Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 74 Her Lipstick
"You are too possessive. We haven't even started yet. So after we get married, are you going to put a dog chain around my neck?"

Zhou Jing smiled calmly.

I didn't give in to Liu Hanyu just because she was in a bad mood. Whether it's a boy or a girl, many bad habits are developed through spoiled behavior.

"No one would marry you if you were like this. You wouldn't even be able to find a girlfriend."

Liu Hanyu was not that unreasonable. It was not that she could not understand Zhou Jing's situation last night, but what Zhou Jing said was too asking for a beating. If Zhou Jing had not said "she and her best friend fell into the river at the same time, save her first", which was reasonable, she would not have taken the initiative to look for Zhou Jing today.

"What to eat?"

Zhou Jing changed the subject. He didn't expect Liu Hanyu to be so serious yesterday.

"Eat you."

Liu Hanyu hummed and thought seriously for a few seconds, then turned and walked towards a cross-bridge rice noodle shop.

"Eat it!"

Zhou Jing extended a hand in front of the girl.

Liu Hanyu held it and bit her wrist.

"You are born in the year of the dog, right? Do you really bite?"

There were two rows of wet teeth marks on Zhou Jing's wrist. He felt a little pain but not happy.

"It belongs to you."

Liu Hanyu had a lot of things she wanted to say to Zhou Jing in person, but when they met she didn't know where to start. This guy wasn't proactive at all. Even if he wasn't ready to confirm the relationship now, couldn't he be more proactive when chatting?

"Are you still studying for the national exam?"

It was obvious that the girl came here in a bad mood today, so Zhou Jing didn't try to make her angry.

"After get off work, I feel more and more hopeless. No matter how much I practice for the civil service exam, my speed and accuracy can't be improved. I also have no idea what the essay is. What kind of people do you think passed the exam?"

When Liu Hanyu was unemployed, she had the motivation to persevere, but after finding a job, she wanted to give up. Instead of reviewing for the civil service exam, it would be more reliable to review for a public institution.

"do not know."

"If I can't pass the national exam this year, I'll give up."

"Then you can give up now."

Zhou Jing didn't want to discourage Liu Hanyu, but the reality was that it was not easy for Liu Hanyu to pass the exam for the city's National Tax Bureau with her ability. Many of her competitors were students from very good universities. The country was very obsessed with the establishment, which was understandable. There was no need to worry about unemployment when working with the establishment. People found the establishment more attractive and secure after they reached middle age.

"If you don't encourage me, I'll just add fuel to the fire."

Liu Hanyu pinched Zhou Jing's arm.

"I hope you can get out of this misery as soon as possible."

Zhou Jing, as an outsider, sees things more clearly. Liu Hanyu failed to pass the civil service exam in his previous life. After graduating from university, he studied for two years for the public institution exam and finally got a position in a county town, which is not as good as his current job.

"Let's wait and see. If you're satisfied with the work after two or three months, then give up. What are you going to do tomorrow?"

Liu Hanyu has recently given it serious thought. She may not have time to review for the provincial exam next year. She is busy writing and revising papers in April. If she concentrates on the exam, she will have to focus on the national exam next year. By then, she will have graduated, and studying will be even more painful.

"We will visit students' homes tomorrow."

"Okay! I saw your school newspaper yesterday. You look really handsome in a suit."

Liu Hanyu originally wanted to go shopping tomorrow.

"It means that I don't look handsome in casual clothes."

Zhou Jing felt no wavering at all when he received compliments on his handsomeness. He had become numb to the compliments he had received since he was a child.

“He’s handsome too.”

Liu Hanyu is not the type of girl who is obsessed with girls, and she has been used to playing with Zhou Jing since she was a child.

"Some people always say I can make a living with my face, but no one supports me."

Zhou Jing shook his head.

"You take people's compliments seriously."

After dinner, Liu Hanyu wanted to go over to Zhou Jing's place. She hadn't been there for a while and wondered what the house Zhou Jing had lived in was like now, whether it had turned into a pigsty.

Some distance from his residence, Zhou Jing stopped a taxi, opened the door and let Liu Hanyu get in first.

"This is our company's factory. The company organized a tour for us yesterday."

Liu Hanyu opened the photo album on her phone and said.

"Cement, your company also produces cement?"

Zhou Jing noticed that the slogan on the banner in the photo was to produce high-quality cement.

