"What I do not understand is why?" Lan Wangji admitted as he looked at his elder brother. "They were just old people and a young child. Why was it that I was the only one that went to the Burial Mounds to see for myself what was happening there?"
Ok, to be fair, he went there because he had seen Wei Ying in town and had been having lunch with him and A-Yuan when Wei Ying was summoned back to the Burial Mounds. However, once he had spoken up for Wei Ying, why had no one else thought to stand with him and find the truth? Why had Jiang Wanyin not told what he knew was the truth about what he had seen there?
"What stopped anyone else from investigating without leading an army to eradicate them?"