The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 74 A Cart of Coal
They arrived too late and must have been pulled away by the kind neighbors, but there were many female neighbors around Liu Cui'e who helped her speak to her husband.

Zhou Lingying saw Zhu Lan was also beside Liu Cui'e, and immediately went up to her and asked, "Sister Zhu, what happened? Why did you start a fight?"

"Liu Cui'e's husband Chen Xiangdong lost money playing cards. The family was already poor, so she said a few more words. Chen Xiangdong actually hit her." Zhu Lan whispered in Zhou Lingying's ear. Of course, she didn't see the scene at the beginning. The fight did start, and she hurried out to stop them from hearing Julie accusing her husband of knowing about it.

Hearing this, Zhou Lingying immediately joined Liu Cui'e's camp and comforted Liu Cui'e by saying that her husband was wrong. It was obviously her husband who made the mistake first, so why did he hit her?

However, Zhou Lingying was not stupid enough to stand at the front and scold Chen Xiangdong who was held back. She just participated appropriately.

It didn't take long for Zhou Lingying to find out the details. It turned out that Chen Xiangdong owed someone money for playing cards. The creditor blocked Chen Xiangdong when he was leaving get off work, so he could only make up an excuse to borrow some money from his colleagues and let others take the money he owed.

It's not that I owe a lot, just a little over eight dollars. But eight dollars is not a small amount for many large families, it's enough for two children's tuition for a year.

Chen Xiangdong's salary was not high, only 32.5 yuan a month. He was the only one working in the family, and they had three children. If Liu Cui'e didn't do some odd jobs, the family might not be able to save a penny.

The amount of money owed was just over eight yuan, and she must have lost some money before that. And Liu Cui'e might not even earn ten yuan doing odd jobs for a month, so how could she not be angry and blame Chen Xiangdong?

"This Chen Xiangdong really doesn't care about his family." Zhou Lingying said to Wang Yuzhen who was leaning over to her, but she was also thinking in her heart when she saw Liu Cui'e's current appearance.

At this time, Liu Cui'e looked quite aggressive and full of energy, but she obviously could not beat Chen Xiangdong in a fight.

Zhou Lingying thought about whether she should confront Jiang Cheng when she had a conflict with him, or try to be more obedient and reason with him. But what if reason didn't work? Would Jiang Cheng get angry and hit her?

Women seemed to have no advantages over men. As for divorce, Zhou Lingying didn't even dare to think about it. Even in the current situation in the backyard, everyone was just blaming Chen Xiangdong for hitting someone. No one on Liu Cui'e's side dared to instigate her to divorce. If anyone said that, everyone would stay away from her in the yard.

Liu Cui'e was very stubborn, she was right and there were people around her, so she kept accusing him. Chen Xiangdong was so angry that he would have beaten Liu Cui'e again if there were no one around to stop him.

Zhou Lingying was afraid that Chen Xiangdong would rush over, but also afraid that he would not be able to rush over.

"If you don't want to live, get out."

In the end, Chen Xiangdong no longer had the idea of ​​hitting Liu Cui'e. He couldn't do it in front of so many people. But he didn't want to listen to her nagging anymore, so he left a message and went back to his room.

The people around Liu Cui'e are a little unhappy. This matter has not been resolved yet. Give an explanation. What's the big deal about you going back to the room directly? You are a great man. Try to do something to Liu Cui'e in front of us.

The excitement was over, so Wang Yuzhen and Zhou Lingying had to go back to the front yard. On the way back, they kept talking about Chen Xiangdong's immoral behavior of beating women.

"Yuzhen, you are outrageous. What does the fight between a couple in the backyard have to do with you? You don't even want to feed your child. Come back as soon as possible."

"Oh, here I come, I just go to take a look."

Before she reached Zhou Lingying's door, Wang Yuzhen's husband seemed to be waiting for her to come back. He shouted loudly when he saw her. Then Wang Yuzhen didn't dare to talk to Zhou Lingying any more. Feeding the baby was more important, so she hurried home.

