Chapter 1 Return to 2009
“What is the future of being a teacher?”

"Can't a grown man have some ambitions? Are you planning to stay in your small county town for the rest of your life?"

"It's not a county, it's a city. Yu City's GDP is at least the second largest in the province."

"What's the difference? It's so far from the provincial capital, but it's close to your home. I'm sure I won't be too far away from home. If you insist on going back to be a teacher, then let's end it!"

"How do you know if you haven't been here?"

"Beep beep beep beep."

future?
What does it mean to have a future?
Zhou Jing was lying on the ground with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, looking at the white clouds floating in the sky and thinking.

It is now July 2009, 7, the fifth day after Zhou Jing's rebirth. Although it is unbelievable, Zhou Jing, who has calmed down after a few days, has to admit the fact that he has been reborn. He was reborn before the end of his internship in his junior year.

At one point Zhou Jing thought he was having a very long dream.

In the past few days, Zhou Jing found various ways to prove whether it was a dream or reality.

Needle prick.

Hold back water.

Eat chili peppers raw.

He acted like a hooligan to the girl who came to his grandmother's house to play with him and wouldn't let go of her hand. Because every time Zhou Jing dreamed about girls, he would wake up when he had physical contact with them.

The day before yesterday, Zhou Jing saw a scorpion and touched it with his finger. His finger still hurts a little.

This is what it means to get what you deserve.

When Zhou Jing saw the pesticide, he even had the idea of ​​trying it, for fear that he might die if he tried it again.

After working hard for half a lifetime, I finally made some decent living, but before I had the chance to enjoy it, I was inexplicably reborn. It was like going back to the time before liberation overnight. However, compared with my young body, everything is nothing.

Zhou Jing had only read about time travel and reincarnation in books before.

There are always some phenomena in reality that cannot be explained.

The feeling of having seen something for no apparent reason.

Dreaming about people I don’t know and have never met in real life.

There are clearly some fragmented memories in my mind, but when I ask my parents, they say they don't have any.
Zhou Jing also saw a UFO with his own eyes once. It was one winter day in high school, probably in 2005. During a break in evening self-study outside the classroom, he saw an object in the night sky emitting a bright beam of light downwards. The beam lasted for two or three seconds before flying upwards into the clouds and slowly disappearing. Many students saw it at the time and had different opinions.

Quantum mechanics cannot explain parallel time and space.

Zhou Jing can now only use quantum mechanics and parallel time and space to understand his own experience.

"21 is old."

Standing at the fork in life again and facing important life choices again, Zhou Jing felt calm.

Zhou Jing performed exceptionally well in the college entrance examination, with his score more than 60 points higher than his best mock test score. He was admitted to Tangdu Normal University, majoring in mathematics and applied mathematics. Not long ago, he saw a post forwarded by his high school class teacher on QQ space about a recruitment for teachers at his alma mater, Yulin Experimental Middle School. Zhou Jing sent in his resume and was hired.

Zhou Jing didn't have much hope at first, as the school's recruitment notice stated that candidates with experience would be given priority.

The internship will start on August 20th next month.

During the internship period, Zhou Jing was assigned to the junior high school department. He first taught the remedial class of the third graders. After the school officially started in September, he taught the first graders. After the six-month internship, he tried teaching the first and second graders of senior high school. After passing the assessment, he was formally arranged to enter the high school department.

Zhou Jing is quite satisfied with this job. There is nothing wrong with being a teacher in a key middle school in his hometown.

However, his girlfriend Chen Jiaqian disagreed, so Zhou Jing decisively gave up the job in his previous life. He didn't even go for an internship. During the fall recruitment of his senior year, he found a job in a bank in the provincial capital. He received a pitiful salary and was under great pressure in the provincial capital. Chen Jiaqian also had a small quarrel with him every three days and a big quarrel every five days. They had agreed to work hard together, but they eventually broke up.

Chen Jiaqian is Zhou Jing’s first love. In his first relationship, Zhou Jing did behave a bit like a straight man, but he had a very good temper. It would be more accurate to say that his quarrel with Chen Jiaqian was just a one-sided upset rather than a quarrel.

Compared to Zhou Jing who can swallow his negative emotions and digest them slowly, Chen Jiaqian has poorer control over her emotions and constantly uses her emotions to tear apart the relationship between the two. Zhou Jing, on the other hand, is like a tailor, constantly mending things.

