The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 236 Making Dumplings on New Year's Eve

In Jiang Cheng's eyes, Zhou Lingying is actually very childish sometimes.

But the girl he married was originally a commoner. Even though she was born in the city, she was not a rich lady.

Those goddesses who can be admired from afar but not touched, if Jiang Cheng himself is also that kind of exquisite and perfect person, they may be considered a perfect match.

But Jiang Cheng is a loser in the later life, and he can't change many bad habits, nor does he want to change them. He looks for a woman who is too perfect, but he doesn't want to be rejected by the other party.

Therefore, in Jiang Cheng's opinion, it is normal for Zhou Lingying to like gossip and show off.

In fact, it is funny to say that Jiang Cheng, who drives Didi in later life, requires a woman who is not so diligent, not too clean, has a low education and no ideas.

Because Jiang Cheng was afraid that the woman she found would be too diligent and dislike him for being lazy at home; too clean and dislike him for being unhygienic; and good-looking and dislike him for being unmotivated.

All Jiang Cheng asked was that even if the other party's conditions were not very good, they should not look down on him. Of course, even if he had very low requirements for women, he would still be a bitch. He would not accept the kind of woman he couldn't bring himself to do.

Jiang Cheng would think a pretty woman was cute even if she flaunted herself like an ordinary person. But if she was ugly and used things at home to destroy them, it was just the result of ugly people doing evil.

Besides, people will grow up. Zhou Lingying will grow up in the future, and Jiang Cheng is actually growing up now as well.

The next day, Jiang Cheng got up early again. This was the disadvantage of being a driver for the leader. He had to get up early and reach the leader in advance.

Ouyang Chengfeng's impression of Jiang Cheng now cannot be said to be bad. Jiang Cheng's behavior is indeed not suitable for someone to drive a car for. But in addition to driving, Ouyang Chengfeng also saw another side of Jiang Cheng.

He is a person with insight, thoughts and abilities, but he is not easy to control. Such a person will either be lost among the crowd or will definitely achieve great success in the future.

Therefore, Jiang Cheng still has a good impression in Ouyang Chengfeng's heart. He does not necessarily deny the other party's talent and ability just because he finds that the other party's personality is not suitable for driving a car for him.

Jiang Cheng didn't know what the president thought of him. Even if there was no D guy, he wanted to build a solid foundation in Hong Kong and would not choose to "trap" himself.

Just like this, during the period close to the Chinese New Year, Jiang Cheng drove for the president and became calm again. He just drove without listening or asking questions.

The only person who felt regretful was the president's daughter, who still wanted Jiang Cheng to teach her to speak Mandarin.

Ouyang Chengfeng privately said that the previous driver Chen would be transferred after his injury recovered, and his daughter thought that Jiang Cheng would become the driver of a small car so that she could ask him for Mandarin lessons occasionally when she had time.

Ouyang Chengfeng also felt it was a pity, Jiang Cheng's Mandarin was indeed good. Moreover, he was a married man, so he didn't have to worry about others gossiping when teaching his daughter to speak Mandarin.

People of this era have simple ideas about men and women. If a married man still has feelings for other women, it is a very morally corrupt thing.

Jiang Cheng didn't know that he had avoided temptation again. Otherwise, with his poisoned brain, he could resist temptation even if he looked serious on the surface. But he would definitely think of "tutoring#%&indoor".

In the blink of an eye, it is February 1st, which is the 29th day of the lunar calendar, and tomorrow is New Year's Eve.

Jiang Cheng's temporary job as the president's driver was also completed, and the president kept his promise to let him take two days off during the Chinese New Year. Jiang Cheng could rest at home on New Year's Eve and the first day of the Chinese New Year, but he had to go to work on the second day.

It's the Chinese New Year, and every household has posted Spring Festival couplets and prepared firecrackers. On the night of the 30th, which is the turn of the old year, firecrackers will be set off.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying planned to spend New Year's Eve in the city, and then take a bus back to Jinhe Commune on the morning of the first day of the new year to pay New Year's greetings to their parents and have a meal before returning.

Zhou Lingying had already taken ten yuan and exchanged it for a lot of brand new small-denomination coins at the bank.

The largest note is 50 cents, and the others are 5 cents and 10 cents. These coins are used to give children New Year's money.

Jiang Cheng's nephews and nieces, as well as his sister's children, all had to be given New Year's money. One dollar was a bit much these days, so he planned to give each child fifty cents.

