The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 232 Mandarin Introduction
January 21st, early in the morning, before six o'clock.

Jiang Cheng woke up, Zhou Lingying was still asleep. He had to pick up the president at 7 o'clock. This exclusive leader driver was also a private driver. His working hours were based on the leader's schedule, not the working hours in the company.

Although the schedule was not stable, it was relatively relaxed most of the time. For example, in the morning, if the president had to go to a department for a meeting, Jiang Cheng would just be responsible for sending him there, and then when the leader was in the meeting, it was his time to rest.

If the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's house refers to the gatekeeper in front of the prime minister's house, then the driver of the president of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative belongs to the third-rank official in front of the prime minister's house.

If the president went to other units for meetings, the driver would not just sit in the car and rest, but would be treated to tea, peanuts and newspapers in the lounge.

Jiang Cheng hugged Zhou Lingying, feeling her body temperature. It was cold, and he really didn't want to get out of the quilt, but Jiang Cheng had to get up and go to the office to get the car.

I regret not driving the car back yesterday because I got a bicycle.

"It should be possible to delay it for a while~." Jiang Cheng thought to himself while holding Zhou Lingying.

Influenced by the movies of later generations, Jiang Cheng's thoughts were a little abnormal at this time. He thought that wild flowers were not as fragrant as domestic flowers. He thought Zhou Lingying belonged to someone else, and then he put his hand into her pants.

"Jiang Cheng, you're awake. What time is it?" Zhou Lingying asked a little confused.

"It's still early, you go to sleep, I'm going to work soon. Don't prepare my meal at noon, I'll see how things go in the evening." Jiang Cheng said.

"Well, then don't touch it. What's there to touch?" Zhou Lingying said as she rolled the quilt tighter.

"That's where it's warm. Let me warm my hands. Isn't it strange that your bottom is cold, but the ditch is so warm."

"You are such a shameless person. I will sleep a little longer. You should go to work soon."

Jiang Cheng smiled. He liked the way his wife would say he was shameless but had no choice but to obey him.

But time did not allow, Jiang Cheng could only listen to his wife this time, get up, wash and go to work. He got up early this time, and since it was cold now, he would not let Zhou Lingying get up earlier just for breakfast.

After getting dressed, Jiang Cheng quickly washed up and went out. When he went out at this time, many people who were working were still not up. There was breakfast in the space, so there was no need to go to a breakfast shop. He bought breakfast from the tea restaurant in Xiangjiang.

Shengjian, xiaolongbao, barbecued pork buns, milk, soy milk~~.

When going out, I don’t ride a bicycle. I drive with my boss. When I finish work at night, I drive home. So the demand for bicycles by car drivers is not great. Those who want bicycles are ordinary workers who walk to and from get off work.

Jiang Cheng first went to the company to get a car, and then went to a compound where the leaders lived. Ordinary people were not allowed to enter, so they had to find someone to register.

The president's car had already been registered, and even Jiang Cheng's name had been reported to the security guard here by the president.

Jiang Cheng can drive into the compound simply by registering with his work ID. If someone else comes to register, you can't just go in and find whoever you want. You have to inform them, and even if there is no internal leader to say hello, you have to inform them every time you come.

But as a driver, Jiang Cheng can just use his face next time. As a leader's driver, just being able to enter the compound at will and becoming familiar to other leaders over time may be helpful in the future.

But you can only passively become familiar with others, for example, when others see you, they will say that you are the driver of someone's company. In the courtyard, if the driver takes the initiative to greet other leaders, it is basically a taboo and will be transferred soon.

Jiang Cheng drove to the compound and found the president's residence according to the house number. He didn't have to do anything when he arrived at the door, as the president would be notified and told that the car was coming.

A driver, even if he has a good relationship with the leader, cannot enter the leader's residence at will.

After waiting at the gate of the compound until almost 7:30, Ouyang Chengfeng finally went out. The key point is that when he went out to get in the car, he was not alone, but with his wife and daughter.

"Dad, the car has been repaired. When will Uncle Zhang's injury heal?"

"Jiang Cheng, please send them to the Cultural Bureau first, and then we will go to the Commercial Bureau."

