Chapter 782: The Lesser, the Better
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After Da Yong left, Doctor Shen dried his hands on the charcoal basin and seemed to think of something before saying, “l didn’t want to ask too much, but after seeing the few questions you asked Da Yong just now… I think I understand what is happening now. Xue Yan, do you think you’re the child that was left at the Wei family’s door back then? Are you investigating your past?”
“Yes.” Xue Yan did not hide it either.
Xue Yan and Jiang Yue were not surprised by the question. After all, they had inquired about this and Doctor Shen knew that he was adopted, so it was easy to connect the dots.
Immediately after, Xue Yan briefly explained the matter to Doctor Shen.
This included the fact that Wei Zizhan was already considered the Crown Prince in the Imperial Capital.
Even if he did not say it now, it could not be hidden for long. The news that Wei Zizhan was the Crown Prince had already spread in the Imperial Capital and would eventually spread to Xinyuan County. When Doctor Shen gathered the information they had gathered today, he could probably hypothesize that he was the Crown Prince.
Doctor Shen still did not know that Wei Zizhan had been recognized as the Crown Prince, so he did not expect Xue Yan to inquire about this because he was the Crown Prince. When he heard Xue Yan say that he could actually be the Crown Prince and that Wei Zizhan had been mistaken, he was shocked and hurriedly stood up to give Xue Yan, the Crown Prince, a big bow.
Xue Yan didn’t wait for him to get up and hurriedly stood up to stop him. “l told you the truth because I trusted you. I would not like you to treat me any differently though.”
Doctor Shen was his good friend’s father and he had always respected him.
Doctor Shen’s heart was still pounding from the new information.
He had never thought that his son’s classmate and good friend, Xue Yan, could actually be the Crown Prince.
Doctor Shen quickly composed himself and said, “Wei Zizhan is the Wei family’s biological son. Xue Yan, I can testify to this.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at each other. They all felt that Doctor Shen seemed to know something, otherwise he would not have confidently offered to testify.
This was no small matter, and not just anyone could testify.
Sure enough, in the next moment, Doctor Shen quickly said,”Just now, I didn’t know that you wanted to find out if Wei Zizhan was the biological son of the Wei Family. Now that I know, I can attest to it. I didn’t only know the Wei Family until they moved next door to my house, but I’ve known them since eight years ago.”
Doctor Shen explained in detail and composed himself to tell what happened.
“At the beginning, when Wei Zizhan’s mother was pregnant with Wei Zizhan, she always had abdominal pain. The doctors in the county could not treat her at all, so Master Wei sent someone to invite me to the county to see Wei Zizhan’s mother.
“Later on, while Wei Zizhan’s mother gave birth to Wei Zizhan, she had a difficult labor. Master Wei had no choice but to send someone to invite me over. However, because the county was quite far away from the town, when I arrived at the Wei family, his mother was already on the verge of death.
“l could only protect the child while the mother passed away. At that time, the midwife said that Wei Zizhan was lucky. His mother’s difficult labor was very serious and usually, one corpse and two lives would be lost.”
After a pause, Doctor Shen quickly recomposed himself before speaking again. “If I can’t prove it alone, I can find the two midwives to testify. Originally, there was only one midwife, and it was the kind that didn’t cost a lot of money.
“That was only because Master Wei was reluctant to spend money. It was only until his wife encountered difficult labor that he had no choice but to send someone to invite me. Not only that, he also sent someone to invite the best midwife in the county at that time.”
Although today’s unexpected harvest was a bit much, the more witnesses there were, the more dangerous it might be for them. Xue Yan did not want to implicate the innocent, let alone Doctor Shen..
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