The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 335 Cowardly Escape
Why did Jiang Cheng confess the affair between Shen Li and Zheng Ke? He had been laying the groundwork for two years.

Jiang Cheng would rather Zhou Lingying dislike him, but he would often say some unsightly things about Xixi people at night. It can be said that he is brainwashing, and the professional term is "PUA".

But Jiang Cheng's approach did not succeed. Everything he did made Zhou Lingying feel hypocritical.

Having other women outside is just one of Jiang Cheng's hypocrisy. When Jiang Cheng explained to Zhou Lingying how he got to know other women, Zhou Lingying discovered that her man was hypocritical in too many ways.

Zhou Lingying had never thought that her man would be like this after hiding it for more than 20 years. Jiang Cheng was furious about what happened between Jiang Yan and her brother-in-law a few years ago.

But now it seems that the little things about brother-in-law Chen Changgen are nothing in front of Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng has not only one woman outside, but two, and both of them have given birth to his children.

If people around knew about this, Zhou Lingying felt that she would be too embarrassed to go out. Her man had a woman and a child outside, and everyone would gossip about him behind his back.

And what about the child? Jiang Zhaozhao is dating someone now, and the family there is respectable. It is known that Jiang Zhaozhao's father is a promiscuous man with other women and illegitimate children.

Anyway, Zhou Lingying thought Jiang Cheng was dirty, but the key point was that her concept of time collapsed. She always regarded Jiang Cheng as her backbone, and honestly stayed at home to take care of her husband and children, thinking that she would always be with him through life and death.

Now that her greatest support is gone, if Zhou Lingying didn’t have children, she would have wanted to disappear.

Zhou Lingying cried all night and didn't sleep that night. The next day, she bought a train ticket and went home alone.

After returning home, he refused to eat, drink or talk much. When his family asked him where his father was, he refused to tell them. Then he fell ill and was admitted to the hospital the next day.

As the eldest sister in the family, Jiang Zhaozhao could sense that something might be wrong between her parents, and it was a big problem. In more than 20 years, she had never seen her mother like this. Her mother went on a trip with her father, but she came back alone.

In the hospital, Jiang Zhaozhao got the answer and felt like a bolt from the blue. The father whom she had admired since childhood turned out to be such a person, and he had a family and children outside.

What about dad? He won’t just run away to live with that family just because mom won’t accept it, right?

Also, should I tell my younger sisters and brothers about this matter with dad?

Jiang Panpan was not in the country at the moment, as she was exploring travel routes. The third child, Jiang Niannian, was busy selling VCDs and pirated discs, and the fourth child, Jiang Sisi, had finished her college entrance exams this year and was admitted to a regular university in Changcheng.

The fifth and sixth children will be going to high school in September this year. If their younger brothers and sisters who are still studying are told about their father’s affairs, it may affect their studies.

As the eldest sister, Jiang Zhaozhao had to take care of her mother in the hospital and work at the company, and she couldn't tell her younger sister and brother. If the second sister, Jiang Panpan, was in China, Jiang Zhaozhao could still talk to her, but as for the third sister, who didn't have much of her own opinion, it would probably only cause trouble if she told them.

Fortunately, Jiang Cheng came back after a few days, without shaving and looking depressed.

The key is the current situation. Zhou Lingying does not accept the woman and children over there, which is a bit unsolvable. Abandoning the woman who has been with him for more than 20 years is too ruthless. Even if the woman can be abandoned, what about the children over there?

Jiang Cheng had thought a lot these days, and maybe he was more selfish, so he didn't think about promising in front of Zhou Lingying that he had cut off his relationship with the people there. If he really had such a cruel heart, he would not have told Zhou Lingying about it in the first place.

When Jiang Cheng came back, he found that Zhou Lingying was not at home. Jiang Zhaozhao learned that he was back and asked for leave from the company. She said her mother was sick and in the hospital.

"Dad, how could you do this? Mom is so good to you. Why are you still out there~."

"Your mother told you about it."

"Are you still trying to hide this from us?"

"That's not the case. I wanted to wait for your mother to accept it first, and then slowly tell you."

Jiang Cheng shook his head and said that he was thinking that he would definitely tell his children, but if Zhou Lingying accepted it, he could take his time with the children.

"Dad, can you please stop associating with that place?" Jiang Zhaozhao asked while driving. Now she was driving her father to the hospital to see her mother.

Jiang Cheng took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it up, and shook his head without saying anything, which meant that he did not agree to break up with the woman.

How can I cut it off? People are emotional animals. They are my own children. I didn't control my body at the beginning. I won't talk about Shen Li. Zheng Ke still asked if she could have a child with him.

