The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 178 Baoan Inspector

Seeing someone coming up to rest after being tired from swimming, Jiang Cheng walked over and chatted with them.

Sure enough, the matter of sneaking into Hong Kong is no longer taboo in Guangdong. It is an open discussion, and there is no taboo. Even when everyone is free every day, they will discuss what route to take.

Because Jiang Cheng didn't know the history, but he still caught up.

In the 1970s, there was a large-scale illegal immigration to Hong Kong before the opening up of Hong Kong. That was in 1972, the year Jiang Cheng was there, and he was involved in it unintentionally.

Almost everyone here has a few maps to Hong Kong.

There are roads directly connected to the mainland in Hong Kong, but they are basically surrounded by barbed wire. However, many people break through the wire area, and they also need to practice skills. And when climbing over, you have to pay attention to searchlights, sentries, and even police dogs.

In some places under Baoan County, the closest place to the Xiangjiang River is as wide as a river. From the country, you can see the Xiangjiang River on the other side, but it is impossible to cross because of the strict defense.

According to the route map, there are several places that are about a few thousand meters away from the Xiangjiang River. There are places with weaker guards, but the sea there is not calm and the waves are not small.

Practicing in a reservoir or river is completely different from swimming in the ocean with waves. Many people have died in the ocean, but most of them have never looked back.

Jiang Cheng was not interested in climbing over the wire fence or swimming across it. What's more, he focused on a route that no swimmer was interested in. The route from Dongjiang to Xiangjiang was more than ten kilometers away from Xiangjiang. It was impossible to swim across, so he had to make a homemade rubber boat to paddle across.

That is the least guarded route, but it is also the most dangerous route for everyone. Because the waves there are very big, if the rubber boat flips, everyone will basically be gone.

For those who want to go to Xiangjiang River just like Jiang Cheng, getting a car inner tube is more difficult than swimming directly there.

Jiang Cheng found a pen and paper, copied a route map that he thought was useful, and then left.

Back in the car, Jiang Cheng took out the bread, mutton, and some other ingredients from the space. After rolling up two breads and eating them, he headed to Guangzhou Port to pick up the goods.

We arrived at Guangzhou Port at nearly three o'clock, and then took the list to the management to pick up the goods.

The process was still simple, but it took us until after 4 o'clock to load the goods. Because it was a sewing machine, it was assembled from top to bottom and packed, so it took up a lot of space.

Fortunately, there were only 50 of them, and the rear compartment had an inflatable canvas tent that could hold them all. A sewing machine with a wooden basket weighed about 70 to 80 kilograms, so 50 machines weighed less than two tons.

After Jiang Cheng loaded the goods and left Guangzhou Port, he put them into the space one by one. The stuff was not heavy and the pile was too full. If he didn't put them away one by one, they might fall off the car when he released them next time.

While it was still early, Jiang Cheng headed directly to Bao'an County. This Bao'an County was later known as Shenzhen, but now it is just a county town, and a county town with a relatively small population.

At the end of the previous year, a department in Bao'an County conducted statistics and found that many villages had become uninhabited villages.

The people in the village are either old, young or physically disabled.

Many production team leaders and some team members took the lead in going to Xiangjiang. When they went there, some villagers went to the beach to see them off.

So Jiang Cheng had a meal at the Baoan County Hotel and headed to some seaside areas outside the county. He thought that even if he didn't go to Xiangjiang this time but just explored the route, he would first go to the nearby villages to see if he could get some seafood.

But some villages are actually deserted, and many houses are uninhabited, although the houses themselves are quite dilapidated.

In the villages near the sea, most of the houses are wooden or adobe. The houses that are not occupied don't even have locks. Some of the houses are also strange. Even if they are very dilapidated, the houses that are occupied never collapse. Once the houses are unoccupied, some of them collapse within a year. Those that can last for three years are considered good.

Jiang Cheng was busy in some of the "uninhabited villages" here, collecting all the old door panels and wood that could be stored in the space. Especially some beams, which might be wood that some people in the countryside cut down a long time ago. Although it has been a long time, it is not necessarily bad material.

"Hey, who are you and what are you doing here sneaking around?"

Jiang Cheng had just come out of a room when he was spotted by two men in uniform. They were still more than ten meters away, shouting at him and approaching him.

Although the other party was walking towards him, Jiang Cheng was sure that as long as he dared to run, the comrades in uniform would chase him.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng really wanted to say, "Madam, I am a good citizen," but the best way was to tell the truth.

"Comrade, I'm from the Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative. I want to see if there are any villagers in this village near the sea who have some seafood at home." Jiang Cheng spoke only after the uniformed men approached.

He took out his ID from his pocket and showed it to the other party, and handed out two cigarettes. The car was not too far away, so he could take them over to have a look.

The two patrolling men were one tall and one short. To be more precise, one of them was short, which made the other one look taller.

After checking Jiang Cheng's ID and his clothes, the inspectors relaxed their vigilance. They were inspectors at a nearby sentry post, specializing in catching illegal immigrants.

Although they went to the village to find someone to collect the items privately, this is exactly what some car drivers do.

"This is your first time here. There aren't many people here anymore, so you can't receive anything." said the tall inspector.

"Yes, this is my first time here. Before, I was able to receive some seafood in Shanghai and the coastal areas of Yancheng and brought it back. It's not easy to make a long journey, and I can't go back empty-handed." Jiang Cheng said without any hesitation.

The inspector was also bored, and when he heard Jiang Cheng say this, he started chatting with him.

"Comrade, your driver is still the best. But you collect things so blatantly, aren't you afraid of being reported?" said the short inspector enviously.

"What's the big deal? I don't use cash to buy things. I'm just helping some units exchange things and taking a share of the profits. I brought a lot of eggs in my car to exchange, but I found that there are not many people here. There is only an old man living in the house in front." Jiang Cheng said. Anyway, based on what happened in the fishermen's village in Shanghai last time, he could make up an excuse without thinking or pausing.

"Comrade, what did you say? You have a lot of eggs in your car." The short inspector asked seriously.

"Yes, but those eggs are not mine, they are from a state-owned reclamation farm. We don't have a sea in Gan Province, I just want to exchange them for some seafood." Jiang Cheng said. Facing a man in uniform, he would put himself aside regardless of whether he could be in charge of buying and selling matters.

"Comrade, if you want seafood, I have a place where you can get it. I just don't know if you dare to go." The short inspector looked at Jiang Cheng and said in a provocative tone.

Hearing what the short inspector said, Jiang Cheng really hesitated. His purpose this time was not to exchange anything, there was still a lot of wood to be "picked up" here.

But after thinking for a while, Jiang Cheng still asked: "Can you tell me where to go first?"

The short inspector motioned Jiang Cheng to lower his head, and then said three words in Jiang Cheng's ear.

Jiang Cheng's eyes widened uncontrollably. It turned out to be the BF department. It would be difficult to establish a good relationship with them.

(End of this chapter)