The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 1: Retirement in

Woo~~Woo~~.

The train from Shanghai to Changcheng has arrived.

A group of young people got off the train station. Many of them were wearing grass-green military uniforms, carrying water bottles and some luggage.

This group of people are all educated youth, who were transferred to many communes and rural areas here to receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants.

But there was one person who was an exception. Although he was also in the crowd, chatting and laughing with several female educated youth, and also wearing a green military uniform, he was not an educated youth. His military uniform was issued by the army, and he was a retired young soldier.

Jiang Cheng was a retired soldier who mixed in with the educated youth. Although he seemed to be talking and laughing with them, he was actually very sad.

It is now June 2024, . But Jiang Cheng is not from this era at all. He is from , the st century, more than years in the future.

In 2024, Jiang Cheng is a poor Didi driver. In order to earn more money, he likes to drive at night. One reason is that there is no traffic jam at night, and the other is that there is a night fee when it is late at night.

On a rainy night, Jiang Cheng was sending a customer off and was about to go back to the KTV or club in the city to wait for orders. There were many orders there at night. But he was driving and playing with his phone on the road, and he had no idea that someone would suddenly appear on the road in the middle of the night.

Because he was playing with his mobile phone while driving, he didn't have time to brake. However, Jiang Cheng still valued his life, turned the steering wheel quickly, and then crashed into the guardrail on the side.

At that moment, Jiang Cheng didn't think about his own safety, but the fact that the guardrails on the road were very expensive. If he hit them casually, all the money he earned over the past few months would be wasted.

Fortunately, what Jiang Cheng worried about did not happen. Although he hit the guardrail, he did not have to pay any compensation.

After the collision, Jiang Cheng had a very long dream, so long that he never woke up, so how could he pay the money?

In his dream, Jiang Cheng dreamed that he was serving in the army in another era. He was a car soldier and had to learn how to repair cars before driving.

I joined the army at the age of 18. I was lucky enough to meet a fellow villager who was an officer in the army because I only had a junior high school education. I was assigned to the motor vehicle unit. I served as a motor vehicle soldier for more than two years before I could officially drive alone. I became a skilled motor vehicle soldier in the fourth year. But just when I became a qualified and excellent motor vehicle soldier, I received a letter from my hometown saying that something happened at home.

In the dream, Jiang Cheng was born with his parents, and he had a brother and a sister. But his father had health problems because he worked too hard when he was young. When he got a little older, he couldn't stand it anymore. First, his legs hurt and were numb and he couldn't do heavy work. Later, he even had difficulty walking and was half paralyzed in bed.

When Jiang Cheng was enlisted in the army, at least his brother Jiang Quan was still there to take care of him. The letter from home was that Jiang Quan had died while saving a child who fell into the river. He left behind a sister-in-law and three nephews and nieces. Now the family had no backbone, so they could only send letters to Jiang Cheng who was serving in the army.

Jiang Cheng explained his family situation to the military leaders and applied for discharge. The military not only approved Jiang Cheng's discharge application, but also gave him special care, taking into account the difficulties of his family.

As a soldier with rural household registration, there is no job assignment after retirement. But considering the shortage of drivers these days, Jiang Cheng had his reasons for retiring.

Jiang Cheng was treated as a demobilized soldier and was given a job at the Changcheng Transport Station, where he became a truck driver.

Jiang Cheng kept having this dream and couldn't wake up. When he found that he could wake up, he had taken over the body of Jiang Cheng in the dream and was on the train back home. On the train, he met some educated youth who were assigned to Changcheng. The youngest was over 16 years old, and the oldest was only about 18 years old. They were called young intellectuals, but most of them had only junior high school education, and there were only one or two people with high school education.

On the train, everyone was very enthusiastic about Jiang Cheng because he was a soldier, a car soldier, although he had retired due to family circumstances. Nowadays, many people admire soldiers, and Jiang Cheng was still dealing with cars in the army.

Especially when they knew that Jiang Cheng's hometown was in a village in Jinhe Commune, Yi'an County, and that he was able to work, many female educated youth began to have some ideas.

The educated youth were assigned to various cities to work in the countryside. They would first go to the educated youth league in the county where they were assigned. Then they would be assigned how many communes there were in a county, which communes were better, which were very poor, and where these educated youth would go.

Many female educated youth who have just arrived in Chang City with Jiang Cheng want to go to Jinhe Commune, hoping that Jiang Cheng can take care of them.

Now, after arriving in Chang City, some of them were not going to Yi'an County. They had to separate. Only five educated youth were going to Yi'an County, two men and three women, plus Jiang Cheng, which made three men and three women a pair.

The bus station is not far from the train station, so Jiang Cheng can actually report directly to the bus station.

The current bus station is not called a passenger station because passenger and freight transport are now combined. They are all dispatched by the dispatcher at the bus station. Shuttle buses and public buses stop at the southeast side of the bus station. And the delivery trucks and drivers are all at the freight office in the northwest.

But at this moment, Jiang Cheng still planned to go home first. Since he had obtained the body and memory of the original owner, he naturally had to take care of his family for him.

"Comrade Jiang Cheng, let's go to the bus station together. You should know how to get there."

After separating from some of the educated youth, the educated youth who were going to Yi'an County gathered with Jiang Cheng. In fact, even if the other educated youth were not going to Yi'an County, they would still go to the bus station. It's just that those who were going to the same place would involuntarily stick together. On the train, these educated youth actually changed seats and sat together according to where they were going.

The one who started talking to Jiang Cheng was Liu Li, a young educated youth. On the train, she was known to be quite outgoing. She was a girl who could take the initiative to greet others and start conversations.

"Well, I only came here once four years ago, but I still remember it. You guys take your things and follow me." Jiang Cheng responded. In the original owner's memory, he was born in the countryside, and before he joined the army, the farthest place he had been was to the county town. He had only been to Changcheng once, but the bus station was not far from the train station, which he still remembered.

When the others heard that Jiang Cheng knew how to get to the bus station, they no longer needed to ask anyone else and just followed him with their luggage.

Speaking of luggage, I have to say one thing. Jiang Cheng accidentally came to this era from 2024, and he also had a golden finger. And he found it when he got off the train.

Jiang Cheng returned from the army with a lot of stuff. In addition to the quilt he was carrying, he also had a washbasin, a water cup, a kettle, some summer clothes, and a military coat for winter.

Jiang Cheng was overwhelmed when he saw all these things. With so many things, he would have to hang them all on his body and carry them in his hands. He thought it would be better if he didn't have to carry them on his shoulders. Just when he thought about it, he discovered his golden finger. With his thoughts, the things he didn't want to carry disappeared.

A portable space that can store things. Jiang Cheng is not sure if there is a limit to the amount of things that can be stored, but he knows that with this, he can become a thief saint.

Unfortunately, it was 1972, a time of poverty. Using this golden finger to steal things, unless it was from a criminal, it would be a sin no matter who you stole from. Even if it was from a supply and marketing cooperative, the salesperson would be held responsible if something was missing.

(End of this chapter)