Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 48: I was a school beauty back then

After school, Zhou Jing went to the office to pack up briefly. When he went to the parking lot near the playground, Gu Jia was already in the car.

"Sorry to have kept Teacher Gu waiting for a long time."

"I just came down too, what do you want to eat?"

Gu Jia started the car and slowly turned the steering wheel to reverse.

"Teacher Gu is familiar with this place. I can do anything. Click to the right and stop."

Zhou Jing was instructing Gu Jia to reverse from behind.

The car backed out, and after the boy got in, Gu Jia asked, "Have you taken the driving test?"

"I took the test during my freshman year."

Zhou Jing said as he fastened his seat belt.

"It's good to pass the college entrance exam, but it's very troublesome to pass the exam after work." Gu Jia thought for a while and said, "How about eating hot pot?"

"Okay, thank you Teacher Gu for the hospitality."

Zhou Jing was also planning to talk about hotpot. If you invite people to dinner and don’t know what to eat, just choose hotpot.

Hotpot is versatile. It can be eaten at noon or at night. It can be eaten by couples on dates, or by family, friends, and colleagues at gatherings. It can be eaten in autumn and winter, as well as in spring and summer. It can be meat or vegetarian, spicy or mild, and can be paired with wine, herbal tea, and beverages. Some hotpot restaurants also offer grilled fish and meat. In short, there is no dinner that cannot be solved with a hotpot meal.

"Don't call me teacher if you're polite to me again."

Gu Jia is very serious in class and very approachable in life. She doesn't like red tape.

"Then I won't be polite. Teacher Gu usually lives in school or goes home?"

During this period, Zhou Jing got to know Gu Jia again.

In the past, I always thought that Gu Jia was very dull and cold. She seldom smiled in class, never joked with students, and seldom communicated with students except for teaching. In fact, Gu Jia was a typical person who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and a bit black-bellied.

"If you live in school, you will always be urged to get married when you go home. You are too young to understand this."

Gu Jia hasn't been home this week. Her mother is annoyed with her when she's at home, but if she doesn't go home, her mother urges her to go home. It's so hard for her.

"Teacher Gu is so well-off that she can find a husband anytime she wants. Twenty-seven is not too old at all."

How could Zhou Jing not understand the trouble of being urged to get married?

In his previous life, Zhou Jing couldn't even go home for the New Year in peace. Is it okay for him to be arranged to go on a blind date on the first day of the New Year?

Not only are parents urging you to get married, but relatives are also introducing people to you in various ways. Even if you don't want to go on blind dates introduced by acquaintances, you can't just ignore them.

In today's society, girls like Gu Jia who are beautiful, have a good family and are well educated will not have trouble finding a husband after they are 30. However, it is understandable that her parents are anxious. No matter how good a girl's conditions are, the longer she waits, the less advantage she will have. Successful and unmarried men may not necessarily look down on older women like you. Older men who have not yet succeeded may not look down on you, let alone divorced ones.

In short, if a girl does not intend to be together forever, it is best for her to get married at the right age. She has to face what she has to face.

"Right here, have you ever eaten here?"

Gu Jia drove to the Xiaofei Niu Hotpot restaurant where she and her best friend used to eat, found a parking space and parked the car.

“I’ve been here before, this hotpot is delicious.”

Zhou Jing and Bai Xiyao, a sister, had eaten here many times during high school and also came here last summer vacation.

"With classmates, boys or girls?"

Gu Jia asked with interest.

"Brought my parents here."

Zhou Jing said that Gu Jia would definitely not believe the boy, but she had no reason not to believe his parents, and lying requires skills.

Although there was no need to lie to Gu Jia, it was Zhou Jing’s basic principle not to mention other women in front of a woman.

"Your father is a junior high school teacher. What does your mother do?"

As expected, Gu Jia believed it without a doubt.

"Mobile business hall."

"That's great. You've never paid your phone bill yourself, have you?"

One of Gu Jia’s classmates works in a mobile phone company, and his whole family uses unlimited data.

"The downside is that I don't dare to make random calls or send random text messages. My mom will ask about any unusual phone bills."

"Welcome to Little Beef Hotpot. How many people are there?"

"What's the big deal? Just two people." Gu Jia said to the waiter.

