Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 684 Farmhouse

"Under the east fence of picking chrysanthemum, you can see Nanshan leisurely."

Gu Jia watched Zhou Jing picking wild chrysanthemums, reciting poems and taking photos.

"The mountain air is beautiful at dusk, and the birds fly back and forth." Zhou Jing looked back at the mother and daughter with small yellow flowers on their ears and hair and said, "Village beauties and village girls."

"They are all village beauties. Who was the village beauties in this village when you were a child?"

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"The whole village doesn't know that the prettiest girl around here is a girl one year older than me on Shangjie Street. Her name is Zhou Lina."

Zhou Jing remembered that there were many beautiful girls and handsome guys in this village when he was a child.

"Was Liu Hanyu pretty when she was a child?"

"She was average when she was little. Girls change a lot when they grow up. Some become prettier, some become uglier. Zhou Lina is not as pretty as she was in elementary and middle school."

"What do you think of me?"

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"You have been beautiful since you were little. You are truly a natural beauty."

Zhou Jing has seen photos of Gu Jia at different ages. She was cute when she wore open-crotch pants, had delicate features at the young age of six or seven, was a pretty girl in junior high and high school, became more charming in college, and now is a beautiful young woman.

"Did you hear that? Your dad always says mom is prettier."

Gu Jia said conceitedly while holding the child.

"Those two birds are so beautiful, what kind of birds are they?"

Two colorful birds with long tails flew away from the grass, Gu Jia said in surprise.

Zhou Jing said: "My hometown calls it pheasant, it should be golden pheasant."

Gu Jia said: "The golden pheasant is a national protected animal. There is actually a protected animal here."

"Protected animals are only allowed in nature reserves. If we can catch and eat them here, nothing will happen."

"How can you bear to hurt such a beautiful bird?" Gu Jia drank a mouthful of wild chrysanthemum water and frowned, saying, "It is indeed unpalatable. It is not bitter, but it has a taste that is hard to describe."

"Just drink it a few times and get used to the taste."

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Zhou Jing picked a bunch of wild chrysanthemums and went home. He picked the flowers and put them outside to dry. Being back in the countryside seemed like being in a paradise, shielded from the outside world. In the quietness, the sun unknowingly set in the west. The old lady took a basket to the chicken coop to collect eggs. Zhou Jing took the basket to collect them. Gu Jia took the child with them. Worried that the child would be pecked by a rooster, Zhou Jing held the child and let Gu Jia collect the eggs.

"Did it all rain today?"

Gu Jia said as she looked at the eggs in the thatched nest.

"There are more than 20 hens, and each of them lays one a day in summer."

Zhou Jing grabbed a hen and let the child touch it.

"It's so big, bigger than the biggest eggs you can buy in the supermarket."

Gu Jia put the fruits one by one into the basket with great care. In her mind, she thought of the time when she played farm ranch in the space. Raising fruits on the virtual web page every day was much more interesting in reality than in the game.

"When I was a kid, there wasn't enough corn flour for people in the village, but now chickens eat corn every day." A big rooster jumped towards Zhou Jing, and Zhou Jing said, "This one is tired of living."

"Don't scare it. Their fate is tragic enough. There are 23 eggs in total, enough for porridge for more than a week. If you sell them, these local eggs are more than 6 yuan per pound. These can be sold for 20 to 30 yuan. The old lady earns 800 to 900 yuan a month from selling eggs, which is considerable in the countryside. Nowadays, people in the countryside make a lot of money by raising eggs."

Gu Jia didn't care about the pain from being pecked by the roosters, at least she let them live until the New Year.

"Dad gives Wangwang qi~"

The little girl began to care about the dog again.

"The dog isn't hungry now."

Zhou Jing carried the child out of the chicken coop.

Gu Jia gave the eggs to the old lady and picked a tomato from the vegetable garden. She washed it under the tap, broke it in half and gave half to Zhou Jing, pretending not to give it to the child.

"I'm also angry~"

The little girl was greedy and stretched out her hand to ask for it.

"So what do you say this is?"

Gu Jia sucked some tomato juice, which was sour and sweet and very delicious.

"Western Hu system~"

"Tell mom, tomato."

