The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 279 Lao Wu Reports

Spring is the season when all things come back to life.

The factory and supermarket in Shenzhen were not yet built and were about to open. Jiang Cheng had no job and he only went there to accompany his daughter.

In China, I would take my daughter here and play everywhere, holding a gun and walking a dog. Even in the city, you can shoot guns. In April and May, sparrows are rampant. When I went to the nearby grain station, there were sparrows everywhere.

The wolfdog is actually a few months old, and is definitely smaller than the big wolfdog. But it is considered a large dog, and is now about the same size as some local dogs.

The wolfhound has a very high IQ. After killing a sparrow, it will know to pick up the corpse after being commanded a few times.

In May, before summer had fully arrived, Jiang Cheng bought new appliances for his home. Both rooms were equipped with ceiling fans. In fact, the family had already bought electric fans a few years ago. But if a person sweats, the electric fan will not blow well.

Although the weather is not very hot yet, there is no need to wear a coat. Jiang Cheng really likes his daughters' small arms and legs.

As for the child being naughty and annoying, Jiang Cheng couldn't do anything about it. He just spoiled and played with his daughter. If his daughter had a tantrum or something, Jiang Cheng would leave it to Zhou Lingying, the mother, to discipline her.

In May, Zhou Lingying's brother Zhou Fanyi came to visit for foreign exchange. When Jiang Cheng came back from Shenzhen, he naturally gave some foreign currency to Zhou Lingying and asked her to call her family.

Zhou Fanyi came here by train with 10,000 yuan in his pocket, feeling very nervous. It is not convenient to remit large amounts of money now. The country has not been fully opened up yet, and if you want to remit such a large amount of money, you have to ask for the purpose, so you can only bring cash to exchange for foreign currency.

With the arrival of the elder brother-in-law, he also saw what kind of life his sister lived in Changcheng. In the past, he only heard her say on the phone that she lived a good life in Changcheng. Zhou Fanyi could also guess that his brother-in-law Jiang Cheng was a driver, so he must be good. But he still underestimated his sister's life.

Three turns and one sound exceeded the standard, and there was even a tape recorder and a refrigerator. There was also an electric fan and a ceiling fan installed in the room.

There was a Jinhua ham hanging in the side room, meat in the refrigerator, and eggs in a basket. The furniture didn't just have thirty-six legs, either. The tables and chairs in the two rooms could accommodate many guests.

There are several sets of clothes for all four seasons in the closet, and the sheets and quilt covers are all printed with patterns.

The food, clothing and shelter were fine, and there was nothing to be surprised about, as there were two bicycles at home. But Zhou Fanyi was a little shocked to find that the sidecar parked in the yard also belonged to his sister.

Zhou Fanyi came here once, and it was impossible for him to just leave. Few men don't like hunting and playing with guns. On the second day of his arrival, Jiang Cheng dragged him to go hunting in a sidecar.

Instead of driving their sedan, they took turns driving a sidecar to the lake in the suburbs to hunt. They caught wild birds and ducks, and were treated to fish, meat, and shrimp every day.

If Zhou Fanyi didn't have a job and needed to bring back some foreign currency, he would really like to stay here for a few more days to avoid having to face his overbearing wife every day when he returns to Nanjing.

When Zhou Fanyi came here, he had a lot of bags. It was his first visit, so he couldn't go empty-handed. He even brought some gifts for his niece.

But when he went back, Zhou Fanyi brought back large and small bags of tea, fruit, ham and other things.

In June, the weather starts to get hot.

The ice that Jiang Cheng stored in winter came in handy every year, but June and July are the rainy season in the south. Although the weather is hot, it often rains, sometimes for several days in a row.

The disadvantage of living in a courtyard house instead of a building is that the floors of many low-rise houses are damp. The room is humid and people with bad joints will feel uncomfortable during the rainy season.

Outside the yard, you can often see long earthworms crawling out of the ground. You can catch them and feed them to chickens. Chickens that eat worms and earthworms are more likely to lay eggs.

