Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 8 Small Goals

After more than four hours' drive, Liu Hanyu returned home when they arrived in Yulin City. Zhou Jing took a taxi to a hotel near Qingshan Road Experimental Middle School and checked in. He took a shower and rested for a while before going out to look for a house.

It is two bus stops from Qingshan Road where the school is located to Baoning Road. Zhou Jing walked there and looked at the taxi advertisements along the way.

Yongning Road, which is closer to the school, is rather messy, so Zhou Jing focused on Baoning Road. When he arrived at a small residential area on Baoning Road, Zhou Jing went in to take a look. It was the staff quarters of some unit, and the residential building had five floors at the highest.

There are small advertisements for houses for rent on telephone poles.

There is a house of over 80 square meters with two bedrooms and a living room, which is ready for move-in. The monthly rent is 850 yuan, with a deposit of 16 yuan.

Zhou Jing turned on his cell phone and called the landlord to inquire about the situation.

The landlady asked whether a boy or a girl lived there, and Zhou Jing said he lived with his girlfriend.

Because some landlords are very picky about tenants, giving priority to ladies and not renting to single men, worried that men are too sloppy and will mess up the house. Zhou Jing can understand this, as he would do the same if he were the landlord.

The landlord is not here and said he would come in half an hour.

Zhou Jing was strolling on the street and walked into a lottery shop, selected two bets of the Double Color Ball from the machine, and then played scratch cards.

Zhou Jing scratched a two-dollar scratch ticket for more than ten times and lost five dollars. The probability of winning is quite high, but the amount is too small.

A few people seemed to be studying the winning numbers from previous periods listed on the wall very seriously, and were writing them down in pencil.

Zhou Jing didn’t understand at all. Could any pattern be found out from this?

After the landlord came, he called Zhou Jing to go see the house.

"What do you do?"

After meeting, the landlady looked at Zhou Jing seriously and said.

"Teacher, from Experimental Middle School."

Zhou Jing took out the employment letter from Experimental Middle School from his bag and said.

"Oh, you are so young, you must have just graduated. Where did you go to college?"

The landlord's attitude immediately became much more respectful.

"Tangdu Normal University."

“What subjects do good universities teach?”

"math."

"Oh, my grandson is in Experimental Primary School and will be in the sixth grade in September."

Although the professions of teachers and doctors are not high-end, they have a unique social status. It is most appropriate to describe them as ordinary yet noble. Who can guarantee that they will never go to the hospital in their lifetime? Who doesn't have a child who is studying? There are only a few high schools in a small city, and you never know if your child will be in a certain teacher's class one day.

In his previous life, when Zhou Jing was a counselor, he was always polite when meeting leaders from the Transportation Bureau, the Taxation Bureau, and bosses.

The parents put a lot of effort into letting Zhou Jing tutor their child.

One evening, the tutoring session ended very late and it was raining, so the deputy director of the Transportation Bureau personally drove Zhou Jing home.

Zhou Jing didn't want to give one-on-one tutoring to the children of officials, but the other party offered too much.

The better-off the family is, the more it values ​​their children's education. If they can't enroll in tutoring classes, they can just hire a tutor, which only costs a little more money. Therefore, under the premise that the internal competition in social employment cannot be changed, it is actually ordinary people who will be harmed by stopping after-school tutoring, and it is even more unfair to the children of ordinary families. It is said to reduce the burden on children, but in fact it is a diversion.

With the blessing of Zhou Jing's teacher status, the landlord no longer questioned him like he was checking his household registration.

The house was on the fourth floor and was fairly fully furnished, with a washing machine and refrigerator. There was nothing for a single guy to complain about. Zhou Jing was not planning to find a girlfriend in the short term, so he carefully checked the bathroom and signed the contract after finding no problems.

The original rent was 850 yuan per month, and the landlord charged 800 yuan when signing the contract. Of course Zhou Jing was happy about it.

The total rent for half a year plus deposit is five thousand six hundred.

