The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 51 Someone's Ending
Not long after, Zhou Lingying came back, but she was scratching her butt when she came back. Just now, when she went to the toilet, she squatted for a little longer because she was thinking about something, and was bitten by several mosquitoes.

The toilets in the countryside are squat pits. A large pit is dug in the ground, and a manure tank is buried in it. After that, the soil around the manure tank is filled firmly, and two large wooden boards are placed on the surface.

In this season, let alone mosquitoes, the condition of the manure pit inside would scare the future fairies if they saw it. Sometimes maggots can even crawl on it, which is disgusting.

The public toilets in the city are better, but they are just a little deeper and have septic tanks, so they are a little cleaner, but there are still a lot of flies and mosquitoes.

The only good thing is that the mosquitoes of this era are not as poisonous as those of the future era. The mosquitoes are not very poisonous, and the bites will not cause big swellings. If you apply some cooling oil, the red marks will disappear the next day even if the bites happen at night.

However, some more poisonous mosquitoes in later generations would leave a big bump with one bite, which might not heal for a day.

When Zhou Lingying came to Jiang Cheng, she no longer felt comfortable scratching his butt.

"Jiang Cheng, we're leaving tomorrow morning. I'm going to pack my things in my room."

"Well, we'll leave after breakfast tomorrow. You can pack your things now." Jiang Cheng replied. However, when he saw Zhou Lingying scratching her butt just now, Jiang Cheng wanted to teach her a lesson.

After Zhou Lingying entered the room, Jiang Cheng also went in. Seeing her packing clothes, Jiang Cheng hugged her from behind and whispered in her ear: "Lingying, you are so beautiful."

It's over~, Zhou Lingying is now a little afraid to hear Jiang Cheng praising her like this. Because whenever this sentence comes out, her heart will tremble, and then Jiang Cheng will take advantage of her immediately, so she has never failed to let Jiang Cheng succeed.

Zhou Lingying instantly felt a hand reaching into her pants from behind, and then heard Jiang Cheng's voice in her ear: "Where did you feel itchy just now? Let me scratch it for you."

It was fine for Jiang Cheng to touch her waist before, but this time he was too close to her butt. Zhou Lingying felt weak in the knees and said hurriedly, "Jiang Cheng, don't do that. I was bitten by a mosquito just now, but it doesn't itch anymore. By the way, take your hand out. I want to tell you something."

"Okay, tell me what's the matter." Jiang Cheng did as Zhou Lingying said and stretched out his hand. The butt was not big, but it felt good.

"The water level rose near the educated youth dormitory a few days ago, and the water flowed into the dormitory. The food of several educated youths was soaked. Then I lent them some of the food coupons you gave me. They will return the food after the food from the commune is distributed," Zhou Lingying said. She gave out a lot of food coupons and did not dare to hide it. Those were national food coupons. Even if the educated youths returned the food, it would not be as valuable as the national food coupons.

"It's okay, just lend it out, as long as you pay it back." Jiang Cheng said, without asking how much was lent out, because he only gave Zhou Lingying 30 kilograms of national food coupons. It would only be that much if all was lent out, not to mention that those educated youth would use food to pay for the borrowed food coupons.

"Jiang Cheng, I have something else to tell you. Don't be angry. There is a guy named Li Mingjun in our educated youth team. He is from the same city as me. He used to~~."

Zhou Lingying sat next to Jiang Cheng and started talking about Li Mingjun, because the food coupons and money she lent him were not going to be returned. After Li Mingjun's incident, Zhou Lingying was not the only female educated youth who lent him things. The new female educated youths all lent him some of their rationed food.

Although a lot of food and valuables were found in Li Mingjun's room on the day of the incident, it was not enough to pay everyone back. Li Mingjun explained that if the educated youth received letters from people in their hometowns, he would often "kindly" accompany them to the county post office to pick up packages.

Every time he went to the county, he would secretly go to a restaurant alone to eat something good to improve his life. The things he got through deception and fraud made him feel a sense of accomplishment even if he ate a bowl of noodles in the county. Jiang Cheng listened to Zhou Lingying's story and asked curiously about what to do with the five catties of national food coupons and one yuan that he could not get back: "So how is Li Mingjun doing in the educated youth team now? He must be pointed at every day."

"He is no longer in the educated youth team. He married a family in Qishe Village and moved out of the educated youth dormitory and lived with the girl's family." Zhou Lingying looked gossipy when she talked about this, and she was very excited.

Jiang Cheng also cooperated and continued to ask: "Li Mingjun is in such a state, why would anyone be willing to marry him and let him live with you?"

"You don't understand~." Zhou Lingying said with a teaching look, not caring that Jiang Cheng's hand was dishonestly placed on her waist again, and then explained: "Li Mingjun's matter is the matter of the Youth Corps after all, and it will have a bad influence on the Youth Corps if it gets out. The captain had punished him to clean the Youth Corps dormitory for several months, but Li Mingjun suddenly got together with the girl, and the captain also knew that it was not good for him to stay in the Youth Corps, so he agreed to let him move out."

"Then is Li Mingjun still considered a member of the educated youth team?" Jiang Cheng asked doubtfully. He didn't know much about the situation of the educated youth of that era, but he felt that it shouldn't be difficult to leave the educated youth team.

"Now Li Mingjun is definitely still in the educated youth team. It depends on whether the production team in the village will consider him a formal member. But even if Li Mingjun is considered a formal member and he earns work points in the production team, if he does not go to the county town to get a marriage certificate, his file is still in the educated youth team."

Zhou Lingying said that she didn't understand this before, and only understood it a few days ago when she went to the county Youth League to get a certificate of introduction. The Youth League allowed the educated youth to marry local commune members, and it would be too inhumane to disagree, after all, it didn't clearly say when the educated youth could return to the city.

Without the hope of returning to the city, can the educated youths not have love affairs? Can only educated youths marry each other? Now we are still advocating freedom of marriage, and we cannot have arranged marriages.

But in rural areas, many locals don’t get a marriage certificate. On the one hand, rural people have not reached the legal age for marriage. On the other hand, rural people don’t care about the piece of paper at all when they get married. What they care about when they get married is the witness.

Rural people still follow the traditional way of getting married, with a matchmaker as the matchmaker. Even if there is no condition to hold a wedding banquet, they will find a respected person in the village to witness it.

But the county's Youth League would not recognize the traditional marriage system. Without a marriage certificate, the Youth League's household registration was still independent and under the management of the Youth League. But people would turn a blind eye to some things. Unless there were special circumstances, they would not hold on to the matter.

After Zhou Lingying said this, Jiang Cheng also understood. No wonder there are so many unfaithful men in TV dramas in later generations. Some period dramas often write about educated youth returning to the city, and their wives and children being separated due to forced circumstances. Then they perform some touching scenes of recognizing relatives.

That is to say, many people did not get a marriage certificate back then, so they pretended to be righteous and only said a few words of indebtedness to cover up their hypocrisy.

If it was Jiang Cheng, he was not a driver and did not have any portable space. He had obtained a marriage certificate with Zhou Lingying. If she returned to the city in the future and abandoned her husband and children, Jiang Cheng would guarantee to bring the child and the marriage certificate to make her miserable, so that she would understand how dangerous the world is.

　Thanks to Mid-Autumn Festival Blue Battle Flag for the reward of 100 and Wuyin for the reward of 500.

And to the brothers and sisters who gave monthly tickets and recommendation tickets today, there are quite a few monthly tickets today, so I won’t mention them one by one. Thank you. In the new day, I hope everyone will not be as miserable as me, without a leave note, and cannot miss a day.

　
(End of this chapter)