Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 733 Things change and people change
"When did Dad come back?"

Yang Wenwen did not tell the children that Zhou Jing was back. Yang Xin came home and saw Zhou Jing excitedly.

"It's past four o'clock. Is the schoolbag heavy?"

Zhou Jing asked as he lifted the girl's schoolbag.

"It's so heavy, it's stopping me from growing taller. Donkey rolls, dad, why is this called donkey rolls?"

The girl threw her schoolbag on the sofa, leaned on Zhou Jing's legs, opened the plastic bag on the coffee table and looked through the snacks Zhou Jing bought.

"Dad doesn't know either. Maybe it looks like a donkey rolling around when you chew it. Have you ever seen a donkey rolling around?"

Zhou Jing never knew the origin of donkey rolls.

"I've seen it. A donkey rolls on its back. Dad, do you think there's donkey meat in the donkey rolls?"

The girl leaned on Zhou Jing and twisted her body and said.

"No, it's made of glutinous rice. Just eat two before meals. Eating too much will make your stomach bloated."

Zhou Jing touched the girl's head and said.

"I'll have another one of these. What kind of cake is this?"

The girl picked up a royal cake and said.

Zhou Jing said: "Yushan, the imperial kitchen is the kitchen in the palace that cooks for the emperor."

"Then was this cake made for the emperor in ancient times?"

The girl continued to ask.

"It may also be that some places offer it to the emperor."

Zhou Jing explained patiently.

"Dad, look at me, have I grown taller?"

The girl stood up straight and touched the top of her head and said.

Zhou Jing estimated that the girl was tall among girls of the same age. "You have grown taller. Are there any girls taller than you in your class?"

"No, it's not good to be tall. You have to sit in the back."

"Being taller makes you prettier. Some children want to grow taller but can't. Don't develop the habit of lowering your head. Keep your back and neck straight. Good students will be the same no matter where they sit."

Zhou Jing patted the girl on the back of her neck and said.

Yang Wenwen cooked noodles for the child and brought them to the dining table, calling her to eat. The girl wanted to eat with Zhou Jing, so she took the bowl to the coffee table and ate at Zhou Jing's feet.

"Don't press on your father's feet."

Yang Wenwen gave her daughter a cotton cushion and went to make a cup of tea for Zhou Jing.

"Dad, I know a lot of words now and can do a lot of math."

The girl moved her butt off Zhou Jing's feet and sat on the cushion and said.

"Have you learned multiplication and division?"

Zhou Jing lifted one of Yang Wenwen's legs, who was sitting next to him, and placed it on his own leg and said.

"After learning multiplication, one plus one equals one, one plus two equals two, and two plus two equals four."

The girl recited the multiplication table skillfully.

"Eat first, then dad will test you after dinner."

Zhou Jing opened the child's schoolbag, took out the math textbook and looked at the table of contents for the first volume of the second grade. He began to learn unit conversion, two-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, simple shapes and angles, etc.

"CC is good at math, but Chinese is a headache."

Yang Wenwen was somewhat helpless. She was a high school Chinese teacher, and her child liked math but not Chinese. She was good at math but poor at Chinese, which made her look like Zhou Jing. If you didn't know her, you would think she was Zhou Jing's biological daughter.

"Chinese requires long-term accumulation, and no child of this age would like Chinese."

Zhou Jing can understand children. Learning to read, write, and use words and sentences is boring and difficult for children. Zhou Jing still remembers that when he was in the second and third grades, he had to memorize texts, synonyms, antonyms, and word explanations all day long, and he also had to write them out from memory. It was really torture. Zhou Jing even vaguely remembers learning pinyin in kindergarten, such as initials and finals. It can be seen that the psychological trauma left on Zhou Jing.

"Indeed, in the third grade, we have to learn a foreign language before we have mastered our mother tongue."

Yang Wenwen thought about it and it made sense. Seeing how the children were just starting to learn to read, Yang Wenwen felt that it was not easy for them. Relatively speaking, mathematics was much easier. Once the basics of addition and subtraction and multiplication and division were mastered, one could apply what they had learned to other situations.

