Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 81 Driving

Luo Cheng didn’t expect that having a car that he could drive would come so quickly, so he immediately proposed. After dinner, he was just in time to take the car back to his home in the big yard with quilts and some luggage. If the work needs to be carried out, we can discuss the direction in the afternoon after taking a break at noon.

Then a team member named Li Yiwen threw a Z-shaped iron bar from his waist on the table, as well as a key.

The iron rod is the engine key, rocker type, and the normal key is the car door key. Luo Cheng picked up the joystick key and was a little confused. He knew that the tractor engine had such a key. Today’s big cars also have such a key. He had also seen it.

But jeeps are considered small cars. In the TV series, Luo Cheng seems to have never seen anyone drive a jeep and get out of the car.

After the meal, Li Yiwen took Luo Cheng to where the car was parked, which was still at the corner of the office building.

“Gong Li, let me demonstrate. I have never driven a car like this before.”

After Li Yiwen took Luo Cheng to the car, he was about to go back to Jiang Yuanyuan, but was temporarily stopped by Luo Cheng’s words. Of course, he was also confused by his words.

Are you kidding me? He had also seen Luo Cheng’s file. He was driving and repairing cars in the army. There were quite a few such cars in the army. And it’s the same way as driving a big truck, but now he is told that he has never driven such a car.

If he doesn’t know how to drive such a car, then what kind of car did he drive before?

With doubts in his heart, Li Yiwen still demonstrated. There is a round hole at the front of the car where the engine is located, where the rocker key is inserted. The Jeep’s engine isn’t too big, so it doesn’t take much effort to crank it up, but it does take some effort. Li Yiwen successfully started it in one shake.

Then it’s time to get in the car. Before starting, it is in neutral. Starting is also simple. It is almost the same as the cars of later generations. Just press the clutch and change gears. But because the engine is started outside, if you want to shut it down, there is a hook in the car, which is connected to the engine. You can pull it to shut it down.

The clutch is also a dual-clutch, so you need to be very careful. If you shift the wrong gear, the car will easily stall.

The principle is actually very simple, but Luo Cheng has never been exposed to it. Now that we know how to start and stop the engine, Luo Cheng will have no problem if we turn it on.

After a brief instruction, Luo Cheng asked Li Yiwen to get out of the car, and then drove the car outside the factory. Even though the car had just been driven, Luo Cheng felt many problems. The car had shock absorption, but the effect was very poor, and there was no cabin shock absorption.

The road in this factory is relatively smooth, but the car will shake if there is a small pothole. If it is a later generation car, it will shake slightly at most, and you may not notice it if you don’t feel it carefully.

In addition, the steering wheel is larger than the steering wheels of later generations. This may be to use more force to turn the steering wheel. Turning the steering wheel is also difficult, and the steering wheel will shake back and forth a little while driving.

There are shock absorbers, but the effect is poor, there is no power steering, and there is no four-wheel drive positioning device. The driving experience is extremely poor, but it is really cool.

After leaving the factory, there are many pedestrians on the road. Many workers choose to go home to eat if they live nearby. When this car is on the road, the turnaround rate is basically 100%, but when they see the car, almost no one is in the way. Not only do they get out of the way, they also stand far away.

The repair shop is only about ten minutes’ walk from Luo Cheng’s yard, and it will be faster if you have a car. After a while, we arrived next to the courtyard room. Although the courtyard is quite big, the door is not very big and cars cannot drive in directly.

I put all the quilt and luggage into the room. After laying out the quilt and sheets, I found that there were no pillows. The pillow in my hometown in Longyang Town is actually a piece of wood that has been peeled off and is smoother. Moreover, the pillows used by many people now are made of cloth. The pillows are not filled with cotton, but with rice bran, and some even have straw.

Pillows do not have pillowcases, but pillow covers, which are laid on top of the pillow just like towels. In this way, you can usually just wash the pillow cover.

After lying on the made bed for a while, he suddenly felt a little more stable in this world. Having a house here really gave people a sense of belonging.

There is no need to go to the guest house tonight, but as Wang Cheng said, there are still a lot of things to buy. Staying here at night, there is not even hot water, there is a stove but no pot, and no firewood. We don’t have any coal in the stove, but we can make do with cold water for a few days without any problem. The only thing is that we need to put some drinking water in the kettle every day.

After lying down for only a few minutes, Luo Cheng got up. He had something to do at noon, so it would be nice to have a car.

Although this month’s quota is not full, I still have to go and get it. This still owes me the tickets in the canteen. He doesn’t need fine grains, he only needs food stamps. In the factory, he only eats rice, so he needs fine grain stamps. I need to go see what coarse grains are available. Although he eats here and the cafeteria is closed, he can buy some for his family and take them back.

“Hey, there aren’t many naughty kids these days, that’s good.”

As soon as he walked out of the gate of the compound, Luo Cheng was happy and saw several children watching around the car, but they all kept their distance. He was very sensible and didn’t dare to touch it for fear of accidentally breaking it and not being able to afford compensation. There was also a little girl aged two or three who obviously wanted to get closer to the car, but was held back by a little girl aged five or six.

The hardship of life makes children in this era very sensible from an early age, because even if they break a piece of clothing, a piece of cloth, or even break a piece of tile, they have to be taught by their family. Life is really hard and I can’t afford to pay. Just lose some money and your family will lose one bite.

“Young man, what are you doing here?”

“Auntie, I live here. The street office just assigned me a house a few days ago.”

“I saw this yard being whitewashed yesterday, so I guessed someone might be living here. I didn’t expect it to be such a young man. We will be neighbors in the future. You are amazing, young man. You can drive a car.”

Just as Luo Cheng was about to take out the car keys from his waist and start the car, an aunt suddenly appeared to say hello to him. Especially when he heard Luo Cheng said that he would live here in the future, his expression became even more enthusiastic.

Since we are neighbors, we will definitely see each other often in the future. The relationship between neighbors is still valued by many people these days.

Because there is no communication or network, if you want to investigate a person, you often start with your neighbors. If a person has bad conduct among the neighbors, or if he is not married, the matchmaker will check it, and it is easy for him to do bad things. When you are married, it also affects your children.

This is in Ngee Ann. If you are in Sijiucheng, there are many courtyards and courtyards. There are dozens of families living in a compound. In order to facilitate management, some elders and aunts are elected to serve as the people in charge of the compound. And some people are afraid of being told that they are not good at home, so they just obey the words of some uncles.