Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 352: Countryside Romance

"Tired?"

The mountain road is not flat, there are many uphill roads. After walking for a while, Zhou Jing looked at Teacher Gu with his hands on his hips and said.

"I'm not tired. Where is the place to visit the grave?"

Gu Jia looked up at the mountain. Although she was not tired yet, the top of the mountain felt a little far away.

"You can't see it from here. It will be much flatter if you go up this slope. There is snow on the main road, otherwise you can drive there."

Zhou Jing held Gu Jia's hand and continued walking.

"Driving is boring. You should exercise after the New Year. I eat more at your house than at mine. Am I gaining weight?"

Gu Jia let go of the boy's hand and put her arm around his back.

Zhou Jing hugged her and pulled her, but she didn't feel any weight gain.

"What is this? Can I eat it?"

Gu Jia picked two small red round fruits from a small thorny tree on the roadside.

"You can eat it, it's sour jujube."

Zhou Jing also picked two and ate them.

"It's delicious."

Gu Jia ate one and it tasted sour and sweet.

"This can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine. It's quite expensive. A pound of it can be sold for several yuan when wet, and more than ten yuan when dried."

"Wow, it's so expensive! Then we can use the date palm land to grow this."

Gu Jia found it incredible that the seemingly insignificant wild plant fruits that were everywhere on the road could be so valuable.

“Rural areas near mountains don’t lack resources, but they lack brains.”

Live by the mountain, live by the water. There are many wild medicinal herbs on the mountains in the village, such as licorice, bupleurum, etc. Some people in the countryside can dig herbs and pick sour dates and sell them for several thousand yuan a year. A few thousand yuan is not a small amount for country people, and it is very durable. The cost of living in the countryside is low, and the only things you need to buy are rice, flour, oil and meat.

If you don't spend too much, a family of three or four in the countryside can spend less than 400 yuan a month on living expenses.

Nowadays, young people basically do not live in the countryside. A family with only two people has lower living expenses. They can grow vegetables, pick wild vegetables to eat or sell, and eat the flowers of some trees. If they are diligent, they can plant some crops, raise some poultry and livestock, and live off the land. They can earn 30,000 to 40,000 yuan a year without too much work. City people pay more and more attention to green and health, and things from the countryside are very good in the city market. Some people in the countryside can save 500,000 or 600,000 yuan in this way for most of their lives.

After working in the city for a long time in his previous life, Zhou Jing even wanted to come back to start a business, and by the way, open a short video account to live broadcast his work and sell local specialties. It is also a good thing to have a homestead and fields in his hometown.

“What is this effect?”

Gu Jia carefully picked a few sour dates, put them in his pocket and ate them while walking.

"The main medicinal use is the kernel, which nourishes the heart and liver, and treats insomnia and dreaminess."

After watching a lot of short videos, Zhou Jing has learned a lot and can identify many medicinal herbs.

"Then pick some, grind it into powder and drink it with water."

Gu Jia tried to bite the fruit core, but it was so hard that she couldn't break it.

"There aren't many now. I'll come back in the fall to get some to dry."

Zhou Jing felt a little thirsty. He glanced at the herbal tea in the plastic bag he brought for his ancestors, but he endured it.

"Finally there's a signal."

Gu Jia turned on her cell phone and called home.

Zhou Jing held her hand and walked slowly. There was a special kind of romance in strolling in the countryside.

Gu Jia was wearing a red windbreaker, dark blue tight jeans, and a pair of white sneakers as she walked on a country road. The beauty of the person and the beauty of nature set off each other, making the beauty even more natural.

The two walked and admired the scenery on the mountain. Gu Jia pointed at the terraced fields in front of them and asked in surprise: "What is that?"

"Hare, haven't you seen it before?"

Zhou Jing picked up a relatively hard piece of soil, aimed at the hare and threw it, hitting it right on the head. The hare rolled on the spot. Seeing this, Zhou Jing put the offering on the ground and jumped off the terrace to catch it.

"You're so accurate, be careful of getting bitten."

Gu Jia didn't dare to speak loudly, for fear that the rabbit would run away.

