Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 579 Gu Jia and Liu Hanyu meet for the first time
Just as Zhou Jing guessed, the village secretary would not come to the temple unless there was something important.

The village secretary was planning to build a village committee and an activity room for the elderly. The so-called activity room for the elderly was a chess and card room. The village secretary raised funds from people in the village who were doing business outside. The first person he found was Zhou Jing, and he also regarded Zhou Jing as the main financier. It was estimated that it would cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan to build a village committee and an activity room. It would be good if other people besides Zhou Jing could raise ten or twenty thousand yuan.

If it weren’t for the big boss Zhou Jing, the village secretary would never have thought of building a village committee and activity room.

The village secretary came to visit and gave Zhou Zhou a red envelope. Zhou Jing felt it would be unreasonable not to express his gratitude, so he promised to donate 300,000 yuan to the village, 200,000 yuan of which would be used to build the village committee and activity room, and the rest would be used to support the students in the village.

The next day, October 2, Zhou Jing went to his grandmother's house, and Gu Jia, her daughter, and Wu Suqin went with him.

"What should Zhou Zhou call grandma?"

When they arrived at the county town, they went to buy some things first. Gu Jia got out of the car holding the child and said.

"Grandma." Wu Suqin stretched out her hand and said, "Mom is tired, how about letting grandma hold her?"

"Uh~"

The little girl clung to Gu Jia unwillingly.

My uncle's pancake restaurant was open as usual during the National Day. Zhou Jing went to the pancake restaurant to buy some pancakes. There was wine and cigarettes in the car. Zhou Jing brought a bottle of Wuliangye and a Huazi for his uncle.

"Jing is here, Jiajia is here too, do you recognize your uncle?"

My uncle asked everyone to sit down first and said to the child.

"Chou Zhou, call your uncle and aunt, and ask your uncle to make you pancakes."

Zhou Jing looked at the child and said.

Looking at the stranger in front of her, the little girl blinked her watery eyes without saying a word.

"The child is so handsome, his eyes are just like Jing's when he was a child, let me hold him."

My aunt came over and said with a smile on her face.

"Let the old lady hug you."

Gu Jia carefully handed the child to her aunt.

The little girl whimpered twice but didn't cry. She looked around.

My uncle looked at the cigarettes and alcohol and said, "No need to bring such expensive things."

"Not much money."

Zhou Jing opened a box of cigarettes and handed it to his uncle.

My aunt said, "Don't smoke if you have children."

"The baby is so good, let uncle hug him too."

The uncle loved the child very much and wondered when he would have a grandson of his own.

"You guys eat some pancakes first and then your grandma will make you some meat rolls."

After a few pleasantries, my aunt went to make pancakes.

"We just had meat at home, so my aunt can just make some dried tofu rolls."

Zhou Jing scooped up the pancake soup, took a sip and said.

"Make some for you to try."

"This child should be easy to coax. Are you tired of coaxing the child?"

Uncle Wu Xiaoping held the child and rocked him gently.

"Not tired, children are easier to coax than adults. How is the pancake shop doing now?"

Wu Suqin looked around the store and said.

"Not bad. After paying the rent, I can make about 9,000 yuan a month. Sorry I can't eat right now. You can go to the store next door."

Someone came into the store. Wu Xiaoping gave the child to Zhou Jing, sent the customer away, and then closed the rolling door halfway.

"It's pretty good to earn more than 9,000 yuan a month, not worse than working in a big city."

Gu Jia never expected that this small pancake shop could earn nearly ten thousand yuan a month.

"Most of them are sold to Internet cafes. In Jing's Internet cafe, Internet users don't want to go out to eat, so they order pancakes and steamed meat buns and vegetable pancakes on their computers, and the network administrator will pick them up for them."

Wu Xiaoping took three bottles of drinks and said.

"That's good."

Gu Jia nodded and said.

"How was your driver's license test, uncle?"

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

Wu Xiaoping said: "I passed the second subject test last month, and will practice the third subject after the holiday."

“Better than many young people.”

Gu Jia took the second subject test twice that year.

"My uncle has been very clever since he was young, but he must not touch a car after drinking. I am going to buy a new car for my dad. Now this car will be transferred to the Internet cafe and my uncle will drive it to practice."

