Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 33 So Close and So Far

Gu Jia, as the host, was cleaning the room and slipped away without even starting to work, not treating Zhou Jing as an outsider at all.

Zhou Jing was not being lazy, because he owed Gu Jia a favor!

That’s why they say favors are the most expensive things. Try not to owe favors if you can solve the problem with money.

Zhou Jing wiped the balcony windows and cleaned the inside of the room.

The tables, cabinets, chairs, beds, furniture, including the lampshades on the ceiling, were cleaned of the dust that had accumulated on the cabinet tops for at least five or six years. Every compartment in the bookcase, the kitchen, the bathroom, including the toilet, was sprayed with detergent and scrubbed clean inside and out. The stains that had been on the tiled walls for who knows how many years were scrubbed clean.

Zhou Jing feels that he is more professional than those who do housework.

After finishing all this, Gu Jia still hadn't come back, so Zhou Jing, sweating profusely, took a break.

Curiously opening a door of the closet, Zhou Jing's eyes lit up.

In addition to clothes, there were a lot of stockings hanging inside, including tights and suspenders, black stockings and flesh-colored stockings, and of various thicknesses. The most eye-catching ones were the lace stockings, which revealed all of Zhou Jing's habits.

After listening to the outside and hearing no movement, Zhou Jing put his nose close to the closet and sniffed.

mainly.
See if there is any moisture. If so, you need to take it out and dry it in the sun. Underwear and other items are most likely to get wet.

But fortunately, there is no peculiar smell except the smell of mothballs and the light fragrance of residual laundry detergent.

Cursing himself in his heart for being more perverted than a dog, Zhou Jing closed the closet door, went to the bathroom, soaked the mop in the bucket, wrung it out with his hands, and started mopping the balcony. He mopped the balcony, room, kitchen, and bathroom twice each.

When I was almost done mopping the floor, I saw Gu Jia leisurely appearing in the corridor.

Zhou Jing complained in his heart that no matter how big the favor was, he had to repay it today.

No matter how much he complained, Zhou Jing did not do it perfunctorily. If he didn't want to do it, he would not do it. If he did it, he would do it well and seriously. Zhou Jing always demanded this of himself, whether he was doing it for himself or for others.

"Zhou Jing, just clean the glass and I'll mop the floor."

Gu Jia said something hypocritical.

"It's almost done. I'll come."

Zhou Jing said this, but in his heart he was thinking, "Rest wherever you feel cooler! Just don't cause any more trouble."

When she arrived at the room, she found it spotless. Then she looked at the bathroom and kitchen, which were also spotless. The tiled walls, sink and toilet were so bright that they seemed to reflect a person's shadow. Gu Jia almost didn't recognize that this was her dormitory. It was the first time she felt that her home could be so clean.

This boy is really attentive and does housework better than girls.

Boys like this are really rare.

Gu Jia refreshed her understanding of this student. Under his sunny and handsome appearance was a down-to-earth and serious heart. Even if it was to thank her for a favor, these details showed the boy's simple quality. At the same time, it also refreshed her understanding of men. It turned out that men could also be so "virtuous".

"You've worked so hard. You must be tired. Drink some water and take a rest."

Gu Jia took out the bottle of water she had just bought and handed it to the boy.

"Just treat it as exercise." Zhou Jing took the water with his left hand, wiped his forehead with his right hand, unscrewed the bottle cap and took two sips, saying, "Teacher Gu, see if there is anything else we need to do."

"No more. Please sit down first. I'll take the bedding downstairs to dry it in the sun."

"I'll go back to the dormitory to pack up and go to the playground to watch the military training of my class. On the way, I'll go down to help Teacher Gu dry the quilts."

Zhou Jing stopped sitting and helped to hold the quilt with the water he had drunk.

Gu Jia hugged the mattress and said, "There shouldn't be anything to do during the military training. Let's have dinner together tonight."

The boy was her former student. Today he helped her clean the house like a babysitter, so Gu Jia had to show her appreciation.

"No need. These are what I should do. Teacher Gu, please let me know if you need anything in the future." Zhou Jing declined.

