The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 247 Backyard Zhang Qing
It was just right that Zhang Qing came this time. Zhou Lingying planned to start by announcing to her that her husband had lost his job and would not be able to help everyone in the future.

"Zhang Qing, it would be great if my husband just took a rest. Because of the birth of Jiang Sidi, Jiang Cheng's unit wants him to get sterilized or have me get an IUD. If I disagree, I will be fired. But how can our Jiang family not have a male? So my husband has lost his job." Zhou Lingying replied.

"What, your husband lost his job? Well~~. He was a driver, it's a good job. Lingying, you have given birth to four children, and this daughter is actually the same as a son. As daughters, don't we need our parents after we get married?" Zhang Qing said in shock when she heard Zhou Lingying's words.

"If I lose this job, I can find another one, but if I don't have a son, then I really lose everything. My husband can drive a car. I'll wait until I have another child and then look for a job. There will definitely be no problem there." Zhou Lingying responded.

It was Zhou Lingying's words that made Zhang Qing feel a little cold.

The baby Zhou Lingying gave birth to is only three months old, and she needs to be weaned and fed until she is at least six months old. If she has another baby, she will have to wait for a year.

If Jiang Chengde becomes a driver again in a year, not only Zhang Qing may not get any good things from Zhou Lingying. People in the whole yard may never get to eat free pig blood and cheap sheep bones again.

There are also some local specialties that people in the yard can’t buy even if they spend money.

Zhou Lingying looked at Zhang Qing's expression, and she couldn't explain her inner feelings. Zhang Qing had been keeping an eye on her for the past few years, and Zhou Lingying knew it very well. Other people in the courtyard had also told her about it in private.

This pitiful person must have something hateful about him. It is true that Zhang Qing lost her husband, but it was not her Jiang family who did it. In the past few years, she was secretly making a profit by buying things from Zhou Lingying and reselling them.

Later on, she almost stopped pretending. Whenever Jiang Cheng came back from outside, Zhang Qing would definitely come to "visit" Zhou Lingying the next day.

Now that Jiang Cheng was out of work, Zhou Lingying could finally get rid of Zhang Qing. But seeing Zhang Qing's lost look, she felt a little sorry for her. If the family could make ends meet, who would be willing to be so shameless?

But as I said, helping you is a favor, not helping you is my duty, and no one owes Zhang Qing's family anything.

Zhang Qing chatted with Zhou Lingying for a while, but she didn't want to persuade her not to have a baby because her husband's work was more important.

If Zhou Lingying had a son, even just one son, she could have been persuaded directly.

In this era, the most people say is that daughters are as good as sons. If you really insist on persuading people not to have sons, you will be criticized if this word gets out.

As soon as Zhang Qing left, some of Zhou Lingying's female friends outside the hospital came again.

When Zhou Lingying was pregnant with Jiang Zhaodi, she often played cards with them. Now they are all mothers of several children, and if the children don't grow up, how can they continue to play cards?

However, Zhou Lingying has always been a gathering place for everyone. When it is cold, the charcoal in Zhou Lingying's house is free, and it is burned every morning until night. People have nowhere else to go, so they come to Zhou Lingying's place to warm themselves by the fire.

And Zhou Lingying's house has more than thirty-six legs. There are four stools in each of the two rooms, plus two chairs and several small benches in the house, so there is room for ten people to sit.

Zhou Lingying gave birth to all daughters. Many of her good friends who had sons wanted to have a baby boy.

This was the 1970s, and Jiang Cheng would not agree to arrange a marriage for his daughter. Otherwise, he would never let a boy get close to his daughter.

Jiang Cheng took his two daughters to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy firecrackers and a tin clockwork frog. In order to play with firecrackers, he also bought two boxes of matches. On the way back from playing, he would put firecrackers in any hole he saw to make it explode.

The three of them didn't get home until about eleven o'clock. They were running and chasing outside, so they didn't feel cold at all. But because they were wearing so many clothes and sweating, if they didn't move when they got home, they would soon feel cold. They had to stay by the brazier to feel comfortable.

