The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 317 Arrangements for Jiang Yan
Chen Changgen was beaten so badly that his face was bruised and swollen, one of his teeth was knocked out, and there was blood at the corners of his mouth.

In this era, beating people is against the law, it is definitely against the law.

But in this era, the police listen to reasons. If Chen Changgen dared to call the police after being beaten, the police would think he deserved it after hearing the reasons and would not take any action.

Of course, even if Chen Changgen made a mistake, he couldn't be beaten to death. He looked badly beaten, but Jiang Cheng was still holding back. The places he hit were basically the parts that were resistant to beatings, so he just needed to lie down at home for two days.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to interfere in how his sister Jiang Yan lived with Chen Changgen in the future, but he couldn't just let Chen Changgen go.

"It's late now. I'll drive you to Juanzi's house to stay overnight. Chen Changgen, you should quit your job as the security captain of the factory in Shenzhen. Even if you go to Shenzhen after the Chinese New Year, I guarantee that you won't be able to do it. The company won't pay you."

Jiang Cheng sat on the sofa smoking a cigarette and announced directly to Chen Changgen who was wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with paper. It was an announcement, not a discussion. Jiang Cheng couldn't control Chen Changgen's legs, so he couldn't stop him from going to Shenzhen. But the job there was not something that could be done with just one word.

Chen Changgen was appointed as the security captain in a garment factory in Shenzhen. He had a very leisurely day and no one dared to cause trouble in the factory.

In addition, there was no one to supervise Chen Changgen, so he could leave his post whenever he wanted during working hours. And he only earned more than 1,000 yuan a month.

Chen Changgen must have felt bad for losing more than 1,000 yuan in salary, but being the security captain in a factory was very prestigious. There were many female workers in the garment factory, many young girls.

Some girls are thick-skinned and can joke around. They dare to let you search them if you ask them to. But Chen Changgen is a rabbit that dares not eat grass near its nest, afraid that Jiang Yan will find out.

"Brother, what should we do with the money he owes in Shenzhen?" Jiang Yan asked. She didn't allow Chen Changgen to go to work. If he didn't go to Shenzhen, the debt collectors might come to her.

"Leave the matter over there to me." Jiang Cheng responded.

Chen Changgen lost tens of thousands of yuan, and he felt something was wrong. Of course, if it was just a simple gamble, and there was no trick, he would naturally cover the money he owed.

After the Chinese New Year, when Jiang Cheng went to Shenzhen, he asked Lao Zhang to check the people who had won money from Chen Changgen. If there was no problem found there, he would give them some money to deal with it. If there was a problem, Shenzhen was Lao Zhang's territory, not to mention the money owed, those people would have to flee Shenzhen overnight, otherwise there would be plenty of ways to deal with them.

Jiang Cheng thought for a moment, and then continued to say to Jiang Yan: "Yanzi, don't do your job in Shenzhen anymore. I will also take care of the small store over there. I have a soy sauce factory in Changcheng, which is my own factory. You can go there to work after the New Year, and then you can open a small store there."

"Okay, I'll follow your arrangements." Jiang Yan agreed.

Jiang Yan was definitely reluctant to give up the several thousand yuan she could earn every month in Shenzhen, but she knew her brother would not harm her, and this was her family.

If you don't listen to your family, if you get bullied in the future, they may not help you even if you ask for help.

The main reason is that the work there is going smoothly. I know what to do every day without having to think about it. There are many acquaintances working with me.

But now she can go to Changcheng to work, and Jiang Cheng even said that it was his own factory. She didn't even know that her brother Jiang Cheng opened a soy sauce factory.

Since it’s the soy sauce factory opened by my brother, I have to come and help even if I earn less than before.

After beating him up, the man chatted in the room for a while. It was already late. They were not going back to their hometown in the countryside tomorrow, so some things could be discussed slowly tomorrow.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng couldn't say some things too directly, so he had to ask Zhou Lingying to talk to Jiang Yan tomorrow.

Jiang Cheng made a baked sweet potato for Jiang Yan. It was cold now, and eating it would warm her up. As for Chen Changgen, before Jiang Yan decided to continue living with him, he was of no importance in Jiang Cheng's eyes.

Jiang Cheng drove them to where Jiang Juan lived. The house she bought was a three-bedroom, one-living room house, with two bedrooms and a study. So her place was relatively empty. Xu Kai got a great deal by marrying Jiang Juan, and he didn't even need to prepare a wedding house.

Jiang Cheng agreed to let Xu Kai and Jiang Juan be together, but he only asked for one thing: to take good care of Jiang Juan's life. It didn't matter if he was not very capable, Jiang Cheng would arrange a way for him to make money.

