"Originally, I wanted to personally ask Xue Dafu's family and the people around Xue Dafu when he picked up the child, but I was instructed to not tell that family about this information. Even when I talked to the village chief for questioning, I told him to keep his mouth shut and not let a single word leak out.
"Thus, I have Laicai and Xiuhua, shopkeeper Cheng Laowu, and the two assistants who were Laowu's helpers back then to secretly go and identify the person who picked up the child. Xue Dafu looks similar to many farmers around his age, but Zhu Laicai, Cheng Laowu, and the other three recognized him immediately. They all said that he was the one who picked up the lost child,
"Even though I didn't ask Xue Dafu's family personally, nor did I ask the people around Xue Dafu when he found the child, the evidence I have now is more than sustainable to make a conclusion.
