Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 63 The Secret of Youth Can Only Be Kept in Your Heart

“Now do you think you should have read the magazine back then?”

Yang Wenwen asked while holding the Youth Digest magazine.

"You shouldn't read it. In high school, everything should be done to improve grades. Reading magazines is worse than reading an idiom dictionary."

Zhou Jing, who has experienced the baptism of society, naturally has a deep understanding.

"The awareness is quite high."

Yang Wenwen smiled and nodded. The boy's answer deserved full marks.

"You've grown up!"

Zhou Jing said with a smile.

"You mean you blamed me back then? Tell the truth."

Yang Wenwen wanted to hear the boy's inner thoughts.

"Teacher, wait."

Zhou Jing stared at the Youth Digest in Yang Wenwen's hand. When he saw a portrait vaguely on the next page, he suddenly thought of something. Before Yang Wenwen turned to the next page, he quickly tore off the portrait and crumpled it into a ball.

"Which girl is this painting of?"

Yang Wenwen also noticed it. It was a very simple sketch, so she couldn't tell who it was at first glance.

"can not say."

"You're not a student anymore, what are you embarrassed about? Show me."

Yang Wenwen was very curious about who the boy drew, so she reached out to ask for it.

Zhou Jing shook his head and refused.

"Then I won't give you this book."

Yang Wenwen threatened Zhou Jing with the Youth Digest.

"The secrets of youth can only rot in the heart."

Zhou Jing did not follow the example of some people on TV and swallow the note, but tore it up.

This sketch was drawn by Zhou Jing based on a photo on his mobile phone when he was bored. Although he had never learned to paint and had no basic knowledge of painting, Zhou Jing's copy was quite similar to that of someone else, and he felt that he had some talent for painting.

"Don't tear it up, it's your memory of youth after all."

Yang Wenwen was so anxious that she didn't care about her image and reached out to grab it, but she missed and fell into the boy's arms.

"Forget the past."

The close contact brought a faint and elegant scent to his face. When Yang Wenwen bent down, her body leaned forward, revealing a glimpse of beauty. Zhou Jing inadvertently saw that she was distracted for a moment, and he tore the half page of paper into pieces and put them in his trouser pocket.

"You kid, if you don't want me to look at it, then don't look at it. Why tear it up? Is she the girl you had a crush on at that time?"

Yang Wenwen felt very sorry, and as someone who had experienced it, she cherished the traces of her youth very much.

"Teacher Yang, please don't ask any more questions."

Zhou Jing cannot answer this question casually.

"It's no big deal."

Yang Wenwen sighed and returned the book to the boy. What else could she say now that things had come to this?

Out of curiosity, Yang Wenwen tried to think about who the boy might have drawn. This magazine was confiscated by her during her freshman year of high school. The boy had reacted so strongly just now, it couldn't be that... He reacted so calmly, so it couldn't be that.

Zhou Jing no longer cared about this magazine, so he put Youth Digest back on the bookshelf and looked at what novels were on it.

There are a lot of books on the bookshelf, probably enough to fill three or four cardboard boxes. It can be seen that Yang Wenwen likes reading very much.

There are several novels about daily life that attracted Zhou Jing's attention, including "The Hunger for Love" by Yukio Mishima, "Snow Country: Thousand Paper Cranes" by Yasunari Kawabata, "Paradise Lost" by Jun'ichi Watanabe, "Norwegian Wood" by Murakami, etc.

Although Xiao Ri Zi's literature reveals a sense of sexual hunger, Zhou Jing quite likes that style.

I feel very hungry and pure. Even if some novels are considered to be very abnormal from the perspective of domestic morality, Zhou Jing just thinks it is absurd rather than abnormal. For example, the couple in Paradise Lost would rather die together than look back. They chose to take poison and die because of "deep love". It is sad and lamentable that extramarital love can reach this level. Zhou Jing borrowed Snow Country from Yang Wenwen to read.

"Do you like reading Japanese novels?"

Yang Wenwen didn’t know whether the boy really wanted to read or just wanted to borrow the book from her. In her years as a teacher, she had hardly ever seen a boy who really liked reading literary works. Nowadays, there are too few young people who can get into literary works.

