The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 336 Everyone Thinks

The Spring Festival of 1994 was on January 31, 1995 in the Gregorian calendar.

In Changcheng, Jiang Cheng has not appeared for several months.

But in Zhou Lingying's opinion, it was very likely that Jiang Cheng had gone over there to fool around with the women and children.

But no matter where Jiang Cheng is, Zhou Lingying's children have not seen their father Jiang Cheng for several months, so they will naturally have questions. The truth cannot be hidden, but fortunately, the youngest children Jiang Ping and Jiang Mengmeng are both in high school, so even if the truth is told, they can bear it.

Jiang Panpan returned after exploring some routes overseas. When she came back, her elder sister Jiang Zhaozhao told her about her father.

Then I told the third child about their father. A few months later, their father disappeared, and they had no choice but to tell their other sisters and brothers who were still in school.

To Jiang Cheng's children, this matter was simply a fantasy. None of them had ever imagined that their father had a woman and children outside without telling anyone and had kept it a secret for more than 20 years.

But there is one thing that Jiang Zhaozhao and her friends have to admire about their father: he was able to support two families on his own in the 1970s and live a wealthy life.

But now Zhou Lingying has not forgiven Jiang Cheng, which leads everyone to think that Jiang Cheng went directly to another woman and child.

Jiang Cheng not only abandoned his wife and children, but also his parents in his hometown. Now that he disappeared, his parents no longer care about him.

Of course, Jiang Zhaozhao and Jiang Niannian have plenty of money now, and they will take care of their grandparents when Jiang Cheng is not around.

Jiang Changhe and Zhao Yuxia are now almost 70 years old, which is considered a long life in the countryside. They are still in good health because they eat well, dress well, and go to the hospital immediately when they are sick.

Although both of them had various minor ailments, they did not have any serious illnesses, and Jiang Dahai and Jiang Xiaoxi both passed away in recent years.

Now that the New Year is approaching, the Jiang family is not very lively. They are just going through the motions of buying New Year goods and putting up couplets. This year, Zhou Lingying plans to go back to the countryside early for the New Year, and even plans to stop living in the courtyard at the beginning of next year.

There are too many familiar neighbors and neighbours who didn’t see Jiang Chengcheng during the Chinese New Year this year, so someone will definitely ask about him.

As the saying goes, family disgrace should not be made public. Until it came to the point of disregarding everything, Zhou Lingying and her children would never tell outsiders that Jiang Cheng had run away with another woman.

Anyway, under the speculation led by Zhou Lingying, the children also felt that their father was too heartless. How could he run away with another woman and child?

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January 1995, Hong Kong, Kowloon District.

Zheng Ke hadn't been back to the mainland for several months, and Shen Li rarely went to her fake film and television company. Because when Jiang Cheng stayed in Hong Kong for a month last time and left, Jiang Fei was asked to manage the hotel.

The financial statements of Jiangdonglai supermarket and some operating projects were sent to Shen Li. These financial statements had to be reviewed, signed and put into the archives room. In the past, Jiang Cheng was mainly busy with these tasks.

Although he rarely went to the company throughout the year, he was always watching the revenue in the financial statements. In Jiang Cheng's opinion, he could not control the corruption within the company, but as long as the profit in the financial statements was growing every year, it meant that the problem was not too big.

Whenever there was a financial problem, he would arrange for someone to find out the cause. Jiang Cheng never asked his subordinates to expand anything. Without new investment, as long as the overall economic environment was growing, profits would not decrease.

"Sister Zheng, do we really need to go to China to find Brother Cheng?"

"How can I not go? Jiang Cheng is obviously in trouble. He hasn't come to see us for a long time. The last time he came, he said he had informed them of our situation. Now he hasn't shown up for several months. Moreover, Xiang Jiang's property has been transferred to Xiao Fei and us to manage. It is very likely that Jiang Cheng gave up on us in order to keep that place."

In the room of the villa, Zheng Ke responded to Shen Li's words.

When they met Jiang Cheng a few months ago, Jiang Cheng said that he had confessed to Zhou Lingying. Although he was not forgiven, Shen Li and Zheng Ke believed that it was only a matter of time.

Jiang Cheng was very good at that one, and they always thought that Jiang Cheng was thinking of more absurd scenes in the future, and those geniuses were so crazy.

But now Jiang Cheng has disappeared for several months, and there is no news at all. They sent him many messages on his pager but he did not reply. They can't contact him at all. Now Shen Li and Zheng Ke think that something big may have happened.

As for property, the hotels and supermarkets left by Jiang Cheng, and even the domestic supermarket data reports are sent to Hong Kong every season.