My aunt first brought a few rolls of pork head pancakes to the table. Zhou Jing picked up one and dipped it in the hot tomato sauce to taste.

Transferring the car to the Internet cafe is equivalent to giving it to my uncle. If it is transferred directly to my uncle, my uncle will give me some money.

My uncle's family is living a good life now. The pancake shop earns more than 9,000 yuan a month, and the Internet cafe pays my uncle 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a month. With a monthly income of more than 20,000 yuan, it is no problem for him to save 200,000 yuan a year in a small county like Qing County. My cousin earns 8,000 to 9,000 yuan a month at Bowen Network Technology Co., Ltd. My uncle bought a house for me in Tangdu, so I have no pressure on the monthly payments.

The county Internet cafe is fully managed by the uncle, and the legal representative has also been changed to the uncle. Zhou Jing will give whatever salary he wants. Bowen Network Technology Co., Ltd. has a formal salary hierarchy system, and Zhou Jing cannot just pay his cousin whatever he wants. The salary increase must be within the highest salary range of the position.

"Okay, sister and Jiajia will try it too. This pig head was just stewed this morning. Can the child eat it now?"

Wu Xiaoping held the child in his arms and let Zhou Jing eat.

"You can eat the bread, but you can't eat the ones with condiments."

Zhou Jing picked up a small piece of thin buckwheat pancake and fed it to the child.

"Is it yummy?"

Gu Jia gently pinched the child's face and said.

"Uh~"

The little girl ate with great relish.

"Sister, are you going to BJ after the holiday?"

My aunt brought the pancakes with dried tofu and bean sprouts to the table and said.

Wu Suqin said while eating pancakes: "Not going for now, Jing's mother-in-law went to BJ to coax her for a while, how is Haohao bringing his girlfriend back for Dragon Boat Festival?"

"We think they are fine. As long as they like each other, they will be fine. We went to the girl's house yesterday."

"It shouldn't be a big problem. Haohao said the girl didn't ask for any gifts, so just give her family some money. They should be able to get engaged this year."

Wu Xiaoping said with a smile.

Zhou Jing thought there would be no problem. His uncle had already bought a house for his cousin in Tangdu, and his cousin bought himself a car. Moreover, his cousin had a monthly salary of eight or nine thousand. Such conditions were considered very good in Tangdu. The most important thing was that he had the support of a relative like Zhou Jing. If he could help out, not only the cousin and his wife, but also the girl's family could benefit from it. If the girl didn't understand his conditions, then his cousin would have to find a girl with a better brain.

They ate some pancakes at their uncle's house, and packed up the leftovers to take away. After their aunt prepared the pancakes for their grandmother, Zhou Jing said goodbye. His uncle took out two hundred yuan and gave it to the child. Zhou Jing said a few polite words and then accepted the money on behalf of the child.

When Zhou Jing was in school, his uncle always gave him money behind his aunt's back. Now his uncle can give money to Zhou Jing's child openly.

Knowing that Zhou Jing was coming, grandma made Zhou Jing's favorite cold noodles and date paste cakes, and walked around the yard from time to time.

Zhou Jing parked the car on an open space opposite the ditch below the slope of Liu Hanyu's grandmother's house. Gu Jia held the child, while Zhou Jing and Wu Suqin took the milk, biscuits, fried dough twists, meat, etc. bought for the grandmother, as well as the roast duck and some snacks that Zhou Jing brought back from BJ.

"Mom, you don't have to come down. I've got everything."

Wu Suqin shouted to the old lady who was walking down the small slope in the yard with a cane.

"There are a lot of dates in this village. Are the red dates sweet?"

Gu Jia picked two dates casually, but worried that the child would swallow them, so she didn't give them to the child. Instead, she bit one open and let the child lick it.

"Ah~"

"You can't eat jujubes now."

The little girl opened her mouth to bite, and Gu Jia put it into her mouth.

"What did Grandma have for breakfast?"

When he got to his grandmother, Zhou Jing took the things with one hand and supported the old lady with the other.

"Momo, stir-fried vegetables, the sweet potatoes your dad brought last time, they really look like when Jing was a child, Jiajia carried the child up the slope, must she be tired?"

The old lady looked at the child and said.

