Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 749: Chinese New Year is also criticized

There was heavy snow in the countryside and we couldn't go anywhere. Zhou Jing cleared the snow in the yard and helped the children make a snowman. In order to make the snowman more vivid, Zhou Jing used some props to make facial features and arms for the snowman, and also put a scarf around it.

"The snowman is so pretty, is it made by Zhou Zhou?"

After making breakfast, Gu Jia went outside to take a look and said.

"My dad and I built this."

The little girl helped Zhou Jing clumsily, and was willing to help even if it meant causing trouble.

"Zhou Zhou is great. Let's go home and eat first, then play."

Gu Jia touched the child's red face and said.

"I'm so hungry, let's go eat!"

Zhou Jing put down his tools and took the child back to the house. When he got back to the house, he did not immediately carry the child to the kang to warm up. Instead, he waited for the child to adapt to the temperature change at the door. He waited until the child's hands and face gradually warmed up before carrying the child to the kang.

Breakfast is mutton offal, which is very filling. The vermicelli is made from pure potato flour by the villagers, authentic free-range goat offal and authentic pure potato flour.

"Does anyone in the village make wide noodles this wide? It would be better if they were wider and thicker when eaten with hot pot."

Gu Jia brought the bowls for Zhou Jing and the children to the table on the kang and said.

The old man said, "Yes, I'll go buy it at noon."

"Don't worry, we'll take some with us when we leave." Gu Jia sat on the kang and picked up a piece of jujube paste cake and said, "This jujube cake is better than the Jing cake in Tangdu."

"Jinggao is made from glutinous rice steamed directly, while this one is made from flour made from millet, which has a more delicate taste."

Zhou Jing picked up a small piece of date paste cake and fed it to the child, then asked if it tasted good.

"Good luck!"

The little girl smacked her lips and opened her mouth for more.

"Drink some soup before you eat."

Zhou Jing picked up a piece and ate it himself.

"Take a piece of paper and ask your father to wipe your mouth."

Gu Jia pointed to the paper next to the child and said.

The little girl took a piece of paper and wiped her mouth. Zhou Jing looked at the child's mouth and said, "Zhou Zhou is really amazing."

A snowfall caused the temperature to drop sharply. After dinner, Zhou Jing played with the children in the house.

There were playing cards in the phone box. Zhou Jing taught the children to play a simple two-player poker game. The cards were divided into two parts, one for each person. Each of the two people played a card in a series. The cards they received formed a pair with the previous cards, and the cards in between the pairs were taken away. This continued until one person had no cards left.

When Zhou Jing was a child, his grandfather and father played this game with him. Now Zhou Jing has his own people to accompany him.

"Mom will help you. Be careful of your dad's cheating."

Gu Jia sat next to the child and watched him play cards.

"How could Daddy play tricks on the little cutie?"

Zhou Jing pinched the child's face and said.

"7 for right. Do this and this make a pair?"

Zhou Jing pointed at the two 7s and said.

"e!"

The little girl seemed to understand the rules of the game and reached out to grab the cards.

Gu Jia kissed the child on the head and said, "Zhou Zhou is awesome. He won all your father's money."

"Instead of making porridge at noon, how about drinking rice wine? Make some porridge for Zhou Zhou."

The old lady opened a jar, which contained homemade rice wine.

"Just eat some rice and drink some milk powder, this rice wine tastes good."

Gu Jia sniffed the jar and said.

Zhou Jing said, "What will happen if grandma doesn't add that potion to the bean sprouts?"

"It will grow roots, but bean sprouts will grow more slowly. Do you dare to give it to Zhou Zhou?"

"That should be hormones. Did my family use chemicals when making bean sprouts when I was a kid?"

Zhou Jing has been eating bean sprouts made by an old lady since he was a child, but at that time there may not have been hormones that could promote the growth of bean sprouts and inhibit root growth.

The old lady said, "We didn't put it in then. In recent years, I heard from others that it was good for growing bean sprouts. We won't put it in anymore." "It's okay to eat it occasionally. The food additives in the things you buy are more than this."

Zhou Jing was not that particular. The old lady only made bean sprouts during the Chinese New Year, and she put less than five milliliters of the medicine into a jar of bean sprouts.

"Adding some things to the market makes it look better, but it doesn't matter if you eat it at home."

