The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 48 Your Partner is Here

"Lingying, your partner is here."

"Zhang Yan, you are trying to fool me again, right? Don't run away. If I catch you, I will make you pay."

Zhou Lingying was wearing a straw hat and picking rice ears seriously. Zhang Yan, who was cutting rice, ran up to her and suddenly said that her boyfriend had come. Zhou Lingying thought it was true and immediately stood up to look around.

Then Zhang Yan burst out laughing and ran away. Zhou Lingying knew she was fooled and chased after her.

I didn't run much because it had rained the previous two days and the fields were not dry yet, so my pants were covered in mud.

Everyone knew that Zhou Lingying had applied for marriage at the Youth League in the county town. Zhou Lingying also explained to everyone that she wanted to get married so quickly because her partner had been allocated housing in the city, not because she was in a hurry to get married.

But after everyone found out, they always made fun of Zhou Lingying about her boyfriend.

Seeing that Zhou Lingying was cleaning the mud off her pants and didn't chase her, Zhang Yan walked over to her again and said, "Lingying, if your boyfriend comes back, you really have to leave here."

"Zhang Yan, don't worry. Even if I go to the city, I will come here often to see you. My partner's parents are here, and I will definitely come back often in the future." Zhou Lingying replied. She did have a few friends in the commune who she was reluctant to leave. But it was impossible for her not to go to the city to live with Jiang Cheng just because she had friends here.

However, Zhou Lingying's words are still very realistic and true. People go to high places and water flows to low places. If Jiang Cheng has no family in the commune. In this era, a round trip costs 50 cents and takes a lot of time. It is better to write letters to contact. You will definitely not see each other a few times a year.

"Hey, why are you here, Captain? I have to go to work now, don't deduct my work points later."

Zhang Yan wanted to take a break and chat with Zhou Lingying, but she was sharp-eyed and saw the educated youth team leader coming over. Or in other words, people working in the fields would pay attention to whether anyone noticed them slacking off if they wanted to take a break.

"Well, I have to go pick up rice ears too, so don't deduct my work points." After hearing what Zhang Yan said, Zhou Lingying also looked around and saw that it was indeed the team leader coming this way, so she had to hurry up and work.

Zhang Yan wanted to run away quickly, but after hearing what Zhou Lingying said, she couldn't help but stop and said with a smile: "You are a rice picker, you only get two work points a day, and you can still get deducted."

Zhou Lingying was stunned, then she started to laugh. This was the first time she had done such a small amount of work since she went to the countryside. The educated youth team leader had specially taken care of her and asked her to do this job.

But no one in the educated youth team would have any objection to this kind of care, because if other educated youth were asked to pick up rice ears, it would not be called care but a punishment.

Everyone lived by earning work points. If the work points were less, the food would be less. Even if the newly arrived educated youth were not very good at farm work, they were assigned at least six work points of work to do.

The educated youth leader was coming over, Zhang Yan had slipped away, and Zhou Lingying was also picking up rice ears seriously. But the educated youth leader still found Zhou Lingying because he came here to find her.

"Zhou Lingying, come here." The educated youth team leader came to the field path where Zhou Lingying was working and shouted. Everyone was working in the field and took off their shoes and put them on the side of the road. It was mainly because it rained a lot recently and the fields were wet and muddy.

"team leader."

"Zhou Lingying, your boyfriend, Master Jiang, has returned with this car and was left at the office by the commune secretary. Can you ask your boyfriend to help you?" The educated youth team leader said straight to the point. Zhou Lingying was very excited to hear that Jiang Cheng was back. But the educated youth team leader asked her to ask Jiang Cheng for help, and she instinctively thought that she should not cause trouble for Jiang Cheng because of herself.

But Zhou Lingying faced the educated youth captain, who had taken good care of her in the past, so she could only ask, "Captain, what do you want my partner to do for you?"

"Wash your feet first and clean the mud off your body, and we'll talk while we walk later," said the educated youth team leader.

Regardless of whether or not to speak to Jiang Cheng about what the educated youth leader was going to say later, Zhou Lingying wanted to see Jiang Cheng as soon as possible. So she walked up the path in the field, washed the mud off her feet in the field ditch, put on her shoes, and tidied her clothes.

After tidying up, Zhou Lingying followed the team leader of the educated youth to the commune office. On the way, the team leader also began to talk about how he could help.

The location and environment of Jinhe Commune are not good. There are no mountains, and there are not many forestry resources. As for water, it is only the middle reaches of the nearby Qingshui River, and the Qingshui River is not a big river among rivers, so it cannot develop fisheries.

It is one of the communes in Yi'an County with the lowest yield, but it is not the last. It is precisely because of the low yield that it cannot even get a tractor during the harvest and has to wait in line behind other communes.

Now that there are no tractors, Jinhe Commune has a lot of farm tools that need to be taken to the agricultural machinery factory in the county for repair, and some more farm tools need to be purchased and distributed to the production teams.

After the rice is harvested, it won't be long before the fields are ploughed. If there are no tractors, oxen have to be used to plow the fields. Now, during the slack season in each commune, they organize land reclamation everywhere. The newly reclaimed fields need to be cultivated with farm tools.

Now it just so happened that the commune secretary had applied for a tractor but had not yet received one. Not only did he not have a tractor to help with harvesting and loading rice ears, he was also worried about how to get to the county farm machinery factory to get some farm tools repaired and a batch of new farm tools brought in.

The commune secretary was in a meeting this morning, saying that even if they had to arrange for people to use carts to pull the farm tools back, they had to pull them back. Not long after the meeting, a large truck appeared. And this large truck was not the first time it appeared. Last time, when the educated youth camp wanted to expand the dormitory, it was this truck that helped to pull the bricks.

It is the car of the second son of Jiang Changhe's family in Kaiyang Village, and also the car of the boyfriend of the female educated youth Zhou Lingying.

So as soon as Jiang Cheng returned to the commune, he was "invited" by the commune secretary to sit in the office.

It's already past ten o'clock, and the commune has a canteen that can entertain Jiang Cheng for a meal, just like receiving leaders from the county.

But Jiang Cheng didn't need this meal, he had plenty of game in his space, and now he wanted to be with Zhou Lingying. Especially when he heard that the commune secretary wanted him to contribute to the commune and drive to the county town, he was even more reluctant.

His time is limited. He will stay in his hometown for one day today and return to the city tomorrow morning. He has to go back to the city to get the marriage certificate, not in the county.

But as a commune secretary, Wang Zhongmin was really good at keeping people around. Although Jiang Cheng did not agree to help, he did not say much about it. He just kept him at the commune reception to chat, and treated him with cigarettes and peanuts. He talked about some things about Jiang Cheng's family, and asked the brigade to take care of his sister-in-law Li Xianglan.

Along the way, the educated youth team leader explained the situation to Zhou Lingying, hoping that she would come forward to persuade Jiang Cheng. This trip to the county town would not delay for long, but it would help the commune a lot. Now some carts and flatbed trucks in the commune are used for grain harvesting. If there is a tractor, Jiang Cheng would not have to be bothered.

If it was Zhou Lingying in the past, according to her mindset in the Youth Corps, whoever has the ability should try to contribute to the collective. But now Zhou Lingying is thinking that because the Youth Corps Captain used to take good care of her, she has no choice but to ask Jiang Cheng for help.

(End of this chapter)