After the house was settled, Zhou Jing returned to the hotel and opened his laptop to revise the novel. He had already written more than 50,000 words. After revising the beginning over and over again, Zhou Jing copied a few chapters to a USB drive and went out to find an Internet cafe to publish it. At Zhou Jing's current writing speed, he could easily write 20,000 to 30,000 words a day in his spare time.

It would take some time for the first chapter of the novel to be reviewed, so Zhou Jing checked the financial news online.

The stocks are rising and falling. Zhou Jing, who used to trade for fun in his previous life, probably knows which industries will be sunset industries in the future and which ones are worth investing in. He doesn't pay special attention to which stocks will rise sharply and when. Strong stocks cannot always be strong. You never know when they will turn green. A policy or an unexpected event may catch the leeks off guard.

In short, as a retail investor, Zhou Jing can make a little money, but it is unrealistic to get rich by stock trading.

Zhou Jing, who had nothing to do, opened his QQ space to steal some food. Chen Jiaqian was listed in the visitor records, so Zhou Jing opened the message board.

The most common messages on the message board are from Chen Jiaqian.

【unhappy】

【See you again】

【Good night】

【Happy Singles' Day hehehe】

【.】

After reading more than a dozen messages, Zhou Jing sighed and exited the message board. He opened the QQ login page and re-registered a QQ account. He posted the new QQ number on the QQ signature of the old account and then exited the main account.

【Are you there? 】

The QQ icon flashed in the lower right corner of the computer screen, and the friend request from "Waiting with a Gentle Heart" was from Liu Hanyu.

Zhou Jing is online in invisible mode, so if you don’t want to chat, don’t deal with it for now.

There weren’t that many people writing online novels in 09, and since the scale of their content was large, the new books were quickly approved.

After the review was passed, Zhou Jing published another four chapters, which together with the first chapter are almost 20,000 words. If nothing goes wrong, he should receive a contract signing message tomorrow, and this small website with about 100,000 words can be put on the shelves. Zhou Jing plans to update 20,000 words every day. The whole book is planned to be written for 3 million words. 20,000 words a day is too little, but Zhou Jing still does not set an upper limit for himself.

This year's small goal is to earn one million.

If I cannot achieve this goal within five months, I will be unworthy of my identity as a reborn person.

The next morning, Zhou Jing unexpectedly received a contract text message from the novel website. He went to an Internet cafe to fill in the detailed information and completed the contract in the morning. At noon, he returned to the hotel to check out and sent his luggage to the rental house. After lunch, he went to the telecommunications business hall to apply for broadband and bought an Internet cable. Then he went to the supermarket to buy daily necessities.

Liu Hanyu arrived at Zhou Jing's place at around one o'clock and first visited the house.

"The house is nice. I also want to rent a house by myself, but unfortunately I don't have money. It's very inconvenient to live at home. I also need to study. My mother also asked me to tutor my brother. I have almost forgotten all the math, physics and chemistry I learned in high school."

Liu Hanyu wore a white short-sleeved shirt and a black short skirt today. Her thighs were as white as cream. Her long hair was draped over her shoulders like a waterfall. She didn't wear much makeup, but her temperament revealed the mature and charming temperament that is unique to senior girls.

"Are you going to school when the semester starts?"

Senior students do not have to go to school. They can work directly after finding a job. They can prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination or civil service examination on their own. If they do not find a job and are not taking the postgraduate entrance examination or civil service examination, they can just spend their time on their own. It is enough to complete the thesis in the next semester.

"Don't go yet. Do you know any students from Yushi College? Please lend me a library card so I can go to the library to read."

It’s okay for Liu Hanyu to go to school, and the smog in Tangdu is too serious in autumn and winter.

During the three years in college, Liu Hanyu felt discomfort in his throat every winter.

Yulin College is the only undergraduate college in Yulin, a second-tier university. It is located in Xisha, the same place as the Experimental Middle School, and is only two or three bus stops away from where Zhou Jing rents a house.

"Is there no one from your class in the academy?"

"We lost touch and became strangers after I went to college."

"Ok."

Zhou Jing's two high school buddies are studying at Yulin College, so it's no problem for them to get a library card.

(End of this chapter)