LBRDI Chapter 111

New School Year

The childcare centre also underwent minor renovations during the summer. The greenery and small playground were completed, making it a well-equipped facility, if not the best in the neighbourhood.

Shen Mian also hired eight more childcare teachers, so that the centre would have childcare teachers from first to sixth grade. After the development of the childcare centre for one school year, the childcare teachers Shen Mian hired were all more experienced teachers. In addition, there was a school nurse in the infirmary and the expensive medical robots originally placed in the infirmary had been retired to the school nurse’s intelligent assistant.

Parents don’t really care about the school nurse when they send their cubs to the centre because most of the cubs were strong and healthy, so as long as the childcare teachers took care of them, they would hardly ever get sick. The second reason was that the school nurse was not very useful.
But if there was one, that would be a plus.

There was also one more nutritionist in the kitchen. The nutritionist’s main job was to prepare side dishes, and with the help of an intelligent robot, the cooking was completely semi-automated. One nutritionist could take care of the daily meals of 30 to 40 dragon cubs.

The classes of the dragon cubs were also adjusted, with grades 1 to 3 divided into two classes and grades 4 to 6 combined into one class. Each class was assigned two regular teachers and lessons were based on the class schedule.

When the childcare centre was completely completed, there was still a week before the start of the school year. Shen Mian took many photos of the entire centre and put them on the official website and also announced the situation of Ke Yu as a professor in the centre.

Recently, as the new school year was approaching, many parents had started to look for a suitable childcare centre for their cubs. The most effective way to do this was to go to the education system and choose a childcare centre based on their home address and financial situation.

Water Star had a basic rating for the level of all standard childcare centres, based on the childcare teacher’s annual assessment’s average score and the infrastructure of the centre.

Some young parents went to the education website to look up the number of childcare centres on their planet, looked at the sorting, and couldn’t help but choose the estimated score ranking, where the number of childcare centres on the planet was ranked from highest to lowest.

The high scorers were mostly chain childcare centres, which was no surprise. This time, however, they saw a somewhat unfamiliar name in the front row.

Ranked 21st, Qiming Childcare Centre.

Due to the relatively backwards development of Water Star, there were very few larg-scale childcare centres, but rather small ones scattered around residential areas. Such centres usually had mediocre facilities and faculty. In some centres, a single teacher was responsible for the basic classes for several ages. The only advantage was that it was close to home.

On a list of more than three hundred childcare centres of all sizes, 21 was already a very high-ranked position. The top thirty were usually either chain childcare centres or long-established childcare centres. The rankings fluctuate according to the scores on the annual childcare teacher qualification exam. It was hard for lower ranking childcare centres to squeeze to the top.

There were not many childcare teachers in Qiming Childcare Centre. The previous year’s childcare teacher qualification exam scores were very high. As dean of the centre, Shen Mian also received several special honours, and this year, the interior facilities of the centre had been improved. After several new childcare teachers joined, the education website’s database was updated before the peak period of parents’ inquiries, and the ranking of the centre immediately went up.

The tuition at this centre was a bit cheaper than the chain childcare centres and it was similar to other common childcare centres that ranked close. The living expenses were a bit cheaper, especially for vegetarian dragons.

In the Dragon Empire, raising a dragon cub was a long, laborious and costly journey. The combined tuition and living expenses of a childcare centre were not a small sum of money.

Most of the inquiring parents thought the name Qiming Childcare Centre seemed familiar, but they could not say exactly where it was familiar from.

Shen Mian had been deliberately downplaying his association with the chidlcare centre when he was an anchor. His live broadcasts now were mostly about his own cubs’ daily lives and many of his fans had gradually followed suit without mentioning Qiming Childcare Centre.

The parents were somewhat impressed by the low fees. But Qiming was a new childcare centre to them and the parents were concerned about their cubs being mistreated.

Some parents who were thinking ahead were also concerned about the lack of teachers and whether their cubs would be worse off in elementary school than other cubs if they only took basic classes.

When parents looked up Qiming Childcare Centre on the Starnet, the official website of the childcare centre immediately popped up underneath.

