Chapter 251 The Truth and Rebellion
There are more than three problems.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Zhou Yunzhi, who avoided her gaze, and said with a hint of pleading in her tone, "Brother."
"I just want to know the truth."
Zhou Yunzhi clenched his hands tightly.
Zhou Yunshu looked at him with a bitter expression on her face. "Don't tell me, the so-called head of the Zhou family, that I'm not qualified to know the truth?"
Zhou Yunzhi looked at Zhou Yunshu, who had grown up to be able to stand on her own feet without knowing when, and his throat moved slightly.
"He's here. Grandfather died. I didn't see him." Zhou Yunzhi looked at Zhou Yunshu, "Grandmother said he died."
And he had never doubted his grandmother before.
In fact, he also felt that if they died, it would be impossible for them to survive in that situation, and his grandmother's grief was not fake.
After hearing the answer she wanted, Zhou Yunshu's breathing became heavier.
"So it was Grandmother who said you didn't see it."
Zhou Yunzhi smiled bitterly, "Shu'er, it's impossible to survive in that situation."
"Impossible?" Zhou Yunshu had an ambiguous smile on her face when she said these three words.
Ever since she realized that her grandmother had set a trap for her, knew her plot, and knew that she was a chess piece, she felt that nothing was impossible.
Zhou Yunshu poured a cup of tea for Zhou Yunzhi and placed it in front of him.
"The conflict between you and Lin Fuyan isn't just because he poisoned his father, right? There must be something else happening in the North that I'm not aware of, right?"
Zhou Yunzhi lowered his eyes and held the warm teacup in front of him.
"Did you know that Grandmother wanted to rebel?"
Zhou Yunzhi's hand holding the teacup slowly clenched, and Zhou Yunshu understood, "Grandma said that Lin Fuyan is hers."
"Lin Fuyan is not from the Zhou family. There is a conflict between you again. Let me guess."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Zhou Yunzhi, thinking of his agony, and said, "Back in the Northern Territory, Grandmother and Grandfather had a disagreement about something. The court's claim that the Zhenbei Palace was rebellious wasn't entirely false, was it?"
Zhou Yunzhi suddenly looked up at Zhou Yunshu, clutching the cup and growling, "There is no rebellion in the Zhenbei Palace!"
"What about the eldest princess?"
“Bang!”
The teacup was crushed into pieces in Zhou Yunzhi's hands, and the steaming tea flowed all over the table.
Zhou Yunzhi's remaining eye was tightly closed, and the decadence and death that had not been seen for a long time once again filled his body.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the blood on her elder brother's palm, took a deep breath, took out a handkerchief from her body, pulled his hand, and slowly wiped off the tea and blood mixed in it.
"Brother, in the eyes of outsiders, grandparents have always been one and the same."
Zhou Yunshu touched Zhou Yunzhi's stiff hand, looked at the scars on his hand and said, "Of course the Zhou family is the same."
Zhou Yunzhi's voice trembled, as if he was enduring great pain. "Grandfather said that guarding the northern border and defending the frontier has always been the Zhou family's mission. Supporting the court and obeying the orders of the Ji royal family is what the Zhou family should do."
"If the ruler wants his subjects to die, the subjects must die. This is loyalty."
"The Zhou family has been loyal for generations. We absolutely cannot allow them to become traitors in his hands."
"Grandmother also said that she is also a monarch. She will not watch her own bloodline accompany the Zhou family to die, nor will she become the emperor's lackey, nor will she allow the puppet in her hands to tyrannize over her head."
"Grandmother said that this world was originally hers, so how could there be any talk of rebellion?"
"You know, my grandfather's mind was never on the turbulent court, and my grandmother was forced to take power again by Daizong."
Zhou Yunzhi's only remaining eye was bloodshot. "Grandfather is right, and grandmother is right too. The one who is wrong is..."
"What's wrong is that we are both descendants of loyal ministers and our grandmother's bloodline."
