The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 34 Choose the Sports Car Route
After everyone washed up and had breakfast, they set off together. It was only about ten minutes away from the village to the town.

After Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying slept together yesterday, although they didn't do anything excessive, their relationship became closer. When there were no other pedestrians on the road, Zhou Lingying actually took the initiative to hold Jiang Cheng's hand.

When Zhao Yuxia saw someone she knew on the road, she directly asked them to go and see the car driven by her son Jiang Cheng. Someone actually heard that it was her son driving the car and followed to take a look.

The group came to the place where Jiang Cheng parked his car yesterday. The bricks on the car had been unloaded long ago, and the car compartment had been cleaned.

In front of everyone, Jiang Cheng opened the car door, took out the rocker key and started the car. When he left, he deliberately called Zhou Lingying to get in the car, forced her to kiss him before starting the car.

Jiang Cheng left, and the others had to do what they were supposed to do. Li Xianglan had to go to the production team to work, Zhou Lingying had to go to the educated youth point to gather. Zhao Yuxia had to go back and brag to her neighbors about the car her son drove.

When Zhou Lingying arrived at the educated youth camp, several people immediately surrounded her and spoke flattering words to her. When she was the team leader before, no one treated her like this. Now, because she has a good partner, everyone is so enthusiastic towards her.

When he was about to go to work, Li Mingjun found Zhou Lingying.

"Zhou Lingying, congratulations on finding a good partner." Li Mingjun said naturally. Some things are missed once they are missed. He was a little interested in Zhou Lingying. But he felt that he was a smart person. If he wanted to be with Zhou Lingying, he might have confessed his feelings long ago.

How can he live with Zhou Lingying? If he has a girlfriend, it will be difficult to fool other female educated youths, and it will not be so easy to coax good things.

Now Zhou Lingying actually found a truck driver as her partner without saying anything. This was something Li Mingjun could never have imagined.

"Well, Li Mingjun, actually you are not young anymore, it's time for you to find a partner. You are so outstanding, you will definitely be able to find a good partner." Zhou Lingying said sincerely.

After all, Li Mingjun and Zhou Lingying were from the same city, and Zhou Lingying had a very good impression of Li Mingjun before. Zhou Lingying felt that she might have changed, no longer had lofty ideals, and was too realistic.

Li Mingjun went to the countryside two years earlier than Zhou Lingying, and was two years older. So Li Mingjun is the same age as Jiang Cheng, and at this age, it is time for him to find a partner in the commune. Zhou Lingying also hopes that he can find a good partner who shares the same ideals as him.

Hearing Zhou Lingying's words, Li Mingjun nodded. He also wanted to find a good partner, but there was no suitable one. He was assigned to Jinhe Commune, and the leaders of the commune had no suitable daughters for him to pursue.

Among the educated youth, those with better conditions would have their hometowns send some things to them, but there were no really very good conditions. Because if the family conditions were really very good, they would definitely have connections to prevent their children from going to the countryside.

Li Mingjun has been thinking recently whether he should lower his standards for finding a partner, at least not be so demanding in terms of appearance, as you cannot have your cake and eat it too.

"Zhou Lingying, I came to see you this time because I still hope you can help the few educated youth who came here at the beginning of the year. They don't know how to save food, and now there is not much food to eat. Even if I take out the food I saved, it is not enough." As they were about to arrive at the work place, Li Mingjun told Zhou Lingying the purpose of this visit alone.

Zhou Lingying stopped on her way to work and thought for a while. Over the past year, Li Mingjun had told her many times to help other new educated youth. There were quite a few educated youth coming here every year. Some got married and left, while others were new.

But Zhou Lingying never asked Li Mingjun who he helped. Even if he helped, she didn't know how much he helped. But Zhou Lingying thought about it. After all, they were from the same hometown. At least Li Mingjun took good care of her mentally and encouraged her every day. If Li Mingjun had asked her for help before, she really couldn't help.

Zhou Lingying turned her back and took out some food coupons from her pocket. These were given to her by Jiang Cheng privately, and she was reluctant to use them. She took out ten kilograms of food coupons, but felt that it was too much, so she put five kilograms back.

This is the national food coupon. I found someone to exchange it for coarse grain coupons. One kilogram can be exchanged for several kilograms. Then he took out a dollar from another pocket.

"Li Mingjun, this is for you. Tell them to use it sparingly. The rice will be harvested in a few days and the new grain will be distributed." Zhou Lingying handed the money and food coupons to Li Mingjun. She was weak in character and would never refuse help from others.

Li Mingjun took the money and food coupons and immediately thanked Zhou Lingying. He saw it just now, Zhou Lingying must have more than this amount of food coupons and money, but he didn't see clearly how much.

This is a different person. In recent days, Li Mingjun knew that Zhou Lingying's family definitely didn't send anything. Now Zhou Lingying has food coupons and money, so you don't need to guess who gave it to her.

At around 7:40, Jiang Cheng drove to the bus station.

In Changcheng, due to geographical reasons, the transportation of goods mainly relies on trucks. However, the number of train wagons is limited, and important materials are given priority. In addition, since it is not a coastal area, there is no sea transportation. As for river transportation, there is no big river, so it can only be transferred.

So the long-distance orders at the transport station are actually more than the short-distance orders. This is mainly because a long-distance trip takes too long, resulting in a backlog of orders.

Unlike short-distance driving, drivers can choose their own routes at will. For long-distance driving, the route is far, and many drivers will basically drive in one direction after they are familiar with the route.

If the truck is heading to Shanghai this time, and then to Suzhou next time, and then to the northeast the next time, it would take a long time for a driver to get familiar with the route.

And being familiar with a route is not something you can just do once. Some drivers who drive to a certain place frequently will often try to see if there are other roads that are easier to drive and get there faster.

So when driving long distances, the first thing to do is to choose a city in the general direction. Also, don’t drive to the same city that other drivers have chosen.

There is another advantage of transporting goods along the same route all the time. That is, once you become familiar with the route, some people will know that you specialize in traveling to cities in a certain direction, and some people may privately ask you to help carry some things or buy something.

So after excluding some routes taken by other drivers, most of the surrounding provinces have drivers driving them. If Jiang Cheng wants to drive, he has to drive to several coastal cities, or cities in the north. Of course, the trucks in Changcheng will not really drive thousands of kilometers to the north.

If it is too far, it is not cost-effective to transport it by truck. The roads are not easy to travel now. It takes ten days to half a month to go from Changcheng to some cities in the north. If it takes a month to go back and forth, it is basically not worth it.

Finally, Jiang Cheng chose the route to Jiangsu, mainly because there was a sea there and it passed through Nanjing. Zhou Lingying was from Nanjing, and if Jiang Cheng delivered the goods, he would have the opportunity to visit Zhou Lingying's home.

(End of this chapter)