In recent years, the fixed assets in Hong Kong and China have been appreciating. Even if Jiang Cheng disappeared, they can all become billionaires.

But they need a man, and their children also need a father. Even if Jiang Cheng wants to be a heartless man and break off ties with this side, at least he should explain it in person.

So Zheng Ke planned to ask Shen Li to go to China to look for Jiang Cheng before the Chinese New Year. They didn't know how to find Jiang Cheng. But if Jiang Cheng didn't want to stay here because of his wife and daughter over there, they could just look for Jiang Cheng's wife over there.

In the past, everyone might not have known where Zhou Lingying and Jiang Cheng lived in Changcheng, but Zheng Ke knew that Jiang Cheng’s daughter had set up a soy sauce factory there.

Jiang Cheng's children and nephews all work in Shenzhen, and through them we can know where Jiang Cheng lives in Changcheng.

"Brother Cheng won't break up with us just because of that side. He's not such a cruel person. What if he can't come over for a few months just to please the people over there? Will there be any problems if we go over suddenly?" Shen Li said hesitantly.

After all, this is not a trivial matter. It is not easy for a woman to accept that her man has another woman and children.

Even if Jiang Cheng brought Zheng Ke to Hong Kong, Shen Li was unhappy in her heart. No woman would be willing to share her man with more people.

"Don't worry about that. When we get there, we'll first find where Jiang Cheng lives and then we'll act accordingly." Zheng Ke responded with a frown.

"Okay, Sister Zheng, I'll listen to you. Let's go to sleep first. I'll deal with things in Hong Kong in the next few days and then we'll go to China together." Shen Li nodded.

"Don't hold me so tight~~."

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China, Shenzhen, dance hall.

Nowadays, dance halls in many cities in China are doing well, mainly because young people like to dance disco, which is free and unrestrained. Everyone follows their own preferences and feelings, twists their bodies at will, and shows their unique dance postures.

People with talent dance beautifully, but people without talent who dance unrestrainedly are just like a group of demons dancing wildly.

"Boss Jiang, this time we have some good stuff, original and very tender."

"Really? I have plenty of money. Do you have any students?"

"There are no students yet. It's not easy. Even those from the countryside and the city are not easy to get one now."

"Okay, the old price, right? Still one thousand." Jiang Lin smiled and talked to the people around him. Money is really a good thing.

A thousand yuan was a lot in the past few years. If you were in Changcheng, you would have to work for half a year without eating or drinking. But it is not low now. In recent years, wages in all cities in China have risen. Even in the inland city of Changcheng, most people's wages are around 300 yuan.

However, in Shenzhen, everyone's salary is about 1,000 yuan. Ten thousand yuan households are nothing in this era. After all, any employee in Shenzhen can earn about 10,000 yuan a year.

"Boss Jiang, one thousand yuan is a little too little. You are an old customer and we have not raised the price. Now the price has been raised. There are many bosses who like this. You have to add two hundred yuan."

"You're still asking for twelve thousand for a country boy~, forget it, let's take a look at her looks first."

Jiang Lin said impatiently that he now had an annual income of several hundred thousand yuan, mainly from the share of the canteen of a meatball processing factory and the canteen of a clothing factory.

Jiang Lin's sister and brother-in-law couldn't do anything about him. In the past, he had to go to the canteen to pretend to help out and manage the business. Now they just let him take a dividend every quarter.

In recent years, not only have wages increased, but the food standards for employees have also increased. The profits from canteen contracting are also higher than before.

Even if one person earns an extra dime in food profit a day, according to the number of employees, it will be hundreds or thousands more a day, and hundreds of thousands more a year. If he gets 30% of it, his annual income will be about 100,000 more than when he first started.

Now Jiang Lin gets an average of 30,000 yuan a month, so he can be a groom every day, and bring a different bride every day. But now he wants a 'clean' woman.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Jiang Lin really doesn't want to go back to his hometown for the New Year. His hometown is shabby and there is not much to do. If he goes back, he will just play cards with others. Once he goes back, his family will force him to go on blind dates and find a partner. If he already has a partner, he will not be so free.

But when it comes to finding a partner, Jiang Lin is actually quite envious of his younger brother Jiang Yang.

With his sister Jiang Juan, the general manager of the company, Jiang Yang took the dividends from the canteen in Shenzhen and ran to Shanghai a few years ago, starting with contracting the canteen for employees of the "Jiangdonglai" supermarket.

Supermarkets don't have many employees, but they can be contracted out and operated externally, even if the customers who come to Jiangdonglai don't eat fast food. Contracting a supermarket canteen can also bring a lot of profit, but it's not as good as facing factories with hundreds or thousands of employees.

