The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 70 Open Air Movie
After Wang Yuzhen put on her clothes, Zhou Lingying opened the door. In the side room, there was still a lot of fish left, which Zhou Lingying was going to prepare tomorrow. Later, Zhou Lingying was going to cut the fish in half, then apply a layer of salt on the surface, and put it in a cool place at night so that it would not go bad.

Now Zhou Lingying cut off a large piece of the fish tail. It had to be a little bigger, to give it some extra meat. But she didn't use a scale to weigh the fish tail after cutting it off.

There is a fair scale that can be used at the entrance of the vegetable market. Wang Yuzhen said she could just take it there to weigh it, and it would be guaranteed that Zhou Lingying would not be left out.

There was still some trust between the neighbors, so Zhou Lingying gave the fish tail to Wang Yuzhen without worry. Then she started to mix cornmeal in the room and cooked cornmeal steamed bread in the evening.

It was actually good to have steamed bread to eat, at least it was dry. Many families with poor conditions had cornmeal paste in the evening.

Moreover, the fried tofu and tofu stewed fish for lunch were not eaten yet. He had to eat steamed buns with such delicious dishes. Sometimes, a carpenter might not even have such treatment on his first day of eating at other employers' homes.

Zhou Lingying made eight steamed corn breads according to the number of people and steamed them. Each bun weighed about two taels. Each person ate two in the evening. After they were eaten, there were no more.

At this time, the bed and the bed board have been made. After dinner, they can be put in the main room, and the old bed in the main room can be put in the side room. Now Master Li and his apprentice are making tables and stools. Three people are working. If they hurry up, they can make a set of tables and stools by tomorrow afternoon.

After the steamed Wowotou was cooked and cooled down a little, Zhou Lingying called the chef to eat. Even though they were hungry, they still enjoyed the cornmeal Wowotou which was a bit irritating to the throat.

We ate all the leftovers from lunch, and basically felt like we wanted more. These days, eating fried tofu makes your soul feel happy.

After dinner, it was still light outside, so Master Li and his apprentice continued to work. They would not stop working until it was dark, and at this time of year, they would stop working at least around 6:30.

It was at this time that the front door of Jiang Cheng's house was the busiest. People these days were too bored, and many people from the front and back yards stood by the front door of Jiang Cheng's house, watching the carpenter making furniture.

People at Nanluoyuan were watching the fun, and Jiang Cheng, who was two hundred kilometers away, was also watching the fun.

Jiang Cheng drove to a place called Huangtugang Commune, where many people gathered. It was not far from Yuxincheng, but Jiang Cheng did not plan to leave because the commune had already set up a venue and a projectionist was going to show an open-air movie.

There are a lot of people here now, including people from nearby villages and many educated youth watching here. The projection area is surrounded by several circles, and there are many children playing here.

When Jiang Cheng's car drove over, many people took the initiative to make way for him. But he didn't need to squeeze in, because he was sitting high up in the car, so he could watch from outside.

The movie hasn't started yet. When Jiang Cheng came here, he ate a few buns on the way. He bought them at a breakfast shop when he went to Yancheng last time. Now that he's watching a movie, he naturally needs to prepare some snacks.

The peanuts in the space are raw, and you can peel them and eat them, but they are not very fragrant. So I got some loquats and cucumbers, and it is also very nice to eat cucumbers while waiting for the movie to start.

When projectionists went to the countryside to show movies, the communes and some villages would warmly welcome them. In order to show more shows or more films, they would usually treat the projectionists with good cigarettes, good wine, and good meat.

Moreover, when the projectionist left, he could often take away some local specialties, such as some mountain products and chickens raised by the production team.

Projectionist was one of the eight major positions of this era and was very popular in rural areas. Of course, in cities, there was also the opportunity to go to the leaders' homes to show movies.

However, his social status in the city is still far behind that of a driver, but a projectionist is also a technical job. The worst level eight projectionist has a salary of more than 35 yuan, and a level seven projectionist has a salary of 45 yuan.

The basic salary is not much worse than that of the driver, and although the driver does not receive a daily subsidy, projectionists in some places will receive a subsidy based on the number of screenings when they go out to show movies, a few cents per show. In general, the income will be less than that of the driver, but not much.

When projectionists go to the countryside, they can get vegetables, grains and mountain products. But drivers who deliver goods are not considered as carrying goods. When delivering goods to people, they are treated with good cigarettes and wine.

So before the movie started, the projectionist saw a big car coming and immediately put down his work and came to Jiang Cheng.

"Master, what's your last name? Have a cigarette." "My last name is Jiang Cheng. Comrade, what's your last name?"

"My name is Zhang Tong. Master Jiang, you are here from Changcheng."

"Yes, deliver some goods to Yu Xincheng."

The movie was to be shown at six o'clock, but it was not time yet, so the projectionist Zhang Tong came over to chat with Jiang Cheng. When he saw the words "Changcheng Transport Station" on the body of the car Jiang Cheng was driving, he knew where Jiang Cheng came from.

Now Jiang Cheng is not driving an empty car, there is a diesel engine in the back compartment. But not much, just to prevent people from asking questions.

Zhang Tong gave Jiang Cheng some cigarettes to smoke, and Jiang Cheng politely gave him some loquats to eat, and then they started chatting. There are two movies tonight. The first one is "Tunnel Warfare", which is suitable for all ages, at least children will like it. The other one is "After the Harvest".

"Master Jiang, is there any movie you want to watch? I brought some here." Zhang Tong said politely.

"Oh, then I'll get off the car and take a look." After hearing Zhang Tong's invitation, Jiang Cheng really became interested.

After opening the car door, Jiang Cheng got out and followed Zhang Tong to the projection equipment. It was an old-fashioned film projector with no sound but only a large speaker.

Zhang Tong opened a wooden box and showed it to Jiang Cheng. There were films stored there one by one. There was a white piece of paper on each film with the name of the film written on it.

Jiang Cheng also carefully flipped through the movies, such as "Tunnel Warfare" and "Little Soldier Zhang Ga". In the 21st century, Jiang Cheng had heard of these movies, but they were out of date and he was not in the mood to watch them.

However, the original owner of this body had actually seen it. Jinhe Commune also had a projectionist showing movies every year.

After flipping through a few pictures, Jiang Cheng chose a movie called "Liu Sanjie", a movie that Jiang Cheng had heard of but had never seen.

Zhang Tong saw that Jiang Cheng had chosen "Liu Sanjie", so he decided to replace "After the Harvest". It didn't matter what movie was shown, and it was a good deal for Zhang Tong to get to know a driver after work.

It’s a pity that Jiang Cheng is not Yu Xin’s driver, otherwise Zhang Tong would have to find a way to become close friends with him.

After choosing the movie, Jiang Cheng got back into the car, and it was almost time for the screening.

But when he got back to the car, someone still came to greet him. There were a few girls wearing military green uniforms, they were female educated youth from Huangtugang Commune. Zhou Lingying also had a set of military green uniforms, which was the trend.

In this era, young urban women prefer military uniforms rather than red makeup. These military uniforms refer to military green uniforms.

"Comrade."

"Hello, comrade."

Outside the car door, two female educated youth were calling Jiang Cheng "comrade". The educated youth liked to call people "comrade" and didn't even know to call the driver "master" as a respectful title.

Jiang Cheng didn't immediately respond to the female educated youth who called him from outside the car, but his eyes stayed on them. Zhou Lingying also has such clothes, when the weather is cooler, hehe~~.

(End of this chapter)