After sending the person over, when Jiang Cheng came back, Zhou Lingying was still sitting on the sofa watching TV.

"Chen Changgen was beaten like that by you, why didn't you send him to the hospital?" Zhou Lingying asked immediately after seeing Jiang Cheng coming back.

"What a gift! Jiang Yan is coming tomorrow, you should prepare a thousand yuan for her." Jiang Cheng said as he took off his coat. It was getting late and it was time to go to bed. There were some things he could talk about while lying in bed.

"I understand. Chen Changgen seemed quite honest before. How could he become like this?" Zhou Lingying agreed.

One thousand yuan is enough for Jiang Yan's family to have a good New Year. Now her children have grown up and need to spend some money for the New Year. Especially her eldest child, who was born in 1970 and is now 18 years old, can already date in the countryside.

"Don't watch TV. There are not many programs this late. Come to bed and chat under the quilt." Jiang Cheng said as he walked towards the bed.

After hearing this, Zhou Lingying immediately stood up and turned off the TV. Judging from Jiang Cheng's attitude, he would have to eat meat again tonight.

The two of them quickly got into bed and spoke frankly to each other, and Jiang Cheng gave Zhou Lingying a tight hug.

As long as they are a couple, there are some things that cannot be avoided.

Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen are in this situation now. Judging from the current situation, Jiang Yan is very disgusted with Chen Changgen. Not to mention sleeping together, they even keep a distance when walking.

But if it continues like this, how can we live like this? Jiang Yan is only in her thirties, she is still young, she can't just stay a widow. If we are really together in name only, but not in the same room, then our life will be over.

But in this era, regardless of the reason, divorce is a very shameful thing, and it makes people lose face. Therefore, many people cannot live together, and will not divorce even if they are separated.

"Yingying, go and counsel Yan Zi tomorrow. After all, she and Chen Changgen already have four children. She's thirty-five or thirty-six years old now. If she doesn't forgive, she can't just stay a widow forever."

"How can I persuade him? I feel sick when I see Chen Changgen now. He has a wife and his children are already so grown up."

"But Yan Zi's situation is not easy for her to remarry. If she does remarry, she might find a man who has had other women before. Isn't it the same thing?"

It was indeed difficult for Zhou Lingying to persuade him. As a woman, she was reserved, but it was impossible for her to say that she felt uncomfortable and meaningless when having sex with a man.

But if Jiang Yan gave Chen Changgen another chance, Zhou Lingying felt that it was too easy for him. But in this era, divorces are not rare, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are relatively rare. Only a few people out of ten thousand are divorced.

This is still closely related to the preference for boys over girls. Once a daughter is married, she is like water spilled out. If she divorces and returns to her parents' home, her family will be too embarrassed to go out.

So some parents are really cruel. Even if their daughters are often beaten by their sons-in-law, they will not agree to divorce. If they dare to divorce, they should not return to their parents' home.

Most of the time, women are divorced and have nowhere to go, and in this era it is not "illegal" for men to beat their wives. Beating your wife is definitely illegal, but the police station only mediates and will not arrest the man.

In some places, there are even people who beat their wives to death and then claim that they died of illness. Without evidence, there is no accountability.

So even though this happened between Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen, Zhou Lingying didn't have the idea of ​​getting them divorced.

Moreover, if they divorce, Jiang Yan's children will not be able to hold their heads up in the village, and will inevitably be criticized behind their backs.

I can only say that it's fate. It would be better for her to have lost her husband like my sister-in-law Li Xianglan did.

Now in the village, everyone turned a blind eye to the fact that Li Xianglan had found a lover. No one said anything, and everyone understood that she lost her husband in her twenties.

"Wait~ wait until tomorrow~ and see." Zhou Lingying said that she would talk to Jiang Yan about her idea tomorrow first.

"Well, Yingying, if there is no man you can bear~~." Jiang Cheng has now transformed into an ox or horse working in the field.

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Women's words can be deceiving at times. When enjoying themselves, Zhou Lingying said she couldn't live without men. Afterwards, she felt bored and told Jiang Cheng that she could live without a man for the rest of her life.

The next day, Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen came over early in the morning.

Zhou Lingying gave Jiang Yan a thousand yuan, all in hundred-yuan notes. It was really convenient to have a hundred-yuan note. Otherwise, the thousand yuan would have to be in a bundle of ten-yuan notes.

It was useless for Jiang Yan's children to study. At least her eldest and second children, Chen Qiang and Chen Jing, did not do well in school. They were from rural areas, and they had originally planned to take the eldest child, Chen Qiang, to Shenzhen to look after the store after the Chinese New Year.

