The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 203 Processing 'Processing Cloth'

Good food is never too late. At noon, Zhou Lingying braised a chicken half and stewed the other half.

The eel was cut into pieces and stir-fried in oil, and rice wine was added to enhance the flavor, and some green vegetables were also stir-fried.

Two pots of rice were cooked, and after dinner, Zhang Yan and Wang Fang did not go back.

There is only one bus to Yi'an County at around 1:30 every day at noon, and there are only a few buses from Yi'an County to Changcheng in the afternoon.

After the meal, Zhang Yan and the others helped to clean up. Zhou Lingying was pregnant and felt sleepy, so she wanted to lie down for a while, so Zhang Yan and the others could sleep in the side room if they wanted to sleep at noon. If they didn't want to sleep, they could listen to the radio and crack melon seeds.

The afternoon was planned, Zhou Lingying took them shopping, and then went to the movies. This shopping was just for fun, because even if you have money but no tickets, you can't buy anything.

But they had melon seeds and honey water, which was enough. Zhang Yan and Wang Fang did not bring enamel cups with them, but they both brought water bottles with straps.

Zhou Lingying put some honey in the thermos, turning the whole bottle of water into honey water, and then divided it equally among the three of them. Bring some melon seeds with you when you go out, and if you have someone to hang out with in Changcheng, it's fun to just stroll around.

In the afternoon, Zhou Lingying went out for a walk with Zhang Yan and others, while Jiang Cheng got home at around four o'clock.

The car stopped on the road, and I took a lot of things home, including milk powder, black sesame paste, wife cakes and some ordinary egg cakes bought from Xiangjiang.

Of course, meat is also a must, including ribs, fish and shrimp.

But when Jiang Cheng returned home, he found that Zhou Lingying was not there. However, a neighbor saw him come back and told him that Zhou Lingying had gone out to play with two female educated youth who had gone to the countryside.

Jiang Cheng saw that Zhou Lingying was not at home, and it was boring to stay at home alone, so he went back to the car and put a lot of processed cloth in the back compartment. Then he drove to the supply and marketing cooperative to find Zhu Lan. In China now, having a few thousand yuan is considered rich, but in Hong Kong, it is only a month's salary for a senior executive.

Even for ordinary people in Hong Kong who have ID cards and stable jobs, it is only a matter of a few months' salary.

Jiang Cheng didn't think about how rich he would be. He just didn't want to accumulate capital in five or six years when the country opened up. He would just enjoy life then.

Arriving at the supply and marketing cooperative where Zhu Lan worked, Jiang Cheng was taken directly to the back office by a salesperson through the side door in front, because he was driving the car of the supply and marketing cooperative and some of the salesmen in the supply and marketing cooperative knew him.

This supply and marketing cooperative is just like the street office, the director and some staff work in the same room, but the director's position is usually at the back, and the people working at the door are the invoice clerks, ticket managers, accountants and cashiers.

Being a leader in a supply and marketing cooperative is really easy. For example, Director Xiong of the supply and marketing cooperative mainly controls the general direction of the supply and marketing cooperative, which means managing employees and making some efforts in preparations for holidays.

But there is not much to manage about the employees, except that the salespersons sometimes argue with customers.

The routine maintenance is assigned to the deputy director, who has more things to do than the director. The deputy director assists the director in his work and has to count various things, such as what is insufficient and what is worn out.

As soon as Jiang Cheng appeared at the office door, although he was looking for Zhu Lan, he was also seen by Director Xiong.

Zhu Lan was able to become deputy director not because of her qualifications and her "accurate" skills, but entirely because Jiang Cheng cared about her.

But after Zhu Lan became the deputy director, Director Xiong was not satisfied. Within a month, he got a small amount of kelp from Jiang Cheng.

This time when Jiang Cheng appeared, Zhu Lan hadn't taken any action yet, but Director Xiong went to find Jiang Cheng first.

"Master Jiang, come and see your sister. We haven't seen each other for a long time. I felt like we were old friends the last time I saw you." Director Xiong walked to the door and said to Jiang Cheng.

Zhu Lan also walked to the door and stood behind Director Xiong, feeling awkward and not knowing what to say.

"Director Xiong, you are a very busy person. How can I dare to disturb you? Come and have a cigarette." Jiang Cheng took out a Zhonghua cigarette from his pocket and handed it over.

When Director Xiong saw the cigarettes Jiang Cheng handed over, his eyes almost popped out. It turned out to be Zhonghua. This was a high-end special supply cigarette. Even if he was the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, he couldn't get this cigarette to smoke.