Even this 50 cents was considered a lot in the rural commune. Besides, whether it was nephews or nieces, they were still young, so giving them lucky money was just a formality. After Jiang Cheng and his friends left, the money was still put into the pockets of the children's parents.

In this era, in fact, the children of neighbors come to pay New Year's greetings, and they also need to give New Year's money. However, they are only children of close relatives. If the relationship is not close, asking your own children to pay New Year's greetings to neighbors is shameless. In addition to the New Year's money, Jiang Cheng also prepared some cakes and meat to take home.

In this era, visiting relatives during the Spring Festival is a big burden for many people. It’s OK for those who have elderly people at home, but for those who don’t, it’s basically just going out and not coming back.

In later generations, in many places, when the younger generation goes to pay New Year's greetings, they will directly give a red envelope, and gifts are no longer mentioned. In this era, people always bring something to the door.

The wealthy and well-off bring some cakes and hang a piece of meat on a straw rope. The cakes are usually peach cakes and snow cakes, also called step-by-step cakes or cloud cakes. Different places have different names, but there are many names for snow cakes.

In the countryside, if you can't get cakes, you usually get a piece of meat and a bag of noodles. If you can't even get meat, at least you can get some eggs or a bag of sugar.

Some families with many relatives and elders have a lot of gifts, but those with elders of their own have gifts from others and then their children pass them on.

Anyway, in the end, if there are elderly people in the family, there will be some things left. But not much, if the parents do not give the gifts they received to their children, they will give them back to other elders.

Every household would have a lot of things to buy for the New Year, but these things are not affordable for children of this generation.

That is to say, Jiang Cheng's parents had a conflict with his uncle and aunt and stopped communicating with them. Even though Jiang Changhe is now in contact with his parents, he still has no contact with his uncle Jiang Dahai and aunt Jiang Xiaoxi.

Because when they had a conflict, it was Jiang Dahai who asked Jiang Changhe to give money to honor his parents. Jiang Xiaoxi stood on the side of the eldest brother Jiang Dahai, and also agreed to let the second brother Jiang Changhe give money to honor his parents.

This is to provide for his parents' retirement. As a filial person, Jiang Changhe is willing to contribute part of the retirement expenses to them even if he is morally blackmailed.

Besides, Jiang Changhe's support for his parents in their old age cannot be considered moral kidnapping. Because even if his parents are partial, Jiang Changhe went to work in the city when he was young, and only sent some money to his parents every month for two or three years. It is impossible for them to raise him and be filial to him for two or three years.

Jiang Dahai was the one who instigated that incident back then, so Jiang Changhe had no choice but to fulfill his filial duty. But if brothers don't have any contact with each other, then so be it. What else can he do?

So Jiang Cheng doesn't need to give many gifts, he just needs to go to his uncle's house to wish him a happy new year.

On New Year's Eve, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were both at home, warming themselves by the fire. They had a simple meal of noodles at noon and were preparing to eat dumplings at night.

"Jiang Cheng, if you don't want to make dumplings, I can do it by myself."

"Lingying, what do the dumpling wrappers look like to you?"

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Zhou Lingying and Jiang Cheng were making dumplings in their room, directly on the dining table. The table was clean, so there was no need to put anything on it.

But Zhou Lingying saw that Jiang Cheng didn't make many dumplings, so he just pinched the dumpling skin randomly, so she asked him to stop making dumplings. It would only take Zhou Lingying a few times to make dumplings for two people.

"It's just dumpling skins, but you've squeezed them into pieces that are unrecognizable." Zhou Lingying replied. She couldn't tell what the dumpling skins squeezed by Jiang Cheng looked like.

Jiang Cheng put down the dumpling wrapper in his hand, walked behind Zhou Lingying, hugged her and whispered in her ear: "Wife, you forgot to put the stuffing in this dumpling wrapper."

Zhou Lingying was about to reply that she had stuffed all the dumplings she made. How could they be plump without stuffing? But just as she was about to refute, she felt something behind her.

My man looks righteous, but in fact he is a completely shameless person.

"Don't do anything rash when your belly is so big. I'll make dumplings for you after our son is born."

Marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog. Zhou Lingying married such a husband. Even with such a few shortcomings, she could not lose a piece of meat if she catered to him.

So he just went along with what Jiang Cheng said and didn't call him shameless like he did before.

Now Zhou Lingying's belly has grown a little bit, for the safety of her son in her belly, Jiang Cheng has stopped tossing the pregnant woman. Jiang Cheng has been greedy recently, otherwise he would not think about work and driving while making dumplings.

(End of this chapter)