The first page of the centres website, with its fresh pale green background, clearly showed the data: the greenery, the number of buildings, the number of childcare teachers, the number of nutritionists and other information that parents were very concerned about.

From the animated data points, they could see a detailed status, such as the built-in library, mock battle arena and ecological fields. There was nothing out of place in terms of their hardware facilities.

Also included at the bottom were pictures of the renovated dormitories, the vibrant ecological fields, the interior of the library, the middle of the vibrant ecological fields and the neat interior of the mock battle arena.

There were explanations on the side of the pictures and the text next to the picture of the ecological field explained why the cost of living in the childcare centre was cheaper- the ecological field in the centre was different to other centres that gave them to the dragon cubs to play with. The growth was good and the output would be put on the table, so food for the little dragon cubs would be a little cheaper.

As for life and teachers, each class had two regular childcare teachers to take care of the cubs’ daily life. The childcare teachers were also in charge of the classes, which include not only the mandatory basic classes, but also several elective classes. The most common classes were music, gardening, cooking, and combat…

Wait, why does the combat class teacher say He Xing?
Was it the He Xing they were thinking of?

There was no shortage of people in the empire called He Xing, but for He Xing, who worked in a childcare centre on Water Star, there was no way for the dragons to think of His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince.

Parents were left scratching their heads for a while, but unfortunately the page wouldn’t answer their questions, so they had to scroll down the again and after the combat lessons they found it:

Human Race Elective Class Teacher: Shen Mian (Dean)

Intelligent Robotics Elective Class Teacher: Ke Yu (Imperial Academy of Engineering)

Parents at first glance: ?

Parents at second glance: ?????

So the dean is the super popular, super good lecturer Shen Mian, right?
So the He Xing above is our Crown Prince, right?
So that Imperial Academy of Engineering academician below was also real, right?
Why would an academician come to a childcare centre to teach little dragon cubs?

Parents: …That’s magical.

They didn’t associate Qiming with Shen Mian at first, but now that they knew that Shen Mian was the dean of Qiming, they immediately thought of Shen Mian’s little dragon cubs.

Xing Fei published a book.
Yan Tan drew illustrations for the book that Xing Fei published.
Gian could make robots before he even graduated from the childcare centre.
Lu Yuan sold several of Gian’s randomly built robots out of stock.
Qin Yi seems to be very good at combat.
Rhein was a really good sleeper and slept very philosophically.

……

Qiming Childcare Centre, a childcare centre that has been amazing since the dean first came.

……

Today was the first day the centre was accepting applications for the new school year.

Shen Mian woke up early to change into a white shirt and put on a black formal jacket, dressed very formally.

He Xing was forced to go into the bathroom to take a shower and when he came out, he was wearing a towel. He leaned against the cabinet with his hand and held his chin in contemplation before taking out a large box.

Shen Mian, “What is it?”

He Xing opened the box, revealing the marshal’s military uniform inside with epaulettes sealed in a pouch. “Changing into something more formal.”

Shen Mian, “…Are you participating in an awards ceremony?”
Shen Mian paused, opened the cabinet, and took out a new suit that had been washed, “Her Highness bought the formal suit, wear this one.”

He looked at the time. It was almost 8:30. He was ready to go down to see how the centres enrollment was going. “I’ll go down first. It seems that Wen Yan is already outside.”

This was the first year that the childcare centre officially recruited new students. Both Shen Mian and Wen Yan attach great importance to it, after all, this year’s enrollment will then affect next year’s enrollment to some extent.

Shen Mian was actually a little worried that there wouldn’t be many new students this year, but once he went downstairs, he found many parents waiting at the entrance of the centre, most of them holding baby dragons in their arms and lining up to register.

Wen Yan watched him come down, held his quantum computer and whispered, “The little dragon cubs who just transferred here have already come over and were just taken away by their class teacher. These are all first grade dragon cubs in the queue, and I spoke with a few parents, and they all think our centre has a good environment and teaching philosophy.”

