The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 206: To force the Northern List

After the water boiled, Jiang Cheng, Zhou Lingying and her friend each made a cup of honey water and sat at the door to listen to the radio. If it wasn't for the convenience of other neighbors listening together, Jiang Cheng would rather lie on the bed and listen.

The food that Jiang Cheng packed at the restaurant was for Zhang Yan and the others to take back to the Youth League tomorrow. The food that Jiang Cheng brought today would not last long, so he had to prepare it tomorrow.

Zhou Lingying was indeed much happier than usual because she had Zhang Yan and the others to chat with.

It was not until after 8:30 that everyone went back to their rooms to wash up and prepare for bed.

Now Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying wash everything together, and when washing their faces, Zhou Lingying likes to rub her face with her own towel after washing herself. Then she lets Jiang Cheng sit down and washes his face. This also saves Jiang Cheng from having to get a towel to rub his face himself.

In Zhou Lingying's opinion, using one towel for two people to wash their faces saves the trouble of washing one more towel. Jiang Cheng, like the master, enjoys his wife washing his face.

"Jiang Cheng, don't move. You have a few small pimples on your head. Let me squeeze them for you." When Zhou Lingying was washing Jiang Cheng's face, she found a few small pimples on his forehead and immediately wanted to squeeze them.

"Then be gentle." Jiang Cheng said.

Squeezing pimples can’t be said to be a hobby, but it is a habit of Zhou Lingying.

It was summer before, and Jiang Cheng still had some prickly heat on his body no matter how hard he tried to avoid driving in high temperatures. But there weren't many, and those that were a little white became Zhou Lingying's toys, and she felt comfortable only when she squeezed them out.

The key is to squeeze, and she likes to squeeze repeatedly.

Jiang Cheng couldn't ask her now. It was fine if she squeezed her own, but would she be disgusted if she squeezed someone else's? Mainly because after she got pregnant, Jiang Cheng had been sprayed on her hands a lot, and she didn't dislike that, so what was there to ask?

"Will you ask me to wash your butt later?" Zhou Lingying asked while sitting on Jiang Cheng and squeezing his pimples.

"Yes." Jiang Cheng answered briefly with a smile.

At home, Jiang Cheng really lives the life of a landlord. Of course, he washes his butt only occasionally, and at most he washes his face and wipes his feet.

At least it's not as bad as some landlords' sons on TV who need maids to help them go to the toilet and wipe their butts.

In this era, few men actually wash their buttocks every day, and they don’t pay much attention to personal hygiene, so women in this era actually suffer from many gynecological diseases.

Even Jiang Cheng in the 21st century only washes his face and feet, and other parts of his body are washed every few days. The key is that even if he washes them, he can't use them.

There is no other way now. When Zhou Lingying was not pregnant, Jiang Cheng had to pay attention to hygiene for her, not just for himself. Now Jiang Cheng has to pay more attention to hygiene when he returns home, after all, it is imported food now.

After they finished washing, Zhou Lingying asked him to lie on the bed. Jiang Cheng was not at home for many days a month, so Zhou Lingying felt that it was her duty to serve him in some ways.

Zhou Lingying felt that this was not a question of making him feel comfortable, but a duty as a daughter-in-law. Although she didn't know how other people lived, and whether they would live like this, everyone lived their own lives, and as long as they were willing, it was their own business no matter how excessive it was.

The next morning, Zhou Lingying got up at around six o'clock.

She didn't want to get up so early. It was comfortable to lie in bed in the morning, especially when there was someone around to hold her.

But Zhang Yan and Wang Fang stayed in the side room last night. They were friends and guests, so they had to get up in the morning to make breakfast and feed the chickens.

As for today's breakfast, just cook a pot of porridge that is neither too thick nor too thin. When it is cooked, pour in the leftover chicken from yesterday's lunch and cook for a while.

A pot of chicken porridge for breakfast is a luxury.

In the morning, they feed the chickens and cook breakfast, and Zhou Lingying listens to a radio. Zhang Yan and the others all hope that they can live like this in the future. In addition, the National Day is only three days away, and the three of them have agreed to come here again during the National Day.

Although they would continue to organize people to catch eels after returning, they could not always ask for leave. This was a personal act, unless they applied to the educated youth team leader to make catching eels a sideline for the educated youth team.

But in that case, the entire educated youth team would be responsible for organizing the catching and selling of eels, and they would not be the ones to distribute the profits. They might even record the income from selling eels according to work points, and then distribute it uniformly like other workers in the fields.

