The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 279 Recorder @ Song
When Jiang Cheng returned home, although there were not many people in the yard, the lights in the rooms of each household were still on. In the city, most people go to bed after nine o'clock.

The cardboard box that was used to pack the refrigerator last time came in handy this time. I placed it directly next to the chicken coop, and then I used a rope to tie the little wolfdog to the side of the chicken coop.

"Uncle, is there anything I can help you with?"

"You should just do your homework in your room. Your aunt and I can take care of it."

"I have finished my homework. I have no more homework."

"Okay, go to the kitchen and light a fire and boil some eggs. I brought back a big one this time, so I have to ask the neighbors to help carry it down. It's late at night, so it's not in vain for us to ask for help."

Jiang Cheng's return naturally caused quite a stir. There was a sidecar on the roof of a car at the intersection outside. He put it on the roof to tell everyone how he got it back, so that no one would ask about it later.

In order to find a witness, Jiang Cheng naturally had to ask his neighbors to help get the sidecar off the roof of the car. Otherwise, he could just park the car on the side of the road and ride the sidecar into the alley.

Zhou Lingying was still awake at this time. Except for the fourth daughter, the other three daughters were all asleep. After all, it was already past eight forty.

"Jiang Cheng, what did you bring back this time? Can't we lift it?" Zhou Lingying also went out and heard the conversation between Jiang Cheng and Jiang Juan.

"Everyone, you will know when you go and see it later. You go and call Wang Yuzhen's husband, and I will call the two boys from Zhang Yang's family." Jiang Cheng said while keeping the secret.

The two sons of Zhang Yang's family across the street are now strong young men. If they are called to help, they can be carried down in no time. In fact, the sons of Zhu Lan's family in the backyard are also grown men now. If it weren't for the current age limit for men to marry at 22, Zhu Lan's children can now find a partner.

"Okay, I'll go call for help." Zhou Lingying said with a smile, but she was really curious in her heart, wondering what the heck was going on that required so many people to carry it.

When Jiang Cheng saw his wife going to call for help, he also walked over and called out "Old Zhang, Old Zhang". Zhang Yang was already in his forties. He could call him "Big Brother Zhang" when he was in his thirties, and it was no problem for him to call him "Old Zhang" when he was in his forties.

In more than ten years, when Jiang Cheng's daughter has grown up, it's time for people to call him Lao Jiang.

"Jiang Cheng, what happened?"

Zhang Yang and his wife were lying in bed and about to fall asleep late at night. When they heard Jiang Cheng's shout outside the room, they immediately stood up, put on their pants and walked to the door.

In these days, few people are called to do anything at night. If there is nothing to do, they will wait until daytime to find someone to help. The main reason is that it is dark outside, and there are only some street lights on the main roads. It is not clear outside, so it is difficult to do anything even if there is something to do.

"Lao Zhang, nothing happened. I just came back from another place and brought back a good thing. It's quite heavy, so I want your two boys to go outside and help carry it." Jiang Cheng took out a cigarette and smoked one.

"It's no big deal. I'm going to call those two guys." Hearing that they just needed to help carry things, Zhang Yang immediately felt relieved. He was afraid that something might have happened to Jiang Cheng's family.

Jiang Cheng nodded and asked Zhang Yang to call his sons. Zhang Yang's two sons were not very capable. They were not well educated and had no skills. Moreover, they had no job and were helplessly relying on their parents.

But there is one good thing about him, he has a similar temperament to Zhang Yang, he is quite honest. It would be nice to have such a person become a security captain after the factories and shopping malls in Shenzhen are completed.

However, it also depends on whether they are willing to leave their hometown and go to Shenzhen. If they are not willing to go, they can only wait until Changcheng is open, and then he will take care of them if they need his care.

As for Zhu Lan's son in the backyard, Jiang Cheng actually disliked him a little. Because Zhu Lan used to be a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative, her son might have had people flattering him when he was young, and later became the deputy director, and now he is directly the director of the supply and marketing cooperative.

He has a high school education and was able to find a job through Zhu Lan's connections, thus avoiding the last batch of educated youth sent to the countryside. Zhu Lan's son gave Jiang Cheng a feeling of being a little arrogant, but he was fine when he met Jiang Cheng's family. He always felt superior to other neighbors.

Soon Zhang Yang's two sons were called out, and Zhang Yang put on his coat and prepared to go out to help. Wang Yuzhen's husband also rushed out to help as soon as he was called.

