The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 323 Jiang Cheng's 'retirement'

In May 1989, the island nation began to cut interest rates. During the economic bubble, many people had already seen the essence of the situation.

The price of a piece of land is dozens of times that of the United States, but this thing cannot be eaten or drunk. The key is that the price of island countries cannot be dozens or hundreds of times that of other countries, because things can be imported.

When buying a piece of land in an island country, other industries cannot make back the money except for finance. Everyone has seen the inflated economy of the island country, and the island country’s own people have also seen it, otherwise there would be no interest rate cut.

But gamblers are crazy. Not to mention eight or nine years ago, even as early as one or two years ago, many people saw this situation. In the game of passing the parcel, many people thought that as long as they were not the last one, it would be fine.

Jiang Cheng also felt a little regretful, because he didn't understand history and finance. If he understood, he could hold on for another half a year and start withdrawing from the island country after the interest rate cut. The extra money he earned would be an astronomical figure.

But for Jiang Cheng, it was just a little regretful, and there was no regret. The main reason why Jiang Cheng paid attention to it was because it made money quickly. If he really wanted to make money, he could make money in real estate for more than 20 years.

Jiang Cheng has always been reluctant to work in the real estate industry, mainly because he doesn't want to deal with local people. It's too tiring, and he can't hide behind the scenes.

In July, Jiang Panpan finished her high school entrance exam. Her score was OK, and she was admitted to a key high school in Changcheng. However, her score was far lower than Jiang Zhaozhao's when she was admitted.

To celebrate, Jiang Cheng and his family went to Shenzhen for a vacation during the summer vacation. They also bought a piece of land there and built a sea view villa.

Three years later, Jiang Cheng had long thought about living a "retired" life. He would take Zhou Lingying to travel around, but because of the child, he had to go to junior high school after finishing elementary school.

It's a lot to worry about when a child goes from junior high to high school. But this year Jiang Panpan is going to high school, and the eldest child Jiang Zhaozhao will be a senior in September this year. He will take the college entrance examination next year. There are too many children, and I have to worry about one after another.

The key point is that Jiang Chengdu is almost forty years old, and he doesn’t want to go out and jump around when he is old and can’t walk anymore.

After returning from a month-long trip in Shenzhen, Jiang Cheng announced at home that he would quit his job as a driver and retire early.

In fact, Zhou Lingying had mentioned this matter two years ago. Since they had contracted the soy sauce factory, they were already wealthy people in Changcheng, so there was no need for Jiang Cheng to make any more trouble.

But Jiang Cheng said at that time that the soy sauce factory was mainly cooperating with Jiangdonglai, and it would be difficult to leave before it became bigger and stronger. In addition, Zhou Lingying's family still needed to make a profit by reselling foreign exchange, so he had to go to Shenzhen to get foreign exchange.

Of course, Jiang Cheng did not say that he would stop working as a driver and would not go to get foreign exchange. He still needed to use the foreign exchange to go to Shenzhen and Hong Kong to meet the women and children there.

The main reason Jiang Cheng decided to retire was that he had been exposed by Zheng Ke. After being exposed, Jiang Cheng felt relieved.

No need to pretend in front of Zheng Ke, the key is that my daughter Zheng Shuang doesn't need to maintain the image of a busy father. I went to Hong Kong once, and I will definitely go there again in the future.

Even if Zheng Shuang doesn't understand now, she will understand when she grows up. Her father has several women, and her mother came later. She also has to slowly adapt to the fact that her father is actually very rich.

Jiang Cheng announced at home that he would not work anymore, and his family agreed. As for foreign exchange, Jiang Cheng asked Zhou Lingying to call her family members, and they would not trade every month, but maybe only a few times a year.

However, the volume of each transaction will increase, and there is not much difference overall.

In fact, Zhou Lingying's family members had already become millionaires because of the foreign exchange provided by Jiang Cheng. They really looked down on the little money they earned from work.

Zhou Lingying's father and uncle retired a long time ago, and her second brother Zhou Xingcai and his wife also resigned. They are all ordinary factory workers, working very hard to earn only a few hundred yuan a month, compared to the hundreds or thousands of yuan they could earn by simply exchanging foreign currency. They really have no motivation to work.

In order to make more money, Zhou Xingcai took the foreign currency and went to Shanghai to exchange it with others after resigning. He skipped the middleman and made a lot of money every month.

Zhou Lingying's elder brother, Zhou Fanyi, had been doing well before because of his father-in-law's care. Now he is considered a small leader in Nanjing, but Zhou Fanyi is struggling almost every year.

Being a leader is good, with good benefits and high salary. But that is only compared with ordinary employees. The salary in Nanjing is a little better than that in Changcheng. As a leader, Zhou Fanyi now earns more than 400 yuan a month.

After all the miscellaneous expenses, it is only about 6,000 yuan a year. But compared with foreign exchange, this amount of money is nothing, especially in this era when many leading cadres go into business.