Gu Jia is not that sensitive to food additives, so just give her child as little as possible.

After playing two rounds of poker, Zhou Jing taught the children how to play rock-paper-scissors. He took two pieces of paper and put notes on the loser's face. The little girl was slow to react, and after a while, her face was covered with notes, but she was still dancing with joy.

"Your father is so happy to bully you, isn't he silly and happy?"

Gu Jia looked at the child and said.

"This is not bullying, this is tuition, rock, paper, scissors."

"Your father loses this time, put it on your father's face."

Gu Jia took a piece of paper, smeared it with saliva and gave it to the child.

The little girl excitedly put the note on Zhou Jing's face. The morning passed quickly in joy. At noon, the village secretary notified every family in the village to send a representative to sweep the snow on the road. Zhou Jing's father and Zhou Guozhong went, but Zhou Jing did not go. Zhou Jing stayed at home to look after the children.

“The village has a strong ability to mobilize.”

Gu Jia said as she looked at the crowd sweeping snow on the road in the village.

Zhou Jing said: "This village has a good tradition. More than ten years ago, two people from the village died in a car accident while trying to get project funds from the city to build a road in the village. The two monuments in the ditch are to commemorate them."

“It is absolutely true that if you want to get rich you must first build roads.”

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We fried rice cakes at home today. We used to fry them on a charcoal stove outside, but now conditions are better so we use an induction cooker. Frying rice cakes produces smoke, so the old lady brought the induction cooker to the table under the eaves. The cakes were steamed by the old lady. Zhou Jing cut a roll into slices and asked Gu Jia to look after the child while he and his mother fried the rice cakes while the old lady prepared donuts.

"Be careful not to get oil splashed on your face. Just watch dad and grandma make rice cakes here."

The oil for frying rice cakes was scalding hot, and worried that the child might run around and get hurt, Gu Jia sat on a stool and held the child.

They started frying rice cakes. Zhou Jing went to get some sugar and sprinkled some on the fried rice cakes for Gu Jia and the children to taste first.

"It looks delicious, Zhou Zhou, right?"

The rice cake was a little hot, so Gu Jia put the plate on the table and blew on it before tasting it herself. The freshly fried rice cake was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the melted white sugar made it sweet and appetizing. When it was no longer hot, Gu Jia gave it to the child.

"It's so good!"

The little girl felt that the sweet taste was delicious.

"This is called fried rice cake, and the one we eat in the morning is jujube paste cake."

Rice cakes are difficult to digest, so Gu Jia doesn't let the child eat too much. It's enough to just satisfy his craving. When it's time for the child to take a nap, Gu Jia takes the child to the house to coax him to sleep. After the child falls asleep, Gu Jia helps Zhou Jing and Wu Suqin with some work. After frying the rice cakes, she starts frying donuts.

Celebrating the New Year in the countryside is more ceremonial and busier, with people starting to prepare various things a few days before New Year’s Eve.

After finishing today's work, the child woke up. Zhou Jing fed the child milk powder and took him outside to play. The sky was clear in the afternoon. The sun shone brightly on the snow-covered ground, and sparrows chirped on the branches.

"Oh!"

The child was attracted by the sparrow's cry, and jumped and cried at the sparrow. The sparrow was scared away. The little girl thought of the dog, and went to the yard, barking. When she saw the chickens in the chicken coop, she started clamoring to collect eggs.

"Let's go get the basket and let Mama get the basket."

Zhou Jing followed the child closely.

"mom!"

The little girl babbled towards the house.

"Here, take the eggs and don't break them."

Gu Jia took the basket outside.

"Well, Dad, let's go and collect the eggs!"

The little girl held the basket in one hand and held Zhou Jing with the other hand. They went outside the chicken coop and asked Zhou Jing to hold her for fear of being pecked by the rooster.

"Even during the Chinese New Year, there were rumors that the battery of a Bluetooth headset exploded. The damaged part of the headset is obviously not where the battery is installed."

Gu Jia held up her cell phone for Zhou Jing to see.

“It’s unavoidable at any time.”

Zhou Jing didn't take it seriously. It seemed that the low-end Bluetooth headsets launched by Ideal Technology had made competitors extremely anxious, and they were still doing their utmost to discredit Ideal Technology during the Chinese New Year.

(End of this chapter)