"Just follow the steps. There is no need to strengthen foreign language learning in primary school. Do you have a lot of Chinese homework?"

No matter how the school teaches, Zhou Jing will not let his children spend all their time after school doing homework. They should play when they should play and exercise when they should exercise. When it comes to children's homework, Zhou Jing focuses on quality rather than quantity. Some teachers like to assign massive amounts of homework to students, which is not advisable as students cannot complete it both with quality and quantity.

Yang Wenwen said: "It's normal, not too much, not too little. If the child concentrates on writing, he can finish it in about 40 minutes. CC finishes math homework quickly, and his grades are not bad even though he doesn't like Chinese."

Yang Wenwen bought various Chinese characters and idiom story books, and explained the meanings of words and idiom stories and their meanings to her children every day. Yang Wenwen had plenty of time to help her children learn.

"This is the advantage of family. Parents spend more time with their children to study. The children will be influenced by them and their grades will not be too bad even if they don't study hard. When our generation was young, our parents didn't accompany their children to study no matter how busy they were."

Zhou Jing put his right hand into Yang Wenwen's sweater, untied her bra at the back of her back, and then put it under her arm.

"You are more skilled than me."

Yang Wenwen smiled and pinched Zhou Jing's leg.

"Practice makes perfect. What color?"

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

"you guess."

"Black? My sister said purple is more charming. You are like a violet."

Zhou Jing took a look and saw that it was purple.

Yang Wenwen smiled without saying anything, and held Zhou Jing's hand with her arm. After the child finished his meal, Zhou Jing took his hand away from Yang Wenwen, and Yang Wenwen got up and took the child's bowl to the kitchen to wash.

"Dad is testing me on math."

Yang Xin said confidently.

"Recite the multiplication table."

Zhou Jing said as he flipped through his child's homework book.

The girl recited from one to one, and recited correctly to ninety-nine eighty-one. Zhou Jing said, "What is the sum of seven minus three times eight times the open bracket?"

"Seven minus three equals four, and four times eight equals thirty-two."

The girl quickly calculated it in her head.

"What about sixty-five minus fifty-seven times seven?"

Zhou Jing added some difficulty and kept the multiplication part to single digits.

"Sixty-five minus fifty-seven equals eight, and seven times eight equals fifty-six."

The girl rolled her eyes and counted for three or four seconds before answering.

"Great, it's no problem to get a full score in math at this level."

Zhou Jing gave the child full affirmation, saying that the child could do mental arithmetic at this level and had no problem with addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers.

"I am the top student in my grade in math, and my teachers all praise me for being so good."

The girl said with great pride.

Zhou Jing said, "Keep up the good work. Do you have a lot of homework today?"

"Not much, Dad, let's go play."

The girl pulled Zhou Jing's arm and said.

"There's not much homework, finish it quickly so we can go shopping."

Zhou Jing pinched the girl's face and said.

When she heard that they were going out to buy something, the girl got motivated and took out her homework book to start writing. Zhou Jing turned off the TV so as not to disturb the child from doing her homework. He and Yang Wenwen went to the bedroom to rest. When they got to the bedroom, Yang Wenwen locked the door. Zhou Jing hugged Yang Wenwen's soft waist and fell on the bed.

"Are you tired from driving all day?"

Yang Wenwen tied her hair up and said while resting her head on Zhou Jing's shoulder.

"A little bit. I haven't driven a long distance for a long time."

Except for driving back to his hometown this year, Zhou Jing always took a plane when he went out.

"Lie down and I'll give you a massage."

Yang Wenwen sat up and said.

Zhou Jing kissed Yang Wenwen on the lips and lay on the pillow. Yang Wenwen rode on Zhou Jing's waist and put her hands on his shoulders and began to rub them.

"When are you going to send Zhou Zhou to school?"

Yang Wenwen still finds it incredible that Zhou Jing's child is almost three years old.

"Five or six years old, I don't want my child to go to school too early."

