Chapter 229 Chapter 229 Yu Family

During the few days when Zhang Yuandong was away, the family compound was very lively.

After returning, Captain Yu immediately took his children to find the political commissar to report Tang Sisi's matter. Without any suspense, he was suspended.

However, unlike what he expected, there were almost no rumors about him in the entire army. On the contrary, everyone sympathized with him and felt that he was deceived by Tang Sisi.

The reason was because Yu Tiantian revealed that Tang Sisi knew hypnosis.

However, due to the fear of negative impact, this matter has been rejected by the top leaders and is only spread as a rumor in private.

At that time, information was not well developed, and people had a very bad impression of hypnosis and incantation. They were often associated with feudal and superstitious things, so everyone was very wary of them.

Even the few neighbors who had a good relationship with Tang Sisi before, when they mentioned her again, all showed expressions of disgust and contempt, and insisted that they were bewitched because they were close to Tang Sisi before.

Leader Yu was free at home and interacted more with the children. He finally realized that he owed them. Now that he had time, he devoted a lot of time and energy to the four children, thinking about getting along well with them.

The children originally went to school in the city. Recently, such a big thing happened at home and they have not been to school for a long time. The school teacher came to visit them some time ago, but Captain Yu was on a mission and had not returned yet, and Tang Sisi was locked up again. The teacher didn't see any parents. Instead, he saw Yu Tiantian taking care of her three younger brothers and sisters skillfully. She was very skilled in washing clothes, cooking, and braiding hair. The teacher immediately felt very sorry for this child.

Yu Tiantian's eyes were very cold. She bit a red string in her mouth and tucked Yu Xiaoya's hair with her hands. She said calmly, "Teacher, please go. I probably won't go to school in the future. We probably won't be here for long. My stepmother has committed a crime and will be sent back to her hometown soon."

When the teacher repeated this passage to him, Team Leader Yu felt mixed emotions and couldn't tell what he was feeling.

At that time, the political commissar had just revealed a little information to him. Now is a special time and the troops have entered the combat readiness stage. He should not be dismissed for the time being. If he performs well, he still has a chance to keep his position.

He didn't feel happy for long before he was scolded by the teacher.

Captain Yu usually seldom paid attention to the children's affairs. When he wanted to say something, he realized that he didn't know how to communicate with them at all. He felt very guilty and immediately hugged all four children in his arms. For the first time in his life, he shed tears in front of the children.

The four children were quiet and let his chin rub back and forth on their heads. Occasionally, his chin rubbed against a child's delicate face, which was hurt by the rough beard, but they held back and did not make any sound.

Headmaster Yu was deeply moved. He let go of the children and said tenderly, "Don't worry, Dad will take good care of you in the future and won't let you suffer any injustice! You can stay here without worry. I will send a telegram to your grandmother and ask her to come and take care of you as soon as possible!"

Yu Zhiguo blurted out: "Dad, aren't you implicated by my mother? Can we still live here?"

Captain Yu slowed down his tone and tried to speak calmly: "Your mother made a mistake. As her family, we should have taken punitive measures. But the commander gave Dad a chance to make amends. In the future, we will do more to atone for your mother's sins and try to get her back soon..."

Yu Tiantian interrupted him: "Dad, Mom is Mom, and we are us. She committed a crime and has been sent to the police station. We have nothing to do with her, and we didn't help her when she killed someone."

Team leader Yu scolded, "Yu Tiantian! Although she is not your biological mother, she treats you just as well as your biological mother. How can you say such a thing!"

Tang Sisi treated the three children in front of her better than her own children and never hit or scolded them. Yu Qingfeng remembered that Yu Tiantian had always liked this stepmother. He thought that Xiaobao and Xiaoya would have a cold attitude, and that Zhiguo might be sensitive and inferior in his heart, but he didn't expect her to say such words.

What he didn't expect was that the first person to refute him was Yu Zhiguo. "Dad, my mom is a criminal, you shouldn't speak for her. And she doesn't love us at all, she said it herself, she hates children!"

The four-year-old kid looked serious when he said this, with his brows tightly furrowed.

The other three also rushed to express their opinions: "She said she would not let us go to school in the military school, saying that she was afraid that the atmosphere here would corrupt us. In fact, we could hardly learn any knowledge in the school in the city. We begged her to let us go back to school, but she refused to give in."

"Yes, Zhiguo is so young. He has to live in the school dormitory before he turns four. He is her own son. How can she be so cruel to him? How can she really be good to us?"

Are these children still fighting for more maternal love? Captain Yu was in a trance, and suddenly he felt that the children standing in front of him had become extremely unfamiliar.

Tang Sisi raises children like raising pigs. These children depend on her and long to be close to her, but they also love and hate her.

