The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 248 Magic ~ Writing a Resignation Letter
In families with good living conditions and no shortage of food, children are likely to become picky eaters.

But children’s picky eating is also related to the love of their families, who think about making sure the children are well fed every day.

This situation does not exist in Jiang Cheng's family. She is not a daughter. If someone does not eat seriously, she will be left hungry. And if there are several children in the family, they eat seriously.

Often when Jiang Cheng picked up food for one daughter, the other daughter would definitely ask him to pick up some for her. And then, no matter if they liked it or not, they would eat happily.

This is also one of the advantages of having many children. If it is an only child, some people will spoil the child and feed him until he is four or five years old.

And maybe the daughter inherited Zhou Lingying's appetite, every time she eats, she eats very happily, which makes Jiang Cheng like it. If it were another family, the kind that favors boys over girls. This daughter of a money-loser can still eat so much, that would be unacceptable.

After dinner, Jiang Juan would consciously clean up the dishes. This was her job.

Now Zhou Lingying washes and cuts vegetables in the morning and prepares meals, while Jiang Juan washes the dishes for lunch. Jiang Juan finishes school at 11:30 in the morning and returns home around 11:50.

The class starts at 1:30 in the afternoon, which is enough time for Jiang Juan to wash the dishes. In the afternoon, school ends at 4:30, and after school, she has to help prepare meals or take care of the children.

Zhou Lingying usually washes the clothes, but on weekends, Jiang Juan is responsible for it.

For a 13-year-old girl, this amount of work is nothing. If Jiang Cheng hadn't brought Jiang Juan to the city, she would have done more work in the countryside at this age.

Just doing some housework like this and helping her aunt take care of the children when she has time, Jiang Juan's life is too good. She even doesn't want to take summer and winter vacations because she has to go back to her hometown during the holidays.

This time, back in Kaiyang Village, Jinhe Commune, their hometown, they had enough food thanks to Jiang Cheng's support, but it was still mainly coarse grains.

When she went back to her hometown during the holidays, Jiang Juan had to do a lot of housework every day. Her grandparents were patriarchal and always told her that Jiang Juan lived a good life in the city with her uncle, so she should give in to her two younger brothers when she came back.

Jiang Juan doesn't like school holidays anyway, but her mother and brother are all back home in the countryside, so as an older sister she should go back to help with the housework.

Jiang Juan cleaned up the dishes and washed them before going to school, but Jiang Cheng couldn't relax at home.

The daughters like to cling to their father. Unless Jiang Cheng is out for something, the three daughters will follow him wherever he goes. Of course, the third daughter is led by the eldest daughter to follow Jiang Cheng.

Seeing that Jiang Cheng had nothing to do, Zhou Lingying could also take some time off, so she left her daughter to Jiang Cheng and went to visit and chat.

Jiang Cheng saw that Zhou Lingying was no longer in the room. Looking at his beautiful daughters, he felt something in his heart.

"How about you three close your eyes and Daddy will perform a magic trick for you?" Jiang Cheng said with a smile.

"Dad, what is magic?" Jiang Zhaodi asked.

"The magic trick is that dad blows a breath and makes fun and delicious things appear. Just close your eyes and count to three, and I will perform it for you." Jiang Cheng said.

"Okay, Dad will do magic."

Jiang Zhaodi and Jiang Pandi closed their eyes immediately after hearing such magical and interesting things.

"Hey, Nian Di, you have to close your eyes. Close your eyes, just like your sisters."

The eldest and second child closed their eyes, but the two-year-old Jiang Nian Di didn't understand so much. But it didn't matter, Jiang Zhao Di pulled her to her side and covered her eyes with a number.

"Three, two, one, change. You can open your eyes now." Jiang Cheng said with a smile.

"Wow, Dad is so amazing, he can make a cake." Jiang Zhaodi said in surprise.

"That's amazing." Jiang Pandi also had an admiring expression on her face. "Dad~." Seeing that it was food, Jiang Niandi also shouted.