By the end of June, the school was on summer vacation. My oldest nephew Jiang Lin had graduated from elementary school and was going to junior high school.

Similarly, Jiang Zhaozhao was also old enough to go to primary school. Jiang Cheng did not let his daughter go to kindergarten because kindergartens at that time basically did not teach anything.

In kindergarten, children are taught to sing nursery rhymes when they are in the senior class, and they usually just help parents take care of their children. Children who go to kindergarten basically cannot write or do math when they go to elementary school.

At least this is the case in Changcheng, where children start learning pinyin and arithmetic when they enter primary school.

Unlike later generations, where people always say that they cannot lose at the starting line, not to mention learning to write and count in kindergarten, even high-end private kindergartens teach foreign languages.

In July, the cold storage in Shenzhen was completed first. After all, a cold storage only needs one floor, and it can be built a little higher at most. But the installation of refrigeration equipment and power supply will take a long time. It only took three months to build the house there.

All the equipment was purchased domestically, allowing domestic refrigeration equipment manufacturers to earn foreign exchange.

By August, the meatball processing factory in Shenzhen was also completed, and the accompanying canteen was completed earlier.

Because there is no elevator, the office building is only three stories high. So the main structure has been completed, and what is needed is supporting facilities such as water and electricity. Office supplies also need to be purchased.

Now the only thing that has not been built is the five-story staff dormitory. The employees are actually recruited by the local personnel bureau. Even if Jiang Cheng does not arrange to build a staff building, the local personnel bureau will arrange it.

The processing factories in other places don’t even have to pay for the construction of the factory, let alone build staff buildings.

Of course, Jiang Cheng would not give the buildings to employees for free. Before Shenzhen became a special economic zone, employees were managed by local units, and Jiang Cheng would not give the staff buildings to those employees.

Because the employees they recruited may be regular employees with a permanent position. When Shenzhen is completely open, foreign businessmen will come to China to take over factories and recruit workers on their own.

At that time, it would depend on wages. Workers would go to the factory that offered the highest wages.

The workers recruited by the local personnel bureau may not be willing to give up their iron rice bowls and come to work for your foreign company.

Moreover, if the staff building is divided up and someone moves in, it will not be easy to get those people to move out.

This is just like the compound where Jiang Cheng lives now. He was assigned here because of work. But now he has no job, but he will not move out of this house.

Jiang Cheng's situation was relatively good. Some people were allocated a house when they started working, and then moved their whole family to live in the allocated house. Later, perhaps because of job transfer, one person went to work in a distant place.

The house I was initially allocated was occupied by my family, so the street office was not able to take it back. This time I was transferred to another place, and probably because of work needs, the unit arranged another house for me.

As long as you occupy the house first, after a few years, the government will implement a policy of lowering the rent by a certain number of years and let everyone pay a lump sum to buy it. At that time, you may pay a few hundred yuan, and the house will truly belong to you.

Some units have staff buildings, and perhaps the units give discounts to employees to take care of them. It is normal to buy a house for one or two hundred yuan.

Jiang Cheng had no plans to divide the staff building he built in Shenzhen. The workers he recruited would not be on the payroll, and they could be fired if they did not perform well.

The staff building is basically a dormitory for employees. Workers who go to work in Jiangcheng Factory have to pay rent, water and electricity. When they quit, they pack up and leave. The building is actually rented to employees.

Unlike other state-owned units, staff buildings are not directly allocated to employees.

A staff building doesn't cost much now, the land is basically free. Jiang Cheng doesn't need to pay the workers who build the house, he just pays for some bricks, cement and steel bars.

Jiang Cheng still planned to implement the system in Hong Kong, where people would be given cars as long as they worked for a certain number of years. He would implement the system of giving houses as long as they worked for a certain number of years, but the premise was that they had worked for a certain number of years. This was not like the current system in China, where housing was arranged as soon as one started working.

Housing is not provided, but you can ask the future administrator to rent their staff building. Now the staff who are waiting for the completion of the factory supporting facilities and can move in may also be thinking about the good thing of being allocated a house in the staff building.

