The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 253 Preparing to Go to Nanjing

Special economic zones are to be established in the country, but at the beginning we will have to cross the river by feeling the stones.

In the early days of the special economic zone, only overseas businessmen were allowed to invest in building factories and recruit workers. It did not say that people from China could also build factories there. People from China started out by setting up stalls in Shenzhen.

After the Chinese New Year this year, Bao'an County will be changed into a city, called SZ City.

Jiang Cheng knew this clearly not because he would remember such history, but because he would have acquaintances in Shenzhen, and acquaintances with backgrounds.

Zhang Jincai was the captain of the BF unit six years ago, and his actual rank was battalion-level. He was promoted half a level in the past six years. In the army, it is difficult to reach a high position unless you have made great contributions or have someone to help you.

Up to now, Zhang Jincai is only at the deputy regimental level, but judging from his age, there will be no problem for him to reach the regimental level in the future.

Zhang Jincai had known Jiang Cheng for a long time and had long seen that Jiang Cheng was not a clean person. He did not believe that a driver had no benefits and could make more than ten trips to his place in a year.

Zhang Jincai guessed that there must be some organization behind Jiang Cheng that allowed him, a driver, to travel around in many places. However, as long as it was not something that harmed the interests of the country, Zhang Jincai would turn a blind eye.

That is, in the second half of last year, when China proposed opening up, Jiang Cheng went to persuade Zhang Jincai and showed him a pen, a fountain pen given to him by a big shot.

Zhang Jincai has his own principles and bottom line, but he is not rigid. As long as his bottom line is not violated, if he goes to the local level, he can take care of Jiang Cheng in any department according to his level.

Zhang Jincai was persuaded by Jiang Cheng to transfer to civilian work. And he was promoted not long after he transferred to civilian work. When he transferred to civilian work, he was still a "public security" director of Bao'an County. Now that Bao'an County has been upgraded to a city, his qualifications are barely enough, and he will soon become the public security director of the urban area.

When Bao'an County becomes SZ City, Zhang Jincai will become the director of the urban area. Jiang Cheng will then give him a helping hand to help him gain a firm foothold.

Jiang Cheng left where Chen Ping was living now. He was a grateful person. He had started a business in Hong Kong and worked as a salesperson. He was actually considered a talent in China.

But in Shenzhen, it takes a year before domestic people can start a business. This year, they will only attract investment from overseas. In Changcheng, it will take at least two years before you can start a business. Chen Ping has so little money that he doesn't know how much he will have left in two years.

If you build a road with good intentions now, you will definitely be targeted later and asked to help repair schools, build bridges and roads.

After leaving, Jiang Cheng looked at his watch and realized that there was no need to go back to his hometown. He just waited on the road for his wife and children to take the bus back to the county town and then back to the city.

At the bus stop, Jiang Cheng waited for more than ten minutes before Zhou Lingying and the others arrived. Jiang Juan came with Jiang Niandi in her arms. A two-year-old child could not walk fast and would get tired after walking a short distance.

Jiang Cheng took Jiang Niandi from Jiang Juan, and Jiang Zhaodi and Jiang Pandi ran to him, pulling his clothes from the left and right.

They waited for more than ten minutes at the station before they got on the bus. After Jiang Cheng and his friends got on the bus, they called Jiang Juan to go back home, telling her to take care of herself when they were not around after the New Year in the city.

When they got on the bus, buses were rarely full these days, so even if the child didn't buy a ticket, he would still sit there if there was a seat. Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying each held one child, and the eldest and second child also had a seat each.

"Buy a ticket. Six cents."

As soon as Jiang Cheng and his friends sat down, the ticket seller came forward to collect the money.

When I heard the price, I knew that the ticket seller didn't even charge a child for the ticket. Jiang Zhaodi should have asked for a half-price ticket, but Jiang Cheng raised her to be as pretty as a porcelain doll.

Jiang Zhaodi was sitting in her seat. She looked small because of her fair complexion. No one even asked her to measure herself to see if she was 1.1 meters tall.

When Zhou Lingying heard the ticket price was six cents, she immediately reached into her bag to feel for money, but was surprised to find that she couldn't feel a single cent.

Seeing this, Jiang Cheng immediately took out money from his pocket and found a fifty-cent note to give to the ticket seller as change. After finding the change, Jiang Cheng threw all the change to Zhou Lingying.

