Accidentally entered a high gate

Yang San wanted to say he still wanted to be a soldier, and that he wouldn't argue with his father. However, "Yang Chunsheng is now a division commander. My two attempts to enlist were probably related to him."

Yang San said that Yang Chunsheng was his biological father.

Yang Chunsheng is the man Zheng Daniu mentioned, whose wife had given birth to three children for him, yet he still divorced her, citing an arranged marriage as the reason.

After hearing Yang San's words, Ma Lifeng straightened his back smugly. "Commander Yang has to salute my elder brother when he sees him."

Yang San's eyes lit up. "Why don't you tell your older brother about my situation first?"

"Alright. I'll go back and write a letter to my older brother." With that, Ma Lifeng turned to leave.

"Wait a minute. Aren't you going to ask me where the chicken and eggs in my hand came from?"

Ma Lifeng casually said, "Given your family's situation, unless you're stupid, you wouldn't be engaging in speculation. At most, you'd find a secluded spot in the mountains to raise a few broods of pheasants, and then use the pheasants and eggs to trade for some herbal medicine for your mother." His mother raised three children on her own when she was young, and now that she's older, she's been plagued by illnesses.

Yang San had always considered himself quite clever. Now he truly understood the meaning of "there are always people more capable than you, and the sky's the limit." "Did you already realize those guys were trying to blackmail you?"

"Okay. I'm leaving now. You should go about your business too. I'll come find you again after my older brother replies to me."

"Thank you. May I come over for a drink when your daughter turns one month old?"

"Of course! We'll have a good drink then."

"Hmm." Regardless of whether Ma Zhiqing's older brother was willing to take on this task, he appreciated Ma Zhiqing's kindness.

Li Guihua was taken aback when she saw Ma Lifeng return empty-handed. "Didn't you go up the mountain to gather firewood?"

"I ran into Yang San and chatted with him for a while. You know Yang San, right?"

"I know. Yang San is a well-known good young man in our area. What did you talk about with him?"

Ma Lifeng moved closer to her and whispered, "Let's talk about his time in the army."

Li Guihua glanced towards the door and whispered, "Everyone says it was his father's second wife who caused this."

"Not necessarily. Some men will do anything to please a woman."

"That's true. Before liberation, in my maternal grandmother's village, there was a man who sold his own daughter to buy a bracelet for his concubine."

"He's inhuman. Did he get his comeuppance later?"

"Yes. He fell and became paralyzed when he went to the outhouse in the middle of the night. As soon as he became paralyzed, his mistress ran away with all his belongings."

"and then?"

"Then he starved to death a few days later."

"Serves you right! There's a guy like that in our area..."

Zheng Chunfang overheard Ma Lifeng saying he had met Yang San and wanted to know what they had talked about. However, Ma Lifeng didn't come in.

Zheng Chunfang kissed her daughter's little hand. "Your dad is probably chatting with your grandma again. I wonder if he genuinely enjoys talking about those things, or if he's just trying to please her?"

Little Bowl thinks his dad really likes it. "Ahhh..." Call my dad and grandma in, I want to hear too!

"Do you miss your dad?"

"Ahhh..." Yes, yes, I miss my dad. Quickly call him in.

Zheng Chunfang, carrying Xiaowanwan, walked to the window and called out loudly, "Mom, Lifeng, come in and chat. Wanwan misses you."

Little Bowl: "..." Her mother wasn't using her; her mother knew what she was thinking. She and her mother were of one heart.

Li Guihua and Ma Lifeng: "..." How big is Xiaowanwan? "Here it comes, we missed Wanwan too."

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Little Bowl is almost a month old.

In the middle of the night, Ma Lifeng was sleeping soundly when he was suddenly patted by a small hand.

Ma Lifeng resignedly got up. "Wait a minute, Daddy will make you some milk."

Snapped!

Little Bowl patted him again, and then pointed outside.

Ma Lifeng rubbed his face. "Aren't you hungry? Do you want to go outside to play? You can't go outside to play yet. Dad will take you outside to play after you're a month old."

Little Bowl: "..." Never mind, she'll just call her mother. Her mother and she are of one heart.