Lin Yue had long seen that the mental health of these four children was not healthy, but at that time there was no such thing as depression or personality distortion. In the eyes of adults, if there was a problem, just beat them once, and if one beating didn't work, then beat them a few more times. If there was any problem, then the only thing to say was "I didn't raise them."

Since Captain Yu came back, the atmosphere in the family compound has changed, especially since Captain Yu would occasionally check on the situation at Deputy Battalion Commander Zhang's home. In this atmosphere, everyone said that Tang Sisi had made a mistake and should not have implicated her relatives and children. They also said that Captain Yu must have been bewitched by Tang Sisi, including these children, so they felt more sympathy for them.

As time went by, everyone saw more things. Tang Sisi usually dressed brightly and beautifully, and at first glance she looked like the type who never had to do any work. However, she had created an image for herself in the past of a "strong woman who is not limited to her family and shines for her country", and everyone did not think too much about it. But now looking at her children, they can tidy up the house at such a young age, and they look the same with or without a mother. Who would not have thought that these children probably did not have an easy life at home in the past.

However, Yu had not thought of this. He had always believed that Tang Sisi had taken good care of the children, so he could not accept the indifference of the children after Tang Sisi was arrested. Perhaps because of their friendship during the last drunken encounter, Zhang Yuandong had just returned from the border, so Yu invited him to drink together.

He was still in a sensitive period and was the focus of attention. No other place was appropriate, and there was no one in his home who could help entertain him. Fortunately, Zhang Yuandong took the matter over and arranged the venue at his home.

Lin Yue prepared a table full of food and asked Lingling to call the four children of the Yu family over. Lingling was extremely unhappy: "I won't go. They bully my sister. The four of them are all mean-spirited. I don't want to play with mean-spirited people!"

The little mushroom also shouted: "Yes, they are still stupid. We won't play with them!"

Captain Yu and Zhang Yuandong came out of the house together. They obviously heard the noise. With a bit of embarrassment on their faces, they smiled and touched the top of Little Mushroom's head, saying, "Well, sister-in-law, don't worry about them. Tiantian can cook and she can take care of several brothers and sisters.

Captain Yu didn't know about the little grudges between the two children, but his own children had been together for so many days, so it didn't prevent him from knowing their temperaments. He knew that there must be some stories behind them that he didn't know.

"No matter how capable the children are, they are still children. How can we let them eat at home by themselves?" Lin Yue waved his hand, "Lingling, hurry up!"

She glared at the children, the warning in her eyes was self-evident. Ling Ling didn't dare to say anything more and ran away.

Fortunately, the children did not have any temper, because they were eating at Lin Yue's house and not coming. Soon, they followed Ling Ling. But Yu Xiaobao was shivering all the time. After entering the house, he always followed his father intentionally or unintentionally. Especially when he saw Xiao Mushroom and Wanli, he was so scared that he stepped back again and again.

Captain Yu didn't know why, but seeing that he was so timid at such an old age, he slapped him hard on the back and scolded him, "Stand still! You are a man, why are you like this?"

Actually, Captain Yu did not hold a very high position in the hearts of these children. They had already determined that he was a man "casually fooled by his wife". Yu Xiaobao was startled by the photo. He shuddered and found out that it was his father who took the photo. He muttered something in annoyance in a low voice, changed his place, and ran to hide behind his sister.

Captain Yu was so angry that he laughed, but this was after all someone else's home, not a place to educate children. He could only point at his son, sit down in the seat Zhang Yuandong had arranged for him, and no longer pay attention to him.

The dining table in Lin Yue's house is quite big. If they squeeze together, it can basically seat about ten people. Lin Yue simply went to next door to borrow a few small round stools for the children so that everyone could sit at the same table.

Captain Yu was a male chauvinist and didn't think the children had the same rights as adults. Perhaps because he drank too much at home, he soon got drunk again and talked non-stop in a daze, from his trust in Tang Sisi to his debt to the children. In the end, he hugged Yu Xiaobao and cried loudly, swearing to the sky that he would transfer them back to the military school and not let them suffer outside anymore.

Yu Tiantian scoffed at this talk. She knew that if he resumed his original position, he would definitely leave again and would not have the time to take care of these children.

She didn't care whether it was outside or not, and whether the father would lose face because of this. She said without any emotion: "If you really feel that you owe us, then give us money. The clothes of my brothers and sisters are too small, and winter is coming soon. You have to give us money so that we can buy supplies."

Captain Yu shouted in a hoarse voice: "Give it to me, whatever my daughter wants, I will give her. It's just money, Daddy has plenty of it!"

He pulled out a handful of large rounds from his trouser pocket, and a quick glance showed that there were at least a dozen of them. He didn't count them, and in a daze, he stuffed them all at once into Yu Tiantian's pocket.