Chapter 352 Brothers, Father and Son
"You are you and I am me, stop trying to establish a relationship.
I call you a beast, and you listen. You can call me a beast, too. But in life, you earn your own status. Just because someone calls you a beast doesn't make you a beast.
Anyway, I dare to walk out of the Ji family's gate with dignity and look up to the world with a clear conscience.
Do you dare?
He put down his hands that were rubbing his head and pinched his nose like that rascal Jiang Lao San. Ji Minzhi's sneer with a crooked mouth did not seem like a serious person.
"You're going out in the middle of winter, fanning yourself. I don't even want to ask if you're afraid of catching a cold. I just want to know if you still have your head in the clouds. Look at you, you're just pretending, tsk!"
He rolled his eyes in disdain and didn't even plan to go back to his own yard. He turned around and headed towards the backyard. He was going to give Cricket Prime Minister Ji a good scolding in front of his mother!
Turning his head, he watched the idiot walk away. The smile on Ji Yunzhi's face froze in place, stiff as if a gentle shell was forcibly put on his cold face, which was extremely inconsistent.
"Sir, or I'll kill him!"
The baby-faced guard's face was full of anger. He was even more angry that his son was humiliated like this than if he himself had been scolded.
Ji Yunzhi, who was called back to his senses, shook his head, shook the folding fan in his hand slightly twice, and put the mask of elegant gentleman on his face again.
"Amu, that's my brother from the same father."
"But he doesn't even consider you as his brother! Not only this annoying guy, but your sister is also annoying! Amu doesn't like them treating you like this."
"It's okay. I'm used to it."
He smiled gently and walked towards the study.
"I'll go pay my respects to my father and plead for my second brother. We're both father and son, so why get angry?"
As he spoke, he walked forward slowly. The cold-faced guard behind him moved his eyes slightly, and he and the baby-faced guard also raised their legs to follow him.
When I pushed open the door of the study, I saw my father sitting behind the desk, writing with ink, with a cold face and still angry.
After sending the guards to wait outside the door, Ji Yunzhi walked in calmly, took a few steps forward, then stopped and saluted respectfully.
"Father."
Upon hearing the voice, Ji Xun put down his pen, looked up and saw his eldest son finally regaining his elegant demeanor. The anger he had just felt at the hands of that stupid son finally subsided a lot.
"Yunzhi is here? Why should we be so polite between father and son? Come on, get up and sit down."
"Etiquette cannot be abolished. Thank you, father."
After the eldest son sat down, Ji Xun asked the servants to serve tea and snacks, then sent everyone out and sat in the chair next to the eldest son.
The father and son drank tea and chatted.
"Didn't you say you were going to study hard and look for an opportunity to get involved in the future? How did you find the time to hang out here?"
"A son coming to greet his father is his duty. How can you call him just strolling around?"
Ji Yunzhi's words were extremely filial and polite, and his father was pleased with them.
"Humph, if only your second brother could think like you, I wouldn't have to get so angry!"
"My second brother is still young, so his words and actions are inevitably not thoughtful. Why would father bother to argue with his own son?"
"How is he still young? When you were his age, you didn't know anything. Why would you come to me and make trouble just because of other people's gossip?"
A look of disgust flashed across Ji Xun's face. He was probably really annoyed by the stupid Lao Er's lack of progress.
He stretched out his right hand to pick up the tea, held the lid with his left hand and slowly wiped away the tea foam in the cup. After frowning and taking a few sips, he sighed and calmed down a little.
He muttered a few words in a sighing tone.
"The second son is nothing like me. It's all because of the Yuan family's kindness that spoiled her son, and she raised him to be a coward. The third son is a bastard, and it's not worth my effort to train him.
Fortunately, you got a great opportunity and were lucky enough to recover from your injuries and come back. Otherwise, I, Ji, would have planned for half my life and ended up with no one to take over. Wouldn't that make others laugh? "
Ji Yunzhi's hand holding the tea paused slightly.
"Father, you're being a bit angry. My second brother has been intelligent and gentle since he was young, and my third brother is also well-behaved and polite. They are both better than this useless son. At least they haven't offended the Emperor and Empress, and they have a promising future."
"What are you looking for?"
Ji Xun angrily slammed the teacup on the table with a bang, but the anger in his tone was louder than the noise.
"Your third brother is a bookworm who's been studying too much, and he's destined to have no future. I had high hopes for your second brother, as he has some talent for studying. If it weren't for the national mourning, he would have definitely made a name for himself at the next talent selection ceremony."
But now when I look back, I realize that I was really overthinking it!
What kind of future can a man who is so timid and indecisive in relationships between men and women have if he really embarks on a career in politics?
If he could only follow the crowd and make indecisive decisions when faced with problems in the future, how could he possibly stand out? Would the court be short of a yes-man like him?
I will never waste all the connections and achievements I have accumulated through hard work for half my life on such a worthless person! "
Ji Xun turned to look at the handsome, elegant, calm and composed eldest son in front of him, and the complex emotions in his eyes were entangled repeatedly.
"Yunzhi, when you encountered such a tragedy, your father didn't speak up for you and instead sent you away from the capital. Do you resent me?"
The sound was not loud, but it silenced the study.
It seemed like a long time had passed, or maybe just a dozen breaths, and Ji Yunzhi sighed softly.
"I blame you."
The pair of eyes that were often lowered and filled with melancholy finally raised their heads to meet his father's gaze, and traces of resentment slowly emerged from them.
"I am your eldest son, why did you give up on me so easily?
At that time, I was just a young man named Mu Ai. I liked her and wanted her to like me. But I ended up with a disfigured face and heartbroken heart, and was driven out of the capital, ending up as a homeless dog.
During those years, I often hated her, and of course I blamed you too."
"My son Yunzhi, I owe you my father.
At that time, the late emperor was afraid of the power of my father as the head of all officials, and he was too biased towards the Duke's Mansion. He openly used words to pressure me and refused to let me collect my debts.
Although I feel sorry for you, as a father, I am even more reluctant to resign and cut off the career that I have worked hard for half my life.
You are right to blame me, as a father I have truly failed you!"
Ji Xun was a relatively open-minded person. Even though he was selfish by nature and was unwilling to trade his official position for justice for his son, he was able to speak clearly, which made people at a loss as to what to say.
Ji Yunzhi smiled bitterly several times.
“As the old saying goes, no one knows a son better than his father, but the reverse is also true: no one knows a father better than his son.
Later, when I couldn't figure it out, I forced myself to figure it out, and slowly I began to empathize with your ambition.
If it were me, I would probably make the same decision as you."
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