Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 5 Hate You, Understand You, Become You

Zhou Jing's father, Zhou Guozhong, is a junior high school mathematics teacher. Zhou Jing's good mathematics skills are directly related to his father.

Zhou Jing's mother, Wu Suqin, works at the mobile phone hall. Ever since Zhou Jing went to study in the city alone in high school and got a mobile phone, he has never paid for the phone bills himself, nor has his phone been suspended due to unpaid bills.

The bad thing is that Zhou Jing didn't dare to waste his phone bill, making too many calls or sending too many text messages.

He didn’t understand at the beginning of his first year of high school. Zhou Jing was using a black and white Nokia phone with no Internet access. He could only send text messages and make phone calls. He texted girls the same way he chatted on QQ. His mother noticed the abnormal phone bill and questioned him.

Zhou Jing felt uncomfortable being remotely monitored by his mother, so he borrowed his classmate's ID card to apply for a mobile phone card.

Zhou Guozhong is teaching the third grade this year. After the high school entrance examination, there is nothing at school and they are enjoying their summer vacation. Wu Suqin is not going to work today on the weekend.

Zhou Jing rode his motorcycle through the bumpy alleys back home, and everything here was still the same.

The old brick road was bumpy with potholes. There were all kinds of small advertisements pasted on the walls with the words "Be Civilized, You and Me" sprayed on them. The concrete telephone poles were also not spared. The alley was very busy, with old men playing chess and poker, surrounded by a circle of people watching. There were stalls selling rapeseed, pot lid handles, key chains and other groceries, some making keys and repairing shoes, and two old men getting barber cuts in the open air. Several trash cans three or four meters away gave off a complex sour smell.

The motorcycle stopped downstairs, he walked in, carrying the box upstairs, and when he got outside the door, he held the box in one hand and knocked on the door with the other hand.

"Zhi! How is Yuanyuan's transfer to another school?"

The wooden door covered with iron sheets was opened first, and Wu Suqin asked through the anti-theft iron door outside.

"No, I won't transfer. No. 10 Middle School is pretty good. It's not worth it to transfer from the best class in my current school to an ordinary class in Experimental Middle School."

Zhou Jing walked into the room, put the box on the ground and said.

"What's your aunt's attitude?"

Wu Suqin was also troubled for her son. It was not a simple matter to ask for help to transfer schools before he even started working.

“I don’t want to transfer anymore.”

Zhou Jing looked around the room, and past memories emerged from his mind like scenes from a movie.

There was an old sofa in the living room, an ashtray on the glass-covered coffee table, a few cups on a plate, a Panda brand color TV, a BBK repeater in the bookcase, and several stacks of tapes next to it. In addition to English listening tapes, there were also music tapes. Zhou Jing picked up two of them, "The First Snow of 2002" and "Blue Lotus". The music tapes were all bought before 06, when Zhou Jing didn't have an MP3.

"What do you want to eat tonight?"

Wu Suqin took a watermelon from the refrigerator and put it on the table.

"casual."

"You have the same problem as your father. Whenever I ask what to eat, I just order whatever I want. So when we go to a restaurant, we order whatever we want!" Wu Suqin complained as she opened the box on the floor to see what dishes she had brought. "How about shredded pork noodle soup?"

"It's all right."

Zhou Jing said while eating watermelon and looking at his phone.

"Just sew your mouth shut. Are you going to cook for yourself after work or buy food every day?"

Wu Suqin was so angry that she wanted to hit someone.

“I make it when I’m not busy.”

It’s a rare opportunity to go home, so Zhou Jing doesn’t want to make his mother angry anymore.

"Now that you have secured a job, you can seriously consider finding a partner. It will be more convenient for the two of you to live together."

Wu Suqin deeply understands the sadness of being a parent. She has endless worries at every stage. When her son was young, she worried that he would not grow up. When he grew up, she worried that he would not be able to find a good job. Now she is starting to worry about her son's major life events.

Wu Suqin felt that it would be terrible to think about the boy living alone without a girlfriend after he started working.

"Not urgent."

Zhou Jing was very calm; his family didn't even know he had been dating in college.

"Don't worry, just look for one. The daughter of one of your dad's classmates is a kindergarten teacher in Yu City. She wants to introduce you to someone who is one year older than you. Do you mind if she's older than you?"

