"You've met that child, haven't you? He looks just like his father, even more so than Kaiyang." Wei Junpei shared his happy news with his best friend.
Hong Xiaoduo smiled and nodded, thinking to herself, "Looking alike doesn't mean you're related by blood. There are plenty of people in the world who look alike."
"It's been verified that he is indeed your grandson, Tong'er?" Hong Xiaoduo began to ask tentatively.
Wei Junpei put away his smile and said, "At first, I was also skeptical and didn't believe that such a good thing could happen. But, this was a clue that was discovered unintentionally during a trial at the Dali Temple, and the investigation was carried out along this line."
The officials in charge of the Dali Temple were not all incompetent. One of them even sent someone to that place and saw that Tong'er looked extremely similar to my son. After verifying the information locally, he told me.
After that, I found someone else to interrogate the prisoner again. Following the clues given by the Dali Temple, we investigated all the way through and found nothing wrong; everything matched up.
Furthermore, the conclusion that Tong'er had been brutally murdered and was no longer alive was based on a report to the authorities that wild animals had torn and mauled the child's clothes and belongings in the woods outside the capital, and that they were still stained with blood.
There were also incomplete infant skeletons.
However, in that grove, there were families living near the capital, and young children who died there would be buried there.
Looking back now, there are various coincidences that could be true. For example, the wild beast, its teeth stained with blood, tore at the clothes that the woman had stripped off, and so on.
I now believe that Heaven still has some conscience, and ultimately allowed Tong'er to return to the Wei family.
After listening to Lord Wei's words, Hong Xiaoduo did not question him. The analysis and explanation for the discovery that Tong'er's clothes were torn and had bloodstains, and that there were children's remains nearby, was a bit far-fetched.
Because Tong'er is indeed still alive; she is Kaiyang.
However, Hong Xiaoduo felt that even if Lord Wei had some inexplicable points in the investigation of Tong'er's background, he would have dispelled his doubts after seeing the child with his own eyes.
After all, the child's height, age, and especially appearance all match Tong'er's.
On the way here, Hong Xiaoduo didn't know the details and couldn't decide how to tell Lord Wei about it.
Now that she has heard the details, she is certain that this is neither a misunderstanding nor some kind of divine intervention.
It was a scam designed by someone with ulterior motives.
As for her purpose, she now only has two possibilities: one, she is plotting revenge against someone whom Lord Wei has offended.
Second, someone has their eye on the Wei family's assets and is plotting to seize them.
Lord Wei and his son were honest and upright officials and did not amass any wealth, but their family fortune was considerable. Most importantly, his daughter-in-law's family was wealthy. Hua had an elder brother and a younger brother, and it had been said before that the Hua family's assets would be divided into three parts, with Hua's share going to her.
According to what Ruan Niang said that day, the Hua family was not the kind of small-time merchants who were wealthy. Although they were not as rich as a country, they were still very wealthy in their region. The Hua family's silk, trading companies, and industries were spread all over the country.
However, Lord Wei only had one son, his only grandson was gone, his son refused to take a concubine, and Lady Hua had no intention of having another child.
In this way, by arranging for a fake Tong'er to be inserted, it would be equivalent to the fake Tong'er rightfully inheriting all of the Wei family's assets, as well as one-third of the Hua family's assets.
Hong Xiaoduo felt that her IQ was not high enough, and she could only think of these two possibilities.
But, regardless of the method, it's all deception.
Right now, there's one more thing she absolutely has to do. Only after she does it will she be more confident in confronting Lord Wei about it.
That is, she wants to do a DNA paternity test on the fake Tong'er as well, to find out if the fake Tong'er is with his adoptive mother and with Lord Wei's son.
Of course, it wasn't that she suspected Wei Zizheng, who had two sons of similar age. One was Tong'er, born to Hua Shi, and the other was born to another woman.
However, Lord Wei also said that the child looked more like Wei Zizheng than Kaiyang. Anyway, he had a DNA paternity testing instrument, which was very convenient.
“Speaking of that child, I haven’t met him yet. I really want to see how much Tong’er resembles your son,” Hong Xiaoduo said with a smile.
Kaiyang sat to the side, looking at a chess manual. When he heard this, he also looked up. He wanted to see the child who was both unlucky and lucky.
"Someone, bring the young master here," Wei Junpei immediately ordered towards the door.
If he wants to see his grandson, that's easy. Besides, he hasn't even seen him since he returned home.
Before long, the child was brought in, along with Wei Zizheng. As soon as they entered the living room, the child respectfully greeted Wei Junpei as "Grandfather."
Hong Xiaoduo was quite surprised to see the child, because he did look more like Wei Zizheng than Kaiyang.
The child is quite handsome, but compared to the family's seven children, he seems to be lacking.
"Come here, greetings. Miss Hong, what should this child call you?" Wei Junpei beckoned to the fake Tong'er and asked Hong Xiaoduo with difficulty.
Hong Xiaoduo laughed and said, "Anything is fine, just don't call me 'Mom'."
Upon hearing this, Wei Zizheng didn't know how to describe his feelings at that moment. The young lady that his father had been praising was speaking too, too, too freely!
How could anyone let Tong'er call her "mother"? That's such an awkward joke!
However, Wei Junpei laughed heartily upon hearing this. Of course, he knew the inside story of why the seven children called Hong Xiaoduo "mother".
“Of course you can’t call me that, you already have seven children, that’s a lot.” After saying that, Wei Junpei continued to laugh.
Wei Zizheng, standing to the side, simply couldn't understand how his usually serious and upright father could act like a completely different person in front of this young lady, becoming somewhat unruly.
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