"Jiang Cheng, this is not right. There should be a lot of change in my bag. Not to mention what I put there before, I also put change in this bag when we were riding in the bus today." Zhou Lingying took the change handed over by Jiang Cheng and said curiously.

Jiang Cheng also frowned. He had seen Zhou Lingying have some change after buying a ticket this morning. And they were not going anywhere. Jiang Juan had lived with them for two years and had never seen her take money.

"Where did you put your bag today?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"We went to my parents' house today, and the package was placed in the room you used to live in. I was chatting with my mother and sister-in-law in the kitchen with the children." Zhou Lingying replied.

"Forget it. I'll just tell my sister-in-law about it next time I see her." Jiang Cheng responded. It was just some change, so Zhou Lingying shouldn't worry about it.

After Jiang Cheng said this, Zhou Lingying also understood.

Some things don't actually require evidence. The scope can be narrowed down by the process of elimination. The key is which of the two nephews did it.

For things like this, the younger you are, the better, as being young means you are immature.

Jiang Zhaodi took the money from home, but she didn't understand the difference between taking and stealing. She just took it as if she saw something delicious from home.

Later, Zhou Lingying gave Jiang Zhaodi a verbal education, and she never took things without asking adults again.

But no matter whether it is the older or the younger one, the younger one is also nine years old. He will have subjective consciousness, and this is not a matter of a few words. I need my sister-in-law Li Xianglan to teach him well.

But no matter what, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying would not care too much about the loss of a little change. As long as Jiang Juan didn't take it, it would be fine, because as an uncle and aunt, they were so good to her, and taking money from her would be a bit offensive and hurtful.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying both believed that it couldn't be Jiang Juan. After all, Jiang Cheng asked Zhou Lingying to give her 20 yuan when she went out this morning.

At home, Jiang Cheng always asked her if she had pocket money. After all, she was a 13-year-old girl, she had her own privacy, and she might not be able to ask for money when she needed it.

So Jiang Cheng would often ask about it, and she would buy some small things with the money she gave to Jiang Juan. But one dollar would last a long time, and if she really wanted to spend money recklessly, she would usually ask Jiang Cheng for more than the small change in Zhou Lingying's bag.

As for the fact that it was taken by the nephew, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were not bothered. They could not control whether the person was good or bad, nor did they want to control it. After taking a bus to the county town and then transferring to another bus back to Changcheng, Zhou Lingying was packing her things to go back to Nanjing.

Jiang Cheng had bought her many things in Hong Kong over the years, including fashionable clothes, hats, boots, some jewelry, etc. Not to mention food and daily necessities.

Zhou Lingying rarely wore those clothes. She only wore them at home to show Jiang Cheng when he brought them back. But if she wore them outside, she would feel out of place. In addition, she felt that she was already a mother, and if she wore them in such a foreign style, people would laugh at her.

I will take the train back to Nanjing tomorrow afternoon. The sleeper ticket that Zhu Lan asked someone to buy is for tomorrow afternoon. Currently, there are still no trains running every day in some cities.

Zhou Lingying felt that she couldn't dress too simply anymore. She had to let her family see how well Jiang Cheng had treated her over the years, so she should wear what she should wear when she returned to Nanjing.

In the afternoon, Zhou Lingying prepared a simple dinner. With so many children, she couldn't rest for even a moment. Jiang Sidi was three months old and needed to be fed every few hours. Sometimes she would poop and pee on herself, and in such cold weather, she had to at least wash it with warm water.

Although the third child can walk and talk, she is still too young. It is okay when adults are around, she can talk when she poops and pees, but she still needs someone to hold her poop and pee.

This is mainly because of the two-year-old child. She knows that she cannot poop at home. But she does not know how to find a place to poop, or does not have time to find a place. In winter, she wears open-crotch pants, and it is easy for her to poop when adults are not around.

Zhou Lingying had been busy with one thing after another in the past few years, and had not had much time to rest. But she still enjoyed it, and her determination to have another child was not shaken at all because of the difficulty of raising a child.

In later generations, Jiang Cheng often heard some women quarreling about having children, and they often said, "You married me just to be a tool for reproduction."

Jiang Cheng used to think, why get married if you don't have children. You can always be in a relationship and live together during the relationship. Many men don't think about getting married.