"I read a few in college, including this one, this one, this one, as well as Day and Night, The Convenience Store of Sorrow, Phantom Night, and Suspect."

Zhou Jing pointed to the books on the shelf: "Norwegian Wood", "Paradise Lost", and "Snow Country" in his hand.

"It's rare for a boy to calm down and read a book. Which country's novels do you like?"

Yang Wenwen smiled and said, people are becoming more and more impetuous, and people like her who like reading rarely have people around them with whom they have common topics in this regard.

"I read all kinds of novels, from all countries, realistic novels, suspense novels, historical novels, online fantasy novels, mythological novels. I read books more casually. What about Teacher Yang?"

"I'm the same. I've read online novels that students are obsessed with before. Their wild imaginations are really charming and wonderful, just like boys of our age who are obsessed with Jin Yong and Gu Long's novels."

"Teacher Yang is very considerate. Was this note written by Teacher Yang?"

Zhou Jing picked up Paradise Lost and flipped through it. At the end, there was a note: [Absurd and lamentable]

"Well, have you read this book? What do you think of it?"

Yang Wenwen felt awkward talking about this type of novel with others, and it was difficult to express her thoughts after reading it, especially with her former male students, so she regretted asking this question.

"It's hard to say. The two ended all the "love and sin" in a ridiculous and romantic way. It's hard to say whether they were right or wrong."

Zhou Jing shook his head. He didn't want to talk about this kind of book with others.

"A ridiculous and romantic way to end all the "love and sins", this sentence sums it up very well."

From the boy's words, Yang Wenwen could be sure that he was reading the book seriously and not just pretending like some people who borrow books. The boy's insights were indeed unique.

With common interests, Zhou Jing and Yang Wenwen had more common topics. It was not awkward or embarrassing for a single man and a single woman to be in the same room. They chatted easily and happily.

It was now the break between the third class in the afternoon. When they heard the bell for the fourth class, they went to the teaching building together.

Zhou Jing glanced inside the classroom from outside. After giving them a little scolding last night, they were much more well-behaved today. During the study session, some of them put their heads together and whispered to each other, but no one played with their cell phones or read extracurricular books.

Through the diversion of the high school entrance examination, the gangster and second-rate students can be filtered out to a large extent. Those who can come to the key high schools in the city are basically "good" students. Some high school students may become unmotivated in their studies, but they will not become gangsters.

"The teacher has reported that some students do other homework during class. I would like to say a few words about this issue."

"It's true that you have decided to choose liberal arts or science and have a focus, but you have to pass the basics of other subjects. There is an academic proficiency test in the second year of high school. No matter whether it is liberal arts or science, physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history and geography, you have to take the test. That test is very important. The results are divided into four levels: A, B, C, and D. A is excellent and D is failing. If you fail, you have to take a make-up test in the third year of high school. Although the school will definitely let you pass the make-up test, it will be very uncomfortable if you waste time."

"Secondly, some universities will refer to academic proficiency test scores for admissions. For example, if you don't get a few A's, you won't be admitted. If you get less than B, you won't be admitted."

Zhou Jing didn’t know whether this was true or not, but that was what the head teacher said.

"All right!"

"High school is too troublesome. Why don't we start with the division of majors in the first year of high school?"

When the students heard this, they started whining that learning nine subjects was too confusing.

"Not going to school is illiterate, and only studying science or only studying liberal arts is equivalent to being half illiterate. You must understand basic common sense."

Zhou Jing didn't understand it at first, but he gradually realized as he grew up that as an educated person, he would be unqualified if he didn't know anything about common humanities or common sense of life.

While students were studying, Zhou Jing leaned against the door and read "Snow Country" borrowed from Yang Wenwen. It was so quiet that only the sound of students turning pages and the wind blowing through the leaves on campus could be heard, which was very pleasant to the ear.

"Excuse me, teacher. We are from the Pure Land Literature Society of our school and are distributing newspapers to the class."

Several senior students in school uniforms walked over to the corridor and spoke politely.

"it is good."

Zhou Jing nodded and allowed them to enter the classroom.

　Thanks to the old fan Wan Feng Yu Tong Zhou for the reward of 100 points, and thank you all for the monthly ticket support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)