Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 135 The Importance of Having a Man in the House

Watching Liu Hanyu leave angrily, Zhou Jing just pulled her symbolically, and let her go when he couldn't stop her.

When she went out and saw that Zhou Jing didn't follow her, Liu Hanyu became even angrier. She walked down the stairs heavily, stopped on the first floor and listened for footsteps. There was no sound of footsteps behind her. She took out her phone and put it back in. She walked a few steps and stopped to type a text message:

[Why don't you try to keep my mother?]

She was so angry that she even typed the wrong words. Zhou Jing saw the text message and called her.

"Do you really want to piss me off so you can get back together with your ex-girlfriend with a clear conscience?"

Liu Hanyu answered the call immediately and spoke first.

Zhou Jing: "You are as stubborn as a donkey and I can't stop you. I would have reconciled with my ex-girlfriend a long time ago. Come on and tell me."

Liu Hanyu: "You are the donkey, get down."

Zhou Jing: "Isn't it cold outside?"

"I don't want to come up."

Liu Hanyu couldn't bring herself to admit it.

Zhou Jing: "Then tell me on the phone. I never realized you had such a bad temper before. I'm stunned."

Liu Hanyu: "You deserved a beating, why can't you get down?"

Zhou Jing: "Come up."

Liu Hanyu: "Do you think I don't matter in your heart?"

Zhou Jing: "No, but to be honest, it's quite stressful to be with you."

"." Liu Hanyu lost his temper again: "Did I put pressure on you?"

Zhou Jing: "You are the grass in the yard. If I can't help it, I don't want to pull you."

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Liu Hanyu was speechless again, hung up the phone and went upstairs.

"Is it cold outside?"

Zhou Jing looked at the girl who had returned and said calmly.

"I'm going to the bathroom."

Liu Hanyu rolled her eyes, threw her bag on the sofa, took off her down jacket and went to the bathroom.

Girls are like this. When she's angry, the more you try to keep her, the more she'll act like a pig during the Chinese New Year. If you let her go free, she'll go back on her own.

"You make me angry and you won't comfort me?"

Coming out of the bathroom, Liu Hanyu said unhappily.

"You just left without giving me a chance to coax you."

"Then why don't you chase after me?"

".."

Girls who always seem to be so confident in everything sometimes make people speechless.

"They are so active in taking advantage of others, but not so active in coaxing others."

Liu Hanyu went to play computer angrily.

"I'm so angry because I won't let you take advantage of me."

"Is it not possible for you to take it, but you still took it?"

"You never let me kiss you properly once."

Zhou Jing was too lazy to argue with her. After the clothes were washed in the washing machine, he went to hang them out.

It was almost nine o'clock when Liu Hanyu went home and Zhou Jing finally calmed down. He changed his clothes and went to run with Gu Jia. Gu Jia didn't want to run tonight and Zhou Jing didn't want to run either. In the afternoon, Gu Jia asked Zhou Jing to persuade her to run, so Zhou Jing accompanied her.

"I watched the 2012 movie this afternoon and I'm still depressed. Everything feels so boring."

Gu Jia's emotions were still affected by the disaster movie.

"The world is so beautiful, why does Master have to think so much? Will Master lead you or will I lead Master?"

Zhou Jing's bicycle was at school, and he walked here. Gu Jia's bicycle had a back seat that could carry someone.

"I can't lead anyone as a teacher."

Gu Jia got off and let the boy ride on her.

"Master, you can hold me."

Zhou Jing said with a smile while riding his bike.

"Really? Are you ticklish?"

Holding the boy in a strange posture, Gu Jia sat behind him, grabbed the boy's clothes and scratched his waist.

"Be careful, don't overturn the car. What will Master do tomorrow?"

Zhou Jing started pedaling slowly and drove towards the college against the cold wind.

"Take a rest tomorrow, how about you?"

"Tutoring my cousin in math."

After a while they arrived at the college, and they ran separately as usual. After running for twenty minutes, it was very cold at night, so they returned after running, and Zhou Jing went to visit Gu Jia's house.

In the afternoon, Zhou Jing said he would give Gu Jia a massage, but Gu Jia didn't take it seriously and Zhou Jing didn't mention it either.

"When did the faucet in the master's bathroom start leaking?"

Zhou Jing went to the bathroom.

"Yesterday, I was going to get a faucet repaired, but I forgot to buy the faucet."

Gu Jia took two tangerines and poured two glasses of water.

"I'll fix it for Master tomorrow. I'll buy a faucet on the way. Do you have a wrench here?"

Zhou Jing took a picture of the faucet and said.

“I don’t know which one will work.”

There were some tools in the kitchen cabinet, and Gu Jia took them out.

"This will do."

Zhou Jing used a adjustable wrench to try to turn the faucet. If it was rusted, it would be difficult to turn.

Fortunately, it can be turned. "Let's fix it tomorrow!"

Gu Jiasheng is looking for someone.

Zhou Jing turned on the shower water heater's spray nozzle, knocked the nozzle on the sink frame, and reddish-brown water flowed out.

"What's going on? Is the water broken?"

Gu Jia was shocked. How could the bath water be like this?

"It's not broken, it's rust. The magnesium rod here has probably been corroded because it hasn't been replaced for a long time. The iron inside has rusted. I can just buy a magnesium rod and replace it tomorrow."

