated to bring more.

Zhou Zhongwang said that it was no problem, but asked Jiang Cheng not to buy a ham that was too big. He should try to pick a smaller one. At eight yuan per pound, it was really not something that most people could afford.

As for money, Zhou Zhongwang didn't have that much on him, and said he would give it to Jiang Cheng at noon. Jiang Cheng didn't say that he didn't need to pay first, so he had to be more low-key and not appear to have no shortage of money to buy anything.

In this way, Jiang Cheng chatted for more than an hour at Xie's house. During this time, Xie's family prepared a bowl of boiled eggs in sugar water for each person who came to pick up the bride, which was a good treat.

When some poor people marry off their daughters, sometimes the bride-welfare party comes and some only brings some sugar water.

(Don't wait tonight, I will update again tomorrow morning. I have finished half of the things around me today. Tomorrow ~ the day after tomorrow at the latest I will resume updating three chapters a day)
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