I Opened a Kindergarten in Ancient Times

To make ends meet, Shen Chunxi had no choice but to return to her old line of work and open a kindergarten.

The folks in the surrounding villages scoffed.

“It’s not even a proper school. What’s a discarded wife going to do, corrupt my child?”

“Why bother looking after four- and five-year-olds? Leave them in the fields. Are they going to disappear?”

But things soon took a strange turn.

The duke’s legitimate grandson, a princess’s daughter, the prime minister’s illegitimate son, and daughters from prominent families all came calling.

The poor children, orphaned girls, unruly kids, and frail youngsters who’d been sent to her were transformed, each becoming a prodigy that astonished the world.

Teaching arithmetic with counting stones, crafting with wheat stalks, stimulating young minds with sand tables, and teaching etiquette through games were all unheard of. The local scholars were left pale with shock.

“Hmph. She just got lucky and found one or two, three, four... seven, eight, nine, ten good seedlings.”

“Exactly. Talented children like these would only be living up to their potential in my hands.”

“An uncouth peasant woman should know her place.”

Only Shen Chunxi knew that the little ones the outside world called “prodigies” and “geniuses” were all children with behavioral problems.

“No.” Shen Chunxi frowned. “You can’t use your own handkerchief to wipe a piglet, and you definitely can’t use a handkerchief that’s wiped a pig to wipe someone else’s face. You can’t even wipe your own face with it!”

“The child didn’t do it on purpose.” The Grand Tutor of the dynasty strictly put the new style of education into practice, speaking up to comfort the child.

Shen Chunxi: “...?”

This isn’t the time to be gentle, Grand Tutor. Where’s your ruler?

[Reading Guide]

1. Slow-paced farming, early childhood education, everyday kindergarten life, and the lives of ordinary townsfolk.

2. Set in an imaginary dynasty. Some ingredients and items have been adjusted to suit the story, and the timeline doesn’t follow real history.

4. Volume One follows the heroine as she adjusts to ancient life and establishes herself. The kindergarten opens in Volume Two.

Theme: Grow toward the light