Rebirth: A Life Without Regrets

  After seeing off the Wang Longting and Zhao Yuankui families, Leng Yunqiao was in a good mood, sipping a cup of strong tea and humming a few local tunes.

  It's hard not to be unhappy, the relationship between the local government and the garrison has always been difficult. The garrison is not under the control of the government, and many places often have incidents where the local garrison breaks traffic rules, fights, and disturbs the people, making the government feel very headache; if they want to manage it, they must find the head of the garrison and see if others will buy it, looking at their faces; if not, the common people will say that the government is incompetent.

  Of course, the local garrison is also a double-edged sword. If handled well, they can provide support and assistance in emergency rescue, cargo transportation, and crisis management, which would be a great help.

  Leng Yun didn't expect that Leng Bing Han would get into a fight as soon as he entered elementary school, and it actually helped him solve a big problem. Thinking about the various things that had happened to Leng Bing Han, he couldn't help but sigh, "This son of mine is truly my lucky star! My career has been advancing smoothly, and I've been feeling proud and content. But when I think about it, everything seems to have his shadow involved."

  As he thought of this, he couldn't help but glance at Leng Bing Xue, only to find him lost in deep contemplation, seemingly thinking about something.

  It's unbelievable to see a six or seven year old kid deep in thought. At this age, what do they know? They're just pretending to be profound. But right now, he is indeed deep in thought, his expression and demeanor very serious and solemn, leaving no room for doubt.

  "This son is really a freak!" Leng Yun muttered to herself.

  To be honest, many times he couldn't understand his own son. But what's the big deal? No matter what, a son is still one's own son, and even if everything changes, this reality will never change.

  He smiled with relief and walked up to Leng Bing Xue, asking warmly: "Little Bing Xue, what are you thinking about? You're so absorbed."

  "There's nothing." Leng Bing said with a frown, rubbing his head and looking worried: "I just suddenly remembered something and I'm a bit concerned."

  "Hehe, what's the big deal that makes our Xiao Han so anxious?" Cold Yun said with a smile, but didn't take it to heart. What could be so serious about children's worries? It was just some childish playthings, perhaps comparable to the whole world in their hearts, but in reality, nothing at all, not even worth mentioning."

  Seeing Leng Yun's expression, Leng Bing Han knew that his father didn't take his words to heart and wasn't angry either. This was normal, after all, he was just a child now. If an adult always took a child's words to heart, that would be abnormal instead. Even if the child was recognized as a genius, they were still a child.

  He continued slowly: "I feel that the weather in the second half of this year is very dry, with strong winds and thick clouds. I've heard that such weather can lead to continuous heavy rainfall next year. Su Qi is located in the Anning River Valley, where the terrain is flat and the dams are old and neglected. If the rainfall is too heavy, it's not only easy for landslides to occur, but also for floods. At that time, the losses of the residents along the river will be huge."

  "Kids, don't think nonsense. Nothing has happened all these years, and besides, we just dredged the river last year." Although it was a bit surprising that Leng Yihui would say something like this with a straight face, Leng Yunyi didn't pay much attention to it.

  He didn't care about seeing Leng Yun again, but Leng Bing Han was getting anxious. Why? It was because he suddenly saw Wang Longting and Zhao Yuankui, two military officers, which reminded him of a serious incident that occurred in his previous life, an incident that involved many troops.

  In the summer of 1986, the weather was extremely hot, with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius, setting a record for the highest temperature in Suqiu's history. In July, there was a sudden heavy rain, and it rained continuously for three days, causing landslides and mudslides that buried the village of Shahu. Fortunately, most villagers had sensed something was wrong and evacuated their homes beforehand, so there were no major casualties.

  Subsequently, the mountain flood burst forth, surging into the Anning River along the valley. The river water suddenly rose, bursting through the long-neglected river embankment, and flooding the villages of Zhangmu, Heba, and seven others along the riverbank into a vast expanse of water. Over 900 homes were inundated, more than 400 collapsed, and over 6,000 mu of fertile fields turned into marshes. Seven villagers died, 23 went missing, and over 10,000 people were left homeless, with direct economic losses exceeding tens of millions of yuan.

  After the disaster, the local town quickly organized personnel for flood control and rescue. The municipal party secretary and mayor personally went to the rescue scene. The transportation troops stationed in Suqian also participated almost entirely. The provincial government also dispatched a team of leaders and experts to go to the disaster area to offer condolences and conduct investigations.

  The investigation results show that the cause of such a tragedy is due to the local government's misappropriation of water conservancy funds, resulting in years of neglect of river embankments. Provincial Party Secretary Yan Zhengchang slammed his fist in anger and ordered a thorough investigation into those responsible.

