Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 351 Fireworks (Part )

After washing her face, Gu Jia went to the next room to help with cooking, and Wu Suqin didn't need to help.

The lunch was simple, and Gu Jia couldn't help, so Zhou Jing pulled her to the kang to watch TV.

Lunch consists of mutton offal, steamed buns, rice cakes and donuts. Mutton offal is similar to stew, but with sheep's head, sheep's blood, sheep's stomach, etc. added to the stew.

After dinner, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went to the county town to shop.

When they arrived at the county town, they went to buy vegetables first. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the county town's market was very lively, with the streets blocked by yangko troupes. Zhou Jing found a place nearby to park the car and got out and walked with Gu Jia.

“The New Year atmosphere is too strong.”

Gu Jia held the boy's arm and stretched her neck to watch the yangko dance in the crowd.

"Master, if you can dance, you should be able to do the Yangko, right?"

"No, I can't dance anymore."

Gu Jia hasn't danced for several years, not since she joined the cheerleading team in college.

"I want you to teach me!"

Zhou Jing kept waiting for the music to continue and the dancing to begin.

"I can teach you, but do you need to remember what you want to buy?"

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"Don't remember, just buy whatever you want to eat."

"That's right, you should buy what you like to eat, and if your mother asks you, just say you forgot."

Gu Jia smiled and thought, she didn't have anything special she wanted to eat. She had been eating meat almost every day recently. She had been anorexic at home for the past few days. It was only after she came to the boy's house yesterday that she regained her appetite. The food at the boy's house was even more delicious than at home.

Zhou Jing followed Gu Jia closely, and they arrived at the vegetable market as they walked and looked around. Gu Jia was responsible for choosing, and Zhou Jing was responsible for carrying.

"We'll have dumplings tomorrow and some vegetarian food tonight."

Gu Jia bought a piece of pork jelly and two stir-fried vegetables.

After the vegetables were bought and delivered to the car, the road in the city was open, and Zhou Jing drove to the store selling fireworks and firecrackers and picked out five boxes of fireworks, including 10X10 and 10X20. The five boxes almost filled the trunk. He also bought a roll of firecrackers with rings, a handful of fairy wands, and a large box of various small fireworks.

"I've never seen fireworks this big since I was a kid."

Gu Jia couldn't wait until night, as she hadn't seen the fireworks since the New Year.

"You can do whatever you want in the countryside, and I'll let you do as much as you want tonight."

After paying the bill, Zhou Jing had nothing else to do in the county town, so he got in the car and went home.

“Have you ever heard Jay Chou’s “Fireworks Cool Down Easily”?

Gu Jia fastened his seat belt and turned on his cell phone.

"I've heard that the rain fell and the grass and trees were deep in my hometown. I've heard that you were always alone."

Zhou Jing can only hum a few lines.

“Not on the phone.”

Gu Jia suddenly wanted to listen to it, but couldn't find it after looking through the music on her phone.

"Go to an Internet cafe and download it."

Zhou Jing has a data cable in his car, which is not far from his Internet cafe.

"No, I want to climb the mountain when I get back."

The afternoon sun was shining brightly, and Gu Jia wanted to go to the mountains in the countryside to enjoy the icy scenery of thousands of miles.

After returning to the countryside, Zhou Jing asked his grandfather to ride the three-wheeled motorcycle to the bottom of the slope to pull things.

"You are awesome, old man. Can you ride a tricycle?"

An old man in his sixties was riding a tricycle on the slope, which made the customers sweat. It has to be said that the elderly people in the countryside are generally in good health.

"Yes, last year I asked the old man to hire someone to haul the bricks and slates, but he ended up buying a tricycle himself, and he hauled all the slates and bricks for the yard renovation."

Zhou Jing admired the old man's perseverance. When he saw a truckload of bricks, slabs of stone, cement and sand being unloaded at the bottom of the slope, Zhou Jing had a headache. The old man, who had been stubborn all his life, demonstrated what it meant that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and a nine-story tower starts with a pile of earth. The hard work and perseverance of the older generation really made people admire them.

Gu Jia was unbelievable.

The old man got off the three-wheeled motorcycle, and Zhou Jing moved the fireworks and vegetables into the bed of the motorcycle and rode in front.