When the group crossed the alley and arrived at where Jiang Cheng parked his car, they saw the sidecar on top of the car. They never thought that Jiang Cheng actually had a sidecar motorcycle when bicycles were still expensive.

"Jiang Cheng, is this motorcycle yours?" Zhang Yang asked.

Now everyone knows that Jiang Cheng drives for other people in other places, and when they see a car, everyone will say it belongs to Jiang Cheng. But just like when Jiang Cheng worked at the bus station and the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, they said the car belonged to Jiang Cheng, but in fact it belonged to his unit.

But now Jiang Cheng brought back a sidecar, which really shocked everyone, because it gave everyone the feeling that this might really belong to Jiang Cheng's family.

"Yes, I plan to drive this three-wheeled vehicle into the yard. I will let my wife drive it in the future, so that when I am not in Changcheng, she can use it to take the whole family with her when she goes out." Jiang Cheng said with a smile.

It's easy to learn how to use a tricycle. Although it takes a little effort to start it, it's nothing for Zhou Lingying. Zhou Lingying hasn't done any heavy work in recent years, which is different from when she was an educated youth in the commune. But she's not the delicate woman of later generations.

In the countryside, many women can carry 200 kilograms of food. Even though Zhou Lingying was an educated youth sent to the countryside and did not have the strength of rural women, after working on the farm for a year and a half, she could easily carry a hundred kilograms of food.

Now, she has become a little pampered by Jiang Cheng these years, but in the past few years when Jiang Juan was not around, Zhou Lingying could take her daughter to buy food and coal.

Riding a sidecar is no big deal. All we need to do is teach her how to drive it.

Now that Jiang Cheng said this, everyone around him was jealous. Although the tricycle here belongs to Jiang Cheng's family, they are all neighbors. If anyone in the family has a headache or a fever, especially a pregnant woman who needs to go to the hospital for delivery, the tricycle here is many times better than a bicycle.

Besides, if someone is getting married, it would be a great honor to borrow a sidecar to pick up the bride.

But the problem now is how to lift it down. If the car is stepped on like this, everyone is afraid of damaging it. Even if it just leaves a mark, everyone thinks it is not good.

To this end, everyone went back to get quilts and put them on the car, and then people stood on the quilts to try to lift it down.

After it was lifted down, Jiang Cheng immediately took a bucket of gasoline from the car and filled it with gasoline. Then he started the engine in front of everyone, asked everyone to get on, and drove directly into the alley, and then drove into the yard through the gate of the yard wall.

Jiang Juan had just finished cooking soft-boiled eggs. In the countryside, soft-boiled eggs are a good way to entertain guests. The best ones are slightly undercooked, with the yolk half-cooked. Jiang Cheng likes to eat them that way.

In addition to getting a sidecar, Jiang Cheng also bought another appliance for his family: a tape recorder, which looks similar to a radio, but has a different structure and can play tapes.

Today’s recorders are larger in size and do not have as many functions as later ones.

The radio I bought six years ago is still in great condition and has never broken down. I have also taken good care of it and it has not been bumped or scratched. Of course, it is not completely without problems. The sound is not as loud as before. In the past, when I listened to the radio at home, I just turned it down to a low setting, but now I have to turn it up to a medium setting. When I take it outside, I have to turn it up to a high setting.

"Jiang Cheng, why did you get another radio?" Zhou Lingying said as she looked at the tape recorder that Jiang Cheng brought back.

"This is not a radio, it's a tape recorder. If we sell this thing in Shanghai, it will be in great demand."

Jiang Cheng said with a smile, and was also ready to show everyone briefly. He brought several boxes of tapes from Hong Kong, all of which were popular songs in Hong Kong.

In this era, this tape recorder is actually a business opportunity. Many people in Hucheng want to go abroad to study or work, but the prerequisite is to be able to speak English.

In two years, when Shanghai is also open, I can open a foreign language training class there. I can make a fortune by collecting tuition fees. This tape recorder is very popular there now. I can get some English teaching tapes and sell them for double the price.

But Jiang Cheng still had no interest in making money like this. Just like exchanging foreign currency, he could make money by using space, just like picking up money.

For a time traveler, even a mediocre Didi driver, you may not see any business opportunities when you first arrive in a certain era. But as time goes by, many business opportunities will automatically appear in your eyes.

Foreign exchange, tape recorders, and then the pager in the back, trading securities. There is also a game room, Internet cafe, etc. in the back.

These are business opportunities that will only appear in a certain year. Take pagers for example. There are no paging stations in China, so you can't sell them now. Opening a game room. There are no good arcade games in Hong Kong now, so it's useless to open one in the mainland.