Zhou Jing felt indescribably comfortable as he felt Yang Wenwen's plump buttocks pressing against his waist.

"Many parents want their children to not lose at the starting line, but in fact, three or four-year-olds can't learn much in school."

Yang Wenwen massaged Zhou Jing's shoulders for a while, then gently pinched and pressed his back with both hands, lifted up Zhou Jing's shirt, revealing the stylish contours and graceful lines of his back. Yang Wenwen couldn't help but touch him twice.

"This is an educational trap." After enjoying the massage for a while, Zhou Jing turned over and hugged Yang Wenwen into his arms and said, "Why do you smell so good?"

“How about this perfume?”

The last time Yang Wenwen went to Tangdu, she bought herself a bottle of perfume, a Chanel brand called Hazy Moonlight, which has a nice name. Fifty milliliters cost more than 700 yuan, and it was the most luxurious thing Yang Wenwen had ever bought for herself.

"Not bad, I'm finally willing to spend money on myself."

Zhou Jing was very familiar with the smell of Yang Wenwen's perfume, and he had bought the same one for Gu Jia.

"There is no demand, I don't know what to buy."

Yang Wenwen has very low material pursuits and doesn’t know how to spend her money even if she has it.

"Buy some clothes, watch a movie or something."

Zhou Jing smiled and said that people like Yang Wenwen who are rich and don't speculate in stocks should spend more.

"Hmm~ Can you tell I'm fat?"

Yang Wenwen moaned in a thin voice, touched her face and said.

"I can't tell. How much do you weigh now?"

Zhou Jing stroked Yang Wenwen's red face and said.

"122. I don't know where the two pounds went."

Yang Wenwen insisted on running every day, but instead of losing weight, she gained weight.

"On the butt."

Zhou Jing patted Yang Wenwen's buttocks and said.

Yang Wenwen turned her head to look at her back. She couldn't tell that her hips had gained weight, but they were indeed a bit big. Using the description in Zhou Jing's novel, they were very round.

"Skin as white as cream."

Zhou Jing gently bit Yang Wenwen's cheek and kissed her lips.

After the child finished his homework, he knocked on the door. Zhou Jing and Yang Wenwen got up, tidied their clothes, and asked the child to go to the bedroom to change clothes. Yang Wenwen took two pieces of paper and went to the bathroom.

After the children changed their clothes, Zhou Jing and Yang Wenwen put on masks and went out. They drove Yang Wenwen's car. Yang Wenwen drove to Commercial Street 2 first, and stopped when passing by the Riverside Amusement Park.

Zhou Jing rolled down the window to look at the amusement park he had invested in. Due to the severe cold winter in Yulin City, the amusement park had suspended operations and was deserted. The most eye-catching thing in the amusement park was the Ferris wheel. At 50 meters high, it was the tallest and only one of the two Ferris wheels. There was nothing to see when it was closed. The car continued to drive forward for a few hundred meters and it was the food street invested by Zhou Jing.

The food street has been put into use. Even though it is very cold in winter, the food street is still very crowded. Yang Wenwen parked the car in a roadside parking space, and the three of them got out to go shopping on the street.

The food street gathers snacks from all over the country, including roujiamo, skewers, hot and sour noodles, stinky tofu, yogurt, etc. It is a paradise for foodies and every shop is crowded with people.

"This street is now the most lively place in Yushi City, and so is the amusement park in the summer."

Yang Wenwen said with a smile.

"Yushi has a good economy but poor living and entertainment facilities. How are the ecological parks and gymnasiums in the development zone doing?"

Zhou Jing has invested more than 1 billion yuan in Yulin City in the past two or three years. In addition to the amusement park, food street, shopping mall, and leisure and entertainment plaza that have been put into use, there is also an ecological park and a gymnasium in the Economic Development Zone. It can be said that Zhou Jing will build a life and entertainment system for Yulin City, which can greatly boost consumption in Yulin City.

Yang Wenwen said: "Before winter, the stadium is repairing the stands and the ecological park is repairing the artificial lake. The stadium should be ready for use next year. The housing prices around the stadium and the ecological park have risen a lot."

