Chapter 195 and Confession (Seven Watches)
The eldest princess of Sheng An was helpless.
She looked at Zhou Gu and sighed deeply, "Brother Gu, I just asked you, but you didn't answer, and now I ask you again, you have to persistently seek an answer now, what is your purpose?"
She reminded him heavily, "You have divorced Su Rong! She is no longer yours, you can't take care of her affairs, and she doesn't need you to take care of it, if it weren't for your grandfather's repeated instructions to her, she would have wanted to simply break off with the Protectorate Mansion and have no more involvement, do you understand?"
Zhou Gu lowered his head and whispered, "I understand."
Su Rong came to withdraw from the marriage that day, neatly and decisively, leaving no room for anything, and he still remembers the words of his heart.
He raised his head and looked at the eldest princess of Sheng An, his eyes gradually reddened, "Grandmother, if you have to ask me about my purpose, then I will tell you, I am unwilling."
The eldest princess of Sheng An stiffened for a moment, "What are you unwilling to do? Unwilling to be divorced?"
"Nope." Zhou Gu shook his head and said word by word: "I'm not reconciled, she has nothing to do with me from now on."
The eldest princess of Sheng An breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a gentle tone: "It's still related, and there is an old friendship, you can treat her as the sister of the world friend in the future, and doesn't she also call you Brother Zhou?"
Zhou Gu stared straight at the eldest princess Sheng An, "Grandmother understands what I mean, do you have to say it more bluntly?"
The eldest princess of Sheng An stiffened her face.
"Grandfather asked me to ask Su Rong, and you also asked me to ask Su Rong. Okay, I'll ask her." Zhou Gu stood up and seemed to be ruthless, "If she doesn't tell me, then I'll follow her until she says."
With that, he turned and walked out.
He walked to the door and collided with the old protector, who glared at him, "You go back for me."
Zhou Gu stopped and looked at the old protector calmly.
The old protector threw out a sentence, "Don't you want to know? I'll tell you!"
Zhou Gu turned around and followed the old protector to re-enter the house.
The old protector sat down and looked at Zhou Gu, "Before telling you, tell you the purpose of my study of literature."
Zhou Gu pursed his lips, "Grandfather, you said back then, my three elder brothers are all in the army, there is no place for me in the army, and the glory of the Protectorate Mansion has come to an end. With my wisdom, if I abandon martial arts and follow literature, learn astronomy and geography, subset the classics and history, read through a hundred schools, be well-read and knowledgeable, assist the Lord, and rejuvenate the society, and become famous in history, I can also become an immortal meritorious service."
"Well, you remember what I said to you." The old protector looked at him, "When I tell you the answer, after you finish listening, I hope you will always remember what I said to you."
Zhou Gu paused, but still nodded.
The old protector was waiting for him to nod, and after he nodded, he said to him, "Su Rong is not the biological daughter of Su Xu, the assassin of Jiangzhou, her real background is the daughter of the lord of Zhenmin of Daliang and the king of Southern Chu of Daliang."
Zhou Gu was shocked and sat up straight all of a sudden.
With a buzz in his head, he blurted out "How so?" , but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't say it in the end, only the buzzing in his head kept coming. ….
"You are familiar with the history of Daliang thousands of times, you should know that Yan Ruzhen, the lord of Zhenmin County, in order to save Daliang from danger, promised to make peace with his own strength, and then buried himself in Dawei, so that Dawei retreated at a loss, returned the city, and signed a peace treaty of non-aggression for 30 years." The old protector mentioned the past, and his voice was full of sadness and helplessness, "At that time, the king of Nanchu was still the prince of Nanchu, and he liked Zhenmin, but Zhenmin liked Xie Yuan, and the two promised each other their hearts, and they were just short of a piece of paper to marry. Dawei sent troops to attack, your father and uncles were also killed at that time, no matter how many people buried in the Protector's Mansion, but in that year, it could not save the decline of Daliang, the city lost one after another, and retreated, it is a fact that Daliang's national strength is not enough, the supply of grain and grass is not enough, the soldiers on the front line can only grit their teeth and fight hard, under the pain of the injured son, I gritted my teeth and went into battle with a gun, but it was just a death, and the king of Southern Chu at that time, Yu Daliang had two hearts, and stood by and watched, it was Zhenmin who gritted his teeth and begged in front of Chu Rong, the prince of Southern Chu, Chu Rong already liked her, Yu
It was for her to persuade the king of Southern Chu to persuade the king of Southern Chu to help Da Liang, and the two sides signed a marriage letter, Zhen Min went to Nan Chu, and Nan Chu sent troops, and together with Da Liang, they jointly resisted the enemy of Great Wei."
