Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 80 Chen Jiaqian's Big Number (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
[Jay Chou, Xu Wei, Zhou Chuanxiong, Pu Shu, Shui Mu Nian Hua]

Zhou Jing thought of several ways to reply to Su Xiaoxue.

Su Xiaoxue: [These are also my favorite singers. Teacher Zhou, do you have any favorite female singers?]

【Cyndi Wang, Stefanie Sun, Xu Fei】

Zhou Jing has listened to a lot of songs by female singers, but he doesn't like any of them in particular. He just doesn't listen to the right songs and doesn't have any feelings for the Sweetheart Queen. However, every dance of "Love You in 22 Years" seemed to touch Zhou Jing's heart like a dragonfly skimming the water. Zhou Jing has watched many videos of young ladies dancing, but none of them makes Zhou Jing's heart move more than the Sweetheart Queen.

Su Xiaoxue: [We like similar singers]

Zhou Jing: [What are the requirements for radio stations to play songs? ]

Su Xiaoxue: [It cannot be vulgar, and it cannot play love songs that are not meant for fun, these are the two main points]

Because it was during class time, Su Xiaoxue didn't chat much. Knowing Zhou Jing's favorite singer, she stopped bothering him.

Zhou Jing didn't take Su Xiaoxue's initiative to order songs for him to heart. Yang Wenwen was right. There was no need to rush to express one's attitude in such matters. Just treat it as a normal interaction between colleagues. Even if you don't consider it, wait for the other party to express their feelings before rejecting. Maybe after getting to know each other, the other party feels that it is not suitable and will not take the next step. It's not wrong for single men to have a few backups.

Su Xiaoxue wanted to ask Zhou Jing to have dinner together, but the time was not convenient.

The studio would broadcast for fifteen minutes after school at noon and in the afternoon. Su Xiaoxue could only go to eat after the broadcast was over.

A student's parent called Zhou Jing. He was the father of the boarding student Xue Zhian. He said that he had brought something for Xue Zhian and was outside the school, so he asked Xue Zhian to pick it up.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Jing went to the classroom to inform Xue Zhian.

Class 1 and 2 of Senior High School are having an English class. Gu Jia is leading the students in reading words in fluent English.

Today Gu Jia wore a white shirt and khaki casual trousers, with long hair. Unlike her sexy style of wearing tight pants to show off her figure, she now had a bit more elegance and looked more graceful.

"Is there anything wrong, Teacher Zhou?"

Without waiting for Zhou Jing to knock on the door, Gu Jia paused, looked towards the door and spoke softly.

Gu Jia calls Zhou Jing's name after class, and calls him Teacher Zhou in front of students.

"Excuse me." Zhou Jing made eye contact with Gu Jia, then looked at the student and said, "Xue Zhian, please come out for a moment."

After saying that, he nodded at Gu Jia and turned to leave the classroom door. After Xue Zhian came out, Zhou Jing briefly explained the situation, opened the cell phone cabinet and asked Xue Zhian to take the cell phone with him so that he could contact anyone in case he couldn't find anyone.

"My phone is in the dormitory."

Xue Zhian usually doesn't bring his cell phone to the classroom.

"Then take mine first."

Zhou Jing took out his spare phone and gave it to Xue Zhian. He felt more favorable towards this student who was usually a little arrogant. Although this student was a little arrogant and even looked down on others, he was self-disciplined. Teachers liked this kind of students who had personality and high demands on themselves.

"No, I can't find anyone to talk to."

Xue Zhian said embarrassedly.

"It's okay, this is my backup phone, it doesn't have a password."

Zhou Jing asked his mother to get this mobile phone at the business hall. It is a mobile phone dedicated to China Mobile. It is free if you recharge it to a certain limit. It can only be used to make calls and send text messages, and has no Internet function. The address book contains the phone numbers of all the students and parents in the class. It is usually used to contact students and parents. There is no privacy and no screen saver password set.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhou."

Xue Zhian went to get something with his cell phone.

"Teacher Gu, how is Teacher Zhou's high school English?"

Zhou Jing was about to go back to the office when he heard a student asking a question in the classroom. He deliberately slowed down his pace to listen to Gu Jia's answer.

"The head teacher scored 106 or 104 in the college entrance examination in English."

"It turns out that Mr. Zhou's English is so bad. He can get into Tang Normal University with such a low English score. How good must he be in math and science?"

