Chapter 364: Sacrifice

“It’s my first time here and I can’t find the place.”

The three looked at Zhou Yunshu and nodded repeatedly, "Miss, come this way."

Chen Dayong and the other two took Zhou Yunshu and the other person to the back of the tombstone they had just worshipped, and then they saw a more solid and ancient tombstone.

As Zhou Yunshu was looking at the words on the tombstone with a torch, Zhou Yunqi beside her muttered, "It's right here."

He suddenly felt a little guilty, thinking that he was not as good as the soldiers under his grandfather and father.

After Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunqi saw the tombstone in front of them and the tombstone behind it clearly, they knelt in front of them.

Zhou Yunshu placed the incense and candles that she had specially left behind as offerings in order, and Zhou Yunqi lit the paper money.

The moment the fire started, the sadness took on substance.

Zhou Yunshu suppressed the bitterness in her heart and the moisture in her eyes and lowered her head, while her thousands of words merged into one sentence with Zhou Yunqi's.

"We must restore the innocence and justice to the Zhou family and the Zhou army."

No matter how the royal family makes trouble, the Zhou family should not become victims of their party struggles, nor will they become their pawns.

After the worship, Zhou Yunshu and her companions, along with Chen Dayong and two others, went to clean the grave and pulled out the weeds on the grave mound.

The weeds are not tall, which means someone has tidied them before.

After everything was cleaned up, Zhou Yunshu also counted the tombstones behind Zhou Cungao's tomb.

The two tombstones behind Zhou Cungao's tomb are his two sons, Zhou Jianzhang and Zhou Jianwu.

The next three tombstones are for Zhou Yunzhi, Zhou Yunhai and Zhou Yunkun.

The inside of Zhou Yunzhi and Zhou Yunhai must be empty, after all, Zhou Yunshu had seen them with her own eyes.

"Are you really going to do it?"

Ignoring the grave of their grandfather Zhou Cungao, Zhou Yunshu's eyes first fell on her father's grave.

"Well, I want to find out."

"good."

Chen Dayong and the other two finally realized something was wrong when they saw Zhou Yunqi take out the shovel.

"Fuck, what are you doing!" He stepped forward and stopped Zhou Yunqi.

Li Shitou and the other man were not willing to be left behind and stood in front of Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunqi, guarding the grave behind them with all their might.

"You guys are crazy! Who the hell dares to take the lead in digging their own grave?"

Zhou Yunqi looked at the three people in front of him who were angry and in disbelief, and said, "We want to figure out one thing."

"Don't dig up our general's grave for anything!"

"Are you from the Zhou family? I don't think you are fake!"

There is nothing wrong with them thinking this way. After all, no descendants would dig up the graves of their elders.

"It couldn't be more true."

Zhou Yunqi said that the grave could not be dug up, as some people were unwilling to acknowledge that they were members of the Zhou family.

Zhou Yunshu looked at the three people and asked, "Are you sure that the people lying in this cemetery are definitely my father and his family?"

"How could it not be!"

"You saw it with your own eyes? Whose soldiers are you?"

Chen Dayong and the other two looked at each other and said, "We are soldiers under General Zhou Er."

The General Zhou Er they were talking about was the second uncle of Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunjia, and the father of Zhou Yunhai and Zhou Yunjia.

"Did you see my second uncle die with your own eyes?"

Chen Dayong and the other two thought about it and shook their heads. "When we rushed out, Tiele had already taken the general's spear and said that the general died at his hands."

Li Shitou nodded. "The general always keeps his spear in his hand. If he falls into the hands of Tiele, they will definitely not let him go."

Zhou Yunshu looked at the three of them and said, "So you didn't actually see my second uncle die at their hands, did you?"

"But the bodies of the old general and the other generals were buried by the eldest princess herself. They were her husband and son. Could the eldest princess lie?"

Zhou Yunshu looked at the three of them and said, "You actually knew that it was my grandmother who came to collect the body."

Not many people knew that her grandmother had gone to the North.

Chen Dayong explained, "The Zhou family army has a unique method of communication. The eldest princess used this method to contact us. However, we were wanted by the imperial court at the time and were afraid that this was a conspiracy, so we followed from a distance and did not appear in front of the eldest princess."

Ergou said, "Yes, by the time we figured it out, the eldest princess had already buried the generals and left."

Zhou Yunshu didn't know whether the "we" that Chen Dayong and Ergou were talking about were only the three of them, or whether there were other members of the Zhou family army who had not been recruited by Ji Mingzhu.

She looked at the three of them and said, "So, you didn't actually see what was in the coffin when it was buried that day, right?"

Chen Dayong and the other two looked at each other, recalling the situation at that time and the reactions of the other Zhou family soldiers. They said, "We didn't see it, but the grief on the faces of the Zhou family soldiers surrounding the Heroes' Tomb was real."

So the coffin buried must have contained the body of their general.

"Oh, I still want to open the casket."

Zhou Yunshu was determined to open the coffin today. She felt that what her grandmother had done here was just a smokescreen, and she wanted to know the truth.

"No, we don't agree!"

"As a child, you're digging up your own ancestors' graves. You're being unfilial!"

Chen Dayong and the other two were also surprised. They had never seen anyone who insisted on digging up their own graves. "Aren't you afraid that the prince and the general will come looking for you while you sleep at night?"

Zhou Yunshu pushed aside the people blocking her way and said, "Why should I be afraid? They are my closest relatives, and I want to hear them tell me in person what happened in the Northern Territory."

Is her grandmother really the mastermind behind all this happening to the Zhou family, as Cao Zhengxing said?

She was not afraid at all that her grandfather and father would come looking for her. They were her closest relatives. At worst, they could just kneel down in front of their graves and confess their crimes.

"Yun Qi!"

Zhou Yunshu couldn't push the three people away with her bare hands, so she had to call the useless helper next to her.

When Zhou Yunqi heard Zhou Yunshu calling him, he knew that she was determined tonight.

So he gritted his teeth, made up his mind, threw down the shovel, subdued Chen Dayong and the other two, took off their belts, and tied them to the old locust tree next to the grave.

While tying him up, he was still thinking: Yes, this was the old locust tree he saw during the day.

"Let's dig."

The first grave Zhou Yunshu was going to dig was her father's.

When Zhou Yunshu picked up the shovel and dug towards the grave, she suddenly saw Zhou Yunqi kneeling on the ground with a shovel in his hand.

"What are you doing?"

Zhou Yunqi looked at Zhou Yunshu with an expression of fearlessness, "I want to dig on my knees."

“…”

"It will make you feel less guilty."

Zhou Yunshu looked at Zhou Yunqi speechlessly, put down the shovel, picked him up and said, "Get up and dig hard for me. I want to see the results before dawn!"