She married a dying prince and she won three babies.

Chapter 488: They are all citizens of Wei

It would never have occurred to him that the island was cursed.

And he is on this island now.

The old prince was fine, he just raised his eyebrows, but he also showed a shocked expression.

Yu Yuanzheng is even more incredible.

The three children just looked at the adults in confusion.

At this moment, Shangguan Ziqi arranged his soldiers and came here.

Just then, I heard Emperor Qiming exclaim.

"What's wrong?" Shangguan Ziqi asked in confusion.

Yu Yuanzheng repeated what Grandma Ye had just said.

"We just went to borrow firewood from the villagers' homes, 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 specifically used to bear children, right?

Emperor Qiming frowned tightly.

"Hongyi, what do you think?" Emperor Qiming 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 for 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." Grandma Ye's old eyes were filled with tears, looking so pitiful.

She saw that except for the princess and her two maids, all the others who came to the island were young men.

She was thinking all the way 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 are willing to give you anything you like on the island." Granny Cui also agreed.

"Old man, this won't do. The men we brought this time are all soldiers of our Great Wei, and they all have parents to support." Shangguan Ziqi immediately objected when he heard their request.

How does this work?

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 curses either.

It would be better to listen to the history of their island first before we talk about it.

Maybe you can find something from it.

"Yes, tell us about it." Emperor Qiming agreed.

"Your Majesty, what we know is also passed down from generation to generation," said Granny Cui.

"It doesn't matter, just tell us what you know." Emperor Qiming was also very curious.

"Haiyue Island was originally deserted. Our ancestors arrived here over 160 years ago. The elders said they came from a place called Dajin. At the time, there was war, and the government was conscripting men to fight in the army. Too many people died.

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 take the boat 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 a boat and headed south. After drifting on the sea for almost a month, they happened to see the island and came up.

They found that the island had mountains, water and flat land, which was very suitable for living. Everyone discussed and 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, without war or having to pay taxes to the court.

There were more than 600 ancestors who came here at that time.

The land on the island is fertile and the grain yield is high, which can feed a large population. I heard that the population was more than 4,000 at its peak.

But as the years go by, there are always more girls than boys born.

Many girls cannot get married at all and can only remain old maids.

The population began to decline.

Later, even if a man married five girls, he still couldn't solve the girls' marriage problem.

Until now, there are only ninety-six 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 work all year round and not many of them can live long lives.

We are the two oldest people on the island.

The two of us shoulder the management responsibilities of the entire island, and we have survived to this day because we have worked a little less.

Do we look very old to you? Actually, we are only 52 years old.

As long as the women on the island reach a certain age, we will arrange for them to go up the mountain and live 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’s going on, but more and more abnormal babies are being born.

We can only cruelly hand over all abnormalities to the Sea God."

Grandma Ye slowly talked about the history and current situation of Haiyue Island.

Hearing this, several people were dumbfounded.

It turns out that the villagers on the island are actually people 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 fled from?" Emperor Qiming 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 and write here. Later, those books were put away and no one touched them. We can't read." said Granny Cui.

At this time, the two maids had finished cooking and were standing by, waiting for their master's instructions.

"Your Majesty, let's eat first and then go take a look after dinner." Yu Yuanzheng suggested.

"Ah."

The two old ladies put away their sadness.

This is the first time in all these years that an outsider has come to Haiyue Island, and he is the emperor.

When they were young, they all heard the elders talk about the former hometown where their ancestors escaped.

Although they didn't know what life was like under imperial power, they knew what the emperor did.

But because they have not experienced life under imperial power, their respect for the emperor emeritus is certainly not as great as that of 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. Three years after abdicating, he has been traveling around with the old prince and 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 only started eating after Emperor Qiming started to pick up the food.

But after they took the first bite of the dish, they were so shocked by its deliciousness that they were reluctant to swallow it.

They asked each family to bring the dishes, which they usually ate, but the taste was completely different.

"Princess, this..." Grandma Ye finally swallowed the food before speaking.

But I don’t know how to describe it.

"What's wrong?" Yu Yuanzheng didn't understand.

"How come this dish is so delicious when made by the two girls?" Grandma Ye said excitedly.