Siheyuan: Starting from the driver

Chapter 6 Driving Skills
The GAZ truck was emitting thick black smoke as it headed towards the mission point - the machinery factory.

"Big truck, big truck."

On the road, a group of children playing saw the truck and happily chased after it, smelling the black smoke and feeling very excited.

The children around heard the roar of the truck and ran over, gathering behind it and shouting excitedly.

Even the adults stood aside, watching the cars passing by, their eyes filled with envy.

Some of them were chatting, some were smoking, and some were silently watching the trucks passing by.

"Look, they are driving a big truck, look at what you are doing." Some inappropriate voices were heard, and there would probably be another quarrel when they got home.

Looking at Lu Wenjiang's truck and comparing it with her own man, her heart was filled with jealousy and dissatisfaction.

"Xiao Li, remember, in crowded places, it's better to drive slowly to avoid accidents. Just drive faster when you get to the main road."

Lu Wenjiang drove out of the city soon. The branch factory was not far away, only thirty or forty kilometers away.

However, the bumpy road caused Li Kailang to be jolted, as the car at that time did not have shock absorbers or seat belts.

At that time, although shock absorbers had been invented, the cars in the old city were either from the fight against the Japanese and the Americans, or from the Women's Army.

At that time, shock absorbers were not advanced and were not widely used in trucks, especially these trucks were not the latest models.

"Hahahaha——" Lu Wenjiang couldn't help but laugh when he saw Li Kailang's embarrassed look.

Li Kailang was speechless about this. Although he was proficient in driving, the key was to drive. Without driving, there would be no benefit of skills.

On the way, Li Kailang saw some people riding on ox carts, and some walking on foot carrying all kinds of things.
“Is this what it looked like in the fifties and sixties?” Li Kailang thought to himself.

An hour later, the truck arrived at the door of the machinery factory.

Lu Wenjiang honked the horn twice to notify the security guard to come over.

The security guard walked to Lu Wenjiang, and then the security guard of the machinery factory walked to Lu Wenjiang.

Lu Wenjiang seemed to hand over a cigarette at the right time. Seeing the security guard accept it, he handed him the task list and the goods receipt form.

"Okay, go in, the warehouse is on the far left, there are people there." The security guard waved his hand and the door of the machinery factory opened.

Lu Wenjiang drove in and soon arrived in front of the warehouse.

"Xiao Li, call Brother Qin." Lu Wenjiang brought Li Kailang to a staff member on duty and handed him a cigarette.

"Brother Qin." Li Kailang called out.

Lu Wenjiang explained: "This is Qin's younger brother, Qin Bingwen."

"What brother! Old Lu, if you keep talking nonsense, I won't be polite!" Qin Bingwen pretended to be angry.

"Just tell me, are you Qin Bingwu's brother?" Lu Wenjiang asked loudly.

Qin Bingwen blushed immediately and confirmed loudly: "Yes!"

"That's right!" Lu Wenjiang shouted.

"Hahaha--"

"Brother Qin is shy!"

The unloading workers around burst into laughter, and the warehouse manager, who was usually serious, now blushed at Lu Wenjiang.

Qin Bingwen snatched the list of goods from Lu Wenjiang's hand and ordered loudly: "Unload the goods!"

Several workers immediately came out and started unloading the goods.

Soon after, the unloading was completed. After careful confirmation, Qin Bingwen signed and confirmed the task order and goods receipt.

After signing, Qin Bingwen left in a hurry, as if he didn't want to see Lu Wenjiang again.

"Hey, this guy."

At this point, Lu Wenjiang's transportation mission was successfully completed.

"Let's go, Xiao Li, this is the general process, there is no change." Lu Wenjiang said.

"When you have time later, you will become familiar with it after doing it a few times. When we transport things, we only pay attention to two points. The first is that the quantity of goods should not be wrong, and there should be traces left if we do it."

"Another point is to be careful not to have any accidents with the car. If the car breaks down, get it fixed. You will learn how to fix it."

During the three years of apprenticeship, except for the last year when you can learn to drive a truck, the first two years are mainly about learning car repair skills.