Every family has its own problems. To the outside world, Zhou Fanyi is a leading cadre and has an extra income from his brother-in-law. But in front of his children, they think their father is stupid.

My aunt gets several thousand yuan in foreign currency every month. When she made money, my grandparents would share some of it. My great uncle would also take some from her sometimes.

Since my great uncle retired, he no longer felt comfortable asking for foreign exchange. My grandparents had some savings, and both of them had pensions. In the past few years, they did not make money by exchanging foreign exchange.

If my aunt gives me foreign currency every month, my father and uncle Zhou Xingcai will split it in half.

But now, every time Zhou Xingcai gets several thousand foreign exchange, he directly gives half of the RMB to Zhou Fanyi. Then Zhou Xingcai takes the foreign exchange to Shanghai and exchanges it for others at a high price.

Before Zhou Xingcai went to Shanghai to exchange foreign currency with others, he sold the foreign currency at home to people who needed it or to buyers. The price was not that high. After deducting the cost on Zhou Lingying's side, one US dollar was only between one and one and a half dollars.

So if Zhou Lingying gave 3,000 US dollars, it should be 1,500 RMB each for Zhou Xingcai and Zhou Fanyi. But now it is basically Zhou Xingcai who takes it, and directly gives 1,500 RMB to the eldest brother Zhou Fanyi.

For Zhou Fanyi, he doesn't have to do anything and gets thousands of dollars every month. But for Zhou Fanyi's children, what's the point of having one or two thousand dollars from their uncle? Their uncle Zhou Xingcai can easily earn more than one dollar with one dollar every time he goes to Shanghai.

Now Zhou Xingcai can earn 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a month, and he has also opened a clothing store for his wife. He has a good income every year, and his life is so beautiful.

Jiang Cheng announced his retirement and stopped being a driver. The children were very happy at first because their father could spend more time with them.

But when school started in September, the Jiang children were dumbfounded.

Jiang Cheng spent more than half a month to finally convince Zhou Lingying. He wanted to raise all the children to adulthood. The fifth and sixth children were only ten years old this year, so it would take at least ten years.

The key is that she has been taking care of her children at home. Jiang Zhaozhao is now 17 years old. She will be married and have grandchildren within ten years. Will she have to worry about them then?

The Jiang family is so well-off that they don't even want to hire a live-in son-in-law. But many of the sons-in-law may come to help the company, unless the son-in-law has a big business himself.

It is not a live-in son-in-law. It is normal for this son-in-law to live with his parents-in-law or nearby. Nowadays, it is still the era when people directly talk about the gift and the car and house when they go on a blind date.

There will be endless descendants. Jiang Cheng has been whispering in Zhou Lingying's ear every night recently. He usually goes out to travel, and next June he will be at home with Jiang Zhaozhao for the college entrance examination. Jiang Cheng is almost 40, and Zhou Lingying is 35. No matter how young she looks, she can't compare with the young guy.

So in September, Jiang Cheng hired a "nanny" and took Zhou Lingying on a trip. She was called a nanny, but in fact, she was a friend of Zhou Lingying's from outside the courtyard. She came over to cook two meals a day and clean up. There was no need to wash clothes. Jiang Zhaozhao and the others were so old that they had already washed their own clothes. They just had to help their younger siblings wash their clothes.

Before I went on a trip, I installed a telephone at home. The telephone was not expensive, the materials and labor cost plus the telephone cost totaled 400 yuan. But the initial installation fee was 2,100 yuan.

In fact, this price is still relatively cheap, because there is a discount for personal installation. If it is an industrial and commercial user, the initial installation fee is now 4,500 yuan, and the labor and material fee and telephone fee are 500 yuan, a total of 5,000 yuan.

This amount of money was nothing to Jiang Cheng, but he didn't want to install a phone before because he didn't have any business partners, and it was impossible for Zheng Ke and Shen Li to call him after installing a phone.

Zhou Lingying didn't install a telephone, mainly because she was used to being frugal. There was a public telephone at the intersection outside the yard, which was convenient for making calls, and she didn't want to spend thousands of yuan.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying are going on a trip now, and Zhou Lingying installed a phone because she needs to contact her children.

Now it is almost 1990. Before, if an individual wanted to install a telephone, he had to have a certain rank in the unit. And the installation of a telephone was usually reported by the unit, and individuals were not qualified to apply for installation.

When Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying first went out, Zhou Lingying was always thinking about home and she would call home almost every other day. She was worried about her children at home not having a good life, but after the first ten days or so, Zhou Lingying started to have fun after getting used to it.

As for traveling, you need money to enjoy it. If you have money, you can enjoy it, but if you don't have money, you will suffer.

Exploring the customs and food of a place, visiting some scenic spots, all cost money. If you keep thinking about how much this and that will cost when you go out, your mood for traveling will be greatly reduced.

