Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 47: Men are free when they have money
September 9th was a good day. Zhou Jing’s royalties for last month and his school salary arrived in his account on the same day.

Royalties: 52138, salary: 3025.

The salary in August was originally only the basic salary for the internship period of 8 yuan. Because Zhou Jing taught ten days of classes for senior high school students, he had performance bonus. In short, the salary was not high, but the teaching profession is not a high-paying industry.

Moreover, the Experimental Middle School is more conscientious, unlike some schools that exploit trainee teachers to the fullest extent possible.

Money can bring people strong self-confidence. With money, Zhou Jing became more energetic. For the first time since his rebirth, he felt wealthy and powerful. He walked as if with the wind. This was the elegance that a reborn person should have. Before, Zhou Jing would think twice before buying something worth hundreds of dollars. Now Zhou Jing wanted to reward himself with a set of Dabaojian.

When Zhou Jing got the money, the first thing he thought of was buying a car, but he quickly gave up the idea.

It is too early to buy a car now. You should consider how to snowball and make more money.

After much thought, Zhou Jing decided to invest in financial management. It is neither convenient nor appropriate for a teacher to open a store. For ordinary people, large investments in stocks are harmful to their health, but small investments can be enjoyable. With his memories and experience from his previous life, he will not lose money by making small investments.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to achieve the small goal of one million this year just by writing novels.

After searching online, Zhou Jing selected a few stocks that were sure to make money, and invested 50,000 yuan after opening an account.

Zhou Jing really wants to go to the Economic Development Zone to have some fun.

The Economic Development Zone's Crystal International, Royal Court Hotel, Petroleum Building, etc. are the favorite places of coal bosses, but the identity of a teacher has given Zhou Jing some invisible moral constraints. It is too cheap for a high school teacher to do that. If he were not a teacher, Zhou Jing would not need to consider such a thing. It is a completely normal human pursuit.

It's true that men can be free when they have money.

"Be a role model for others, be a role model for others, be a role model for others."

Zhou Jing silently chanted a spell in his mind to calm himself down, reminding himself that he was a teacher and should not be unable to resist taking that step.

Today is Thursday. The weekend is the biggest hope for office workers. For teachers, especially class teachers, working from 6 am to 10 pm is like being in prison. The countdown to the weekend begins halfway through the week, and Zhou Jing is no exception.

Looking at the calendar, Zhou Jing picked up a pen and circled number 14.

Beep beep!

Gu Jia’s avatar flashed on the lower right corner of the computer’s QQ. Zhou Jing looked up at Gu Jia who was sitting at the desk opposite with her back to him, and clicked on the QQ message.

[Let’s have dinner together tomorrow night, are you free?]

A few days ago, Zhou Jing cleaned Gu Jia's dormitory and gave her a lipstick, but Gu Jia hasn't expressed any gratitude yet.

[I will go if Teacher Gu invites me]

Zhou Jing raised the corners of his mouth slightly and typed a reply on the keyboard.

Gu Jia: [You have no manners at all. How can you let a girl pay? You have the nerve to let me treat you after you just got paid? ]

Zhou Jing: [Teacher is my senior, actually I would like to treat Teacher Gu to dinner every day, would you please do me the honor? ]

[Okay, since you have such filial piety, I will help you.]

This guy is really good at pursuing girls. Gu Jia doesn't mind it, as she just happens to be in need of a dinner buddy. She is just worried that if she gets too close to the boy, people will gossip about her. Although she doesn't care, she should be careful at school.

Zhou Jing: [Okay, Master (grin)]

Gu Jia replied with a knocking emoticon and closed the chat box.

Zhou Jing had originally planned to treat Liu Hanyu to a big dinner on Friday, but it had to be rescheduled to Saturday or Sunday.

With nothing to do, Zhou Jing took out a fountain pen with red ink from the pen holder and corrected the math homework of Class 1.

Zhou Jing knew the steps to solve the homework title at a glance. By correcting the homework himself, Zhou Jing understood the teacher's feelings and could appreciate any strange fonts. It was very uncomfortable to read the homework of students with poor handwriting.

For the students in Class 2 who did not do their homework seriously, Zhou Jing simply tore up the homework and asked them to rewrite it.

Don't be too strict with a class of students, as long as they are not too bad.

"Will Zhou Jing tear up students' homework and ask them to rewrite it?"

Zhao Xin came to the office, stopped beside Zhou Jing and said with a smile.

"If it's too bad, it will be torn."

Zhou Jing pointed to the homework book he had corrected and torn up.

