The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 264: Taking my daughter to the beach

The air in Hong Kong in the early morning is very good, especially the morning air at the Hilltop Villa.

After all, Hong Kong is surrounded by the sea, so it would be difficult to pollute the air.

Jiang Cheng woke up in the morning and greedily felt Shen Li's smooth skin.

In Jiang Cheng's opinion, late marriage and late childbirth are incomprehensible.

In later generations, many women said that having children would affect their body shape, that their belly would get bigger and their body would get fatter during pregnancy. Some women even stopped breastfeeding their children, just to keep them straight or something.

But Jiang Cheng believes that this is the result of late marriage and late childbearing. For example, a girl in her twenties, if she gives birth to a child naturally, she will recover so well that you can't even tell that she has given birth to a child.

But for older people, it is not that having a baby affects their figure, but that they are too old and do not do recovery training deliberately. The belly really cannot recover so well.

Even though Zhou Lingying has given birth to four children, she is only 26 years old. That means her belly is a little loose, and it can recover. But if she gives birth to another child, she may not be able to maintain a relatively perfect figure.

But even so, the body shape will not be deformed. This is the advantage of young people having children.

Shen Li didn't react much to Jiang Cheng's caressing and rubbing, because after so many years, she knew what a normal man's physiological reaction was in the morning.

Every time Jiang Cheng came to Hong Kong, he had no time to do that kind of thing with her during the day. He would go to the factory or company to check the situation the next day, after all, he only came for two days.

But just when Shen Li thought that everything would be the same as usual, she felt that today seemed different.

"Brother Cheng, you~~." Shen Li said in surprise.

"I won't go to work this morning. I'll stay with you and our daughter and then go for a drive." Jiang Cheng said.

Shen Li was very happy to hear Jiang Cheng say this.

After a long time, Shen Li collapsed on the bed. For people in China, driving a truck is a physical job, and Jiang Cheng has abdominal muscles. Now he is in his prime, and ordinary women can't bear it at all.

The key is that whenever Jiang Cheng feels that he is not strong enough, he will drink some tiger bone medicinal wine to regulate his body.

After a while, Jiang Cheng and Shen Li got dressed and went out. If the children woke up in the morning, there would be a nanny to take care of them and they would not be disturbed by their room.

Downstairs, the nanny also prepared breakfast. There was milk, sandwiches, vegetable salad, fried eggs, etc. Jiang Cheng was not used to drinking milk, so whenever he was at the villa, someone would prepare soy milk for him.

But it is very troublesome to make steamed buns and fried dough sticks, so usually you call in advance. Someone will go to the tea restaurant early in the morning to buy them and send them to you.

There are even special drivers here, and Shen Li can drive, but she doesn't want to drive when she takes her children out because it's troublesome to park and pick up the car.

To be honest, Jiang Cheng is not as adaptable to the life of the rich as Shen Li. He likes to drive himself when he goes out, probably because he lives a low-key life and does not have many social events. If he were like those rich people who have social events all day long, Jiang Cheng might also choose to find a driver to drive him.

Jiang Cheng is in the retail industry, so he doesn't need to negotiate business. Except for a few years ago when he opened the Jiangdonglai shopping mall and supermarket, he applied for approval to rent land and socialized for a while.

He doesn't really need to negotiate business for the meatballs he sells. After word of mouth spread, many people came to buy from him. He also doesn't franchise his meatball shops, and all of them are directly operated.

Jiangdonglai is a company with a very simple department structure. The sales department only has a few ordinary employees, and they don't need to run sales at all. They just wait for people to come to negotiate business, and the price is uniform. They won't overcharge anyone, nor will they sell at a low price just because they buy a lot.

There are not many technical personnel. Apart from a few masters who study varieties and tastes, there are basically no other people, and there is no need for scientific research and development.

In addition, Jiang Cheng does not require everyone to use some food additives. I have to say that after adding food additives, the taste is really good.

Flour can be used to make it feel like meat, some dead fish and rotten shrimp can change the taste, and the color and aroma can be made very good.

But Jiang Cheng still adheres to a principle that the ingredients must be real. It doesn't mean that dead fish and shrimps should not be used. When a basket of live fish is brought to the processing plant, many will die on the spot. It just means that the fish should not be dead for too long, otherwise the meat will become stale.

