September 1st is a very meaningful day for children all over the country, because school has started!
The Love Kindergarten also opened on this day. Starting from around seven in the morning, parents began to bring their registered children there.
The kindergarten teachers wore the same uniform and stood at the door to greet the children with a smile, called out their names affectionately, and then held their hands and let them go in and play first.
It’s not time for class yet, but the children who come early can play with toys for a while. Children’s tricycles are the children’s favorite and they often scramble to play with them.
Xiao Xuxu and Xiao Yuanyuan are also new students in the kindergarten. They are young and are assigned to the small class. There is only one classroom on the first floor, which is used to accommodate the children in the small class because they are young and it is inconvenient for them to climb stairs.
Apart from the two of them, Gao Mingcheng only enrolled more than 60 children this time, so each class had only a dozen people, and the preschool class had the largest number of students, with 25.
Fortunately, Gao Mingcheng recruited Wen Ying through Li Fei. With her leading the children in the preschool class, Gao Mingcheng felt much more at ease.
Early this morning, Gao Mingcheng was also busy at the kindergarten, arranging teachers for each class to take care of the children in each class. Each class has two teachers, one is the main teacher, who is responsible for teaching the children, and the other is the childcare worker, who is responsible for taking care of the children and assisting the main teacher in teaching.
There are two people specifically taking care of a dozen children, so there is generally no problem. However, today is the first day of school, and the children are running around everywhere, and the teachers are also in a hurry. Fortunately, Wenying has teaching experience and helps to manage the situation.
Looking at the children jumping around, Gao Mingcheng felt that this job really requires love and patience! After a moment of dullness, Gao Mingcheng decided to hire an experienced principal to manage the kindergarten!
According to the current enrollment numbers and teacher allocation, the kindergarten is actually not profitable, not to mention the high cost of building the building and purchasing a large number of toys, musical instruments and books.
However, Gao Mingcheng doesn't mind whether he makes a loss or not. What he hopes to do is to build an excellent platform so that his children can get a good education from the beginning, and connect with some people in the county through the kindergarten.
Besides, this is just the beginning. As long as the reputation of the kindergarten is good, there is no need to worry about lack of students. From the 1990s to the end of the country's relaxation of the second-child policy, there is still a lot of room for kindergarten education during this period!
On the contrary, after the second-child policy was relaxed, kindergartens began to close down one after another across the country.
In the kitchen, Hu Yinchen was cutting watermelon. This was the fruit prepared for the children. Each child had a piece of watermelon.
The kindergarten includes one meal and two snacks: fruit at 10 a.m., lunch at 12 noon, and snacks at 4 p.m.
Choose seasonal fruits, and if it is convenient for snacks, you can choose biscuits and bread, which can be purchased from stores outside. You can also make some steamed buns, steamed buns and multi-grain porridge yourself.
He Xiuman was taking care of the children in the front, but the grandmother was not idle either. She was old and did not have the energy to take care of the children, but she could stay in the kitchen to help, pick and wash vegetables, and chat with Hu Yinchen and Huang Yueying, which was also quite fun.
Huang Yueying was Hu Yinchen's neighbor and was introduced by Hu Yinchen to help in the kitchen. She was not tall, but she loved to laugh and looked very kind.
Although they are in charge of the kitchen, after finishing lunch, they have to go to the teaching building in front to help and act as childcare workers. Today is the first day of school. Some children adapt well and are happy all the time, but some children cry and call for mom and dad, and they need someone to comfort them at this time.
There is also the issue of feeding. Not every child can eat by themselves, so they need to be fed when necessary. Of course, this will be taught later, and we will try to let the children eat by themselves as soon as possible.
After a whole day, all the teachers were almost exhausted. They only breathed a sigh of relief after handing the children over to their parents one by one.
Xuanyuemei also breathed a sigh of relief. She said to Gao Mingcheng: "This is more tiring than running a clothing store!"
Meeting Xuanyuemei's gaze, Gao Mingcheng felt inexplicably guilty. It was his idea to open a kindergarten, and it was also his idea to let Xuanyuemei come here to work.
Gao Mingcheng could only comfort him by saying, "Once the children get used to it, it won't be so tiring anymore."
Many beautiful people sighed: "Let's hope!"
Although everyone was very tired, Gao Mingcheng did not let them leave immediately. Instead, he called everyone to sit down for a meeting to summarize the day's work and see what needed improvement so that improvements could be made in time tomorrow.
Only after the meeting did Gao Mingcheng let the teachers leave.