Chen Qiang is Jiang Yan's eldest son. He is nineteen this year. If it weren't for the advocacy of late marriage and late childbearing, he would have definitely married at this age in the past few years.

When Jiang Yan came this time, Jiang Cheng directly made yesterday's arrangements more specific.

There is not only one soy sauce factory opened by Jiang Cheng in Changcheng now, there is also a soy sauce factory that produces quick-brewed soy sauce.

Because Jiang Cheng raised the price of soy sauce by a few cents, the scattered business gradually shrank. But as supermarkets in Hong Kong and more than 20 cities began to sell soy sauce, the soy sauce sales area of ​​the supermarkets deliberately put up a poster to promote the production steps of traditional soy sauce.

Some people who have a decent family life really buy into this and will buy Jiangdonglai's self-produced soy sauce even if it costs a few cents more. And you may not use a bottle of soy sauce that costs only two or three cents a bottle in a month, so there is no point in saving.

In this era, ordinary people believe in product promotion and what experts say. Jiang Cheng specially compared traditional soy sauce manufacturing and quick brewing with posters. Now, as long as there is a Jiangdonglai supermarket, some aunties who buy soy sauce will definitely take the initiative to help promote the traditional soy sauce.

In this day and age, as long as a product is advertised on TV and claims to have certain therapeutic effects or replenish certain things, it will basically sell well.

Because the soy sauce sales in many cities were good, the soy sauce factory, which originally had more than 500 employees, thought there were too many people, now has over a thousand.

This traditional craft is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In any case, the wage level in Changcheng is low, and the monthly salary of thousands of people is only about 100,000 or 200,000 yuan.

Jiang Cheng asked Jiang Yan to go to the soy sauce factory to be responsible for logistics. Jiang Yan had worked as a dormitory manager in Shenzhen for several years, and her job content was not much different from property management.

The logistics department also has many similarities with the property management department. In addition, sales and procurement mainly use the channels of "Jiangdonglai". Jiang Yan is only responsible for hygiene, labor protection supplies, canteen food supervision, electrical maintenance and so on.

This was a private soy sauce factory owned by Jiang Yan's brother, and after having worked as a dormitory manager in Shenzhen for several years, Jiang Yan had some confidence when she heard about the job she was going to do in the soy sauce factory.

And Jiang Yan doesn't have to do those jobs herself. There are people in the logistics department, so she can just arrange them.

As a supervisor in the logistics department, he would have a stable income every month. On his way to and from get off work in the factory, Jiang Cheng would set up a larger convenience store, which was somewhat similar to the small supermarkets of later generations.

At that time, we can ask my nephew and niece Chen Qiang and Chen Jing to help look after the business. If they are capable, they can open a breakfast shop near the soy sauce factory. Now that everyone's life is getting better and better, it is not a luxury to eat breakfast outside during work.

As for the internal staff canteen of the soy sauce factory, Jiang Cheng contracted it to the director of the soy sauce factory. He arranged for his relatives to work there with others, and they earned a lot of money every year. But it was precisely because of this income that the director worked very hard and felt at ease in the soy sauce factory.

As for Jiang Cheng's brother-in-law Chen Changgen, if he had done something like that, he should have been able to make his own way.

After discussing the arrangements after the New Year, Zhou Lingying pulled Jiang Yan to the bedside to discuss how to deal with Chen Changgen's matter.

Jiang Yan had never thought about divorce. It was indeed because of the issue of children, and also because of face. She felt that divorce was shameful.

Of course, with Jiang Cheng here, unlike some of her family members, she would have no one to rely on after the divorce. But this was the last resort, and Jiang Yan would not do that easily.

They didn't want to divorce, but couldn't accept Chen Changgen's betrayal, so they had to sleep in separate beds or rooms. Jiang Yan even took her eldest and second child to live at the soy sauce factory, leaving Chen Changgen to fend for himself in his hometown.

But Chen Changgen has been in Shenzhen for several years and has seen the world. It may not be possible for him to live a peaceful life in the countryside.

As long as you go to Shenzhen, people who know nothing can earn hundreds of dollars a month.

But the current situation is that if Chen Changgen really sneaks out to work alone while being suppressed by Jiang Cheng, then there is basically no possibility for him and Jiang Yan to be together in the future.

If that were the case, it would be up to Jiang Yan's four children to decide whether to follow their father or mother. Those who followed Jiang Yan would naturally have unexpected wealth in the future.

(I played a children's game yesterday and got addicted to it all night. I feel sleepy today, so I'll just stop here. The game is suitable for ages 8+, but I'm addicted)

(End of this chapter)