"Math 145, comprehensive science seems to be 270, Chinese 104, English 106." "Mr. Zhou is very biased in subjects. His Chinese is worse than his English. No wonder he said that reading magazines is not helpful for Chinese. He confiscated our magazines when he saw them."

Without waiting for Gu Jia to answer, the talkative student spoke.

Zhou Jing immediately regretted telling them his college entrance examination results. Sometimes people cannot be too honest.

“You know so much.”

Gu Jia was speechless. As for Zhou Jing confiscating the magazine, she knew that she would have borrowed it to read even if he had confiscated it.

"Teacher Zhou said so himself."

"Teacher Zhou has a poor foundation in English. I taught their class for more than half a year in the senior year. Well, don't talk about Teacher Zhou anymore. Listen to his class."

Gu Jia was too embarrassed to admit that she was the one who taught Zhou Jing English.

Xue Zhian's family brought pears to Xue Zhian, and Xue Zhian took a few of them with him when he returned his phone to his head teacher. There were other teachers in the office, so he waited for the head teacher to come out and deliver the pears.

"No, it's not easy for my family to bring you something from far away."

Zhou Jing said politely.

"It's not a problem. It's ours. Teacher Zhou, please try it."

Xue Zhian handed the plastic bag to the head teacher and returned to the classroom.

Zhou Jing accepted it with a smile. Being a teacher is a profession that enjoys worldly life and being worshipped.

The student brought six pears. There were three teachers in the office at the time, so Zhou Jing gave one to each of them.

A friend request came on QQ, from "Xia Mo Ting Yu", which was Chen Jiaqian's main account. It seemed that she had given up on her secondary account. Zhou Jing habitually left it unattended and would deal with it later.

Zhou Jing has a very bad habit. He is never in a hurry to reply to messages from people he is not particularly familiar with. He thinks he will deal with it later. If the other party does not continue to send messages, Zhou Jing often forgets about it. It may be the next day when he remembers it, or even longer. He is even less willing to reply when he remembers it after forgetting it for a long time.

Over time, the relationship with some people gradually fades, or even "loses contact".

There is a saying that "if the other party doesn't reply to your message quickly, it means they don't want to reply". There is some truth to this. College students and people who have just started working cannot keep their phones in their hands all the time. Normally, they will get the message as soon as it comes in. If they don't reply as soon as possible, it probably means they don't want to reply. Otherwise, how much time will it take to send a message like "I'm busy now, I'll talk to you later"?

Although not replying to messages may seem unkind, most of the people on the friend list are not chatting about serious matters.

Unimportant chats are a waste of time. When I was in college, including during this period, many people took the initiative to chat with Zhou Jing, and most of them were girls. They either chatted or left messages. The purpose was self-evident. If I didn’t reply, they would gradually stop chatting with Zhou Jing. It was awkward at first, but once you get used to it, it doesn’t matter anymore. It’s just right to have some peace and quiet.

Apart from his family, relatives and colleagues, Zhou Jing would reply to no more than ten people immediately after receiving the message.

After more than ten minutes, Zhou Jing accepted Chen Jiaqian's friend request.

Otherwise she would ask something like "Now that we've known each other, do we want to stop being friends?"

People are very strange creatures. Sometimes they ignore you, but sometimes they stick to you like a dog-skin plaster. When they are angry, they are as hard to control as a pig in the Chinese New Year, and when they are happy, they cling to you like an octopus.

After adding friends, Chen Jiaqian did not send a message, and Zhou Jing did not send a message either.

[How dare you tell your students that your English is so bad?]

After class, Gu Jia returned to the office, and soon Zhou Jing received her message.

Zhou Jing: [If a teacher does not teach strictly, it is his laziness. What is there to be ashamed of for students?]

Gu Jia: [Tsk, I won’t take on this responsibility if I take over midway.]

Zhou Jing had no time to chat, so he got up and went to the playground. There was a flag-raising ceremony after the second get out of class on Monday. After the ceremony, he returned to the office and received a message from Chen Jiaqian on QQ.

[Are you in Yushi on October 1st?]

[Our law firm has a case in your place and I am going to handle it during the holiday. I don’t know if housing is tight there during the Golden Week. If it is convenient for you, please book a room for me in advance and I will pay you when I come back.]

(End of this chapter)