The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 78: Step on your right foot with your left foot to ascend to the sky

Along the way, Jiang Cheng enjoyed Zhou Lingying's service of peeling loquats and feeding them to him. He didn't let her light a cigarette, and Jiang Cheng would just smoke one for fun when he was bored.

At about 2:30, Jiang Cheng returned to Jinhe Commune. After all, someone would definitely know if such a big car entered the commune. But this time, no one blocked Jiang Cheng. Even if they did, he would not agree to anything.

Jiang Cheng had not told his family in advance about taking Jiang Changhe to the city to see a doctor. Jiang Cheng did not know much about medicine and was afraid that there was really no way to treat him, so he did not want to tell them and ruthlessly dash Jiang Changhe's hopes.

It's only half an afternoon, and he'll be back in an hour or two at most. If the commune needs Jiang Cheng for something, he won't help this time.

After getting off the car, the two walked towards Kaiyang Village. The scenery on both sides of the road had changed. Before, both sides were full of golden rice. Now, all of them have been harvested, and there are many rice stalks piled together in the fields.

These rice stalks are also a kind of straw in later generations. They are not burned in the fields as ash fertilizer, but used as fuel for cooking. They are also burned in the schools and offices of the communes.

It is also used to feed cattle and sheep. Even the roofs of some thatched houses are made of rice straw. This is basically the roof of rural toilets.

Soon they returned home. My niece and nephew were playing outside, catching some bugs to feed the ants. But they were kids. This time they fed the ants, but next time they might have fun killing the ants.

Seeing Jiang Cheng appear, they were now quite close to him and ran over to call him uncle. But as for Zhou Lingying, only the eldest Jiang Juan knew that she should call her aunt, and the other two followed suit.

"Chengzi, Yingying, you're back."

"Mom, I have something to tell you when I get back. Let's go into the room and talk."

Zhao Yuxia came out of the main room after hearing the noise outside. Seeing her son and daughter-in-law coming back, she immediately greeted them with a smile. After Jiang Cheng responded, Zhou Lingying also called out "mother".

As Jiang Cheng spoke, he went straight into the room where his parents lived, and then went straight to the inner room.

"Dad, I asked at the city hospital, and they said your condition should be treatable. I plan to take you to the city hospital for treatment now." Jiang Cheng said directly while looking at Jiang Changhe who was sitting on the bed. He didn't have much time to waste, and then he said to Zhao Yuxia, "Mom, pack up your things and go to the city with us. You can look after Dad in the city when the time comes."

"Really? Can my disease be cured in the city hospital?" Jiang Changhe asked excitedly.

To be honest, it was really painful for Jiang Changhe to lie in bed every day. But he also had the mentality that it was better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. After all, most people still wanted to live unless they had no other choice.

Some people are even so afraid of death when they are old and sick that they become selfish and want to seek medical treatment regardless of their family's conditions, even if it means burdening their children.

Of course, there are also those who are more open-minded, who don’t say they will not live, but who also don’t want to burden their children. They just fight until they die, and that’s the end of their lives.

"Chengzi, I'll go tell your sister-in-law Xianglan now." Zhao Yuxia spoke immediately when she heard that they would be taken to the city and would not stay long.

Now Jiang Yan has been assigned by Jinhe Commune to work as a scorekeeper in the production team in Kaiyang Village. Li Xianglan is also doing some work that pays relatively good points and is relatively easy.

Jiang Cheng nodded. His sister-in-law Li Xianglan was still working in the fields. If her parents suddenly disappeared when she came back, a rural woman would be scared.

At this time, Zhou Lingying also took the opportunity to go to the educated youth site to meet some friends.

As for Jiang Cheng, he chatted with his father for a few words, then went out with a sack and a bamboo basket.

Jiang Cheng would not go to the mountain, he planned to go to the field ditch to get some eels and loaches. Eels do not come out during the day, but Jiang Cheng can dig holes in the air.

Zhou Lingying went to the place where the female educated youth worked, and everyone was very happy to see her. As for those who owed her food, they would have to wait a few days before they could pay her back. The rice had been harvested, but it still needed to be counted before it could be distributed, but Zhou Lingying did not mention this.

Several female educated youth who were on good terms with Zhou Lingying gathered around her to hear about what happened after she left the educated youth site and got married.

