boyutpedia Chapter 120 If I Had Known This Day
Chapter 120 If I Had Known This Day
"Whose family are you from? Why are you being bullied? Don't you know how to resist?" Looking at the timid and cowardly little boy in front of her, Lu Wanwan was furious.
Hearing this, Zhang Tao's frail body trembled slightly. He raised his head, tears still gleaming in his eyes. His lips trembled a few times before he finally uttered a few words, "My father's name is... Zhang Jianjun."
Lu Wanwan frowned at the name she had never heard of, and turned to look at her grandfather's guard standing beside her.
The guard quickly stepped forward and whispered, "They should be the children of Deputy Commander Zhang of the First Regiment. I heard that Deputy Commander Zhang and his wife have five children in total. It looks like these are the five."
"Oh, then why are these four ganging up on the youngest?" The more Lu Wanwan thought about it, the more indignant she became. She and her cousin Liu Yan never bullied Liu Miaomiao, and every time Liu Miaomiao cried and complained, they were the two of them who rushed up and beat her back. The parents want to intervene? Sorry, we'll talk about it after we beat her. Parents should solve their own problems, but it's not okay for peers to bully my sister.
This time, before the guard could answer, Zhang Tao gave his own answer: "Because they and I are not born from the same parents, they have always hated me."
Hearing this, Lu Wanwan couldn't help but frowned and continued to ask,
"Is this why I bully you?" Bullying someone even though they are related by blood is even worse.
Zhang Tao remained silent, just nodded slightly to show his agreement.
Seeing this, Lu Wanwan became even more angry, "Then why don't you resist?"
A few seconds later, Zhang Tao lowered his head and spoke, explaining, "Whether I resist or not, I'll always be the one getting beaten. I'm used to it."
Get used to it? What does it mean to get used to it? Bad habits must be changed!
After Zhang Tao changed his clothes, Lu Wanwan took Zhang Tao directly to where Grandpa Lu was. You know, Commander Lu, who is always busy with his work, may not have time to take care of many other matters, but as long as his precious granddaughter asks him to make the decision, it will be put on the agenda immediately and executed quickly.
Commander Lu then issued an order, "Have Political Commissar Chen bring Deputy Regimental Commander Zhang to my office immediately. Also call the person in charge of military wives and Deputy Regimental Commander Zhang's wife."
"Yes."
Not long after, all the relevant personnel arrived. Political Commissar Chen was the first to ask,
"Commander, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
Commander Lu looked at his soldiers. "Zhang Jianjun? He's still ranked third in the regiment's competition! He can't even handle family matters. He's doomed."
"It was originally a small matter, but if we can't solve small things, how can we solve big things? As the saying goes, 'If you can't clean up your own house, how can you clean up the world?'"
Commander Lu, once illiterate, now strives to improve himself, burning the midnight oil, and dedicating half an hour every night to diligently study cultural knowledge. Even the flowery phrase he just said was something he had recently learned from a book, and now it was time to put it into practice.
"I called you here today so you could listen to this story. You know, as a political commissar, I have to pay attention to the family environment of the officers as well."
"Yes." Political Commissar Chen was lectured just after asking a question. He could only step back to the side silently.
Commander Lu turned his gaze to the other man, "Zhang Jianjun, right?"
"Yes, Chief." Zhang Jianjun quickly straightened up and answered.
"Your youngest son was tricked out of the house by the other four children in your family and then thrown directly into the garbage dump. What do you think about this?" Commander Lu stared at Zhang Jianjun and questioned him in a stern tone.
"Report to the chief, it should be the children playing around. I will teach them a lesson when I get back." Zhang Jianjun responded in a low voice with sweat on his forehead.
"Once or twice might be considered playing, but doing it every day is also playing? Do you think this is normal? Tell me, what kind of play would involve four children ganging up on one person, and the four older ones bullying the youngest? This behavior is clearly bullying! Could it be that your family has always indulged children's misbehavior like this?"
"Report to the commander, these children usually get along quite well with each other. There must be some misunderstanding. When I go back and carefully investigate the truth, I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation." Zhang Jianjun hurriedly explained.
"Why do I need your explanation? Zhang Tao's mother, tell me what you think?"
"Commander, there may indeed be some misunderstanding. I will talk to them alone tonight and tell them not to do this again in the future."
"Tell them? Don't you want to hear what your little son has to say?"
Mr. Lu waved his hand, signaling Zhang Tao to come forward. As he approached, the guards nearby sprang into action, rolling up his sleeves and trousers, lifting his vest, and spinning him around. As they did so, the bruises left on Zhang Tao's body by the "accidental" collisions were exposed to the public. These scars were particularly glaring, as if silently telling of the pain and injustice he had endured.
Seeing this, Commander Lu couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in his heart. If anyone dared to bully his granddaughter like this, he would not even listen to the explanation and would just shoot him with a gun.
Commander Lu suppressed his anger and said, "Zhang Tao, right? Little Tao, tell me yourself, how did you get these injuries?"
Zhang Tao silently put down his clothes, slowly raised his head, and glanced at his parents standing not far away with a somewhat evasive look. He had clearly heard every word that Mr. Lu had said just now.
However, for him, who had been bullied for a long time, no matter how much grievance and dissatisfaction he felt, what could he do? Because in the eyes of his parents, all this was just a play between children, not worth making a fuss about.
Over time, this attitude made Zhang Tao feel that no matter how he was bullied, he would never get real care and protection from his parents, because they would always favor their own children anyway.
"I am the redundant one. Mom and Dad don't like me. They only like their own children. It's useless for me to say anything. I don't want to say anything anymore." Zhang Tao's voice was choked with sobs, and his young face showed deep despair and helplessness.
When a young child is so disappointed in his or her parents, what should parents think about?
In fact, from a practical point of view, Zhang Jianjun and his wife like their youngest son the most, but because they are afraid of outsiders and afraid that the four children will think they are partial and unfair, so they deliberately show favoritism and both of them invisibly let the youngest son suffer injustice. However, they did not expect that the youngest son would be bullied like this and still have such an opinion of them.
"It's not convenient for me to interfere too much in family affairs. But since a problem has arisen, it must be properly resolved. You two should go back and think about it carefully, and make sure that such a situation does not happen again. You must know that in our army, any form of bullying is absolutely not allowed! Regardless of age, we always maintain a zero-tolerance attitude towards such phenomena!" After the stern warning, Commander Lu waved his hand for them to leave first.
As for the veterans beating up the new recruits, that is not bullying, but just friendly and interactive communication, exchange, discussion and progress.
Before going home, Zhang Jianjun and his wife had a good talk and agreed to educate their own children. After returning home, they beat their two children separately and told them that if any of them bullied their younger brother again, they would send him back to their hometown directly. They could not let their youngest child suffer because they were afraid that other children would be wronged.