Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 62 The "Youth Digest"

At noon, Zhou Jinggang returned to the dormitory and received good news.

The novel editor said that Zhou Jing was selected into the platform's annual list of key new talents to be trained, and was awarded 10,000 yuan in cash, which will be deposited into his account along with his royalties next month.

Ten thousand yuan in 09 was a lot of money.

Zhou Jing was not very excited. Ten thousand yuan was not a small amount for him now, but it was not much either.

According to the conditions, Zhou Jing does not fully meet Xuanxuan's requirements for the 10,000 yuan, because the training of newcomers is a subsidy of the nature of subsistence allowances, so the recipients are newcomers who write well but have average grades.

Zhou Jing's royalties in August were over 50,000 yuan, and conservatively estimated to be over 100,000 yuan in September, which was not in line with the requirements.

There is no need to guess, it was definitely the editor who fought for it. The editor definitely wants to secure resources for the authors he is responsible for.

However, Zhou Jing pretended to be very excited, and gave all the credit to the editor, expressing his deep gratitude to the editor and asking the editor's address so that he could send him some local specialties. Although Zhou Jing had no need to curry favor with the editor in this way, it could not be said that it was unnecessary. Now the book had achieved good results unexpectedly, and if the next book failed, it would still need the editor's guidance.

When writing online novels, the guidance of an editor is very important, especially for new authors.

New authors can avoid many detours with the guidance of an editor, otherwise it will be difficult to sign a contract.

Online novels also follow market rules, and the editors of the platform undoubtedly know the reading market well. The great authors are far behind in this regard. Some great authors’ new books still fail without the guidance of an editor.

Editor Yaya: [What specialties do you have there? ]

Zhou Jing:

[Yellow River red dates, highland millet that is especially good for the stomach]

[Cook these two together to make porridge to nourish the stomach and replenish blood]

[There are also mountain walnuts, which are especially good for busy people when cooked with porridge]

When introducing it, Zhou Jing elevated the reputation of the item.

Adding the Yellow River before red dates and the plateau before millet gives them a unique geographical growing environment, and Zhou Jing specifically emphasizes the benefits to the body. This makes local specialties such as grains sound less rustic, making it easier to arouse the other party's interest, and also appears sincere and easy to accept.

Gift-giving requires the art of language, and when it comes to health, local specialties instantly become high-end.

Maybe the other person himself or a relative with a bad stomach just needs it.

Editor Yaya: [Then please send some to me. I just happen to have a bad stomach. Thank you in advance.]

[Sister Yaya, you’re too polite. I can’t leave school during the week, so I go to farmers’ homes to buy dates and millet on weekends.]

Zhou Jing began to think about how to choose. Red dates and walnuts can be bought at specialty stores, so Xiaomi asked someone to buy a few kilograms from a farmer in Mi County.

Editor Yaya: [No hurry, are you in college?]

When the editor heard about buying things from farmers, she thought the local specialties were quite authentic, and she couldn't help but feel more excited. It's not easy for city dwellers to get some authentic local specialties.

Zhou Jing: [Internship as a class teacher in a high school (grin)]

Editor Yaya: [So you are a teacher. I guess you teach Chinese? ]

Zhou Jing: [Completely wrong, teaching mathematics (grin)]

Editor Yaya: [Okay]

The mathematics teacher works part-time as a web novel writer and writes so well that the editor-in-chief is really impressed.

Zhou Jing had high school classmates from Mi County. He sent a message in the high school group:
[Can anyone from Mi County buy a few kilograms of millet?]

[Teacher Zhou's words are so ambiguous, who is your dear?]

[Of course it’s me]

[We grow millet at home, I asked Zhou Jing to bring some]

[Let me come. My family happens to be from Mi County and we also grow millet. I'll call my dad and let him know. We can contact each other by phone when the time comes. How is Zhou Jing? ]

[Okay, thank you. Let your dad weigh it and I’ll transfer the money to you.]

[Forget it, I won’t sell it to you even if you pay me]

Zhou Jing got it done shortly after sending the message.

