The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 296: Bell-bottom pants, floral shirt, and frog-eye glasses

First love is beautiful, but reality is cruel.

Zheng Ke was thinking more about the romance of being with Jiang Cheng, but who knew that Jiang Cheng was such a dirty bastard.

When Zheng Ke was with her previous husband, they were very respectful to each other. They had to discuss it before doing it, and the movements were simple.

Maybe because they were introduced by a blind date, they had only met three times by the time they got married. After they got together, they did not have much emotional foundation before they did that, and her ex-husband probably did not dare to do anything wrong.

Later on, because we were together less and apart more, the situation has remained the same.

But things have come to this point. Women of this era will not sleep with men easily, and if they do, they will basically accept their fate whether it is good or bad.

But there is one good thing, at least if there is something on your mind, there is someone you can talk to.

The two of them cooked dinner together. Zheng Ke was not good at cooking, so the dishes she made were a little lighter. But it was not her taste list. Although they were not from the same city, they were both from Gan Province.

The main problem is the quantity of oil. There is not enough oil to cook every day. In addition, Jiang Cheng brought some seafood. As an inland city, it is normal that many people in this era do not know how to cook seafood.

Zheng Ke's ex-husband was a man who couldn't cook and couldn't coax anyone. The two of them spent the day together like "comrades", except that he would hand over a lot of his allowance to Zheng Ke.

As expected, bad men are more likely to be liked by women. The two of them can have topics to talk about while cooking in the kitchen. In addition, Jiang Cheng has traveled all over the country for many years, and can talk about the customs and habits of many places, what he has seen and heard, and some stories from the outside world.

He also has talents, such as playing the harmonica and conch shells. He can sing songs, but he can't compare with Zheng Ke, who was a literary soldier, but at least he can sing duets.

When Zheng Ke was with Jiang Cheng, she felt fulfilled and had endless topics to talk about. But Jiang Cheng was too straightforward about matters between men and women, which made Zheng Ke a little uncomfortable and shy.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect that he would be a scumbag. You know, in the future, he is just a loser Didi driver. He has no money and only knows how to talk. Who would like him?

For rich people, being vulgar is just a sentiment, but for poor people, being vulgar is really vulgar.

"Jiang Cheng, do you want me to give birth to a child for you?" Zheng Ke asked while lying in Jiang Cheng's arms.

Jiang Cheng was stunned for a moment, and his hands stopped moving. Damn it, Jiang Cheng had never expected this. Men and women in this era don't have any DINK ideas, and women all want to have children of their own.

In this era, Zhou Lingying gave birth to six children. Although it was a lot, it was not exaggerated in rural areas. There were many with more, but Jiang Cheng still had three in Hong Kong.

Although Jiang Cheng is a scumbag, he will not deny his mistakes. Zheng Ke is already his woman, and he can't just say that if you want a child, we should break up and you can have one with another man.

But if they are together, Jiang Cheng cannot deprive Zheng Kexiang of her right to be a mother.

I will never mess with other women again, after all, Jiang Cheng can't become a scumbag with no bottom line.

In such an era, it takes a lot of determination and courage for a woman to give up her job and everything around her to be with him, and she is with a man who has a wife and children.

Jiang Cheng does not advocate such behavior. In fact, according to Chang Cheng's words, he would even "scold" such men. But when Jiang Cheng himself was the person involved, the woman with him was still a good-looking woman. Her style was different from that of his wife and Shen Li, and not many men could control her.

"If you want to give birth to a child for me, then give birth to one." Jiang Cheng responded to the movement of his hands.

This was a deadly question, Jiang Cheng had never expected this, when the two met in Chongqing, Sichuan, they were very respectful to each other, it was impossible for them to talk about having children.

If Zheng Ke had told Jiang Cheng at that time that she would come to Shenzhen to be with him and give birth to his child, Jiang Cheng might not have agreed to Zheng Ke so impulsively. This was still due to the thinking of later generations, who would think that Zheng Ke was simply willing to be his lover.

But Zheng Ke knew that being with Jiang Cheng was a meaningless relationship. It was OK for them to be young now, but when they got older, Jiang Cheng would become an old man. It was impossible to rely on him to run around, and since it was like this when they met in Shenzhen, Zheng Ke raised this question.

After hearing Jiang Cheng's answer, Zheng Ke was very satisfied and shyly took the initiative to touch Jiang Cheng's flesh.

This was the first time Zheng Ke took the initiative to touch a man. It doesn't mean that Zheng Ke is so pure. It's just that this era is like this. Some things can be thought about, but not necessarily done.

Even after getting married, Zheng Ke still believed that women should not take the initiative, as that would make them seem...

