The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 229: Go watch the fun while lying on the board

It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when Jiang Cheng returned home.

I took a lot of blank drawings home and agreed to repair the car.

The Shanghai SH760 has a 2.2L six-cylinder Jinfeng 680QK engine.

There was a problem before, when the engine overheated, the ignition would not start. Jiang Cheng solved it by adding some circuits during the last maintenance.

But the real problem is actually the engine, which can be improved by adjusting the intake system and optimizing the fuel injection. However, it is very troublesome and requires disassembling the engine and upgrading it.

At that time, Jiang Cheng was still working at the bus station and was not an employee of the supply and marketing cooperative, so naturally he used the simplest and quickest method to solve the problem.

When they came back, Jiang Cheng, several drivers and apprentices disassembled all the parts of the front of the car. It might be impossible for Jiang Cheng to design an engine, but it was no problem to optimize some small parts in the engine.

In addition, regarding the shock absorption of cars in this era, the hydraulic shock absorber is actually very simple in structure, similar to the principle of an air pump. The chassis of the car in front was deformed by the collision, and it was going to be dismantled for repair anyway, so it would be a good idea to install a few shock absorbers at the same time.

You can even add more circuits and some electronic equipment. For example, this car does not have a radio, but you can add more circuits and add a transistor radio.

In this era, there are many radio enthusiasts who can assemble their own crystal radios. It doesn’t take a high level of skill to just buy a radio, disassemble it, and install it in a car.

All that is needed to install a radio in a car is a special circuit.

Another thing is to get a power steering pump for the steering wheel, which is also simple, in fact, it is just a matter of gear combination. If time is not tight, Jiang Cheng can get a hydraulic power steering pump.

There is only one week, so it is not impossible to get a mechanical power steering pump. However, a mechanical one will waste more energy and may also cause greater wear and tear.

But no matter what, Jiang Cheng, in addition to designing and arranging, had to hand over many tasks to the gear factory, engine factory, and mechanical parts factory to assist in completing. Even welders, not to mention level 8, had to be at least level 6. There were also fitters and sheet metal workers.

This depends on Ouyang Chengfeng's ability. After all, they are not in the same department. If he just goes to negotiate, it will be a waste of time. Or if he goes to other factories for help, they may drag their feet and there won't be enough time.

The actual time is only three or four days. If the parts are not processed in three or four days, the remaining time will not be enough for Jiang Cheng to assemble. A car is not a toy that can be assembled in one go. When assembling multiple parts like this, and adding new things, it always needs debugging.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng will be working in the repair shop starting tomorrow. But he also gets a lot of benefits in return, such as a holiday during the Chinese New Year, bonuses, and even a car loaned to him during the holiday.

In addition, after the bike was repaired, Jiang Cheng was asked to buy a bicycle directly from the Supply and Marketing Cooperative for domestic sales. He did not need a bicycle ticket, and a certificate would be issued to Jiang Cheng. He could then take the certificate to the police station to register and be on the road.

And if it really wasn't repaired, Ouyang Chengfeng wouldn't blame Jiang Cheng for anything. Some things can't be forced, all he can do is try his best.

Jiang Cheng went into the house to warm himself by the fire as soon as he got home. When Zhou Lingying saw him come back, she immediately went to bring the food in the pot to the table.

Two dishes and one soup, stewed meat bones with kelp, stir-fried spinach, and stir-fried ham with chrysanthemum. In later generations, it was a simple home-cooked meal, but in this era, it was very rich.

During the meal, Jiang Cheng told Zhou Lingying about the work at work, and she was very happy to hear it. Her husband could repair a car that no one in the entire supply and marketing cooperative could repair. She would definitely brag about this to others, to let everyone know how powerful her husband was.

Especially because of the car repair, Jiang Cheng was promised a holiday during the Chinese New Year. However, starting tomorrow, he might have to work overtime in the company's repair shop.

Just as the two were enjoying their meal and chatting, there was a noise outside the yard. There was a loud cry, and soon the screams of others in the yard could be heard.

Zhou Lingying couldn't sit still any longer, so she took her rice bowl, picked up some food and went out. She was pregnant now, so she could eat a lot, so she filled her bowl with food. When she opened the door, she saw Zhang Qing and her mother-in-law in the backyard, as well as a few workers who were not from the yard. They pushed a cart in, which was covered with a white cloth, and the figure under the white cloth was beyond description.