Zhou Jing explained.

"What is a magnesium rod?"

Gu Jia didn't understand at all.

"Master, do you still remember the chemistry class in high school? The magnesium in potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, and aluminum is a relatively active metal. If you connect a metal that is more active than iron to iron, and let the active metal corrode the iron, it will not rust easily. The same is true for radiators. If the surface is coated with a layer of zinc, the inside of the radiator will not corrode easily."

It is difficult to explain this common sense to liberal arts students.

"Oh, I remember there was a sacrificial anode protecting the cathode or a sacrificial cathode protecting the anode."

Gu Jia vaguely remembered it.

“That’s the principle.”

"Science is indeed more practical. Do you know how to change a lamp holder? I want to change this lamp to a white one. The bulb I bought is screw-in, but this lamp holder has a bayonet. When I went to change the bulb, the boss said that this type of bulb doesn't have a bayonet."

Gu Jia complained that the old incandescent lights in the bathroom corridor were not bright enough. She was timid to begin with, and the dim and yellow light of the incandescent lights made her very uncomfortable at night.

"Yes, you haven't bought the lamp holder yet, I'll come buy some tomorrow. The lights in the living room are a little dim, do you want to change them, Master?"

Zhou Jing is a science guy, so how could he not know simple electrical work?

"Okay, will I get electrocuted?"

Gu Jia was worried about being electrocuted.

"No, the power in the room will be cut off once the switch at the door is turned off."

"Then I'll trouble you, disciple."

Gu Jia peeled an tangerine and gave it to the boy.

"It is our duty to honor our master."

After eating an tangerine and drinking a glass of water, Zhou Jing got up and left.

After Gu Jia watched the boy go downstairs at the door, she felt inexplicably lost. She used to think that falling in love was easy, as easy as one plus one equals two as long as you wanted to. But after truly experiencing it, she realized that it was much more complicated than she had imagined.

The best friend taught Gu Jia everything she could, and the rest was up to Gu Jia herself.

After locking the door, Gu Jia was about to send a message to her best friends group but didn't do it. At this time in the evening, her best friends should be putting their children to sleep, so they would not have time to chat with her.

Zhou Jing returned home and wrote a novel. He stayed up all night without realizing it and didn't stop until after three o'clock.

The next day, Sunday, Zhou Jing tutored his cousin in the morning and took her for a big lunch at noon. After his cousin went back to school, Zhou Jing went to Gu Jia's place and passed by the hardware store and bought a faucet, a magnesium rod, two lamp holders, two light bulbs, and a roll of raw tape, thus solving all of Gu Jia's problems at once.

"Hello Auntie."

When Zhou Jing went to see Gu Jia, Gu's mother was also there. When they met, Zhou Jing greeted her politely.

"You're welcome, Xiao Zhou. Have you eaten?"

Gu's mother originally suspected that her daughter did not come home at night because she was really living with the boy. Today, she took the excuse of delivering food to her daughter to inquire about the situation. It seems that the two are still far from that step.

"After eating, change the faucet first!"

Zhou Jing looked at Gu Jia and said.

Because her mother was there, Gu Jia nodded shyly and took the boy to the bathroom.

When he arrived at the bathroom, Zhou Jing first turned off the main water valve, then unscrewed the magnesium rod of the bath water heater to drain the water. Sure enough, the magnesium rod was completely corroded, and the water discharged from the water heater was the color of rust.

Gu Jia asked, "Is it bad for your health to take a bath in this kind of water?"

“I don’t know, but it will definitely speed up the damage to the water heater.”

Zhou Jing unscrewed the leaking faucet, cleaned the water pipe joint, then wrapped the new faucet with a few rounds of raw tape and screwed it on to complete it.

"It turns out it's that simple."

Gu Jia had originally thought it was very complicated, but she didn't expect the boy to finish it in just two or three minutes.

“It would be troublesome if it got rusty.”

After draining the water from the water heater, Zhou Jing opened the water valve and cleaned it. After cleaning the inside, he replaced the newly bought magnesium rod.

"This should be quite expensive, how much is it?"

Gu Jia picked up the replaced magnesium rod and studied it.

"Not expensive, about ten yuan."

Zhou Jing wiped his hands with a rag and went to turn off the power at the door to change the light bulb.

"Be careful."

Gu Jia turned on the light to make sure there was no electricity, then took a stool and placed it under the corridor light outside the bathroom to support it.

"It's very stable, Master, you don't need to help."

Before Zhou Jing went up, he tested the stool to see if it was solid enough to prevent another accident like the one when he changed the light bulb for Yang Wenwen.

"Be careful, Xiao Zhou."

Mother Gu came over and took a look and said.

Zhou Jing took down the light bulb first, dismantled the old lamp holder, replaced it with a new one, screwed the light bulb back on, and then replaced the light bulb in the living room. It took a total of several minutes. He pushed the switch and turned on the light and it was much brighter than the original one.

“It feels like you can do anything.”

Gu Jia didn't know what words to use to describe this boy, but he was very capable.

“Basic skills for boys.”

Zhou Jing smiled modestly.

“That’s how important it is to have a man in the house.”

Zhou Jing went to the bathroom to wash her hands, and Mother Gu spoke to her daughter in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

After hearing this, Gu Jia remained silent.

(End of this chapter)