Aunt He acted very quickly. She had just asked Xu An yesterday if he was considering kindergartens in Shanghai, and today she brought him a thick stack of flyers.
"This is the best kindergarten in our community, and most of the children in our community attend it." Aunt He handed over a flyer: "It was founded three years ago, but it has a good reputation, and many people in the neighborhood choose this kindergarten."
Then he stuffed all the remaining flyers into Xu An's hands.
"These are some kindergartens in the area, some big, some small, some good, some bad. You can take a look at them all."
After saying that, Aunt He hurriedly went to the cashier to greet Grandma Xu, picked up the tray and went to get her food.
Today's lunch was salt-baked chicken legs and steamed pork with rice flour, so delicious!
Xu An read through all the flyers that Aunt He had brought, and had to admit that the two companies that Aunt He had recommended were indeed the best in terms of terms and conditions.
The tuition is not cheap; both schools charge 1,500 yuan per month.
The combined tuition fees for Xu Kang and Xu Le amount to 3,000 yuan per month, which is equivalent to a month's salary for an average office worker.
Fortunately, although I have never become rich, I can still afford the tuition fee of three thousand yuan a month.
Qingya Kindergarten and Yangguang Kindergarten are open to the public from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM this week, so you can visit them after their closing time.
Xu An folded the two flyers, put them in his pocket, and went into the kitchen to start cooking.
Today, the number of boxed meals at the Haishi Library transfer station was 754; the number of boxed meals at the Red Brick Creative Park was 273; for a total of 1027!
Boxed meals sold have exceeded 1,000!
If we can maintain this sales volume, we can go see the mini-truck on Sunday—three wheels become four! Take off!
When Aunt He learned that Xu An was going to visit a kindergarten that afternoon, she immediately volunteered to go with them. Her two grandchildren had previously attended kindergartens in the area, so she was familiar with the kindergartens and could offer a lot of advice.
Xu An has never attended kindergarten, whether in his past life or this one, and his understanding of kindergarten is limited to what he hears in the news.
But nine out of ten news reports are bad; they either report food problems, substandard hygiene, or about teachers committing heinous acts...
With the experienced Aunt He by my side, I can naturally feel much more at ease.
There were many vehicles parked in front of Qingya Kindergarten, including bicycles, tricycles, electric vehicles and cars.
When the security guard saw Xu An parked at the kindergarten gate, he quickly came over and directed Xu An to park his tricycle in a location that would not obstruct traffic. He greeted Xu An with a smile throughout and did not show any condescension.
After the car was parked, Xu An first helped Grandma Xu out of the car, then carried Xu Kang and Xu Le out of the car, and led by Aunt He, they walked towards Qingya Kindergarten.
Qingya Kindergarten was founded in 2002, and it has been ten years since then. The marks of wind and sun on the exterior walls are very obvious.
As soon as we stepped through the door, a teacher greeted us with a kind smile on her round face: "Hello parents, I'll be showing you around the kindergarten. Please follow me this way."
The entrance is a small square, about four meters wide and ten meters long, with three longan trees planted in the middle and colorful bricks paving the ground to form cartoon patterns.
Further inside is a three-story teaching building with a total of eighteen classrooms, six for each of the three grades (small, medium, and large). Each classroom can accommodate up to 25 children and is staffed with three teachers.
The classroom is not crowded and can easily accommodate twenty children. The back wall of the classroom is a large cabinet with a three-tiered open bookshelf at the bottom, filled with all kinds of children's picture books.
Xu An picked up a few books at random and glanced at them. The contents were all normal, without any strange personal opinions.
There were three large storage boxes in the corner. Opening the top one revealed various plush toys, all of which were clean and very cute.
I also went to check out the two classrooms next door. Each classroom had the same setup, so there was no need to worry about not having enough toys or picture books.
When Xu Kang and Xu Le saw so many toys and picture books, they felt like they were in a dream, each holding a stack of picture books and refusing to let go.
But now that we've finished touring the classrooms, it's time to visit the playground behind the teaching building.
Xu An reached out to take the picture book from their arms, but the two of them immediately lay down on the ground, tightly protecting the book in their arms, and even staged a classic fake cry—all bark and no bite.
Seeing the two of them pretending to cry, Xu An couldn't help but click his tongue inwardly, thinking, "Two little rascals."
However, Xu An was quite adept at dealing with this kind of tactic: "There's an amusement park behind the teaching building, with a huge slide that's really, really high. Sitting on the slide, you just slide down with a whoosh, it's so much fun! There are also swings in the amusement park, and if a child sits on one and gives a gentle push, they can swing really high, like they're flying! There's also a ball pit in the amusement park, full of colorful little balls..."
As Xu An continued his story, the two children's howls grew softer and softer, their mouths slowly closed, and they raised their little heads, staring intently at Xu An. Their chubby little faces were filled with the words "I want to go play."
“But some children don’t want to go to the amusement park, so that’s fine. We’ll just read books here, and then go home. We won’t go to the amusement park,” Xu An said, feigning regret.
The two little ones immediately stopped fussing when they heard they were going home. They quickly stood up, put the picture books they were holding back on the bookshelf, and shook Xu An's hand back and forth, saying in their childish voices, "Brother, let's go to the amusement park. We want to go down the slide and swing on the swings."
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