Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 683 Jealousy
"Scorpion catcher."

It was dark and Zhou Jing accompanied Gu Jia to the toilet. A neighbor was catching scorpions outside the courtyard wall with a fluorescent light. Zhou Jing said to Gu Jia.

"All night long?"

Gu Jia looked curiously at what the scorpion looked like under the fluorescent light.

"I usually go home after eleven o'clock."

The uncle who caught scorpions used a fluorescent light to shine on the plastic bucket in his hand.

The densely packed scorpions in the plastic bucket glowed lavender under the fluorescent light, giving Gu Jia goose bumps all over his body. He looked away and continued to ask, "How many can you catch in three or four hours?"

"Two or three taels."

"A pound is five or six hundred yuan, and two or three taels is more than a hundred yuan, so the profit is quite high."

Gu Jia roughly calculated that earning more than a hundred yuan by walking for three or four hours at night was much better than working outside.

The uncle said: "It's only from June to September every year."

"Safety comes first. Don't go to places with a lot of grass or places that are difficult to walk on."

Zhou Jing asked the uncle to look for it on the earthen walls outside the left and right gates in the yard.

"I'll just walk along the path that people usually take. How many days will you stay here?"

The uncle entered the yard and walked while shining a fluorescent light on the wall. He checked whether the main courtyard had been cemented, and then he shone the light on the earthen wall and stone wall outside the strong gate.

"Three or four days."

Zhou Jing followed behind to watch.

"What a big one. Have you ever been stung by a scorpion?"

Seeing the fluorescent scorpion on the earth wall, Gu Jia couldn't help but move back, wondering if there was a scorpion under his feet or if it would crawl onto his body.

"No, the tweezers are long."

The uncle grabbed the scorpion with iron tweezers and put it in a plastic bucket.

"There's a snack street in BJ that sells fried scorpions. They deep-fry the scorpions and make them into skewers."

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

“Is there anyone who eats this?”

The uncle found it hard to imagine. Although he often caught scorpions, he still felt his scalp tingling when he heard someone eat this thing. Even if he was poor and starving to death, he would never think of eating scorpions.

"They eat all kinds of things. They make all kinds of insects into snacks, and many people eat them."

Zhou Jing tried to eat scorpions several times but failed.

"There's really nothing left to eat."

The uncle has learned a lot.

"When I was little, I dared to catch it with my hands and pinch the thorns on the tail to scare girls."

Zhou Jing was also a naughty kid when he was young. When he went to his grandmother's house, Liu Hanyu was one of the people he scared, and he frightened Liu Hanyu to death.

"How bad."

Gu Jia pinched the boy's waist, turned around and went back to the main courtyard to look at the stars.

After the uncle who caught the scorpion left, Zhou Jing closed the gate of the courtyard, walked up to Gu Jia and said, "What stars can a liberal arts student recognize?"

"The spoon is the Big Dipper, and the three stars in a straight line are Orion."

The starry sky was brilliant, and Gu Jia could not recognize anything except the Big Dipper and Orion.

"The brightest one near the moon is Venus, and the last quarter moon in late August should be Jupiter."

Zhou Jing said as he observed the surroundings of the moon.

"It turns out that Jupiter and Venus can be seen with the naked eye."

Gu Jia looked up at the night sky and said.

"Mars and Saturn can also be seen with the naked eye. Next time I come back, I will bring an astronomical telescope. With an astronomical telescope, I can confirm whether the bright star near the moon is Jupiter. Saturn is the easiest to confirm. The astronomical telescope can see Saturn's rings."

Zhou Jing is a half astronomy enthusiast. If there is a chance in the future, Zhou Jing will use the company's technological strength to explore space. Zhou Jing has been curious about whether there are any secrets on the moon since he was a child. As an online writer, Zhou Jing has imagined the starry sky a lot.

"It's easy to confirm that Jupiter has ring patterns. The universe is so huge that some of the stars we see now may be tens or hundreds of light years away. In other words, the light of some stars we see now was emitted tens or even hundreds of years ago. For example, the North Star is more than 400 light years away from the Earth."

