Human emotions are really strange things. Reason tells Zhou Yuanyuan that it is best to mind her own business, but Zhou Yuanyuan's emotions do not allow her to watch Zhu Xiaojuan struggling in ignorance.
"If she doesn't know, just pretend that she doesn't know!" General Zhou sighed and gave an answer that was beyond Zhou Yuanyuan's expectations.
"Don't care? Then... then her life might be ruined!" Zhou Yuanyuan looked a little surprised.
"Little sweetheart! You might feel sorry for Xiaojuan, but there are some things outsiders can't interfere with. The Zhu family...is no simple matter," General Zhou counseled Zhou Yuanyuan. Young people are full of passion and a strong sense of justice, but how could Zhu Xiaojuan's case be resolved in a fit of rage?
"Grandpa Zeng, how do you know I'm talking about Sister Xiaojuan?" Zhou Yuanyuan's almond-shaped eyes widened. She remembered that she didn't say that this friend was Zhu Xiaojuan.
General Zhou smiled but did not answer.
"Miss, when the general was young, he had a nickname called 'Kong Ming'! He could guess the general direction of the enemy's troops and formations with just a few clues." Zhou Xi said at this time. The implication was that it was not surprising that General Zhou guessed that the friend Zhou Yuanyuan was talking about was Zhu Xiaojuan.
Wow! Her great-grandfather is so awesome! Zhou Yuanyuan's eyes were full of stars.
When Zhou Yuanyuan met General Zhou, he had already subdued his edge due to family changes and illness. The General Zhou who appeared before Zhou Zhixin's family was just a kind and loving elder.
"I'm old! My brain isn't as good as it was when I was young!" General Zhou shook his head and said self-deprecatingly.
"How could that be? Master, you have been extremely wise since you were a child!" Zhou Xi didn't like General Zhou looking down on him. Zhou Xi hoped that the General Zhou in his eyes would be full of energy and never give up every day.
"Grandpa Zeng, can you tell me how you guessed it? Let me learn from you." Zhou Yuanyuan was really curious about how General Zhou guessed it was Zhu Xiaojuan.
"Girl, you said it yourself! Besides Zhu Xiaojuan, who else could be your close friend over the years? My dear, you have too few friends." General Zhou announced the answer with a smile.
It seems... yes! Over the years, Zhou Yuanyuan's reputation in the industry has been one of arrogance. She's incapable of feigning flattery towards anyone she dislikes. Zhu Xiaojuan is the first and only person to earn her special regard.
"Grandpa Zeng, it's not that I want to meddle in Sister Xiaojuan's affairs, but the matter at hand is closely related to the Zhu family!" Zhou Yuanyuan was a little distressed.
The one who "swallowed" Liu Meiling's pendant belongs to the Zhu family. Zhou Yuanyuan has a premonition that her intersection with the Zhu family will not end because of her giving up.
"Liu Meiling?" General Zhou was a little surprised. The case of the missing girl in Kyoto had recently become a hot topic because of Liu Meiling's involvement. General Zhou had never imagined that Liu Meiling's disappearance was related to the Zhu family.
"Well, Liu Meiling isn't missing. She was swallowed by a pendant Zhu Xiaojun gave her." At this point, Zhou Yuanyuan had nothing to hide from General Zhou. She meticulously recounted the events of yesterday's Chaos Pearl's "Time Rewind." Finally, Zhou Yuanyuan shared her suspicions: she suspected the Zhu family's pendant was a "space magic weapon" used by cultivators, capable of holding objects, including living beings.
"No wonder, no wonder..." After hearing this, General Zhou stood up in surprise and muttered a few words.
Zhou Yuanyuan and Wen Ziqing exchanged a glance. Looking at General Zhou's expression, did he seem to know about the Zhu family pendant?
General Zhou had indeed seen the pendant Zhou Yuanyuan had described on Zhu Xiangyang. At the time, General Zhou had even teased Zhu Xiangyang, saying, "Why are you wearing a necklace around your neck like a woman?"
How did Zhu Xiangyang respond?
"Oh," Zhu Xiangyang said, "that's a relic my grandmother left for him. She told me not to leave it until I'm fifty-six."
Thinking of the past, General Zhou became a little agitated and it took him a while to calm down.
"Grandpa Zeng, could you tell me about the Zhu family? I've always felt they're not ordinary." Since the matter of the pendant had already been brought up, Zhou Yuanyuan wanted to take this opportunity to ask General Zhou about the Zhu family. After all, for the Zhu family to possess such a magical pendant, Zhu Xiangyang must be no ordinary person...right?
"The Zhu family is indeed a bit peculiar. Back then, if it weren't for Zhu Xiangyang's help, a few of us old friends would have almost died on Bald Mountain..." General Zhou fell into memories.
General Zhou, Zhu Xiangyang, Cao Yunfei and others were among the group of people who joined the revolution early on.
In that war-torn era, surviving to the end required not only an indomitable spirit but also a bit of luck. General Zhou felt that he and his group of old friends were among those who were lucky.
Once, General Zhou was ambushed and trapped by the enemy on a barren, bald mountain with a company of soldiers, including Zhu Xiangyang. Although they had ammunition, they were completely out of food and water. The mountain was rocky and barren, leaving General Zhou and his men with nowhere to find roots or tree bark. Fearing a desperate counterattack, the enemy surrounded the mountain tightly, intending to trap General Zhou and his men.
For two whole days and nights, the soldiers hadn't eaten a grain of rice or drunk a sip of water. Starving, their eyes were gleaming with hunger, their throats were on fire, and yet no reinforcements arrived. General Zhou believed the bald mountain was their final resting place. It was Zhu Xiangyang, who risked his life to find food, that kept them going for the next three days and nights.
General Zhou still remembers the feeling of being starving to the extreme, and the sweetness of the large white flour bun that Zhu Xiangyang handed him. It was truly a rare delicacy in the world! At that time, General Zhou once wondered how Zhu Xiangyang had quietly broken out of the enemy's tight encirclement and then quietly returned to it.
The strange "pendant" on Zhu Xiangyang might be the answer to the mystery of what happened that year.
"Great-grandfather, I want to ask, what kind of person is Grandpa Zhu? Would he sacrifice his own descendants to achieve his own goals?" After listening to General Zhou's "story", Zhou Yuanyuan became even more curious about Zhu Xiangyang.
"No, Old Zhu is not such a person. I, your great-grandfather, have lived to such an old age and still have some vision in judging people. We, a group of old friends, have fought together through gunfire and hail of bullets. I can be sure that Zhu Xiangyang would not do the kind of thing you said." General Zhou shook his head and denied Zhou Yuanyuan's guess.
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