The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 281 The Fourth Brother’s Birthday
On August 21st, Jiang Cheng returned to Shenzhen from Hong Kong.

The weather in Shenzhen is hot now. Facing the already built factories, office buildings, staff dormitories, canteens, etc. in Shenzhen, Jiang Cheng just visited them privately and then drove away from Shenzhen.

Like many foreign-funded enterprises in Hong Kong, Jiang Cheng does not want to interfere with anything at present. The current situation is that he does not understand the historical situation and entered Shenzhen a little too early.

In Shenzhen, you can see many foreign-funded enterprises' factories everywhere, such as Avonting Textile Co., Ltd., Xinjide Electric Co., Ltd., Hengxin Metal Products Factory, etc. which came from Hong Kong.

In Shenzhen, you can see the trademarks of various foreign-funded factories, which can stimulate investment when other foreign-funded enterprises come to visit.

But now the management staff of Jiang Donglai in Hong Kong are negotiating many issues with the person in charge of the factory in Shenzhen, some issues that Jiang Cheng does not want to see and face.

The staff dormitories are well built, because the current staff are actually recruited by the local personnel bureau and labor bureau. Even if you work in the food processing factory of Jiangdonglai, your work clothes will be labeled with the Jiangdonglai logo.

But in fact, they are not employees of Jiangdonglai company. Jiangdonglai can only assign production tasks and supervise the quality and hygiene of food materials, and it cannot interfere in other matters.

This is no different from outsourcing work to local domestic units. In this case, dormitories cannot be allocated to employees. Even if the employees have to pay rent, it is not allowed. If they are truly employees of Jiangdonglai, Jiangcheng will provide them with housing for free, and they only need to pay the water and electricity bills.

The key point is what I said before, now the country is renting houses to everyone on the surface, but in fact it is distributing houses. Some leading cadres take priority to occupy one or two houses, and then divide them up according to seniority.

The rent is probably only about one yuan a month. In Shanghai, a good house costs only four yuan for employees. Shenzhen is just starting out, and it's good to have one yuan in rent. Jiang Cheng doesn't care about it at all.

In addition to the house, Jiang Cheng previously obtained 30 cars from Hong Kong in the name of donating to local units. He donated half of them and kept more than ten for the units' own use.

Now he has also been targeted by some people from Shenzhen "Jiang Donglai". The key point is the factory director, logistics department, organization department, propaganda department, etc. From top to bottom, there is no one related to Jiang Cheng.

The cars were given to them for use, and they might not be divided up. But after a year of use, Shenzhen became a special economic zone, and Jiang Cheng took over the cars as second-hand cars. The money for more than ten cars was nothing to him, but he didn't want to be the one who got taken advantage of.

Even for the Jiangdonglai supermarket that is about to be built, Jiang Cheng plans to slowly decorate it and plan to open it next year. In theory, as long as it is open, it doesn't matter who the managers and employees are, as long as the goods are sold, Jiang Cheng can make money.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng also guaranteed that he could compete with state-owned sales industries such as supply and marketing cooperatives, state-owned stores, and department stores. After all, his "Jiangdonglai" could sell a large number of Hong Kong products, which was something that those domestic industries could not compare with.

But it is precisely because of this that Jiang Cheng does not want to open the business. If the personnel management is not in his hands, some of the scarce goods will be controlled by them.

Zhu Lan is the director of the supply and marketing cooperative. Why is the salesperson of the supply and marketing cooperative one of the eight major employees? It is an enviable position. Isn't it because good things are given priority to internal supply?

Jiang Cheng didn't want to be messed up by others so he took over, and the employees of supermarkets are different from those of factories. If factory employees no longer work in the factory, they can switch to other units. There is no need to be reluctant to let go.

But supermarkets are a place where there are too many things that can benefit oneself, and Jiang Cheng was afraid that it would be easier to invite the gods than to send them away. So he simply took his time, and the original plan to open the store at the end of this year was also postponed.

However, we initially planned to open the store at the end of the year, which was a bit rushed. Supermarkets are different from factories, and they need more supporting facilities. We are currently building a large plaza to facilitate parking and so on.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng is just a driver in the country, and given the current situation in Shenzhen, he doesn't need to show up.

That is to say, Director Hou of the reclamation farm is in a bit of trouble. Since the supermarket is closed, it is difficult to supply products. In order to solve the supply problem, the reclamation farm has increased production this year in order to generate more foreign exchange.

Originally, Jiang Cheng wanted the reclamation farm to supply pork, chicken, mutton, and even grass carp to the food processing plant.

But even this, Jiangcheng has no autonomy. Because Lichuan Reclamation Farm belongs to Jiangxi Province, although they are both domestic units, it is considered to be crossing the border for Shenzhen.