Gu Jia just let go of his neck and put her head on Zhou Jing and said.

"The North Star can be seen so clearly from such a distance, how big must it be?"

Zhou Jing thought that the North Star was not too far from the solar system.

"The diameter of the North Star seems to be more than 50 million kilometers, and its volume is tens of thousands times that of the sun."

"I see."

After watching for a while, the two returned to the house. The old lady cut the watermelon. Zhou Jing and Gu Jia washed their hands and went to eat. The child had already started eating, grabbing a small piece with both hands, and his mouth was full of watermelon juice.

"Grandpa also likes to watch The Voice?"

The old man was watching ZG The Voice very attentively, Gu Jia said with a smile.

"There's nothing else good to see, do you guys want to see it?"

The old man gave the remote control to Gu Jia and told her to change the channel if she wanted to watch something.

"This is pretty good. I watch it sometimes."

Gu Jia didn't take the remote control because she didn't want to watch any TV series.

The old man said, "Which of these four mentors is the most powerful?"

"Liu Huan!"

When it was time for the child to go to bed, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went back to their own rooms. Zhou Jing washed the child's face and feet first. He watched. After Gu Jia finished washing, she went to the kang to coax the child. After Zhou Jing washed, he closed the door.

"I sleep with my dad~"

Seeing Zhou Jing getting on the kang, the little girl left Gu Jia and ran to find Zhou Jing.

"You sleep alone, this is my husband who wants to sleep with me."

Gu Jia pushed the child away and said.

"It's my dad~"

The little girl climbed onto Zhou Jing and said.

"Why? He is my husband, not your husband."

Gu Jia held Zhou Jing tightly.

"It's my dad, go away~"

The little girl got into Zhou Jing's arms and pushed Gu Jia.

"Why are you so unreasonable? You should be the one who walks away. Ask your father whether he will choose mom or you?"

Gu Jia pulled the child from Zhou Jing's arms and said.

"Daddy, daddy~"

The little girl stuck to Zhou Jing like a dog-skin plaster.

"Dad has to choose mom. Without mom, there would be no you."

Zhou Jing hugged Gu Jia and said.

"Yeah~"

The little girl rolled around on the bed and acted coquettishly.

"You still want Mom to leave. Then, if Mom leaves this house, you and Dad will live together, okay?"

Gu Jia said as she looked at the rolling child.

"I want to sleep with my dad~"

The little girl sat up and hung on Zhou Jing.

"Either you sleep with mommy, or mommy and daddy sleep and you sleep alone."

Gu Jia looked at the jealous good girl and said.

"Daddy will sleep with whoever falls asleep first."

Zhou Jing lay down, covered the child and Gu Jia in the quilt and said.

"You are not allowed to fall asleep first. Let mommy fall asleep first and coax me to sleep first."

Gu Jia closed her eyes and scratched the child's feet with her fingers.

"Daddy, coax me~" The little girl hurriedly dived into Zhou Jing's arms and hid her chubby little feet in his arms.

"Dad hasn't even managed to make your mom understand yet, and he's trying to make you understand. One plus one equals one, one plus two equals two, two plus two equals four, and one plus three equals three."

Zhou Jing kissed the little girl's head, patted her back gently, and used multiplication tables to help her sleep.

Looking at her daughter who was "jealous" of her, Gu Jia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She had given herself a love rival.

"My hometown is so cool. I have to cover myself with a thick blanket when I sleep in this season."

After coaxing the child to sleep, Gu Jia moved out to make room for the child and put the child into her own bed. It was inconvenient for the two of them to communicate as the child slept in the middle, so they went to bed early.

It was already the next day when they opened their eyes. They heard the baby stretching and babbling. Zhou Jing and Gu Jia woke up and squinted their eyes to peek. The little girl looked left and right from time to time. Zhou Jing and Gu Jia closed their eyes and pretended to be asleep. The child was dazed for a while, then turned over and crawled into Gu Jia's quilt to look for milk.

