Chapter 349: Brothers' Quarrel
Zhou Yuzhi's words left Zhou Yuxiu speechless.
He turned around blankly and walked back.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I'm going back to sleep. I won't disturb you anymore, Mr. Zhou Er."
Zhou Yuxiu's tone had become much colder.
However, Zhou Yuzhi didn't think there was anything wrong with it. What he just said came from the heart.
In his heart, Zhou Qinzhu is more important.
After all, the person they watched grow up was Zhou Qinzhu, and it was Gu Ruanci who refused to help treat his grandmother's illness, which led to her death.
"Brother, you were also raised by your grandmother. Have you ever thought about how she died?" Zhou Yuzhi reminded him.
Zhou Yuxiu, who was about to reach the door, stopped and turned to look at Zhou Yuzhi.
"Grandmother died of illness."
"She was the one who ignored my grandmother's death and deliberately delayed her death. She clearly had the ability to do so, but she watched helplessly as my grandmother's medicine proved ineffective. What family affection should I still care about, brother? Does she have any affection for us?"
Hearing this, Zhou Yuxiu became even more annoyed.
"Second brother, are you jealous of her medical skills? We already invited the Little Medical Fairy, didn't we? Why did she leave again? Wasn't it you who embarrassed her at the gate?"
Zhou Yuzhi didn't expect that he would talk so much to him, and he was speechless at the time.
The sleepiness he had felt before had disappeared, and he just wanted to explain things to Zhou Yuxiu.
"Brother, aren't you being too harsh? She was the one who concealed her identity as the Little Medical Fairy and deliberately acted like that to make me misunderstand. And I told you, as long as she sincerely apologizes, she can enter the mansion!"
"Why should she apologize? Who should apologize?"
Zhou Yuxiu's question made Zhou Yuzhi speechless instantly.
Seeing that he couldn't answer, Zhou Yuxiu continued, "The doormen at the time all recognized her as the Little Medical Fairy, but you refused to acknowledge her and insisted on telling father that she was back to collect money. That's why Grandmother's illness was delayed, wasn't it?"
"Brother, can you blame me for this? If it were you back then, would you be willing to believe she was the Little Medical Fairy? You just found out the truth, feel guilty, and think you were wrong back then, so you want to make amends now. But what did I do wrong?"
Zhou Yuzhi's words made Zhou Yuxiu silent again. If he were in the same situation at that time, he would probably do the same to Gu Ruanci.
"I didn't kill my grandmother, I made her suffer so much, and even buried her alive..."
These words were the final blow, and they resolved the worry in Zhou Yuzhi's heart that he had been trying so hard to suppress.
"Zhou Yuxiu, are you crazy? You're not sleeping at night to tell me these things. Are you hoping that I'll collapse and die like my third brother? Isn't it just that father threatened you with the position of Crown Prince? Are you worried that having another son in the family will really put your position at risk?"
After Zhou Yuzhi finished speaking, he felt a little regretful, just like Zhou Yuxiu just now.
Zhou Yuxiu looked at him and sneered, "I sincerely want to give you the throne of Crown Prince. Why do you have to speculate like this? We brothers have such different perspectives. I didn't realize you were such a cold person all these years."
Having said that, Zhou Yuzhi couldn't care less and said directly, "You seem sick! Are you crazy? You didn't sleep at night just to come and argue with me! You're living a good life, but you angered your pregnant wife and drove her away. You didn't want to sit on the throne of the crown prince and argue with your father. Now you even want to scold me. What on earth do you want to do? Do you think you can move anyone by doing this?"
Zhou Yuxiu felt even more desolate when he heard Zhou Yuzhi say this. He hadn't wanted to quarrel with his brother, but now it seemed the chasm between them was unbridgeable.
"What do you think I want to do? I just want to seek justice for my mother and save some face for our Zhou family. At least I know I was wrong and want to correct it, but what about you? What did you do?" Zhou Yuxiu's voice trembled and his eyes were slightly red.
Zhou Yuzhi felt a tightness in his heart when he heard this.
It's not that he is unfilial, but he has been blinded by power and interests over the years, and there is really no turning back.
"Let's not discuss this. If you still want to acknowledge me as your brother, then don't say this nonsense. After all, it has nothing to do with me... Whether it's what happened back then or what happened with Gu Ruanci, I don't want to care. Now that my sister-in-law is pregnant, that's what you should be concerned about. Since you made a mistake back then, don't let this mistake be passed on to the next generation. Now my sister-in-law is your original wife, and she's pregnant with your child. Since you look down on what your father did back then, what are you doing now?"
Zhou Yuxiu was silent for a moment after hearing this.
The tense atmosphere just now calmed down instantly because of Zhou Yuzhi's words.
After a long time, Zhou Yuxiu looked up at Zhou Yuzhi, with a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.
"Do you think I don't want to care about her? I just... I just don't know how to face her."
Zhou Yuzhi felt mixed emotions when he saw Zhou Yuxiu like this.
It’s not that he doesn’t understand Zhou Yuxiu’s feelings, it’s just that he can digest it better, while his elder brother is stuck in the past and can’t get out of it.
"Forget it, forget it," Zhou Yuzhi sighed. "If you can't figure it out, then forget it. But you have to go check on your sister-in-law. She's pregnant and emotionally unstable. What good is it if you keep ignoring her like this?"
Zhou Yuxiu nodded after hearing this.
"You're right, I'll go get her back."
The two brothers talked for a few more words, and the atmosphere gradually eased.
Zhou Yuxiu felt that it was boring and said dejectedly that he really wanted to go back to sleep this time.
This conversation between the two brothers did not alarm other people in the mansion, so after getting up the next day, Zhou Zhili directly told Zhou Yuxiu that he must bring Ye Lingyue back.
After a night of psychological struggle, Zhou Yuxiu did not refuse. He also knew what he should do now.
He glanced in Zhou Yuzhi's direction and found that the other party didn't want to talk, so he lowered his head in disappointment.
Shortly after breakfast, Ye Lanxin took out the prepared things and said that Zhou Yuxiu couldn't go to the Ye family to pick someone up empty-handed. After all, that place is now the Yue family, and there are more etiquettes to pay attention to, and it was he who angered Ye Lingyue and left.
Zhou Yuxiu silently accepted the gift from Ye Lanxin, feeling a mixture of emotions. He knew that this trip would not only require him to retrieve Ye Lingyue, but also to confront his own guilt and uneasiness.
He glanced at the scenery in the mansion, the familiar courtyard, the familiar scenery, but it became unfamiliar because of his awkwardness.
He didn't know how to get the best of both worlds.
Before he could think clearly, he could only take care of his own family first. Just as his second brother said last night, he must not make the same mistake his father made.
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