"Yes, the core product is polyvinyl chloride. Other products include cement, caustic soda and sodium chlorate. You should know what caustic soda is, which is sodium hydroxide. The factory has cement sections, acetylene sections, polymerization sections, packaging sections and so on. The factory is very noisy. If you work as an operator in the factory, you will be in a noisy environment all the time."

"Factory workshops are like this, with high noise, high pollution and high risks."

Zhou Jing was looking through the photos and listening to Liu Hanyu. The most common things in the photos were pipelines, which looked very complicated.

After getting off the bus at the destination, Zhou Jing bought some fruit at a fruit stall passing by. He asked Liu Hanyu what she wanted to eat, but didn't get a clear answer. Zhou Jing looked at the apples. Apples were the only fresh local fruit in this season.

The woman selling apples was a young woman. She must have been sent by her parents in the countryside to sell. This is how it is in small cities. Fruits can’t be sold at a high price in the countryside, so people in the city ask for help to sell them. “Three yuan for a pound, ten yuan for three pounds.”

The young woman setting up the stall said to Zhou Jing who was picking apples.

"what?"

Zhou Jing felt something was wrong when he heard it.

"Three pounds, ten dollars."

Liu Hanyu hadn't reacted yet and continued to help pick apples. She habitually thought that ten yuan for three pounds was a good deal.

"Three dollars for a pound and ten dollars for three pounds. Are you serious?"

Zhou Jing said with a questioning tone.

"Yeah, buying more will make it more expensive?"

Liu Hanyu, who had just reacted, felt her IQ was insulted. After all, she was a college student, but she was almost cheated when buying fruit.

"Nine dollars, nine dollars. Excuse me, let me ask my mom, mom, how much is the apple?"

The other party asked the mother who was setting up a stall on the other side.

It used to be 3.5 yuan per catty and 10 yuan for 3 catties.

Zhou Jing was alone. He couldn't eat much by himself at ordinary times. He also had some food he brought from his grandfather's house in the school dormitory. He originally wanted to buy only one or two kilograms, but in order not to appear stupid, he bought three kilograms.

"As expected of a math teacher, I didn't even react."

Liu Hanyu felt so ashamed.

"A simple and foolish college student has to count money for others after being sold."

Zhou Jing smiled. No wonder some people used the words "clear-headed and stupid" to describe college students.

Liu Hanyu punched the boy on the shoulder and said, "You are the only one who is smart."

After returning home, Zhou Jing turned on the lights in the living room and bedroom and went to the kitchen to wash apples.

"Do you stay here a lot during the week?"

When Liu Hanyu entered the house, she saw that it was quite tidy.

"Come back when school is fine."

In fact, Zhou Jing just came back to sleep. A monthly rent of 800 yuan seemed unnecessary, but it felt different. It was necessary to have a place to live with 24-hour hot water. The school's single dormitory had no bathroom and could not be used to taking a shower. It was okay to live there occasionally, but it would be difficult for Zhou Jing to get used to living there all the time.

"Is the fabric I picked for you nice?"

Liu Hanyu went to the bathroom and came to the bedroom to take a closer look at the bed.

"good."

Zhou Jing put the plate of apples on the table.

"I can't eat one, so cut it in half for me."

Liu Hanyu picked up one and handed it to the boy.

Zhou Jing snapped it in two.

“It’s really powerful.”

Liu Hanyu took a small piece and ate it.

Zhou Jing ate the other half of the apple, took the clothes on the bed to the bathroom and put them in the washing machine to wash them, and then soaked his underwear and socks in the foot basin and washed them by hand.

"Wash it yourself. You don't have to wash it yourself if you have a girlfriend."

Liu Hanyu stood at the bathroom door and said with a smile.

"Then wash it for me."

Zhou Jing glanced back and thought to himself that it was good enough that his girlfriend could take care of herself.

"I'm not your girlfriend."

Liu Hanyu snorted softly.

"Then I'll give you a chance to be my girlfriend."

"Tsk, wishful thinking." Liu Hanyu took out the lipstick from her pocket, applied it on her lips in front of the bathroom mirror and said, "Are you going to apply it?"

"Apply it to me."

Zhou Jing stretched his neck towards her.

"No." Liu Hanyu shook her head and said, "This is equivalent to an indirect kiss, and you are not my boyfriend."

Looking at the girl's proud look, her lips that had just been painted with lipstick were round and shiny, Zhou Jing couldn't help it.

"Um"

"Zhou Jing, why are you such a hooligan?"

(End of this chapter)