The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 29 The subject has a job

Changcheng may be considered a good urban area in the province, but compared with the entire country, it can only be regarded as a medium-sized city.

Therefore, the entire Changcheng Bus Station has only 37 large vehicles, 14 of which are passenger vehicles that run to the county towns below, and two of which are short-distance vehicles that run to nearby cities. The rest are trucks, but there are only 23 of them.

Excluding the driver and the conductor on the bus, there are actually not many staff members in the entire station.

Jiang Cheng followed Director Liu Ping to the canteen kitchen, and Liu Ping introduced the situation of the kitchen to Jiang Cheng. Because there are few employees and few people eating in the canteen, there are also few kitchen staff. Therefore, there are actually only two regular workers in the canteen, and the others are helpers.

In the kitchen, Director Liu introduced Jiang Cheng to the chef who cooked the food. If he needed help with processing any ingredients in the future, he could just contact the chef.

After several kilograms of shrimp were handed over to the kitchen for processing, Jiang Cheng and Director Liu returned to the office first and got the salary ticket he was currently eager to get. Director Liu also gave Jiang Cheng a salary advance, a three-month advance.

According to Jiang Cheng's current salary as a third-level truck driver, it is 58 yuan a month, 174 yuan for three months. The watch ticket is a Shanghai brand, which costs 120 yuan. After deducting the purchase of the watch, if Jiang Cheng has no other income, it means that he can only spend 54 yuan in three months.

But fifty-four dollars, if spent frugally these days, can last two people for three months.

Soon it was time for lunch, and the shrimps that the kitchen had specially prepared were fried with a lot of oil. So this processing was not in vain, and the kitchen staff kept a little bit, and some leaders of the station had to have a private meal.

Managers from the personnel department, finance department, security department, logistics department, etc. all came to join in the fun and taste the river shrimps that Jiang Cheng brought.

Stationmaster Xu of the transport station is naturally no exception. When there are good things, everyone comes to ask for them, which is also a kind of humanistic sentiment in the unit.

But everyone came just to show their appreciation, and in the end Jiang Cheng still had a lot left. If he put it in his personal space, he could eat it many times in the future.

While eating, Stationmaster Xu came to find Jiang Chengcheng. His purpose in finding him was to ask him to go on a long-distance trip.
Jiefang trucks can only carry four tons of cargo, while Yellow River trucks can carry eight tons, so Jiang Cheng has to be prepared for long-term trips. He has to make at least two trips a month, and it is normal for a trip to take as short as seven or eight days or as long as half a month.

Jiang Cheng didn't have much to think about when going on a long trip. Going to other cities would allow his portable space to play a better role. Seafood in this era had not yet been polluted by a certain island country. In the 21st century, Jiang Cheng had not eaten any good seafood dinners. As long as he had the opportunity to go to a place with a sea, he would at least have the freedom to have a seafood dinner.

If it is a long-distance trip, Jiang Cheng does not need to go to the dispatcher to receive orders in the afternoon. Generally, drivers will take a day off with pay the day before a long-distance trip.

Prepare clothes for long-distance travel, refuel the car, and prepare spare diesel and water. Even the car needs to be inspected in all aspects. Of course, Jiang Cheng is driving a new car, so a simple inspection will suffice.

In addition, drivers can get a city route map at the transport station. If you have not been to a place before, you can look at the map and pay attention to the road signs. You can make a note of it so that you will be familiar with it next time.

So after lunch, Jiang Cheng could start his long-distance trip. He filled up the car with gas and put a few 50-liter barrels of diesel in the car. He could even drive the car home and come back tomorrow morning.

The car can be driven back, so Jiang Cheng naturally wants to drive back home. However, he is not thinking about the house in the yard, but about driving back to his hometown.

Go in the afternoon and drive back early tomorrow morning. It's about 60 kilometers and it will take more than an hour to get there. Jiang Cheng got an advance on his wages and reimbursed the money he spent on gas last time. Director Liu also told Jiang Cheng that if he filled up at the gas station near the bus station, the driver at the bus station could sign the bill and didn't need to pay for the gas.

Just show your work permit at the bus station and sign there. The gas station will come directly to the bus station with the signed slip to collect the money.

So before returning home this time, Jiang Cheng first filled up the gas tank, and also filled up 200 liters of spare gas for long-distance travel. Then he drove to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a watch, and then drove to the direction of Yi'an County.

At Jinhe Commune, Zhou Lingying didn't know Jiang Cheng was coming back. After lunch, she took a nap in her room and went to meet up with the educated youths so that they could work in the fields together.

When they arrived at the educated youth dormitory, Zhang Yan, Wang Fang and others pulled her aside.

"Comrade Lingying, tell us the truth. You live at your partner's house. You aren't sleeping with him or her, are you?" Zhang Yan asked jokingly.

"Zhang Yan, don't joke like that. I live alone." Zhou Lingying responded angrily. She was not a casual person. Even though she would marry Jiang Cheng sooner or later, she would not sleep with him before getting married.

"Lingying, we are not the ones who are suspicious, but many people are saying this about you. You moved to Aunt Zhao's home in Kaiyang Village yesterday. You told us about the situation there yourself. They have three rooms and a kitchen. Aunt Zhao and Uncle live in one room, and there is also a sister-in-law and her three children living in one room. If you don't live with your partner and live in a room alone, where will your partner live?" Zhang Yan said analytically.

Rural people like to gossip about things that are based on hearsay, and the female educated youth are no exception. Not only do they like gossip, they also make up stories.

Some people also think that Zhou Lingying suddenly found a partner, and suspect that she was raped by Aunt Zhao's son when she visited Aunt Zhao before. Then, for the sake of reputation, she had to agree to date Aunt Zhao's son and marry him.

When Zhou Lingying heard Zhang Yan say this, she immediately got angry. She was not angry at Zhang Yan, but at the person who gossiped about her behind her back. She didn't expect that someone would say this about her just one day after leaving the educated youth dormitory. So she didn't hide some things.

"Let me tell you the truth. My boyfriend has a job. He works in the city. He doesn't live in the village. If he comes back, I will live with his sister-in-law." Zhou Lingying said.

"What? Your boyfriend has a job. Even if he joined the army, people with rural household registration cannot be assigned jobs." Wang Fang on the side said in surprise. She knew a little about this and knew that veterans with rural and urban household registrations were different.

"My boyfriend said that he performed well in the army, and the army leader wrote him a letter of introduction, which was considered special treatment."

Zhou Lingying answered again that she didn't want to say that her boyfriend had a job. Because if she did, people would think that she was dating him because he was good. She agreed to date Jiang Cheng because he was good-looking. After meeting him, she found that he was also good-looking, so she agreed to date him the next day.

Now that Zhou Lingying said this, everyone finally understood that her boyfriend had a job. She was the leader of the educated youth group and was pretty, so it made sense for her to date a local.

The other female educated youth who had been here for a long time and had experienced hardships knew it well. If they were in this situation, and a man with a job wanted to date them, they would probably find it difficult to resist such temptation.

(End of this chapter)