Ouyang Chengfeng ignored his daughter's words and spoke directly to Jiang Cheng. His daughter is seventeen years old this year and is assigned to work in the Propaganda Department of the Cultural Bureau. People who grow up in the compound are different. Their temperament, conversation and knowledge are not comparable to ordinary girls. But these can be cultivated slowly, and young people are young, and they are prone to emotionality in some things.

The Uncle Zhang mentioned by the president’s daughter is the previous driver. Since he has been with the president for quite some time, it is normal for the president’s daughter to call the driver uncle.

But if something like this happens, he will definitely be transferred. It's not that the president is heartless, but his daughter should not call him uncle anymore. If some people hear it, it's easy to misunderstand. Working by your side and not by your side are very different things.

Jiang Cheng didn't say a word the whole time, just followed the instructions. Because he had been distributing goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city during the holidays in the past few months, he was very familiar with Changcheng. He could just drive to any place he wanted to go, and didn't need to ask for directions.

"Dad, why does this car seem different from the previous ones?"

"Yes, sitting here feels much more comfortable than before."

After the car started, the mother and daughter in the back seat said to Ouyang Chengfeng. And Ouyang Chengfeng also felt something different. The car was assembled and tested yesterday afternoon.

Therefore, Ouyang Chengfeng did not experience it yesterday. In addition, he was usually busy and did not know much about how to repair a car.

When he first sat down, he didn't pay much attention to anything. Now that his wife and daughter reminded him, the president realized that the seat was much softer than before.

And there was no feeling of bumps on the road, which is definitely not justified by good driving skills. There is no driver who can drive for leaders without bad skills, and even if there is a difference, it cannot be such a big difference.

"Jiang Cheng, what's going on with this car?" Ouyang Chengfeng asked curiously.

When Jiang Cheng heard the president asking about the car, he organized his words in his mind. This car can't be called repaired. The front of the car was hit like that, it's basically no different from a refurbishment. And in the process of refurbishment, he finally fulfilled his addiction to modifying and upgrading cars.

Although it is just a simple addition of some external things, at most the engine is slightly optimized. In the future, for anyone with a little technology, this cannot be considered an upgrade at all.

To truly upgrade, you have to replace all parts including the engine, exhaust pipe, transmission, etc. with better ones.

How to put it, like in “Initial D”, the van feels like a sports car, that’s a real upgrade and modification.

What Jiang Cheng is doing now is just a joke for future car repairers. But future car repairers definitely don't have the ability to assemble a car by hand.

Report the current condition of the car to the president, as it involves some professional components, you can also say professional terms.

In this era, people who can't speak Mandarin, once they say something with technical terms, it feels like talking to some people and spouting out English at every turn. It's embarrassing for others to hear and for the speaker as well.

Jiang Cheng usually speaks to everyone in Changcheng dialect. For example, "this kind of" is "daughter". "What are you doing" is "you are doing it".

Jiang Cheng didn't want to speak in dialect, and then use the word "plastic" in Mandarin when talking about car parts and some nouns. So he simply told the president about the situation in fairly standard Mandarin.

When Jiang Cheng was explaining to Ouyang Chengfeng what upgrades had been made to the car, he spoke in Mandarin, which directly shocked the three people in the car.

Mandarin was defined in 1955 based on the dialect of the former Soviet Union, and then began to be promoted. But it was not mandatory at the beginning. Now the only mandatory thing is that some broadcasters are required to speak Mandarin on radio stations.

But only radio stations require announcers to speak Mandarin. Many grassroots units and factories only require a certain level of education when recruiting announcers, but do not require them to speak Mandarin.

Even the profession of teaching had to take a Mandarin proficiency test in the 1990s. Many teachers cannot speak Mandarin, let alone students.

As soon as Jiang Cheng spoke Mandarin, it was just like what was said in the movie "Big Shot", hiring a butler with an authentic London accent, which was very prestigious.

So when Jiang Cheng was telling the president about the improvements he had made to the car, the president's daughter was sitting in the back, listening to Jiang Cheng's Mandarin and looking at his handsome profile~~.

(End of this chapter)