"Don't worry about that. With your education, you are qualified to be a teacher here. I just helped you submit your resume. It's settled. Meet at my parking spot at 6pm."

If Gu Jia doesn't help others, then that's fine. If he helps, then that's fine, and he won't ask for any reward from the other party, let alone the other party who is his own student.

"Let's do it another day. We have to play a TV series for the students tonight."

Zhou Jing still declined politely. Today he got to know Gu Jia in a new light. In high school, he thought Gu Jia was a petty woman, but in fact, she was not. On the contrary, she was quite well-educated and casual.

"Then next time. Being a class teacher is always a hassle."

After drying the bedding for Gu Jia, Zhou Jing remembered something. The lipstick had not been delivered yet, and he wondered whether Gu Jia would go to the office in the evening.

When he arrived at the downstairs of dormitory No. 3, Zhou Jing saw his bicycle and hesitated for a few seconds before deciding to go home and take a shower.

After returning home, taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Zhou Jing threw the dirty clothes into the washing machine. He rubbed the collars of light-colored T-shirts and shirts by hand before washing them. After the washing machine was turned on, he also cleaned his house. Zhou Jing had nothing else to do in the afternoon due to military training, so he decided not to go to school and stayed at home to write his novel.

The August royalties are coming soon.

Zhou Jing roughly calculated that he would get about 50,000 after tax. The royalties from his freshman, sophomore and junior years combined were not that much. But Zhou Jing was not satisfied. His small goal this year was to set a million, but he still had a long way to go.

Suddenly remembering that he had bought a lottery ticket two days ago but hadn't won yet, Zhou Jing took out the lottery ticket from his wallet and checked the winning numbers with a little expectation in his heart. The first number was wrong, and none of the numbers matched.

Sure enough, buying lottery tickets never disappoints him.

Zhou Jing threw the lottery ticket into the trash can and continued typing honestly. Even if he was a chosen one favored by God and was given a chance to start over, he should not expect to get something for nothing.

When God bestows a great responsibility on a man, he must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, his body hungry and his body empty.
The ancients never lied to me.

Zhou Jing decided never to play lottery again.

Liu Hanyu sent a message to ask Zhou Jing if he was busy and if he had time to have dinner together in the evening. Zhou Jing replied that he couldn't do it today.

【All right】

Liu Hanyu, who was reading in the library of Yushi College, was a little disappointed.

She felt very conflicted. When they were together, Zhou Jing and she were obviously more warm than a couple, giving her a feeling that they were more than friends but less than lovers. However, when they were not together, Zhou Jing would hardly take the initiative to send her messages, let alone make an appointment to meet, giving her a feeling of being both close and far away.

It is often said that women's hearts are as deep as the sea, and the same is true for men.

But if Zhou Jing really pursued her, Liu Hanyu would be in a difficult situation. She was already a senior in college, and if she didn't take the postgraduate entrance examination and had no job, how could she have the time and energy to fall in love?

Calm down and think that it is best to maintain the current relationship with Zhou Jing.

Zhou Jing minimized the chat box and opened it again: [Will you read at noon tomorrow? I’ll find you after school]

Liu Hanyu's mouth corners unconsciously raised: [Okay]

It's not that Zhou Jing has no feelings for Liu Hanyu, he just won't consider relationships in the short term, which could be five years or ten years. As a reborn person, if he works hard and still cannot achieve anything great, then he is destined to be mediocre. If he does nothing because of a romantic relationship, it means he has no ambition and is wasting the God-given opportunity to start over.

In the afternoon, Liu Hanyu went to the college student cafeteria to eat.

Passing by the garden and seeing the statue of Confucius, Liu Hanyu prayed to Confucius to bless her so that she could get first place in the written test of the national civil service exam in December, and her score would be far ahead of the second place, so that the pressure of the interview would be much less.

Zhou Jing finished writing the novel at around six o'clock and went to school to have lunch on the way.

As usual, students were allowed to watch TV series during evening self-study. Not long after the class started, Gu Jia was seen passing by the classroom door and walking towards the office. Zhou Jing left the classroom and went back to the dormitory to get his lipstick.

　Thanks to Shengwusuolian for the reward of 5000 points.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)