The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 26 Fishing and Selling Fish
The rain has not stopped today, and the goods in the back compartment are all covered with tarpaulins. This tarpaulin was stored in the car from the beginning and is matched with the car.

You have to pay attention to the road surface when driving on rainy days, but you don’t have to drive long distances. If you are driving long distances in the rain and you are not familiar with the road, you really have to be careful when driving.

After driving out of Changcheng for more than an hour, which is about 50 to 60 kilometers away, the river that Jiang Cheng saw yesterday appeared in front of him. He turned off the engine and fished several times in different places along the river in the rain. The place was remote and there was no one nearby on this rainy day. After fishing, Jiang Cheng directly released all the fish on the shore.

Grass carp, crucian carp, carp, whitebait, etc. The others are shrimps and river clams, which are similar to what Jiang Cheng caught in the Qingshui River in his hometown, but the river here is bigger, the fish are bigger, and there are more of them.

All the large and useful fish, shrimps and clams were put into the space. Jiang Cheng did not take a close look at the large number of small and movable things, and left them to fend for themselves.

Returning to the car, Jiang Cheng took out another sack, this time filled half of the sack with fish and placed it in the trunk before restarting the car.

Jiang Cheng had to earn money to treat his father's illness and buy a watch. It was not good to ask Zhu Lan to handle things too frequently, so he could only use his position to sell fish.

Without a watch, I didn't know the approximate time after arriving in Macheng, but it felt quite late. Jiang Cheng was very hungry at this time, so he went straight to a restaurant and parked the truck in front of the restaurant.

"Master, it must be very hard for you to come to eat at this time." As Jiang Cheng entered the restaurant, the waiter came up to greet him.

"It's all work, serving the people, there's no other way. Just make me something simple, do you have noodles?" Jiang Cheng also said politely.

"Others definitely don't have it, but your driver certainly has it. Wait, I'll go to the kitchen and ask someone to make you a bowl of noodles." The waiter said with a smile.

The waiter was not joking. There really was no food for other people who came. It was not that the kitchen in the back was out of noodles. It was that at this time, no one would get anything to eat.

All the people in the hotel are state-owned employees. They have to rest on time. If you miss the time, you will not be received. There is a sign on the wall of the hotel that says "Never beat customers without reason" to remind everyone not to cause trouble.

But the waiter also serves dishes according to the customer. The big truck parked at the door is so impressive, and the status of the truck driver is not low. Even if it is during the break, what's wrong with serving a bowl of noodles to the driver?

Jiang Cheng waited for about ten minutes in the restaurant, and a large bowl of noodles was served. The waitress was idle and chatted with Jiang Cheng. It would be very prestigious to establish a relationship with a truck driver.

"Big sister, does your restaurant accept fish? I helped someone carry goods on the way here, and they gave me a lot of fish." Seeing the waitress taking the initiative to chat with him, and thinking that this was a restaurant, Jiang Cheng wanted to try to ask the hotel whether they accepted fish.

"Do you have fish? Is that true? If you do, I'll call someone over now." The waitress immediately replied after hearing Jiang Cheng's words.

There are many menus in this restaurant, but in fact, when customers come to eat, they have to ask whether certain dishes are available. If they are not available, they cannot order them. Many restaurants require fish. Some people catch big fish in some rivers and sell them to restaurants, which will accept them.

"There really are fish, several dozen kilograms, but the price can't be cheap." Jiang Cheng said seriously. "I understand, Master, don't worry."

The waitress immediately understood what Jiang Cheng meant. It was possible that someone would give the driver some gifts when he was out and about. But it was unlikely to be too much. In many cases, he could actually buy some things without a ticket.

For example, when delivering goods to a candy factory, the driver can just say "I want to buy two kilograms of candy" and they will definitely sell it to him. This kind of candy definitely does not require a receipt, and the driver can earn at least one yuan by reselling it.

Jiang Cheng said he had fish, and that someone gave it to him. This fish might have been given to him, but if he said he had half a bag of fish, no one would believe him, so he basically bought it himself.

Many things are tacitly understood. Soon the waitress brought a chef from the kitchen in the back. Jiang Cheng quickly finished the noodles and took people to see the fish.

The fish was still alive when it was taken out of the sack, and the chef was very satisfied. But the price could only be 65 cents at most, because it was bought on behalf of the restaurant, and it would be difficult to justify a higher price. There was a scale behind the restaurant kitchen, and it weighed more than 50 kilograms.

After deducting the money Jiang Cheng spent on noodles, there was still more than thirty yuan left. The waiter guessed that Jiang Cheng bought the fish for about 40 cents at most. If he resold it, he would make at least ten yuan, which made him very envious.

After eating noodles and selling fish, Jiang Cheng asked about the location of a certain equipment factory and drove off. The sack that had been used to hold fish was now half full of fish.

An equipment factory here also received a delivery call in the morning and arranged for someone to wait. It was already 2:30 when Jiang Cheng delivered the goods here, which was also the working time.

When the cadre in charge of unloading saw Jiang Cheng driving the truck, he immediately offered him a pack of cigarettes. If he were not a heavy smoker, this delivery driver would never finish smoking cigarettes without buying cigarettes.

When the people at the equipment factory were arranging the unloading, they naturally saw the sack of fish that Jiang Cheng had placed next to the goods. The fish was still jumping around in the sack, so Jiang Cheng took the opportunity to ask the person in charge of arranging the unloading if their factory wanted that half bag of fish.

Nowadays, many companies are worried about how to provide benefits to their employees. How can they refuse this opportunity to improve their meals that is right at their doorstep?

The person in charge of unloading the goods was also a clerk in the factory's logistics department. He directly arranged Jiang Cheng to the reception room and prepared a small plate of peanuts for him. Then he contacted the person in charge of purchasing in the factory. In just ten minutes, a section chief came over and negotiated the price with Jiang Cheng.

Finally, Jiang Cheng's fish was bought at a price of 50 cents per pound. Although the price was cheap, Jiang Cheng was given a ticket for Moutai liquor. Moutai was already a high-end liquor in this era, and it was impossible to buy it without a ticket.

After leaving the equipment factory, Jiang Cheng went to the transportation station in Macheng. It was already past three o'clock. In fact, if he drove an empty truck back, he could get back to Changcheng before dark. But driving an empty truck back would be a waste of transportation capacity. Jiang Cheng had to go to the transportation station here to pull some goods back to the city.

Jiang Cheng's car is now a return bus to Changcheng. He drove to the parking lot of Macheng Transport Station and went directly to the dispatch room to get the order. There were no good orders to choose from. Just like in Changcheng, internal drivers had to rely on luck to get good orders, not to mention the outside drivers.

(End of this chapter)