Chapter 1350: Dead or Not?

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Shu Yu's expression suddenly changed.

Xiao Song Le's beads were left at the scene when the Song family was wiped out. They belonged to the murderer.

As for the murderer, they all had no doubt that he was from Gongqiu.

Now that the steward of the black market has the same string of beads, the steward must have a close relationship with the murderer.

The murderer was from Gongqiu, so the manager... was also from Gongqiu?

According to this calculation, the boss behind the black market is Gong Qiu? ? ? ?

Shu Yu was also shocked by his own speculation. If the black market was really related to Gongqiu, then it seemed reasonable that Manager Guo was not willing to sell the black market to Meng Yunzheng.

Before, she and Meng Yuncheng couldn't figure out what grudge the black market had with him.

Now, it doesn't seem strange anymore.

However, Gongqiu is dead. He was beheaded last year. But the black market is still operating, and there are obviously people giving orders. Even the black market in Jiangyuan County was shut down in an orderly manner.

Before Gongqiu was beheaded, his identity was verified. The fifth prince is such a cautious person, there is no way he can escape by cheating.

No... Gong Qiu has verified his identity, but there is one person who has not, and that is the second prince.

The second prince was Gong Qiu's son, and the late emperor hated him deeply and would never let him go.

But the emperor knew it in his heart at the time, and others didn't know it. It was impossible for the emperor to tell the world that he had been cuckolded.

Therefore, the second prince is still his son. No matter how much he hates him, he cannot directly kill his 'son', and the court officials will not agree to it.

What's more, the second prince has the intention to rebel, but he has not yet taken action.

Throughout the ages, even those princes who took action did not necessarily end up dead.

So the first emperor just demoted the second prince to common people and imprisoned him in another courtyard.

Of course, both Shu Yu and Meng Yunzheng knew that the late emperor could not really leave him as a disaster. He was looking for an opportunity, and he must have wanted the second prince to die in front of him.

So at the end of last year, just ten days before the death of the late emperor, an accident occurred in the other courtyard.

It is said that the second prince felt depressed, so he made a bamboo raft and wandered in the lake in the other courtyard.

Who knew he would lose his footing and fall into the water, drowning directly.

But it took several days for the servants in the other courtyard to discover his body. After all, the second prince was a demoted commoner. He even had to eat when he was full and hungry. How could the servants serve him wholeheartedly?

Moreover, since the second prince was demoted, his temper has become very bad, and he often beats and scolds his servants.

As time went by, the servants no longer wanted to get in front of him. They would often put food at the door of his room when they remembered. If he couldn't think of it, he would just starve.

As a result, this time, after the servants delivered meals several times, they found that they had not been brought into the room. They were a little surprised, so they searched everywhere and finally found the body of the second prince in the lake.

But the second prince at that time had already been swollen from the soak.

When the late emperor found out, he just asked Dali Temple and the Forbidden Army to confirm, and then dealt with the servants of other courtyards, and then buried him hastily.

Everyone said that the second prince was dead.

But what if he wasn't the one who died?

Shu Yu had never thought about this before. She felt that the death of the second prince must have been caused by the late emperor and there would be no accident.

But if the black market is really related to him and Gong Qiu, will there be something fishy in the death of the second prince?

"Ayu, Ayu? What are you thinking about?" Yuan Shanchuan couldn't help but worry when he saw that she hadn't spoken for a long time, but her expression was extremely bad.