Shen Mian nodded his head and was about to speak when he suddenly heard the cries of the little dragon cub.

He and Wen Yan looked up at the same time, and Wen Yan, who had been a childcare teacher for more than 10 years, spoke up with a smile, “Eiya, I was just saying that there were no little dragon cubs crying this year. It felt like something was missing.”

Shen Mian, “…”
The little dragon cubs cried too loudly and in a short while, the other little dragons, who were fine, also cried. Dean Shen sighed and walked out from under the shade of the tree.

The one crying was a little bubble dragon girl.
The bubble dragon is a medium-sized dragon of the devouring dragon genus. The little girl, only about fifty centimeters tall, with big, fluffy ears wider than her body, small head and small hairy claws, stood next to her tall father, crying her eyes out and drooping her ears.

Shen Mian crouched down in front of the little girl, took out a tissue and handed it to the little girl’s father first. “Hello, why are you crying?”

When the father saw him coming from inside the centre, he knew that he was an employee of the centre and took the tissue to wipe his daughter’s face.

The little girl quickly lowered her ears to shield her face and was embarrassed to answer.

The dragon cub’s father scratched his head. “This is my daughter, just four years old this week. I was trying to bring her to see the childcare centre since she has to go to school in the future. She kept crying because she thought I was going to sell her.”

The little girl didn’t even hear what her dad was saying and just focused on looking at Shen Mian.

The little girl quietly asked in a delicate voice, “Dad, are you going to sell me to this uncle?”

The dragon cub’s father almost knelt down for her. “I don’t dare to sweety, your daddy will kill me, I’m really not selling…”

The little girl didn’t care, reaching out to take Shen Mian’s fingertips. “Then, then you sell me cheaper. Don’t ask uncle for too much money.”

The dragon cub’s father, “???”

Wen Yan almost laughed out loud, but fortunately he was very professional and managed to hold back. He was just about to explain to the little dragon cub what school was, when he heard footsteps behind me and turned around to see His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince striding over and nodding to him, then standing beside the dean.

Wen Yan was confused, then he muttered in his heart: His Highness’s suit and the dean’s suit should be a couple’s set… they’re matched.

Shen Mian didn’t even need to turn around to know it was He Xing.

The little girl looked at the new uncle for a while, sniffled, and got even sadder. “This good-looking uncle is wearing the same thing as that uncle… Daddy says this is called a couple’s set. Then, then I won’t be sold wu wu wu wu.”

He Xing didn’t understand the situation, smiled and crouched down. “What are you selling?”

The little girl, “Selling little dragon cubs.”

He Xing was stunned.

Shen Mian gently bumped him and He Xing smiled and stood up. Shen Mian smoothed out the little girl’s fur. “We don’t accept dragon cubs, but we do accept students. The students learn to count, read and write, and to meet other little dragon cubs. When you’re two years older, you can come in and get to know the nice little dragon cubs.”

The little girl didn’t understand, but it didn’t stop her from knowing that in a couple of years she would be able to come to a place full of beautiful uncles.

“Then uncle, what is this place of yours called?”

Shen Mian instructed her to look at the gate of the centre and taught her to read one word at a time, “Qiming Childcare Centre.”

The little girl learned earnestly. “Qi-ming-child-care-centre.”

He Xing stood beside Shen Mian and stretched out his hand to rub the little girl’s big ears that felt really good. “We’ll wait for you.”

The little girl looked at the big gold letters on the door and said to herself: Qiming Childcare Centre.

In the autumn breeze, the sunlight made Shen Mian squint his eyes lightly. He Xing changed his position to block the sunlight and said with a soft smile in Shen Mian’s ear as he stood still, “Mother bought a couple’s set. Did you know?”

The suits were a set, from the accessories to the pattern, and Shen Mian and He Xing were currently wearing it.

Shen Mian inclined his head to one side, “…Mn.”
Of course he knew.

(End of main text)

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Woooooo guess whos back from genshin grinding.

Sorry for delaying this for two weeks aha

We are now done with the main text! I promise I will post the extras very soon!!!!!!

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