Gu Jia taught word by word.

"West Lake Creek~Mom Mom~"

The child hugged Gu Jia's legs and kept shouting.

Gu Jia broke off a piece for the child, and the little girl made a cute expression out of sourness when she took the first bite.

“The sky is so blue.”

Gu Jia looked at the cloudless sky. The azure blue sky seemed to have no trace of pollution at all, which made people feel happy.

After eating the tomatoes, Zhou Jing washed his hands in the water tank and wiped them on Gu Jia's pants.

At this time, Gu Jia was wearing a white loose short-sleeved top, wide-leg jeans, a pair of sandals, and had long hair draped over her head, looking casual and natural.

"See if your dad is bad, wipe your hands on mom's clothes."

Gu Jia patted Zhou Jing on the back and said.

The next second, the little girl finished eating the tomato and wiped her mouth on Gu Jia's leg.

"You've taught Zhou Zhou a bad lesson." Gu Jia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She patted the child's butt and said, "Did you learn this from your father?"

The little girl did not realize her mistake and ran to the corner to pick up the ball.

Gu Jia washed her hands, wiped them on Zhou Jing's face and said, "What are you going to do tomorrow?"

"Let's go to my grandma's house." Zhou Jing held Gu Jia's slender waist with both hands and said, "Let's go to my grandma's house at noon tomorrow and come back in the evening. The day after tomorrow, we will stay another day and go to Tangdu."

"It's so comfortable here, I don't want to leave."

Gu Jia really enjoys life in the countryside. Big cities are hot and stuffy in the summer, but the countryside is cool and the air is fresh. The blue sky and white clouds are just like the pastoral scenes described in the picture books she bought for her children.

"When our children take over, we will come back and enjoy our retirement life."

The child's ball rolled to his feet and Zhou Jing gently kicked it to the child.

"Come and play with Grandpa."

Zhou Guozhong came back from a visit and played football with the children.

"Grandpa, this~"

The little girl asked Zhou Guozhong to stand closer.

"Did Dad play cards?"

Zhou Jing let go of Gu Jia and said.

Zhou Guozhong smiled and said, "I lost less than two packs of cigarettes playing poker."

"Anyone gambling?"

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"There are no gamblers in this area. There should be young people gambling in the village committee."

"In the village, cigarettes are the only hard currency for the elderly to gamble with."

Zhou Jing smiled and said.

Gu Jia said: "Dad is still young!"

"I'm almost fifty, Dad, are you planning to retire early?"

Zhou Jing suddenly realized that his parents were getting old again. When he was just reborn, his parents were forty-three or forty-four years old, and in the blink of an eye, they were already sprinting towards fifty. It is a very sad thing for children that their parents are getting old.

“There’s nothing to do after retirement.”

Zhou Guozhong does not plan to retire early. He has worked hard all his life and can receive a full pension in a few more years. Although his family is not short of money, he will be idle anyway if he does not work.

"You can retire now that Zhou Zhou is in school!"

Zhou Jing plans to ask his father to pick up the child from school. Although his father is a grown man, he is very patient and attentive to the child, more attentive than many women. Perhaps Zhou Jing's patience and attentiveness towards the child is influenced by his father.

"Row."

Zhou Guozhong is of course responsible for picking up and dropping off his granddaughter at school.

Zhou Jing thought of another problem. Grandpa and grandma were in their hometown, and it would not be good to let dad and grandma go too far away from home. In case grandpa and grandma had an emergency and couldn't take care of them, dad would still have to stay in their hometown.

The meal was almost ready. Zhou Jing took the things off the stone table in the yard, connected a hose to the faucet and rinsed the stone table, then went back to the house and brought the cold dishes to the stone table outside.

"Sit down and dad will bring you a bowl."

Zhou Jing placed a cotton pad on the child's stool, held the child and sat him down before speaking.

"Grandpa, try it first to see if it's spicy."

The child wanted to eat cold dishes, so Zhou Guozhong picked up the chopsticks to taste them first. There were two cold dishes, both of which were beef and cucumber, one spicy and the other not. Zhou Guozhong picked up the non-spicy one and fed it to the child.

