Chapter 478 A warrior can take up a gun on the battlefield, a scholar can wield a pen and roam the world.

No one expected that Fang's eldest son, Director Fang, would suddenly get a divorce, especially on such a special day as the Lunar New Year.

He not only forcefully changed his youngest son Fang Li's surname, but also made Mu Lian take her son and leave the Fang family.

No one knows what he said, but Mu Lian didn't dare to make a fuss anymore. Ignoring her youngest son's crying, she slunk away from the compound with her son, who had been renamed Mu Li.

Immediately, rumors spread like wildfire in the compound. Some even speculated that Fang Li wasn't Fang Guoqiang's son at all.

They even figured out the operating method for Mulian!

Because Mu Lian disliked that Fang Mingyue was a girl, she hid her newborn daughter while Fang Guoqiang was away from home. Then, while Fang Guoqiang was away, she secretly got pregnant with a boy. After the boy was born, she took him back as twins.

Coincidentally, when Mu Lian was pregnant, Fang Guoqiang was still serving as the political commissar of a regiment stationed in the south. He often led his team on training trips and rarely came home. Mu Lian disliked the poverty in the southern region, so she stayed with her parents for several years. This gave Mu Lian room to maneuver.

This rumor was completely unfounded and full of loopholes, but many elderly women who were idle at home believed it, and it spread throughout several surrounding courtyards in just two days.

However, Bai Nuo and Fang Meng were unaware of all this.

On New Year's Eve, when Zhu Xiaoqi and Zhu Xiaoba dragged the two home, the New Year's Eve dinner was just being served. The whole family tacitly avoided mentioning the Fang family's matter, not wanting their children to be upset during the New Year. The whole family sat around the table, happily preparing for their reunion dinner.

"Come on, come on! This is the first time our precious daughter has come home for dinner, and our future son-in-law, Xiao Meng, is here too. How can we forget the wine!"

Zhu Kaige, the current head of the Zhu family, laughed heartily as he carried two bottles of specially supplied liquor down from the second floor.

The usually imposing Deputy Commander Zhu transforms completely at home. With his family, his intimidating aura vanishes, replaced by a gentle expression and an undisguised happiness and contentment.

Anyone could see that he was genuinely happy that Bai Nuo and Fang Meng were back.

Bai Nuo and Fang Meng exchanged a glance, feeling both helpless and touched. They appreciated their family's concern, but...

"Uncle, I'm sorry, we'll have to trouble all the elders and brothers to enjoy the wine to their heart's content today. Fang Meng and I will have tea instead of wine, and we hope you will understand."

Bai Nuo spoke gently and sincerely, and while speaking, he raised his hand to make a standard gesture of refusing alcohol—lightly covering the rim of the glass with his palm, showing neither servility nor arrogance, and displaying excellent manners.

These were the basic etiquette rules that her grandmother taught her as a lady from a prominent family in her early years, but she rarely had the opportunity to use them.

She immediately stood up, picked up her teacup with Fang Meng, and drank it down first with apology and respect.

After putting down his teacup, Fang Meng took the wine bottle and went around the table to fill each elder and brother's cup to about eight-tenths full, always with a gentle smile on his face.

Bai Nuo had learned these manners, and Fang Meng was equally familiar with them, having been taught by Granny Wei in his childhood. If he so desired, he could certainly project the air of a noble young master when he went out.

After all, he was personally taught by the daughters of two truly prestigious families, one of whom was the head of the family.

The two children's smooth and skillful "combination punches" left the Zhu family, who had been raised in a rough and unrefined manner since childhood, completely bewildered.

On the contrary, the women present were immediately impressed and grew to like them even more, especially Grandma Zhu.

She likes children who are cultured and well-mannered. No wonder they were raised by her two old sisters. Their temperament is completely different from the children raised by their own rough and uncultured families.

Zhu Kaixuan was probably the most composed man at the table. After all, his wife, whom he had been clinging to since childhood, was a noblewoman from a prominent family, carefully raised by her mother. This kind of demeanor and grace was not only something she knew, but something ingrained in her very being.

Yes, his precious daughter has perfectly inherited her mother's good looks, unlike him at all... he does whatever he wants. Forget about etiquette; all he knows is that with a gun in his hand, he's completely unfazed!

However, just like his mother, he really likes girls like that!

They can take up arms on the battlefield and travel the world with their pens.

She possesses a noble yet unpretentious temperament, as serene as a pure orchid and as graceful as a flowing stream.

What about being a good wife and mother, having one's husband as one's heaven, and the idea that a woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent... If anyone dares to use this outdated and rubbish to demand things of his daughter, he'll rip their skull open to see if it's filled with shit or pee!

Zhu Kaixuan felt a surge of pride in his heart, then turned to his elder brother and smiled, "Brother, let's just drink together. I don't have to go back to the army these two days, so I'll definitely drink with you and Second Brother tonight. Don't let those two kids touch the alcohol; it's not appropriate!"

Zhu Kai was still a little dazed by his niece and nephew-in-law's elegant demeanor. He felt that the two children's words and actions were exceptionally pleasing to the eye, quite different from them, these roughnecks. No wonder his mother used to praise the Bai and Zhou families, and then turn around and look down on his brothers.

Zhu Kaize, standing to the side, assumed that his fifth brother was putting on airs now that he was a father, even refusing to let the child drink alcohol. He immediately frowned and looked at his younger brother, whom he had spoiled since childhood, with displeasure.

"It's the Lunar New Year, the first time the kids are eating at home, what's wrong with having a few drinks? You're acting like a proper father, putting on airs right away. We don't have so many rules in our family!"

Zhu Kaixuan pursed his lips speechlessly.

Others might be afraid of his second brother, but he wasn't. He was spoiled by his older brothers, much happier than his nephews who grew up being beaten by their eldest nephew.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean I'm domineering towards my daughter?" Zhu Kaixuan rolled his eyes, glanced at the outside of the living room, and then lowered his voice: "The two kids are special mobile soldiers, on standby for missions at any time. Without a clear long leave, they can't touch a drop of alcohol."

That's true, but...

Everyone at the table gasped and stared at him in disbelief.

"machine……"

Zhu Kaize lost control of his voice for a moment, and stopped abruptly after shouting out just one word, swallowing the rest of the word back.

Two years ago, the military began secretly selecting elites from various field armies to form special operations teams. The members are all top-notch mobile soldiers, ready to go into battle at any time, specializing in the most difficult missions, with extremely strict regulations and arduous training.

This is different from the 917 Special Operations Team. One is still within the realm of ordinary people, while the other... has basically deviated from the word "normal".

Moreover, 917 is a special unit, the only one of its kind in the entire country, and it is impossible to replicate.

In the eyes of the Zhu family, it was perfectly normal for Fang Meng to be selected for the special forces.

The youngest deputy regimental commander in the country, a soldier who won first place in the military competition for two consecutive years, and even broke the records that Zhu Kaixuan had set back then.

With abilities this high, Zhu Kaixuan would have to be out of his mind to let him lead an ordinary army corps.

but……

Why is their precious daughter also in the special forces?!

I heard that their eldest daughter was a technical soldier specially recruited from the public security system into the 28th Army!

Is he being transferred there to work as a clerk... the kind who can draw portraits?

Just then, the phone next to the sofa in the living room suddenly rang.

Bai Nuo happened to be the closest person to the phone, so without thinking, she got up and went over to answer it.