Zhou Jing is not afraid of favors among classmates. Only with favors can there be exchanges, and only in this way can the road be broadened slowly. In a society with favors, one cannot escape from favors. Although favors are troublesome, they are not redundant. The favors among classmates are relatively the simplest and easiest. Sometimes classmates are more reliable than brothers. In the second period of the afternoon, Zhou Jing taught mathematics to Class 1 of Senior 1, and had no class in the third period and went back to the dormitory.

Seeing Yang Wenwen hanging clothes outside the dormitory, Zhou Jing went back to the dormitory and packed five apples, five pears, some crisp dates and a bunch of grapes to send to her, as he couldn't finish so much by himself anyway.

"You're welcome, Mr. Yang. I brought this to me from my hometown."

Without waiting for Yang Wenwen to be polite, Zhou Jing spoke first.

"Your hometown has a lot of fruits. The red dates here are very good. Take a seat."

Yang Wenwen was no longer polite and accepted it with a smile, pouring the boy a cup of water from the thermos.

"They are all from my grandfather's own garden. The varieties are not that good."

"The apples and pears here are of good quality. This date is really crisp."

Yang Wenwen ate a date, which was crispy and sweet, and much better than the ones sold in the market.

"I picked them all off the tree this morning."

"No wonder."

Yang Wenwen couldn’t bear to eat too many dates, so she took some back in the afternoon for her mother and daughter to try.

Every summer and autumn Zhou Jing likes to go to his grandma and grandpa's house the most.

Vegetables from the summer orchard are picked and cooked immediately.

In autumn, you can pick and eat the jujubes from the trees in the yard right away. They are pure green fruits that are not sprayed with pesticides and are free of air pollution. Even if children eat them without washing them, there is no need to worry about getting an upset stomach. The jujubes covered with dew in the morning are very crunchy. Children in the country get sick less often than children in the city, perhaps because the food they eat is clean and hygienic.

"I haven't been to Teacher Yang's dormitory for a long time."

The last time Zhou Jing came to Yang Wenwen’s school dormitory was when he graduated from high school in his previous life.

More than ten years have passed and this place is still the same as I remembered.

The same layout, the same bed and bookcase, even the elegant and gentle smell seemed familiar.

The dormitory is clean and tidy, the quilt on the bed is neatly folded, the pillow is placed on the quilt, and the bed is very flat.

If you pay close attention, you will find that there seems to be a warm feminine scent in the room, which awakens men's hormones uncontrollably.

Yang Wenwen's dormitory is also a single dormitory. Maybe she did not apply for a suite due to her special family situation. Otherwise, Yang Wenwen has been a class teacher for six years and has a child, so she is fully qualified to apply for a suite.

"All the confiscated books are here. See if you can find your copy of Youth's Digest."

Yang Wenwen pointed to the bookcase against the wall and said with a smile.

“I forgot which issue it was.”

Zhou Jing just looked around.

In addition to magazines, the bookcase also contains novels and other books bought by Yang Wenwen herself.

"You can take any book you want to read."

Yang Wenwen confiscated the students' books not for her own collection.

Zhou Jing thought that in a few years Yang Wenwen could set up a stall on the street to sell old books, and that business should be good.

After flipping through it for a while, Zhou Jing actually found the Youth Digest from that year.

In order to prevent others from borrowing the books and not being able to find them, Zhou Jing would write his name on every book he bought in high school.

"Teacher Yang, do you want to return the items to their original owners?"

"That depends on your awareness. Do you think you should have read the magazine back then?"

Yang Wenwen took the book, sat on the edge of the bed, crossed her legs, and said while tying her hair.

It was a rare occasion that she acted in the manner of her former class teacher towards Zhou Jing. Zhou Jing did not feel uncomfortable but rather very friendly. Compared to the equal relationship between the two of them as colleagues after Zhou Jing became a teacher, Zhou Jing preferred her gentle yet strict attitude when they were once teachers and students.

(End of this chapter)