The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 233 It's going to explode

After sending the president's wife and daughter to the Cultural Bureau, Jiang Cheng immediately drove to the Commercial Bureau.

In fact, the president's wife and daughter were not sent to the unit, but stopped at an intersection near the Cultural Bureau.

It's not good to take them to the Cultural Bureau by car, because people will gossip about them. And they take this car just to get a ride. The Commercial Bureau is not far from the Cultural Bureau, so they can hitchhike.

Jiang Cheng had a very easy time driving for the president today. He held a two-hour meeting at the Commerce Bureau and then went back to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative to handle business. At the Commerce Bureau, Jiang Cheng also received two packs of cigarettes and a little candy as a treat.

People were arranged to rest in the lounge, read newspapers, smoke, drink water and wait.

I had lunch in the company cafeteria at noon, and in the afternoon I went to the S Committee to meet with people from the 49th Party Committee. I returned to the company before four o'clock, and then at half past four I sent the president back to the compound.

Jiang Cheng completed his task for the day. He drove home at around five o'clock. Then he asked Zhou Lingying to experience the feeling of riding in a car. Unfortunately, Zhou Lingying was pregnant. Otherwise, Jiang Cheng could show his driving skills. The car was shaking even though it was still in place.

In the evening, at the dinner table.

"Jiang Cheng, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with the food?"

"Nothing. I just thought about work tomorrow. I have to meet someone with my boss. Yingying, go get your camera. I'll put it in the car later. Then we'll see if there's a chance to take a picture as a souvenir."

While eating, Jiang Cheng spoke a little absent-mindedly.

In fact, after returning to the unit from the S Committee, the president briefed Jiang Cheng on tomorrow's tasks.

Tomorrow Jiang Cheng will get up earlier and go to the Xinjian County Tractor Repair Factory with some people from Sijiu City to meet an important figure of this era.

Jiang Cheng really didn't know much about history. So he had no idea that a certain big shot would be in a tractor repair factory in a county town below Changcheng. If he knew, Jiang Cheng would definitely try to "please" him.

It must be too late now. People from Sijiu City have come. Jiang Cheng will follow the president tomorrow. Jiang Cheng may not even have a chance to speak. He just hopes to take a photo.

When Zhou Lingying heard the instruction, she immediately went to get the camera.

The next day, at around five o'clock, it was still dark outside the window.

Jiang Cheng woke up, took a sip of milk nervously, then quickly got up, washed and went out.

It was drizzling outside the room and the temperature was very low. You could see obvious white mist when you exhaled.

This time Jiang Cheng was dressed very neatly, and when he left the yard and went to the car, his posture was straight. After getting in the car and starting the engine, Jiang Cheng sat in the cab and took out a match, which he lit with a light stroke, and then used the match to light the cigarette in his mouth.

The rain fell on the windshield and slowly slid down.

Jiang Cheng sat in the car, smoking slowly.

It’s not that Jiang Cheng wants to pretend to be profound, but the weather is cold. After starting the car, it is best to start it in place for a while before driving away. This is common sense for drivers.

This time, at six o'clock, Jiang Cheng arrived at the compound to pick up the president. After picking up the president, he went to the hotel to meet up with the people from Sijiu City, and then went to Xinjian County together.

By leaving early this way, we can arrive there at around eight o'clock.

When Jiang Cheng arrived at the hotel, he also had breakfast with his leader. He could eat porridge, steamed buns, steamed bread, flower rolls, pancakes, fried dough sticks, and boiled eggs.

As a leader, it is definitely not easy to take something with the food, but as a driver, it is OK. Jiang Cheng has all these, but he lacks a reasonable reason to take something out.

After breakfast, the group set off. Only then did Jiang Cheng understand why the president was in a hurry to repair the car.

The people from Sijiucheng came by train, and those going to Xinjian County had to take the president's car. In terms of rank, the president was actually similar to the two who came, except that they were "Beijing officials" while the president was a local leader.