Dinner was fried noodles with soybean paste. The side dish of cucumber shreds was picked before cooking and was very fresh. It was fragrant and not greasy when mixed with the fragrant meat sauce. The child couldn't eat thick noodles, so I made half a bowl of broken noodles for him. The child's noodles were cooked first, and Zhou Jing tasted it to make sure it was not hot, so he fed it to the child.

"Huh~"

Imitating the adults, the little girl blew air into the spoon that Zhou Jing brought to her mouth.

"It's not hot anymore, open your mouth, do you want to eat it? Is it delicious?"

The child opened his mouth and Zhou Jing fed him the food.

"Good luck~"

The little girl smacked her lips and tilted her head to rest her head on Zhou Jing's arm. "If it tastes good, eat more. It tastes really good. Eat it quickly and let your dad have some too."

Gu Jia brought a bowl to Zhou Jing and added meat sauce, cucumber shreds and chopped green onions.

Zhou Jing was not in a hurry. He was used to feeding the child while eating himself. After the child took a bite, Zhou Jing took a bite from his own bowl, picked up a piece of cold dish and ate it, then continued to feed the child.

Zhou Jing came back and bought some beer. Zhou Guozhong went to the refrigerator, took out two bottles, opened them and gave one to Zhou Jing.

As the sun sets, it is very comfortable for the family to sit in the yard and eat a meal. This is the real farm joy. The children's laughter adds a lot of fun to the yard.

"The baby is really good at eating."

The old lady encouraged the child.

"Zhou Zhou is generally very good at eating. Jing, eat well. I'll feed Zhou Zhou."

Wu Suqin touched the child's face and said.

"Need not."

Zhou Jing eats fast, so feeding the child is easy for him. Usually, he is full after feeding the child, so he never has to delay Gu Jia's meal.

"Your father is such a warm-hearted man."

Gu Jia sat next to the child and said.

The old lady said, "When you leave, take some extra eggs with you so that we can save them for you in the next two days."

"I can't take them with me. We still have to go to Tangdu. The weather in Tangdu means that the eggs won't be cooked through in the car. I'll save them for three or four days and then sell them in the county town. Don't keep them for too long."

Zhou Jing took a sip of beer and said.

"If we can't bring eggs, we can't bring other vegetables either. We even planted more this year."

The old lady said with regret.

"Sell some meat at the market and buy more delicious food. The transportation is very convenient."

It was a pity for Gu Jia too. The vegetable garden in the yard, which was not sprayed with pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and the eggs laid by the chickens in the chicken coop, which were not fed with feed, were enough for a whole family to eat. It was a pity that the road was too far to share.

"Normally, we can't eat much just the two of us."

The old man and the old lady have no shortage of food.

After spending three or four days in the countryside to escape the heat, Zhou Jing and his family of three headed to Tangdu. Zhou Jing drove the car while Gu Jia checked the work group to learn about the company's situation. "P站 has started the listing process. Based on your experience, how high can the stock price go?"

"It's hard to predict. It's not hard to see a 100 percent increase in a few years, but any higher will lack momentum and support."

Zhou Jing did not expect to make much money from the listing of P Station. The issue price of P Station was set at ten yuan. It would be easy for it to rise to twenty or thirty yuan in the short term, but it might not be able to remain stable afterwards. P Station was separated from Chuangzhi Technology and lacked a basic base. If Chuangzhi Technology was not separated and went public, its potential would be much greater.

When they arrived in Tangdu, Gu Jia rolled down the car window and immediately felt the scorching heat outside.

"It's the end of August and it's still so hot in Tangdu."

"It will be hot for another ten days or half a month."

Zhou Jing had long been accustomed to the weather in Tangdu, and was not used to the fact that the summer was not hot.

"I don't know if the trunk is warm enough to steam the eggs."

Gu Jia rolled up the car window and said.

"Not if you don't park for a long time. Don't take the eggs to BJ's. Take them to your house."

Knowing that it was difficult to carry eggs in the hot weather, Zhou Jing did not bring many eggs from his hometown.
"Row."

Gu Jia thought so too. It was so hot in Tangdu that they couldn’t leave the food in the car for two days even if it wasn’t cooked.