After returning home, the two older daughters took the third child, Nian Di, to play with the tin frog, while the fourth child drank her fill of milk and fell asleep.

In fact, although the fourth child, Sidi, is only three months old, Jiang Cheng also likes to play with her. She has already opened her eyes at three months old and will laugh and play if teased.

The key point is that when Jiang Cheng saw her open her eyes for the first time, her eyes seemed to glance left and right, and then she showed a "satisfied" smile.

Of course, this was just a coincidence. If she hadn't drunk Meng Po soup and had come here, Jiang Cheng would have definitely stuffed her back into his wife's stomach right then and there.

Jiang Cheng lay on a chair, which was covered with a wool blanket, and it was very comfortable to lie on it in cold weather. Looking at his daughters playing, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but think of his other two daughters. Perhaps people are selfish, and the pure marriage and love that Jiang Cheng longed for could not resist lust.

Jiang Cheng still has double standards. He hopes that Zhou Lingying will abide by her duties in terms of emotions, but he himself is both a virtuous woman and a whore in Hong Kong.

In the end, it was Shen Li, Jiang Cheng's "little wife" in Hong Kong, who took the initiative. Jiang Cheng said no, but he watched Shen Li complete the process.

"Juanzi, you're back from school."

"Aunt, where are my sisters?"

"They are all in the room. Your uncle is at home."

"Aunt, do you need my help?"

"The food is almost ready. Go wash the dishes and serve the rice later."

"I know, Auntie."

Just when Jiang Cheng was still thinking about his other daughters, he heard the conversation between his niece and her wife outside the room.

Jiang Juan is in junior high school now. She finishes school at 11:30 every morning, and it takes 15 minutes to get back here. She is actually not young at the age of 13. There are many bicycles at home, but they are not given to her. We plan to let her ride a bicycle when she goes to high school.

Even in 1979, a bicycle was still very expensive. Junior high school students did not ride bicycles, just like junior high school students in later generations did not drive cars to go to class.

Not long after, a graceful young girl came into the room, carrying dishes in her hands.

It can only be said that the Jiang family's offspring is pretty good, even Jiang Cheng's daughter who lost her brother long ago.

Thirteen years old is the time when a child is growing and developing, and is also the age when he can eat. When Jiang Juan was brought home two years ago, she was still quite short, like a little girl.

In the past two years, my height has been rising. In addition, I can eat a lot of food here, and I can also eat meat and various nutritious vegetables. If I still can't grow taller, then there must be something wrong with my genes.

Jiang Juan lost her father when she was six years old. Although Jiang Cheng was her uncle, she basically treated him like her father. At school, people talked about their fathers, but she talked about her uncle, who was a driver.

"Uncle, aunt has prepared the food. I will go serve it to you and your sisters." Jiang Juan said to Jiang Cheng obediently.

"Well, Juanzi, you have to eat more, don't just grow taller without gaining weight. The New Year is coming soon, don't go back during the New Year, people in your hometown will say that you don't eat well here." Jiang Cheng said.

While talking, Jiang Cheng was still lying on the chair, not moving. The food had not been prepared yet, and as the head of the family, he would wait until the food was served before he started.

"Uncle, I eat two big bowls of rice in one meal now."

Jiang Juan said with a smile that this was no longer the same as when she first came to her uncle's house. When she first came, she was very restrained and didn't dare to eat too much, for fear that her uncle and aunt would dislike her and ask her to stop studying and send her back.

But after two years of living together day and night, Jiang Juan can now joke with Jiang Cheng casually, and sometimes even says some coquettish words like her sisters.

"It's not enough to just eat. Your aunt is very good at killing and stewing chickens. You need to eat more nutritious food when you are growing up. We'll stew the chicken in the evening and you should eat more." Jiang Cheng said.

In recent years, Jiang Cheng was always away from home and his family didn't have many meat coupons.

When Zhou Lingying wants to eat meat, she can only kill a chicken, which results in her best skill in cooking chicken in various flavors.

(End of this chapter)