Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 577: Four Generations Living Together

"It's a little white rabbit. Isn't it cute?"

The snow-white rabbit was furry. Zhou Jing grabbed its ears and lifted it up and put it on the kang.

"Little~Bodu~"

The little girl carefully reached out her hand and touched the rabbit's tail.

"You can't touch a rabbit's tail. If you touch its tail, the rabbit will bite you."

Zhou Jing put the little girl's hand on the rabbit's back.

"Do you want to take it with you back to BJ?"

This was the first time in Gu Jia’s thirty years of life that he had come into close contact with a rabbit. He was very curious about the furry little white rabbits.

"If you like it, take it with you. Does Zhou Zhou like little white rabbits?"

Zhou Jing asked as he looked at the little girl who was touching the rabbit with surprise.

"Uh, ha~"

The rabbit's ears stood up and the little girl's hands trembled in fear.

"I don't know if it's safe to take it to BJ."

Gu Jia wanted to take the baby to BJ, but was worried that it would die.

"Go back to BJ and take him to the pet store to get the necessary vaccinations, and then learn how to feed rabbits."

Zhou Jing also thought about raising a small pet for his child. Raising a dog or a cat is too troublesome, so raising a rabbit is simpler. It would also be nice to raise a duck after moving to the villa.

"Then take it with you. Get up and look at the little white rabbit. Mommy will take it to feed it."

Gu Jia put the rabbit back into the box, carried the box outside, took out a small carrot, rinsed it under the faucet, and put the carrot and carrot leaves together in the box. The rabbit smelled it and began to eat.

"The rabbit really has a three-lobed mouth."

Looking at the rabbit's three-lobed mouth when eating, Gu Jia said in amazement.

"Rabbits can dig holes, be careful not to tear the cardboard box and run away. Sing to daddy, "Little White Rabbit, Little White Rabbit, so white, with two ears standing up."

"Then put it in the wooden box."

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Zhou Jing sang and the little girl babbled along. The room was a little cold in the morning, so Zhou Jing held a hot pack at a constant temperature of 36 or 37 degrees in the quilt. Feeling warm, he didn't want to get up and stayed in the quilt to amuse the child.

The old man and the old lady usually don’t eat breakfast, but today they made breakfast for many people, and Zhou Jing didn’t get up until it was time for dinner.

"Help your father fold the quilt."

Gu Jia came into the room and said to the little cutie who was still in bed with his head sticking out of the quilt.

"Ah, wow~"

The little girl crawled into bed and played hide-and-seek.

"Come out and let mommy dress you. Otherwise, daddy and I will go to eat and leave you alone. Don't be naughty."

Gu Jia patted the pillow, but the child didn't come out. Gu Jia lifted the quilt and started to dress the child. The little girl was very energetic in the morning, tossing and turning, and it was difficult to dress her.

After dressing the child, Gu Jia picked him up and brought him to the next room for them to watch.

"Come here kid, stop smoking."

The old lady said to the old man who was just about to light a cigarette.

The old man put the cigarettes back.

The old lady continued, "You and your son should not smoke in the house these days."

Since having a granddaughter, Zhou Guozhong has changed his habit of smoking in the house when the child is at home, and will consciously go outside when he wants to smoke.

Gu Jia put the child aside and looked over there to fold the quilt. When she walked to the door, she saw that the boy had already folded the quilt, so Gu Jia prepared water for the boy to wash his face.

Zhou Jing went to the toilet, then looked at the rabbit placed in a wooden box and went back to the house to wash his face.

"How about going hiking at noon?"

One of Gu Jia's favorite things to do in the countryside is hiking. Hiking and breathing the fresh air in the countryside is much more interesting than doing fitness in the city. Occasionally, you can see wild rabbits, pheasants and other things in the mountains.

"can."

Zhou Jing washed his face and went to have breakfast.

The old man bought a sheep from a shepherd yesterday and made offal with the sheep's offal in the morning. It's a clear and cool October day, and eating a bowl of steaming hot offal in the morning is both delicious and good for the stomach.

