Chapter 415 Godson
Liu Zhiye and his wife felt very sorry, so they brought gifts and their three children to the Dong'an Second Division family compound and went to the injured child's home to express their sincere apologies.

There is no need to ask too much about the injured child's family background, as his parents are both affiliated with the Second Division.

The little boy's father, Su Ze, was the deputy commander of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Guard Division, and his mother, Lin Yu, was the head nurse of the 2nd Division's hospital.

Su Ze had just been transferred to the Second Guard Division this year, and his family had moved to the Liujiazhuang family compound less than a month ago.

Today, Su Ze is not at home as he is on official business at the regiment headquarters. Only his wife, head nurse Lin Yu, his elderly mother and his children are at home.

As the head of a division, Liu Zhiye personally led his children to the injured child's home to express his apology, which surprised and touched the family of the injured child, and filled their hearts with an indescribable warmth and respect.

Liu Zhiye and Gan Ning nodded slightly to Su Ze's family members. The child's mother hurried forward, with a bit of apology and understanding in her tone: "Chief, you are too modest. It is common for children to fight and quarrel with each other, and stumbling is also an inevitable episode on the road to growth. You are very busy, but you still took the time to come here. We are really touched and sorry." Her words revealed a simple and reasonable attitude, which instantly eased the atmosphere a lot.

"Comrade Lin Yu, you're welcome. We are not here to visit you as unit leaders, but to apologize as parents. My daughter has been raised wild by my husband and I, and we were so harsh in our treatment..." Gan Ning said somewhat embarrassedly. She felt embarrassed that her daughter had been raised into a tomboy by her.

Liu Zhiye, standing aside, echoed with a serious expression: "Yes, we will definitely discipline them strictly after we return..."

Hearing this, Lin Yu couldn't help but feel a little worried. His eyes fell gently on the three children of the Liu family, "This... Leader, since the children have realized their mistakes, let them go. Children are naughty by nature, it's normal, don't be too harsh..."

Lin Yu, she also came from a revolutionary military family, and she had a deep understanding of the strict discipline of her military parents since she was a child.

This unique background gave him a deeper understanding of his parents who were both military men.

It is said that loving children is the nature of most parents, but this nature is often not seen in old military families who have experienced the war years.

To share her own unique feelings, she thinks that children from old military families may lack some fatherly and motherly love, and also lack a happy childhood.

In all her memories, from the day she met her father, he was a manager who made her feel majestic and could not be avoided.

When he was about three or four years old, Lin Yu understood that he had to remember and try his best to complete the things his father told him to do, otherwise he would be punished with corporal punishment at the very least and beaten at the worst, and these beatings would often be so sudden that they would make you feel scared.

After beating you, he would leave you with a sentence like this: "Think carefully about why you were beaten?" In the eyes of their old military father, they, the brothers and sisters, were not children at all, but soldiers, soldiers disciplined by him personally.

For example, when their father took them and their siblings to the street, their father walked in front and Lin Yu and the others had to run behind to keep up with him.

For example, if Lin Yu’s father asked his brother to help move some things, even if his brother grimaced and said he couldn’t move them, his father would never come to lend a hand.

Lin Yu's father believes in the law of the jungle where the fittest survive. The weaker you are, the more he will look down on you!
Why were you beaten? In the eyes of a strict and critical father, he could find a reason to beat you at any time.

Like having poor grades and failing exams. Like fighting with other kids in the yard and having their parents complain.

He even asked you to wipe the table but didn't do it clean, and he also forgot to do things he asked him to do.

There are also some things that he got from nowhere and he suspects you stole them, and he insists that you explain it clearly.

To sum it up, there are two reasons: one is that I dislike you, and the other is to make you remember it.

So Lin Yu and her brother loved going to school since they were young. It was not because they liked studying, but because the school she attended was a military school with a boarding system.

In school, Lin Yu felt that everything was very good except that her academic performance was poor and she could not see her "evil-looking" father.

Lin Yu remembered that when she was in elementary school, her parents were basically separated, and her mother lived with her grandparents in Beijing with her three children.

