I'm only five years old, how come I've become the military region's darling?

Village Committee.

Ruan Xiaochun knocked on the door.

"Uncle Xuehong? Are you there?"

Li Xuehong, who was pouring water, turned around and looked at the child standing by the door.

He quickly put down the water glass.

"Xiaochun, what brings you here? Where's your dad?"

Ruan Xiaochun pointed to her father, who was kicking corncobs on the ground outside the door.

"My dad's playing over there."

Li Xuehong immediately shouted out the window, "Brother Jianhua, what are you doing? Come in and I'll give you something to eat."

Upon hearing about food, Ruan Jianhua rushed into the office.

"Here you go, I just bought it yesterday."

Ruan Jianhua pinched two fruit candies and stuffed them into Ruan Xiaochun's hand.

"For Xiaochun."

Li Xuehong: "Brother Jianhua, can I have one too?"

His face contorted in pain, and he pretended not to hear, running back to the threshing ground to kick corn cobs.

Li Xuehong watched him jumping around, feeling both annoyed and amused.

"I don't know if she's genuinely stupid or just pretending."

Ruan Xiaochun looked up and said, "Uncle, my dad will be alright."

"That's for sure. I've heard that medical skills in big cities improve every day."

Li Xuehong was her father's brother, whom he grew up with. In their past life, it was through his constant mediation that Su Mei finally compromised and took her away.

But he never expected that the most poisonous heart is that of a woman.

Despite this, Ruan Xiaochun was still grateful to him.

"Uncle Xuehong, I need your help."

"Um?"

"I want to take my dad to the military hospital to see Su Mei. Can you help me get a certificate?"

Li Xuehong frowned. "To the military hospital? Su Mei... no, your mother." Would that woman agree to that?

He didn't mean he looked down on Jianhua's wife; it's just that she's very materialistic.

If Xiaochun and Jianhua went there, he could easily imagine what kind of treatment they would receive.

Besides, the rumors circulating in the village might not necessarily be false.

I thought about it for a long time.

"Xiaochun, do you want me to go with you?"

Ruan Xiaochun's heart softened. "Uncle Xuehong, there's no need to trouble you. The village is busy with the wheat harvest. Xiaochun can go by herself. I just want to get a certificate, and could you please help me with another explanation, that Su Mei's job was arranged by the state because of my father's merits?"

Li Xuehong squatted down and looked Ruan Xiaochun in the eye.

"Tell me, what are you going to do?"

A perfectly healthy child shouldn't want this for no reason.

Ruan Xiaochun's eyes welled up with tears, which fell silently like egg drop soup.

"Uncle Xuehong, she doesn't want me and my dad anymore. I don't want her to live a good life relying on my dad's achievements. That's not how a person should behave."

Li Xuehong cursed Su Mei inwardly for being inhuman, for driving the child to this state.

She was an orphan girl who had been sent to the countryside.

The medical skills were taught by Old Lady Ruan, and Ruan Jianhua protected the person using his merits from his time in the army.

He turned around and showed no remorse, even towards his own family.

Ungrateful wretch.

Li Xuehong patted her head.

"Don't cry, Uncle will take care of this for you, don't worry."

"Come pick up your things tomorrow."

Ruan Xiaochun quickly thanked him, "Uncle Xuehong, if she calls, please don't tell her that we went to see him."

"Don't worry, I understand."

With this matter settled, a huge weight was lifted from Ruan Xiaochun's heart.

On my way home, I ran into Grandma Ruan.

"Milk!"

Ruan Xiaochun guessed what was going on as soon as she saw the old lady's pale face.

"Grandma, did she say she's not coming back?"

Grandma Ruan's face stiffened.

Thinking back to the phone call earlier, Su Mei's impatient voice came through.

"Mom, do you think I'm still in our village? I'm so busy with work right now, I really don't have time. I'll definitely come back when I have time."

What do you mean, "too busy"?

She also heard people inside laughing and cracking sunflower seeds, clearly just trying to brush her off.

There's a kind of frustrating feeling of not being able to reach into the phone.

