The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 57 Zhou Lingying Returns to the City
In addition to chatting on the way, Jiang Cheng also explained some things. If they live in the city, if they face questions from neighbors in the future, they have to say that they had been married in the countryside for a long time.

At around ten o'clock, the car arrived in the urban area of ​​Changcheng.

For Zhou Lingying, after working in the countryside for more than a year, she finally returned to the city, even though it was not the city she lived in.

Only those who have lived in the city since childhood and lost their city life know how much they want to return.

Jiang Cheng did not go home first, but drove directly to the marriage registration office. The two got out of the car and went in with the candies, letters of introduction and documents.

The marriage process was very simple. The staff checked the introduction letters of both parties. All they had to do was fill out the information and stamp it. Jiang Cheng and his friends brought candies for the staff to eat. Jiang Cheng was also the driver, so the staff were very enthusiastic.

In about ten minutes, I received the marriage certificate.

With this certificate, Jiang Cheng's beating of his wife became legal and a family matter.

After getting the marriage certificate, Jiang Cheng still did not drive home, but went to the coal selling place. Jiang Cheng filled in the coal purchase receipt for a single person, as people in those days bought coal by the number of people.

The coal book is renewed once a year. In the fourth quarter of each year, residents must take their household registration book and old coal book to apply for the next year's coal book. Even if Jiang Cheng got married, he could only have one coal book because Zhou Lingying's household registration could not be moved to his.

This is not only true for coal, but also for non-staple food and grain. This is also why even if there are pretty girls in the countryside, city dwellers may not be willing to marry them. For those who are not pretty, there is even less hope for them to marry in the city.

When we arrived at the coal shop, the coal salesman greeted us warmly when he saw a truck coming to load coal, especially the driver getting out of the truck to take out the coal purchase book to buy coal.

When ordinary residents buy coal or honeycomb coal, the coal shop will give them a certain percentage of broken coal. Only those who have connections will be given good coal. So ordinary people who come to buy coal have to please the coal seller, so that they will give you more or less good coal. If you complain here, they will directly give you bad coal.

The coal purchase certificate is purchased at a designated location. You cannot change to another store just because you think that store doesn’t give you better coal.

But Jiang Cheng is a driver of the transport station, so why did the coal seller immediately recognize that Jiang Cheng is from the transport station? That is because in these days, in addition to license plates, cars also have the company to which the car belongs written on the car body in white or black paint.

The car was marked with the factory, unit, or military unit, and even the address. Jiang Cheng's work permit basically matched the unit's address on the car. When they were inspected at special places, they would check their work permit and see if the car matched.

The people at the coal store dared not offend the drivers of the transport station who came to buy coal. The coal plant had its own transport trucks, but they were not enough. When the weather was cold and coal was in high demand, they had to rely on the trucks of the transport station to transport coal.

It's okay to offend drivers from other units, but it's okay to offend the ones at the transport station. Although the people at the transport station also need coal, when it comes to fighting, one is for personal life needs, and the other is for the needs of the unit. Basically, you have to lose 1,000 of your own to kill 800 enemies.

The coal shop gave Jiang Cheng the coal according to the quantity he ordered. The coal for the fourth quarter was 80 kilograms, which was 40 kilograms per month.

And 80 kilograms of coal only cost 40 cents, which is 2.5 cents per catty. But this price is normal. In winter, when cabbage and radish are cheap, they are only 8 cents per catty. One dollar can buy more than 100 catties.

After the coal was bought, the family had coal for cooking, and Jiang Cheng returned home. Zhou Lingying watched everything, from getting the marriage certificate to buying coal. As her husband was a driver, people were very respectful to him wherever he went, which made Zhou Lingying admire him even more.

"We're home. Walk into this alley and there's a big yard. We'll live there."

The car drove to the intersection outside Nanluoyuan Alley, Jiang Cheng turned off the engine, got out of the car and told Zhou Lingying to take down everything in the car, and he would take over from below.

The location of Nanluoyuan is one of the places with relatively many residents in Changcheng, and it is not far from the city center. After all, it is close to the bus station.

Zhou Lingying gave some of the things to Jiang Cheng, and took a lot after getting off the bus. It was too much to take in one trip, mainly because there was a basket of mountain products given by Secretary Wang.

Looking at everything around, there is a public place with brick buildings not far away, which is divided into male and female areas. Men are on the left and women are on the right. There are words on the wall of the toilet to distinguish them. Unlike the toilets in the countryside, one person can go in at a time, regardless of gender, and women go to the toilet inside. If a man comes to the toilet and waits outside, the young girl will feel embarrassed.

So when Zhou Lingying returned to the city, she felt that toilets were beautiful.

Holding the things, she followed her husband Jiang Cheng into the alley. The alley was usually cool except at noon. It was summer vacation for students, so there were many children playing in the alley, some from the yard and some from nearby.

Walk to the middle of the alley and enter through a big door on the right to enter Nanluoyuan.

This is different from the house Zhou Lingying lived in before in Nanjing, but she has seen many such courtyards in Nanjing. Zhou Lingying's parents are both employees, and they live in the kind of employee building.

When she entered the yard, Zhou Lingying didn't know where Jiang Cheng's house was. But when she saw the row of pools in the middle of the yard, she was delighted. They were running water pools, so she didn't have to carry water for daily life.

In Jinhe Commune, Jiang Cheng's family lived in a rural village, but the educated youth camp was close to the commune, and the commune also took care of the educated youth, and only provided electricity, but no running water.

There were public toilets in brick and tile buildings, running water, and electric lights. Even these basic things in the city made Zhou Lingying very satisfied.

Jiang Cheng didn't know Zhou Lingying's feelings at this moment, nor could he understand them. If he had lived in this era for a year and was suddenly brought back to the 21st century, facing air conditioning, computers, mobile phones, the Internet, and his Didi car, he might have the same feelings as Zhou Lingying.

Taking Zhou Lingying to his main room, Jiang Cheng took the key, opened the door and entered the room, and Zhou Lingying followed him in.

"Put the things on the ground first. We are already buying tables, stools, and furniture. There is a big sister who works in the supply and marketing cooperative in the backyard of our yard. She helped me contact a carpenter. I will buy some old furniture as materials to make a new set of tables and stools. I have also asked the leader in the unit for help. I can get some new wood and make some more furniture. It's just right that you are here. You can take care of it while I'm away."

Entering the room, there was nothing else except some of Jiang Cheng's daily necessities placed on the floor and a bed.

Jiang Cheng also took advantage of Zhou Lingying's inattention and pretended to take out the laundry from the bed. His unwashed and clean clothes were actually placed in the space.

(End of this chapter)