  This disaster triggered a major earthquake in the local officialdom. The Secretary of Changfu Municipal Party Committee and the Mayor were disciplined, given a party internal warning, the Secretary of Suqi District was removed from office, the District Governor was demoted, and 26 other officials received various disciplinary actions including dismissal from public office. Only Deputy District Governor Leng Yunbiao, who strongly opposed it at the time and voted against it, escaped unscathed.

  In the previous life, at this time, Leng Bing Han was only 7 years old and didn't understand anything. He couldn't help with anything and only vaguely knew that something big had happened. But in this life, since he had gained this precognitive ability, Leng Bing Han would never let such a tragic event happen again. First of all, not to mention his father who was currently the district party secretary and his godfather who was the mayor, if such an evil incident were to occur, it would have a devastating impact on their careers. Moreover, with dozens of lives lost and tens of millions in losses, he couldn't just stand by and do nothing.

  But Dad obviously didn't listen to himself, what to do?

  "Dad, you know that it's better to believe these things exist rather than not. If nothing happens, then that's fine, but if something really does happen, it'll be terrible! The responsibility will be huge." He was getting anxious and continued to persuade him.

  Leng Yun felt it was very strange, why this child is so interested in the river embankment today, and when he talks about it, he's all systematic, could it be that he learned it from his godfather Mayor Wang?

  He also knew that Leng Bingxing's words made sense, but now there was no money in the treasury, and a good cook can't make a meal without rice.

  "Dad knows about this, he'll take care of it properly, don't think wildly." Lingyun lovingly patted the cold and icy head, saying helplessly: "It's getting late, go wash up and rest early, you still have school tomorrow!"

  Leng Yunying, before taking office as the district party secretary, his predecessor had already misappropriated the special funds for water conservancy. After he took office, the district's finances were less than 100,000 yuan, not even enough to pay the salaries of all the cadres in the district. For more than a year, he was struggling to make ends meet, thinking of various ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, such as auctioning off excess vehicles, and also got support from the municipal government, which barely kept the work going.

  The river embankment is not unwilling to be repaired, its importance is not unknown, but the current financial situation is still very tight. Although he also knows that this is not appropriate, there is indeed no surplus funds to make up for it. Can't we just withhold teachers' salaries or normal government office expenses to repair the river embankment?

  Besides, he did not expect the consequences to be so severe. For the time being, it would be a temporary solution to delay the repair of the Anning River embankment for one or two years.

  Such situations are not uncommon nationwide, and many places have more or less such situations. Some places have fiscal deficits, but officials are extravagant, building luxurious office buildings, driving luxury cars. This money is either randomly collected or diverted from other places. As long as there are no problems, no one will investigate. But if you're unlucky and something happens, and you're investigated, you'll be in trouble.

  Leng Bing Han naturally knew his father's difficulties, and could only sigh, then went to bed after washing up, thinking of other ways slowly, couldn't rush it.

  The next afternoon, Principal Xie Changqing learned about the previous day's incident through rumors among students that had been circulating wildly. He couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine as he thought about how 7 or 8 senior students had gone to intercept Leng Bingxue and beat him up. Fortunately, nothing serious happened to Leng Bingxue; otherwise, Principal Xie wondered if he would still be able to remain in his position.

  The crime of being too lenient in discipline, resulting in students getting hurt, can be big or small. The incident happened outside the campus, and no school can completely avoid it even if they want to. If nobody from above pursues the matter, then everything will be fine. But if someone from above wants to take action against you, this excuse is enough to bring you down.

  This is officialdom!

  Bodhisattva bless, fortunately Leng Binghan is fine, who is Leng Binghan? He's the son of the district committee secretary and the godson of the mayor. If he gets hurt, can it be settled amicably? And what about his own people?

  After thanking all the gods in heaven, Xie Changqing was furious. He had also heard about the situation of these children of the troops in school, but it wasn't a big deal, and every year the troops would give many things to the school and themselves, so he just turned a blind eye. But now those few bastards dared to cross him, how could he let them get away with it?

  Although Leng Shuji hasn't called so far, he's worried that others might already have a grudge against him. It depends on his own actions to save face. If he acts stupidly and pretends nothing happened, will he still be able to get away with it without offending Leng Shuji?

  Thinking of this, Xie Changqing immediately called the Dean of Studies and notified him to hold an emergency meeting with all the class advisors in the school.