"Do you dare to give the child some mutton?"

The old lady always remembers the children when she has good things.

Zhou Jing said: "No seasoning, just make some steamed lamb for lunch and add a little salt."

The complementary food in Zhou Zhou is all salt-free, and the rice flour is also made from millet ground at home. Starting from the 15th day of July, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia will add a little salt to the baby's complementary food, so that the baby has a good appetite. A small amount of salt is also necessary for the body.

"Dad~Mom~Dad~Mom~"

The little girl lay on the kang and cried.

"Oh, after dinner, mommy will take Zhou Zhou to see the little white rabbit, okay?"

Gu Jia handed the washed pacifier to the child.

"Hey~"

The little girl laughed, bit her pacifier, turned over and lay down, lifting her chubby feet.

After dinner, Zhou Jing took the child to see the rabbits, chickens and dogs. It is important to take the child for a walk when returning to his hometown. It is more fun to take the child for a walk in his hometown, as it allows the child to learn more things. In addition to animals, there are peppers, eggplants, cabbages, pumpkins and other plants in the vegetable garden. There are purple morning glories and red sweet potato flowers outside the yard.

"This is a morning glory. What kind of flower is this? It's so beautiful."

Gu Jia looked at the red flower that was almost as big as her palm. The flower was large and plump, with petals layered one upon another.

"It's called sweet potato flower in my hometown. I don't know its scientific name. Its seeds are under the roots, and it looks a bit like sweet potato."

Zhou Jingfei held the child and let the child get close to a sweet potato flower.

"This flower is so beautiful. Bring some seeds next year and plant some outside the villa, as well as morning glory seeds."

The beautiful flowers successfully aroused Gu Jia's interest in growing flowers.

"Morning glory seeds are easy to preserve. This lump contains seeds. Just collect them when they are dry. This flower is also good. Hollyhock is a perennial flower. As long as the roots are not dug up, it will grow branches and leaves again every spring. It can grow taller than a person, and one plant can produce many flowers. This contains seeds, which is also easy to preserve."

"There are two varieties of hollyhocks in this row: red hollyhocks and pink hollyhocks."

Zhou Jing introduced to Gu Jia the flowers on both sides of the slope outside the yard.

"Tell the family to collect some of these flower seeds when they are ripe."

Gu Jia opened her cell phone to take a picture. Looking at the idyllic country yard, Gu Jia imagined what the yard outside BJ's villa would look like next year with flowers planted all over it.

Wu Suqin said, "I'll come back to harvest the flower seeds when they're ripe."

"Is Zhou Zhou a village beauty or a village girl?"

Gu Jia picked a morning glory and pinned it on the child's ear, then took a photo.

"Our little cutie is a village flower, not a village girl."

Zhou Jing picked a sweet potato flower and put it on the child's head, picked a morning glory and pinned it on the child's other ear, and then posed for the photo. "It's a pity to pick such a big flower. It's too harsh to destroy it. Stand by the gate and wait for me to get the camera."

Gu Jia took a few steps back, opened her cell phone, took a few photos of the father and daughter, and went back to the house to get the camera.

"Tell daddy about cigar paper, cigar paper."

Zhou Jing fixed the sweet potato flower on the child's head and posed again.

"Zhou Zhou, look at your mother, Eggplant."

Gu Jia held up the SLR camera and bent her legs to take pictures.

"Ha~"

The little girl's smile is sweeter than flowers.

"So lovely."

After taking pictures of the father and daughter, Gu Jia handed the camera to Zhou Jing, who took a photo of herself and the child.

"The village belle and the village girl."

Zhou Jing pointed the camera at Gu Jia and her daughter. The child was wearing a teddy bear suit and a hat, which made him even cuter. Teacher Gu was wearing a light pink hooded sweatshirt, blue tight jeans, and a pair of white sneakers. She had long, shiny black hair draped over her shoulders, looking intellectual and generous.

Four generations live together. While the seven members of the family are taking a family photo, Zhou Jing asks a young man from the neighboring family to help take the photo.