When he got to the rabbit, the rabbit had a bloody head and was motionless. He didn't know whether it was fainted or dead. Zhou Jing grabbed its ears and lifted it up. It was a big rabbit. Zhou Jing looked at Gu Jia and said, "I'll give you a snack tonight." "How can you eat such a cute rabbit?"

Gu Jia stretched out her finger and poked the rabbit. It was so furry that she felt a little sorry for it.

"In the eyes of farmers, they are not cute at all. Wild rabbits start eating crops as soon as they grow, and they eat until the crops are harvested in autumn. They are very greedy and can eat a large area of ​​land near the edge of the field. Wild rabbits, sparrows and wild pheasants are the three major pests for farmers. The soybeans over there have not been harvested because they have been eaten bare by wild rabbits."

It was inconvenient to carry the rabbit, and Zhou Jing didn't want to send it home specially.

"Okay, let's eat it. Is rabbit meat delicious?"

After hearing this, Gu Jia put away her sympathy. It seemed that wild rabbits were not that cute.

"You'll know after you eat it."

Zhou Jing discovered that he now had the qualifications of a top hunter, and it would be great if he could hunt another pheasant so that Gu Jia could taste authentic game.

Gu Jia had actually eaten rabbit meat and had eaten spicy rabbit snacks when she was in college.

"arrive."

After turning a corner around the mountain, Zhou Jing pointed to the cemetery in front. There were two cypress trees and three graves next to the trees.

"finally reached."

Gu Jia was sweating from walking, and he wiped his forehead and said.

Zhou Jing first placed the offerings, which were very rich, including wine, meat, steamed buns, fruits and candies.

"Won't you introduce me?"

Gu Jia squatted beside him and said with a smile.

"Please introduce yourself!"

After placing the offerings, Zhou Jing sprinkled drinks and wine, and then burned paper money, incense, and Huazi.

"Hello, ancestors, happy new year. I am the daughter-in-law of your descendant Zhou Jing. May Zhou Jing's career be more successful in the coming year, may the company prosper, and may we have both sons and daughters."

Gu Jia knelt on her knees beside the boy, holding incense in both hands and worshiping.

"It's too much to make such a big wish for an offering worth dozens of dollars. This is a tomb, not a wishing well. Our ancestors said that we should make wishes in temples."

Zhou Jing smiled and said.

"Don't you still have money? Burn more."

Gu Jia was also amused by herself. She put her hands on her hair and kowtowed with the boy. After kowtowing, she stood up and patted the dirt off her knees.

After paying homage to the three graves in turn, Zhou Jing lit a cigarette and set off firecrackers, and Gu Jia covered her ears and ran away.

"The mountain on this side and the mountain on the opposite side were caused by the carelessness of people visiting the graves."

Visiting graves can easily cause forest fires, so Zhou Jing is always careful.

"Speaking of this, I remembered something. Last year during the Chinese New Year, Hui Fei's husband went to the grave and burned the forest land. During the Chinese New Year, Hui Fei's husband was arrested by the police station and asked me for help. Otherwise, Hui Fei's husband would have to spend the New Year in prison."

Gu Jia still finds it funny when she thinks about it now. Such a thing could actually happen to someone so close to her.

"After a forest is burned, it recovers slowly. After a treeless grassland is burned, the grass will grow more vigorously next year. Covering it with dry grass all the time is not conducive to the growth of grass and trees."

Zhou Jing took a puff of cigarette and said.

"That's right. Wildfires can't be extinguished. Spring breezes will bring new life. That's the truth. Stop smoking."

Gu Jia snatched the half-smoked cigarette from the boy's hand, threw it on the ground and stomped it out.

Zhou Jing put his arm around Teacher Gu's shoulders and said with a smile, "Do you want to feel a kiss with the smell of tobacco?"

"No, don't touch me when you smoke next time."

Gu Jia shook her head like a rattle.

Zhou Jing did not force him and let go of Teacher Gu.

Gu Jia suddenly wanted to feel the smell of tobacco on the man again, so she turned around and kissed the boy.

(End of this chapter)