Most people of this generation are quite enthusiastic, plus with the popularity of the Lei Feng learning campaign, Xie Changzheng, who was wearing a military uniform and leaning on a crutch, was stopped by a middle-aged man on a bicycle when he was a few steps outside the hospital. Then, he was taken to the supply and marketing cooperative.
“What a coincidence. I also have a daughter.”
The man heard that Xie Changzheng’s daughter was now in the hospital and that he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some sweet things to divert his daughter’s attention and let her forget the pain.
So, he immediately opened up and talked to Xie Changzheng about his own daughter’s experience while riding his bicycle.
“I said, having a daughter is really less troublesome than having a boy. I have a bad boy and a nice girl. I don’t feel sorry for the boy no matter how he gets beaten up. After all, he is a boy. Maybe his thick skin is an advantage. As long as we take good care of him and don’t let him commit crimes, it’ll be fine.”
“But I can’t raise my daughter like this. She’s a delicate little girl. I feel bad when she gets a little bruised.”
This middle-aged man is a rare man who loves his daughter.
“I can never love her enough no matter how much I love her. I always think that she will only have twenty years of happiness in this life. When she gets married, she will have her parents-in-law to take care of her. As a father, I will be restricted in protecting her. When she grows up, she will become a mother. My wife cried so hard when she gave birth to her. As a parent, we can’t share the pain with our daughters.”
The man talks endlessly about his daughters.
“You say, it’s really worrying to raise a daughter now. You have treated her like a treasure for more than 20 years. Once she gets married, she will become someone else’s family. I really want her to find a live-in son-in-law. If that boy dares to bully her in the future, my son and I will beat him up together.”
The man seemed to be amused by his own words and chuckled.
“I see you’re still thinking about buying candy for your daughter even though you hurt your leg. You must love your daughter very much. I admire people like you.”
“You’re not like some men who think having a daughter is a waste of money. They don’t think about what’s wrong with having a daughter. There’s also their blood in her body. If they don’t love their daughter, they shouldn’t have given birth to a child in the first place. What the hell.”
Facing this overly familiar man, Xie Changzheng felt a little embarrassed. Fortunately, he was sitting in the back holding his cane, so the man couldn’t see his expression.
At this time, Xie Changzheng felt a little guilty because he was not as good as this man praised him to be. At this moment, his compensation to his daughter was like an afterthought. He was not a good father in the other party’s mouth.
“I’ve been fighting outside for years. I’m not afraid of you laughing at me. My daughter was born more than half a year, but I only saw her in her first year. Now she’s thirteen years old, a half-grown girl. As a father, I’ve only spent no more than one or two months with my daughter. I’m not a good father.”
Xie Changzheng’s tone was a little depressed. Although he wanted to make amends now, he had not yet figured out how to compensate his daughter.
Just giving her the best material life seemed not enough.
“You’re a soldier, so it’s different.”
The man on the bicycle said in awe.
“Please don’t think that way. If it weren’t for you soldiers protecting China’s borders from invasion, there wouldn’t be people like me thinking about how to love children every day.”
Due to the special nature of the times, there are always some people who have to sacrifice their own lives or even live to protect more people from living a stable and prosperous life. The families of these people inevitably endure more pain of separation.
These heroes are great. In the eyes of men, even their own families shouldn’t complain about them.
“Comrade, how old is your daughter this year?”
Xie Changzheng did not continue what the other party said because he knew how much he owed his wife and daughter.
“My daughter is thirteen years old this year and is in elementary school. Hehehe, the girl is close to me. The first word she learned when she was a child was ‘Dad’. When she grew up and started to learn to write, she wanted to learn how to write the word ‘Dad’.”
Although he could not see the man’s expression at the moment, Xie Changzheng could guess that he must be proud and complacent.
“Comrade, can you tell me what girls like?”
Xie Changzheng felt a little guilty. He was really incompetent as a father, so much so that when his daughter was sad, she would only think of her mother, but not him, the father.
“Girls like a lot of things, such as malted milk, candy, fruit leather, peach cakes, and twisted dough sticks…”
The man reported a bunch of snacks.
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I like Mr. Bike man. He genuinely treasures his kids and his daughter in a time period where its culturally common to view daughters as “money-losing-goods” and despises men who do not take good care of their children regardless of their gender and sex.