The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 284 You Old Six
Dust returns to dust, ashes returns to ashes, nothing you bring with you when you are born you take with you when you die.

But there are very few people who can see things in a positive way. If Jiang Cheng had no money, he would not have such feelings.

In fact, this is a kind of mentality of giving up. Jiang Cheng was in this state when he couldn't get married and drove for Didi. He thought it was okay to live alone. When he had money, he could enjoy himself, and when he didn't have money, he would give up.

If you have money, you can treat minor illnesses. If you don't have money, you can just endure it. If you have a serious illness, you can do whatever you want. As long as you don't have children, there is nothing to worry about.

Most people who really work like slaves actually do so for their children and for emotional support.

But Jiang Cheng is rich, so his mentality is naturally different. He has no pressure and all he thinks about every day is how to live a comfortable and happy life.

In terms of relationships between men and women, that is, the issue of work style, if Jiang Cheng did not have children, he might have stayed with Zhou Lingying because she was still young and beautiful.

In another ten or twenty years, life will be dull as water, and Jiang Cheng may not be able to keep the bottom line. Even now, Jiang Cheng is still coveting novelty and has a concubine.

But with a daughter, Jiang Cheng's reputation is bad, and it will be difficult for his daughter to live a normal life when she grows up. In this era, let alone doing shameless things, even if a divorced parent's children will be talked about.

Jiang Cheng spent a lot of money on Liu Hualian's funeral. When she was buried, several tables were set up, and some cousins ​​from the Jiang family came to help and had to be entertained.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng spent hundreds of dollars, not to mention the food and meat. In the end, Jiang Changhe got an old quilt and two stools.

The money is mainly spent on coffins. A coffin is not cheap these days. The one made of the worst materials costs about 50 yuan, which is not a small amount of money for rural people.

It is normal for many poor rural people to die without a coffin. They just lay a straw mat, wrap the body up and bury it.

There are also some people in a large ethnic group. When some respected elders pass away, the younger generations pool money together to take care of the funeral arrangements.

There are also some elderly people who will save money for their own coffins. When they reach a certain age, they will save some money every year, and then when they are still alive, they will actually buy a coffin and keep it at home.

The elderly feel at ease when they have a coffin at home. But young people will be scared when they see a coffin at home. The elderly who have a coffin at home usually do not have young people living with them.

Zhou Lingying took her daughter home after the banquet on the fourth day after the old man's death. Jiang Cheng stayed in his hometown for almost a week. After the matter was settled, Aunt Jiang Xiaoxi almost had a falling out with Uncle Jiang Dahai.

Because Jiang Changhe was only given an old quilt and two stools, and his aunt Jiang Xiaoxi got nothing. Although Jiang Xiaoxi didn't contribute much money to Liu Hualian's funeral, she did a lot of work.

Although Jiang Xiaoxi also knew that people were lucky to have enough food these days, and her parents would leave everything to their son, she felt that even if she didn't share her mother's things, she would still give Jiang Cheng fruits and milk powder when he visited her.

Also, when it comes to banquets, rural people don’t have much meat. Without Jiang Cheng’s help, even if there is a banquet, six out of eight dishes in the countryside would probably be vegetarian, and the remaining two would probably be semi-meat dishes.

But for the funeral banquet, Jiang Changhe made it a grand occasion in order to show his filial piety for the last time. Jiang Cheng also obeyed his father this time. On the third day of the wake, Jiang Cheng drove away for a long time and came back with half a pig.

In the end, Jiang Xiaoxi didn't even get to pack up the dishes. The leftovers and unused ingredients were all divided up by Jiang Dahai's son and daughter.

Jiang Dahai's children politely asked Jiang Changhe if he wanted to pack some things to take back, but Jiang Changhe didn't want much. As for Jiang Xiaoxi, according to Jiang Dahai, she was married, and when his mother took care of the funeral, she only wanted her to contribute, not money, so what was the point of giving her things?

The key point is that there are not many leftovers. In this era, even dogs would be disgusted by the meat bones. There is no leftover. It is because when I asked someone to cook, some extra food was left in the kitchen and never served. There are some leftover ingredients, but not too much.

Jiang Cheng didn't care about that. After he had dealt with the matter, he returned to Changcheng. Jiang Zhaozhao also happened to start school, and Zhou Lingying bought her a schoolbag.

The schoolbags of this era also have the characteristics of this era, a one-shoulder army green canvas schoolbag. Of course, not everyone can afford this kind of schoolbag. Those from poor families have their own schoolbags made of coarse cloth.

When Jiang Cheng saw his daughter carrying her schoolbag, he took a photo with his camera.

For students of this generation, a shoulder bag is enough. There are only four textbooks in primary school: mathematics, Chinese, ideology and morality, and science. In the city, there are also physical education, music and art classes, but textbooks are not required.

The textbooks are not too big or thick, and with a few exercise books, a pencil case is complete.