At that time, her father was in the army in Tianjin Port and only had one day off to go home on Saturday.

If their father went to the army on Sundays, they wouldn't be able to see him, so their brother would prepare some simple meals for her and her sister. Lin Yu remembered that the most common meal they ate was steamed buns with Cuban white sugar.

Sometimes my father would take them to restaurants to eat something good, but I never dared to eat too much.

You only eat when your father tells you to, and you don’t dare to pick up food casually, for fear that your father will say you are immature.

Normally, I would only dare to eat a piece of meat when my father wasn't paying attention.

It seems that this is the family rule in their house. Children are not allowed to use their chopsticks until the adults start eating. Although there is no fixed amount of food during meals, brothers and sisters must take care of each other. Children are not allowed to interrupt when adults are talking. They are not even allowed to make any unreasonable requests to their parents.

As for this one thing, Lin Yu followed it all her life, obeying her parents' orders. She never dared to tell her parents even about things that were reasonable and legitimate, and she endured it no matter how wronged she felt.

Lin Yu felt that there were some similarities between their military families and the families of the "military F" in the past, namely, establishing absolute authority, requiring absolute obedience, not allowing reason, and there was no reason to talk about. If anyone disobeyed the rules, they would be beaten with sticks and subject to military law.

When I was a child, if my father asked me to go to his room, it was never a good thing. I would be beaten at worst and scolded at worst. To me, his room was like a "military court".

Lin Yu's father was born in a poor family in the mountains of Nanhu. He herded cattle for the landlord at the age of 8, went to the tin mine to carry ore with adults at the age of ten, and joined the Red Army at the age of 15 and worked as a guard for Xxx.

Later, he led troops to fight in the midst of gunfire and bullets, which naturally formed his temperament and work style.

He had been in the army leading troops to fight. He knew that if the soldiers he led could not endure hardship, or did not obey orders, and lacked ability, then when encountering a critical moment, they would inevitably be defeated and the troops would not be able to complete the mission.

There is a saying circulating in the army: "A kind person cannot command an army!" Objectively speaking, although the People's Army implements the three major styles that are consistent among officers and soldiers, the militaristic style of the war years still exists in the army.

From childhood, she heard from her mother that during the war, her father's subordinates were afraid of him using violence. At that time, the higher the rank, the more powerful the official, and they carried guns with them.

Lin Yu's mother gave birth to six brothers and sisters. She was also an old soldier who joined the Red Army during the period.

I am helpless about my father's natural temper and military style, and I know that he can't change his temper in this life.

So the mother followed her father and let him lead and manage them like he was leading soldiers in an army.

If they were naughty and disobedient when they were young, they would immediately behave themselves as soon as their mother said, "Come back and tell your father!"

When Lin Yu was born in 45, her father was only in his 30s, at the prime of his life. He led troops in the army and took care of his children at home. Her two older brothers were beaten even more severely, but her older sister was not scolded or beaten much. The reason was that her older sister almost died after she was born. The doctor said she would not survive, but her father rushed to the hospital on horseback from the army and forced the doctor at gunpoint to save her.

So when she was young, she was the only child in the family whose parents celebrated her birthday; the other children did not have this treatment.

Lin Yu had always felt that her parents were partial to her since she was a child, and she was very dissatisfied. Especially after her younger sister and brother were born, her parents became a little too partial to her when they had children in their old age.

But in this old military family atmosphere, Lin Yu has learned tolerance, perseverance, obedience, and hard work since he was a child!
The special family education made Lin Yu what she is today. In her twenties, she became the head nurse in a military hospital.

Of course, her two brothers did better than her in the army. One became a flight squadron captain and the other a regimental commander, both of whom were middle and senior military officers.

My sisters are also doctors and nurses in the military hospital.

If there is any kind of qualities that these children from old military families possess, Lin Yu thinks that "loyalty, responsibility, commitment, perseverance, hard work, and maintaining the status quo" should be the unique marks of their generation.

