廖汉生是开国中将，因为战争的原因，他和自己的女儿失散多年，全国解放后才父女相团圆。女儿知道自己父亲是开国将军，想让父亲帮忙介绍个工作。尽管廖将军对这个失散多年的女儿满心愧疚，但是身居高位的他一口回绝，坚持不让地方给女儿安排工作。他自己觉得新中国刚刚建立，可以说是百废待兴，身为开国将领更是应该以身作则，公器怎能私用呢？自己的子女也是普通百姓，不能有什么特权，应该和大众一视同仁。

Liao Hansheng is a lieutenant general in the founding of People’s Republic of China. He has lost in touch with his daughter for years due to the war and eventually had a reunion till the countrywide liberation. Then, his daughter came to know his high status and hoped to get some help in finding a job. Guilty father as he was for the long-lost daughter, General Liao refused, insisting that the local government not give her a job. At that very time, the new China had just been established with a thousand things to be done. He held the view that he should set a good example. How could public power be taken advantage of? His children were also ordinary people and should be treated the same with no privileges.