BHBF Chapter 84.3

Boss, He’s Becoming a Father (Arc 4) Chapter 84.3: Playful Son (57)

When the newly ordered snacks were almost finished, Shao Jialiang finally came back, bringing with him a volume of county annals and a pile of deeds.

Shao Jialiang pointed to a record in the county annals and showed it to Shao Yu.

Shao Yu saw the record in the county annals, which said that the lion was the totem of the Jiayi tribe, and immediately said to the three children: “It’s almost time, let’s go to the Wei family now.”

Only Shao Jialiang vaguely guessed something, while the other two were still immersed in whether Miss Wei’s strange illness was really a retribution from her family.

Shao Yu came back, but Wei Ran didn’t look happy.

“My husband is not at home. There is no man in the house now. If the doctor comes here like this, I’m afraid others will gossip.” Wei Ran directly ordered Shao Yu to leave.

Shao Yu asked, “Are you really willing to lose your life for a man?”

Wei Ran frowned and said, “I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

“You clearly know that you are not sick but poisoned, yet you are still willing to die.” Shao Yu said.

Wei Ran’s face changed drastically and she said, “Nonsense, I’m just sick!”

Shao Jiashan and Shao Jiashu both looked at Shao Yu with wide eyes at this time, as if they found it difficult to accept this result.

“Jiashu, hold her hand.”

Although Shao Jiashu was still immersed in shock, she stepped forward and held Wei Ran’s hand.

Shao Yu took out a silver needle, burned it in the flame, and then stabbed it straight into Wei Ran’s wrist.

Soon after, the silver needle was pulled out with a hint of black on it.

“I don’t know whether you are possessed by drugs or possessed by a ghost. You are willing to give up your life for a man?” Shao Yu scolded.

Wei Ran didn’t expect Shao Yu to know everything, but she reacted quickly and said, “This is my business, don’t bother with it, please leave my house.”

Shao Yu sat there without moving, staring at her and said, “If you lose your family’s fortune, you can always earn it back, but if you lose your life, you’ll have nothing.”

Wei Ran still insisted: “This is my own business. I am throwing away my own life.”

“If you want to die, go and find death yourself. Don’t wait for others to harm you.” Shao Yu said.

Wei Ran was stunned when she heard this, as if she didn’t expect Shao Yu to say that, and for a moment she didn’t know how to refute.

Shao Yu said, “I am a doctor, but I am also the new magistrate of Qingning County. If you commit suicide, I will not care. If you are poisoned, then if you dare to die today, I will dare to let the coroner perform an autopsy tomorrow, and then your husband will be the murderer.”

Wei Ran looked at Shao Yu in disbelief and said, “I am going to die on my own, it has nothing to do with him.”

Shao Yu said: “I don’t care who wants to die, I only care who gave the poison.”

“You clearly know…” Wei Ran was almost crying because of Shao Yu.

But Shao Yu still insisted on that statement.

“What do you want to do? If you want money, just take it. Whatever the Wei family wants, just take it and don’t mind my business.” Wei Ran said helplessly.

Shao Yu said: “I want my people to live well.”

Wei Ran was stunned when she heard this.

But after a long time, tears fell on her face and she said, “Wei family is sorry for him. I won’t stop him what he wants to do. It’s my Wei family’s sin.”

Shao Yu looked at the woman in front of him. He couldn’t tell whether Wei Ran was willing to die because of her love for Wei Yuan or because of her guilt towards the Jiayi clan.

At this time, the truth was already known by Shao Yu, and Wei Ran did not hide it any further. Instead, she said, “More than 70 lives of the Jiayi clan were lost at the hands of my father…”

“This is a grudge from the previous generation, you know nothing about it.” Shao Yu said.

Wei Ran shook her head and said, “The bloody facts are all recorded in the notes written by my father. How can I pretend that I know nothing? This is the sin of my Wei family, and I should atone for it with my death.”

“This is not your fault, nor is it your sin.” Shao Yu said.

Wei Yuan is a descendant of the Jiayi clan. He came to the Wei family for revenge.

But Shao Yu felt that although the Wei family was wrong, Wei Ran did not deserve the death penalty. After all, she knew nothing and should not bear the consequences.

Wei Ran cried and said, “I have been living a life of luxury since I was young. Everything I eat and use is stained with the blood of the Jiayi people. How can I stay out of this?”

Seeing her firm attitude, Shao Yu knew that this girl truly felt she was guilty.

Shao Yu sighed and said, “If you are really guilty, only the Jiayi people can avenge you, not just anyone.”

“Anyone?” Wei Ran didn’t understand why Shao Yu said that.

Shao Yu said: “You have only seen your father’s handwritten notes, and have not seen the real Jiayi people, right?”

Wei Ran nodded.

Shao Yu said: “The totem of the Jiayi people is the lion, so they often carve stone sculptures in the shape of lions, right?”