It was obvious that something bad had happened to Zhang Qing's husband, and this matter would definitely be one of the hot gossip headlines in the yard, and it would not cool down without being discussed for ten days or half a month.

But it was not easy to ask about this matter, not that everyone should gloat over the misfortune or anything. No one in the yard wanted this to happen, even Li Meihong who had a grudge against Zhou Lingying, Zhou Lingying would not want her to lie down.

If there is a feud, we will just stop interacting with each other, but we are all from the same yard, and we are not so cruel as to hope that someone will die.

But it happened. Although we didn't want it to happen, we still had to eat the melon since we couldn't change it. Everyone wanted to know why Zhang Qing's husband was lying on the board.

"Yuzhen~." Zhou Lingying saw Wang Yuzhen who was about to follow her and hurriedly called out.

"Zhang Qing's husband is gone, and the New Year is coming soon. What a day~." Wang Yuzhen heard Zhou Lingying shouting and immediately walked to her and said.

But Wang Yuzhen really didn't want to be around Zhou Lingying at this moment. The bowl Zhou Lingying brought contained spinach, meat, and kelp. It smelled really good, and she swallowed a few times when she got close to it.

"Are you going to the backyard to visit Zhang Qing?" Zhou Lingying asked.

"We're from the same yard. Let's go over and see if we can help out." Wang Yuzhen said. She couldn't say that she was just there to watch the fun, but seeing Zhou Lingying's expression, she immediately added, "Don't take your meal to the backyard."

It is said that pregnancy makes a woman stupid for three years. Wang Yuzhen also understood Zhou Lingying's thoughts and knew that she must want to go to the backyard to take a look. But if you bring a meal over and watch while eating. If you say you are here to comfort others, that is too fake.

Zhou Lingying nodded and asked Wang Yuzhen to go first. She would go right over. Then she went back to her room and started eating rice from her bowl.

Fortunately, there was kelp soup at home. In order to watch the fun, Zhou Lingying choked while eating rice.

Jiang Cheng really couldn't understand why people in this era would go to see everything. With so many people in the yard, they would know what was going on sooner or later. But they all wanted to know the first-hand information, as if they knew it too late, they would suffer losses.

Jiang Cheng didn't have the heart to watch such excitement. He had to think about the structure diagrams of some accessories at his desk. The six-cylinder engine had enough horsepower. But the current car wasted a lot of power due to various insufficient conditions.

Just when Jiang Cheng had figured out how to manufacture and install the shock absorber, Zhou Lingying came back.

When she came back, she said that Zhang Qing's husband was really miserable. Her husband, like Wang Yuzhen's husband, was a porter in the factory. When she went to work this morning, her unit was adding equipment and production lines.

Equipment weighing more than half a ton was carried on the shoulders, with wooden sticks tied to ropes and placed on the shoulders, and many people worked together to carry it in. Now many units do not have mechanical equipment for transportation, such as forklifts. Forklifts are only used by heavy industrial enterprises and some docks. If many units do not have equipment, they may not move such heavy objects in a year.

But half a ton of stuff was nothing for the porters, after all, there were many people carrying it. Zhang Qing's husband and another porter were walking in the front, one on each side, but for some unknown reason, the person walking with Zhang Qing's husband suddenly fell down.

When lifting heavy objects, it is important to have a stable center of gravity. If the person in the middle fails to use enough force at once, it's fine. But if the people at the front and back four corners fail to do it right at once, the object will tilt to one side. If it's too heavy, they won't be able to hold it steady.

Zhang Qing's husband was hit in the lower back by a half-ton object. He looked fine, but he vomited blood on the spot. Another person who was not lifted up first only had his leg broken. As for why he fell, the reason has not been investigated yet.

Anyway, Zhang Qing's husband suffered an unexpected disaster. If he failed to lift himself up steadily and was crushed, at least he couldn't blame others.

Jiang Cheng didn't know what to say about this. But Zhang Qing's family was a family of six, with three children and an elderly person. Her husband was the backbone of the family, and the children were still quite young. Without this backbone, the family would have a hard time.

(End of this chapter)