"Master Jiang, what brings you to our supply and marketing cooperative this time?" Director Xiong took the cigarette and put it to his ear. Although he knew that Jiang Cheng was here to see Zhu Lan, Director Xiong forced himself to ask questions, which was also a way to express his dissatisfaction.

Previously, Jiang Cheng and his wife, as well as Zhu Lan and his wife, were invited to the restaurant for dinner. Jiang Cheng had said a lot of straightforward things at the dinner table, but now it was just like farting, and he only brought a few dozen kilograms of kelp.

It’s not that dozens of kilograms of kelp are bad, but compared to recommending Zhu Lan as the deputy director, he would naturally be dissatisfied if he didn’t get something more solid.

"Director Xiong, it's nothing. A friend I met in Guangzhou knew that I was from the Changcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and he insisted that I help him deal with a batch of defective cloth. The key is that it can't be sold at a low price. This textile factory has defective products, and they are sold at the market price without cloth coupons. But my friend didn't want to sell it at the market price, so I had to ask my sister for help."

Jiang Cheng pretended to be helpless and said, as if he owed a favor to whoever helped him.

It is true that the defective cloth of this textile factory was sold at the market price without invoice, but it could not flow into the market at all. Either the workers of the textile factory consumed it, or some units with good relations with the textile factory took it away.

The scraps of cloth that came out of the textile mills were in great demand, and everyone used them to make insoles. So even if the cloth was defective, ordinary people couldn't buy it.

"Master Jiang, can you let me take a look at the fabrics from Guangzhou?" Director Xiong said with a smile.

Fabric is a good thing, even if it is defective, even some leaders will like it. Even if the leaders themselves will not use this defective fabric to make clothes for themselves, everyone has a poor relative, and even the children in some leaders' families use ordinary cloth as diapers or something.

Moreover, the leaders also have people who help them do things, such as Director Xiong himself. If he gives some defective cloth to some people with whom he has a good relationship in the supply and marketing cooperative, that would also be a good thing.

If the quantity is small, it may not be presentable to the leader, but if the quantity is large, it will definitely make the director of a supply and marketing cooperative excited. Based on the way Jiang Cheng spoke, Director Xiong felt that it could not be a small amount.

Jiang Cheng didn't say much. He smiled and took Director Xiong and Zhu Lan to the car outside the supply and marketing cooperative to check out the defective cloth.

When they arrived at the Jiefang bus, Jiang Cheng deliberately got on first.

"Oh, I almost forgot to put this certificate away. I'm back in Changcheng now, but I still forgot to put it away. It will have a bad impact if others see it." Jiang Cheng pretended to be reckless and put away the thing that was placed on the windshield of the car in front of Director Xiong.

Director Xiong's eyelids also jumped a little when he saw it. Damn, it turned out to be BF's pass. Jiang Cheng is so wild. Just now Jiang Cheng said that it was a defective cloth obtained by a friend in Guangzhou. It can't be~~.

Director Xiong thought about it carefully and felt that something was not right. If it was from BF, the defective cloth would not be of high quality.

Jiang Cheng didn't know what Director Xiong was thinking, so he took him and Zhu Lan to the back of the car to look at the cloth.

This cloth is rolled up. To see its quality and degree of defects, it is best to open it and see how many meters it is.

As the deputy director of the supply and marketing cooperative, Zhu Lan is also qualified to take the initiative to call on the sales staff of the supply and marketing cooperative to come out and help.

But regardless of the extent of the defects in the cloth, the sheer quantity of it shocked Director Xiong. How much would it cost to have so many pieces?

When Zhu Lan asked someone to open a piece of cloth, she and Director Xiong became puzzled.

"Jiang Cheng, is this defective cloth?" Zhu Lan asked.

"Look at it when you pick it up. Isn't the color a little lighter here in the corner?" Jiang Cheng said.

Although there are defects in the processed fabrics from Hong Kong, they are different in nature from the defective fabrics from the mainland. Generally, the problem is not serious. Some tailors will cut the fabrics just to save money, and then nothing can be seen.

Let’s put it this way, the processed cloth that Jiang Cheng brought, except that it is a little long and may be a little different in color for making pants, can be cut out to make tops.

Because the problem is not in the middle part, if it is used well, it is no different from normal cloth. Of course, for ordinary people in China, such a small color difference is not a big deal.

But if you need cloth coupons to buy, people who can see the problem will definitely buy the one with no color difference. If you don't need cloth coupons to buy, as long as you spread the news, people will line up at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative at 3 a.m.

(End of this chapter)