Wei Ran nodded again and said, “Since you are here, you must have passed by the garden, which is full of statues like this. My husband is a member of the Jiayi tribe, and he is here for revenge.”

Shao Yu handed the county annals in his hand to Wei Ran, pointed to a certain place on it, and said: “The Jiayi people use the lion as their totem, which is the impression people have of them. But in fact, the Jiayi people do not worship the lion, but the Suanni.”

“Suanni just looks like a lion, but it is not exactly the same as a lion. If your husband is really a descendant of the Jiayi tribe, how could he not even know this?” Shao Yu said.

Wei Ran was stunned for a moment. After all, if he was really a member of the Jiayi tribe, he could have made mistakes in everything. There was no reason for him to make mistakes in his own totem.

“Wei Yuan ostentatiously placed so many lion statues in his home to tell you his identity. If he is truly a Jiayi tribesman, he will never make any mistakes.”

“Now, no matter how you look at this matter, it seems that you learned about the Jiayi tribe from somewhere, and Wei Ran learned about the Jiayi tribe from somewhere. You think he came here for revenge, but it seems that he is using this incident to set up a trap.”

Wei Yuan was just lucky as he met Wei Ran, who didn’t know much about the Jiayi tribe. Plus, the couple loved each other very much, so he was not suspected.

“Setting up a trap? Does he hate me so much?” Wei Ran asked blankly.

Shao Yu sighed and said, “He doesn’t hate you, he hates his status as a son-in-law.”

As a son-in-law, with such low status, even people who lived worse off than him, such as restaurant owners, dared to look down on Wei Yuan.

Even though Wei Yuan was about to poison Wei Ran to death, he did not forget to put on a show outside and build up his affectionate persona. This was because he was a man who cared very much about his reputation.

For such a proud son-in-law, his wife’s savior is seen as an obstacle, so it is not surprising that he would commit such a crime of poisoning.

Shao Yu then gave a strong dose of medicine and asked, “Do you think that he spent all his family wealth on your medical treatment just to ruin your family business?”

“Isn’t it?” Wei Ran asked rhetorically.

While Wei Ran was ill, she saw her husband selling off the family properties gradually. She thought that her husband was doing this to avenge the Wei family for having acquired the wealth in an illegal way and to let the Wei family taste the feeling of losing everything.

Because of this, Wei Ran let him sell it without saying a word.

Shao Yu took out the pile of deeds that Shao Jialiang brought out from the yamen and spread them out one by one for Wei Ran to see.

When Wei Yuan sold his family property, shops and land, he needed the government to witness and sign the deed, so he also wrote a copy of the transaction deed for the government to keep.

Each of these deeds clearly stated what properties Wei Yuan sold, to whom, and at what price.

Wei Ran looked at the contents one by one, and her expression became more and more shocked.

These properties of the Wei family were all sold to a woman who established a female household, and the selling price was not even a fraction of the original price.

If it was sold to different people, what would it mean? But this time it was sold to the same person, a woman. Wei Ran instantly felt like she was injected with chicken blood.

“Who is this woman? Who is she?” Wei Ran asked Shao Yu.

Shao Yu sighed inwardly, thinking that Wei Ran had been unpersuasive before, but now as soon as the existence of another woman was mentioned, she instantly became like a different person.

“If you live well, I will tell you who this woman is.” Shao Yu said.

Wei Ran took a deep breath and said, “You’re not lying to me?”

“I’m not lying to you.” Shao Yu nodded.

But even at this point, even though she knew her husband had another woman outside, Wei Ran still had a glimmer of hope for her husband and said, “He might still be a member of the Jiayi tribe, but I just remembered it wrong…”

“Why do you have to deceive yourself?” Shao Yu said.

Wei Ran asked again: “You are the county magistrate, what would you do to him?”

“Collaborating with others to defraud others’ property can result in a light sentence, maybe just a beating, or a heavy sentence, either exile or the death penalty,” said Shao Yu.

Wei Ran was stunned, as if she had not expected it to be so serious.

Shao Yu said: “Let’s make a bet.”

Wei Ran asked immediately.

Shao Yu said: “When he comes back, tell him that all the property of the Wei family will be his, and you also hope that he will use his original surname. If so, he is willing to take out the life-saving herbs, which means that he still has a conscience, and I can give him a lighter sentence.”

“But if he still refuses, then I will punish him severely, how about that?”

Shao Yu understood that when Wei Yuan went to the provincial capital to buy medicine this time, he would most likely walk around in a swagger to let all the neighbors know about his love for his wife, but he would most likely not get the herbs back. Maybe he was robbed by bandits, or maybe he was cheated by the pharmacy, but he definitely spent the money and brought nothing back.

Wei Ran obviously thought of this as well, so she was unwilling to accept the bet immediately.

Shao Yu said, “Do you think he is going to the provincial capital to get medicine? Maybe he is somewhere outside the city, fooling around with some women.”

“Outside women” are always very lethal. Wei Ran immediately said, “Let’s bet.”