Zhou Lingying complained to everyone, telling them that as an educated youth in the city, she couldn't even get any odd jobs to earn money. She didn't even have a ration for food, and had to rely on men for everything, which was useless.

Only his man has the ability to tell everyone that the car driver is really good. Everyone in the city respects Jiang Cheng. Usually when he drives a car outside, he can buy rice, cooking oil and other things outside the quota. "Lingying, you have a big jar of oil at home now, so much." The female educated youth Zhang Yan asked in shock.

"Well, my family has hired several carpenters to make furniture. In order to entertain them, I cook with oil every day. There is an older sister who works in the supply and marketing cooperative in the yard where I live. My husband went on a long trip last time and brought some things back and asked the older sister from the supply and marketing cooperative to help exchange them. We couldn't finish them until the New Year." Zhou Lingying said.

When several female educated youth heard Zhou Lingying's words, they couldn't help but drool. The educated youth lived in the countryside just like the rural people. The educated youth team had nothing except a small amount of cloth coupons.

As for oil, the commune grows some rapeseed every year and then sends it to the county grain station to be pressed into rapeseed oil.

In the spring, you can see rapeseed flowers everywhere in the countryside, and butterflies and bees everywhere. In less than three months, that is, in early October, large areas of rapeseed will be planted again.

So many vegetable fields are not where you can plant whatever you want; they are all planned.

Once a year in spring and once in autumn, the commune would sell the rapeseed oil to everyone according to the number of people. If they didn't have money, they could use it as work points, but the amount of oil they could get was really pitiful.

A jar of rapeseed oil weighs more than 30 kilograms, enough for all the female educated youth in Jinhe Commune to use for half a year.

"Let me tell you, my husband brought me some tofu a few days ago. The fried tofu was so delicious. I have been here for more than a year and I have never eaten tofu." Zhou Lingying continued to say that she could not make money in the city, but she lived a very good life.

If it were in the future, Zhou Lingying's behavior would definitely be despised by a lot of people, who would call her a "sixth grader". But in this era, everyone loves to hear this, and it makes everyone yearn for it.

Not to mention the oil, fish, tofu, etc., they eat their own food. Just one or two bowls of rice every day is enough for today's female educated youth.

Finally, Zhou Lingying saw that the gathering was almost over and she couldn't delay the return trip, so she left everyone her address in the city, so that everyone could go to the city to find her when they were free, and she would treat everyone well if they went.

But Zhou Lingying did not live in the county seat, but in Changcheng, the urban area. She could take her husband's car back to Jinhe Commune without having to spend money on the bus.

The female educated youth wanted to go find Zhou Lingying, and it cost more than 40 cents for a round trip, and she had to eat two kilograms of rice to get home.

So everyone left Zhou Lingying's home address, and now the address in Changcheng can be said to be her home. She told others that there was no problem with her living there.

In the future, when we have urgent matters, we may go to Zhou Lingying, but normally we really don’t want to spend this money.

Zhou Lingying is gone, and she really missed her friends. After chatting with her friends, she felt particularly good.

After she left, the female educated youth had to continue working. And the legend of Zhou Lingying's wonderful life would spread to every educated youth in a day through the mouths of the female educated youth just now, at least every female educated youth would know about it.

Some female educated youth who have stayed in the commune for a long time may not have any delusions, but will only envy Zhou Lingying for her good fortune.

But for some female educated youth who have not lived here for long and whose positive thoughts are not yet solid, Zhou Lingying's deeds may be a bowl of delicious poisonous chicken soup for them.

People always have some unrealistic fantasies, just like people in the 1980s and 1990s who watched martial arts movies and thought they could fly up to the sky by stepping on their left foot with their right foot.

Anyway, there will be female educated youth who fantasize about marrying a city guy with a job and living a good life.

　It's October 10st, I wish everyone a happy National Day. I still have to stay at home and write hard. New authors don't have points to exchange for leave notes.

　　Thanks to those who voted for monthly tickets in the last few days of last month. Although it was double the monthly tickets, I didn't have the chance to win 100 yuan in the lottery because I didn't vote for monthly tickets. I didn't ask for monthly tickets, but many people still gave them.

　　It's a new month now, and I'm starting to ask for monthly tickets. My goal is not high, I don't know if I can get 1000 monthly tickets in a month.

　　Another thing I want to mention is that this book will be available in the next few days. By the time it is available, there will probably be quite a few free words. Thank you for your support until now.

　　
　
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