In that case, the income of the educated youth team may increase, but everyone still cannot afford to buy printed cloth. Therefore, when Zhang Yan and her friends go back today, they have to reasonably allocate the people involved, take turns to ask for leave, and it is best for one person to come to Zhou Lingying in the future. Otherwise, even if they come to the city to visit Zhou Lingying, they cannot visit too often.

In addition, you can’t always catch eels. After a month at most, when the weather gets cooler, you won’t see eels in the fields at night.

Even before that time, the rice in the fields is almost grown, and the irrigation water will not be continued. At that time, there is no catch. And the end of October is the time for rice harvest.

In fact, the days when eels could be caught in the fields were only about half a month at most. During this half month, the female educated youth could earn a set of sheets and quilts by working hard at night and taking turns to take leave.

After breakfast, Jiang Cheng drove Zhang Yan and the others to the station. Zhou Lingying was bored at home, so she also took the car to the station to see them off.

After Jiang Cheng sent the person to the station, he immediately went to work. He still put his things away before entering the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

The car drove to the unloading warehouse, and Jiang Cheng reported to the third transportation team.

Now that the National Day is coming, the drivers of Team 3 have not gone out to pick up goods. Just like last time, they are assisting Team 1 in distributing goods.

Although National Day is not a traditional holiday, it is the most important holiday in China besides the Spring Festival. Many places are holding performances, and things like fish and eggs are not included in the planned products, and they are limited to purchase by residents.

In some places where there are squares, stages will be set up and some performances will be organized on National Day.

In any case, everyone is happy, except for the service industry, which is extremely busy. Supply and marketing cooperatives, barber shops, restaurants, bus stations, cultural bureaus, etc., are busier the more holidays pass.

After Jiang Cheng arrived at Transport Team 3, there were many people smoking and chatting in the lounge, and it was choking if you walked into a room with an open door.

It was the same as the last Mid-Autumn Festival, except there were no specific foods like mooncakes to be delivered. There were still many in-demand products that were not available at other times to be delivered. As a driver assisting Team 1, I was usually responsible for delivering things that Team 1 did not usually deliver.

Just like today, there is no need to wait for the statisticians to go to the warehouse to load and deliver goods. Instead, they are all transferred to the ferry to load dried hairtail and then distribute them to the supply and marketing cooperatives one by one.

But no matter what, the time spent on loading and unloading is longer than the time spent on the road, which is very easy for Jiang Cheng.

During the National Day, Jiang Cheng still had to go to work and deliver goods. But that morning, the company distributed a lot of good benefits.

Hairtail, canned food, cigarette and alcohol tickets and the like.

During the National Day holiday, two female educated youths whom Zhou Lingying knew came and brought more than 50 kilograms of yellow eels. They stayed at Jiang Cheng's house for a day before leaving.

October 3rd, early morning.

Jiang Cheng was in a state of depression. In the past few days since he came home, there has not been a single day that he has not been "served" by Zhou Lingying. Last night, Zhou Lingying was even more worried that Jiang Cheng was going to travel a long distance to another place, and she made Jiang Cheng kick his legs.

When Jiang Cheng went to work today, he knew that things would be different from usual because Captain Du mentioned the other day that he wanted to slightly change the self-selected list.

The main reason is that everyone chooses to pick up goods from nearby lists and is unwilling to go to lists that are too far away. As a newly established transport team, Captain Du does not have much experience as a captain.

In fact, there were two orders that Captain Du privately arranged for Li Jun and Yang Tianhua to take. After all, these two masters used to work in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, so they knew each other and it was easy to make the initial move.

But now there are some orders that everyone doesn't want to take, and it's not good to just talk about it privately out of personal feelings. So the day before yesterday, Captain Du gave everyone a heads-up that for some far-flung lists, he would force everyone to take turns to take them.

These lists are basically thousands of kilometers away in the north, where the climate and food culture are very different. It is normal that people do not want to go that far, but Beijing is also in the north, and many industries and some industries are in the north.

Sometimes, it is too troublesome to arrange shipping when there are just the right amount of stuff. If it is a train, you have to combine wagons when the quantity is small. And the lack of information makes the operation troublesome.

There is no mandatory assignment. It is troublesome if the orders from some places are delayed for a long time. The transfer of foreign trade to domestic sales is a benefit for the supply and marketing cooperatives. If you don't pull it back, it will not be kept for you after the deadline. It is normal to distribute it to the local supply and marketing cooperatives at that time.

(End of this chapter)