When the old protector said this, he was deeply disgusted and said, "But the wolf son of Great Wei has been ambitious for many years, how can he be willing to accept this result? So, the Nangong family, who was agitating Nanchu behind his back, sent people to negotiate peace with Da Liang, but the conditions for peace were that the county lord of Zhenmin and pro-Da Wei were the same. Otherwise, Da Wei will be beaten hard, and it is still unknown who will kill the deer. You must know that the Nangong family of Nanchu controls half of the situation in Nanchu, if the Nangong family takes the opportunity to seek power, then the fire in the royal house of Nanchu will also take care of itself, in this way, if you fight hard, it will be nothing more than a result, Daliang is in danger, it is foreseeable, it is not the opponent of Dawei."
The old protector sighed deeply, "So, Zhen Min helplessly begged Chu Rong to let go, and three months later, Chu Rong tore up the marriage book and let her leave Southern Chu, return to Daliang, and kiss Dawei. But after arriving in Dawei, she found that she was pregnant, which was Chu Rong's flesh and blood, she was reluctant to part, so she could only grit her teeth, planned the dispute between the princes of Dawei, took advantage of the chaos to fake her death and left Dawei. You will know the rest of the matter, because of the civil strife, the Great Wei had no intention of occupying it, and the Great Liang took the opportunity to ask the Great Wei to return the city and sign a peace treaty with the Great Wei for 30 years, and Zhen Min could only die in the Great Wei, and there was no such person, and the imperial court erected a monument for him."
The old protector said so much in one breath, seeing that Zhou Gu was silent, and said: "After Zhenmin faked death and escaped, she settled in Jiangning County and lived in Taishou Mansion, she was injured in Dawei, and because she was born to Su Rong when she had a difficult birth, she died of illness when Su Rong was seven years old, before she died, she wanted to seek refuge for Su Rong, so she wrote to me, I naturally obliged to choose you, and set up a relationship with you for her daughter, so she was relieved to go."
After he finished speaking, seeing that Zhou Gu still didn't speak, he continued: "Actually, back then, Your Majesty had already shown signs of jealousy and suspicion towards the Protector Mansion, but since I promised to protect Su Rong, I naturally had to keep my promise, but I didn't expect Your Majesty to become more and more powerful year by year, and the Protector Mansion was closely targeted, and I didn't dare to send someone to Jiangning, for fear that she would be targeted, thinking that she would be raised by Su Xu and Xie Yuan, and guarded by secret guards, she would definitely grow up safely. Therefore, it was not until she and Jiang Ning wrote that she had grown up that I sent you to Jiang Ning."
The old protector sighed, "How did you get along when you were in Jiangning County, did you find that someone kept trying to kill her? You have not said it when you came back, and you have not found it. It wasn't until the day she came to Beijing and asked her that I asked her that I knew that over the years, someone had been assassinating her, and the person who killed her was the queen of Southern Chu."
Zhou Gu straightened his body suddenly.
"Over the years, I have often been in the situation of Southern Chu, since the king of Southern Chu ascended the throne, although he has widely accepted the harem, established the queen, and filled the concubines, but he has not set foot in the harem. You know, the king of Southern Chu has had no children for many years, and Su Rong has become his only son. In the subject country of Southern Chu, there is a precedent for women to be kings. The queen of Southern Chu hated Zhen Min, and naturally she also hated Su Rong, and she couldn't wait to kill her sooner, and the Southern Chu clan had been the heir to the throne for many years, and they couldn't fight, in such a situation in Southern Chu, how many people would be happy to Su Rong live? And in other words, could it be that Su Rong didn't want to go to Southern Chu to fight for the throne, so he didn't fight? She will go to Nanchu sooner or later, and you ......."
The old protector paused and said heavily: "You want to be the minister of the Great Liang Auxiliary Government, and your name will go down in history, do you want to go to Nanchu and be her husband?"
Zhou Gu's whole person froze, motionless, silent.
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