Jiang Cheng took out a few pieces of cream cakes he bought in Hong Kong from the space. They were the kind with cake on both sides and a layer of cream in the middle, and they were triangular in shape.

Each of the three daughters got a cake, and some was left for Zhou Lingying and Jiang Juan. With some food, Jiang Cheng could calm down for a while, and then go out for a walk, and the day would be over.

Jiang Cheng had never thought that his portable space would be used to perform magic tricks for his daughter. This would probably happen again and again after the first time.

While letting his daughter eat cake and go play, Jiang Cheng was writing his resignation report at his desk. Today, he just slammed the table and left, but he still had to go through the necessary procedures.

It was only the beginning of the month, and Jiang Cheng hadn't received his salary for last month yet. Besides, applying for resignation was better than being fired by the company, and applying for resignation also saved trouble for the company leaders.

If Jiang Cheng hadn't taken the initiative to slam the table and leave, his family's childbirth would not necessarily have caused him to lose his job. You have to know that jobs are still stable these days. In this era, there are also many people who are interviewed for having children, but most of them are fined.

When Jiang Niandi was born, Jiang Cheng was fined 20% of his basic salary for three and a half years. His basic salary was 68 yuan a month, and he was fined 500 yuan at once.

A few months ago, Zhou Lingying gave birth to Jiang Sidi, and the fine was already horrible, and most people could not afford it. The fine was calculated at 30% of the basic salary for seven years, which was more than 1,400 yuan.

Because the fines are so severe, many people avoid having children. And it is also in recent years that many people have given birth to daughters, not because they cannot afford to raise them or do not want to raise them, but in order to have sons and avoid excessive fines, they have to abandon them.

This fine is also called social maintenance fee, which means that you have given birth to more children, which has added pressure to society and occupied social resources.

Fines were just one of the measures. Because of Jiang Sidi's birth, if Jiang Cheng continued to work, his salary would be reduced by one level to 58 yuan.

And if she really wants to continue having children, Jiang Cheng may not be fired because of the issue of stable job. The fines and other additional penalties will be very scary.

In addition to the fine according to the salary ratio, the social maintenance fee is also doubled. With Jiang Cheng's salary, he will be fined at least 3,000 yuan. And his salary will be reduced by one level in the future.

The demotion and fine are so severe that it doesn’t matter to others whether they go to work or not.

In fact, the fine Jiang Cheng paid now was not that much. This fine was for both husband and wife. That is, Zhou Lingying did not have a job, but she did. The couple paid together according to this ratio.

If Jiang Cheng resigned, he would be out of work. Not only would the fine not be very high, there would even be room for bargaining, because no job means no income and no money.

Some people are like dead pigs that are not afraid of boiling water and really have no money. It's of no use if you fine them thousands of dollars but they can't pay. Can it really make them abandon their extra children?

This is unemployable. For the Family Planning Office, this is a special group. The punishment for special groups will be handled with "discretion".

If Jiang Cheng did not write a resignation letter, he felt that his superiors would think he was angry and would send someone to persuade him. But Jiang Cheng resisted the second fine and originally planned to resign a year later, but the superiors actually took the initiative to talk to him and threatened him.

It is now 1979, and the college entrance examination has been resumed for more than a year. The policy of reform and opening up was also proposed at the end of the previous year, but it is still a pilot reform and opening up.

The country was still in the coupon era, and Changcheng had not yet implemented the household contracting system.

The province that has implemented the household contract responsibility system is Anhui, because there was a serious drought in Anhui last year, and the government has "lent" some land to farmers to grow crops and vegetables without requisitioning the land.

Because the results were good, they directly implemented the household contract responsibility system this year. According to historical circumstances, it will take at least until next year for Changcheng to implement the household contract responsibility system.

Jiang Cheng actually wanted to drive for another year, and then when the household contract responsibility system was implemented, he would use his connections to directly organize people to engage in planting.

But now I can only take a year off and travel around. Fortunately, due to the resumption of the college entrance examination and the opening up to the outside world, I no longer need a letter of introduction to take the train.

(End of this chapter)