Chapter 139 At least I saved my life
Zhou Yunshu had already put down the brush in her hand when Liao Quan said that the old woman's surname was Wang. She looked outside the door in surprise. Could it be that her grandmother and the others had come?
Obviously, Zhou Yunshu was not the only one who thought so, Chunque also thought so.
After looking at each other in surprise, they didn't go to the backyard to say anything, but ran straight to the door, just in case it was all a false alarm.
Zhou Yunshu and Chunque hurried to the gate of the house. When Zhou Yunshu saw Nanny Wang beside the carriage and Chuqi and Chuwu in the carriage, her eyes were filled with tears.
It’s really grandma!
Nanny Wang's eyes also turned red when she saw Zhou Yunshu's slightly bulging belly, "Miss!"
Although the face was different, Nanny Wang recognized the person in front of her as their eldest daughter at a glance. There was no way she could be mistaken for her temperament and figure.
"Mammy, where's Grandmother?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the carriage with hope, and the curtain on the window was slowly lifted under Zhou Yunshu's gaze.
Seeing her grandmother's face, which had obviously aged a lot, Zhou Yunshu couldn't help but shed tears, "Grandma!"
Ji Mingzhu gave her granddaughter a reassuring smile, then got down from the carriage with the help of Nanny Wang and Chunque.
"Grandma!" After Ji Mingzhu stood firm, Zhou Yunshu couldn't help but run forward and rush into her arms.
"Grandma, you've taken a lot of trouble." Zhou Yunshu's voice choked with sobs.
She had a lot of questions to ask, but seeing the obvious fatigue on Ji Mingzhu's face, she swallowed the words that were about to burst out of her throat.
"Miss."
Dong Ge got off the carriage behind him.
Zhou Yunshu glanced at her and said with a smile, "As long as you're safe."
Dongge nodded with red eyes, and followed their young lady with her arm in arm.
Zhou Yunshu and Nanny Wang stood on Ji Mingzhu's left and right, helping her walk to the backyard.
"Mother, Second Aunt, Sister-in-law, please come out quickly!"
As soon as Zhou Yunshu stepped into the backyard, she couldn't help but shout loudly.
Li Jialan and Wu Yue were doing needlework in the room. When they heard Zhou Yunshu's rare scream, they thought something had happened and immediately put down what they were doing and ran out of the house.
Also there were Fang Huiwen in the kitchen and the children in Zhou Yunjia's room.
"mother!"
"grandmother!"
When Li Jialan and Wu Yue came out of the room and saw the old woman Zhou Yunshu was holding, they shouted in disbelief and surprise, and then tears welled up in their eyes.
"Mom, I'm so glad you're okay!" Li Jialan and Wu Yue rushed forward.
Zhou Yunjia, who hadn't even seen who the visitor was, had tears in his eyes after his mother and aunt shouted that word.
Ji Mingzhu looked at Li Jialan and the others who were kneeling in front of him and hugging his legs. He sighed, bent down slightly, patted their shoulders and said, "You are all grown-ups, stop kneeling."
Li Jialan and Wu Yue were helped up by their respective daughters-in-law, and looked at their mother-in-law with tears in their eyes.
The backbone of the family is finally back, but...
"Mom, are you okay?"
Ji Mingzhu in front of him seemed to have suddenly aged ten years. He was thin and his face looked old.
Ji Mingzhu's change shocked Zhou Yunshu and others. In their eyes, Ji Mingzhu has always been the most patient. Something that could cause Ji Mingzhu to change so much in such a short period of time must be a big deal, perhaps a big deal that they could not bear.
Nanny Wang turned her face away slightly, but couldn't help but let her tears fall. Zhou Yunshu noticed Nanny Wang's little action and couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.
Something must have happened that she didn't know about, and it must have been something bad.
"It's okay, go to your room." Ji Mingzhu said softly, "I'm old, and I feel tired after standing for a while."
When Li Jialan and Wu Yue heard Ji Mingzhu say that she was tired, they immediately made room for her. They stood on either side of Ji Mingzhu and carefully helped her to the main room.
Zhou Yunshu fell behind, looking at Nanny Wang who was following closely behind her grandmother. She said to Chunque beside her, "Go and get Doctor Xue."
"yes."
In the main room, Li Jialan and Wu Yue helped Ji Mingzhu sit in the main seat. Fang Huiwen placed a cup of red date ginger tea next to Ji Mingzhu's hand, and Wu Gui stood obediently by the side holding the children's hands.
"Mom, after the long journey, do you want to go back to your room and rest for a while?" Li Jialan asked when she saw Ji Mingzhu still looked tired after sitting down.
Ji Mingzhu shook her head and said to Zhou Yunshu who had been standing beside her: "Shu'er, sit down."
"You all sit down."
Li Jialan and Wu Yue tacitly left the seat closest to Ji Mingzhu to Zhou Yunshu, and then sat in other seats.
Ji Mingzhu held her head with one hand, seeming to have a headache, but she still forced herself to look at Zhou Yunjia who was standing next to her.
"Yunjia."
"Grandma!" Zhou Yunjia immediately came to Ji Mingzhu, knelt on the ground and held her hand, "Grandma, I'm here."
Ji Mingzhu smiled and touched Zhou Yunjia's hair. "From now on, you will shoulder the burden of the second house, understand?"
When Ji Mingzhu finished speaking, Wu Yue, who was sitting on the side, widened her eyes as if struck by lightning, "Mom!"
Ji Mingzhu lowered her hand from the stunned Zhou Yunjia's head and said to Wu Yue who had stood up beside her, "I'll go identify the bodies of Jianzhi and Yunkun."
The glimmer of hope in her heart disappeared, and she burst into tears. Ji Mingzhu looked at Wu Gui, who was holding Yuan Ruo's hand, and said, "Yun Hai was seriously injured and fell off the cliff."
There was little hope of survival.
She looked back at Zhou Yunjia, who was kneeling in front of her. "Yunjia, the Second House will depend on you from now on. You have to shoulder the responsibility, understand?"
Zhou Yunjia was crying so hard that he couldn't make a sound. Ji Mingzhu exhaled deeply and patted his shoulder.
Even though they had already known that the men in their family had died in battle, they actually always held on to a glimmer of hope in their hearts, hoping that they might have escaped, and that the news of their deaths in battle was false, and the news from the north was also false.
Otherwise, my sister-in-law wouldn't have gone to the northern border alone, and my mother-in-law wouldn't have remained calm.
But Ji Mingzhu's words today shattered all the hope in their hearts and laid the bloody facts before them.
Wu Gui put her arm around her mother-in-law's shoulders. Yuan Ruo was frightened by her grandmother's crying. Her eyes turned red and her mouth flattened, and she also started crying.
Li Jialan never dared to look up after Ji Mingzhu told her that the second wife's husband had died in the battle, as if as long as she didn't look up and didn't look at her mother-in-law, their first wife could escape.
"Jianzhang is gone too. Yunzhi was dragged to Tiele. When he was rescued, one of his eyes was missing, and both of his legs were chopped off." Ji Mingzhu seemed a little cold, gathered her clothes, and continued in a hoarse voice, "But at least she's still alive."
Fang Huiwen fainted on the ground with suppressed sobs. Yuan Li and Yuan Yi rushed over in fear, shouting, "Mom!"
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