We went to my parents-in-law's house first. Mrs. Gu, who hadn't seen her granddaughter for two or three months, was so happy to see the child that she couldn't stop smiling.

"Do you miss grandma?"

Gu Jia rubbed the child's head and asked.

"I miss you, grandma~"

The little girl said in a baby voice.

"Grandma misses you too. Are you hungry?"

Mother Gu touched the child's belly and said.

"Hungry~"

The little girl bit her lips and made some noises.

"Do you miss grandpa?"

Gu Jia continued to ask the child.

"Hmm~"

Looking at Dad Gu, the little girl was obviously not as enthusiastic as when she met Mom Gu. She seldom saw Dad Gu, and the number of times she had seen him since she was born could be counted on one hand.

"It grows so fast. It's so tall in the blink of an eye."

Dad Gu touched the child's head and said with a loving smile.

"I wish Grandpa good health."

Zhou Jing looked at his daughter and said.

"Grandpa, good health~"

"Children are in good health. Grandpa will find you whatever TV show you want to watch."

Dad Gu turned on the TV and said.

"I want to watch Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf~"

The little girl thought for a moment and said in a baby voice.

Dad Gu switched the TV to the children's channel, which was playing Boonie Bears. Dad Gu said, "There's no Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf now. Is this okay?"

"e~Bald Qiang cuts down trees again~Big Bear and Little Bear"

The little girl was watching TV and talking to herself.

"Xiao Zhou is driving alone or are you two taking turns driving?"

Mother Gu brought the watermelon to the table and said to the young couple.

"Zhou Jing doesn't need me to drive."

Gu Jia tied her hair up, picked up a piece of watermelon and said with a smile.

"It's not far to Tang."

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

"Watermelon~"

When the child saw the watermelon, her expression lit up. Without waiting for the adults to give her some, she grabbed a piece and started eating it.

“Is the watermelon sweet?”

Father Gu pinched the child's face and said.

"Sweet~"

The little girl took big bites of the watermelon, and the juice flowed from her chin onto her clothes.

"Stand here and eat, don't bleed onto the sofa."

Gu Jia took a piece of paper and wiped the child's chin and said.

"It's okay. Is the child naughty when he returns to his hometown?"

Dad Gu carried the child to the sofa.

"He is naughty and makes the chickens and dogs restless. He often runs to the chicken coop to collect eggs to feed the dog and picks vegetables from the vegetable garden to feed the chickens."

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"Children of this age are like this. When you were a kid, you fed the dog with your own bowl!"

Dad Gu talked about Gu Jia’s dark history with a smile.

"I don't remember it at all."

Gu Jia only remembers that when she was a child, she fell off while riding a dog and broke her leg. Her family thought she was bitten by the dog and insisted on taking her to get a rabies vaccine.

After sitting for a while, Gu Jia went to the kitchen to help cook. Zhou Jing talked with his father-in-law in the living room. He had dinner and drank a few glasses with his father-in-law. At around seven o'clock, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia took the children to the villa. Zhou Jing drank and Gu Jia drove.

"Does Zhou Zhou still remember our home here?"

When they got outside the villa, Gu Jia said to the child.

The little girl probably didn't remember, and didn't know what this home or that home meant. She only knew that where Zhou Jing and Gu Jia were was home.

"Princess, please get out of the car."

The car drove into the villa yard, and Zhou Jing slowly stopped in the middle of the yard. In the green Chinese-style villa yard, the red Bentley Bentayga was particularly eye-catching.

"Your dad was never this nice to mom."

Gu Jia put the child down in the car and then got out to get her things.

"When Daddy was good to your mom, you weren't there yet. Go wait for Mom and Dad at the door."

Zhou Jing opened the trunk and took out the large storage box containing three people's spare clothes and daily necessities.

The little girl was very diligent and helped without much strength. Gu Jia went back to the villa with her small luggage, opened the door and turned on the lights in the hall on the first floor.

"French chocolate, did you buy it?"

Gu Jia noticed the chocolate on the table, picked it up and looked at it. She saw a bottle of French perfume next to it. Gu Jia roughly guessed who gave it to her.

(End of this chapter)