Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 398 The significance of having children

"So many vegetables. It would be great if we had a vegetable garden like this in BJ. Wow, there are so many chickens over there. Can we spread the chicken manure directly in the vegetable garden?"

When he came to the yard and looked at the green vegetables in the vegetable garden, Gu Jia's eyes lit up and he really wanted to grow vegetables by himself.

"Human feces is ok, do you think the vegetables are dirty?"

Zhou Jing picked a cucumber, washed it in a water tank, gave half to Gu Jia, and started to eat the other half himself.

"Is this dirty or not? Can I eat it directly? Is it sprayed with pesticides?"

"No, there are fewer insects here because we keep chickens."

The old lady said outside the vegetable garden.

"Pure green vegetables." Gu Jia looked at the chicken coop in the chicken house and said, "They shouldn't be laying eggs now, right?"

"You go in and take a look."

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

“I didn’t change my shoes.”

There was chicken manure everywhere in the chicken coop and Gu Jia couldn't step on it.

Zhou Jing finished eating the cucumber and went in to take a look.

The old man is very skillful and the chicken coop he made is luxurious. The chicken coop covers an area of ​​about 30 to 40 square meters. The top is covered with asbestos tiles to protect against rain. The asbestos tiles only cover about half of the chicken coop so as not to affect the sun exposure. It is surrounded by barbed wire. There are two floors inside. The ground is the activity area, and the second floor is where the chickens rest. There is also a small nest for the hens to lay eggs.

"Catch one and let me pet it."

The chicks were furry and Gu Jia had never touched one before.

As soon as Zhou Jing entered, the chicks ran around, but Zhou Jing was quick and caught one and carried it out.

"How cute, is this just a hen or a rooster?"

Gu Jia reached out and carefully touched the chicken's wings.

"I do not know either."

The chicks were still small and had not grown combs yet, so Zhou Jing couldn't tell whether they were male or female.

Gu Jia took a wild vegetable to feed the chicks, but when they refused to eat it, she asked Zhou Jing to put it in the chicken coop.

"Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, cilantro, zucchini, beans, eggplant, spinach, rapeseed. It's so rich. It's like a paradise on earth."

Gu Jia counted the types of vegetables in the vegetable garden, some of which she didn't recognize.

Gu Jia took the boy's arm and said with a smile, "I'll stay in the countryside to take care of the baby. How about you go back to BJ alone?"

"No problem. I'll retire when I'm 30, and then I'll come back and farm with you."

Zhou Jing turned on the faucet and pulled up the hose to water the vegetable garden.

"Okay! Then I'll grow some vegetables, raise some chickens, and two sheep."

Gu Jia wanted to play, so she took the water pipe, pinched the water outlet and sprinkled water on the leaves.

After staying in the vegetable garden for a while, Zhou Jing put on his white coat and white gauze hat and went to the second uncle's house to see if anyone needed help.

There are some things that are very particular in the countryside. For weddings with family members or neighbors, people who are away from home do not have to come back, as long as they bring money for the gift. For funerals, people have to come back to help no matter how busy they are. Every family has elderly people, and burying them is a very troublesome matter. If you don't help your neighbors, how can you have the nerve to ask others for help when your own elderly people die?

"Should I go?"

Gu Jia had nothing to do and didn't want to go to crowded places.

"Jia Jia, you don't have to go now. You can go when you eat and rest in the house."

Wu Suqin put on a white coat and went over with Zhou Jing to help.

Zhou Jing looked at Gu Jia and said, "Dinner is fried noodles. Should I bring you a bowl or do you want to eat over there?"

"Come over and eat!"

They are all members of Zhou Jing's family, so Gu Jia has nothing to be embarrassed about.

Today, most of the people working at the second uncle's house were family members. Zhou Jing went over to chat with his uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, whom he rarely saw, and then went to the mourning hall to burn paper for the second uncle.