But now Jiang Cheng saw Zhou Lingying's situation in the past few years, it seemed that she was just living for the child. Six years had passed in the blink of an eye, and she still wanted to have another child. This made Jiang Cheng want to take the initiative to stand on the woman's side and say that he didn't marry her to make her a reproductive tool.

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Around 11pm, the third child Jiang Nian Di had already fallen asleep, and Jiang Cheng fell asleep with one hand holding her. Jiang Nian Di slept in the innermost part, and he slept outside because he was afraid that she would fall under the bed if she didn't sleep well.

Zhou Lingying sleeps on the outermost side, so it is convenient for her to get up to feed the baby. She will get up at this time to see if the fourth child in the wooden bed has defecated or urinated on him. If not, she will feed him at this time and he can sleep soundly until dawn.

While feeding, Jiang Cheng woke up in a half-daze, and became unserious in his daze.

Although she has given birth to four children, Zhou Lingying is only 25 years old now. All of her births were natural, so her body recovered quickly.

When Jiang Cheng first met Zhou Lingying, she was too thin. Now her figure has become plump and feminine.

"Jiang Cheng, I'm breastfeeding." Zhou Lingying said.

"Can I stay still in there?" Jiang Cheng turned sideways, his right hand already moving incoherently.

"You've said this so many times. If you have the guts, don't hide in the next two months." Zhou Lingying said with a smile.

The two are now an old married couple, and matters between men and women are taken lightly.

In fact, this woman can do whatever she wants one and a half months after giving birth, but if Zhou Lingying wants to wait until her fourth child is six months old before weaning him, she must not get pregnant, because if she gets pregnant, she will have no milk.

Now they would have that life, but they would also pay attention to the issue of pregnancy. In two months, Zhou Lingying would ask him to pay public grain every day.

Zhou Lingying forced Jiang Cheng to pay his dues every day, which was mainly related to Jiang Cheng's job. If he went out twice a month, he would have very few days at home. If her period happened to come when Jiang Cheng was there, she would have to postpone it in order to get pregnant.

So this led to Zhou Lingying giving herself a hint that she should seize the time when her man was around. Then, for a period of time, Zhou Lingying was always particularly proactive.

"Yingying, hurry up." Jiang Cheng said as he grabbed another empty bowl from his daughter.

"Really?" Zhou Lingying complained.

Even though she complained, Zhou Lingying still lay down. Then she lay on her side, slightly bent her waist, and let Jiang Cheng toss her butt.

The next day, Zhou Lingying got up early in the morning. In addition to feeding her baby and changing her pee and poop, she was really excited today because she was going to take the train back to her parents' home in Nanjing. Even though the train was scheduled for 5pm, Zhou Lingying was excited.

After all, I have been away from home and my family for more than seven years. Although we have kept in touch through letters and photos, and even have a public phone to call, I can't meet them in person, and I always miss them indescribably.

In the first few years when Jiang Cheng started working, there was actually no public telephone. He could only use the telephone in the workplace, but it was not generally available for personal use unless someone in the workplace had a special situation.

Later, a public telephone was installed in the street office for people who needed to make calls. In this era, phone calls were not charged entirely by the minute. Calls within the city were charged by the number of times.

A call within three minutes is charged five cents. Long-distance calls are charged by the minute, and one minute is charged twenty cents. After Zhou Lingying got a phone at the street office, she called home almost every month.

In the morning, Zhou Lingying first made breakfast and fed the chickens. Then she went to make a phone call to tell her parents about her train ride home today.

You can check the train schedule there and pick them up at the train station at a similar time. However, it is normal for trains to be delayed these days, so you have to be patient and wait if you go to pick someone up.

After the call, she packed her things. When she was about to go to the train station in the afternoon, Zhou Lingying changed into "fashionable" clothes.

When Zhou Lingying went out with lots of bags, the neighbors were amazed when they saw her.

In the past, Zhou Lingying dressed casually, and everyone in the courtyard thought she looked good. Of course, there were also people who gossiped about her, saying that she had a good husband who didn't have to do any work and stayed at home to take care of her every day, unlike them who had to be busy both at home and outside, so how could they compare with Zhou Lingying.

But now Zhou Lingying is not wearing a cotton jacket, but a coat, with a sweater underneath. She is not wearing ordinary shoes, but boots, leather boots. With a hat, she looks as fashionable as the daughter of a capitalist in the 1960s.

(End of this chapter)