For example, for the fish and shrimp caught on the fishing boats, Jiang Cheng did not ask the fishery company to ensure that they are alive, but they must ensure that they are fresh. Now they are caught and sorted directly before being sent over.

Just for this reason, Jiang Cheng's purchasing volume is obviously large, but the price is still more expensive than some other buyers.

Therefore, the truly powerful department of Jiangdonglai is the purchasing department. Because of the strict requirements on ingredients, at least one purchasing agent is specially assigned to monitor each category.

Beef, chicken, pork, flour, eggs, cooking oil, and various seasonings are handled by dozens of buyers, who are more like quality inspectors than buyers.

When Jiangdonglai's own employees exclusively buy food produced in its own factory, it will be considered a success.

How many food companies don't eat what they produce because they know how unhygienic it is.

However, the food companies in Hong Kong are all pretty good. The main reason is that Hong Kong is a small place and it doesn’t produce much food or raise animals.

Most of these are imported, and there is a list of imported items. It is too easy for people to find out if you import junk items. And the food prices in Hong Kong have kept up with the price increase of commodities.

In China, cabbage cost one or two cents, corn cost a few cents, and grain cost more than one yuan. A pound of corn was less valuable than a bottle of mineral water.

In theory, if prices are cheap, there should be no fraud. But just because they are cheap, the finished products are sold too expensively and no one buys them. If something worth a few cents is processed into food and sold to you for dozens of dollars, will you buy it?

Aren't all ham sausages made of starch? A ham is sold from the factory to the regional sales, then to the distribution, and finally to the retail, and finally to the customer for only one dollar. Can you expect that there is meat in it for you to eat? If there is meat, would you dare to eat it at such a cheap price?

It is different in Hong Kong. Although everyone has a high income, many office workers complain that they cannot afford food. Because that is not a joke, food really accounts for a high proportion of their income.

Nowadays, even if you earn around 3,000 yuan, if you don't buy food and cook for yourself, a serving of barbecued pork rice costs more than 10 yuan. Even if you have two meals of barbecued pork rice and a breakfast a day, the most basic things will take up 30% of your salary. But it is because you sell food that you can raise the price. When prices rise, food prices also rise. If there is enough profit, there is really no need to cheat.

Similarly, when everyone can make money, no one wants to eat unhealthy food, so fraud will be very serious if it is discovered in Hong Kong.

This is also the reason why Jiang Cheng's "Jiangdonglai" supermarket is difficult to become a well-known brand, because the things sold in supermarkets in Hong Kong are all real ingredients, even after decades.

Jiang Cheng will do the same when he opens supermarkets in China. At most, he will seize the opportunity to enter the market and open large supermarkets. But at least in the next 20 to 30 years, he will not become a brand supermarket that everyone pursues just because he pays attention to the real ingredients in everything.

In the villa, Jiang Cheng, Shen Li and their two daughters had breakfast and went to the garage to get an ordinary commercial vehicle. However, they spent tens of thousands of yuan to modify the car glass to make it bulletproof.

It's not that Jiang Cheng is afraid of death, but after he has money, even if there is a one in ten thousand chance of something happening, it is worth spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy peace of mind. Only when people are poor, nothing matters.

Jiang Cheng took his "little wife" and two daughters to the beach for a ride. He also brought a few plastic buckets for his daughters to play with.

On ordinary coasts, even if they could go fishing, they would have missed the time to go fishing. Moreover, Jiang Cheng took them to a beach where there were not many creatures.

But it doesn't matter, Jiang Cheng can perform magic with his daughter in China. Don't say there is nothing on the coast here. As long as Jiang Cheng is willing, there will be seafood, chickens, ducks, drinks and so on on the coast.

If Jiang Cheng were to participate in a wilderness survival event in the future, he would be able to find bottled mineral water, buckets of instant noodles, and tents. He wouldn't even need to start a fire, he could just find gas tanks and gas stoves.

At the beach, Jiang Cheng and his daughter buried Shen Li in the sand, placed some fruit drinks next to her, enough for her to enjoy, and then took the two barefoot little ones to play on the beach.

Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue, who had a small belly, were walking near the beach with a small bucket in their hands, while Jiang Cheng was helping them find seafood.

The appearance of a crab would make both daughters very excited, but they dared not catch it. Only Jiang Cheng, the great hero dad, could step in and win the admiration of his daughters.

