Seing all his children, siblings and even sisters with her families were dragged into this he wanted to kill himself for his stupidity but it was too late.
Because the Emperor made him watch.
Every single male, female, adult or child were slaughtered, causing whole place to turn into sea of blood.
In the end he was left alive. His teeth were pulled out, his tongue was cut, his arms and legs were broken.
He was thrown onto street with other ministers while all the bodies were burned.
Years later Su Fei found out about this cruelty and felt her hwrat get cold. But currently she didn't know about this at all.
She was on ship, with the two girls and reached shore of the land.
After three years, they finally left the village, but they were smart.
They didn't made fuss or something, then just occasionally spoke of wanting in future to marry, but no one was worthy nearby.
So elders finally came this time to bring them far away so they could find someone they liked.
And they 'shyly' agreed.
The ship was built first year after floods and brought grains from surrounding villages.
But even if tax was one fourth, they didn't report all villages and took only one tenth from everyone to bring back.
Even this was huge amount so they had yo travel five times to bring all the grains.
But after coming first time, the heard from their relatives that Emperor actually gave three years of pass.
So they brought back only one ship yearly.
Rest was hidingly given those that were starving, giving them new hope in survival.
Even seeds of various grains were given to them by Su clan, but they had to promise not to tell anyone.
And people knew that in such time is better not to speak of it so they indeed didn't tell anyone a word about it.
This caused many to be grateful to Su clan and at the same time fear th government even more as no own came to give them even one bowl of porridge or handful of seeds.
They were aware who should they be grateful to so they waited as even they could see that Su clan had big plans this time.
Actually, Su clan had no such plans, but seing all those in power hiding while their peoelk starved in tens of thousands from hunger, they became angry.
After ehudnreds of years they were truly angry.
Loyalty.
A pei!!!
Loyalty to whom?
The old Emperor died transferring the power to Wei family that had no power at all to control nobles and officials.
Even the Edict was ignored completely, causing them all the be flabbergasted.
They knew Wei family was real royal blood, but their weakness was that they didn't have anyone backing them up. Absolutely no one.
So Su clan actually planned backing him up, but those from Su clan that had insiders stopped them. Literally.
An Emperor that would gather all his officials, kill all their relatives and servants in front of them, then as wound to incury by disabling them to live normal life was just too much.
No matter how much royal blood was in Wei family, this was even for Su family too much.
So there was nationwide settling of Su family that stated going supporters.
Su Fei, Su MeiMei and Su Yue arrived in the Capital and first thing they did is to visit princess Mingzhu.
Princess Mingzhu became real princess as her father was current Emperor. She looked at her friend looking healthy with envy.
Palace was not a peaceful place.
Intrigues, hateet, envy and much more made her life hard.
She looked at her thin white hands that everyone praised as beautiful and then at Su Fei. "I wish...I wish I could live like before."
Su Fei looked at servants and mentioned them to go guard the doors.
She looked at Su MeiMei and Su Yue. "Go sit by the door. Don't let anyone inside. I need to speak to the princess."
The two knew that tonight all three will change appearance and will escape.
Su Fei sat by princess Mingzhu and looked straight at her eyes. "We are leaving. World is crazy and many set their nasty eyes on us three from Su clan, hoping for their support. We will pretend to be like others from the disaster area and will go far away until things don't calm down. Princess, be honest, if I asked you to live simple life as commoner, would you be able?"
Princess Mingzhu thought of it and shook her head softly. "I wouldn't."
Su Fei hugged her. "My dear friend, you are already this old. Find good man and leave palace. There are three noble sons you can choose from. They are from neutral fractions lie our Su clan. One is Jia Qi, twenty two years old. He is geeral on noth border. Luckily, north borders never had troublesome problems now for thousand years so you can go there. Next one is Ding Lu,twenty one this year, fifth son of Ding Duke of Shan. He is smart and their family has rule that they can have only one wife in life. Check him out if he has someone he likes. If he doesn't, you life can be comfortable. Not as extreme as here in palace, but still, you will be treated fairly well. Third is second son of Duke Mo. Mo Lang is now twenty five. He is general of wasteen plains. Third grade general that aha a chance to become higher rank. I don't know precisiwly his home situation but these three don't have any connections to current leasing officials. And doe you that's more important. That way you won't be included anymore into palace fights for power."
Princess Mingzhu knew that Su Fei wouldn't offer her these three names for nothing and that day went to her father to tell him about the information while the three girls changed their clothes and left at back door of one of restinghises they were eslewping at.
Su clan people didn't notice their dissapreance until next day and wanted tos watch but they found not and stopped search immediately.
*We are not kidnapped. Few weeks ago, we started getting visitors from other places that were interested in us. At first we thought they are potential marriage partners but we realized they were trying to get close to Su clan. Uncle, we will disspear for a while. Send message to everyone we are in temple, praying hard for catastrophies to end soon. In time between we will find safe place and let you know. When things calm down or if we find husband's,we will come back. I'm sorry, but as women, we can do only this much for our clan. We will miss you..."
At end were three cute caricatures of the three girls hugging and crying in middle of forest while steomy winds bowed tops of trees around them.
Everyone understood meaning of picture and men of Su clan became even angrier.
The three girls had to escape to save Su clan? Their hearts burned with fire as they realized that girls felt unsafe.
Wait, even in Su clan village they felt unsafe.
Why?
An investigation went trough village and they realized how much mess was brought into village lately ...