"Grandmother said that our grandfather taught us to be too servile. We forgot that we also have royal Ji blood in our bodies, and we forgot what it feels like to be the master of our own house."
Zhou Yunshu silently bandaged Zhou Yunzhi's wound. "When did Grandma and Grandpa have a disagreement?"
"When you got married, the emperor ordered your grandfather to leave the capital."
Zhou Yunshu held Zhou Yunzhi's hand, one hand was stiff and tense, while the other hand was soft but trembling slightly.
In her previous life, she was a canary raised in the backyard. All she could see was the small space she could see when she looked up, and she couldn't see that the Zhou family that gave birth to her had been pushed to the edge of the cliff.
"Grandfather's death..."
Zhou Yunzhi immediately understood what Zhou Yunshu hadn't finished saying, "It has nothing to do with my grandmother."
He smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't want to tell you."
What's the point of telling Zhou Yunshu about the past? Now they have reached this point and can only move forward and look ahead.
He didn't want Zhou Yunshu to fall into the same pain and entanglement as himself.
Because of his pain and entanglement, his grandmother gave up on him. Lin Fuyan did not understand him, and he did not want his younger sister to be like him.
He just didn't want to betray his grandfather and the Zhou family, but he couldn't just stand by and do nothing as his younger sister took on the burden of the Zhou family.
"Brother, besides you, does my aunt also know about this?"
Because he knew this, Zhou Jianying led his men to flee the capital and rush to the northern border before the Zhou family's property was ransacked.
"I don't know." But it should be.
Zhou Yunshu also knew this.
"Where are the others?"
Zhou Yunzhi shook his head and said to Zhou Yunshu, "Don't mention this matter anymore."
Zhou Yunzhi looked at the hand that Zhou Yunshu had bandaged for him and said to her, "Don't disobey grandma."
At least not now.
After a long while, Zhou Yunshu said, "I understand."
She looked up at Zhou Yunzhi's tired face and smiled, "Brother, thank you for surviving, thank you for coming back."
Zhou Yunzhi's eyes were moist, and he held Zhou Yunshu's hand tightly, "Brother, I'm sorry, Pingping..."
"It's good that Pingping can stay with his father."
Ji Sheng chose to take one of the children away at that time, firstly to confirm the fact that the two had fallen out; secondly, all eggs should not be put in one basket.
Zhou Yunzhi looked at Zhou Yunshu, his eyes gradually becoming firm as he said, "No matter what your choice is, Shu'er, I can be a knife in your hand."
He patted his broken leg, then patted his arm, "Even though my legs are gone, I still have my hands, and I still have my brain!"
Zhou Yunzhi looked at Zhou Yunshu seriously and said, "You were right to choose to train your own people."
Chusan and others are really useful, very useful!
However, they only have one master, and it is not Zhou Yunshu.
"Even though I, your brother, can no longer go to the battlefield and help you rush to the front line, I will take care of the rear for you."
The coldness in Zhou Yunshu's eyes was dispelled. "Thank you, brother. I really need you."
"It's my honor to be needed by you." What Zhou Yunzhi fears most is not being needed.
He didn't want to be a waste, and he didn't want to be a burden to his younger sister.
Zhou Yunshu pretended to be relaxed and took a deep breath, then said to Zhou Yunzhi, "Looks like I need to work harder!"
Zhou Yunzhi nodded.
"It's enough for the two of us to know what happened today."
Zhou Yunzhi nodded again. He didn't want his grandmother to know that Zhou Yunshu knew about these things that were deliberately concealed.
"Keep doing what you should do." Zhou Yunzhi looked at Zhou Yunshu seriously and said, "Even if any of them really survived, we don't have the opportunity or the ability to save them now."
"Shu'er, become the real head of the Zhou family. I will do my best to help you."
His grandmother was once the person he respected most besides his grandfather, and he knew that his grandmother's choice was not wrong, but if he really had to choose between his grandmother and his sister.
Zhou Yunzhi knew that he would definitely choose Zhou Yunshu, just like now.
"Thank you, brother."
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