The father and son had casually eaten a couple of bowls of noodles at the State-owned Restaurant and bought some steamed buns to take with them before heading to the bus station. After boarding the bus, Zheng Long voluntarily told Zheng Kai, "The man just now, he’s my younger brother, my own brother."
Zheng Kai had naturally realized this already, but he hadn’t asked because his father hadn’t mentioned it. Now that his father had brought it up, he listened attentively with an earnest expression.
Zheng Long indifferently recounted the situation of the Long Family, and after hearing it, Zheng Kai felt even more sympathy for his father.
"Dad, you don’t have to be sad anymore. With me by your side, we’ll support each other as father and son. We will certainly never go back to those old days."
Zheng Long chuckled and patted Zheng Kai on the head, "Don’t worry. I’ve long since cut ties with them. They aren’t worthy of me now!"
He had already changed his name and identity. Unless they went to the Police Station to check his records, so long as he denied it, even if they were certain in their hearts, they had no proof.
Upon returning to Hei Province to stay with the troops for over twenty days, the school year began, and twenty-nine-year-old Zheng Long once again stepped into a school building. This year, he was a sophomore.
As an older male student, there were quite a few sister-in-laws trying to set him up, but he rejected them all.
This was where Zheng Kai’s importance came to light. Whatever the matter, Zheng Long used Zheng Kai as a reason, ensuring no one dared to meddle in his affairs again.
In his four years at university, he also received confessions from three or four junior and senior girls. Though none of them were older than he was, considering his own merits, he was actually quite desirable. He might not have been very handsome, but he was rugged with a tall and upright figure. The key was that he was a cultured military officer with a bright future, so as long as his suitors didn’t have unreasonable expectations, in comparison with others at the same level, they would undoubtedly choose him.
Nevertheless, his heart was devoid of any trace of affection for women, so it seemed he was destined to be a bachelor for life.
In the summer of ’78, after graduating, he was not assigned back to his original unit but instead went to a certain army unit in H Province, where he became a company commander.
Zheng Kai completed junior high school and advanced to a key high school in Hei Province. Since he was already familiar with the life there, he didn’t switch back and forth.
However, if he wasn’t mistaken, his career would likely not see much change in the future. H Province, situated in the Central Plains, was a good place. Although he was assigned to a mountainous field army, it didn’t mean there were no opportunities for advancement. At thirty-four, he was very healthy and vibrant due to regular exercise and didn’t look old at all. Follow current novels on novel✦fire.net
Perhaps it was because Heaven felt that having only one son wasn’t perfect in his life, so when he went to the hospital for a physical examination, he stumbled upon an abandoned baby girl in a trash bin. The baby seemed to have been born just a few days prior and was crying energetically, not appearing to be sick.
He took the child to the maternity ward, and someone there immediately recognized which bed the child came from, as mentioned by a nurse.
"I knew right away that this child would likely be abandoned. I didn’t expect them to be so eager to do it, truly pitiful. A child without a mother is the most pitiful."
Upon further inquiry, it was revealed that the child’s mother had died giving birth to her, and neither her in-law’s house nor her own family wanted the child. Both families were only concerned with arguing over compensation, and no one cared about her fate. Yet the doctors and nurses never imagined that they could be cruel enough to throw her straight into the trash bin. How heartless and ungrateful could people be to commit such an act?