The second uncle was lying in an ice coffin in the mourning hall. It was hot in the summer, so he was put into the wooden coffin on the day of burial. Zhou Jing thought he had long since become indifferent to life and death, and he usually looked at death calmly, but every time he faced the cold body of a deceased person up close, he couldn't help but feel depressed about death, especially when the death was someone he was familiar with.

Looking at the black and white photo of the second uncle in the mourning hall, Zhou Jing sighed at the unpredictability of life. He was a healthy person in the first month of the year, but became a cold corpse in less than half a year.

Zhou Jing suddenly realized another meaning of having children. When all the older relatives passed away, if there were no children, then one would be truly alone in this world. It is often said that it is best to have no worries, but if you think about it carefully, when you are old and dying, it would be desolate to think that there is not even one person in this world who cares about you.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jing felt that he should have at least two children, so that not only would he have someone to worry about in the future, but the children would also have someone to worry about.

"Brother Jing gives it to me."

The second uncle's grandson took out a stack of banknotes and gave it to Zhou Jing.

Zhou Jing said as he burned paper: "Are you scared to be alone in here at night?"

"I'm not afraid. I'm afraid in other people's funeral halls, but not in my own family."

The young man is a bit immature.

After burning the paper, Zhou Jing walked to the old man who had just returned from the mountain and said, "Give me the key to the three-wheeled motorcycle. Grandpa, go back and have a rest. I'll go get something to eat later. I bought some watermelon and will go back to eat some."

The old man is always busy. When his family has something to do, he is not afraid of hard work or fatigue even though he is old.

After watching the old man go home, Zhou Jing drove his three-wheeled motorcycle to the bottom of the slope to fetch beer.

"Jing, be careful. I have some stuff in my car. Pull up everything in the trunk."

Zhou Guozhong handed the car keys to his son and said.

Zhou Jing took the second uncle's grandson with him to bring back the things. Two people came back from the second uncle's house and asked Zhou Jing to drive to the village entrance to pick them up. When it was time for dinner, Zhou Jing went back to his grandmother's house to eat with Gu Jia.

"Jingjing's wife is so pretty. When are they going to get married?"

An aunt who still had charm looked at the handsome man and pretty woman Zhou Jing and Gu Jia and said.

"Keep busy for a while."

"Is your sister-in-law pretty?"

A married boy who is three or four years older than Zhou Jing and still has a bit of a middle school mentality is teasing a boy who is six or seven years old.

The little boy was too shy to speak.

I felt a little embarrassed about talking about Gu Jia.

"Liangliang, who do you think is prettier, your wife or this sister-in-law?"

"My wife is still beautiful."

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"I just want half a bowl."

Gu Jia said to Zhou Jing who was eating noodles that she had eaten enough today. She ate more than usual at home in the county town at noon, and then had another bowl of noodles in the countryside in the afternoon. She was not hungry now, but if she didn't eat, she would be hungry at night.

He gave Gu Jia half a bowl and Zhou Jing a full bowl. He scooped out mutton sauce for Gu Jia and pork sauce for Zhou Jing.

The two found a table and sat down. Zhou Jing said, "When I was a kid, I liked to eat big fish and meat at banquets in the countryside. Now I like this noodle more."

"It's really authentic. Half a bowl seems a bit too little."

Gu Jia felt that she was hopeless, so when she arrived at the boy's house, she wanted to eat everything delicious.

"There are two of you now, so you need to eat double the portion."

"I can only eat half a bowl at most." Gu Jia reminded herself not to completely let herself go. She glanced at the mourning hall and sighed, "Life is boring. No matter how glorious or miserable one is, it will all turn into dust in the end. I can't understand those corrupt officials. Why bother!"

"Some people really like money, while others may have no choice when they reach a certain position."

"Too."

Gu Jia nodded.

There was nothing to do in the evening, so after dinner Zhou Jing went home to accompany Gu Jia.

(End of this chapter)