"With a sling, I'm not tired. I call Zhouzhou grandma."

Gu Jia patted the child on the back and said.

"dou, pu~hou~" After seeing a lot of new faces in the past two days, the little girl gradually became more calm.

"How's your health lately, Mom?"

Looking at her old mother whom she hadn't seen for a long time, Wu Suqin was very worried because the old lady's hair was almost completely white.

"I'm fine. I eat well and sleep well. You've finally gained some weight on your face this year. Are you used to being in BJ?"

The old lady looked at Wu Suqin with droopy eyes, her cloudy gaze full of kindness and relief.

Wu Suqin said: "Habit, are you taking your blood pressure medication on time?"

“Eat on time.”

The old lady was originally very perfunctory about taking medicine, but she saw with her own eyes several people in the village suffering from cerebral palsy and hemiplegia due to not taking medicine for high blood pressure. She dared not be perfunctory about taking medicine anymore. Not only would she suffer from hemiplegia, but she would also be a burden to her children.

Zhou Jing said, "Take grandma to the county hospital for a full-body checkup the day after tomorrow."

"Need not."

The old lady thought it was troublesome and didn't want to waste money. At her age, as long as she didn't become paralyzed, she would live as long as she could.

"Check to see if you have any potential illnesses so that you can prevent them in advance."

Gu Jia said softly.

"That's right. It doesn't cost much."

Wu Suqin continued.

"I'll pick you up the day after tomorrow morning. Grandma, remember not to eat or drink in the morning."

When Zhou Jing arrived at his grandmother's house, he took a quick look around. Everything was the same as before. There were a few more photos under the glass on the table, including photos of Zhou Jing, Gu Jia, and the children.

"Grandma, don't cut it yet. I'm not hungry now. I had dinner at home and then I went to my uncle's shop to eat pancakes."

The old lady took a chopping board and prepared to cut the cold noodles. Zhou Jing took out the pancakes he brought from his uncle's shop and gave them to his grandmother to eat.

"Then take a break and eat."

The old lady washed a few apples sent by the neighbors, put them on a plate and brought them to the kang.

My grandmother is old and has difficulty walking. She lives alone. In the past two years, my uncle has been looking after the Internet cafe. The pancake shop business is good, and my uncle has not come back to farm. Others have their own land to farm, and the land that is not farmed has become barren. The fruit trees have died because no one has taken care of them, and those that are not dead do not bear fruit. The fruits are either given by neighbors or bought by my uncle.

"Is this stick still strong?"

Zhou Jing picked up his grandmother's walking stick and knocked it. It was still very solid. It was the jujube wood that Zhou Jing had cut before.

"It's just right now."

After her grandson chopped off the crutch, the old lady never used the purchased crutch again.

"The power of time. When I cut this walking stick for my grandmother in the summer of 09, I didn't polish it or peel the skin. Over three years, my grandmother's hands polished it until it became so smooth."

Zhou Jing said to Gu Jia.

"Look at Grandma's hands."

Gu Jia touched the handle of the walking stick. The rough bark was no longer on the handle. It was smooth as if it had been polished and oiled. Gu Jia held the old lady's hand and looked at it. The old lady's palm was not rough from holding the walking stick.

"Put your hand out for grandma to shake. Put your hand out."

Zhou Jing said while holding the child.

"Ho~"

The little girl obediently stretched out a hand.

"The baby is really obedient."

The old lady gently held the child's hand, and the scene of Zhou Jing's childhood emerged in her mind.

"Dare to eat the apple?"

The old lady took an apple and said.

"Dare to eat."

Zhou Jing took the apple and bit off a big piece. He gnawed off the skin with his teeth and put the flesh in the child's hand.

The little girl held the apple in her small hands and put it in her mouth to suck the juice.

Liu Hanyu arrived at her grandmother's house on October 1st. When she heard that Zhou Jing had arrived at Zhou Jing's grandmother's house, Liu Hanyu's grandmother prepared a small basket of apples and pears as a thank you for Zhou Jing's care for Liu Hanyu. Gu Jia and the child also came. Liu Hanyu was reluctant but still carried the basket to Zhou Jing's grandmother's house.

"Hanyu is here, no need to bring anything."

Hearing footsteps outside, Wu Suqin went out and said.

