Chapter 473: Chapter 473

She didn’t care if Jiang Kechu was home or not and went straight to knock on Wan Chu’er’s door.

As soon as the door opened, Mai Qiqi hugged Wan Chu’er, leaning all her weight on her.

"What happened?" Wan Chu’er asked with concern, "Didn’t go smoothly?"

Mai Qiqi let out a long sigh, "The stench of wine and meat behind the vermilion gates, while the frozen bones lie on the road." Then she let go of Wan Chu’er and plopped down on the sofa.

"Running around all day is exhausting, physically and mentally."

Wan Chu’er chuckled, turned around to the kitchen, and brought out a glass of juice, handing it to her, "Try it, my new creation. Chuanqi and Hunter love it. I saved some just for you."

Mai Qiqi raised an eyebrow, took a sip with her mouth, and tasted the sweet and sourness, "Passion fruit, pear, apple, peach, not bad."

Little Zhuanqi looked at her eagerly and asked, "Godmother, is it good?"

"It’s very good." Mai Qiqi said, then gulped it down in one go under Zhuanqi’s watchful eyes.

Zhuanqi immediately pouted and said, "Mom and godmother are bullying me."

Mai Qiqi laughed, "How did we bully you?"

"You are both tempting me."

"Haha." Mai Qiqi picked up Zhuanqi and placed him on her lap, "You’re such a little treasure! When you grow up, you can tempt godmother and mom, okay?"

Zhuanqi tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said, "When I grow up, I won’t tempt mom and godmother, and mom and godmother shouldn’t tempt me either."

Wan Chu’er and Mai Qiqi laughed out loud at this little clever one.

After the laughter, Wan Chu’er seriously said, "Zhuanqi, you’ve already had some and can’t drink too much. If you drink too much, your teeth will all fall out, and you won’t be able to eat anything tasty anymore."

Upon hearing that his teeth would fall out, Zhuanqi immediately covered his small mouth with his hands.

Wan Chu’er was very satisfied with her daughter’s response. Mai Qiqi shook her head with a smile and asked, "Why don’t I see Hunter?"

"Chen Ke took him out to play."

Mai Qiqi pursed her lips and changed the subject, "People here are really poor. Just for primary school, they have to carefully consider even the two hundred yuan in school fees. Wan Chu’er, can you think of a way for these villagers to earn some money?

I’ve found out that just relying on that barren piece of land, it’s hard to get rich in this lifetime!"

Wan Chu’er shrugged, "It’s difficult!" She indeed had thought about this issue too.

But with the remote location and inconvenient transportation, and the village lacking special products, earning extra income wasn’t that simple.

In the evening, Wan Chu’er made a sumptuous dinner, which satisfied Mai Qiqi, finally dispelling the day’s gloom.

Afterwards, Mai Qiqi spent another two days with Huang Yan registering all the children in the village who were attending school, including Xiao Huaili and Erya siblings. Mai Qiqi covered the tuition for these two children.

They even registered the children from the army family area who were going to school. When registering in the family area, the families speculated that Mai Qiqi was going to teach at the school, making many sarcastic remarks, which Mai Qiqi later found out about, and she immediately put the word out.

"I’m volunteering to help, without charging a penny. Whoever wants to volunteer for free, come, I’ll accept as many as there are,"

Everyone then calmed down again. Even those with high moral awareness wanting to help retracted when they saw the hard labor of cleaning the school.

The main issue was that they didn’t have a car; walking from the army family quarters to Huangjiagou Primary School took half an hour, going back and forth under the scorching sun wasn’t motivating enough, so they decided against it.

Once the student information was registered, they had to head to the county education bureau to file the information and also go to Xinhua Bookstore to order books, which couldn’t be done without Mai Qiqi, as she could drive.

This time, it wasn’t just the two of them; Zhang Yuhuan joined as well. The three of them went back and forth to the county four or five times to get everything done.

Meanwhile, preparations for the kindergarten in the family area were underway, with kindergarten construction and teacher selection, etc.

The army leveled a piece of land behind the family building and built four rooms over ten days. One was a student cafeteria, one a student activity room, one for classes, and one as a student hygiene room.

These four rooms were built quite large, nearly matching the six classrooms in Huangjia Gully.

Daily, family area residents would go and check on the kindergarten’s construction progress, then discuss it privately.

Because of the kindergarten and primary school, many military officers began applying for their families to accompany them, and after some time, new family members arrived at the family building every day.

The family area became bustling, with children’s shouts echoing downstairs every day, enticing Little Zhuanqi and Hunter to run downstairs frequently, forgetting to go play in Huangjia Gully.

Because the two little ones played downstairs, Wan Chu’er naturally had to accompany them, so she interacted and spoke more with the other family members.

This morning, after the two little ones listened patiently to Wan Chu’er’s story, they couldn’t wait to go downstairs to play, so Wan Chu’er had to take them down.

Upon going down, she saw adults gathered around the notice board in the yard, while children played happily.

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"Legendary Mother, come and have a look."

Liu Yufang turned her head and waved to Wan Chu’er to come over and look at the notice board; Liu Yufang was a newly moved-in resident, with a four-year-old daughter who played well with Zhuanqi, and Liu Yufang herself was quite nice.

Wan Chu’er walked over with a smile, "Look, your name is on it too." Liu Yufang said. The crowd heard her words, turned to look, and upon realizing it was Wan Chu’er, some greeted her with a smile, while others made room for her.

Wan Chu’er took a look and found it was a list of kindergarten teacher candidates, with ten people in total, and her name prominently listed.

How did her name get on there! It’s really when you don’t want something that it comes your way.

Although not happy, Wan Chu’er didn’t foolishly show it. She didn’t want to go, but many wanted to be kindergarten teachers. If she dared show it, who knows how people would talk about her behind her back.

Liu Yufang pulled Wan Chu’er out of the crowd and said with a smile, "If you teach my daughter, I have no complaints, I’d be happy."

Wan Chu’er smiled, "If you became a teacher, I’d be willing to leave Zhuanqi and Hunter in your care."

Liu Yufang, who graduated from a teachers’ college, had impeccable character, and taught her daughter to be very polite.

"Why isn’t my name there among so many people? Isn’t it just watching over kids? Can I, a high school graduate, not handle that? Who decided this?"

Wang Hongmei’s complaining voice came from nearby. She was always the most enthusiastic, having not gotten into Huangjiagou Primary School last time, was most active during the kindergarten teacher’s preliminary selection, and even sought statements of support from several leaders.

But when her name wasn’t on this preliminary list, she naturally felt very dissatisfied and unhappy.