She could actually guess who wanted to see her. It was the elders. She had heard from the Jinyiwei who escorted her up the mountain and Song Xiangyu that the elders of the Miao village seemed to be very eager to facilitate the marriage between Xiao Heng and the saint. After the incident, they personally sent an elder down the mountain to negotiate with Xiao Heng.
Unfortunately, even at this point, Xiao Heng still refused to agree.
They left in anger, and later on they sent the medicine, and I heard that it was also because of what Mr. Cui said.
Thinking of this, Su Yao narrowed his eyes.
It was a long journey to the top of the mountain for Su Yao. She was a little exhausted and rested against the mountain wall for a long time before she recovered and stood up to continue walking forward.
At this moment, she looked up as if she sensed something and met a pair of eyes.
The owner of those eyes was also looking at her, sitting on a huge rock in the open space and looking at her leisurely.
Su Yao let her look at him calmly.
Yan Cao felt a little scalp tingling when she was looked at. After all, she had heard too many bizarre events in the village these days. To her, these people were no different from jackals, tigers and leopards. No, perhaps they were even more terrifying than those jackals, tigers and leopards.
Fortunately, after watching for who knows how long, the woman withdrew her gaze, stepped down from the stone lightly, stood on the top of the mountain and said to Su Yao: "Come up, my mother-in-law has been waiting for you for a long time."
He didn't ask about Su Yao's identity either.
Su Yao nodded. Since the other person didn't ask any more questions, she didn't bother to talk too much. She followed her up to the stilt house and walked straight along the corridor to the last room. As soon as she entered the room, she saw the waterfall and lake behind the house. She couldn't help but marvel at the beautiful scenery in her heart.
Then she noticed that there was someone already in the room.
An old lady in her sixties or seventies was sitting at the tea table, looking at him coldly.
The look from the mother-in-law was really uncomfortable, and Su Yao didn't avoid looking at her.
After a while, the mother-in-law seemed to have not expected Su Yao to be so patient, and could only cough and ask, "Are you the sister of the Yongding Earl who was poisoned?"
Su Yao responded with a "yes" and sat down opposite the black woman as she requested.
The black woman suddenly reached out and grabbed Su Yao's hand.
This almost frightened Yancao to death. She hurriedly shouted, "Don't touch our girl!"
The dark and turbid eyes of the Black Granny stayed on her for a moment. When she saw Yancao took a step back in fear, she looked at Su Yao meaningfully: "Your maids all know how scary we are, but you are not afraid of us?"
You can tell whether a person is afraid or not. At first, she thought Su Yao was pretending to be calm, but now that she had already grasped Su Yao's hand, she could feel Su Yao's pulse and could sense that she had almost no emotional changes. Naturally, she knew that Su Yao was really not afraid.
It's really strange. These Han people are very wary of the Miao people, and they are wary but also afraid.
But Su Yao wasn't afraid at all
Su Yao raised his eyebrows, looked at the black grandma and laughed: "What should I be afraid of? Your village is the one that is afraid now, right? If the matter is not very urgent, you should not have asked for a marriage with the emperor's eldest grandson. It is not us who should be anxious now, right?"
Black Granny didn't expect her to be so determined and calm. She looked at Su Yao deeply and said, "You are sharp-tongued and good at talking. I heard that your brother is someone that the prince values very much, but now it seems that this is not entirely true. What he values is not your brother, but you, right?"
Yan Cao's heart was in her throat. She was afraid that after the Black Granny knew about the relationship between Su Yao and Xiao Heng, she would put a curse on Su Yao as well.
But Grandma Hei didn't care what others were thinking. She just stared at Su Yao's expression, trying to see some clues from her face.
Unfortunately, Su Yao had a smile on her face the whole time, as if she was not in a hurry at all: "There's no need to guess these. Mother-in-law, you asked me to come up, didn't you already confirm this?"
The black woman was silent for a moment. She found that it was really meaningless to argue with this little girl, because no matter what she said, the girl was very tight-lipped and had no emotions at all.
She became impatient and suddenly pinched Su Yao's chin: "Little girl, I know you are different from other girls, but since you are smart, you'd better know your place. Now there are two options before you. One is to persuade that prince to agree to our request and marry our saint. The other is to bring your brother's body down the mountain."
Su Yao turned his head to glance at Bai Xue, who had been silent until then. This was the saint girl of Heihua Miao Village. Although her face was covered, just by looking at her figure and eyes, one could tell that she was a very beautiful girl.
Being so beautiful and having such a status, she must have no problem finding someone to marry her in the village.
But the people in the Miao village insisted that she marry Xiao Heng.
Why
There was no precedent for Miao women marrying members of the imperial clan before. What could Xiao Heng give them that made them so persistent in making this request
Thinking of this, Su Yao simply asked: "Since both parties are sincere about cooperation, why must they involve marriage? I don't quite understand, so I ask mother-in-law to help me understand. I also want to understand the reason."
Her tone and reaction were very calm, which made Granny Black's tense nerves relax a little. Her tone also softened a little. She looked at Su Yao in silence for a moment before saying, "We have reasons why we must do this. If we don't, she will die."
who
Su Yao looked at Bai Xue and couldn't help asking, "Why?"
This was really an absurd request. After all, Xiao Heng had never been here before and had never seen this saint lady. He didn't even know her. How could he talk about dying if she didn't marry him
What if Xiao Heng didn't come to Yunnan to quell the rebellion? Or what if he failed to quell the rebellion
Is this saint about to die
The wrinkles on Granny Black's face deepened. Seeing Su Yao's question, she couldn't help but sigh deeply, "No reason, only because only by marrying the emperor's eldest grandson and leaving here far away can she have a chance of survival. Otherwise, if she stays here, sooner or later her life Gu will be pulled out by the people in Lijiang Village and she will die here."
Su Yao didn't understand anything about the Miao people. She just heard the key point, which was to stay away from here.