The old man and the old lady sat in the front row, with the old lady holding the child in her arms. Zhou Guozhong and Wu Suqin stood behind them, and Zhou Jing and Gu Jia stood on both sides respectively.

"Uncle, raise your head a little."

The young man adjusted the angle and pressed the shutter.

After taking the photos, Zhou Jing gave a bag of BJ specialties to the young man to try.

People in the countryside have lunch early, and there are many people at home today, so Wu Suqin and the old lady started preparing dinner before nine o'clock. Gu Jia wanted to help, but they didn't need her. Zhou Jing asked Gu Jia to watch TV on the kang to coax the children, and Zhou Jing found a place with good mobile phone signal to check the messages.

After all, he owns several companies, and Zhou Jing can't just leave them alone when he returns to his hometown during the holidays.

The company is closed for the holiday but many operations are still going on.

Ideal Technology appropriately increased its inventory of smartphones during the National Day holiday, but demand still exceeded supply. Given the current situation of Ideal smartphones, stocking 70,000 to 80,000 units a day is simply not enough, and the number of reservations is increasing every day.

Bai Xiyao returned to Yulin City today. In the morning, she sent Zhou Jing Ideal Technology's sales volume and approximate financial report for last month.

Ideal smartphones were launched in September. Despite production capacity restrictions in the second half of the month, Ideal 1 sold more than 1 million units and Imagine sold more than million units in September. Ideal's traditional mobile phone sales in the third quarter successfully exceeded million units. The mobile phone business is the core of Ideal Technology. Zhou Jing did not pay attention to the audio series, mobile power supplies, etc., and it was no problem for Ideal to achieve a net profit of billion in the third quarter.

The main reason why Ideal Technology has such a high net profit now is that traditional mobile phones can be sold at low prices and in large quantities. In addition, traditional mobile phone technology is simple and mature, with almost no after-sales problems. As long as they are sold, the profits are pure.

Bowei Network Technology Co., Ltd. only has three days off for the National Day. There was a lot of rain in early and mid-October. Some projects needed to catch up on the progress during the sunny days. Some projects were delayed due to the continuous rain in September.

【Is there anything I can do in Yushi? 】

Bai’s best friend sent a message to Zhou Jing.

[No, after Bowei gets to work, he can just take a look at the new apartment building of Yushi College and the Jinzhen Chemical Plant project]

Zhou Jing replied to Bai’s best friend.

Zhou Jing felt guilty for not being able to see Yang Wenwen during the National Day holiday. There was nothing he could do about it as he could not achieve the ideal state of treating both of them equally.

After looking at his phone for a while outside, Zhou Jing returned home. His third uncle and a second uncle came to Zhou Jing's house to discuss the matter of No. 3 going to propose marriage to his third uncle's son. They needed to confirm in advance who would go and roughly how much the bride price should be so that the "negotiating representative" would have a better idea when he went to the girl's house.

The grandfather of this third uncle and Zhou Jing's grandfather are brothers, so they are considered a family. The second uncle who came here is a little more distantly related. Zhou Jing's grandfather's father or grandfather is a brother of his grandfather or grandfather's father. Zhou Jing can't figure out the details, but in short, their relationship is not too distant, and they belong to a big family.

At this time, several people were smoking in the room, and the air was filled with smoke. Gu Jia and the child returned to their room.

"Let Jing go with us the day after tomorrow. Once Jing's car stops there, half of the deal will be done."

This second uncle is considered a worldly-wise man in the countryside. He left the countryside to sell coal more than ten years ago and settled down in Tangdu. When he returned to the countryside in the 1990s, he drove a Santana and was one of the first rich people in the village.

At that time, during the Chinese New Year, this second uncle came back and parked his car on the flat ground in the ditch. He opened the car door and played songs, which was very cool. He brought back a speaker about one meter high, and the songs he played at home could be heard a thousand meters away, for fear that others could not hear them. What Zhou Jing remembered most deeply was "Go home often to visit, go home to visit" and "When fellow villagers meet, their eyes are filled with tears", which fully displayed the temperament of a country bumpkin after making money. However, he failed to move to the next level. Now he drives a car worth tens of thousands of yuan, which is a lot lower than it was more than ten years ago.