The raw material supply had already been contracted with Shenzhen. Even if they did not change the supplier, they could not just add a new one.

Finally, Jiang Cheng came up with a plan for Director Hou, asking him to organize some local leaders. This matter was a breach of contract by Jiang Donglai in Xiangjiang, so he had to go to Xiangjiang every month to negotiate some breach of contract matters.

This is a legitimate reason, and it is impossible for the country to prevent them from leaving the country to go to Hong Kong to discuss the breach of contract. In fact, the immigration department in Shenzhen was also very puzzled. How could a reclamation farm 700 to 800 kilometers away contact "Jiang Donglai" in Hong Kong?

We have also signed a supply contract. Logically, there are many rural areas in Shenzhen. Products that can be provided there can also be provided in Shenzhen. We should not seek products far away instead of those near by.

A group of people would go there to visit, learn and inspect. To be honest, many people in Shenzhen envy the people in Lichuan Farm for being able to go to Hong Kong frequently.

The intention to talk to Jiangdonglai about the breach of contract was fake, the real intention was to find a reason to go to Hong Kong. Those over-produced products were in great demand in China, and they would be gone if they were handled casually.

Jiang Cheng is now the driver of a foreign leader, so he has no reason to help with the "purchase" anymore.

In the past two months, Jiang Chengdu has been driving back and forth between Shenzhen and Changcheng by himself, and has not taken the train. Although the train is faster, it is because the train does not stop at night.

Jiang Cheng didn't take the train because it was hot and there was no air conditioning on the train. In addition, with his current status, he couldn't buy a sleeper ticket, and in the ordinary carriage, it was hot and smelled like sweat.

Therefore, if he was not in a hurry, Jiang Cheng could drive back and forth by himself, and he could go hunting if he felt like it. There were also many wild fruits to pick in the mountains and forests along the way.

Things like wax gourds are ripe at this time.

When Jiang Cheng drove a truck before, because the truck was a little big, it couldn't fit into the space. When it was hot, except for the first year when he came to this era, he just endured it. After that, when the weather was hot, he would throw ice cubes into the cab.

It was different now. The economical cars brought from the regular channels in Hong Kong were not equipped with air conditioners. But he also had high-end cars in his space, and car air conditioners were more comfortable than ice cubes.

Putting ice cubes in the car will cause the humidity to be too heavy and it will not be as comfortable as air conditioning. And when you first get into the car, you can use the air conditioner and ice cubes at the same time to quickly lower the temperature in the car.

Just remember to change the car back at some checkpoints to pass the inspection, and then you can drive your high-end air-conditioned car on the road again.

This time Jiang Cheng set off early in the morning and did not plan to stay in a guesthouse at night because it was not as comfortable as in the car with air conditioning.

When passing through Ganzhou, I bought two rattan chairs. They were made in Huichang, Ganzhou, where there are rattan resources. I also bought Nan'an pressed duck, which is called pressed duck, but it is actually cured duck. People in Ganzhou prefer salty and spicy food. So Jiang Cheng thinks the cured duck tastes okay, but Zhou Lingying thinks it doesn't. She always stews it, but steaming is the correct way for people in Changcheng to eat it.

Driving until the evening, Jiang Cheng stopped at a place called Bajiao Temple. He encountered an open-air movie again. Jiang Cheng had encountered this kind of open-air movie many times while driving outside over the years.

But now Jiang Cheng feels that it is meaningless. First, there are only a few movies in the open-air cinema. It is rare to watch a movie in the countryside. Even if it is a movie that he has seen before, he will still enjoy watching it again.

Now there are basically no single female educated youth in rural areas, except those who have returned to the city. Most of the female educated youth in rural areas are married and have children.

Although Jiang Cheng has his bottom line, it does not prevent him from chatting with young female educated youth. Just like men with wives in later generations will not appreciate the beauty of other women.

Jiang Cheng likes good-looking women who envy his status as a driver and take the initiative to talk to him, which can satisfy his vanity.

There were many people watching outdoor movies now, and it was very lively. But it was a bit boring for Jiang Cheng, so he just watched for a while and drove away. He went to a deserted place and turned on the air conditioner to sleep.

The next day, Jiang Cheng woke up early again and returned to Changcheng that night.

A sedan is much faster than a Jiefang truck. In places where there are not many people, it can drive over 80 mph even on a dirt road.

Eight hundred kilometers, driving a car and hunting on the way, only took two days. In the past, driving a Jiefang truck would have taken at least three days to reach the destination.

If there were a highway, even a national highway with cement roads, Jiang Cheng could drive back in one day.

At night, Jiang Cheng parked the car and returned to the yard through the alley.

