Chapter 1463 Jiang Kuanyu and the Black Market Gang
Shu Yu suddenly rubbed her forehead, "I forgot to take my baggage with me."
The bundle that A Ning brought contained not only three portraits, but also her daily necessities and clothes, all of which are here now.
"Never mind, I'll send it to her later."
After A Ning left, Shu Yu sat back down in her chair and began a serious discussion with Meng Yunzheng.
"If nothing unexpected happens, the person who drugged Tan Cheng should be Jiang Kuanyu. I hadn't thought about it before, but now that I think about it, it does seem a bit illogical. Since Jiang Kuanyu was able to manage his business so well, why would he buy that estate and those hundreds of acres of land, spend five years trying to increase production, and then not cut his losses in time, only selling it last year?"
Looking back now, Jiang Kuanyu didn't care about the yield of grain, nor did he intend to bother to find suitable plants to plant.
He hadn't made a move yet simply because that manor was very close to the black market, making it convenient for him to come and go at any time, and it could also serve as a sentry post.
Meng Yunzheng nodded, "Moreover, he sold the estate to you at the end of May. At that time, the Jiangyuan County black market was in an uproar because of the mirror incident, and was already preparing for the future and wanted to abandon the black market here."
Hearing him mention the mirror, Shu Yu lowered her head somewhat guiltily.
Help! How did this get involved with the mirror again? It has nothing to do with her.
She coughed lightly. "It's quite strange, isn't it? This black market belongs to the Second Prince, yet they deliberately sold the mirror to the Third Princess. Isn't that just courting death?"
Meng Yunzheng laughed and said, "The Second Prince probably didn't expect that this mirror, which was originally unrelated, would be used by the Third Prince to spread rumors in the struggle for the throne, which attracted a large number of people to target the black market in Jiangyuan County, forcing him to withdraw in the end."
Shu Yu, "..."
"Actually, I don't think it's entirely because of that mirror. The most important reason is that the Shu family of Dong'an Prefecture was wiped out, and the magistrate of Jiangyuan County is Xiang Weinan, the son-in-law of the Xiao family, right?"
Meng Yunzheng looked at her suspiciously, but nodded, "That's true."
Shu Yu changed the subject, "Jiang Kuanyu and the black market left Dong'an Prefecture during those few months. If we're not mistaken, Tan Cheng probably saw the key figure of the Second Prince's faction when he went up the mountain that time. Jiang Kuanyu poisoned him just in case."
"Yes, but we don't know where Jiang Kuanyu has gone right now, otherwise we might have been able to extract a lot of information from him."
Shu Yu stroked her chin. "Tomorrow, I'll go to the Tan family again and have a good talk with Tan Cheng to see if I can get any more clues."
“Okay.” Meng Yunzheng nodded. “I’ll draw two portraits of Jiang Kuanyu and send them to Qi Lie so he can check them out. We’ll do it both ways.”
"Okay." Shu Yu immediately took out the brush, ink, paper and inkstone and placed them in front of Meng Yunzheng, asking him to draw according to the model.
Meng Yunzheng's painting skills were better than Tan Cheng's, and Shu Yu had met Jiang Kuanyu before. With a little modification, the painting actually looked more like Tan Cheng's portrait.
"Finding people using your method will be much easier."
Meng Yunzheng smiled and continued drawing the second picture.
The two of them remained standing and sitting in the study, unaware that after returning to her room, Ah Ning realized she had forgotten her belongings and quickly ran back.
(End of this chapter)
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