But there are slot machines in bars, KTVs and some entertainment places in Hong Kong. Jiang Cheng knows that the motherboard of that thing can be adjusted. He doesn't expect to win money by playing slot machines. He just plays them for fun when he is bored.

However, one time when Jiang Cheng was playing the slot machine, he was robbed badly and felt that the owner of the slot machine was too ruthless. Jiang Cheng was so angry that he used his space ability to collect all the coins in the slot machine into space.

It’s not that Jiang Cheng can’t afford to lose, you can only say that he can’t afford to play, mainly because the slot machine is set too dark.

Jiang Cheng plans to bring one back for everyone to play with next time, and set up some food turntables for his daughter to play with. If she turns to candy, she will be rewarded with candy, and if she turns to cookies, she will be given cookies.

As for the tape recorder business, Jiang Cheng would not deliberately go to Shanghai to sell it. When his "Jiangdonglai" was opened in Shenzhen, Jiang Cheng would purchase a large number of tape recorder manufacturers in Hong Kong. The regular channels might not be able to transport them to China, and they might also have to pay high tariffs when transporting them here.

But Jiang Cheng used his space and sold it in Jiangdonglai in China. It might not sell for the high price in Shanghai, but there must be a lot of resellers who saw the business opportunity.

For Jiang Cheng, making money is just a form of entertainment, and he can just participate for fun. But there is one project that he really wants to do after the domestic market opens up.

In front of Zhou Lingying, Jiang Cheng took out a cassette, opened the middle part of the recorder, and then aligned the tape's port with the recorder's slot and put it in.

Small town with many stories

full of joy

If you come to a small town

A lot of gains

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A song called "Small Town Story" released by Teresa Teng last month was played from the tape recorder. Then there was "Don't Pick the Wild Flowers on the Roadside"~~.

In addition to Teresa Teng's song tapes, there are also songs by Sam Hui and Roman Tam. For Jiang Cheng, the songs from Hong Kong in the 1970s are not to his taste, but they are fun to listen to.

In the 1980s, many classic songs appeared, which was a feast. As later generations said, only music did not disappoint the people of the 1980s and 1990s.

As for how many songs can be listened to by later generations, the 1980s and 1990s were really a battle of gods. This is not only true for music, but also for movies and TV.

It was late at night, and Jiang Cheng played two songs. Then everyone finished eating soft-boiled eggs and watching the strange tape recorder. It was time for everyone to go home and rest.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying also returned to the room. The fourth child, Jiang Sisi, is also half a year old. His milk intake has increased, but he can sleep until dawn like a normal person after being fed once at night. He doesn't need too much effort.

After Jiang Cheng washed up in the room, Zhou Lingying took the third child Jiang Nian Nian to the innermost part in front of him. The meaning was obvious, Zhou Lingying would not let Jiang Cheng go tonight.

When the third child is older, he will be arranged to sleep in the next room with his sisters. Zhou Lingying is afraid that she and Jiang Cheng will accidentally wake up the third child when they do something like that.

A two or three-year-old child may not understand what adults are doing, but it will not leave any impression on her.

Just like Jiang Cheng and Shen Li in Xiangjiang, they didn't pay much attention and were seen by Jiang Fei. Although she didn't understand what it meant now, she had an impression in her mind and would understand it when she grew up.

Although it’s okay if children understand such things, it’s better to let them be simple.

Many girls in later generations came into contact with the opposite sex too early, which was also related to their early understanding and exposure to that aspect of things. Children born in the 1970s and 1980s were so innocent that they could at least yearn for beautiful and pure love. Later on, it was hard to find pure love even in high school.

Jiang Nian Nian smelled delicious in the quilt, and Jiang Cheng wanted to hug his sleeping daughter for a while. But Zhou Lingying was preparing for her fifth child, so how could she let Jiang Cheng be distracted?

After living together for nearly seven years, Zhou Lingying still didn't understand what her man couldn't stand. And Jiang Cheng was also very active in that aspect, and couldn't stand much teasing at all.

"Jiang Cheng, starting tomorrow, let the third child sleep next door with Zhao Zhao and the others." Zhou Lingying said breathlessly.

"She's still young, so there's no need to do it so early." Jiang Cheng said while hugging Zhou Lingying tightly.

"You'll be three years old in two months. Don't you like hearing me speak~~?"

"Okay then. Tell Jiang Juan tomorrow and ask her to take care of it."

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(End of this chapter)