In Changcheng, arrangements have been made for my daughter Jiang Zhaozhao to go to elementary school, which is not far from where we live, just two streets away.

In this era, except for kindergarten, there must be someone to pick up and drop off children. When children go to primary school, there are only a few days of picking them up and dropping them off at the beginning of the school term, but after that, basically no parents pick them up and drop them off.

In rural areas, many first-grade children have to walk a long way to go to primary school in town. Adults have to work in the fields and have no time to pick them up. And such a short distance is nothing for children of that era.

But in a few years, we should be careful of human traffickers who kidnap children. There are not many human traffickers now, because before the country opened up, you needed a letter of introduction to go anywhere. If you don't kidnap children, you can't leave without a letter of introduction. It's even more difficult to kidnap a child.

A few years later, when children go to school, it is better to go to the city, after all, there are more people, and it is no problem to go home after school instead of going to remote places. In remote places, there are more child kidnappers.

I don't mean to attack you in a general way here, but with so many people focusing on child abduction, Anhui really bears a big responsibility.

Kidnapping children is when a family has no children and wants to adopt one. Girls may not be wanted, so boys are targeted, but this is a minority after all.

The reason why there are so many people who are actually abducted is that begging was considered a profession in Anhui at a certain time. People of that era were simple and honest, and they felt pity for beggars and were easy to get money from them.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, there were indeed many young people in Anhui who did not work at home, so their parents went out to beg for food and built houses for their sons to marry off.

Young people have hands and feet but cannot beg for food. If they go out to work, they may not earn as much in a month as their parents earn in a day by begging.

But not everyone has elderly people in their family. Some people whose elderly people died early are jealous of those who have elderly people begging for food outside.

Then isn't it just to win everyone's sympathy so that they can beg for food? If the old ones can't do it, they'll go after the young ones.

It would be bad if the child was too healthy. The child might become mute or disabled.

However, only transportation is open in the country now, and the tickets have not been cancelled yet. If you leave your hometown, you can't buy food without food coupons, so it's still early.

The fourth child, Jiang Sisi, probably needed real attention when she was in elementary school, but it was no problem as she had several older sisters to take care of her.

In mid-August, Jiang Chengren was in Hong Kong.

Jiang Cheng was a little depressed at this time and didn't pay attention to some details. In early August, when he was in Changcheng, Zhou Lingying happily told Jiang Cheng that her period had not come on time.

Zhou Lingying lives a very regular life. She doesn't stay up late or do anything else. As a result, she has been in good health for many years and her menstruation is always regular.

Since her period didn't come, she didn't let Jiang Cheng touch her and went to the hospital for a check-up.

The fifth child came to report, and for a long time, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying could not sleep together. And this time when the fifth child came to report, Zhou Lingying had a quarrel with Jiang Cheng because Jiang Cheng was a jerk and made a joke about the names of their children.

She said that there were already Zhaodi, Pandi, Niandi and Sidi before. Although now that the eldest daughter Jiang Zhaodi has reached the age to go to primary school, she no longer calls her by the previous names, so as to avoid being laughed at when her daughter goes to school.

Jiang Cheng said that the name given to Lao Wu should be Jiang Mengdi, whose full name is Jiang Mengmeng. Jiang Cheng also thought that Mengmeng was a nice name.

But Jiang Cheng was just mumbling for fun, and Zhou Lingying almost cried when she heard it. She originally wanted a son, and when she got pregnant, Jiang Cheng was mumbling a name. He was clearly mumbling that she would give birth to another daughter and name her Jiang Mengdi.

Zhou Lingying, who had always been obedient to Jiang Cheng, was upset with Jiang Cheng for a long time because of this matter, and it took Jiang Cheng a long time to coax her. This was the fifth one, so it was not Zhou Lingying's fault for being jealous of her own things.

But no matter what, Jiang Cheng had agreed with Zhou Lingying that they would have five children, no matter if it was a son or a daughter. When the fifth child was born, Jiang Cheng planned to take her and his daughter to travel to various places during the summer and winter vacations to enjoy life.