"By the way, our drivers are subsidized for transportation. If we travel long distances, we can receive a subsidy of about 1 yuan per day, and if we travel in the city, it is about 6 cents." "However, since the machinery factory where we are now does not leave the city, there is no subsidy."

"Basically, they are arranged for novice drivers like you to practice and familiarize themselves with driving skills."

"By the way, Xiao Li, when we get to the dirt road, you can drive too," said Lu Wenjiang.

Ah, thank you, Senior Brother." Li Kailang said gratefully.

"It's okay. You've passed the exam anyway, and you'll get the license sooner or later. It doesn't matter if you get it sooner or later.

Now our factory has many trucks but few people who can drive, so one more person means more effort and more ease." Lu Wenjiang explained.

The steel rolling mill has not yet grown into a large factory with tens of thousands of employees like in the original book. As a large factory with 6,000 employees, the task is still somewhat heavy.

However, this does not affect its future expansion plans.

In fact, the steel mill only began to expand after the three-year famine.

During those three years, due to food shortages, no grading assessments were conducted.

A successful upgrade will not only result in an increase in salary, but also in an increase in related benefits.

After all, if it were to be upgraded again, the grain station, which was already barely able to supply food, would immediately run out of food.

Lu Wenjiang drove the car onto the dirt road and the two exchanged positions.

Li Kailang, who has proficient driving skills, shows excellent driving skills as if he is possessed by an experienced driver as soon as he touches the steering wheel.

Li Kailang stepped on the clutch, shifted gears, pulled the handbrake, stepped on the accelerator, and released the clutch, all in one go. He then drove the truck forward with a whoosh.

"Rumble--"

The GAZ truck roared and drove straight forward.

The bumpy dirt road caused the truck to shake constantly. Lu Wenjiang, sitting in the passenger seat, felt like he was on a roller coaster, up and down.

His butt sat heavily on the seat. At this time, the seat had no sponge and was completely hard.

Lu Wenjiang bumped into the top of the truck from time to time, and it was going up and down, which was very uncomfortable. Suddenly, Lu Wenjiang felt his stomach churning.

"Xiao Li, stop the car! Stop the car!" Lu Wenjiang said weakly.

Seeing this, Li Kailang quickly stopped the car.

Lu Wenjiang vomited as soon as he got off the car. After a long while, he felt better and vomited out all the breakfast in his stomach.

"Xiao Li, are you deliberately making trouble for me?" Lu Wenjiang said angrily.

"No way, senior brother. I just got the hang of it and I couldn't control myself, so the speed was a bit fast. Don't you think you've done it?" Li Kailang explained.

Lu Wenjiang certainly wouldn't say that he had ever driven slower than a snail. In fact, when he first started driving, he was very cautious and drove very slowly.

Later, as the number of times he drove increased, he gradually got used to it and increased his speed.

"Okay, be careful next time. It would be bad if you hit someone!" Lu Wenjiang said after getting in the car again.

Li Kailang started the truck again, this time at a slower speed.

Lu Wenjiang noticed that Li Kailang's driving was very steady, almost on par with his own level.

"Xiao Li, your driving skills are really good, almost as good as mine." Lu Wenjiang said in surprise.

"No, no, you're too kind, senior brother." Li Kailang answered modestly.

"Really! I've trained some novice drivers, and none of them were as steady as you. How do you do it?"

"I don't know either. I seem to be born this way. I don't know why."

Li Kailang replied that he certainly would not tell Lu Wenjiang because he had the help of his driving proficiency skills.

"You must be gifted." Lu Wenjiang thought, and a glimmer of light flashed in his mind. Maybe he could try to complete that task.

Before they knew it, they had driven out of the city and there were more people on the road.

"Brother, you open it next." Li Kailang reminded Lu Wenjiang who was in deep thought.

"Oh, okay." Lu Wenjiang was suddenly awakened and the two exchanged seats.

After returning to the factory safely, Lu Wenjiang parked the car and immediately ran to the office, intending to talk about this matter with Zhang Jinwu.

(End of this chapter)