Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 50 I want to clean up my cousin's room

On the way home, Gu Jia couldn't help but think of Zhou Jing in her mind. How could such a good boy be six years younger than her?

It's really the wrong time. If the age difference is within three or four years, Gu Jia wouldn't mind even if they were once teacher and student. At worst, both of them would resign and stop being teachers. An age difference of five years between a boy and a girl is a watershed. Within five years, it doesn't feel like a big deal, at most it's a sister-brother relationship. More than five years, it feels like there's a generation difference. There's a saying that goes, a girl who's one year older than you is like a golden rooster, a girl who's two years older than you is like a jar full of gold, a girl who's three years older than you is like a gold brick, a girl who's four years older than you is like a long and blessed girl, and a girl who's five years older than you is like an old mother.

She is already in her sixth year.

Hey!
"What did you bring? You packed it up because you knew you couldn't finish it. Who did you eat the hot pot with?"

As soon as Gu Jia entered the house, her mother took the packed food and looked at it. It was really like the sun rising from the west.

"colleague."

Gu Jia kicked her shoes next to the shoe cabinet and put on a pair of sandals.

"Male and female?"

Mother Gu put away her daughter's shoes.

"female."

"waste time."

"How can eating a meal be a waste of time?"

Gu Jia felt that whatever she did now was wrong in her mother's eyes.

Mother Gu said with great regret:
"Some people have kids and some have husbands. You don't even have a boyfriend to accompany them for dinner. Isn't that a waste of time? You might as well talk to a guy instead."

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For a moment, Gu Jia didn't know how to refute.

Now I do feel that it is a waste of time to go shopping, eat, and watch movies with my best friends. After getting married, especially after having children, my best friends are like different people. Before we got married, when we went out to eat, drink, and have fun together, we would always fight over paying the bill. After getting married, they became very stingy and when it comes to paying, they seem to be stuck to the bench and drag their feet.

Not only a waste of time, but also a waste of emotions.

"Mom, you won. What kind of person do you want me to find?"

"Just whatever you like."

A few years ago, Gu's mother was very picky about her daughter's partner and compared three shops, but now she dares not say anything.

Thank God if you find it.

"Is it okay if you're five or six years younger than me?"

Gu Jia has been considering it seriously these two days, but no one is suitable.

"As long as people don't mind that you are ten years older than me, it's fine." Mother Gu glanced at her daughter with a puzzled look and said, "What do you mean, do you have a target?"

"No, what about those who are ten years older than me?"

Gu Jia sighed heavily.

"Look for yourself." Mother Gu said unhappily, "Do you really need to find someone who is so much older than you?"

"I'm just saying it casually."

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Zhou Jing returned to the house and called his cousin, asking her to come over the next morning so he could take the large clothes and bed sheets and quilt covers to the washing machine for washing. After hanging up the phone, Zhou Jing started writing a novel. The royalties in September should be much higher than in August.

When there is money to be made, there is motivation.

Zhou Jingshi worked hard on the weekend and stayed up until after 2 a.m. before taking a break. He wrote more than 30,000 words in one go and felt very fulfilled.

The next day, Saturday, cousin Wu Yuan came to Zhou Jing's place at around eight o'clock.

The cousin couldn’t find a seat for the first time, so Zhou Jing waited for her at the bus stop.

"elder brother."

Wu Yuan shouted the first thing she did after getting off the car.

“Can you keep up with your studies?”

Zhou Jing helped her take the bag of clothes.

"High school is really busy. I have to squeeze in time to do homework every day. I can catch up on math and geography after studying them during the holidays. English, politics and history are also fine. I plan to study liberal arts anyway, so physics, chemistry and biology don't matter to me."

Wu Yuan’s biggest feeling about high school is that there is simply not enough time.

There are a maximum of two self-study classes every day, but there are a lot of homework to complete. In addition to the homework in the exercise books, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology need to be consolidated by doing exercises. English requires spending a lot of time memorizing words and texts, and politics, history and geography also need to be memorized.

I simply can’t learn enough, so I can only selectively give up certain subjects.

"We can't completely give up on physics, chemistry and biology. We have to at least pass the exams."

Including the class he teaches, if students decide to study liberal arts or science in their second year of high school, Zhou Jing, as the class teacher, does not object to them selectively giving up some subjects. The same goes for other first-year high school teachers. They will not always emphasize that students must do well in the subjects they teach.

There is only so much time, and the average student simply does not have the ability to excel in all nine subjects in their first year of high school. If they focus on one, they will inevitably lose the other. The most taboo thing in the first year of high school is to be torn between the arts and sciences. If you almost take politics, history and geography in your first year of high school, there is still room for remedy by choosing the liberal arts in your second year of high school, but if you don't do well in physics and chemistry in your first year of high school, your luck is basically over.