But Jiang Cheng is a bastard, kissing and touching people randomly. There is no point in being reserved when you are with a man like that.

After Jiang Cheng got together with Zheng Ke, he took her to visit factories and supermarkets with his work permit, and directly provided her with a sidecar.

When Zheng Ke came here to wait for Jiang Cheng, he used the national food coupons. When he arrived here, if Jiang Cheng was not there, he could go to the cafeteria to eat for free.

However, the free meals for employees have always been limited. Employees are given a certain number of meal tickets and vegetable tickets per month to achieve the so-called free meals.

If you really want to go there, you can eat whatever you want. There are a lot of big eaters these days, and it's common to see people who eat several kilograms of rice in one meal.

Not to mention rice, the dishes are also free. The dishes in the cafeteria here are not bad, and everyone will probably choose the meat.

Therefore, the so-called free food is only within a certain limit. The amount of rice given by the company is much higher than the national quota.

Moreover, using meal tickets and vegetable coupons to eat in the canteen is the practice of domestic unit and enterprise canteens. This also makes it convenient for Jiang Cheng, as he can use meal tickets to eat in any unit under Jiangdonglai.

After staying in Shenzhen for a few days, Jiang Cheng gave Zheng Ke a lot of meal tickets. He had to go to Hong Kong, and Zheng Ke's work would have to wait until he returned from Hong Kong. In China, Jiang Cheng was just a driver, and domestic factories and supermarkets did not have publicity departments.

Only state-owned units have propaganda departments. Some factories have their own announcers who write blackboard newspapers, slogans, etc.

Jiangcheng is a foreign company, so it doesn't have a publicity department. In addition to the publicity department, there is no organization department or anything like that. The department is relatively streamlined.

But now, in order for Zheng Ke to set up a publicity department, he must at least get people in Hong Kong to issue documents.

In this way, Jiang Cheng had three women, and the extra woman wanted to have a child for him. This is the key point. People who are after money are actually easier to deal with than those who are after love.

As for having children before getting married, it is not a big deal in this era. No one in China has an ID card now, and the household registration certificate is still required for work registration.

Zheng Ke had the household registration certificate, but when she gave birth in the hospital, no one checked it.

When Jiang Cheng left, he asked for Zheng Ke's photo and some information. When he arrived in Hong Kong, he asked for help from his connections. For rich people, it was easy to get an ID card. Even Zhou Lingying was secretly given an ID card by Jiang Cheng in Hong Kong.

It is not the age of the Internet, but a paradise for the rich and powerful. In the age of the Internet, people can expose a lot of things through the Internet, and some rich and powerful people have restrained themselves a lot.

In this era, the dark side of the rich and powerful is invisible to the world. Hong Kong no longer provides household registration and ID cards for people from China, and the rules are only for the poor. Jiang Cheng only arrived in Hong Kong, and within two days someone delivered Zheng Ke's ID card and Hong Kong household registration certificate to him.

Nowadays, Hong Kong’s ID cards are plastic-backed. Jiang Cheng still remembers that when he first arrived in Hong Kong, the ID card was just a piece of cardboard.

With Zheng Ke's ID card and household registration in Hong Kong, she can have a child if she wants. If she does have a child, it will be difficult for her to maintain her illegitimate status in China.

When they reach school age, it is not easy to determine who the father is and how to register the child. But with a Hong Kong household registration, everything becomes simple.

This year in Hong Kong, due to the popularity of the TV series "The Bund", some people began to imitate the dress of the characters in the plot.

But in the country, it was the beginning of imitating the Hong Kong trend.

In Shenzhen's 'Jiangdonglai', there are naturally clothing products, and the prices are not cheap.

Now some bell-bottom pants, dresses, Dacron shirts, etc. A piece of clothing may cost a month's salary of workers in other cities, and a pair of slightly more exquisite bell-bottom pants will cost more than 30 yuan.

But even at this price, it is still popular among Chinese people. Many people save money to buy one, and some women even ask their colleagues for money to wear it as soon as possible.

As Li Ka-shing said, he will never earn the last penny. But in other words, he may not know when the last penny will be.

Jiang Cheng had inadvertently earned his first penny from the domestic fashion trend, so he immediately recruited several masters from the clothing industry in Hong Kong to come back to China.

The clothing industry can actually be involved. Many clothes in later generations are made of industrial materials. Down jackets are so expensive, but they were later slapped in the face by a competitor called "Mou Donglai". You can buy a very good down jacket for two or three hundred yuan.

Also, all the cotton in later generations is fake, fiber cotton, garbage cotton.

Hong Kong's current clothing manufacturing industry is mainly engaged in overseas orders and exports. Bell-bottom pants are no longer a trend in Hong Kong and are very common clothing.

