The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 244 The driver quit his job

January 3, 1979, light snow.

Logistics Office, Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Changcheng, Jiangxi Province.

"Jiang Cheng, did you know that the Ministry of Health has come to your workplace again? It doesn't matter whether you have a son or a daughter. Hurry up and ask your wife to go to the hospital to get her IUD removed. If you don't bring a certificate from the hospital tomorrow, you won't be able to work this shift, even if you're a driver."

"Director, a daughter who is married off is like water spilled. I have to carry on the family line. You have three sons and two daughters, so you don't have to worry."

"What era was I born in? What era is it now? Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you have a little relationship with the former president."

"Then I will be lawless. I don't want this job anymore. If you want me to have no descendants, it's impossible."

Before the director could slam the table, Jiang Cheng slammed the table first and threw his hat away. But thinking that the hat would still be his even if he quit, he picked it up again and left the logistics director's office without looking back.

Jiang Cheng walked quickly and arrived downstairs of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative in a short while.

Small snowflakes kept falling. Jiang Cheng let out a breath and instinctively thought about getting the car and going home. He quit this job.

But he suddenly remembered that the Jiefang car he was driving belonged to his company and he had been driving it for nearly six years. He usually drove it to and from get off work and got used to it, and regarded the company's car as his own.

The Jiefang car in the unit was used for many years, running tens of thousands of kilometers every year. Even though Jiang Cheng had never had an accident, it still had many minor problems due to quality issues.

As a person who traveled through time and space with a golden finger, Jiang Cheng was first assigned to work as a driver at a truck freight station. Then, after only a few months of work, he was transferred to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. If it weren't for the fact that the job of a driver allows him to travel around, he would have probably quit long ago, no matter how enviable it was.

After enduring six and a half years in this era, we finally made it to the reform and opening up.

Jiang Cheng was originally thinking about how to give up his job and live a "retirement" life. He had worked diligently for six years and was well-received by his colleagues. He refused several attempts to be promoted to the captain of the transport team.

It's really unreasonable to resign without a good reason. It just so happened that the wife Jiang Cheng married in this era gave birth to his fourth daughter a few months ago.

When people from the Ministry of Health's family planning publicity team found out, they initially went to Jiang Cheng's house to persuade him or his wife to get sterilized or have an IUD inserted, but the couple kept finding various excuses to refuse.

You can just give birth to the baby. You have relatives in the countryside anyway. You can just take the baby away secretly and then find a way to bring it back later.

But in order to make his wife believe that he did not despise his daughter, Jiang Cheng even held a banquet when his fourth child was born.

The key is Jiang Cheng's wife, Zhou Lingying. She was a sent-down youth to Jinhe Commune in 1971, with a high school education, and was considered an intellectual, but she had no ideological awareness at all.

I heard that Zhou Lingying was planning to get pregnant again, so she went to the countryside to have another baby.

In the family planning team, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were considered "stubborn elements". So they went straight to Jiang Cheng's unit and asked the unit to put pressure on Jiang Cheng to make him pay attention to this issue.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect such a good thing to happen. His company would fire him for not planning his family.

Jiang Cheng had already achieved financial freedom six years after he traveled to this era. In addition, with the reform and opening up, he could travel around the country without a certificate, so why would he still need to work?

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Changcheng, Nanluoyuan.

"Jiang Zhaodi, I told you not to eat so much candy, your teeth must have fallen out. And Jiang Pandi, it's snowing outside, don't run around, or you'll get your shoes wet, or I'll beat you." "Mom, you can't lie to me, Dad came this morning and it's normal for me to lose teeth at my age, I'm just changing my teeth, so I can eat candy."

A short-haired girl who was over one meter tall and wearing a small hat said with an expression that said, "You can't fool me."

Jiang Zhaodi weighed less than 40 kilograms, but she was at least 30 kilograms of rebelliousness. It was all because of her father Jiang Cheng, who only knew how to coax his daughter and was reluctant to beat or scold her.

Jiang Zhaodi's four-year-old sister Jiang Pandi, who was standing next to her, glanced at the door with her bright eyes and pretended to be honest and kept silent.

In fact, there was another naughty little kid standing next to Zhou Lingying. Looking at her younger sister Jiang Sidi who was breastfeeding, Jiang Nian Di also became greedy.

Jiang Zhaodi was born in May 1973, Jiang Pandi was born in January 1975, and Jiang Niandi was born in March 1977. The youngest, Jiang Sidi, was born in late October 1978 and is less than three months old now.

Because all the babies were girls, no matter in the courtyard or in Jiang Cheng's parents' hometown, people would definitely gossip about them. Zhou Lingying felt a little ashamed and felt that her belly was not doing well.

Even the Women's Federation and the Family Planning Group came to Zhou Lingying's home to persuade her, citing many examples of daughters who grew up to be filial to their parents. They even told her about the new policy that was under discussion because of her husband's social status.

What is advocated now is "late marriage, late childbearing, fewer births, better quality births". From the previous age of 25 for men and 23 for women, it has been changed to for men and for women to get married and get a marriage certificate. In some areas, there are rewards for men to get married at and women at .

Late childbearing does not mean that you have to have children at a very old age. What it means is that you should have children at an interval of at least three years, and not have children one after another.

Having fewer children currently means that two children are allowed. Having more children will be punished. The fines are light, but the serious one is that if you have a job, you may lose your job if you have more children.

As for eugenics, it means doing more examinations before giving birth. If any problems with the child are detected before birth, abortion will be performed.

The new policy has not been released yet, but it is already under discussion. It can be said that the new policy has nothing to do with Zhou Lingying, but it is related. The new policy seems to be that the government is preparing to promote the one-child policy. If you have one child, the government will take good care of it.

The one-child policy is about to be implemented, but Zhou Lingying is threatening to commit suicide and is determined not to go to the hospital to get an IUD.

"Mom, are we going to my grandparents and uncle's house for the New Year this year?" Jiang Zhaodi asked while squatting beside the brazier.

"Yes, this year you and mom will go to Nanjing to celebrate the New Year." When Zhou Lingying heard her daughter ask this, she responded with a smile.

Zhou Lingying has been a sent-down youth in the countryside for nearly eight years. As a sent-down youth, she has never had to eat rations in the city. Her children also have no rations, because the current policy is that the children's household registration follows the mother.

But now, all the hardship has paid off. Zhou Lingying's uncle in Nanjing used some connections, and now she can return to the city and regain her urban household registration.

Many educated youth were waiting for the transfer order to return to the city. It was not that they could not take the bus back if they did not have the transfer order. It was that their household registration was also transferred when they went to the countryside, so as educated youth, they had to obey the arrangements of the educated youth team.

If you just run back and don't come back, it is a serious violation of discipline, and you may not be allowed to transfer back if you originally had the opportunity. In addition, if you go back privately, your household registration will not be transferred.

Your registered permanent residence has not been transferred back, and you are still an educated youth. You can’t even get odd jobs, and when you return to the city, you don’t have any rationed food.

Therefore, the educated youth did not dare to return to the city privately before they received the transfer order. If they returned, they would not be able to earn a penny except relying on their parents.

Zhou Lingying was like this. After marrying Jiang Cheng, she lived in Changcheng for six years. Apart from helping Jiang Cheng sell some goods, she really didn't earn a penny outside.

(End of this chapter)