At that time, Jiang Cheng's idea was not that having a child would cause trouble in the future, but that Zheng Ke had a child to rely on, and his woman could only give birth to her own child. If she wanted to have someone to rely on, then break up and go and have a child with another man.

"Children should stay out of the adults' business." Jiang Cheng said while smoking a cigarette.

"Dad, how could you become like this? Just break up with that side and I will plead with mom. My sister and brother don't need to know about this." Jiang Zhaozhao said angrily. It was the first time she was so angry in front of her father.

From Jiang Zhaozhao's perspective, her harmonious family was ruined by her father's mistress.

But as the saying goes, a son will never dislike his mother's ugliness. Jiang Cheng did such a shameless thing. Even if Jiang Zhaozhao was angry, she was still his daughter. Could he sever the father-daughter relationship?

If this incident hadn't happened, Jiang Cheng would have been a perfect father in Jiang Zhaozhao's eyes. In an era that favored boys over girls, Jiang Zhaozhao had felt his father's deep love since childhood.

When she was little, she often rode on her father's shoulders, and he would always take out her favorite food from his pocket. He would often take her out for a ride in the company's Jiefang car, and every time he came back from a business trip, he would always have a small gift.

In Jiang Zhaozhao's eyes, his father has always been a hero and omnipotent.

But now everything has changed. Dad is a liar who has deceived Mom and them for more than 20 years. He is a hypocritical man. The women in the yard and the neighbors are envious of Mom for finding a good man, but he is such a person.

Jiang Cheng was silent again. He was a selfish person who wanted everything. After hearing what his daughter said, he did not want to break up with Shen Li and Zheng Ke. Instead, he thought that if the relationship could not be salvaged, he would use deception to say that he had broken up with them to see if he could salvage the relationship.

They arrived at the hospital very quickly. Actually, Zhou Lingying was suffering from a mental illness. She had a fever on the first day. Now she has been mentally depressed. Fortunately, the Jiang family is rich. Jiang Zhaozhao is now a major taxpayer in Changcheng and has connections in the hospital.

Zhou Lingying was staying in a single room and did not need treatment, which was a waste of medical resources. But now it is a market economy, and hospitals are also responsible for their own profits and losses, transforming from a service industry to a market-oriented industry.

If you have money and connections, what's wrong with staying in a single room? You're not afraid of being reported.

"Mom, look who's here." Jiang Zhaozhao brought Jiang Cheng to the ward, opened the door and greeted Zhou Lingying with a smile.

"Let him die." Zhou Lingying saw Jiang Cheng beside her daughter. He was unkempt and had wrinkles around his eyes. Time was unforgiving. But she felt distressed for only a moment. Thinking of this man's betrayal, she immediately became angry.

Jiang Cheng asked his daughter Jiang Zhaozhao to go out first so that he could talk to Zhou Lingying alone. Although Jiang Zhaozhao also disliked that her father had a family outside, she still had to listen to her father's words.

Alone with the two of them, Jiang Cheng had thought of many reasons to coax Zhou Lingying these days, but he didn't know which one would work. For example, he just made a mistake that all men in the world would make, which was what they said in the skit, and this statement was considered a relatively new one in this era.

But in this era, saying such things would offend most men.

Then he thought that they could quarrel at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed, but the prerequisite was that they had to sleep together. Jiang Cheng thought about using force, but his matter was not as simple as quarreling, and he was afraid that it would be counterproductive.

Jiang Cheng walked up to Zhou Lingying and wanted to hug her.

"Don't touch me, you! You're so @%%@ dirty."

"Wife, please forgive me."

Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand but Zhou Lingying slapped it away with great force, causing Jiang Cheng pain. But Jiang Cheng could not care less and sat on the bed begging.

Then he wanted to reach out and touch Zhou Lingying again. Jiang Cheng felt that as long as he could touch her safely, he could talk to her calmly. But Zhou Lingying didn't give him this chance, but kicked him directly.

Jiang Cheng could feel that it would be difficult for him to get close to Zhou Lingying today, but when he thought about it, he realized how could he easily forgive this matter.

In the ward, Jiang Cheng pleaded sincerely for a long time, but he never mentioned how to deal with the woman and child over there.

In front of Zhou Lingying, Jiang Cheng also felt her stubbornness for the first time. He tried to coax her for a long time but to no avail. In the end, they almost had a fight.

Jiang Cheng thought there was no need to rush, as it was impossible to forgive such a thing easily.

Jiang Cheng stayed in the ward for a few hours and left in disappointment.

Then Jiang Cheng went to beg Zhou Lingying every day, but he was annoyed by it, and it didn't work at all. He thought that in the past when they quarreled or something, Zhou Lingying was the first to give in. He had already compromised so much, what else could he ask of him~~.