"Let me see how bad it is." Zhao Xin pulled out the torn notebook, flipped it open and took a look, saying, "It's really messy."

"Xiao Zhou can be stricter with the students in Class 1. If they don't do their homework well, he should beat them and make them rewrite it." Cao Long, the head teacher of Class 1, doesn't mind teachers tearing up the homework of his students.

"Students with poor handwriting are really helpless. I previously asked them to buy calligraphy books and practice one page a day, but after half a year, there was no effect."

When it comes to students' handwriting, Chinese teachers have the most headaches, Yang Wenwen said helplessly.

"If you don't buy the right copybook, you should start practicing calligraphy from the horizontal, vertical, left and right strokes. Practice only one stroke a week or even ten days or half a month. Practice all the strokes first and then practice writing together."

Zhou Jing has experience in practicing calligraphy.

Yang Wenwen had asked Zhou Jing, one of the first-year high school students, to practice calligraphy. Every week, they had to tear off five pages of calligraphy and put them in their homework books and hand them in together. However, there are countermeasures to every policy. Some students would practice seriously, while others would simply use the calligraphy they had practiced earlier or borrowed from others. Zhou Jing had given his best friend a copybook that he had practiced, so since he was asked to practice, he should hand in the copybook.

"No wonder Zhou Jing's handwriting technique is so steady."

"Yes, practicing calligraphy is like practicing martial arts, just like practicing each move repeatedly."

"The Chinese teaching and research group should consider Xiao Zhou's suggestion."

The teachers in the office all agreed with Zhou Jing's point of view.

Ai Xiaohui and Yang Wenwen, Chinese teachers of Class 1 and Class 2, are planning to propose at the Chinese teaching and research group meeting next week that students have limited time, and if calligraphy practice is formally incorporated as part of Chinese homework, then formal Chinese homework should be reduced. This involves the inspection of semester homework, which is not something the Chinese teachers can decide on their own.

"Report."

"Please come in."

Not long after the get out of class was over, Feng Yuhua, the English class representative of Class 1-2, came to hand in his English homework.

"Feng Yuhua, go and ask the math class representative of Class 1 to come pick up the math homework after the next class."

Zhou Jing said to the girl.

"Okay, Teacher Zhou, is there anything else?"

"No more, you go first."

"Uh."

Feng Yuhua nodded and left the office.

Zhou Jing stretched, poured a glass of water and continued to correct homework.

Feng Yuhua respected this senior brother very much. She originally thought that it would be difficult to adapt to school in the city alone, but with the care of this senior brother, she felt that everything was not so difficult without her parents around.

After class, teachers who had classes left the office and went to the classroom, and the office became deserted.

After correcting the homework, Zhou Jing went to the toilet. On the way, he called Liu Hanyu and told her that he was attending a teachers' dinner on Friday night and would treat her to dinner on Saturday.

Liu Hanyu was fine with anything, as she was in a hurry to get back to the city after get off work. She got off work at 5 o'clock, and the commuter bus left at 5:30. It would take almost 7 o'clock to get back to the city after a journey of more than 70 kilometers. She didn't even have time to eat or walk around in the city.

The Friday that teachers and students had been looking forward to soon arrived. The class teacher needed to count the living conditions of the day students in the class, mainly counting those who rented houses. The school required the class teachers to take time out on weekends to visit the students who rented houses. Day students who lived at home just needed to call their parents to chat.

"Excuse me for a few minutes. Day students who rent houses, please raise your hands, 123456." Zhou Jing used the self-study class to count the situation in the class. "You all have family members around you, right?"

"Have."

"Please fill in where you live, who is watching over you and the phone number of the guardian. Day students who live at home should fill in this form and write down your home address and parent contact number. Boarding students who live close to home and go home on weekends, please raise your hands."

Zhou Jing distributed the two statistical tables separately.

"Teacher, my home is not far away, so I am not sure whether I will come back or not."

"Teacher, can I go to my relatives' house on the weekend?"

"Resident students who go home or stay with relatives on the weekends should write a note asking for leave before the fourth class on Friday afternoon and ask me to call their parents. If they don't go home, they must return to the dormitory before 10 p.m. If they don't go home on the weekends and don't live in the dormitory at night, the dormitory management will contact the class teacher, and the class teacher will contact the parents."

The school attaches great importance to the safety of students. Zhou Jing did not dare to be careless at all as it was his first time as a class teacher. The last thing a class teacher wants to see is something happening to students in his class.

【I'll wait for you in the car】

The get out of class was about to end, and Gu Jia sent a text message to Zhou Jing.

(End of this chapter)