Zhou Lingying has helped Jiang Cheng give birth to so many children. If she continues to give birth, she will really be treated as a reproductive tool. Moreover, Jiang Cheng really doesn't care whether there is a son to inherit his family business, nor does he need his children to support him in his old age.

If the country had not yet fully opened up, Jiang Chengdu would not have wanted a fifth child and would have directly taken Zhou Lingying to enjoy life and have fun.

Lao Wu came to report that he could not have sex with Zhou Lingying, but Jiang Cheng didn't care because Xiang Jiang still had his concubine Shen Li.

But Shen Li also learned at the beginning of the year that Jiang Cheng's wives in China all gave birth to daughters, so she became somewhat selfish and wanted to give Jiang Cheng a son before Zhou Lingying.

Shen Li felt that in Hong Kong, there was no wealthy man like Jiang Cheng who didn't want a son. She thought he was only so open-minded on the surface, and once he really gave birth to a son, his focus might shift.

So Shen Li didn't take any protective measures in the past few months. Now, she and Zhou Lingying got pregnant at almost the same time.

"I really don't know what to say to you. I didn't say that I can't let you have another child. If you want to have another child, just tell me earlier so that we can discuss the time and stagger it." Jiang Cheng said depressedly while lying on the bed.

"Brother Cheng, I didn't mean it. Sometimes I just want to feel good for a moment and didn't pay attention." Shen Li leaned against Jiang Cheng and said cunningly.

Jiang Cheng couldn't tell whether Shen Li's words were true or false, but no matter whether they were true or false, she gave birth to a child for him, so he couldn't just scold and beat her to satisfy his own needs.

"Okay, I don't blame you. But I have something to tell you. You won't have any more children after this one. I have already discussed it with your sister in China. She won't have any more children." Jiang Cheng said, putting his arm around Shen Li's shoulders.

Jiang Cheng felt that he had too many children and didn't want any more. But if there were too many, there wouldn't be enough love and care. More importantly, he and Zhou Lingying had agreed not to have any more children. It was impossible for him to stay with Shen Li in private and ask her to help him have children all the time.

In fact, in the current situation, Jiang Cheng didn't know how to face it if Zhou Lingying revealed everything. Sometimes Jiang Cheng always thought after the fact, and wished that he had not maintained such a relationship with Shen Li in the first place.

If he wanted to cheat at that time, he could just spend money to indulge for a while, so that he wouldn't be afraid of Zhou Lingying finding out later. But this was an afterthought after all, just like thinking later that if Shen Li didn't give birth to his child, it would be better if the incident happened in the future.

But now Shen Li already has two, so he might as well go for it. Jiang Cheng thinks it won’t matter if he has one more.

Now Jiang Cheng can only hope to keep it a secret. Fortunately, communications were not well developed in those days, and there was almost no Internet. Jiang Cheng thought it would be no problem to keep it a secret for 10 to 20 years, as his daughter would be grown up by then.

If it really doesn't work, Jiang Cheng will reveal himself to divert everyone's attention. He has kept the secret of the space for seven years. He has always wanted to reveal it. When he had just been with Zhou Lingying for a short time, Jiang Cheng wanted to expose his secret and let his woman share this secret with him.

But later he managed to hold back and not reveal it. When he was bored, he used the space as a magic show in front of his ignorant daughter.

So when he really couldn't hide it anymore, Jiang Cheng thought that exposing himself and then pretending to be pitiful to gain sympathy might help him get through this.

"Since you are pregnant too, you can't have sex anyway. I'll go get Xiaofei and Xiaoyue over. I want to sleep with my good daughter today."

Jiang Cheng let go of the arm that was hugging Shen Li, then stood up and said with a smile.

But when he reached the door of the room, Jiang Cheng also felt that if Zhou Lingying and Shen Li gave birth to another child, there would be eight children in total. When he grows up, should Jiang Cheng continue to hide his identity as a rich man, or confess it later?

If you are too rich, will your children kill each other like in the skits?

(End of this chapter)