As soon as the conversation started, people from Wujiabao began to interrupt.
"We also know that those pirates are hateful, but what can we do?"
"They come every year and kidnap many women and children every year..."
Madam Qin felt upset when she heard this: "You know that the women and children were abducted. They finally managed to escape death and come back. You should give them a chance to live. Why do you have to kill them all?"
This topic seemed to be a taboo. As soon as it was mentioned, Mr. Wu's face immediately darkened again.
The Third Master of the Wu Family was a flexible person. Hearing this, he sighed, "Crown Princess, Madam Qin, we know you may not understand. But this is the rule of our clan. Let me tell you this. This is the old rule that has been established in our clan for so many years. No one has ever dared to change this rule left by our ancestors. Today, you either kill us or don't interfere in the affairs of those girls!"
Everyone in Wujiabao responded one after another, as if they were all convinced by the words of the Third Master of the Wu Family.
Su Yao glanced at them, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is there a place for us to stay today?"
She changed the subject so suddenly that everyone was a little overwhelmed.
Especially Mr. Wu, he originally thought that Su Yao would definitely force Wujiabao to give a response this time, but he didn't expect Su Yao to insist on this topic, and he was a little surprised.
However, since the Crown Princess can take the initiative to avoid this matter, that would naturally be better.
The people in Wujiabao are not crazy. They will not be happy unless they go against their superiors.
The Third Master of the Wu Family secretly pulled on Mr. Wu's sleeves, and he forced a smile on his old face: "It is a great honor for our Wu Family Castle that the Crown Princess has come. Please, please!"
Wujiabao had hosted princes before, so there was a precedent for hosting the Crown Princess. They quickly cleaned up the place and invited Su Yao to stay.
Although I have stayed here, I still feel a little suffocated.
Mrs. Qin came over to Su Yuan with great uneasiness and confessed: "I really didn't expect them to be so stubborn and not even give you face..."
I originally thought that since it was the Crown Princess herself, even if the people of Wujiabao were unreasonable, they should give her some face. But I didn't expect that they were as smelly and hard as stones in a toilet, and they even said that they would either kill all the people of Wujiabao or kill those girls.
Su Yao was calm and composed. Seeing that Madam Qin was extremely angry, he smiled and said, "Madam, there is no need to be so angry. I don't think the attitudes of the elders in Wujiabao are directed against us. That means this is really their rule."
It was clear from the behavior of Mr. Wu and the others just now that what made them unhappy was that they were afraid that Su would invite them to stop this.
Originally, Su Yao thought that the people of Wujiabao were deliberately resisting, but now it seems that this is really the rule of the people of Wujiabao.
They sincerely felt that the girl died after being abducted by the pirates and should never come back.
Of course I am angry, the lives of those girls should not be treated like grass, but some things cannot be solved by being angry.
Mrs. Qin was a little discouraged: "What should we do? We can't really kill those people, right?"
There are so many people in Wujiabao!
Do we really have to kill them all
Su Yao's eyes fell on the palace lantern in the room, and he lowered his eyes calmly: "Let's wait and see what happens."
Although he said he would wait and see what happens, it was impossible for Su Yao to do nothing.
Soon, Mother Shen and Jinping came back.
Seeing Su Yao, Mother Shen sat down and said softly: "Girl, we just went out for a walk and found out some reasons..."
Su Yao motioned for her to say.
"I heard..." Mother Shen coughed, cleared her throat and told Su Yao a story: "I heard that when Mr. Wu was young, their branch was not the patriarch of the Wu family... The patriarch was his uncle's branch. Later, pirates raided Wujiabao and abducted many women, including the wife of the then head of the Wu family..."
Mrs. Qin was stunned by what she heard.
She had never heard of these things.
It is difficult for people who are high up in the temple to hear the voices below. Sometimes they are like Bodhisattvas in the temple, and all they can hear are what others want them to hear.
Mother Shen continued: "Fortunately, the people of Wujiabao respected the clan leader very much. Someone protected the clan leader's wife at all costs, and the clan leader's wife escaped from the pirates with great difficulty. At that time, Wujiabao did not have such a rule... Not long after the clan leader's wife escaped, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son..."
Mrs. Qin listened more and more attentively, and looked at Mother Shen with wide eyes: “What happened next?”
You can tell there are many stories here. I'm afraid the rule of burning the women who escaped back to death also evolved from this incident. Otherwise, why would everyone in Wujiabao agree to burn those girls to death
Sure enough, Mother Shen lowered her voice a lot: "No one said anything at first, and the child grew up well. He had a very good relationship with Mr. Wu. It's just... when the child was fifteen years old, a large number of pirates suddenly attacked Wujiabao. It was different from before. In the past, because Wujiabao had high walls, the pirates would rob around and run away. But that time, the pirates broke into the city, and anyone who didn't run fast enough was killed by them. They almost killed the ancestral home of Wujiabao..."
Su Yao was thinking: "It should be related to that child, right?"
Mrs. Qin also thought so.
Mother Shen sighed: "Yes, I later found out that the wife of the clan leader was raped by the pirate leader after being abducted. The child was not the clan leader's child, nor was he from Wujiabao. In fact, he was the child of the pirates..."
The pirate leader somehow found out the identity of the clan leader's wife, and secretly sent many people to infiltrate Wujiabao. After a while, he somehow managed to get in touch with the child and told the child about the child's life story.
The child was naturally afraid that his identity would be exposed, so he had to be controlled by others and become an insider.
It was because of this incident that the Wu Family Fort was almost wiped out.
From then on, Wujiabao refused to take in the women who escaped back.
They would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go.
The lessons learned in the past were so painful that they dared not repeat the same mistakes again.
Mrs. Qin let out a long sigh. She knew there must be a reason for this, but she didn't expect it to be like this.
Thinking about it this way, it is understandable why the people in Wujiabao reacted so strongly.