The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 35 Loading and Departure

After selecting the route, select the order. If the cargo for a long-distance order is not large, the dispatcher will add an order for the driver.

Finally, Jiang Cheng chose an order to deliver medicinal materials to Yancheng, but the amount of cargo was too little for the car Jiang Cheng was driving, so the Jiefang truck was just right.

The dispatcher gave Jiang Cheng another order that passed through Anqing, which was a good order for the driver. Changcheng was rich in loquats, and they wanted to transport some loquats to Zhenjiang.

On the way to Zhenjiang, they actually passed through Nanjing. Unfortunately, Jiang Cheng only knew that Zhou Lingying was from Nanjing. Although she mentioned where in Nanjing she was from, Jiang Cheng did not remember it carefully.

If he wanted to get loquats, Jiang Cheng could get some from the loquat orchard. But he couldn't steal them on the road, because the fruits were all put in wooden baskets these days, and they were nailed shut, so you had to pry open the baskets to get them.

But for Jiang Cheng, he was the kind of person who could catch a rabbit in a hole just by putting his hand at the hole entrance. As long as it was not a one-piece object or something completely sealed, he could just take it.

In the dispatch room, Jiang Cheng registered the transport order, and the dispatcher immediately contacted the delivery unit. After confirming that the truck could be loaded upon arrival, Jiang Cheng took a map and set off.

First, I went to the herbal medicine factory to load the herbs, all of which were Chinese medicine. These days, the herbal medicine factory has good profits, because many hospitals are Chinese medicine practitioners, and many people take Chinese medicine.

So when Jiang Cheng drove to the herbal medicine factory, they gave him a pack of cigarettes and two ginsengs. Ginsengs are valuable these days depending on the age. But those with a young age are still not considered precious. The ones given to Jiang Cheng were not very old, suitable for making wine or simply stewing them as a medicinal food to nourish the body.

They gave Jiang Cheng so much money, one reason being that they valued his identity as a driver. Another reason was that it was the rainy season, and he had to be careful to protect himself from the rain when transporting the herbs. They hoped that he would be more careful when delivering the goods, as it was not easy for the herbal medicine factory to prepare these herbs.

Jiang Cheng took the benefit, which was to let the people at the herbal medicine factory rest assured and ensure that there would be no problems in delivering the herbal medicine. Other drivers did not dare to make a guarantee, but Jiang Cheng dared to say this because he had a personal space. After the herbs were loaded, Jiang Cheng left the herbal medicine factory and put all the herbs in the back compartment into the space.

By the time the car arrived at the place where the loquats were loaded, it was almost noon. The person in charge here asked Jiang Cheng to pick some in the orchard, but Jiang Cheng was not polite.

The loquats were connected to the trees, so Jiang Cheng couldn't store the fruits individually in his personal space. But he picked them quickly, picking only the big ones and putting them into his space.

Jiang Cheng was a truck driver, picking loquats by himself, with no one watching him. Jiang Cheng picked the fruits quickly in the garden, and after more than ten minutes, he appeared in front of everyone, with only a handful of loquats in his hand, not many at all.

After treating Jiang Cheng to a meal, the people here politely gave him a net bag of loquats for him to eat on the road. They also gave Jiang Cheng two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of wine, and asked him to drive as steadily as possible on the road, as the roads were difficult to travel on these days and the weather was hot, so if the skin of the fruit was broken, it would rot quickly.

After eating and drinking, the loquats were loaded into the car, and Jiang Cheng did not rest, but drove off directly. However, Jiang Cheng stopped the car in a deserted place.

There were eighty boxes of loquats, each weighing eighty kilograms, and the wooden boxes together weighed about three and a half tons. Jiang Cheng waved his hand and received all of them in the space.

The herbs and loquats were stored in the space, and the empty car was on the road, which could save a lot of diesel. The fuel saved would be enough for him to drive to some places privately in the future. The only pity was that there seemed to be no limit to the things he could put in the space, but there was a limit to the things that could be put in at one time. The car was too big, more than seven meters long, and Jiang Cheng could not put it in the space. Otherwise, he could go to other cities, put it in the space, and take a car directly to the destination, which would be easy.

Although the car was not loaded, Jiang Cheng was not driving fast. He was not familiar with the road. Now, let alone expressways, even national highways were only available in some important cities. Other roads were only provincial roads and urban roads.

In later times, the route was straight on the highway. Changcheng to Yancheng might be only 800 kilometers, but in those days, the car had to travel at least a thousand kilometers to go around some cities.

According to the route on the map, Jiang Cheng had to go to Anqing first, and then he had to go to Jiujiang. Jiang Cheng had a portable space, and just like some fishermen, he wanted to go fishing when he passed by a river.

Jiang Cheng didn't take a lunch break this afternoon. He drove his car directly to the bridgehead of Zhongzheng Bridge, and then found a place to go to the river under the bridge. He spent a long time fishing for fish and shrimps in the river. As for river clams, he stopped picking them up. River clams are really worthless these days, and not many people eat them in the city.

This Zhongzheng Bridge is the place where the Bayi Bridge was built in later generations. There is no Bayi Bridge in Changcheng now.

At the riverside, Jiang Cheng spent the longest time fishing this time, almost an hour, and only set out when the sun was not so strong.

As a result, Jiang Cheng didn't drive to a place in the suburbs of Jiujiang until dark. The road was not easy to drive on, let alone cement roads. Even if there were gravel roads or asphalt roads, Jiang Cheng would drive to the city overnight. But many of them were dirt roads with potholes and no street lights. In addition, the steering wheel of the car was difficult to turn, so Jiang Cheng didn't want to drive anymore.

After stopping the car, Jiang Cheng started to eat. He had some rice in his space when he was eating in the orchard. The dish was the shrimp that he had asked the canteen kitchen to prepare at the station last time.

Everything put into the space will be in a static state. Otherwise, it is impossible for the fish put into the space to still be alive and kicking after being taken out for many days.

The rice and shrimp were still hot when they were taken out, and Jiang Cheng quickly finished his meal. There were still a lot of shrimps, so he continued to put them into the space. The rice was gone, and Jiang Cheng planned to buy some steamed buns when he went to the city tomorrow and put them in the space in case of emergency.

After dinner, Jiang Cheng checked around and found no one around. Then he took off all his clothes, revealing his perfect body. Jiang Cheng didn't have any special hobbies, such as exposure. He had to take a shower. In such hot weather, he had already sweated a lot while driving.

At noon, when Jiang Cheng was fishing for fish and shrimps by the river, he was not only busy fishing for fish and shrimps. He also collected a lot of river water into the space in a small area and multiple times.

Now a magical scene appeared. A large amount of water appeared out of thin air above Jiang Cheng's head and poured on his naked body. Then Jiang Cheng quickly applied soap with a towel in his hand. When it was almost done, another large amount of water appeared and poured on him.

Even if you draw water from this river at noon, it is still quite cool when you splash on your body.

After taking a shower, Jiang Cheng simply scrubbed his clothes. They were definitely not very clean, but as long as there was no sweat smell on the clothes, it was fine.

(End of this chapter)