She quickly dug away the soil covering the child and found a boy inside. She assumed this was the child the fox spirit had given her.
Just to be on the safe side, she stripped the child of all his clothes, shoes, and socks and buried them back in the pit. She took the child home, and after discussing it with her in-laws and husband, the family took the child and left the capital, returning to their hometown thousands of miles away.
This incident occurred when the Dali Temple was interrogating a murder case from many years ago. In order to prove that he was not the murderer, the suspect confessed to what the real culprit had done to Minister Wei's residence six years ago.
He also said that the real culprit stole the Wei family's grandson from the mansion and handed him over to him to dispose of.
He dared not disobey and buried the child shallowly in the woods. At that moment, he heard someone nearby. He pretended to leave but then went back and saw a woman digging up the child and carrying him away.
He didn't take any action, but secretly followed the woman to her home, eavesdropped on their decision, and then left with peace of mind.
According to the suspect's confession, the Dali Temple went to the village where the woman lived to verify that the family had indeed returned to their hometown six years ago. No one knew the specific reason, only that they left because they were having a hard time there.
Following the clues, they found the woman and her family's hometown, where they indeed found a seven-year-old child.
The child's adoptive mother recalled that the height, build, and facial scars of the man in black who buried the child under the moonlight matched the appearance of the suspect described.
However, the real culprit confessed by the suspect, the one who stole Tong'er back then, had been arrested in another family annihilation case several years ago and was beheaded and displayed to the public back then.
So the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review quickly found him and told him that his grandson Tong'er was still alive.
Wei Junpei personally took his son to the address given by the Dali Temple to search for the child. Upon seeing the child's appearance, he was basically certain that this was their Tong'er.
However, at this time, the woman's parents-in-law and husband had already died in a fire five years ago, leaving only the woman and her child to depend on each other for survival.
In this way, the woman and child were brought to the capital and into the Wei family mansion.
His only grandson was still alive and had been brought back. With his daughter-in-law, Hua, returning, the family would finally be truly reunited. Thinking of this, Wei Junpei's steps became much lighter...
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