The reason why the fathers of the children in the military compounds were able to lead troops and fight in the army was because of their excellent qualities of hard work and ability, which enabled them to work in the army for a long time and even retire for life.

When educating their own children, they also require them to cultivate the spirit of endurance and hard work and exercise their various abilities from an early age, just like them, so they send their children to the army early.

They were required to fight with many soldiers from rural areas who were older, stronger and even less educated than them, and to develop strict discipline, military training and ideological transformation in the army. Therefore, the children of veteran soldiers had no concept of children or minors at all, and seemed to feel that they were soldiers from an early age.

Tan Guiying, the daughter of the old revolutionary Tan Fagui, who lived in the same courtyard as Lin Yu, joined the Chengde War Preparation Hospital at the age of 15 and first fed pigs for three months.

There are more than 30 pigs here. She cooks pig food before dawn every day.

Because the pigpen is halfway up the mountain, we use a shoulder pole to carry the pigs up the mountain. When we get tired, we take a rest. Even if we can't bear it anymore, we have to persist because this is our job and our mission.

Later, she wrote a letter home to complain. Her father replied, "What did we eat when we were crossing the grassland? No matter how hard your life is now, it is not as hard as it was back then. You must be able to endure the hardships that others can endure!"

If fate has been kind to the children of veteran soldiers, it is that when they are only fourteen or fifteen years old, they are sent into the army by veteran soldiers who have only the Party and the army in their hearts, to suffer the same hardships and receive the same education as their fathers.

There are too many similar stories these days. Children from old military families seem to be born to belong to the army and the country.

They really have no self-selection and the so-called happy childhood and youth. When they were very young, they learned excellent qualities such as hard work, obedience, patience and loyalty from their parents. These qualities will benefit them throughout their lives and will be passed on to their next generation.

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After bidding farewell to Lin Yu’s family, Liu Zhiye and his wife walked home with their three children.

Seeing the three children playing and fighting on the road, feeling relieved, the couple looked at each other and felt that they should pay more attention to the children's education and could not just leave them alone.

After the family of five entered the house, Liu Zhiye sat down on the sofa, his face gradually becoming gloomy.

The three children looked at their silent father sitting on the sofa, and couldn't help feeling a little fear in their hearts.

Compared to her two naive brothers, Xiaoxian was particularly alert. She immediately sensed that something was wrong and was secretly thinking about how to get out of this situation.

"Mom, I want to sleep with grandpa and grandma tonight, so just leave me alone." Before she finished speaking, she tried to sneak away.

"Liu Zhiye finally couldn't hold it back anymore and suddenly burst into a stern rebuke: "Come back here!" His voice echoed in the empty courtyard with unquestionable majesty.

"Are you going to make a scene? Come, tell me how many troubles you have caused recently. If I don't discipline you, I'm afraid you will become a bully in Liujia Village. This is too outrageous!"

This sudden scolding made the three children stunned in an instant, Xiaoxian was particularly shocked. She was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses. Tears welled up in her eyes and finally turned into a cry of grievance: "Wow! Dad, why are you so fierce... I'm so scared... Woo woo..."

Her crying was like a fuse, instantly igniting the emotions of the other two little ones. The crying of the three of them intertwined and echoed throughout the yard.

At this time, Liu Jingzhai and his wife had not yet gone to bed. They were startled by the sudden crying and hurriedly put on their coats and rushed to the central courtyard to check the situation.

"Oh, what happened to my eldest granddaughter? Who bullied you? Why are you crying so sadly?" As Deng Ru entered the door, she saw her beloved granddaughter crying bitterly. She felt so distressed that she hurriedly stepped forward, hugged her in her arms, and comforted her in a soft voice.

Liu Zhiye's tone was stern at this moment, and he asked directly: "She still has the nerve to cry? How big of a grudge do you have that you actually split your classmate's head?"

Liu Jingzhai and Deng Ru happened to be out today, visiting their second son Liu Zhitai's house to visit their new grandson, and were completely unaware of the trouble that Xiaoxian and her two siblings had gotten into.