Jiang Cheng remembered that it was better when he was a child, but when he grew up, the children of his relatives were still in primary school, and their schoolbags and textbooks could weigh 20 to 30 kilograms. A primary school student's schoolbag filled with books was thrown out violently, and it was difficult for people with weak strength to catch it. He took a quick look at his daughter Jiang Zhaozhao's textbooks, and the content was also very simple. Moreover, primary schools in this era were still five-year systems. In fact, Jiang Cheng also looked at his niece Jiang Juan's textbooks. The main subject only had politics. Although there were many secondary subjects, except for physics and chemistry, which were only available in the second year of junior high school, the others were history and geography.

As long as you know history and geography, the exams are open-book. As for physical education, music, and art, the teachers of this era are quite healthy and rarely ask for leave, but the exams are only physical education. Other music and art teachers will also disappear due to health problems during the final exam period.

Anyway, Jiang Juan also has a one-shoulder school bag, with only a few more books than what she had in elementary school.

Jiang Cheng felt that if he studied in this era, he would not be a top student, but it would not be difficult for him to get into university. He only had one year less in elementary school, so he did not learn much.

Of course, the teaching methods of this era are also different, and students are not under so much pressure. If the teaching intensity and the level of teachers were really the same in later generations, many people in this era could easily go to high school.

In later times, students would take exams all the time, but in this era, there were only a few exams. To prepare an exam, several teachers had to work together to think of the questions.

In the days before the Internet, teachers wrote their exam papers by hand and then printed them. The teachers who wrote the exam papers could also get paid, and the exam papers for each school were different.

Because Jiang Cheng was a time traveler, he was very secretive and had always been very knowledgeable. He could understand Jiang Juan's textbooks but pretended not to understand them. Anyway, Zhou Lingying only had a high school education, so it was Zhou Lingying's job to take care of the children and even help them with their homework.

Even though Jiang Cheng has been in Hong Kong for so many years and only spoke semi-Chinese English before, now he can greet other people's families in Hong Kong fluently in English.

At home, Jiang Cheng lived like a scoundrel and was very cunning.

Zhou Lingying had actually been doubting Jiang Cheng's education level for the past few years. According to information obtained from Jiang Cheng's parents, Jiang Cheng only attended primary school in the village for a few years. And when he was in school, Chinese did not even teach pinyin.

There was no pinyin or dictionary to learn to read in his time, so people just relied on rote memorization.

But Zhou Lingying had seen Jiang Cheng speak standard Mandarin before, which was even more standard than hers. In this era, speaking standard Mandarin makes people look classy when discussing issues with others.

Besides Mandarin, there are many books on the desk that Jiang Cheng reads to kill time. In this respect, he doesn't look like someone who hasn't even graduated from elementary school.

In addition, Jiang Cheng often had a set of perverse theories. Zhou Lingying had been with him for these years and they had rarely quarreled. That was because she couldn't beat him. When it came to beating people, Zhou Lingying was smarter than Liu Cui'e in the backyard.

If you can't beat a man, but still fight him, no matter if you are right or wrong, the woman will definitely suffer in the end. Because even if you are right, if you fight him, the man will want to save face, and he will easily get angry and fight back.

But when it comes to reason, Zhou Lingying's thinking can't keep up with Jiang Cheng. The key is that Jiang Cheng also knows how to do Tai Chi. If you talk about reason, he will talk about morality. If you talk about morality, he will talk about human nature. If you talk about human nature, he will ask why we need laws.

When Zhou Lingying met Jiang Cheng for the second time, she was tricked by Jiang Cheng into holding hands with him. It seemed that most of the time, Zhou Lingying was wrong.

Zhou Lingying is not a person from later generations, otherwise she would definitely say "you old fool".

But regardless of whether Jiang Cheng is the "Sixth Old Man" or not, the real Sixth Old Man has actually appeared.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying had agreed that they would not have another child. In August, Zhou Lingying found out she was pregnant. In fact, she had been pregnant for almost a month at that time. Now it is September, and she has been pregnant for almost three months.

Then Zhou Lingying went to get an ultrasound. The ultrasound could not tell the gender of the baby at three months. Even at five or six months, the ultrasound of that era was in black and white, and the pattern was not as clear as that of later generations.

Moreover, B-ultrasound is only available in Changcheng, that is, in the urban area of ​​Changcheng, and the hospitals below may not have the equipment yet.

Zhou Lingying went to get an ultrasound to check the position of the fetus. Zhou Lingying always felt that something was wrong this time. Her belly started to grow bigger at only three months, while it used to be at least four months.

Maybe Lao Liu knew that if he didn't show up this time, he would never have another chance. This Lao Liu was really Lao Liu, and he managed to catch the last train and made Zhou Lingying pregnant with twins.

Jiang Cheng was naturally very happy, he was rich, so it was never too much to have too many children. But when they grew up, there would be one more child to worry about.

(End of this chapter)