Moreover, traveling is better in this era than before, because the era of coupons is over. If you have money, you can enjoy many things. When Jiang Cheng worked in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, many local specialties could not be obtained by spending money, but required a lot of effort.

Jiang Chengdu used various materials to exchange for Huadiao, Nv'erhong, and some fine rice wines in Shaoxing. Now you can buy a lot of wine from the rice wine factory in Shaoxing with just money, but some Nv'erhong and Zhuangyuanhong that have been stored for many years are basically gone.

Jiang Cheng has stored a lot of good rice wine in his space. The only pity is that after being in the space for ten years, the age and taste of the wine will not change.

Otherwise, Jiang Cheng would have started to store large quantities of rice wine and white wine more than a decade ago. He would drink it himself, but it would be meaningless if the production year was matched. Some wines are not stored for the actual year, and the taste is completely different from balsamic vinegar.

Space can also have advantages and disadvantages. For example, if a bottle of wine is opened and placed in space, it will not evaporate and will not affect the taste. Some wines are opened and it will be wasted if they are not drunk immediately.

Lushan was the first stop for Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying. The scenery there was beautiful and Jiang Cheng also had a bottled water factory there.

The Lushan Stone Chicken and Lushan Stone Fish are a must-try. The Stone Chicken is a kind of frog called the spiny-breasted frog. It lives in caves in mountain streams and is not available in other places.

Stone fish lives in the springs and waterfalls of Lushan Mountain. It is a few centimeters in size and cannot be eaten anywhere else.

They watched Mount Lushan and ate the delicacies of Mount Lushan. They took photos with a camera, and when Jiang Cheng felt like hunting, he could go hunting. The key point was that the couple came out together, and they drove a car to travel by themselves.

Zhou Lingying still remembers that when she was young, Jiang Cheng took her to Yihuang County to hunt and caught a wild boar. The main thing was that day when she was dragged into the woods by her man and her pants were taken off while she was standing.

They are really an old couple now. They don't have the same passion as they did in the past at home. It has been a long time since Jiang Cheng hugged Zhou Lingying and kissed her.

Zhou Lingying didn't expect that this man would become wild when he went to the wild. Zhou Lingying couldn't understand Jiang Cheng's thoughts in a certain aspect. She felt boring in a clean bed, but was very excited when it was dirty outside.

Jiang Cheng didn't know what Zhou Lingying was thinking. If he knew, he would definitely complain to her. He was poisoned by Japanese movies. If he wasn't afraid that Zhou Lingying would say he was perverted, Jiang Cheng would still want her to play a role.

Traveling is really addictive. Just go to any place, find delicious food, take some photos, and a day will be gone.

After staying in Lushan for a few days, I went to Jingdezhen. In addition to being famous for its ceramics and porcelain, Jingdezhen actually has many local delicacies and specialties. It’s just that porcelain is too famous, so when you mention Jingdezhen, you will think of Jingdezhen’s porcelain.

In fact, the tea here is also very good, and there is also Castanopsis quercus tofu, which is made from the fruit of a tree called Castanopsis quercus. To be honest, the taste is just average.

It's not that this kind of tofu is not delicious, in fact it's OK, but if you want to know how to make it smooth, you can go for tender tofu. If you want to know how to make it taste, it doesn't seem to be as good as the frying, boiling or deep-frying of ordinary tofu.

You can eat this mainly when the weather is hot, it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Some local specialties are not necessarily delicious. The reason they are called specialties is mainly because they are not available in other places.

Jingdezhen also has porcelain clay stewed chicken, which is similar to beggar's chicken in terms of preparation, but is indeed a delicacy.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying first drove to Nanjing to visit her parents. Jiang Cheng had driven them to Nanjing before, but they were not so relaxed on the road. They went there with the mentality of having fun.

This meant that they would only stay in a place for one or two days. After arriving in Nanjing, they would naturally stay at Zhou Lingying's parents' home for a few days.

Then we went to Shanghai for sightseeing, and on the way back we took the Qiantang River route from Hangzhou.

We left in September and it was almost November when we came back. So after Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying came back, they planned to go to the north in December to see the snow.

Jiang Cheng went to Shenzhen after returning home for a few days. He said he was going there to get some foreign exchange. This time he was not just going to get a few thousand dollars, but tens of thousands.

In fact, it has been too long since I last visited Zheng Ke, Shen Li and their children there. But if I want to find Zheng Ke in Shenzhen this time, I’ll have to rely on my luck.

She became addicted to charity activities and mobilized all the employees of Jiangdonglai shopping mall and factory to donate clothes and textbooks to some poor areas.

In order to do charity work, in August, he discussed with Jiang Cheng about taking his daughter to Hong Kong, asking Shen Li to help take care of her and letting Zheng Shuang study in Hong Kong.

If Jiang Cheng wants to enjoy the joint service of Zheng Ke and Shen Li, he has to rely on his luck. Zheng Ke has to be in Shenzhen when he passes through Shenzhen on his way to Hong Kong.

(End of this chapter)