The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 68 Coal-digger and Ganjiang River

Jiang Cheng was not using public resources for personal gain. He was making a profit from his own personal space. If he had not come with an empty truck, he would not have been the one to get the coal. Even if he took the job, Jiang Cheng did not take a detour, nor did he use the gas provided by the Changcheng Transportation Station for personal use.

"Brother Liu, I'm leaving. I'll come to see you when I come back from Xiangping." Jiang Cheng started the engine and waved to Liu Yong.

"Well, be careful on the road. There is a difficult section of the road when driving your big car to Zhangcheng." Liu Yong also waved goodbye to Jiang Cheng.

Fengcheng and Zhangcheng are very close, only 30 kilometers away. However, Zhangcheng does not have a coal mine of its own, and the power stations there all transport coal from Fengcheng for thermal power generation.

This also resulted in a large number of coal trucks heading to Zhangcheng every day, and the roads could not be maintained.

Jiang Cheng got on the car and drove out of the coal plant. In this coal plant, the transportation pressure is actually very high. For example, Master Liu's car broke down today, so he might have to make one less trip today, and this happens frequently.

So the logistics director of the coal plant also asked Jiang Cheng to continue cooperation if he passed by with an empty truck in the future. But it was impossible to give money, as it was difficult to keep accounts on the financial side. Giving some coal was no problem.

Jiang Cheng also planned to come to Fengcheng Coal Factory again when he came back, as his company would soon be paying his salary. If he brought some coal back, he could provide another employee benefit to the company, which would also be considered as repaying the favor for the agricultural machinery factory.

Jiang Cheng had just driven a short distance out of the coal plant when he turned right and suddenly a dark-skinned child wearing only shorts appeared.

This almost scared Jiang Cheng, but fortunately the car had slowed down because of the turn, and the child was running in front of his car. In this case, he could not hit the other party at all, but the child was running in front of the car and did not avoid it, so Jiang Cheng's car could not speed up.

Jiang Cheng was just about to honk the horn when he saw from the rearview mirror that several children suddenly appeared from both sides of the road, ran directly behind the car, and climbed onto it.

This scene made Jiang Cheng a little confused. It was a bit like the scenes in Africa in later generations, but someone forced the driver to stop the car, gave him a small tip, and then a few people climbed on the car to load a lot of coal or something.

On this side, the children climbed onto the car, and one of them grabbed two large pieces of coal and jumped off the car. Not much was taken away in total, and the children waiting behind the car almost all got some coal. I don't know who shouted something behind the car, and the people who were blocking the car quickly ran to the side.

Jiang Cheng drove forward for a while, and stopped the car when he reached a place where there was no space on both sides. Then he went to the back of the car and put the sacks of anthracite into the space.

"There are actually kids squatting at the intersection of the coal mine to steal coal. Is there no one to supervise them in this day and age?"

Jiang Cheng put all the sacks of coal into the space and then put all the coal on the car into the space, then muttered something in his heart.

Thinking about what Liu Yong said just now at the gate of the coal factory, maybe the kids here are habitual offenders.

Liu Yong asked me to pay attention to the children who were digging coal. It might not be that he wanted to stop the children from digging coal, but he wanted me to not drive too fast and be careful not to hurt the children.

On the way to Zhangcheng, I met several cars that were meeting each other. Nowadays, drivers will greet each other whether they know each other or not.

The key point is that several trucks had already appeared, bringing coal back from the coal plant, so Jiang Cheng put the coal on the trucks again in a place where no one could see. An empty heavy truck running on the road is easy to be questioned.

It took Jiang Cheng more than an hour to reach the destination, a distance of 30 kilometers. On the way, when passing a village, the mountain road was narrow and difficult to drive without good driving skills.

Especially for trucks loaded with coal, going up the mountain road is actually just a test of skills, but going down the hill requires both skills and courage.

At Zhangcheng Power Plant, it was the first time that Jiang Cheng did not receive cigarettes from anyone when he unloaded goods. The main reason was that there were too many vehicles coming in and out every day, and the drivers appeared more and more, so they became ordinary here. Just like at the transport station, Jiang Cheng did not feel the noble status at the transport stations of other local units.

When Jiang Cheng arrived at the power plant, he was also taken care of. After all, a Yellow River heavy truck was quite conspicuous. In addition, the address of the unit written on the body of the truck was Changcheng Transport Station.

After asking, the people here learned that Jiang Cheng was temporarily called by the coal plant to help with transportation. They arranged for the cargo to be weighed and unloaded in advance, and it was also the first time that Jiang Cheng experienced a mechanical scale.

Unlike a weighbridge, where the weight is displayed as soon as the vehicle passes through, the vehicle is driven onto a platform with a large mechanical scale pan, and the scale on the pan is read to determine the weight of the vehicle and coal.

But the weighing error is quite large, because any scale mark may represent a lot of weight. Anyway, the truck and coal together weigh about ten tons, and this tiny scale mark may result in an error of dozens of kilograms.

So if a child took away a little coal on the way out of the coal factory, it would not have any impact here. If the driver stole the coal and arranged for someone to pick him up on the road, it would be no problem for him to take away a few dozen kilograms each time.

However, for the coal plant drivers, it is meaningless to get less. The coal sent to the thermal power plant is of poor quality, and may only cost ten yuan per ton. There is no need to take the risk. It is easy to get some coal for your own home.

After unloading the coal, Jiang Cheng drove the car to a mechanical scale. This scale can weigh weights up to 20 tons, and the heavier the weight, the greater the deviation.

After leaving the power plant, Jiang Cheng first found a restaurant to sell fish. This was as smooth as ever. If he was not afraid to sell fish in a blatant manner, he could just find a crowded place and shout out. If the price was not expensive, hundreds of kilograms could be sold out in an instant.

After selling the fish and leaving the restaurant, he earned more than 30 yuan. Then Jiang Cheng started to go to Yuxin, but not long after leaving the city, he passed by Ganjiang River.

A big river made Jiang Cheng hesitate. The road to Yuxin was not very good. If the road was not delayed, he could reach there in time for dinner, but if it was delayed again~~.

Is work more important or fishing more important? This is like the fisherman's wife asking you which is more important, me or fishing. Then generally the fisherman will keep silent, but still choose fishing in terms of action.

So not long after, Jiang Cheng drove the car to a road near the Ganjiang River.

Forget about that for now. We haven't caught anything for days, so let's do a ten-round haul. The Ganjiang River is rich in fish resources these days, so we can catch a lot of fish in these ten rounds. The key is that some of the fish are unfamiliar to Jiang Cheng.

There are also some that look like catfish, but Jiang Cheng doesn’t think they are that kind of fish. No matter what kind of fish it is, as long as it’s edible, it’s fine.

One thing is that Jiang Chengdu can’t sell all the regular fish, and he will keep the fish he doesn’t recognize and will not sell them.

For example, there were already very precious fish such as saury and shad in his space, but Jiang Cheng didn't recognize them. As a Didi driver in the future, how could he have eaten saury, let alone shad which no longer existed in China.

　Yesterday's chapter was reviewed, which resulted in me not writing much in the morning, and the number of manuscripts in stock was reduced again.

　　The new book list has been released. These days, you won’t see me being stubborn when I ask for rewards. There is no reason for me to do so.

　　I am still very tough. Humph, if you give me 100 Qidian coins as a reward, you can’t even buy a steamed bun. I don’t want it anymore.

　　Just give the free recommendation ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)