The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 6 Zhou Zhiqing

Now Zhao Yuxia's idea was definitely not going to work. Her son Jiang Cheng had really received a letter to be discharged from the army. But he did not come back to be a farmer, but to be a driver. A man with a decent job, a job that everyone envied, even if he married a female educated youth, he would definitely not marry a female educated youth with a questionable background.

"Sister Li, Aunt Zhao, are you at home?"

"Hey~ We are cooking in the kitchen."

While the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were still talking, a girl's voice came from outside the house. The voice was clear and pleasant. The two knew who it was as soon as they heard the voice. Li Xianglan responded loudly in the kitchen.

Soon a girl wearing a plaid shirt, green military pants and two pigtails on her head appeared in the kitchen, holding a small bag of food in her hand.

"Sister Li, Aunt Zhao, I'm~~." The girl with the pigtails knew the situation of Jiang Dahe's family and wanted to give some relief with the little food she had saved. But when she saw Li Xianglan making noodles with flour, she didn't know what to say.

The girl was called Zhou Lingying. She was an educated youth who was assigned to Jinhe Commune from a big city the previous year.

Many educated youth actually had nowhere to live when they were first assigned to the villages. At first, they were assigned to live in the homes of members of the commune. Jiang Changhe's family was assigned to live twice because Jiang Cheng served in the army and his daughter got married. Zhou Lingying was assigned to live in Jiang Changhe's family. At that time, Zhao Yuxia and Li Xianglan took good care of Zhou Lingying.

After Jiang Quan got into trouble, Zhou Lingying also came to the Jiang family to take care of them. This time she came to help the Jiang family with some food. But it was not the New Year or the festival, and Jiang's sister-in-law and aunt were using flour to make noodles. She felt that she might have made a cognitive error.

"Yingying is here." Zhao Yuxia was very happy to see that it was Zhou Lingying who came to see them, but suddenly she thought of something and said to Li Xianglan, "Xianglan, roll out more noodles so that Yingying can have some noodles with us tonight before she leaves."

"Auntie, no thanks. I'm here to bring you some food. I'll go back to the educated youth camp to eat later." Zhou Lingying quickly refused when she heard that she was going to get noodles. She took a few kilograms of coarse grains, so she wouldn't feel embarrassed if she took a lot back.

"Yingying, don't be polite. Please stay for dinner. Auntie has something to tell you." Zhao Yuxia held Zhou Lingying's hand and winked at Li Xianglan.

As soon as Li Xianglan saw Zhao Yuxia's expression, she immediately understood what she meant and hurried to stop Zhou Lingying. She couldn't help but wonder if her mother-in-law Zhao Yuxia would set her sights on Zhou Zhiqing.

Zhou Lingying is only 18 years old this year. She came here last year when she was 17. Although she is young, she graduated from high school and is now a team leader in the educated youth team.

Last year, when Zhou Lingying first came to Jiang's house as an educated youth, she cried a lot. In just over a year, the crying little girl has grown up. She looks delicate, but she has a positive attitude and works hard.

Sure enough, after Zhou Lingying was stopped by Zhao Yuxia, she told her about her son who was a soldier in the army and came back. Then she hinted at some things intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhou Lingying understood what Aunt Zhao meant, but who was she? She was a girl from a big city with a high school education. Even if she wanted to find a partner, she would look for an educated youth with whom she could talk about common things. Moreover, there was an excellent male educated youth in the educated youth team of Jinhe Commune, who could become a like-minded revolutionary partner. As for Aunt Zhao's son who had returned from the army, she would find a partner.

"Yingying, let me tell you, my Jiang Cheng didn't come back to farm in the brigade this time. He performed well in the army, and the army gave him a letter of introduction. He will go to work in the city in a few days." Zhao Yuxia said, holding Zhou Lingying's hand.

When Zhou Lingying heard that Aunt Zhao's son had a job, she was confused and didn't know how to respond. After a year as an educated youth in Jinhe Commune, she was no longer the innocent girl she used to be. It was good to find a like-minded educated youth as a partner, but it couldn't be used as a meal. Educated youth like them also had to rely on work points to get food. Moreover, unlike the native rural people, they were not as capable as the rural people. Even if they worked hard, they could not earn as many work points as others.

More importantly, there are some who went to the countryside as educated youth a few years ago and have no hope of returning to the city. When they get older, some of them have found husbands in the countryside.

Zhou Lingying had been an educated youth for a year, and she was afraid that she would have no hope of returning to the city, so she decided to live in the countryside. She was now eighteen, which was considered young in the city, but in the rural communes in the towns, many people got married at the age of sixteen. Although eighteen was not too late, in two years, a girl who was not married at the age of twenty in the countryside would definitely be considered "old".

Should I choose a like-minded partner, or find someone who comes from the countryside and has a job~~.

"Yingying, I'm going to tell you something in secret. Don't tell anyone. Jiang Cheng is going to work in the city, but it's not an ordinary job. He said he's going to be a driver at the bus station." Seeing that Zhou Lingying didn't say anything, Zhao Yuxia tried to persuade her again. If she didn't want her eldest son's children who had passed away to be adopted by Jiang Cheng, even if she thought Zhou Lingying was good, as an educated youth, she was not worthy of her second son Jiang Cheng.

Hearing Aunt Zhao say this, Zhou Lingying was shaken. Like-minded people can be comrades, not necessarily partners. If Aunt Zhao's son is really a driver, marrying a driver will not affect her having other like-minded friends.

In fact, Zhou Lingying has not thought about getting married yet. She wants to wait until she meets the right person. As educated youth, many of them actually want to have a sweet love life.

But now Zhou Lingying blushed. It was not that she was worldly. Although she had not met Jiang Cheng yet, Jiang Cheng was definitely an outstanding young man. If he looked okay, she could consider him. She even wondered if he would be interested in her if that was the case.

"Mom, sister-in-law, I'm back. Look what I brought back."

Just as Zhao Yuxia and Zhou Lingying were talking, Jiang Cheng came back carrying several fish weighing several kilograms and shouted outside the house.

Before Zhao Yuxia and Li Xianglan in the kitchen could react, Jiang Cheng came into the kitchen carrying the fish. His nephews and nieces who had been playing outside the house were also beside Jiang Cheng, muttering "fish".

"We have guests at home, so it's a good idea to stay for dinner. Sister-in-law, let's stew a fish for dinner. You are rolling noodles." Jiang Cheng didn't know that his sister-in-law and mother were in the kitchen. He was carrying the fish and preparing to put it in the kitchen. When he entered the room, he saw his sister-in-law rolling noodles, and his mother was talking to a girl. The girl didn't look like a rural girl from the way she was dressed.

"Well, Chengzi, I'm rolling out the dough to make noodles." Li Xianglan said with some surprise when she saw Jiang Cheng bringing several large fish into the house.

"That's perfect. When we stew the fish later, we can put the noodles directly into the pot. The noodles will taste delicious then." Jiang Cheng said after putting the fish down. As a grown man, he didn't need to do anything else. He just had to wait to eat. Then he turned around and left the room.

Jiang Cheng didn't pay close attention to Zhou Lingying just now, but Zhou Lingying looked at him carefully when Jiang Cheng entered the kitchen. Comparing some of the things Aunt Zhao said to her before Jiang Cheng entered the house, she naturally wanted to see what Jiang Cheng was like.

He looked completely different from a rural person, with a handsome face and a tall stature, wearing a military uniform. Zhou Lingying thought it was actually not bad to find someone to live a good life with, and not to talk about lofty ideals and ambitions with others.

(End of this chapter)