"You think of mom when you're breastfeeding? Are you trying to steal dad from mom?"

Gu Jia said with his arms folded.

"e~Momnn~"

The little girl hummed and squeezed her messy head in Gu Jia's arms.

"You said you can't compete with mom for dad?"

Gu Jia deliberately refused to give the food to the child.

"Mom, I'm hungry~"

The little girl kept tossing and turning in Gu Jia's arms, being very stubborn.

Gu Jia fed the child only when he was about to cry. The child always spoke with confidence to his biological father and mother. Gu Jia looked at Zhou Jing and said, "When you were a child, did you side with your mother or your father?"

"Family harmony is on my father's side, and family conflicts are on my mother's side."

Zhou Jing said while holding the child's feet.

"Me too."

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

After the child finished feeding, Gu Jia changed the diaper. After changing the diaper, the little girl snuggled into Zhou Jing's arms and acted coquettishly. Gu Jia got up and returned to the countryside where she didn't have to worry about anything and lived a very comfortable life.

"Dad, Dad, let's go see Bunny and Duck~"

The little girl lay on Zhou Jing's face, holding Zhou Jing's head and kissing him left and right.

"Rabbit and Duck are not in this house. Only Wangwang and Gugu are here. Wangwang and Gugu haven't woken up yet. Wait until they wake up before going to see them."

Before coming back, Zhou Jing left BJ's pet at the pet store.

"Wake up~ coo coo coo~"

The little girl imitated the crowing of a rooster.

"Wangwang hasn't woken up yet. Wangwang is guarding the gate for us at night. He needs to rest when the sun rises."

Zhou Jing rubbed his chin on the child's face, and the stubble-bearded little girl laughed non-stop. It was an interesting thing for Zhou Jing to wake up and play with the child.

"Will you let mom go away? Mom will never come back if she leaves, okay?"

Gu Jia combed her hair, patted the child's butt and said.

"Hmm (three times)"

The little girl tugged at Gu Jia's pajamas and acted coquettishly.

"You've broken my heart. I don't want you anymore."

Gu Jia pretended to be sad.

"Find a way to awaken your mother's love."

Zhou Jing pinched the child's face and said.

"Mom, I love you~"

The little girl hugged Gu Jia's thigh and kissed her.

After Gu Jia left the house, Zhou Jing picked up his phone to reply to Yang Wenwen and Chen Jiaqian. Yang Wenwen and Chen Jiaqian knew that Zhou Jing had taken Gu Jia back to his hometown.

Yang Wenwen thought that Zhou Jing was taking Gu Jia to meet his parents. She was sad but also wished that Zhou Jing and Gu Jia's child would be born smoothly. As long as Gu Jia would not be too angry if Zhou Jing made any mistakes after the child was born, it would not affect the reputation of the company and Zhou Jing.

Chen Jiaqian was more sad, not knowing whether she would have the chance to meet Zhou Jing's parents in this life.

After lying down until around seven o'clock, Zhou Jing got up to wash the child's face and comb her hair. Gu Jia made egg custard for the child. After feeding the child, Zhou Jing took the child to the yard to play. The little girl asked the chickens questions outside the chicken coop, asked the dog questions outside the doghouse, and asked the birds on the branches and the swallows on the wires all kinds of questions. She never got tired of it, and Zhou Jing acted as a translator for the little girl.

"Dad, I want flowers~"

The little girl walked over to a hollyhock and pointed at the flower.

"How can you pick such beautiful flowers? Flowers can only be admired from a distance and not played with."

"The life of a domineering CEO as a babysitter, you should write a novel next time."

Gu Jia came to the yard and said with a smile.

"That's a good idea."

Zhou Jing picked up the child and swung him in his arms.

“Very fresh vegetables.”

Gu Jia said as she looked at the vegetables the old lady had just picked from the garden.

The old lady said, "Take some with you when you leave."

"With something that can last a long time."

Gu Jia sat on a stool under the tree and watched Zhou Jing play with the children.

