Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 105 The Reborn Don’t Care About Scandals
"Just a colleague, what's the big deal?"

Since his cousin had seen him, Zhou Jing had nothing to hide. However, if he was met by his cousin by chance, he would sooner or later be seen by his colleagues and students at the Experimental Middle School. Yuli City is a small city, and many people knew Zhou Jing and Gu Jia.

Let’s meet if we meet!

Could it be that Zhou Jing, a reborn person, still cares about scandals?

Wu Yuan said with an expression of disbelief: "Is it really just a colleague?"

"For now." Zhou Jing said casually: "What do you think of her?"

"She's very beautiful, but she looks older than you."

I've never met Wu Yuan, so I don't know how to describe her other than she's beautiful.

Zhou Jing took his cousin's monthly math test paper, looked down at the questions and said, "How much older is she than me?"

"Brother is 21, she should be 23 or 24, right?"

Wu Yuan said curiously.

"I got 133. Were the questions that made me lose points difficult?"

Zhou Jing just nodded and didn't continue talking about Gu Jia.

"Brother, don't change the subject. Sister-brother relationships are great."

"Stop guessing."

Zhou Jing tapped the test paper.

"So what does she teach?"

"English."

"Do you need me to help you create opportunities? Ask her to tutor me in English on the weekends. After I leave, it will be just the two of you."

Wu Yuan said with a smile.

"What are you thinking about? Is the third fill-in-the-blank question difficult?"

Zhou Jing has plenty of opportunities, so he doesn't need others to create them for him.

"I made a mistake here. I forgot to consider one situation."

Wu Yuan turned her attention back to the test paper and said regretfully.

"Answer the questions carefully! Is the gap between you and the first place big?"

Zhou Jing only tutored his cousin for one hour a week, but his cousin ranked third in the class in math. However, this score was barely in the top ten in Zhou Jing's class.

"There is a little difference. The student who ranked first in mathematics is also good at mathematics, physics and chemistry. He scored 535 in the high school entrance examination."

Wu Yuan understood her weaknesses. Although she did well in math tests, it was only because her uncle taught her well in junior high school and her cousin tutored her in high school, giving her a solid foundation. However, her thinking was obviously not active enough when solving difficult math, physics and chemistry problems.

“So there is still work to be done.”

Zhou Jing could see his cousin's academic performance. If she studied science, her upper limit would be a good university.

There are differences in IQ among people. Hard work determines the lower limit, while talent determines the upper limit.

Some people can't get into Peking University or Tsinghua University no matter how hard they try. Zhou Jing had interacted with students from Peking University and Tsinghua University in his previous life. The brains and thinking of those students seemed to be innate talents, which was a dimensionality reduction attack on ordinary people.

"I don't know how your school is. The comprehensive ranking of our school's first grade is basically useless. Most students are very extreme in physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history and geography. Students who are good at physics and chemistry cannot pass politics, history and geography, and students who are good at politics, history and geography cannot pass physics, chemistry and biology."

Wu Yuan was in a slightly better situation, scoring over 52 in biology, barely passing in chemistry, and only in physics.
"It's like this in the first year of high school. Everyone has limited time and energy, so it's hard to do both arts and science well."

Not wanting to cook, Zhou Jing took his cousin out for dinner and tutored her after dinner.

My cousin took a leave from school and didn’t have to go back to the dormitory at night.

Chen Quan came to visit Zhou Jing in the evening. Zhou Jing asked him to stay alone for a while. After he finished tutoring his cousin, he chatted with Chen Quan in the living room.

"I submitted my resume at a job fair and received a reply from a chemical factory. I could get the job without an interview. The salary for the internship period was 700 yuan a month."

When Chen Quan heard about the internship salary, he felt numb. However, he had no better choice at the moment, so he was struggling over whether to go or not.

"The salary during the internship period is so pitiful, and it won't be much better after you become a regular employee. Besides, if you take leave to do your thesis experiments next year, all your money will be deducted. You might as well stay in school and enjoy life."

Zhou Jing didn't recommend him to go for the job with a salary of 700 yuan, saying that delivering food would be better than that in the future.

"After becoming a regular employee, the salary is said to be 2,800 yuan, and it will increase with length of service." Chen Quan sighed with a melancholy look on his face.