  Before the meeting, Xie Changqing first called Leng Yunfei to report on the situation and reviewed the shortcomings of himself and the school. He knew that Secretary Leng hated it when people shirked responsibility, so at this time, he took the initiative to self-criticize and introspect, which was the most correct choice.

  As expected, Leng Yun first expressed that he already knew about the matter. Wang Jing and Zhao Xin had accompanied their parents to his home to apologize, and in their words, they did not express dissatisfaction with his work, but instead praised him for being meticulous and serious.

  After hanging up the phone, Xie Changqing was relieved that he had seen through it. Secretary Leng already knew about this matter, and if he didn't report to him, would he be okay? Although Secretary Leng always said he was just an ordinary parent, in official circles, it's like this - if you take a leader's polite words as true, then you can only say your IQ is zero.

  On the other hand, Xie Changqing couldn't help but be surprised by Leng Yun's abilities. He knew that Wang Jing and Zhao Xin were both deputy regimental officers, which in a big city might not be anything special, but in a poor and remote place like Su Qi, it was already quite impressive. Although Leng Yun might have been higher in rank than them, the military had always disregarded local government officials, and they only treated him with courtesy because of his children; otherwise, they wouldn't even give him a second glance. The military didn't care about reason, and favoritism was notorious.

  Now these two battalion-level cadres are rushing to take their children to Leng Yunfei's house to apologize in the first time, can't this explain the problem? If Leng Yunfei didn't have great abilities, would these soldiers obey him?

  Having figured all this out, he now completely understood what to do.

  At the meeting, he severely criticized the relevant class teachers for their lax management, which led to students forming gangs and fighting on and off campus, seriously damaging the school's reputation, endangering the safety of students, disrupting the normal educational order, and causing extremely bad influences. He demanded that all class teachers strengthen education, strictly manage, and carry out a campaign to rectify the style and discipline throughout the school.

  Students involved in the incident, except for Wang Jing and Zhao Xin who were given lighter punishment due to their voluntary apology, will be expelled from school, put on probation, and publicly acknowledge their mistakes at a school-wide assembly. The head teacher of their class will also receive a demerit.

  As soon as this decision was made, it caused an uproar among everyone.

  Similar incidents have happened in schools before, but none have been punished so severely. Moreover, this incident occurred off-campus, and logically speaking, the school should not bear much responsibility. However, this time it's not just the students who were penalized, even the class teacher was implicated.

  But nobody dared to say anything, including the class teacher who was punished, and could only admit that they were unlucky. Who made them provoke Leng Binghan this time?

  Before the meeting, the vice president and the head of teaching still had some doubts. After all, they were dealing with children of military personnel, and their parents' influence was not to be underestimated either. Would this approach offend them?

  However, after Xie Changqing told them that Wang Jing and Zhao Xin's parents had gone to the Leng family to apologize overnight, they no longer objected. After all, among several children, the parents of these two children are basically the highest in their positions. If even they have yielded, what else can others think?

  Thinking of this, they couldn't help but envy Xie Changqing. After all, Principal Xie could speak directly with Secretary Leng, while they, even if they forced themselves to join in, would be out of place and offend the conventions of officialdom, not to mention that Secretary Leng might not even notice them.

  After learning about it later, I was also very opposed to it in my heart, but it's not possible to change anything. After all, the principal's authority needs to be maintained, otherwise, if orders are changed from morning to evening, this principal can't hold on to his position either.

  In reality, it's like this. The person involved may not have meant it that way, but others always like to complicate simple things, making a big fuss and turning trivial matters into major issues, as if they can't show their sincerity otherwise. In the end, people who don't know the truth think that the person involved is bullying them with their power.

  Of course, everything is caused by the abuse of power. There are indeed various forms of bullying in this world, and if one doesn't do so, they might even be bullied by others. Over time, it seems that this has formed an unwritten rule.

  However, Su Qi Elementary School's efforts to strengthen education and rectify discipline have received high attention from the city. Not only did news media report on it, but the Municipal Education Bureau also issued a document requiring all schools in the city to learn from and carry out this activity. Xie Changqing was also commended by the director of the Municipal Education Bureau, making him quite famous.

  Wang Jiang, the father of six children, had just received news that his child was being disciplined and hadn't even had time to think of a solution when he was summoned by the team leader and subjected to a barrage of verbal abuse. To make matters worse, he was then ordered to go apologize to the Leng family. Not only did this fail to change his child's situation, but he also ended up slinking away to the Leng household in defeat.

  Since then, the cadres' children of this troop would be repeatedly reminded by their parents before going to Su Qi Primary School: whatever they did, they must not provoke Leng Bing Han.

  This also became an unwritten convention for this unit until Leng Bingxue graduated.