"That's fine. Is Jing busy the day after tomorrow?"

Zhou Guozhong looked at his son and said.

"It shouldn't be busy. We'll see when the time comes. If it's okay, I'll go. If I can't go, you go."

Zhou Jing couldn't even be sure whether he was free this afternoon, let alone the day after tomorrow.

"That's it, let's see if we can negotiate the betrothal gift down to 40,000 yuan."

The third uncle is now in a very troubled situation, fearing that the second son's marriage will be ruined. However, the family really cannot afford the 60,000 yuan dowry, nor can they afford 30,000 yuan in cash. The family does not have any valuable property, and it will be difficult to explain to the eldest son.

"If we can't negotiate, then 60,000 is 60,000. We should tell the truth to our own family. In today's society, 60,000 is not too much for a dowry, even if you don't need to buy a house or a car. Besides, the girl is a serious college student with a good job. The family has spent more than 60,000 to support their daughter's college. Jing, don't you think I'm right?"

Second Uncle always spoke loudly and with a rough voice, and his spit was almost flying onto Zhou Jing's face.

"The request is indeed not excessive." Zhou Jing nodded and said, "If the other party doesn't give in, Third Uncle should agree to it first. Don't drag it out until the next time if the negotiation fails the first time. Find a way to get the money together and settle it first. Find a way to resolve the conflict at home later. Don't let this conflict at home cause Bobo and the girl to part on bad terms."

"Jing's words are reasonable. Intellectuals see things clearly. No matter what happens the day after tomorrow, you have to accept the betrothal gift. The third child is still young. At most, he can raise sheep or cattle for a few years to supplement the old family."

The second uncle continued.

"Okay, then Jing will lend me some money."

After much thought, Uncle San decided that this was the only option.

"Money is no problem. Uncle San, just agree to it."

Zhou Jing certainly had to lend it, even if his uncle couldn't pay it back, he wouldn't expect him to pay it back.

The second uncle cracked a melon seed and looked at Zhou Jing and asked, "Jing's car should have cost no less than 3.5 million, right?"

"almost."

Zhou Jing nodded and said.

"So expensive?"

Uncle San said in surprise.

"What do you think? The Maybach S680 is not an ordinary luxury car, but three million is nothing to Jing. I saw in the news some time ago that he spent more than billion to acquire a semiconductor company." The second uncle looked at Zhou Jing and smiled and said, "Jing, tell me how much money you have now. You must have made more than billion this year, right?"

"The more you earn, the more you spend. The company's R&D expenses are very high."

Zhou Jing smiled and shook his head without revealing his true identity.

"Eh, even if we let go and pick up money, we can't pick up so much."

Uncle San was even more surprised. He thought the rumors in the village were too exaggerated. He didn't expect Zhou Jing really earned so much money.

"Last month, a senior provincial official went to Jing's company. I don't know if you've seen the news, but Jing's company's smartphone is in short supply. I couldn't buy one at the store last week, so I called Jing's company to buy one. But Jing's classmate named Bai gave me one for free. This phone is really useful."

The second uncle took out the Ideal 1 phone case with a screen cover and said.

"I also bought this from Jing Company. Bobo bought it for me. It's also very useful."

Uncle San took out his ideal traditional mobile phone.

Zhou Jing said: "You can take care of the jujube trees next year. I plan to invest in a jujube processing factory in the county or Yu City, and start harvesting the jujubes when they are ripe next year."

The second uncle said, "This is a good benefit for Qing County, but the XJ dates are selling well now, and the dates here can't be sold at a high price, so it's not easy to make money by opening a factory."

"I don't plan to make money from this, but I just want to prevent the local dates from rotting in the fields."

Zhou Jing will not withdraw the money he made from investing in the red date processing factory in Qing County, but would rather keep it in the local area to help with poverty alleviation.

(End of this chapter)