The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 81 Bringing Goods
It was late at night. Jiang Cheng had just finished taking a shower and had been back in his room for a long time.

"Lingying, go to sleep. It's too late. Don't be so stubborn. This is not the way to have a child."

“That’s it~~.”

"Stop talking and go to sleep."

Jiang Cheng didn't want to hear what Zhou Lingying had to say anymore, so he held her in his arms. She seemed a little abnormal.

Zhou Lingying didn't say anything else. Although she felt a little hot in Jiang Cheng's arms, she fell asleep peacefully soon.

The next morning, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying were awakened by a knock on the door.

It was Zhao Yuxia who got up early and wanted to light a fire to cook and wash things. But she didn't have the key to the faucet of the outside pool, so she could only shout to them to get up and give them the key to the pool.

"Lingying, your butt is so white."

"Why do you always like looking at my butt?"

After being woken up, Zhou Lingying hurriedly got up and put on her clothes. She also had to get up and tidy up.

Jiang Cheng was actually quite confused by what Zhou Lingying said.

It seems that in my time, when I was young, I was not interested in buttocks. If someone showed their buttocks, I would laugh at them. But later on, I started to like them.

Now it is 1972. What parts of women should men of this era like?

After Zhou Lingying left, Jiang Cheng looked at the time. It was not yet six o'clock. Zhao Yuxia lived in the countryside, so it was too early for her to get up. Jiang Cheng continued to lie down and take a nap.

After sleeping for a while, Jiang Cheng got up at 6:30. He couldn't sleep any more, as he had to take Jiang Changhe to the hospital this morning to see the Chinese doctor who said he could treat him with acupuncture and massage.

After going to the hospital, Jiang Cheng still had to go to the company to pick up delivery orders as usual. However, for long-distance delivery orders, it was easy for the driver to delay and stay in Changcheng for a day.

I got paid this morning, checked the car, and went to fill up the gas. In the afternoon, I went to the dispatch office to receive orders, and then drove to load the goods. It took until three or four o'clock. It was already three or four o'clock, so it was okay to leave the next morning.

After breakfast, Jiang Cheng drove his family to the hospital.

When I entered the hospital, the registration fee was 20 cents. In the county town, the registration fee might be only a few cents, but this was Changcheng First People's Hospital, a big hospital.

Don't think that 20 cents is cheap, the average worker only earns a little over 1 yuan a day. According to this ratio, a person's daily salary is only one-fifth of the salary, which is not cheap.

After registering, you have to wait in the hospital. Except for the emergency department, the doctor also works at 8 o'clock.

While waiting for the doctor to arrive, Jiang Cheng pulled Zhou Lingying to the hospital stairs.

"Do you have money on you?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"I brought it." Zhou Lingying nodded and was about to take it out from her trouser pocket to show Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng didn't know where Zhou Lingying learned how to hide money by sewing a pocket inside her pants. If you were to encounter a robber in the future, who didn't intend to rape you, but you were rummaging around in your pants, it's possible that he would have some ideas.

Some of the money in Zhou Lingying's pants pocket was her own money. Most of it was from the time when her neighbor Zhang Yang helped Jiang Cheng sell kelp. Zhang Yang also gave the money from the kelp sale to Zhu Lan. When Zhu Lan brought the cooking oil over last time, she gave it to Zhou Lingying.

That night Zhou Lingying wanted to give the money to Jiang Cheng, but Jiang Cheng refused and asked her to keep it for buying groceries and household expenses.

"Just bring it with you. I don't have time to wait for the doctor here. I have to go to work." Jiang Cheng said.

"Go ahead, don't worry, I'm here with you." Zhou Lingying said.

After hearing Zhou Lingying's reply, Jiang Cheng looked around the stairs and saw that there was no one around, so he hugged her before leaving.

When Jiang Cheng arrived at the transport station, his apprentice Feng Hua appeared before he even parked the car. The apprentice had to arrive earlier than the master, even if the master was driving out of the company. When Jiang Cheng saw Feng Hua, he did not stop the car directly, but drove to the door of the maintenance workshop of the transport station.

"Feng Hua, I'll go to the dispatch room to check the delivery note first, and then we'll do a simple maintenance check on the car together."

"Okay, Master."

Hearing Jiang Cheng's instructions, Feng Hua responded excitedly. Jiang Cheng parked the car here, and several other apprentices came out.

When the driver master teaches his apprentice, other apprentices can also listen. Otherwise, it is impossible for the master to keep teaching some theoretical knowledge.

It's just that he is not Jiang Cheng's apprentice, so he won't let other apprentices touch some things he is familiar with. Even if it's adding water to the car, checking the oil condition of the car, or even removing the hood, he will give priority to his apprentice.

The master is teaching, and the other apprentices are just watching and listening, unless it is a job like changing a tire, where several apprentices work together.

Apprentices in this era are always eager to do any work, as they only become proficient by doing more.

Jiang Cheng left the repair workshop and went to the dispatch room with the delivery receipt.

After handing in the delivery order in the dispatch room, Jiang Cheng also began to check the orders for the latest deliveries. There were no orders to Nanjing, but there were orders to Shanghai.

I went to the Second Rubber Factory to pick up a batch of Double Fish brand raincoats and cloth rubber shoes and sent them to a garrison in Shanghai. In fact, the Second Changcheng Rubber Factory was not originally called this name. It was a factory that specialized in producing military uniforms, rice bags, mosquito nets and other items for the military supply department.

Later it became a civilian product, but it has also been supplied to the troops.

The so-called cloth-covered rubber shoes are actually Jiefang shoes, with rubber on the bottom and cloth on the top.

"Sister Wu, just take this list." Jiang Cheng said to the dispatcher on duty.

After working at the transport station for such a long time, I have become familiar with the dispatchers in the unit, at least I know their names. Moreover, there are only a few dispatchers in a transport station. The one who is now on the list with Jiang Cheng is called Wu Yan, who has the same name as his sister Jiang Yan.

"Master Jiang, when are you planning to leave? I will contact the factory over there and ask them to prepare the goods for transportation." Wu Yan asked.

"The car needs to be inspected and refueled today, and besides, wages are paid today. You said I should go over there to load the goods around 2:00 p.m." Jiang Cheng said.

"Master Jiang, you are going to Shanghai. I heard that the toothpaste and toothbrushes there are very good. Can you give me some?" Wu Yan said to Jiang Cheng cautiously with a smile.

Shanghai is a big city, and many drivers will try to get some things back when they go there. But drivers can't buy whatever they want. If they don't have connections and tickets, they can only buy some ordinary things.

There are malted milk, White Rabbit candy, Shanghai watches, soap, pens, etc. Everyone wants these things, but in Shanghai, locals also need tickets to buy them.

If the driver wanted to bring some goods back, he had to deliver goods to state-owned stores or supply and marketing cooperatives in Shanghai, and then make friends and buy some back.

Jiang Cheng was delivering goods to a certain unit over there, and if anyone had a Shanghai watch, he could help buy a watch strap over there. The rest depended on the driver's ability.

But toothpaste and toothbrush are no problem, they don’t require tickets, so I nodded and agreed immediately.

"Master Jiang, bring me a set of toothpaste and toothbrush as well."

"I also want."

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Okay, agree to one of them. The other dispatchers heard it and spoke up.

Moreover, the position of dispatcher is not limited to women, so it is fine if a woman asks for it. But it does not conform to Jiang Cheng's logic for the male dispatcher to ask for it as well.

It was just buying some toothpaste and toothbrush, but Jiang Cheng agreed.

(End of this chapter)