"Slow down and be safe."

Gu Jia walked slowly behind the old man.

"Are you all ready to release them tonight?"

The neighbors looked at the several large boxes of fireworks on the tricycle and were very envious.

"I have to leave some for Fifteen, so that uncle can smoke."

Zhou Jing said modestly.

"You're not as steady as your grandfather when riding a tricycle." Zhou Guozhong said to his son.

"Smoke me."

He took out half of the cigarette and smoked Zhou Jing's instead.

Passing by the street outside the neighbor's yard, Zhou Jing stopped and took out cigarettes to distribute to a few men. Some of the neighbors on the street had the same ancestral grave as the old man, so they were from the same family, while some were not from the same family. He distributed cigarettes to other people, and finally Zhou Jing gave one to his father.

"Jingjing brought his wife here?"

"When did you come?"

Seeing Gu Jia walking up the slope, the neighbors looked at her curiously.

"last night."

"Jingjing has good taste."

"Guozhong can retire early."

"That's right. Why would you go to work when you have such a good son? You can enjoy your life in peace and contentment sooner rather than later."

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There were about a dozen or twenty people standing in a large circle on the street, talking. Gu Jia felt the oppression from afar and was in a dilemma. She gritted her teeth and came to Zhou Jing.

"We are all family, Gu Jia, this is the second grandfather, the fourth uncle, the eldest uncle, the eldest aunt, and the second uncle."

Zhou Jing took the initiative to introduce.

Gu Jia smiled and wished them a happy new year one by one.

"The five of them are one generation younger than us, so they are considered nephews."

Finally, Zhou Jing pointed at several of his older nephews, both boys and girls, some three or four years older than Zhou Jing, and some three or four years younger.

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Gu Jia felt very embarrassed to be called aunt by someone who was only a few years younger than her. Fortunately, she was not a child anymore, otherwise she would have to give a red envelope.

Zhou Jing could see that Gu Jia was feeling awkward, and there was nothing he could do. He had to get through this hurdle as they would meet many times in the future.

After standing on the street for a while, Zhou Jing took Gu Jia home.

"There's so much pressure. Are they all from the same family?"

After entering the yard, Gu Jia said softly, feeling relieved.

"My grandfather and my father's generation are relatively large. Is your family large?"

Zhou Jing rode the tricycle to a place without sunlight, took down the fireworks and placed them in the corner.

"Not many. My grandfather didn't have any brothers or sisters. Not long after he was born, his father joined the army and never came back. After my grandfather gave birth to me, my father also joined the army. When he came back, my father had already given birth to me."

Gu Jia sighed softly.

After returning to the house and drinking a glass of water, Gu Jia changed into sneakers and went hiking with Zhou Jing. Wu Suqin prepared offerings and incense for visiting the grave. According to the custom in her hometown, they had to visit the grave together when the daughter-in-law came home for the first time.

Zhou Jing's grandparents are still alive, so he doesn't need to take Gu Jia to visit the grave. However, Zhou Jing has a successful career, and Wu Suqin attributes it to the fact that the ancestral grave is full of smoke, so she lets Zhou Jing take Gu Jia to visit the grave.

"It's not smoke coming out of my ancestors' graves, it's clearly that I met the noble Jiajia."

Zhou Jing is not that superstitious.

"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't help you much."

Gu Jia patted the boy gently.

"So be nicer to Jiajia in the future."

Of course Wu Suqin understood the truth.

Zhou Jing didn't continue talking. He packed his things and went out through the back door of the yard to climb the mountain.

"Five cows. Are there any wolves, tigers or anything like that in the mountains?"

Gu Jia pointed at a few large yellow cattle on the dam. It was rare to see such animals in the countryside, so everything she saw was new to her.

"There are no tigers, but there are wolves. Two years ago, a man in the village was killed by a wolf. Only bones were left."

Zhou Jing deliberately scared people.

"Really? Then do we dare to go without anything?"

Gu Jia suddenly felt a little afraid to go up the mountain.

"I was lying to you."

"Stinky boy."

Gu Jia grabbed a handful of snow from the roadside grass and threw it on the boy.

(End of this chapter)