"Okay, second floor please."

The waiter immediately notified the upstairs to arrange seats.

When they arrived at their seats, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia sat face to face. The waiter brought the menu. Gu Jia ordered a slightly spicy soup base for the dango hotpot and asked Zhou Jing what kind of soup base he wanted.

"I also like spicy food. How about mushroom soup?"

Zhou Jing likes slightly spicy food, so he can't order more spicy food. Mild spicy food with mushroom soup is more suitable.

"can."

Gu Jia took the menu and ordered a plate of lamb rolls and a plate of beef rolls, then gave the menu to the boy.

Zhou Jing took the menu, looked at it, and ordered mushrooms, baby cabbage, and wide potato noodles. "Eat while you eat!"

"Another tofu."

Gu Jia ordered another dish and a bottle of orange juice and returned the menu to the waiter.

"I'll serve tea instead of wine to Mr. Gu."

Zhou Jing took the teapot from the waiter and poured it for Gu Jia himself.

"How do you usually spend your time when you're not working?"

Gu Jia saw this and thought to herself that this boy was very careful and didn't look like a greenhorn who hadn't even graduated from college yet.

"Reading books, playing games, or going to the academy to play ball, life alone is rather monotonous."

The college Zhou Jing was talking about is Yushi College, which the locals generally call simply the college.

"That's good. A boy who can maintain such a habit alone has a more regular life than most girls. How about playing basketball?"

This time when the boy came back, Gu Jia felt like a liberal arts guy. She didn't expect that he could also play basketball.

"Just like that, does Mr. Gu also know basketball?"

Zhou Jing is actually quite good at playing basketball. In his sophomore year, he became a main player of the department team and served as the starting forward.

Boys like Zhou Jing, who were more active in playing than studying in high school, were very adept at school sports at Tangdu Normal University. In the school sports meet, he was almost able to do everything, including playing ball, running, high jump, long jump, and shot put. In addition, he was handsome and was the perfect male god in the eyes of girls.

"I was the captain of the department cheerleading team during my sophomore and junior years. I think my teacher was also one of the campus beauties of Sichuan Foreign Studies University."

Gu Jia said confidently.

"No one can deny that Teacher Gu is the most popular girl in Sichuan Foreign Studies University. I don't know how many boys she charmed back then."

Zhou Jing didn't expect that Gu Jia was so outstanding when she was young. Now Gu Jia is a little fatter than a few years ago. Zhou Jing feels excited when he thinks about Gu Jia's hot body dancing on the playground in shorts or short skirts a few years ago.

"It's not that exaggerated. There are many beautiful women in Sichuan and Chongqing."

Gu Jia feels emotional when recalling the past. It has been five years since she graduated from college without realizing it. She used to be the prettiest girl in the Foreign Languages ​​Department which was full of beautiful girls. She had a pretty face, a good figure, and was good at singing and dancing. Now, she no longer has the passion to dance on the stage of sports meets and New Year's Eve parties that she had in college, nor does she have the pride of being the center of attention.

Everything in the past seems to have turned into floating clouds, only the ordinary is the real life, the real life.

The hot pot base was served, and the two of them stood up to get the dipping sauce.

Zhou Jing is not particular about hot pot dipping sauces. He doesn't know what dipping sauce to choose for different types of hot pot. He always uses the universal hot and sour sesame sauce, which consists of sesame paste with mashed garlic, vinegar, chopped green onions, coriander, chili peppers, etc. He never gets tired of it.

"Teacher Gu is obviously a good eater."

Gu Jia seems to be more particular, unlike Zhou Jing who is adding things randomly.

"That's all I pursue after work. Besides, I can only eat but not cook. My cooking skills are average. Can you cook?"

Gu Jia sighed softly, realizing that she had accidentally exposed her past, and she hurried to make amends.

“I can cook some simple home cooking.”

Zhou Jing thought that when Gu Jia said that his cooking skills were average, she probably meant it literally.

"I'll try it sometime."

"Then I'm going to practice a few dishes and invite Teacher Gu to taste them one weekend."

All the dishes were on the table, including orange juice. Zhou Jing opened the orange juice bottle and poured a glass for Gu Jia first.

(End of this chapter)