Wang Xiuxiu was also ready to leave. She wrapped little Shasha in a large piece of cloth and carried her on her back so that she could ride her bike back.
Little Shasha is more than four months old now. Although she can't sit yet, she doesn't feel scared when being carried on her mother's back and is quite cooperative.
"Second brother, second sister-in-law, I'm leaving." Wang Xiuxiu shouted to Gao Mingcheng and others while riding on her bicycle.
"Be careful on the road! Ride slowly!" Xuanyuemei warned.
Wang Xiuxiu brings her baby to work, and although her main focus is on taking care of little Shasha, she still helps out a little when little Shasha is taking a nap or playing.
"Okay, got it." Wang Xiuxiu responded with a smile while riding her bicycle. After seeing her leave, Gao Mingcheng and Xuanyuemei also prepared to leave.
"Grandma, we are leaving. Please close the door later." Gao Mingcheng reminded them. If the door was not closed, the children in the neighborhood would sneak in to play with the toys. It was not that Gao Mingcheng was stingy, but if something happened to the children here, it would be difficult to deal with. Also, if the children were naughty and broke the toys and books, it would be difficult to deal with either.
Gao Zhuang came over immediately and closed the yard door as soon as Gao Mingcheng and the others left.
The kindergarten was not far from the clothing store, so Gao Mingcheng did not drive. He held Xiao Xuxu in his arms and walked towards the clothing store side by side with Xuanyuemei.
They still had dinner in the clothing store, and checked the store's account books and collected the proceeds from the sales.
When they arrived, Luo Li and Zhang Yingying, who were working, had already left work, and only Gao Mingli and his wife and Gao Shufang were there.
At this time, there were naturally no customers, so the three of them were talking and cooking in the backyard.
"Second brother, second sister-in-law, you are back! Xiao Xuxu, is it fun to go to school?" When Gao Shufang saw Gao Mingcheng's family coming back, she immediately went forward with a smile. She picked up Xiao Xuxu and talked to him teasingly.
Xiao Xuxu has a good relationship with Gao Shufang, so he immediately told her what happened in the kindergarten, telling her what he played, what he ate, which kids were naughty and so on. Although his words were a little unclear, people close to him could understand what he said.
Gao Mingcheng was listening nearby and smiled at Xuanyuemei, "Reading is indeed a wise thing. Look at our son, he talks more now!"
Xuanmei smiled, but also looked a little melancholy. She said, "Xiao Xuxu is already over two years old, why can't he speak clearly? I heard someone say that his tongue has grown together! They said we should cut a little bit of it off!"
Gao Mingcheng said hurriedly: "Don't worry, he will be fine. He is still young now. After a while, he will be able to speak clearly!"
Gao Mingcheng thought that since his eldest son spoke clearly in his previous life, he would definitely be fine in this life.
Of course, it’s not that he is afraid of seeing a doctor, but the child is still young. If he is over three years old and still like this, then he should take him to the hospital to see a doctor.
Manyumei nodded, thinking, I hope so!
Since Gao Mingcheng's kindergarten officially opened, although there are some minor problems every day, there is progress every day and these problems can be solved in time. After a week, the teachers and children have adapted to the rhythm of the kindergarten and are on the right track.
At this time, Gao Mingcheng proposed to send Gao Zhuang to learn how to repair cars.
Car repair is an enduring skill. With the development of society, there will be more and more cars. As long as people use cars, they will always have to find someone to repair them when the car breaks down.
Even if the car is not broken, you still need to find someone to clean it. This industry is considered a sunrise industry nowadays and there is a lot of room for development!
Gao Zhuang was also obedient. Gao Mingcheng said that this was a good idea, promising and safe, so he obediently went to study.
Gao Mingcheng personally sent Gao Zhuang to Xiao Jinfeng's transportation company and hired a master to teach him. In addition to learning, he also helped out at the transportation company.
Gao Mingcheng had informed Xiao Jinfeng about this matter a long time ago. Xiao Jinfeng even joked with a smile, saying that once Gao Zhuang becomes a skilled worker, he would let him repair the transportation company's vehicles.
Xiao Jinfeng said at the time: "The transport company has more and more orders. Sometimes the drivers can take turns to rest, but the trucks have to run non-stop. The more they run, the more minor problems they have, and it takes time to repair them. I originally planned to split the truck repair business out."
Gao Mingcheng was not surprised at all when he heard this.
The reason why today's drivers need to learn how to repair cars is because once something happens on the road, it will be very troublesome if you don't know how to repair the car, because you may not be able to find a repair shop, so you can only rely on yourself.
