The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 49 Dinner as a Banquet

Soon the team leader of the educated youth brought Zhou Lingying to the commune reception office. Here, not only was Jiang Cheng accompanied by the commune secretary, but also the deputy team leader of the production team and the commune accountant.

These people were basically well-known figures in Jinhe Commune, but Zhou Lingying saw that they were all politely chatting with her boyfriend.

"Comrade Zhou is here. You must be tired from working. Come and have some water and eat some peanuts." Secretary Wang greeted her immediately when he saw the educated youth team leader bringing Zhou Lingying over.

When Jiang Cheng saw Zhou Lingying being brought here, he finally understood why Secretary Wang had been dragging him to chat. It turned out to be a delaying tactic. Now that it had come to this, he had to have lunch here today.

"Secretary Wang, I'd better go home with my partner and come over for dinner later. Also arrange for people to load the farm tools you mentioned to take to the county town for repair. After dinner, we can rest for a while and then set off."

Jiang Cheng stood up and said with a smile, "My date is here, so I don't have time to chat with the people from the commune anymore." He saw through their intentions and put two handfuls of peanuts in his pocket without hesitation.

"Then Master Jiang and Comrade Zhou, take care. We are sorry to trouble you again this time," said Secretary Wang.

Jiang Cheng agreed to help run a trip to the county's agricultural machinery factory, so Secretary Wang couldn't really bother him for nothing. He had to give him some fuel for the car's consumption, just like last time. But he couldn't give as much as last time, because other communes had run out of tractors, so they would arrange for some to come here, and the commune had to save diesel.

But arranging a meal with meat dishes and giving him a pack of good cigarettes can be considered as a reward for Jiang Cheng. In addition, no matter what work Zhou Lingying does today, it will be counted as full work points.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying walked out of the reception room, and Jiang Cheng took all the peanuts out of his pocket and put them into her hands.

"Lingying, I've only taken two days off because I'm very busy as a driver. Have you got the certificate ready? Once it's ready, we'll go back to the city early tomorrow morning to get the marriage certificate." On the way to the car, Jiang Cheng said to Zhou Lingying that he was going to get something from the car.

"Well, I have the certificate. If I leave tomorrow, I will go and talk to the educated youth team leader. I will also tell my friends." Zhou Lingying replied. It has not been many days since she came into contact with Jiang Cheng and they decided to get married, but she feels it is very natural now.

"If you want to say goodbye to your friends, I'll accompany you to the educated youth dormitory in the evening. I just happened to bring some watermelons from the city, so you can treat your educated youth friends to some watermelons."

Jiang Cheng said that he came to the car to get something, originally to get watermelon and loquat. Of course, there was also a bag of wild duck and fish, and he planned to have a good meal at home today.

The two chatted as they walked, and soon they reached the car. Jiang Cheng asked Zhou Lingying to wait, and he got in the car and took a small bag of watermelons down. Jiang Cheng originally planned to put three watermelons in the bag to eat at home, but now he put two more watermelons in.

"Next, these are watermelons bought from Yancheng. Our watermelons are not on the market yet." Jiang Cheng took out the sack from the car and asked Zhou Lingying, who was standing outside the car, to take it. After she took it, he handed her the bag of wild ducks and fish and continued, "I didn't plan to eat at the commune, so I specially brought wild ducks and fish here, but it's the same if my mother and sister-in-law prepare them for me."

"Yeah." Zhou Lingying responded and took everything.

When Jiang Cheng got off the car, he also brought a net bag of loquats down. After getting off the car and closing the door, he was about to take the sack from Zhou Lingying, but Zhou Lingying only gave him the bag for fish and wild ducks, and then said, "Jiang Cheng, this watermelon is not heavy, let me take it."

Five watermelons weigh less than 40 kilograms, which is nothing for people of this era. In the future, a girl would feel tired if she carried a large watermelon home from the supermarket.

Jiang Cheng was not polite to Zhou Lingying. He came to this era and wanted to be a boss. In the future, apart from work, he had to enjoy the same benefits as a boss.