Alas, it seems that this mentality has become the moral bitch in the skit.

But Jiang Cheng was really about to collapse. He even knelt down in front of Zhou Lingying and was almost planning to force herself to sleep with her.

However, seeing her attitude, Jiang Cheng really didn't dare to do that.

These days, Jiang Cheng also asked his daughter to go to the hospital frequently to help plead good words. Jiang Zhaozhao had no choice but to persuade her mother to forgive her father against her will because her father had a woman and a child outside.

Maybe Zhou Lingying felt it was not good to stay in the hospital all the time, so she went home after staying in the hospital for a few days.

Jiang Cheng thought things were turning around, and Zhou Lingying went home out of pity. But she kicked Jiang Cheng out of the house and threatened him that if he dared to make trouble in the yard, she would go back to her parents' home in Nanjing the next day.

Then Jiang Cheng was kicked out and went to live at the company of the third brother Jiang Nian Nian. Jiang Cheng put everything aside and went to meet Zhou Lingying whenever he had the chance.

There was actually a slight turn for the better. Jiang Zhaozhao came to Jiang Cheng and asked him what his attitude was towards the other woman and children.

If it can be cut off, the Jiang family will give them some money. The Jiang family is rich now, and the soy sauce and bottled water business earns tens of millions a year, which is an astronomical figure for ordinary people.

Jiang Niannian was making even more money. A VCD that cost less than 100 yuan was sold for more than 2,000 yuan. Although the profit from a single disc was not much, a city could sell tens of thousands of them.

Jiang Zhaozhao wanted her father to use the money to settle things with that side, thinking that giving them a few million would be a huge amount in this day and age.

At this stage, Jiang Cheng didn't want to say some things yet.

If it was possible to cut off ties, Jiang Cheng would have done so long ago. He had originally wanted to deceive Zhou Lingying and Jiang Zhaozhao by promising them that he would cut off ties with them, but if he continued to deceive them, Jiang Cheng felt that there would still be problems later.

Jiang Cheng refused to break up with the other woman and the child, and Zhou Lingying went completely crazy and refused to see Jiang Cheng. She said that if Jiang Cheng appeared in front of her again, she would immediately return to her parents' home and would not care about the child anymore.

In the end, Jiang Cheng didn't know what to do. He went to Hong Kong and lived there for a month. He told Shen Li and Zheng Ke what he had confessed to Zhou Lingying, but he didn't get Zhou Lingying's forgiveness.

During this month, Jiang Cheng's behavior was a little crazy. He had to have it at night.

The luxury hotel that Hong Kong invested 200 million yuan in back then has now appreciated in value to more than 1 billion yuan, mainly because the land price in Hong Kong has increased rapidly and the economic level has also improved rapidly.

During this month, Jiang Cheng distributed a lot of Hong Kong assets to Shen Li, Zheng Ke and others, and of course his children all had shares.

As for the Jiangdonglai supermarket, Jiang Cheng did not give it to them. He had said he would give it to them before. But that was his idea when he was young. When he was young, he thought that if he could hide it from Zhou Lingying and her children, he would hide it for the rest of his life.

When I was young, I thought I would live to sixty and then die. But when I was forty, I was free from doubts, and at fifty, I knew my destiny. So when I really reached a certain age, my ideas changed.

Since I have already confessed to Zhou Lingying, it is impossible to give all of Jiang Donglai to Shen Li's children. What if Jiang Ping and Jiang Mengmeng like to run a supermarket?

A month later, Jiang Cheng left Hong Kong. He couldn't bear to make Zhou Lingying sad, so he stayed in Hong Kong to accompany Shen Li and Zheng Ke happily.

A month of madness was just Jiang Cheng's way of numbing himself.

Zhou Lingying could not be forgiven, and Jiang Cheng thought about every little thing he did with her when they were young every day. It was impossible for him to feel at ease with Shen Li and Zheng Ke.

Jiang Cheng has never been a strong person, but because he has space and the knowledge of the future, everyone thinks that he is decisive and capable.

He used to work in the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and he quit when he was told to. It's not that he is so capable, but he knows that with the reform and development, any business is better than working.

Investing in some industries also relies on the insights of later generations, even when speculating in stocks and buying houses.

Without the experience gained from time travel and space exploration, Jiang Cheng’s own abilities are actually very average; he’s just a loser online car-hailing driver.

Faced with unsolvable problems, Jiang Cheng chose to escape and disappeared in the vast crowd in September.

When Jiang Ping and Jiang Mengmeng were in high school, some people said they seemed to have seen their father.

(End of this chapter)