Zhou Jing said: "Are there five insurances and one fund?"

"No."

"Why are you still struggling? There are many good chemical factories around. You have the chance to join Shenhua, Yanchang Petroleum, China Salt, Tianyuan, and Jinjitan Yanzhou Nonferrous. A new company called Beiyuan Chemical was recently established in Jinzhen, which is also good. The internship salary is 3,000 yuan, and the benefits are very good. They should recruit in the college next spring, so pay attention to it then."

Even as an outsider, Zhou Jing has some understanding of the good local companies. It is actually not difficult to find a job for local chemical engineering majors.

With Zhou Jing's current connections, it would not be a problem for him to help Chen Quan get into the best local chemical factory. It's just that he doesn't want to ask anyone for help with his own affairs, let alone other people's affairs. Such favors are too difficult to repay. It should be okay for Zhou Jing to tell Liu Hanyu when Beiyuan recruits in the spring of next year.

"I didn't expect that Mr. Zhou had so much information. We, as interns, visited the Zhongyan branch in Zhenchuan. The salt we eat locally is basically produced there. Can a tripartite agreement be signed casually?"

After listening to Zhou Jing's words, Chen Quan no longer planned to work for that crappy company that paid 700 yuan a month without food, which was not enough for a month's living expenses.

"It's best not to sign it casually. You just said that company should not even consider signing a three-party agreement."

Although the tripartite agreement has limited binding force, it is still a bit troublesome to breach the contract after signing it. If the agreement contains liquidated damages, you may have to pay compensation.

Chen Quan understood and waited patiently for next year's spring recruitment. Even if he couldn't find a good company during the spring recruitment, he could always find one that paid 700 yuan during the internship period.

"Brother, I've finished my homework. Can I go online for a while?"

Wu Yuan finished the exercises assigned by her cousin and came to the living room.

"can."

The next day, Sunday, the students continued to practice exercises. Zhou Jing arrived at school at around nine o'clock. A dozen boys in his class were already playing basketball on the basketball court. When they saw Zhou Jing coming, a student sensibly threw the basketball over to them.

Zhou Jing showed them a three-pointer, which went in.

"Mr. Zhou is so handsome."

"Teacher Zhou, one more."

The student who grabbed the rebound threw the ball to Zhou Jing again.

"Let's play together. How do we form a team?"

Zhou Jing stopped there and did not continue to show off his sharpshooter skills.

"There are so many people, let's play the whole game! Me, Teacher Zhou, and He Zhibin"

"Would it be fun to have all the tall people in one team? Let Teacher Zhou choose the people."

Li Bo just started to divide the groups when he was interrupted by Yuan Xingxing.

"Me, Yuan Xingxing, Fang Shuai, Bai Jin"

Zhou Jing chose the tall Fang Shuai and three others who were of average height.

"Teacher Zhou, I don't know how to play. I can just watch."

Bai Jin is a half-baked person and is embarrassed to go on stage.

"It's okay, just have fun."

Zhou Jing selected the team and asked the rest of the people to form teams.

There were exactly three teams. The losing team was eliminated and punished to do twenty push-ups, while the winning team continued with the other team.

"Everyone, be safe. Friendship comes first, competition comes second."

The game started. Zhou Jing, wearing sportswear and sneakers, fought back and forth with the teenagers. When playing against them, Zhou Jing only needed to exert 30% of his strength to ensure his undefeated status.

The basketball court quickly attracted students from this class who came to school to watch, as well as students from other classes.

"The head teacher is amazing."

"Mr. Zhou, come on."

The girls in Class 1 and 2 of Senior High School looked at him with admiration. Some shouted "Come on!" while others opened their phones to take pictures.

Class 3 of Grade 1 was also doing exercises in the morning today. Yang Wenwen came to the playground and heard some noise from the basketball court, so she went to take a look. She saw Zhou Jing's figure on the basketball court from a distance, as if she saw the boy as he used to be when he was a teenager.

At that time, Yang Wenwen was worried that Zhou Jing's playing basketball would affect his studies, so she specifically talked to Zhou Jing. Looking back now, that worry was completely unnecessary. Boys are most charming when they are full of energy on the playground.

(End of this chapter)