Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 347 Honoring Father-in-law and Mother-in-law
Returning to the countryside and watching the carefree children playing with firecrackers, Zhou Jing felt that it was not that the New Year atmosphere was becoming weaker, but that he had grown up and was getting busier. Once upon a time, he also looked forward to the New Year very much when he was a child, but when he grew up, the New Year meant more practically a break for workers. As his own boss, Zhou Jing had no concept of taking a break.

After offering sacrifices to the ancestors on New Year's Eve, Zhou Jing went to a sheep farmer's house and picked out a fat white goat to be slaughtered immediately.

I went to a chicken farmer and bought four big roosters. I brought the roosters back to my grandmother's house and kept them there, preparing to eat one during the New Year, one when Gu Jia came in the first month of the lunar year, and two to bring to Tangdu to honor my father-in-law and mother-in-law.

I killed the sheep and prepared to give half of it to my family, and take the other half to Tangdu to honor my parents-in-law.

"Old Zhou's grandson has made great progress. He bought a whole lamb."

"Isn't it? It's very impressive to drive that car."

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People gathered on the streets of the village were talking about something. During the Chinese New Year every year, the topics that people in the village talked about most were people who had returned from travel, what car so-and-so drove, and how so-and-so's business was doing.

This year, the person who was talked about the most in the village where Zhou Jing's grandfather lives is undoubtedly Zhou Jing. The car Zhou Jing drives is too high-profile, and people passing by will take a second look when he stops on the road.

There were also people who tried to matchmake for Zhou Jing, but of course nothing would come of it since Zhou Jing had already obtained his marriage certificate.

In a sheep-raising family, the shepherd uncle was preparing to slaughter the sheep chosen by Zhou Jing and asked Zhou Jing if he wanted the sheep's blood. Zhou Jing asked him to get a clean basin to collect the sheep's blood. This was all good stuff. It was from goats raised naturally in the countryside without any technology or hard work. Such authentic and fresh sheep's blood might not be available outside.

"I heard from your grandfather that your company is doing well, do you need anyone?"

The sheep farmer said to Zhou Jing.

"It's okay, uncle, are you planning to sell the sheep and do this?"

Zhou Jing said half jokingly.

The uncle who raises sheep has a good relationship with my grandfather, which is why Zhou Jing came here to buy sheep.

"I can only look after the gate if I go out. If there is a shortage of people, see if I can find a job for Longlong."

"What does Longlong usually do for a living?"

Although Bowei Network Technology Co., Ltd. does not have high technical requirements for its employees, they must have a skill, such as being able to work as an electrician, use electric drills, install electronic equipment, etc. At the very least, they must be able to work with cement bricks and tiles.

"Working on a construction site, any hard labor is fine. Does your company have suitable jobs?"

"Then it should be mud bricks or something?"

"Yes, that's what he does."

"Then I'll leave you my phone number. After the eighth day of the first lunar month, Longlong will go to the Yu City branch to contact the person in charge. As for salary, the basic salary plus benefits will be 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a month. Let Longlong consider it."

Zhou Jing can help with this. Although he is not in his hometown in the countryside all year round, his grandfather has a lot of dealings with the villagers, and when his grandparents get old, they will definitely trouble the villagers.

The uncle happily took a piece of paper and a pen to leave his phone number. He said that it was good enough if he could earn four to five thousand yuan a month with a stable job. His son couldn't earn that much even though he worked very hard at a construction site in a month.

After the sheep was killed, it was split into two halves. Zhou Jing took two large plastic bags and asked the uncle to put the halves in and send them to the car. The sheep's head and hooves were put in another bag. Zhou Jing did not want the sheepskin, but considered it a reward for the uncle for killing the sheep.

After returning to his grandfather's house, Zhou Jing put the half of the lamb that he was going to give to his father-in-law and mother-in-law in the freezer, and ate the other half during the New Year.

"This sheep is really big. I should have bought less pork."

Grandma picked it up and found that half a sheep weighed about twenty pounds.

"What should we do with the sheep's head and hooves?"

Zhou Jing originally thought that sheep's head was dry and not tasty, but after watching many videos of eating sheep's head, it seemed quite delicious.

"I'll come and see."

Grandpa added coal to the stove, boiled water to scald the sheep's head to pluck the wool, and then used a thumb-thick steel fire stick to heat up the remaining wool.