Jiang Cheng didn't think about taking overseas orders, and his supermarket didn't plan to expand abroad. But he didn't sell clothes himself, so he would look for qualified friendly suppliers in the future.

It would be better to take advantage of the current or even newly emerging clothing trend and directly build a large clothing processing factory in Shenzhen. Bell-bottom pants and the like will soon spread to every city in the country.

I started with bell-bottom pants, shirts and skirts, then down jackets and thermal underwear. I also had my own factory workers' clothes, hats and gloves. I had a garment processing factory, so I could handle it myself.

After staying in Hong Kong for a few days, Jiang Cheng returned to Shenzhen with his people. Zheng Ke was appointed as the head of the domestic publicity department of Jiang Donglai and became the chief of the department.

The first thing I did as a section chief was to recruit people, broadcasters, the kind that speak Mandarin like "Bao Zheng". Then there were theatrical performances, and people who could paint on the walls in this era.

The salary was more than 200 yuan a month, and Zheng Ke was paid 600 yuan. This salary shocked Zheng Ke, as it was more than her annual salary in the art troupe. Moreover, the work was easy. The art troupe often had to go to the countryside for training, and many of the performances were in difficult places.

In Shenzhen, I only need to be responsible for the work within the company. At most, I will take people out to perform after the construction and opening of the Jiangdonglai supermarkets in other cities.

Although this salary seems high, how to compare it? Compared with other cities, it is indeed a year's income. But now ordinary factory workers, workers recruited from rural areas, are almost 100 yuan a month.

Moreover, the wages of workers are still rising. Now the recruits need to have talents, and not just anyone can do the job. Two hundred yuan a month is just okay in Shenzhen, but Zheng is a leader, has experience in leading a cultural troupe, and has ten years of work experience.

Even for those who are capable, a salary of 200 is just the bottom line and can still be negotiated.

In addition to the salary, Jiangdonglai also offers free meals. Other Hong Kong businessmen cannot even offer this.

Because they have to declare the purchase of grain based on the number of workers employed by their own factories, even if they can falsely report a little, they can't report more.

The food that a worker can claim is only 30 kilograms, and not all of it is fine grain. On the other hand, at Jiangdonglai, the working meals are calculated based on steamed buns and rice.

It can be said that among other companies with the same salary, Jiangdonglai has a clear advantage by offering free meals. Moreover, the salary offered by Jiangdonglai has always been relatively high in the market.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the end of 1981, and in a few days it would be the year of 1982.

Jiang Cheng was in Shenzhen at the time, and he also admired his own ability. Zheng Ke was pregnant, but they agreed to have only one child and get an IUD after the birth.

Zhou Lingying had already had an IUD, as did Shen Li in Hong Kong. Shen Li is busy with her career now and has three children, which she thinks is good enough.

Letting Zheng Ke give birth to a child, no matter if it is a boy or a girl, just means that there will be someone to rely on and provide security in the future.

"Jiang Cheng, I want to discuss something with you." Zheng Ke said to Jiang Cheng cautiously.

"What's the matter? Why are you so serious?" Jiang Ben was originally sitting on the sofa. Seeing that Zheng Ke was a little serious, he lay on her lap and asked.

"If I give birth to a daughter, can she take my surname? If it's a son, I can take your surname Jiang." Zheng Ke said a little nervously.

In this era, only in some places where the son-in-law is looked down upon by others, the children will take the surname of the woman. But Zheng Ke felt that if he followed Jiang Cheng, Jiang Cheng himself had a wife and children, and he might not be able to rely on him when he got old.

If she gave birth to a son, Zheng Ke would not dare to rush to let him take her surname. If she gave birth to a daughter who was to be married off, she wanted to take her surname.

Jiang Cheng didn't expect Zheng Ke to say such a thing. She didn't know how much property she had. Even if Jiang Cheng had ten children, he could make each of them a billionaire.

But it doesn't matter if the property is given to someone with a different surname. Jiang Cheng is open-minded, and Zheng Ke only said that her daughter will have her surname, so it can be regarded as a dowry in the future.

"It's okay for the daughter to take your surname. If we have a daughter, we'll name her Zheng Shuang," Jiang Cheng responded.

"Feel good?" Zheng Ke asked.

"Yes. I speak Mandarin, not my hometown dialect." Jiang Cheng said.

"How come you thought of a name so early?" Zheng Ke asked puzzledly.

Jiang Cheng smiled and did not respond to Zheng Ke's question.

The real answer is that in The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao has a wife named Shuang'er, and he also wants a Shuang'er. Yes, that's it.

(End of this chapter)