In any case it would never have occurred to him that the island was cursed.
And now he is on this island.
The old prince just raised his eyebrows, but also showed a shocked expression.
Yu Yuanzheng is even more incredible.
The three children just looked at the adults in confusion.
At this time, Shangguan Ziqi arranged for his soldiers to come here.
Just then he heard Emperor Qi's exclamation.
"What's wrong?" Shangguan Ziqi asked puzzledly.
Yu Yuanzheng repeated what Grandma Ye had just said.
"We just went to the homes of the villagers to borrow firewood, and we didn't see any men. It was the women who gave us firewood."
Shangguan Ziqi's words confirmed what Grandma Ye said.
I guess men are treated as precious by them and are used specifically to bear children.
Emperor Qi frowned tightly.
"Hongyi, what do you think?" Emperor Qiyi couldn't think of any reason why the women on the island couldn't give birth to boys.
As for the curse, he didn't quite believe it.
There must be a reason, but the villagers on the island don't know it.
"I can't think of any reason that could lead to this situation. How about we stay for a few days and get to know this island better?" suggested the old prince.
"Your Majesty, I beg you to give us some men." Granny Ye's old eyes were filled with tears, and she looked very pitiful.
She saw that except for the princess and her two maids, the others who came to the island were all young men.
All the while she was thinking about how to ask them to leave a few for them.
"Your Majesty, as long as you can agree to leave some men behind, we will give you anything you like on the island." Granny Cui also echoed.
"Old man, this won't do. The men we brought with us this time are all soldiers of our Great Wei, and they all have children to support." Shangguan Ziqi objected immediately after hearing their request.
How can this be possible?
If we really agree to their request, we will become the tool for continuing the family line on the island.
Which man wants to live a life like a prisoner?
Seeing that Shangguan Ziqi spoke so firmly, the two mothers-in-law began to cry sadly again.
"Old man, let's talk about the history of Haiyue Island." Yu Yuanzheng interrupted.
She didn't believe in any curse words either.
Let's first listen to the history of their island and then talk about the comparison.
Maybe we can find something from it.
"Yes, you tell me about it." Emperor Qi praised.
"Your Majesty, what we know is also passed down from word of mouth by the older generation," said Granny Cui.
"It doesn't matter, just tell us what you know." Emperor Qi was also very curious.
"There was no one on Haiyue Island at first. Our ancestors came here more than 100 years ago. I heard from the elders that they came from a place called Dajin. At that time, there was war and the government was conscripting able-bodied men to fight in the military camps. Too many people died at that time.
The ancestors at that time had no choice but to find a way to escape.
They are all fishermen on the seaside, and every family has a boat.
Whenever someone came to arrest someone, they would sail out to sea.
But our ancestors could not stay at sea all the time. The fishing boats were too small to carry much stuff, so they had to go ashore after two or three days at most.
At that time, a scholar stepped forward and organized the villagers to discuss how to escape from the Jin Dynasty.
They came up with an idea: they asked each family to connect all their fishing boats together and then take everything they needed to take away on board.
One night, all the villagers boarded the boat and headed south. After drifting on the sea for nearly a month, they saw the island and came up.
They found that the island had mountains, water and land, and was very suitable for living. After discussing it, they decided to stay here and settled down here from then on.
At that time, they brought various seeds and tools, and they also had the sea and could fish to supplement their food.
The scholar led everyone to build houses and reclaim land for farming.
Life was comfortable and easy, there was no war, and no need to pay taxes to the court.
At that time, there were more than a hundred ancestors who came here.
The land on the island is fertile and the grain yield is high, which can feed a lot of people. Later I heard that the population was more than 4,000 people at its peak.
But as time goes by, there are always more girls than boys born.
Some girls can't get married at all and can only stay as old spinsters.
The population began to decrease.
Later on, even if a man married five girls, he still couldn't solve the girls' marriage problem.
Up to now, there are only ninety men left on our island, young and old.
For the sake of inheritance, we dared not let any mishap happen to the men, so we gathered them together and raised them in the mountains.
They are not allowed to work, so that they can live as long as possible.
However, women who often work hard cannot live long.
The two of us are the oldest on the island.
The two of us are responsible for the management of the entire island, and we have survived to this day because we have worked less.
In your eyes, do we look very old? Actually, we are only fifty years old.
As long as the women on the island reach a certain age, we arrange for them to go up the mountain and have sex with men until they become pregnant.
But there are too few men, so of course many of them are related, but we can't care so much, as long as they can have children.
Oh, I don’t know what to do, but more and more abnormal babies are being born.
We can only be ruthless and hand over all abnormalities to the Sea God."
Granny Ye slowly talked about the history and current situation of Haiyue Island.
Several people were dumbfounded when they heard it.
It turns out that the villagers on the island are actually from the Wei Dynasty in principle, but they fled here to escape the war when the world was in chaos.
"Do you know where your ancestors escaped from?" Emperor Qi already had an idea in his mind, but he still wanted an exact address.
"I don't know. The old scholar left behind some books and notes, so there should be some records. But we don't need to read or learn to read here. Later, those books were put away and no one touched them. We are all illiterate." said Granny Cui.
At this time, the two maids had finished cooking and were standing by, waiting for Zizi's instructions.
"Your Majesty, let's eat first and then go take a look after dinner," Yu Yuanzheng suggested.
"Um."
The two old ladies put away their sadness.
There are so many people here. It’s the first time that outsiders come to Haiyue Island, and he’s the emperor.
When they were young, they all heard the elders talk about the former hometown where their ancestors escaped.
Although they don't know what it's like under imperial power, they know what the emperor does.
But because they have not experienced life under imperial power, their respect for the emperor emeritus is certainly not as great as that for the ministers in the court or the people of Wei.
So Yu Yuanzheng asked them to sit together, and they really sat opposite the emperor without any hesitation.
However, the current emperor is very down-to-earth. He abdicated three years ago and travels around with the old prince. He no longer has the majesty he had in the Golden Palace.
He put away his imposing manner and appeared very approachable.
The two old ladies were quite polite and waited until Emperor Qiqi started to eat before they picked up their chopsticks.
But after they took the first bite of the dish, they were so stunned by its deliciousness that they were reluctant to swallow it.
They asked each family to bring the dishes, and they ate them at the time, but the taste was completely different.
"Princess, this..." Granny Ye couldn't bear to swallow the food before she spoke.
But I don’t know how to describe it.
"What's wrong?" Yu Yuanzheng was confused.
"How come this dish, made by the two girls, is so delicious?" Granny Ye said excitedly.
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