Zhou Jing wanted to help but couldn't, so he just watched from the side.

"Jing is very conscious. He knows how to respect his father-in-law and mother-in-law right after getting the marriage certificate. In this respect, he is much better than your father." Wu Suqin began to admire her son. Her son did not need anyone to teach him about such things. No wonder he could pursue Gu Jia, who was beautiful and had a good background.

“I’m not doing too bad.”

Zhou Guozhong expressed his dissatisfaction. Over the years, every time he went to his mother-in-law's house alone, he would bring four or five kilograms of meat.

"How much did Jing pay for those four roosters?"

Wu Suqin mixed half a basin of rice with clean water and put it in the chicken coop.

"Less than six hundred."

The chickens and sheep are not from farms, but are raised by farmers at home. They are not fed with feed, only grains, which are relatively expensive.

"Next year, buy a sheep, and buy some chickens to raise and slaughter for the New Year."

Grandma was very thrifty with money. A sheep cost more than a thousand yuan, and four chickens were not cheap either.

"No, the cost of owning one or two sheep is higher than buying meat."

Zhou Jing is well aware of the hard work of breeders in the countryside. They are not professional breeders and do not feed their animals with feed, relying entirely on free-range grazing and feeding them grains, which is hard work and costly. In other words, the country people do not count their time and grains as costs, otherwise it would not be cost-effective at all.

"That's right. It's not cost-effective to sell a sheep for a thousand yuan after raising it for a year."

Wu Suqin also did not approve of the old lady and old man raising sheep, but it was okay to raise some chickens. If Gu Jia had a baby next year, it would be the year after, and they would be needed for confinement.

The whole day on New Year's Eve was busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. It was a busy day, eating the New Year's Eve dinner, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and setting off fireworks. Zhou Jing bought more fireworks this year than last year. He spent all of his five large boxes of fireworks on New Year's Eve. He also had a roll of 10,000-bang firecrackers, which crackled for a long time. He was the most extravagant person in the village.

"More than three thousand yuan was wasted like this."

The old lady was so distressed that she asked Zhou Jing to save some for the sixth and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Zhou Jing said she would buy more then.

"Jingming got up early and swept the yard."

The yard was almost covered with firecracker confetti, said Wu Suqin.

Zhou Jing smiled, this kind of thing would definitely not be his turn.

After the fireworks, they continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Grandpa, grandma, dad and mom were watching it with gusto. Zhou Jing lay on the quilt and chatted with the women through text messages. The signal was not good in the countryside, and there were only two bars of signal near the window in the room, which was barely enough to send text messages.

Gu Jia: What activities are there during the Chinese New Year in your hometown?

Zhou Jing: [Killing pigs and sheep, setting off fireworks, playing mahjong or poker, and performing operas in the village on the second day of the first lunar month]

Gu Jia: [I’m so envious, this is what it feels like to celebrate the New Year. There are no fireworks in Tangdu. I came back on the fifth day and spent the sixth day at your grandfather’s house. Let me feel the real New Year, and it feels like a fake New Year in Tangdu.]

Zhou Jing: [No problem, can you play mahjong?]

Zhou Jing also made such arrangements, preparing to let Gu Jia experience the New Year atmosphere in the countryside.

Gu Jia: [No, you can teach me when you have a chance]

Zhou Jing was very careful when sending text messages. He chatted with Gu Jia, Yang Wenwen and Chen Jiaqian on three mobile phones respectively.

Zhou Jing went to another room to write a novel before the Spring Festival Gala ended. At around midnight, he bid farewell to the old and welcomed the new year amid the sound of continuous fireworks.

Unable to sleep with the lights on on New Year's Eve, Zhou Jing wrote a novel until dawn before turning off the lights to rest.

The next day, New Year's Day, Zhou Jing woke up at around nine o'clock. The yard had been cleaned by the old man, and grandma, dad and mom were making dumplings. Zhou Jing squatted down to wash his face and there was no need for him to help make dumplings.

New Year's Day is as boring as usual.

After eating dumplings at noon, neighbors visited each other. Zhou Jing was asked by a neighbor to play mahjong. It was a small bet of ten yuan for fun. Zhou Jing did not play seriously from the beginning. He lost three or four hundred yuan in the afternoon, and he took it as a way to balance his luck.

(End of this chapter)