It is also taboo to focus on both arts and sciences in the first year of high school, but if you are good at politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry and biology, your overall results in the first year of high school may be better, but what should you do after the division of subjects?
In the first year of high school, you are not sure whether to choose liberal arts or science. After two or three monthly exams, you should have a preliminary idea.

"Let's have breakfast first!"

Zhou Jing took his cousin to a steamed bun shop near the community.

"Brother, do you feel pressure in class?" Wu Yuan followed closely behind her cousin.

"What kind of pressure can there be in teaching freshmen?"

"Being a class teacher is very busy, how does it feel?"

Seeing her cousin being a teacher, Wu Yuan also had the idea of ​​becoming a teacher.

"I get up early and go to bed late just like you do. I have to keep an eye on the students in my class all day long, no matter how busy I am." Zhou Jing put his right arm on his cousin's shoulders and half-hug her and said, "How is your head teacher?"

"She's pretty good. She's a female teacher in her thirties. She teaches chemistry and she's really good at it."

Wu Yuan is not good at chemistry but thinks that the class teacher’s teaching is very good. If she is better at physics, she will consider choosing science.

When they arrived at the breakfast shop, Zhou Jing ordered soy milk, a sauerkraut bun, and a tea egg. His cousin let him choose.

"I want a pickled cabbage bun and a bowl of tofu pudding."

Wu Yuan looked at the menu on the wall.

"How is your dormitory environment?"

Zhou Jing found an empty table and sat down.

"Our dormitory is at the back. Except for the fact that the light is a little dim and there is no balcony, everything else is fine. My roommates are all very hardworking."

Wu Yuan has been living in the dormitory since junior high school and was able to adapt quickly.

"Girls' dormitories are prone to intrigue, so don't get involved. If you can get along, do so. If you can't, stay away from them."

When they got outside, Zhou Jing took care of his cousin as if she were his own sister.

"Ok, I know."

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After breakfast, Wu Yuan returned to the house and looked around. "I was thinking about coming over to help you clean up your room, but I didn't expect your house to be so tidy. Do you really not have a girlfriend?"

Wu Yuan was very skeptical about this.

My cousin is not like this at home. He is lazy and gluttonous at home, and is often criticized by my aunt for being so lazy.

"No."

Zhou Jing plugged the washing machine in the bathroom into the water pipe and connected it to wash clothes for his cousin.

"Why do I not believe it? Last time I saw you chatting, you seemed to have a special relationship with that Rouxin Yidai."

Wu Yuan said with a smile.

"It's Liu Hanyu, not that kind of relationship."

Zhou Jing said truthfully.

"It's her. That girl is pretty good, but we're a little too close. We have to call her grandfather the fourth uncle. What's her relationship with our old man?"

Wu Yuan has never been clear about the relationship between the second uncle, second eldest uncle, second old uncle and fourth uncle around her grandfather's house.

"I don't know either. Some are simply older than others, so their last names are different."

Zhou Jing couldn't figure out the complicated relationships in the countryside, so he just went back with his parents to have the banquet when it was time.

"If I really don't have a girlfriend, it would be different if I became a teacher."

"I'm not sloppy, I just have someone to rely on at home. Stop wandering around and read a book."

Zhou Jing flipped through his cousin's math textbook to see how well she took notes.

Judging from the notes in her book, her cousin must have been listening carefully to the class. Zhou Jing asked a few questions about sets to see how well her cousin had mastered the basics, and her answers were pretty good.

After getting a general understanding of his cousin's academic performance, Zhou Jing first reinforced the basics she had learned.

"Brother, you explain better than our math teacher."

Wu Yuan listened very carefully, and her thoughts became much clearer after listening to her cousin's explanation.

"Lectures and tutoring are two different things. You should do the questions you know seriously. It is taboo to have high expectations but low skills when studying."

After reviewing the basics, Zhou Jing marked out some exercises for his cousin to do.

"Brother, what do you mean by high expectations but low skills?"

Wu Yuan said with a smile.

"I thought it was easy and was too lazy to do it. When I took the exam, some questions looked familiar and I had ideas in my head but I didn't know how to write the specific process. Just do it well. I'll be out for a while. Call me if you need anything."

Zhou Jing tapped his cousin's forehead with a pen, went back to the bedroom, changed into sportswear, and went to the college to play basketball with Chen Quan.

The bicycle is at school, and Zhou Jing takes the bus to the college. The distance of two or three stops is a bit far to walk.

"Teacher Zhou, come and sit here."

Zhou Jing had just got on the bus when a student from Class 1-2 of Senior High School offered him his seat.

(End of this chapter)