Recently, things have become much quieter outside. Liu Zhitai and his wife, bringing their young son, who was less than two years old, resolutely returned to Union Hospital to continue their medical mission.

Deng Ru was really worried about the family of three, so she went to their house every few days to help take care of them.

Hearing this, they were both shocked. "What? You said Xiaoxian broke someone's head? How could this happen? Is the child okay?"

Gan Ning quickly comforted her and explained, "Mom, don't worry, it's not that serious. It's just a little scrape and some bleeding. It looks scary, but it's actually nothing serious."

When Deng Ru heard this, she patted her chest and said in shock, "Oh, you really scared me. How could you be so naughty?"

Xiaoxian saw his grandparents beside him and felt safe. He argued loudly, "They were the first to hit my brother. Can you blame me?"

"There were so many of them, five or six of them besieged my brother. I was just standing up for my brother. How was I wrong?" Xiaoxian's words revealed a bit of stubbornness and unwillingness.

Deng Ru also said in a somewhat reproachful tone: "Then you can just teach them a lesson, why did you break their heads?"

Xiaoxian curled his lips, looking somewhat helpless: "I don't want to either, he looks strong, but he is unexpectedly so weak.

During the scuffle between the two of us, he accidentally bumped into a rock on the roadside. It was purely an accident, how can you blame me..."

Witnessing this scene, the anger in Liu Zhiye's heart seemed to be rekindled like dry firewood poured with oil, "How dare you quibble? If you hadn't started it first, how could the other party be bleeding? You obviously have no regrets. Today, I must make you remember this!" After saying that, he strode forward to take the belt, vowing to teach Xiaoxian a profound lesson.

Seeing this, Xiaoxian was so frightened that she quickly ran behind her grandmother, as if she was her only safe haven.

Her two younger brothers didn't even bother to wipe the tears from their faces and quickly hid under the protection of their grandfather.

They were really scared of this thing. It hurt so much when it hit people that they still remember it vividly.

Gan Ning had a conflicted look on her face. She wanted to stop him but didn't dare to. She knew that if Liu Zhiye really got angry, everyone would be afraid of him, not even Liu Jingzhai and his wife could control him.

Every time he used the armed belt to educate the children, Gan Ning felt heartbroken.

However, there is still someone in this family who can shock him.

That is the old man. As long as he takes action, no matter how angry Liu Zhiye is, he can suppress it.

So, seeing that the situation was not good, Gan Ning immediately went to the backyard to invite the old man.

Liu Zhiye frowned and said to his parents in a deep voice: "Dad, Mom, please give way. Today, I have to teach these three little guys a lesson and set some rules. If we let them indulge themselves any longer, what will happen when they grow up!" His tone revealed his dissatisfaction with his children being over-indulged.

Liu Jingzhai scolded him harshly: "What are you doing? Don't scare the child! How can you educate a child so roughly? When you encounter a problem, you swing a stick. How can this be the way to educate a child?"

"I say, when did you develop such a bad habit of solving problems with violence? You were not like this before. Do you think they are your subordinates?"

Deng Ru also scolded him, "That's right, Xiao Ning complained to us before, saying that you want to beat the children when you get angry. What's wrong with you?"

"Why can't you just talk it out calmly? The children are still so young, what do they know?"

Liu Zhiye saw that the grandparents of the children were still blindly protecting the three children who made mistakes at this critical moment. He thought to himself that this was undoubtedly the result of the two elders' over-indulgence. He said bluntly: "I have a deep understanding of the saying 'greater generations are closer'. When I think back to when I was a child, you disciplined my brother and me strictly, without any ambiguity."

"But now, when it comes to your grandchildren's generation, why are you spoiling them so excessively? Aren't you afraid that you will spoil them into being useless?"

"Can beating a child be educated well?" An old voice was heard, and then Gan Ning walked in slowly, supporting the old man.

Liu Zhiye first glared at Gan Ning, then immediately stepped forward to support the old man.

"Grandpa, it's so late, why don't you go to rest?"

(End of this chapter)