Little Bowl tugged at Zheng Chunfang's clothes.

After Zheng Chunfang woke up, Xiao Wanwan raised her hand and pointed outside. "Ahhh..." Someone is coming towards our house.

Zheng Chunfang yawned. "Sweetie! You're still too little to play outside. Mommy will take you out to play when you're a month old."

Little Bowl: "..." What happened to the mother-daughter bond? "Ahhh..." The hearing of two-legged creatures is just not good!

Zheng Chunfang gently patted her daughter's swaddle blanket. "Sweetie! Go to sleep if you're not hungry."

Sleep what?

Little Wanwan raised her two tiny hands and tugged at Zheng Chunfang and Ma Lifeng's hair. Every time Zheng Chunfang and Ma Lifeng fell asleep, she would tug at their hair; every time they fell asleep, she would tug at their hair...

Zheng Chunfang: "..." What's wrong with her daughter? Her daughter has always been very well-behaved.

Zheng Chunfang, holding the small bowl, moved closer to Ma Lifeng. "Do you think we have guests?"

She had barely finished speaking when she heard someone whisper, "Mistress, open the door."

Zheng Chunfang's body hairs stood on end. "You...you've come to the wrong place. My house...my house doesn't have a mistress. You...you should look somewhere else."

Ma Lifeng paused for a moment, then laughed. "There are no ghosts in the world. It's my older brother outside. Brother, wait a moment, I'll get dressed and open the door for you."

Ma Lihan: "..." The mistress and her wife are still awake so late? "Yeah."

Zheng Chunfang: "..." She was terrified! Whew...

Little Bowl: "..." So it was her uncle. Was her uncle a night owl in disguise?

After Ma Lifeng finished dressing, he opened the door.

When Ma Lihan followed Ma Lifeng in, he saw a young wife holding a baby standing in the main room.

Just as Ma Lihan was about to say, "I'm sorry, I have other things to do during the day, so I can only come at this time," he saw his little niece reaching out her two tiny hands, wanting him to hold her...

Ma Lihan was a little surprised. People like them, who had survived mountains of corpses and seas of blood, usually wouldn't let a baby hold them willingly. "Does she want me to hold her?"

"Mmm." Little Bowl stretched her arms forward again.

Ma Lifeng picked up the little bowl and placed it in Ma Lihan's arms.

Little Wanwan immediately grabbed Ma Lihan's clothes and rubbed against him. Her uncle had accumulated a lot of merit, so she wanted to rub against him as much as possible.

Ma Lihan couldn't help but smile. "This kid is really brave."

Ma Lifeng pinched his daughter's little ear. "She's not only brave, she also has incredibly sharp ears. She heard us before you even reached the door and woke us up."

"Why are you guys still up so late? You know where Yang Sanjia is, right? I'm here on business and I'll test him a bit. If he passes, I'll recruit him into the army."

"What if it doesn't pass?"

"If they fail, the consequences range from labor camp to special supervision."

Ma Lifeng: "..." Really? "The test is related to his father?"

"Yes. His father's second wife told the recruiters here that she hated his father very much, and that if he were recruited into the army, he might betray the country because of his hatred for his father."

Ma Lifeng: "..." If she said that, how could the recruiters dare to recruit Yang San into the army? "Was this your own decision to come, or was it discussed beforehand?"

He wanted to recruit talent for the country and make more close friends, but he couldn't let his older brother down.

"After discussion, we all felt we should give him a chance."

Ma Lifeng felt relieved. "This opportunity was a bit risky."

"Indeed. However, if he passes, the military region leaders will remember him. Do you regret recommending him?"

"No. Given his qualifications, if he's consistently overlooked during recruitment, he'll harbor resentment and feel it's unfair. Rather than that, it's better to see sooner rather than later whether his hatred for his father will make him forget that the country comes before the family."

"Not only him, but ordinary people also feel that we are being unfair."

Indeed. "I'll take you there right away."

"Okay." Ma Lihan wanted to return the small bowl to Zheng Chunfang, but then realized that she wasn't going to take it back.

Ma Lihan: "..." His little niece likes him that much? His daughter wasn't very clingy to him when she was little.