Dare to shirk responsibility? This adorable little one will tear down your military district!

The hood of the Jeep was scorching hot, but Wang Guifen clung to it as if she were glued to her own warm kang (heated brick bed). Her face was covered in snot and tears, which were smeared on the car emblem, making her look nauseating.

"Your Honor, you must do me justice!"

Wang Guifen screamed at the top of her lungs, pounding the hood of the car with both hands, as if afraid the high-ranking official inside wouldn't hear: "The regimental commander has killed someone! His own son is trying to drive his own mother to her death here! Is there no law anymore?!"

The driver's side door was pushed open.

Bodyguard Xiao Li jumped out with a dark expression, his hand on his gun holster, and shouted sternly, "What are you doing! This is the commander's car, get out of the way!"

Upon hearing the word "Commander," Wang Guifen's eyes lit up like a hungry dog ​​eyeing a bone. "Commander is good! The higher the rank, the more concerned they are with their reputation. As long as I make a big enough scene, even this high-ranking official will have to bow down to Gu Changfeng for the sake of his reputation."

"I won't let you! I won't let you!" Wang Guifen simply wrapped her legs around the bumper, hanging on the front of the car like a mischievous monkey.

"Unless a high-ranking official intervenes and removes my ungrateful son, who's a regimental commander, from his post, and gives my youngest son a high-ranking position where he doesn't have to do any work, I'll die under this cart wheel!"

Gu Changfeng stood a few meters away, watching this scene. His usually cold and stern face was full of indifference, as if he were looking at a dead man.

He didn't move, and even leisurely tidied Meng Yaya's little hair that had been ruffled by the wind.

"Dad, is Grandma tired of living and wants to report to the King of Hell early?"

Meng Yaya spat the sunflower seed shells out of her mouth onto the ground with a "plop," her big eyes full of schadenfreude.

At that moment, the rear window slowly rolled down.

A hand holding a mahogany cane reached out and knocked heavily on the car door twice.

"Gu Changfeng".

A deep, resonant voice came from inside the car, exuding an air of authority that came from someone who had been in a high position for many years, making one's ears tingle.

Wang Guifen stopped howling, thinking that the high-ranking official was about to speak up for her, and immediately slid off the front of the car, knelt by the window, and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Sir! Why are you calling that beast Gu Changfeng? You have to listen to me, I'm his mother from the countryside, he..."

"Shut up."

The two words, though light and airy, felt like two slaps to Wang Guifen's face.

The car door opened, and Lei Zhentian, leaning on his cane, stepped out with the help of his bodyguard.

He wasn't wearing his military uniform today; his Zhongshan suit was impeccably pressed, but those eagle-like eyes, if they swept over you, could make your legs go weak. The murderous aura he'd forged on the battlefield was something no rural shrew could withstand.

Wang Guifen was so glared at that that her hair stood on end, and the word "mother" stuck in her throat, impossible to utter.

This old man looks... kind of familiar.

Before she could figure it out, Meng Yaya had already pounced on her like a butterfly.

"Grandpa!" The little boy hugged Lei Zhentian's leg tightly, looking up at him with a pitiful expression.

"That old woman just called my dad an animal and said she was going to sell me to get money for her uncle who works as a night soil collector to get married!"

Wang Guifen's mind went blank for a second.

To...to fuck grandpa?

She suddenly remembered that the day before yesterday at the military district gate, it was this old man who gave the brat a wooden gun and said it was some kind of imperial sword!

He was the highest-ranking officer in the entire military region, the Commander-in-Chief!

Wang Guifen's vision went black, and she collapsed onto the scorching ground. The fierce and defiant spirit she had just displayed instantly turned into the stench of urine in her crotch.

"This...this is a misunderstanding...Sir, I didn't know..." Wang Guifen stammered, her teeth chattering, and shrank back.

Lei Zhentian glanced down at Wang Guifen, whose face was ashen, frowned in disgust, and took a half step back.

"Misunderstanding?" Lei Zhentian sneered, his cane thumping loudly on the ground. "What were you shouting on the hood of the car just now? That you wanted to remove Commander Gu from his post? That you wanted to give your good-for-nothing son a high-ranking position?"

"No, no, no! I was just talking nonsense! I was spouting rubbish!" Wang Guifen raised her hand and slapped herself, making the fat on her face jiggle.

Lei Zhentian ignored her, turned to look at Gu Changfeng, and said sternly, "Commander Gu."

"Here!" Gu Changfeng stood at attention and saluted, his posture as upright as a pine tree.

"Your family's handling of the situation was terrible!" Lei Zhentian pointed at Wang Guifen on the ground.

"How can we allow someone of this character to run rampant in such a sacred place as the training ground? What does she take our soldiers for? What does she take military discipline for?"

Gu Changfeng lowered his head: "It was my dereliction of duty. Please punish me, Commander."

"Discipline my ass!" Lei Zhentian cursed, then turned to the guard company commander beside him and yelled, "What are you all standing there for? This kind of troublemaker who rammed the commander's vehicle, aren't you going to arrest him? Are you going to keep him around for the holidays?!"

Several soldiers, who had been holding back their anger for a long time, pounced on the commander-in-chief like wolves and tigers as soon as they heard him speak.

Two men held Wang Guifen down, while two others dragged up Meng Jingui, who was already terrified. Their actions were so rough that they didn't give them any chance to cause trouble.

"Spare me! My dear in-laws... no, sir, spare me! We'll go back to our hometown right now and never come back!" Wang Guifen cried, tears streaming down her face, kicking her feet wildly on the ground until one of her shoes flew off.

"Wait a minute."

Meng Yaya suddenly spoke up, peeking her little head out from behind Lei Zhentian.

The soldiers stopped moving, and Wang Guifen looked at the small figure as if she were grasping at a straw.

Ignoring her pleading gaze, Meng Yaya tilted her head and asked Lei Zhentian with an innocent expression:

"Grandpa, isn't this training ground quite remote? How did Grandma, who came from the countryside, find her way here? She even knew my dad would be here today. She's really resourceful."

These words were like a bucket of cold water poured over Wang Guifen's head. Her rural wisdom of throwing tantrums and acting unreasonably was utterly inadequate in the face of absolute power and this insightful, petty cleverness.

Lei Zhentian, a shrewd old man, immediately understood his granddaughter's meaning. He slammed his cane on the ground and stared sharply at Wang Guifen: "Speak! Who gave you this idea? Who brought you here?"

Wang Guifen trembled with fright. She instinctively wanted to be defiant, but when she met Lei Zhentian's murderous gaze and saw the several impatient soldiers beside her, her legs went weak.

Meng Yaya spoke at the opportune moment, her voice sweet and crisp, yet carrying a hint of coolness:

"Grandma, you'd better think this through before you speak. If you honestly tell us who sent you here, Grandpa might be able to be lenient with you since you were used as a pawn."

But if you're stubborn and want to shoulder everything yourself... then it won't be as easy as just being kicked out.

These words were the final straw. Wang Guifen collapsed instantly. She didn't want to be locked up, much less suffer further punishment. She had only come to take advantage, not to go to jail!

"I'll talk! I'll talk!" she swore, pointing to the sky and the earth. "Sir, little miss, I'll confess honestly! As long as you let me go, I'll tell you everything!"

Meng Yaya looked at Lei Zhentian and blinked. Lei Zhentian understood and waved to the soldiers: "Let her explain first."

"It's...it's Li Aihong! It's Li Aihong who lives in the family compound!"

Wang Guifen spilled the beans, explaining everything.