Who taught you to be a recruit like this?

Chapter 394 Take good care of Ge Zhiyong for me

Qin Feng followed the guard to a tent.

The guard nodded at him and gestured for him to come in.

As soon as Qin Feng stepped in, he smelled a rich aroma of coffee.

Sure enough, Ge Hongbin was sitting on a camping chair with a long-necked water bottle in his hand.

He was slowly brewing the drip coffee on the table.

Looking at a middle-aged burly guy sitting here slowly making coffee, and he is a leader with two stars on his shoulders.

Qin Feng always felt that there was an indescribable sense of incongruity in this scene.

People of this age usually like to drink strong tea, so why is there someone who likes to make coffee?

"Hello, Chief!"

Qin Feng walked up to him and raised his arm to salute.

Ge Hongbin raised his eyelids to look at him and said casually, "Sit down."

"Yes."

Qin Feng sat on the camping chair opposite him.

Ge Hongbin divided the brewed coffee into two portions.

I didn’t add anything to my portion, but I added milk to Qin Feng’s portion.

"Come, try the coffee I brewed." Ge Hongbin smiled and said like a kind elder, "This is our domestically produced beans. I asked a friend to bring them back from Yunnan and Yunnan."

"It's smooth on the palate and has a high oil yield. Yunnan's coffee beans are indeed no worse than foreign varieties." Qin Feng picked it up and took a sip.

In my previous life, because I often worked overtime and stayed up late, drinking coffee as water had become the norm.

He has tried everything from Starbucks to Luckin Coffee to Mixue Coffee.

Naturally, there is some research on the taste and aroma of coffee.

Ge Hongbin seemed a little surprised by Qin Feng's professional evaluation.

Most young people of this age are still addicted to milk tea and carbonated drinks.

It is rare to find someone who can understand the art of coffee tasting.

"I usually have to stay up late, and strong tea doesn't work, so I switch to coffee."

Ge Hongbin took a sip and said, "Ge Zhiyong, I should have told you about my relationship with him, right?"

Qin Feng nodded: "That night at the Army Group Guesthouse, he told me that you were his father."

"Really?" Ge Hongbin shook his head at him: "He said that? Shouldn't he have said something about that Lao Deng..."

Qin Feng's expression was a little embarrassed. It turned out that the old man had always known his son and called him Lao Deng.

Ge Hongbin laughed and said, "It's okay. I've been yelling for years. I'm used to it."

Qin Feng was really unsure what the deputy commander wanted him to do, so he just asked directly.

"Commander, you called me here, do you have any instructions?"

"Yeah." Ge Hongbin pushed his coffee cup forward and said, "I called you here mainly for three reasons."

Qin Feng sat up straighter and listened attentively.

Ge Hongbin said seriously: "I hope that in the days to come, you can help me take better care of Ge Zhiyong."

"what?"

Qin Feng opened his mouth wide, almost thinking he had misheard.

Take care of Ge Zhiyong?

He is over 30 years old, not a three-year-old child. Does he need care?

Seeing Qin Feng's surprised expression, Ge Hongbin sighed, "Ge Zhiyong lost his mother when he was six. Because of my military duties, I couldn't go home for a long time. I often couldn't come back for dinner during the New Year and other holidays. After a long time, it was as if we didn't know each other.

"There was a parent-teacher conference once, and I finally managed to squeeze out time to go. When I got to school, I made a huge fool of myself."

"Did you go to the wrong class?" Qin Feng asked in a low voice.

"I went to the wrong school." Ge Hongbin smiled bitterly. "I thought he was still in the third year of junior high school, but it turns out he's already been promoted to the second year of high school."

"..." Qin Feng really didn't know what to say. This was indeed a huge mistake.

"Later, when he was taking the college entrance exam, he wanted to apply to an art academy to study painting. I broke two feather dusters and forced him to go to a military academy."

Ge Hongbin sighed, "At that time, I was still a corps commander. I thought, wouldn't it be a joke for our only son to join the army and learn painting instead?"

"Later, I forced him to go to military school, but because of this, our relationship became increasingly distant."

"In the whole year, I may not even say ten sentences..."

Qin Feng is actually not very interested in these trivial matters.

This is someone else's private matter, and as an outsider, he has no right to comment.

After all, every family has its own problems. Wasn't it because of my premature love problem that I was forced by my father to join the army?

Ge Hongbin continued, "Xiao Qin, although you are only twenty years old, a generation younger than Ge Zhiyong, I know that you are much more mature than that boy."

"You are shrewd and patient, never showing your emotions. You have your own ideas and opinions on combat and training."

"I also know that Ge Zhiyong is nominally the commander of the combined battalion, but privately everyone trusts you more."

"From beginning to end, you were the one who led this exercise, and you were the one who made all the plans and arrangements..."

"Commander, you misunderstood. In this exercise, Ge Zhiyong also..." Qin Feng was about to say a few good words on behalf of the battalion commander when he was interrupted by Ge Hongbin.

"I'm his father. I know that kid's abilities better than you do." Ge Hongbin said, "He has the talent of a general, but not the talent of a commander."

"In terms of killing enemies and charging into battle, he has indeed inherited some of my excellent genes, and he is indeed a fierce warrior."

"But in terms of overall perspective and strategy, he's not even a little bit behind you."

"In previous exercises, the Steel Blade Company never made it to the late stages. Almost all the soldiers died in the early to middle stages."

"And when I said you should take care of him, I actually meant you could be more tolerant and teach him more, so he wouldn't always be so rigid and dogmatic. In war, there's no pattern or template; the only thing you can do is adapt to the circumstances."

Qin Feng didn't say anything, but he could feel the meaning of the words "Parents' love is the most precious in the world".

There is indeed a conflict between the father and son, and Ge Hongbin, as a father, has also made some outrageous mistakes.

But even so, he would still silently care about Ge Zhiyong's development and future in his own way.

For example, Lan Zhiguang’s synthetic training plan.

For example, Lei Bao helped them build their own special operations platoon.

If Ge Hongbin wasn't behind these things, Qin Feng would never believe that pie in the sky would keep falling in front of him.

"Commander, Ge Zhiyong is my battalion commander, but he is also my good brother."

"There's no distinction between us. It never matters who takes the lead. As long as it's for the good of the troops and we're working towards a common goal, that's all that matters."

“Just like this cup of coffee, it’s very bitter when drunk alone, but after adding milk, the taste becomes smoother and more mellow.”

"So, rather than saying it's about taking care of each other, it's more like we learn from each other and grow together."

Qin Feng's answer was flawless, but it also gave Ge Hongbin a reassurance.

"I feel relieved with your words." Ge Hongbin smiled and nodded: "Next, let's talk about the second thing."

"Yeah." Qin Feng nodded and listened carefully.

"Secondly, I intend to criticize you throughout the entire army for the mistakes you made during this exercise, and send you to a military farm for a month of self-reflection!"

"?????"

Qin Feng was confused and had a swear word on his lips, but he didn't know whether he should say it or not.