If they were to get a jeep to take them to Xinjian County, it would indeed be a bit unworthy of the class. If Jiang Cheng couldn't fix the car, Ouyang Chengfeng would tell the truth at that time, a jeep is a jeep. People in this era valued face, but they were also pragmatic. If the car was broken and couldn't be fixed, would they still pretend to be rich?

The leaders who came here this time, 760% of them drove the same model of car. Because Hongqi is for senior leaders, the Shanghai SH is used to make up for the middle-level leaders.

It is normal for leaders of the same level, even if they are from different places, to use the same car.

The leader from the city immediately discovered the problem while sitting in the car.

At first, I thought Ouyang Chengfeng was just enjoying life, because the car was originally made with hard seats, but his car now has soft leather seats. Soon, I discovered something else.

The car does not bump on the city road, and people may not notice it at first. But this is the county town below, and there is no cement road, but gravel and sand road, and there are often potholes.

It’s not that there will be no bumps on such a road, but people in the car will just feel a little shaking.

The people on the bus all have grassroots qualifications and have experienced the pain of sitting on a bus.

In Changcheng, Ouyang Chengfeng was the president of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and he could be said to be a local tyrant in a certain field. But the people in the car were from the old city, and they would not indulge Ouyang Chengfeng's hedonism.

Only high-end domestic cars have soft seats, car radios, shock absorbers, and power steering pumps. But now we see all of them on a SH760.

What are you trying to do? Do you think the SH760 is not worthy of you as the president of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative? The configuration of the car should be aligned with the Red Flag sedan. In ancient times, it was a question of what kind of carriage an official could have when he went out. It could not be crossed.

"President Ouyang, this car of yours is not right~~."

On the way to Xinjian County, a leader started to make trouble.

But being able to say it directly in the car actually meant that he hoped the other party would stop. At their level, it was just simple hedonism, and even if it was implemented, it would at most be a demerit.

So I just said it directly in the hope that Ouyang Chengfeng would realize his mistake.

Ouyang Chengfeng actually gave the car to Jiang Cheng to fix, hoping to restore it to its original state at first. He did not expect Jiang Cheng to upgrade it. After the upgrade, he did not think about other aspects.

Now being questioned in a bad tone by the person from Sijiu City, Ouyang Chengfeng asked back what happened in the past.

Then the leader from Sijiu City bluntly pointed out the problem with the car, saying that his car had almost all the configurations that a Hongqi sedan should have.

Ouyang Chengfeng would definitely not agree to being accused of hedonism. He had no subjective consciousness at all. If the car had not been nearly scrapped by the driver, he would not have asked Jiang Cheng to repair it.

So Ouyang Chengfeng changed the car seats and talked about the improvements they had made.

The two leaders found it interesting when they heard the cause. They knew that Ouyang Chengfeng would not fool people with such things when he sat in this position.

He also said that the driver is still in the hospital. No matter what the cause of this accident is, and even whether the driver should bear responsibility, it will actually be recorded in the file.

Car repairs cost money, and the previous president and driver found a reason or excuse, so he was not responsible. However, the accident was recorded within the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, because the repair expenses had to be matched with the accident.

You can’t say that the company spent several thousand dollars on car repairs, but you must record what car was repaired and why it was repaired.

It's just that this is recorded in the company's internal files, and the records will be destroyed after a long time. And if the president's driver was transferred to another company, there would be no record of this in the personnel file. This is just an internal record.

"President Ouyang, it seems that there are capable people in your unit. The driver named Jiang Cheng is so capable that he directly dismantled and assembled a car, and even added so many things. I would like to meet him, but even so, I still have to pay attention to the impact." said the leader from Sijiu City.

Jiang Cheng, who was driving the car, heard the conversation between the leaders in the car and suppressed his anger. He felt like he was going to explode.

(I'm asking for some monthly tickets. It's not easy to write in the cold weather. I won't keep asking for tickets after I get enough. You all know that I just ask for tickets at the beginning of each month, and you won't even see my shadow after that.)
(End of this chapter)