CH 52.1

Zhou Chengwang came to deliver news to Jiang Lin again.

While gnawing on Jiang Lin's steamed stuffed bun, he asked mysteriously, "Lin'er, do you know that the thunder struck a forest outside the city two days ago?"

Jiang Lin nodded, motioning for him to continue.

Zhou Chengwang: "It struck a quarry. The imperial court sent people to investigate it. The fire was caused by the lightning hit a tree. The lightning was too powerful. It not only chopped down many trees, but also killed everyone in the quarry. There were hundreds of people."

Zhou Chengwang sighed with sorrow.

Jiang Lin turned to look at him, "So the imperial court has come to a conclusion that it was all caused by the lightning?"

Zhou Chengwang: "Yes, why not?, the people in Shengjing heard the loud noise that night, how could it be... Wrong?"

Zhou Chengwang noticed that Jiang Lin's complexion was wrong, and he stopped chewing the buns, and opened his mouth wide, "Is there really a problem?"

Jiang Lin snorted, with a sneering face he said, "If it was because of explosion, hundreds of people can't be killed by lightning. "

"How do you know?" Zhou Chengwang asked subconsciously.

"Because I went to see it and saw it with my own eyes." Jiang Lin's tone was a little gloomy.

Heavy rain, thunder, and the forest near the quarry was ablaze for a long time. He and Wei Yunzhao stayed awake in the middle of the night and kept staring in that direction.

When the sky was about to dawn and the rain subsided, Jiang Lin disguised himself and rushed out of the city and went straight to the quarry, where he saw the traces of the explosion all over the ground.

Maybe others couldn't get in, but Jiang Lin would never let himself to make a mistake or he would have been by them. There were many experts watched around the quarry, if he didn't use his space, he wouldn't be able to get in at all.

Jiang Lin counted the corpses, a total of more than four hundreds and all of them were people in ordinary clothes.

He also saw people burning some corpses to reduce the number of deaths. Coincidentally, the second prince's people also came to investigate the scene.

A premeditated act of extermination, even arrangements for the way out, everything would be blamed on natural disasters in the end. These people really had bad luck.

Jiang Lin admired the plan of the second prince, and was even more shocked by his cruelty. If such a person became the lord of the world, he must become a bloodthirsty and brutal tyrant. He was afraid that the people in the world would live in panic all the time, and their lives would be destitute.

Jiang Lin only had one thought after seeing the whole scene, the second prince must die!

Zhou Chengwang asked Jiang Lin if he knew who did it. Jiang Lin didn't say anything, but only said to Zhou Chengwang: "If you believe me, then go back and convince your father. He can support anyone, but he must not support the second prince."

Jiang Lin looked so serious, Zhou Chengwang was not stupid about this kind of thing, he guessed that the matter of the quarry was related to the second prince.

He covered his mouth, his pupils dilated in shock, "No way, the second prince..."

Jiang Lin stuffed two steamed buns into his hands, "Honestly, go play with Du Yuling and I'll write new script for you later, don't get involved in other things."

Zhou Chengwang was forcibly driven away by Jiang Lin, and he didn't recover until he got into the carriage.

And as soon as he got home, Zhou Chengwang took the buns and shouted all over the yard to find his father. Zhou  father pushed the door out of the study with a dignified expression on his face, "Come here!"

Zhou Chengwang rushed up to him, and Zhou father took the steamed buns from his hands. Zhou father didn’t dislike him, and he ate them as soon as he took them. He also taught Zhou Chengwang, “Just to give me two buns, you yelled all over the yard, how indecent!"

"The steamed bun tastes good. Where did you buy it? Why do you only buy two?" Zhou father said as he asked the housekeeper to arrange someone to buy more steamed buns for him.

Zhou Chengwang looked at the steamed buns that Zhou father had almost finished eating, and he felt like crying.

But he held back, and stopped Zhou father from letting someone buy the steamed buns, "Jiang Lin gave it to me, and you can't buy it outside, he made it himself."

Zhou Chengwang stretched out two fingers, "I only eat two in total, and these two..."

The last mouthful of buns was stuffed into his mouth, and Zhou father’s majestic face showed two points of satisfaction, "Yes, you are a filial child, and you still know to bring two back for dad."

Interrupted by his father, Zhou Chengwang swallowed the second half of the sentence for the sake of filial piety.

Pushing his father into the study room, he closed the door and quietly told Zhou Father what Jiang Lin asked him to tell.

"Father, although we are not up to date in the past, we are much better now. Lin'er seems to have changed after marrying into the Wei family. I think he can be trusted." It was time for the courtiers to stand in line for the position.

The Zhou family didn't stand in line, because they still had a concubine in the palace, but she entered the palace late, and the prince she gave birth to was still a child, so it was not his turn to compete for the position for the time being.

And the Zhou family also used this as an excuse to remain neutral, only loyal to Emperor Changde, and not involved in the disputes.

Zhou father’s thought was much more far-reaching than Zhou Chengwang's. A quarry that killed so many people was an obvious silencing, and why it needed to be silenced was because the water inside was too deep.

Zhou Father told Zhou Chengwang solemnly, "From today on, this thing will rot in your stomach, and you are not allowed to talk about it to anyone, you know?"

Zhou Chengwang nodded, "Father, I'm not that stupid, don't worry."