"Grandma, don't be angry. I'll take my dad to the military region to find her tomorrow. If she ignores me, I'll ask the top leader of the military region to take charge."

Grandma Ruan's brow twitched as she stared into the little girl's dark eyes.

Yesterday she thought the little girl was just joking, but it seems she was serious.

"You little brat, do you even know what a military region is? Do you think you can just mess around like that?"

Ruan Xiaochun pursed her lips tightly, her small face extremely serious.

"Grandma, if I can't get justice here, I'll give up."

She firmly believed that the country would never abandon any soldier who risked his life for it.

Grandma Ruan looked at her determined expression.

The youthful passion within me surged back.

"Fine! I don't believe there's no place in this world where reason prevails. Let's go home and pack our things."

Although Grandma Ruan was not a soldier, she had saved many people during the invasion of the Little Suns, otherwise she would not have been able to protect Su Mei, who had been sent to the countryside, during that special period.

Pure red or purplish-red, with impeccable roots and noble lineage.

The old lady took out a large cloth bag and quickly finished preparing it.

Then he pulled out a small box from under the bed, rummaged through it for a while, and pulled out a roll of small bills tied with a rubber band.

"Take this, and here are the tickets. These are tickets for the whole country; your dad sent them back with them."

"Xiaochun, do you want Grandma to come with you?"

"No need for milk, don't worry, I'll take good care of Dad."

Grandma Ruan looked at Ruan Jianhua, who was feeding the chickens in a silly manner, and couldn't help but feel envious. "Just don't let your dad get lost."

"Grandma, even if I lose myself, I can't let my dad lose himself. I'm going to the military region in the provincial capital to take him to the hospital for a checkup. Maybe there's a way to cure him?"

She always wanted to give the old lady a glimmer of hope.

Otherwise, there would be no hope for living.

"Okay, Grandma believes you. If your mom bullies you, just call Grandma, and Grandma promises to come over and take her down."

As the old lady continued to give her instructions, Ruan Xiaochun said, "Don't worry, Grandma, I'll set off tomorrow as soon as I get Uncle Xuehong's certificate."

That evening, Ruan Xiaochun tinkered with a rusty iron chain.

Picking locks is not something just anyone can do.

Ruan Jianhua, wearing shorts and an old man's vest, sat on a bamboo stool next to her, fanning her with a large palm-leaf fan.

"Xiaochun, use this."

Ruan Xiaochun's face fell in disappointment.

"We need to use wire."

Ruan Jianhua looked at her, then suddenly reached out and took the iron chain, stuffing the wire inside.

"Click".

"Dad, how did you drive that? That's amazing!"

Xiao Chun jumped up like a monkey, curiously looking into Ruan Jianhua's hands.

"Dad, can you teach me?"

Ruan Jianhua scratched his head.

He didn't know why he was like that.

He wrapped his long arms around the little girl and lifted her onto his knees.

He took the big lock and did it again right in front of her.

"Dad, you're amazing."

Ruan Jianhua was unusually shy, and chuckled.

Xiaochun felt a mix of emotions.

If Dad wasn't mentally challenged, he would definitely be an incredibly capable person.

With his master's guidance, Xiaochun tinkered for another hour or so, and click!

The lock is open!

It worked!

Ruan Xiaochun's eyes lit up. "Dad, look..."

Looking back at Ruan Jianhua, who was dozing off and whose palm-leaf fan was about to fall out of his hand.

I felt a little guilty.

"Dad, come upstairs and go to sleep."

Ruan Jianhua groggily climbed into bed and pulled up a small blanket to cover her stomach.

He patted her back skillfully, one pat at a time.

He hummed a little tune.

"Da da da, beep beep beep beep..."

As Ruan Xiaochun listened to the melody, the voice in her mind rang out: "[Congratulations, host, you have acquired basic lockpicking skills.]"

The next second, knowledge entered her brain in a strange way.

When Ruan Xiaochun looked at the lock again, she thought it was very simple.

However, lock picking? That skill doesn't seem to be used very often!