But in later generations, many people can drive but cannot repair cars. They don’t need to learn because they can just call a mechanic to come and fix it. It is convenient and quick. Why bother to learn it themselves?
That evening, when Gao Mingcheng was lying in the yard enjoying the cool breeze, Xuanyuemei suddenly said, "Isn't it time to harvest medicinal herbs in the village now?"
Gao Mingcheng closed his eyes and rested. He hummed and said, "Before, I asked Gao Zhuang to collect herbs for me in the village. Now that Gao Zhuang has come to the county, he naturally can't do this job. So I found my eldest brother and asked him if he wanted to do it. If he wants to do it, I won't care about the cost of collecting the goods and selling them."
Manyu Mei rolled her eyes and asked, "What did your elder brother say?"
Gao Mingcheng said: "He wanted to do it, but he couldn't do it alone. Later, he and Ming Wan seemed to do it together. He collected medicinal herbs in the village, and Ming Wan rented a truck from a transportation company. Then the two of them transported the herbs to the medicine fair to sell."
Thinking back to when Gao Mingcheng was just reborn, he saved some money by going into the mountains to hunt and sell herbs, but now, he no longer needs to go into the mountains to hunt or collect herbs.
Although he could make money, the work was complicated. Gao Mingcheng didn't think there was anything wrong with leaving it to others.
Although he no longer collects and sells medicinal herbs, Gao Mingcheng still insists on growing Poria cocos in the mountains. In the past two years, he has almost dug up all the wild Poria cocos in the mountains. Now he has decided to continue growing it for a few years and then leave it there, waiting for the Poria cocos to grow up and then dig it out to make medicine for himself.
There is also a slope at the foot of Xiaofushan Mountain, where a batch of Cassia seeds were planted last year. No special planting was done this year, but Cassia seeds still grew there. When they are ripe, you can pick them and make tea.
Although I have good eyesight in this life, Cassia seed tea, which can clear the liver and improve eyesight, is a standard health-preserving item.
Oh, and Polygonatum sibiricum.
There was only a small amount of Polygonatum sibiricum in the mountains. Gao Mingcheng sowed it and carefully managed it for a year, then transplanted it deep into the mountains. Until now, he has not dug it up.
But there is no rush. Only the old Polygonatum has medicinal effects, and it can reproduce more. You can pick it and eat it at home. The easiest way to cook it is to use it to stew meat.
If you want to make it a little more complicated, you can steam and dry it nine times before making it into the immortal’s food.
There are actually several kinds of so-called immortal surplus food. In addition to Polygonatum, there are pine needles, pine nuts, pecans, black dates, cactus fruits, cypress kernels, etc. These are all foods that can be collected in the mountains and can fill the stomach.
Of course, the medicinal effect of Polygonatum sibiricum is quite good, and eating it regularly is beneficial to the human body.
As Gao Mingcheng was thinking about it, he suddenly had an urge to run wildly in the mountains to release the stress that had accumulated during this period of time.
He thought so and said so: "Duomei, tomorrow is the weekend, let's go back to Gaojia Village!"
Now both of them focus their main energy on the kindergarten. The holiday finally comes, if they don’t take the opportunity to go back to the village, they will have no time!
Xuanyuemei's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said instantly, "Okay, I also want to go see my eldest sister. She suffered a lot when she gave birth last time, and I don't know if she is feeling better now. Mingcheng, let's get up early tomorrow, buy some gifts, and then drive back to the village!"
"Okay!" Gao Mingcheng agreed immediately, and began to look forward to it in his heart.
The next morning, they got up at six o'clock, packed their things, and drove to a nearby rice noodle shop for breakfast. After breakfast, other shops opened one after another. Xuanyuemei bought two cans of malted milk and some snacks and candies, and went to the butcher shop to cut two pieces of pork belly, one weighing two pounds. This was given to the eldest sister, and the other one pound was for their own lunch.
After all preparations were completed, a car sped along the national highway, carrying the family of three, who were eager to return home, back to the beautiful Gaojia Village.
The car did not stop at the old village, but drove straight to Niuweiling. Before it stopped, a familiar sound of dog barking was heard. It turned out that Black Tiger and the Elf had followed the sound and came to greet us.
"Black Tiger! Elf! Big Yellow! Big Black and Little Black! Hehe, I know them all!" Xiao Xuxu leaned on the car window and looked at the dogs, calling out their names one by one, then smiled triumphantly. (End of this chapter)
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