Zhou Jing was upset at first after the breakup in his previous life. On the day of the breakup, Zhou Jing stayed up all night, was listless at work, and went to the bar alone to drink after get off work.

From then on, Zhou Jing no longer believed in pure love, no longer had expectations for relationships like he did in his first love, no longer put too much energy into coaxing women, and if they were not suitable, they would break up. It is better to start a new relationship than to patch it up before marriage.

Slowly Zhou Jing understood a truth:
The best way for a man to coax a woman is to make money, which is also the most dignified way. Good women are common, but opportunities to make money are rare, so you cannot delay making money because of a woman.

A girl asked Zhou Jing, "Am I more important or is my work more important?"

Zhou Jing answered without hesitation: work.

Without the woman's concerns, Zhou Jing slowly let go of his hands and feet. He resigned without consulting his family. After quitting his job at the bank, he set up a teaching assistance organization with his college classmates. Although it was busier and more tiring than his previous job, especially during the winter and summer vacations, it was very fulfilling for him, and the more he put in, the more he gained.

After the double reduction, things gradually became difficult, and Zhou Jing discussed with his classmates and decided to disband.

After the breakup, the organization was left to his classmates. Zhou Jing returned to his hometown and set up a small class in the city to work solo. The scale was small and the money was slow, but he didn't have to worry about being reported. By the way, he was preparing to solve the major event of his life, and he was reborn.

Zhou Jing is now at his grandmother's home in the countryside, a remote village more than 40 miles away from the county seat.

In the scorching hot July, Zhou Jing was lying in the weeds of a locust tree forest on the mountain. The wind in the forest was slightly cool, and even in the scorching hot weather, there was no heat at all. It was very quiet, without the hustle and bustle of the city at all.

The sounds of birds and insects also make people feel so peaceful.

After staying in the big city for a long time, Zhou Jing now feels like he is in a paradise. The bad thing is that he is extremely bored when he is bored. There is barely a signal on the mobile phone on the mountain, and there is no signal at home at the foot of the mountain, so he can only use a landline to make calls.

"buzzing"

The cell phone suddenly vibrated, and grandma called Zhou Jing to go back and eat noodles.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Jing stood up, patted his butt and went down the mountain.

"I tried to hold your hand on a windy day, but the rain gradually got so heavy that I couldn't see you anymore."

Zhou Jing hummed along with the music on his cell phone, and after two songs he arrived at the small bridge at the bottom of the slope near his grandmother's house. The river channel under the bridge had been washed away by the flood, and there was no mud on the shore and the riverbed, and the water was very clear.

There is a small house at the bridgehead above the river bank, which is a convenience store.

This convenience store originally belonged to my grandmother, but she gave it to my uncle's family because she was old and had difficulty walking. After my uncle's family moved to the county town, they lent it to someone else.

The shop was quite lively, with three or four kids eating popsicles and chasing each other outside.

At this time, under the small bridge, a girl with long hair and wearing a light yellow skirt was washing her feet by the river. The hem of her skirt was tucked between her thighs, and her feet in white sandals were standing in the stream, revealing two calves that looked like lotus roots.

The girl's name is Liu Hanyu. Her grandmother and Zhou Jing's grandmother are from the same village, and their houses are separated by a ditch.

So Zhou Jing and Liu Hanyu have known each other since they were young. When they were at their grandmother's house during the holidays, they often ran around with the children in the village, playing games such as throwing sandbags, throwing handkerchiefs, hide-and-seek, skipping rope, etc.

Yesterday, in order to verify whether it was a dream or a rebirth, Zhou Jing held Liu Hanyu's hand and hugged her in his arms.

Of course, they didn't act like hooligans when they met. Liu Hanyu took Zhou Jing's phone to look at the QQ chat history. When Zhou Jing was fighting for the phone, he hugged Liu Hanyu in his arms. In fact, the phone had a password, so there was no need to worry at all.

"Where did Zhou Jing go?"

Liu Hanyu turned around and glanced at Zhou Jingdao.

"Where else can I go? Just wander around!"

Zhou Jing, wearing only shorts and flip-flops, walked directly into the river to wash his feet.

"Are you sure you're going to work at Experimental Middle School?"

Liu Hanyu reached the shore and kicked the water towards Zhou Jing.

"confirmed."

In his previous life, Zhou Jing gave up without hesitation, but this time, Zhou Jing chose this job very firmly.

(End of this chapter)