"Try it, auntie, I haven't seen you for a long time."

Liu Hanyu lowered her head, a little shy.

"This pear is good. I stole pears from your grandmother's house when I was a child."

Zhou Jing stood up to greet them holding the child.

"You're so embarrassed to say that."

Gu Jia patted Zhou Jing on the back with a smile.

".Hello, Teacher Gu."

For a moment, Liu Hanyu didn’t know how to address Gu Jia. She was stunned for a moment and then remembered that Gu Jia was a teacher before.

When meeting Gu Jia in person for the first time, Liu Hanyu had an indescribable feeling in her heart. She was a little surprised. She didn't look like a 30-year-old woman at all. Her skin was so good. She wondered if she had had cosmetic injections because of her good conditions.

"You're welcome, sit down."

The first time she met the girl who was Zhou Jing's childhood friend, Gu Jia was quite curious. Seeing that the girl was pretty and quiet, Gu Jia felt lucky that Zhou Jing had a quiet girl like Liu Hanyu and a capable girl like Bai Xiyao by his side. She was so lucky to be able to get Zhou Jing.

"The baby is cuter than in the photo. He should be eight months old, right?"

Liu Hanyu gently held the child's hand. Looking at the cute little guy, Liu Hanyu's mood was indescribable. If it weren't for Gu Jia, she would have great hope. Thinking of what Zhou Jing had done to her before, especially last month when Zhou Jing couldn't control himself and did that again, Liu Hanyu's face couldn't help but get hot.

"She's just eight months old. Zhou Zhou calls me auntie."

Zhou Jing's heart beat a little faster. He had forcefully kissed Liu Hanyu in Tangdu last month. At this moment, Liu Hanyu and Gu Jia were face to face. For the first time, Zhou Jing felt like he was in a Shura scene. This feeling was thrilling and exciting.

"Call my sister."

Liu Hanyu has become an aunt without realizing it and feels old.

Gu Jia brought some BJ specialties for Liu Hanyu to try.

"When will you return to Yu City?"

Zhou Jing tried his best to avoid making eye contact with Liu Hanyu. After all, he had hugged Liu Hanyu before, especially last month. If Gu Jia hadn't called him in time, Zhou Jing might have really lost control.

"tomorrow."

There are seven days of vacation in total. If Zhou Jing is the only one there, Liu Hanyu would jokingly ask how Zhou Jing would handle it if she didn't go to work on time and stayed at home for two more days.

Liu Hanyu chatted briefly for a few words and then left. Looking at the girl leaving, Zhou Jing sighed in his heart. He really envied the ancient times where people could be honest and upright.

Gu Jia sent the girl out of the yard and went back to the house to put the child to sleep.

After the child fell asleep, Zhou Jing accompanied his mother to burn paper for his grandfather, and Gu Jia stayed at home to look after the child.

My grandfather was buried four or five miles away from home, which was not far, but we could not drive there as the road was winding and sloped and the actual distance was more than five miles.

"Mom, how does it feel when your parents die?"

Zhou Jing has not experienced the true sorrow of life in his two lifetimes. Although his grandparents are also close relatives, the sorrow they bring to Zhou Jing is not as deep as that of others.

Wu Suqin glanced at her son, who had already started a family and a career. Thinking that he would experience it himself sooner or later, Wu Suqin sighed and said, "It was sad when I was young, but I slowly let it go after I had children."

Zhou Jing did not continue the topic.

When they arrived at his grandfather's cemetery, Zhou Jing and his mother placed the offerings and food together. After they had laid out the food, Zhou Jing took out a piece of Huazi and all the paper money.

"Your grandpa is a chain smoker, so you can smoke as much as you want this time."

Wu Suqin sighed.

"How's my grandpa drinking?"

When the cigarette was almost burned, Zhou Jing opened the bottle of cigarettes he brought with him and poured them all onto the stone table.

"Your grandpa is a moderate drinker, but he hardly drinks on weekdays."

Wu Suqin forced a smile and said.

After setting off firecrackers, Zhou Jing knelt behind his mother and kowtowed together.

Zhou Jing felt distressed when he noticed the redness in his mother's eyes. What his mother said just now was just to comfort him. It is not so easy to let go of the death of the most important person in one's life.

(End of this chapter)