"Age is not a problem, as long as you are not an old lady."

"How come you still can't find a girlfriend in college when your standards are so low? Take some photos of your daily life and put them at home tomorrow."

Wu Suqin hopes that her son will find a partner who is one or two years older, as older people will be more tolerant.

"I don't need you to introduce me. It's not like I don't have resources around me."

If Zhou Jing wants to find his girlfriend and write a message about his broken heart, there will definitely be a girl who will come and comfort him.

"You're looking for a partner to live with. Don't just focus on appearance. What's the point of marrying a pretty face if you can't live with her?"

Wu Suqin thought that her son had found the right person to date now, and once he graduated from college and got married next year, she could relax after completing her mission.

"I'm not stupid."

Zhou Jing's requirement for her partner is that she can be willful and have a bad temper, but she can't be too sloppy. Wu Suqin put the dishes in the refrigerator, glanced back and said, "You are not stupid, you just lack a mind."

"Why am I so stupid?"

Speaking of being stupid, Zhou Jing feels that he is sometimes a little stupid.

"The girl who came to our house during the summer vacation two years ago was pretty good, very graceful and generous. Are you still in touch with her?"

"You are misled by appearances. She is good at everything except studying."

"for example?"

"Playing games, playing billiards, roller skating, drinking."

"Looks quite well-educated."

Wu Suqin didn't notice it at all.

"He was not ambiguous in the fight either. He beat up three girls by himself and made them ask their boyfriends for help."

Zhou Jing added.

"Did you hang out with her in high school?"

"No."

After eating the watermelon, Zhou Jing went to the bathroom to take a comfortable bath, then went out to find an Internet cafe to surf the Internet and learn about this era.

Zhou Jing sat in the Internet cafe for the whole afternoon. He went home at around five o'clock after his mother called to ask for lunch. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a tall, slightly fat, handsome middle-aged man in the living room. He was Zhou Jing's father, Zhou Guozhong.

Compared to Wu Suqin who likes to nag at home, Zhou Guozhong is very frugal with words.

Zhou Guozhong usually doesn’t talk much when he is outside, including in class at school, but he can always explain the knowledge in the simplest language and is one of the best math teachers in the school.

"Weren't you very hesitant before? Why did you suddenly decide to become a teacher?"

Zhou Guozhong glanced at his son and put down the thermos cup.

"Hate you for understanding you for being you."

Zhou Jing's role as a teacher is definitely temporary, just a transition.

Zhou Guozhong didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this.

"Being a teacher is good, the job is stable and respected." Wu Suqin took a photo from the TV and showed it to Zhou Jing, "This is the daughter of your father's classmate. She is a teacher at the Second Kindergarten in Yu City."

The professions that this generation of parents most favor are teachers and doctors.

"quite gorgeous."

Zhou Jing took a look. Even though it was a daily photo, he couldn't make out anything. The photo was too misleading.

"If you consider it, I'll give your contact information to her father. You've met her father."

Today, when a classmate mentioned this matter, he wanted to give the contact information and asked the child to contact it himself. Zhou Guozhong said that he would let him contact it after asking the child's opinion.

"Not for the moment."

Zhou Jing shook his head.

Wu Suqin called the father and son to eat, and when they reached the table, she said, "Don't let your heart wander. You need to be steady and stable as a teacher. How much is the house price in Yu City?"

“Ready to buy a house?”

"You can buy it once you decide where to work."

Wu Suqin has been planning this for a long time and she will have to buy it sooner or later.

"Looking at the location, Dongsha is cheaper, but it is too far from the school, and there are several sections of the road from Dongsha to the school that are particularly congested. Xisha is closest to the school, but it will not develop in the next few years, and the development zone is more expensive."

"Then we'll develop the area. Pay the down payment first. You'll have to pay off the mortgage yourself before you get married. After you get married, your dad and I will help you pay it off."

"What about forced marriage?"

Zhou Jing immediately understood his mother's intention.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to save money if you don't find a partner."

The son of one of Wu Suqin's colleagues also went to college and took the postgraduate entrance exam. He is 35 years old this year and has not yet started a family. If Zhou Jing did this, Wu Suqin would be anxious to death.

"She's really my mother."

(End of this chapter)