But if you contract a canteen, you can hire a "store manager" to manage it. It doesn't mean that one person can only contract one canteen. Then Jiang Yang contracted them one by one, and now his annual income is quite a lot.

The key point is that Jiang Yang actually found a college student as his partner, and they were almost at the stage of discussing marriage. Although the college student was not from a famous university, college students were still very popular in the 1990s.

Jiang Yang's current income is not worse than that of his brother-in-law Xu Kai, even though he only gets 20% of the dividends in Shenzhen. With hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, it is normal for college students to be attracted to him even if he only has a junior high school diploma.

The main reason is that although Jiang Yang himself has no special ability, at least he is hard-working and down-to-earth. If such a person does not have relatives to help him, he may just be a laborer for the rest of his life.

But he was born into a good family, first he had a good uncle, and then his sister became the general manager of Jiangdonglai in China. With such relatives to take care of him, all he had to do was to work honestly.

Unlike Jiang Yang, Jiang Lin's reputation was bad. He didn't like to take precautions when playing with women. He had paid people to have abortions several times. For someone like him, he still wanted to find a beautiful college student as his wife.

People are disgusted when they hear Jiang Lin's reputation, unless they are the kind of people who are interested in his money and can ignore him.

Jiang Lin's image is no longer the young man he used to be. He now wears a gold necklace and a gold ring, a leather jacket, a leather bag, and smokes high-end cigarettes. Because he doesn't brush his teeth frequently, his teeth are yellow.

After agreeing on a price with someone, Jiang Lin is going to relax tonight. He likes childishness, the feeling of wanting to resist but not daring to do so, which makes people fascinated.

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If you walk too much at night, you will run into ghosts. If you do too many illegal things, you will be caught one day.

Prostitution is a public security punishment, and whether to detain the offender depends on the circumstances. The fine is less than 5,000 yuan, and the maximum penalty is rarely imposed.

Jiang Lin was arrested more than once in these years. When his family was notified to come and pick him up, his sister Jiang Juan was called. But when Jiang Juan heard that her brother was arrested for that matter, she felt so ashamed that she asked her brother-in-law Xu Kai to pick him up.

But this time it's a bit tricky.

Jiang Lin was arrested at the beginning of 1995, just before the Chinese New Year. It was the Chinese New Year, and the law enforcement team was rushing to achieve results.

The current situation is that Jiang Lin has to ask his sister to find a solution, no matter whether the other party has it or not.

There are many unregistered residents in rural areas now. Although ID cards have been popularized for many years, they were only fully implemented in towns and villages two years ago. However, many people in some remote areas still do not have ID cards.

Jiang Lin had to pay a heavy price this time, but fortunately, this was before the Internet era, so it was very easy to change the age of the household registration. It was normal for some people to change their age to a higher one in order to work.

In order to delay retirement, the age limit is changed to a lower level.

January 20, 1995, Changcheng.

The Chinese New Year is only ten days away. The atmosphere of the New Year is very strong in cities and rural areas. After all, everyone's life is getting better and better every year.

In the past, when visiting relatives, the gifts might be a piece of cake and a roll of noodles. Now, when visiting relatives during the Spring Festival, who would not feel comfortable going out without buying some meat?

At this time, all the students who were supposed to be on holiday were on holiday. In previous years, the Jiang family would spend New Year's Eve in the city, after all, the city was bustling. But this year, Zhou Lingying and her family had already packed their things.

Today, Jiang Zhaozhao, Jiang Panpan, and Jiang Niannian can all drive cars, the kind with power steering, as opposed to old jeeps and Jiefang cars.

Moreover, the Jiang family also has cars. It can be said that the Jiang family is the richest in Jinhe Town and Yi'an County. But when it comes to the city or even Gan Province, even if Jiang Niannian picked up a windfall from VCDs and discs, the Jiang family is not necessarily the richest.

Because there was a ruthless guy in Changcheng who made a Little Overlord game console a few years ago. The market for this thing might not be as big as VCD and DVD, and its annual output value is only about 10 billion at most.

But they are the only ones leading the market, unlike VCD players, even if there is a market worth tens of billions, there are still many people who want to get a piece of the pie.

"Mom, let's go. Everything has been loaded into the car and we've bought all the New Year's goods."

"Alas, the New Year celebrations in the countryside are not as lively as in the city. It's all because of your unfaithful father."

Zhou Lingying walked out of the room somewhat reluctantly. Usually at this time, all the family members had returned. Everyone liked to stay in one room, roasting something in the brazier.

Then the whole family talked and laughed. At that time, everyone had a central point and everyone revolved around him~~.

(End of this chapter)