"The real estate market has fully recovered. Housing prices will rise sharply in the next few years. During the winter vacation, you can buy a school district house in Tangdu."

Zhou Jing felt terrified when he thought about the housing prices in a few years. If the country did not have sufficient control, a hard landing of the real estate bubble would cause widespread wailing.

Yang Wenwen also thought so. There were no good high schools near the villa in Tangdu. Now that she had the conditions, she would buy a school district house near a key high school for her children.

After wandering around the food street for a while, Yang Wenwen bought three cups of yogurt and packed some snacks to eat in the car.

"The taste of Yushi is still authentic."

Zhou Jing put on plastic gloves and picked up a spicy lamb's trotter to taste it. The lamb's trotter was cooked very soft and tasty. Zhou Jing and Gu Jia had eaten it once in BJ and it didn't taste as good as the one in Yushi.

"so spicy!"

Yang Xin took a bite and it was so spicy that she stuck out her tongue.

"You pick something that's not spicy."

Yang Wenwen took the sheep's trotters that the child had bitten and ate them herself.

“This yogurt tastes delicious.”

The girl said as she took a sip of the sticky yogurt.

Yang Wenwen looked at Zhou Jing and said, "The signature dish is BJ's old yogurt. Does it taste the same as BJ's?"

Zhou Jing said: "Almost the same, these shops should be tendered from the corresponding places."

After eating the snacks, they continued their journey. Yang Wenwen drove along Second Street. Second Street was very congested at around 7 or 8 in the evening, and cars stopped and started. They looked around the leisure and entertainment square, passed the city wall and the third commercial street and came to Xisha. When passing Renmin Road, Zhou Jing recalled that Gu Jia rented a house next to Renmin Road when he was in Experimental Middle School.

Gu Jia rented a house to make it more convenient for her to get along with Zhou Jing. That winter, after evening self-study, Zhou Jing would come over and go jogging with Gu Jia at Yulin College. It was inevitable that a single man and a single woman would be infatuated with each other. Before the two of them confirmed their relationship, that kind of close yet distant relationship made Zhou Jing very excited. That year, Zhou Jing was a senior student and Gu Jia was 27 years old.

Things and people have changed, Zhou Jing sighed.

Arriving at the Yuxing Shopping Plaza invested by Zhou Jing, Yang Wenwen parked the car, put on a mask and got out.

Zhou Jing also put on a mask. There was a constant stream of people entering and leaving the mall at around 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening. Because it is relatively close to Yulin College, and considering the economic strength of the college student population, the mall's clothing is mainly ordinary brand-name clothing, and the average level of catering consumption ranges from 30 to 50 yuan per person. This is the only shopping mall in Xisha, so there is no need to worry about customer flow.

"For a good mobile phone, choose Ideal, Ideal Bluetooth headset, technology brings a new experience"

After hearing the word "Lixiang", Zhou Jing looked towards the big screen on the first floor of the mall. The big screen was playing advertisements for Lixiang mobile phones and Bluetooth headsets. It should be that the mall was advertising Lixiang Technology for free.

"The big screen at Century Plaza often plays Ideal ads in the afternoon. Is that an ad from the store on Second Street?"

Yang Wenwen looked at the big screen and said.

"Probably not."

Zhou Jing turned on his phone and watched an Ideal advertising video on the big screen.

"Dad, there's a movie theater here. Mom took me to see a movie last week."

Yang Xin said while pulling Zhou Jing's arm.

Zhou Jing pulled the girl who was moving around on the escalator and said, "You can't jump around on escalators and elevators. What movie did you watch?"

"I watched Detective Conan." The girl walked to a step in front of Zhou Jing and said, "Dad is so tall. I am not as tall as him even if I stand on it."

After walking around every floor of the mall, Yang Wenwen bought a set of clothes for each of the three people and took them home. When they arrived outside the community at almost nine o'clock, Zhou Jing asked Yang Wenwen and her daughter to go back first, and he called Gu Jia in the car.

(End of this chapter)