Chapter 780: Serves Him Right!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
What a miser!
Not only did he not have any relatives to rely on, he was also unwilling to spend money to help them. Thus, everyone despised that old man. In the end, that old man could not stand it anymore and moved to this town.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan both felt that that stingy man deserved it.
They were planning that if they really didn’t have any relatives, they could only hope that they had some servants who had been dismissed in the past few years.
However, this stingy man didn’t let all the servants follow him to Changyu because he didn’t want to spend more money.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yue asked on behalf of Xue Yan, “Then, do you know if the Wei family has dismissed any servants in the past few years?”
Doctor Shen said, “I’m not sure about that. I only know that he is very thrifty because he likes to spend money.
“He doesn’t have many servants at home. Usually, he only has one servant to serve him. When he learned that his eldest son had become a County Magistrate this year, he was so happy that he gave his eldest son another servant so that his eldest son could have two servants to serve him.
“At that time, the Wei family hadn’t even gone to Heshi County yet. The Wei family’s servant guarding the door even told my family’s servant several times that Master Wei was being oddly generous.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yue and Xue Yan began to suspect that asking the servants about this path might not necessarily lead to success.
The two of them looked at each other, their eyes asking — should they ask Doctor Shen’s servants?
Didn’t Doctor Shen just say that the servants of the Wei family and the Shen family used to chat together, so they might know something?
However, before Jiang Yue and Xue Yan could ask, Doctor Shen suddenly remembered something.
“Oh right, when the Wei family first moved next door to my house, there was an old servant and an old woman in the Wei family. One was in charge of taking care of the flowers and plants, and the other was in charge of cleaning the house.
“l heard that they were husband and wife, but not long after that, they were kicked out as well. At that time, I didn’t pay too much attention to them. I don’t know where they went after that.
“If you want to know more, I will ask Da Yong to come in. You can ask him. He is the smartest servant in my family. He has been in my house since he was young.
“Previously, I asked him to guard the door. When there were people from the Wei family next door, he often mingled with the servants of the Wei family. He might know about this actually.
“It’s just that half a year ago, the medical center was short of manpower, so I
asked him to come and help around here. Now, the servant guarding my house is his younger brother, Xiao Yong. You don’t have to worry, I’ll tell him later that he won’t tell anyone what you’ve asked.”
Since Doctor Shen said so, this meant that Da Yong was a person who kept his promises. After Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at each other, Xue Yan quickly cupped his hands and said gratefully, “We would like to talk to him.”
Since Da Yong often hung out with the Wei family’s servants, he would naturally know more than Doctor Shen.
Doctor Shen then let Da Yong in.
Da Yong was helping to dry the herbs in the back. When he heard the doctor call for him, he quickly put down the basket in his hand and came to the small room in the consultation room.
When Da Yong heard the question, he immediately told them the truth and was very angry when he spoke. “That man was being too much! When he escaped, he was still young.
“This couple protected him and brought him all the way here. In the end, they became old and could not do much work anymore. They kicked the couple away and said that he didn’t want to take care of servants for nothing.
“They asked them to leave the Wei family and said that if they died in the Weifamily, they would have to spend money to buy coffins for them.”