The wall near Jiang Cheng's kitchen now has not only a chicken coop, but also a dog kennel. The wolfhounds are very alert and will come out of their dens if there is any movement outside. But they will not bark randomly. If a stranger comes in and the wolfhounds are not locked up, it will be really dangerous.

A silent dog is much more ferocious than a barking dog. When facing such a wolfdog, don't run away. Instead, greet it directly, so that it will think you have no bad intentions and will not attack you at will. In front of a wolfdog, the more you run away, the more it will chase you.

Jiang Cheng has kept the wolfhound in the yard for several months now, and it has grown quite big. It is also familiar with the people in the yard and will not attack anyone.

When Jiang Cheng returned to the yard, the wolfhound came out of its den immediately. But by the smell, it knew that its leader had returned. It wagged its tail to express its welcome.

Jiang Cheng was not stingy with his own wolfhound. He took out a roasted sparrow from the space and threw it directly to the wolfhound. At night, the wolfhound could actually catch the food thrown to it in one bite.

The roasted sparrows are very crispy in the wolfdog's mouth, without any waste.

Jiang Cheng shot all the sparrows when he was bored, roasted a lot of them, and fed a lot of sparrows to the wolfhounds in the past few months. It's just like a fisherman, if you eat the fish you catch yourself, you can't finish it.

On the way back today, Jiang Cheng didn't care about the meat of sparrows, so he shot birds for half a day when passing by a lake. Otherwise, he wouldn't have arrived home when everyone was asleep at night.

He didn't call Zhou Lingying to get up and open the door. It was so late, and Jiang Cheng didn't need her to get up to help him wash his face and feet or pour water. He opened the door with the key and touched a thin rope on the wall. When he pulled it, the light in the room came on.

Jiang Juan went back to her hometown in the countryside during the summer vacation, and her daughter slept here. Because the weather is hot and there are mosquitoes in the summer, she also put up a mosquito net when sleeping in the room.

The fan was on in the room, and the daughters were sleeping on bamboo beds, and a cool mat had already been laid on Jiang Cheng's bed.

But even so, the room was quite hot, and my daughter was sweating even though she was asleep.

Jiang Cheng immediately used physical cooling, not big ice cubes, but put a lot of snow collected in winter in places that could not be seen.

It's late at night, and if you make a few big ice cubes, it will be hard to explain. Get some snow under the bed and on the ground. Snow melts quickly and absorbs heat quickly.

While Jiang Cheng was washing his face and feet, the temperature in the room dropped rapidly.

It is said that snow is not cold when it snows, but it is cold when it melts. Snowflakes cool the body much faster than ice cubes, but they don't last long. But now it is night, and the temperature in the room will not rise too much after it drops, so there is no problem in getting a good night's sleep.

Before going to bed, Jiang Cheng pulled open the mosquito net that his daughter slept in. The mosquitoes in the room had already been cleared away by the space when he entered the room.

Maybe because the weather was hot, the children wanted to keep their skin cool on the bamboo bed when they slept. So my daughter only wore shorts when she slept, and Jiang Panpan slept on her belly on the bamboo bed.

Jiang Cheng turned Jiang Panpan over and wanted to kiss her. He saw the marks left by her belly on the bamboo bed and couldn't help but smile. After kissing all three daughters, Jiang Cheng returned to his own bed.

The fourth child no longer sleeps in the rocking bed. Counting the days, it has been more than ten months. She will be one year old in October, and Jiang Cheng plans to hold a birthday party for her in October.

With so many daughters, Jiang Cheng would celebrate their birthdays every year. But he would only celebrate once for each daughter, and they would take turns. If he celebrated the birthdays of all four daughters according to their birth dates every year, he would have to celebrate four birthdays a year. If the fifth daughter reported to the battlefield, it would be even more serious.

So every year a representative takes turns to celebrate, but when it turns one year old, it will definitely be celebrated, and it will be a big deal.

When Jiang Cheng celebrated his daughter's birthday, he would just have a good time at home. He would go to Hong Kong to get a birthday cake, prepare some delicious food at home, and would not invite outsiders to attend.

The only things that really need to be organized are the first birthday and the tenth birthday party. Many people don't even hold a tenth birthday party. Jiang Cheng's daughter was born in the 1970s. How many people born in the 1970s have never celebrated their birthdays since childhood?

Jiang Cheng had lived in the courtyard for many years, so if someone had a son, they might hold a banquet. But Jiang Cheng had never seen a child celebrating a birthday in the courtyard.

Nowadays, only the wealthy people in Shanghai and some other places celebrate their children's birthdays. People in most places don't have the concept of birthdays.

If Jiang Sisi hadn't been celebrating her first birthday this year, Jiang Panpan's birthday might have been celebrated a long time ago.

(End of this chapter)