When Zhou Lingying returned to the room, she thought it was because she had turned off the light when she went out. There were no mosquitoes around the light bulb. When she turned on the light again, the gecko disappeared. It was getting late, and Zhou Lingying was going to sleep. Her husband had been out for two days, and she didn't know if he would come back tomorrow. If he came back, should she take the initiative so that she could have a baby sooner? It seemed that Jiang Chengdu was quite proactive, but he didn't need to be too proactive.

The next morning, Jiang Cheng woke up by the river and still felt a little cold.

After getting up from the back of the car and putting away the mosquito net, he jumped out of the car. Then he simply washed up and demonstrated his strong ability to urinate three meters into the wind.

After everything was done, Jiang Cheng drove into Zhangcheng and ate breakfast at the breakfast shop with the fish in his hand. People who ate breakfast at the breakfast shop were basically people who were not very short of food coupons, otherwise they would not be willing to spend food coupons to buy breakfast.

This time Jiang Cheng did not ask for cloth coupons. Those who asked directly asked for food or food ticket prices. After wasting more than half an hour, he actually exchanged a lot of food coupons, and then bought rice at the grain store here before continuing on his journey.

At around 8 o'clock in the morning, Jiang Cheng came to Fengcheng Coal Factory again. If he came too early or too late, he might not be able to see the driver Liu Yong, who was loading coal in the car he was driving.

But even if he saw it, it would not be of much use. The city he was going to deliver coal to this time was not Changcheng, but Fucheng.

But with Liu Yong here, it would be much easier to meet the logistics director of the coal plant with him leading the way.

Last time, we got 600 kilograms of anthracite for Jiang Cheng, and it was also counted as the errand fee. But this time Jiang Cheng planned to get more coal, and he didn't need anthracite, just ordinary coal blocks that could be used for cooking.

Jiang Cheng didn't mean to buy it. He couldn't break the rules of the coal factory just because he helped the driver Liu Yong. The coal factory was profitable and not short of money.

But this time Jiang Cheng directly put more than 100 kilograms of fish on the truck. You know, there is a lot of hard labor at the coal factory. The workers who load the coal use shovels to load the coal onto the truck. Even if it is early in the morning, the workers will sweat a lot when loading a truck of coal.

Without meat to replenish their energy, they had to rely on hard work. Jiang Cheng brought over this hundred kilograms of fish, and he didn't believe that the logistics director here would not be tempted. If the coal was sold for money, it would not go into everyone's pockets, but if the coal was exchanged for fish, it could be brought into the canteen.

Besides, Jiang Cheng was not buying coal on behalf of an individual, but on behalf of Changcheng Transportation Station. Selling to Changcheng Transportation Station and maintaining the unity of the cooperating city units was not a big deal.

There are so many leaders of units in this city who come to the coal plant to get notes to approve extra coal blocks. Don’t they all want to give them face and give them some?

Soon Jiang Cheng's car was filled with coal, all of which were good quality coal. The price was only 12 yuan per ton, because Jiang Cheng was hauling the coal himself, so the price was that high without taking into account the freight.

Jiang Cheng bought more than 100 kilograms of fish and paid the bill at 50 cents per kilogram. In the end, he still had to pay more than 20 yuan to the coal factory.

Coming out of the coal factory, when turning the corner, I saw some kids climbing onto cars to get coal. Jiang Cheng came out from behind a car. He didn't escape the fate of being robbed, but it was better than the last time when he came out alone. There were more than a few kids climbing onto his car.

After driving out of Fengcheng, Jiang Cheng put the coal into the space. He was familiar with the way back after coming here once. Jiang Cheng felt that he had a good memory of the road. When he arrived at a certain intersection, he could quickly remember which road to drive to.

Before lunch time, Jiang Cheng returned to Changcheng. He planned to talk to Director Liu about his father's condition and go back to his hometown in the afternoon to bring his parents to the city for medical treatment.

(End of this chapter)