Zhou Lingying was carrying a bag of watermelons, and Jiang Cheng was carrying a bag of wild ducks and fish, and they were walking home.

On the way, Jiang Cheng peeled loquats for Zhou Lingying. Zhou Lingying was very happy and thought Jiang Cheng was so nice to her, so she carried a few watermelons and peeled loquats for her.

Zhou Lingying had no idea that if this happened in the future, and Jiang Cheng was so ungentlemanly as to let a woman carry a watermelon, if this were posted online, he would be scolded to death by public opinion.

When Jiang Cheng got home, he saw his mother drying things under the eaves, and the three children playing with some grasshoppers they had found from nowhere. "Mom, I'm back," Jiang Cheng shouted to Zhao Yuxia.

Before Zhao Yuxia turned around, her eldest niece saw Jiang Cheng and ran over to call him uncle. The other two little ones also followed their sister and called Jiang Cheng uncle.

"Chengzi, you're back." Zhao Yuxia couldn't hide her happy smile when she saw her son Jiang Cheng coming back.

"Well, I took a leave and came back to get married with Lingying. I brought a few watermelons, and there is a wild duck and a fish in my bag. But I can't eat at home at noon today. When I came back, I met the secretary of the commune, who asked me for help. Lingying and I will go to the commune to eat at noon." Jiang Cheng said more directly.

"The commune secretary is inviting us to dinner, so we have to go." Zhao Yuxia said happily.

In many places in the township communes, being able to invite the commune secretary to dinner is considered a great honor. For Zhao Yuxia, the commune secretary asked her son to help her treat her to dinner. If she told others about it, she would be very proud.

The fact that Zhao Yuxia's second son was a car driver had long been known, and many people envied him. But how important was this identity? Zhao Yuxia and Li Xianglan were both uneducated, so they would not brag too much to others.

Now that’s great, next time when she introduces her driver’s son, she can say that the secretary of the commune wants to see his son to do something, and he has to treat her son to a meal with good cigarettes, wine and good food.

Zhou Lingying put the watermelon in the kitchen. It was hot now, so she put the watermelon in a wooden barrel and soaked it in water. She would cut it and eat it in the afternoon. It was cool and refreshing.

As for the loquats, I gave some to the children to eat and then put them away.

After finishing everything, Zhou Lingying went back to her room to change her clothes. There was mud on her pants, and her clothes were also work clothes. She had to look good when she was going to dinner with Jiang Cheng.

While Zhou Lingying was changing her clothes, Jiang Cheng also explained the situation to his mother. He would stay for a day. He would get something good today. Even if he and Zhou Lingying were married in the countryside, he would just take them to the city to get a marriage certificate tomorrow.

"Mom, ask your sister-in-law to call Jiang Yan and my sister over at noon. And call my uncle and the others as well. We'll have a nice dinner at home in the evening. That'll be the banquet." Jiang Cheng made some arrangements before leaving for the commune. As for his uncle and aunt who didn't get along with his father, they could just forget about them.

"Okay, Mom will listen to you. Let's have some fun at home tonight." Zhao Yuxia said with a smile. How could she not be happy? Her son had become successful. She actually wanted to take care of her brother, Jiang Cheng's uncle.

But the family's life pressure is now actually on Jiang Cheng alone, and Zhao Yuxia, as a mother, can't bring up the idea of ​​helping her family. Now that Jiang Cheng is here tonight as a wedding banquet, she can also invite his brother to come over for a good meal.

Zhou Lingying also heard some of the words, and heard Jiang Cheng say that tonight's meal would be like a wedding banquet. So after the wedding banquet, what would her relationship with Jiang Cheng be like, and what would happen tonight.

Jiang Cheng didn't give Zhou Lingying time to think too much. After explaining things to her mother, he immediately took her to the commune for dinner.

　happy mid-Autumn Festival.

It’s so hard for a new author to have no points to exchange for leave notes.

Everyone is going to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival during the day, what should I do?

Please give me some reward, one dollar. It won’t make us poor, but it won’t make me rich. How do you say the following words? Just ask if you will give it or not.

　
(End of this chapter)