Chapter 727 Buying the Kindergarten (Part 1)
"Aunt Chen, could we go take a look at our Street Office’s kindergarten together?"
Aunt Chen was naturally willing: "Sure, let’s go take a look. Let’s go."
Aunt Chen looked back at the house in the yard, and seeing the scribbles made by children on the walls and doors, she said: "Your good house has indeed been ruined; let introduce you to so people who can help you paint the walls and windows."
ngyu, feeling lost in an unfamiliar place, imdiately beca even happier upon hearing Aunt Chen would help find people: "Thank you, Aunt Chen. I’m really struggling not knowing where to find help."
"That’s nothing, just a little effort," Aunt Chen said with a smile, feeling very pleased in her heart. Today’s visit had truly paid off—the renovation funding for the kindergarten was secure.
Seeing Ma Dapan still standing there stunned, she scolded her again: "What are you waiting for if you’re not leaving? Hurry back and raise two thousand yuan to send to the Street Office; the kindergarten is still waiting to be repaired!"
Ma Dapan beca even more resentful. Before, she only had to stand in opposition to Jiang ngyu, but now, she found herself up against the Street Office.
No matter how small it was, it was still the governnt!
She looked at Jiang ngyu, realizing she had underestimated this young lady, she deftly shifted the conflict.
The resentnt in her eyes was not concealed: "If you’re not short of money, why do you still want to contribute?"
ngyu skewed her mouth corner: "What does my financial situation have to do with you? I only know that my brother helped renovate this new house, and you’ve ruined it."
Left with no choice, Ma Dapan went to borrow money, while ngyu followed Aunt Chen to see the kindergarten.
The person in charge, Director Rong, hurried over to greet them and showed them the children’s living conditions.
The kindergarten was a converted old factory building, with a large area enclosed by walls, covering about fifteenth or sixteenth acres, but the buildings were very dilapidated.
The kindergarten currently used three rooms as both dormitories and classrooms, with large, dium, and small classes all in the sa workshop. There were also leaks in the building.
Moreover, the large toys such as slides and seesaws were all outdoors; at that ti, due to the rain, the children could only stare out the window, wanting to play but unable.
Two thousand yuan could barely be enough to patch up the building.
"Aunt Chen, what about our kindergarten’s slides and such large toys, which are all outdoors? What happens when it rains?"
Aunt Chen sighed, "When it rains, we just can’t play, that’s all. Wait until it’s not raining to play."
ngyu pointed to a large empty space in the backyard: "Can’t we build an indoor playground?"
Aunt Chen gave a bitter smile: "This kindergarten isn’t funded by the governnt; the teachers and the aunties’ wages depend on the fees collected from the children. Where is there money for building an indoor playground?"
Thinking of the one hundred thousand yuan she earned selling dicine on the train, ngyu asked: "How much would it roughly cost to build an indoor playground?"
"Now bricks have gone up in price; it’s two cents per brick. Our building requires at least 18 walls and 96 bricks each, and that’s without considering the cent, sand, and, if you build a bungalow, the steel rebars. I estimate that just the construction cost will be A Hundred Yuan per square ter," Aunt Chen said. "Besides—"
She looked at ngyu and then stopped speaking.
ngyu thought it over; to build rooms for these kinds of large toys, you could only put one type in each room. According to the current toys, at least two or three such rooms would be needed.
If one room needed at least twenty to thirty square ters, then three rooms would equate to eight hundred square ters.
That is to say, at least eighty thousand!
"It’s not necessary to start building. This site—" Aunt Chen stopped midsentence as if hesitant to continue.
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