The daughters raised in different environments were also different. For example, Jiang Zhaozhao and Jiang Panpan, when they were playing in the countryside, dared to catch frogs in the vegetable fields. In summer, when the educated youth sent eels to Zhou Lingying for processing, they also dared to catch them.

When Zhou Lingying killed chickens, they would also pluck the feathers out of curiosity.

Anyway, the two daughters in China are wild, and the third daughter Jiang Nian Nian feels that she will be the same. Because the third daughter is very interested in tin frogs, she feels that if a real frog is released next time, she will dare to catch it with her hands.

Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue in Xiangjiang were obviously timid, so Jiang Cheng could only give them some conches and shells to pick up. When they saw shrimps and crabs, they would just hide away excitedly and call for daddy.

After playing at the beach for nearly an hour, the father and daughter returned to Shen Li with a small bucket. When Shen Li saw what her husband and daughter had caught, she was stunned.

This is the beach in the wealthy area, and few people come here. Usually, some people come here to organize activities, such as playing volleyball or having barbecue.

Shen Li had also been here, but apart from occasionally seeing very small crabs, large conches, lobsters, small octopuses, abalone, shells, etc. on the beach, she had never seen anything like that.

If everything in the bucket wasn't alive, Shen Li wouldn't have believed her eyes.

"Honey, did you and your daughter catch this at the beach?" Shen Li asked.

In front of her daughter, Shen Li would call Jiang Cheng "husband". After all, if she called Jiang Cheng "Brother Cheng" in front of her daughter, they would easily know that she was a concubine.

"Mommy, we caught it together with Daddy." Without waiting for Jiang Cheng to answer, Jiang Fei said to take credit.

Jiang Cheng nodded with a malicious look and said, "Yes, we caught it at the beach over there. We'll go back and cook it for Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue later."

Seafood is a common food for the wealthy people in Hong Kong. Eating abalone is a common thing for Jiang Fei, but since she caught it herself today, it has a different meaning.

No matter how good the food you buy for them, they would rather eat what they catch themselves. For children, it is not just about eating, but also about a sense of accomplishment.

Even if Shen Li didn't believe it now, she had to believe it with her own eyes. She could only believe that it was her husband and daughter who caught it.

Now that Jiang Cheng had finished "catching fish at the beach" with his daughter, Shen Li also came out of the wet sand and started playing with sand piles with his daughter.

Jiang Cheng went back to the car and got a watermelon, which once again confused Shen Li. When was there a watermelon in the car? However, the watermelon in the car might have been put there before. It was much easier to accept than catching lobsters, crabs, and abalone on this ordinary beach at this time in the morning.

Regardless, Shen Li felt very happy today, at least Jiang Cheng was really spending time with her and her daughter. This made her feel like she was about to achieve her goal, as Jiang Cheng was willing to spend time and effort on her and her daughter.

"In the next two years, you and your daughter will accompany me to develop in the mainland, and she doesn't need to go to kindergarten. When she starts primary school, you can come back to Hong Kong to accompany her. I will also have more time to accompany Xiaofei and Xiaoyue over there." Jiang Cheng said to Shen Li while sitting on the beach.

"Then when will we go to the mainland?" Shen Li said happily when she heard Jiang Cheng's words.

Jiang Fei, who is now four years old, is in kindergarten. Private kindergartens are not cheap, but the money spent is very effective. Jiang Fei, who is four years old, can communicate with people in simple English.

And going to China doesn't mean that you can't study anymore. Jiang Cheng spends at most half of his time in Shenzhen every month. Shenzhen doesn't have that much time during holidays.

When Jiang Cheng is not in Shenzhen, Shen Li can take the child back to Hong Kong and hire a young female tutor. This kind of education starts from an early age, which is really different.

Four-year-old Jiang Fei can write, count, and speak English. She is definitely gifted, but it is more likely that some high-end schools will teach students according to their talents and have their own educational methods.

In Hong Kong, you can't be a private tutor just because you know a lot, but you have to be able to teach. And this kind of specialized education is almost one-on-one or one-on-one with a few people, and the cost is not affordable for ordinary people.

But in China, Jiang Cheng did not feel that his daughter was lacking in anything. Although she may have started slowly in her studies, she had a good character and conduct, was responsible, and shared. This made Jiang Cheng feel very good. A different childhood means a different life.

As long as his daughters are happy and willing, Jiang Cheng can only try his best to prevent them from going astray. As long as it is the right path, he can let them develop in any industry.

(End of this chapter)