Chapter 352: Monsters and Ghosts
"Bullshit!" Zhou Yunqi couldn't contain his anger and stood up, pointing at Cao Zhengxing who was sitting opposite him and cursing, "Grandpa and grandma were so loving, they never had any quarrels!"
Cao Zhengxing sneered and said, "Do you think you, a little brat, will know whether there is any discord?"
"Sit down." Cao Zhengxing looked at Zhou Yunqi coldly.
The corners of Zhou Yunqi's eyes were red. He stood there and was in a stalemate with Cao Zhengxing for a long time before sitting down again.
"The Emperor wanted the Princess's power, but the Princess didn't want to give it up. She forced Zhou Cungao to choose between her and the Emperor. Guess what your grandfather chose?"
Zhou Yunqi didn't say anything, but he felt in his heart that his grandfather would not choose anyone.
My grandfather never wanted to get involved in the factional struggles in the court. He always wanted to guard the northern border and the Great Zhou. The Zhou family army was never a tool for royal infighting.
"Although he is helping the Emperor by staying in the North, His Majesty doesn't see it that way. And for the Princess, if Zhou Cungao doesn't move, he's betraying her."
"The wall between His Majesty and the Princess needs to be broken, and the Zhou family is that wall."
Cao Zhengxing looked at Zhou Yunqi, who seemed to have taken his words to heart, and said with a smile, "Let me ask you, who controls the remaining Zhou family army now?"
Zhou Yunqi didn't say anything and curled up his fists on his legs.
"The Zhou family has collapsed. Are you sure the Princess's power has collapsed too?" Cao Zhengxing said with a smile, "It's only your Zhou family that has collapsed. You've been sold out, and you're still helping people count the money."
"Everything is one-sided."
He would not doubt his grandmother just because of a few words from this evil-minded person in front of him. He would not!
Zhou Yunqi repeated this to himself over and over again in his mind, but once the seeds of doubt took root and sprouted, it was not so easy to remove them.
"It's up to you whether you believe it or not. It has nothing to do with me. All I want is for Xixi to become the sole heir to the King of Wei."
Zhou Yunqi looked at Cao Zhengxing in confusion. Did Xixi have anything to do with him? Why did he insist on Xixi becoming Ji Sheng's heir?
How could Cao Zhengxing not see what Zhou Yunqi was thinking? He smiled and said, "Do you know?"
"When you and Yunshu were little, you called me dad."
"impossible!"
Zhou Yunshu, who was behind the screen, was also surprised. Is this true? No, how could they possibly call Cao Zhengxing "Dad"?
"Hahaha!" Those two calls of "Dad" can be said to be one of the pillars that kept Cao Zhengxing alive. Whenever he thought of them, he would feel very good, so the look he gave Zhou Yunqi at this time was much more kind.
"Shu'er has been smarter than you since she was little. I tempted her with sweet fruits and jewelry, but she said she could buy them herself. In the end, I had to use a night-shining pearl presented as tribute to His Majesty to get her to call me dad."
Zhou Yunshu: “…” That can’t be.
"You are the most gullible. Shu'er at least waited until she got the Night Pearl before calling me, but you, I just said I would give you a falcon, and you called me in surprise."
Zhou Yunqi: "..." Is he so stupid?
"So, whether you two acknowledge it or not, I consider you my children."
Zhou Yunqi frowned.
"Xixi always greets me every time she comes to see me in the palace. You don't know that she and Shu'er are exactly the same when they were little."
Zhou Yunqi looked at Cao Zhengxing, wondering what he was trying to accomplish by talking so much! Everything was just his own imagination.
Is it because he became a eunuch and had no offspring that he became crazy and imagined himself and Zhou Yunshu as his children?
As expected, it is true that everyone says that eunuchs are physically and mentally disabled, especially eunuchs like Cao Zhengxing, whose minds are even more perverted.
"Now that the Crown Prince and the King of Qi have been deposed, the other kings are in chaos in the capital. Only the King of Wei has a clear mind and has taken control of power and has come to the northern border."
Cao Zhengxing sneered, "They still think they can win. They don't even have military power, how can they win?"
"Conflicts are raging across the country, and the King of Huainan is poised to stage a comeback from the south. Your grandmother has sent people to take over the Zhou army, and has her own people slowly attacking from the southern provinces. She might even have other plans for Shu'er and you. Now, it all depends on who's more ruthless and who's quicker."
"My grandmother..."
"She regrets it." Cao Zhengxing looked at Zhou Yunqi with a smile, "Can't you see? She regrets bringing His Majesty to the capital and regrets handing over the throne to someone else."
Zhou Yunqi opened his mouth, wanting to say that his grandmother was not such a person, but no sound came out of his throat.
"You entered the service of the King of Wei in the northern border. Your grandmother knew about this, right?"
Zhou Yunqi didn't say anything, and Cao Zhengxing didn't force him to give him an answer.
"I came to you because I treat you as one of my own." Cao Zhengxing looked at Zhou Yunqi and said self-deprecatingly: "You also know that I am a rootless person. I am not fighting for myself."
"I know it's not easy being treated like a pawn. Even if it's your grandmother, are you really willing to be a puppet in her hands? Think about what happened to your grandfather. When a woman is ruthless, men really can't handle her."
In fact, Cao Zhengxing was not clear about the disagreement between Ji Mingzhu and Zhou Cungao, but this did not prevent him from seizing a guess and playing with it.
After all, what he wanted was not the facts, but the result, the result of causing internal strife between Ji Mingzhu and the Zhou family, and finding a way to separate Li Jialan and Zhou Yunshu, mother and daughter, from the Zhou family.
Cao Zhengxing never thought of giving up Li Jialan. She was supposed to be his wife.
A family is complete only when it has a father, a mother, sons, daughters and grandchildren. All he did was to put the originally misplaced life back in place.
When Xixi becomes Ji Sheng's only heir, when Ji Sheng ascends the throne, when Xixi becomes the Crown Princess of the Great Zhou, then he will no longer be a stain on the family. He will revive the family, make it a noble family, and leave his name in history.
Zhou Yunqi didn't look at Cao Zhengxing again, because when he recalled the various things that went wrong between his grandfather and father before the Zhou family was exterminated and their property was confiscated, his determination was shaken.
And what Zhou Yunshu wanted to say to him when she came in just now, those words that could not be said in the letter, are they also related to what Cao Zhengxing said?
"Actually, I'm not in a hurry. As you know, I'm currently the military supervisor of the Northern Territory. I have plenty of time to wait for you to give me an answer."
"I just don't know how long we can wait." Cao Zhengxing pointed upwards when Zhou Yunqi looked at him, "He can't wait any longer."
"Once he's gone, the demons and monsters in the imperial court won't be suppressed. If you don't make a decision quickly, your fate will be..."
“Bang, bang, bang!”
There was a knock on the door of Haitangju, interrupting Cao Zhengxing's unfinished words. Cao Zhengxing frowned slightly, but swallowed his unfinished words.
The door was pushed open, and a frail soldier, wearing the most basic armor of the Northern Army, walked in and said to Zhou Yunqi, "Captain, His Highness wishes to see you."
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