After lunch, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia coaxed the child to take a nap. They stayed by the child's side. When the child woke up, the three of them went for a walk together and took the child to appreciate the countryside scenery.

In late August, some crops have already borne fruit. Bunches of plump ears of millet in the millet fields sway in the wind, exuding the smell of a good harvest. A large group of sparrows chirp on the branches, and are frightened away by the sound made by the iron basin hung on the scarecrow in the field.

"Zhou Zhou should also fly one."

Gu Jia let go of the child's hand and said.

"Wuwu~ I can't fly."

The little girl jumped with her arms outstretched.

Zhou Jing rubbed the child's head and said, "Because you don't have wings, ask the bird if it can lend you its wings."

"Jiujiu, can you lend me your wings?"

The little girl called out to the sparrows on the branches.

There was a cell phone signal on the mountain, so Gu Jia called Tang Du's home.

Zhou Jing sat on the bare grass holding his child and looking at his mobile phone. In late August, as new phones equipped with brand-new processors were exposed and released one after another by various mobile phone manufacturers, the digital circle entered the busiest time of the year.

The most popular new phone in autumn is still the iPhone. Since the iPhone 5s still uses a small 4-inch screen, under the continuous impact of large-screen smartphones, especially the emergence of ideal smartphones with large screens and good system fluency and stability, the iPhone has been criticized in the past two years. The 5s, which will be launched in September, has lost its reputation before it was officially released. Some iPhone users are disappointed and give up iPhone to switch to other brands.

Among domestic large-screen smartphones, only Ideal can meet the demanding experience requirements of iPhone users. In addition, Ideal Technology vaguely exposed its Bluetooth headsets, and Ideal Technology's Ideal series has become the first choice for mid- to high-end users to change their phones.

Last year, Ideal Technology's three subversive products, Bluetooth speakers, smart speakers and smart lamps, attracted countless people's favor. After the Bluetooth headset was exposed this time, the digital circle was full of expectations, while competitors were like frightened birds. They couldn't imagine what Ideal Technology could do with the headset. Could it be like a smart speaker and Bluetooth speaker without wires? In that case, it would be so cumbersome to equip the headset with batteries and Bluetooth hardware.

If it is the kind of earphones that you wear on your head, it will be useless as it will press down your hair. This is the most common speculation in the comment section about the ideal Bluetooth earphones.

Looking at the comment area, Zhou Jing was thinking about how to officially expose the Bluetooth headset. With his sunny and handsome appearance and high popularity, it would be best for him to be his own spokesperson. Zhou Jing thought it would be nice to take a side view photo of himself wearing the Bluetooth headset when the headset was officially exposed. In 2013, wearing headsets on the ears without the burden of long wires was already very shocking, and appearing on the ears of ZG Jobs Zhou Jing, the sense of technology was even higher.

"Are you thirsty?"

After kissing the child on the cheek, Zhou Jing opened the child's thermos cup and fed him water.

The little girl pursed her lips and took a sip. The water flowed out of her lips, making her tender lips even more pink. After drinking the water, the little girl squatted on the ground and picked wild flowers.

"Is Zhou Zhou the village beauty?"

Gu Jia picked two small yellow flowers and pinned them on the child's ears.

"This is called wild chrysanthemum. It has the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and relieving cough. It has a very good cough-relieving effect. You can dry it and soak it in water to drink."

Zhou Jing picked a small yellow flower and chewed it in his mouth to savor it. His girlfriend in his previous life had been coughing due to the sequelae of impotence. Zhou Jing picked wild chrysanthemums, dried them, and soaked them in water to drink a few times, and the cough was cured.

"Then pick some more and bring them back to BJ."

Gu Jia felt it was amazing that the ordinary little yellow flowers on the roadside could be so useful.

"But the water is awful to drink. Watch the child."

Zhou Jing didn't have a plastic bag with him, so he handed the child to Gu Jia and went to a place where there were many wild chrysanthemums to pull them out by the roots.

“Good medicine tastes bitter.”

Gu Jia picked a few flowers and soaked them in the adults' water cups.

(End of this chapter)