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Chapter 731: Many Cheats 52
However, out of jealousy, the other party killed the Cao family's backer. Obviously, the murderer was short-sighted.

It would be fine if the other party was short-sighted. Under normal circumstances, Prince An would have just laughed at him. But now, someone dared to harm his concubine, which made Prince An obviously hate the Cao family. He immediately ordered a detailed investigation of the Cao family to find out who did it.

But after searching again and again, they couldn't find such a person. No matter how they looked at it, it seemed that it was all Miss Cao's own doing.

Prince An couldn't wrongly accuse anyone, so in the end, the case had to be left unresolved.

In fact, if Prince An insisted that the Cao family hand over one person, the Cao family might only be able to hand over one person.

But Prince An thought that those people were relatives of Concubine Cao. If the murderer was not found, he would have to force the Cao family to hand over an innocent person to make up the number. He was also afraid that Concubine Cao would not want to see this scene. Moreover, his purpose of investigating the Cao family in detail was to find the murderer, not to let the Cao family use an innocent person to make up the number. He only wanted the truth, not to fool himself, so he did not force the Cao family, who could not find the murderer, to hand over someone at random.

Since they were not going to ask the Cao family to hand over an innocent person to explain themselves, the matter would naturally end up like this.

However, because Prince An asked the question quietly, outsiders did not know about the servant's attempt to murder Princess Anjiang. Therefore, unlike in the original body's world, where people felt it was strange and talked about it because more and more people were harming the original body, in this world, no one knew about it, and naturally no one talked about it.

And because Concubine Cao was dead, no one wanted to kill the princess because of her niece and right-hand man. In the end, they were dealt with. They held resentment and looked for trouble with Linlang. It can be said that the matter was resolved perfectly this time.

However, the servants in the palace knew too much about Concubine Cao being poisoned. Even if Prince An wanted to control it and prevent these servants from telling others, it was impossible to control it and the news was still spread. So this time, no one talked about Linlang, and instead talked about Concubine Cao.

Everyone was talking about Concubine Cao being poisoned, but no one knew the murderer. There were all kinds of speculations outside, and everyone in Prince An's mansion was suspected to be the murderer by people outside. Although Prince An executed the servant, the servants in the mansion said that there was no obvious evidence to prove that the servant poisoned Concubine Cao, and was definitely not the murderer. She was just used as a punching bag by Prince An. This led to people outside speculating who the murderer was.

After Concubine Cao died, the people in the second house became noticeably more honest, especially the second wife, who no longer dared to act as arrogantly as before.

They have no choice but to be dishonest. Without Concubine Cao's support, they will not be so confident. They are afraid of offending too many people and having a hard time in the future.

She was not afraid before because she had the support of Concubine Cao, and also because the second wife's husband might be promoted to a prince.

By then, they will be princes, no worse than Prince Anjiang, that is, slightly worse than the Prince of An, so naturally they are not afraid of offending everyone in the palace.

just now……

Prince An was extremely sad about the death of his beloved concubine, so he had no mood to run for the position of Duke for his second wife's husband. The people of the second house were extremely anxious when they saw this. After all, if Prince An's mansion didn't fight for the title, others would. If they slacked off and others were still working hard, the title would definitely belong to someone else. How could the people of the second house not be anxious?

But Prince An was so sad at the moment, so they couldn't urge him. They were afraid that if they urged him too much, Prince An would be upset and scold them for only caring about the title and not being sad when their mother passed away. He thought they were beasts and would not help him with the title. That would be bad. If things continued like this, they might not get the title. Could the people of the second house not behave themselves?

Moreover, not only was there no hope for the title, but they also lost Concubine Cao to back them up. Adding the two together, their status in the mansion dropped drastically, and even if they wanted to be arrogant, they couldn't.

Seeing this situation, it is no wonder that the people in the second house hated the person who killed Concubine Cao.

They thought the same as Prince An, and they also believed that someone in the Cao family was jealous of Miss Cao and did it.

The main reason is that Miss Cao had a very good relationship with Concubine Cao, so it is impossible that Miss Cao killed the person herself.

Because they think someone in the Cao family is the murderer, they basically don't go to the Cao family anymore. The main reason is that they feel uncomfortable. Of course, they are also afraid that the Cao family is in danger. If they go there by themselves, they don't want something like what happened to their biological mother, Concubine Cao, to happen again someday.

Therefore, in this incident, the interests of the Second House were greatly damaged, and so were the Cao family.

You have to know that in the past, not only did Concubine Cao's two sons often visit the Cao family to give the Cao family face, but even Concubine Cao would often go back to visit her parents' home.

Concubine Cao was favored before, and was like the mistress in Prince An's Mansion. She could go home often, which was naturally the most face-saving thing for the Cao family and the supreme honor. The Cao family members often praised Concubine Cao outside.

But now, Concubine Cao is gone and can't come back, which makes their family show off outside. And her two sons, who are obviously fine, don't come either. For a moment, the Cao family felt as if they had no contact with Prince An's Mansion. This made the Cao family panic. After all, if their family had no contact with Prince An's Mansion, then wouldn't their good days be over? How could this be possible? They used to be so conspicuous among relatives and friends. Every time they met relatives and friends, they had endless topics to talk about, all revolving around Prince An's Mansion, Concubine Cao, and Concubine Cao's sons. They kept talking about how great my princess's daughter was, how great Prince An was, and how great the grandson who might become a prince in the future was.

Now that Prince An’s Mansion no longer associates with them, how can they still chat outside?
So they were naturally anxious, and sent a letter to Prince An's mansion, wanting to see Prince An and invite Concubine Cao's two sons to come and visit.

But whether it was Prince An or the two sons of Concubine Cao, they did not want to deal with the Cao family, who might be hiding the murderer, because Concubine Cao died in an unclear manner.

The Cao family didn't understand the situation and thought that it was because of Concubine Cao's death that the people in Prince An's mansion began to distance themselves from the Cao family. They couldn't help but feel sad, thinking that this person had left them too quickly. But they also thought that it was okay for Prince An to leave and the two grandsons were their blood relatives, their legitimate grandchildren. How could they ignore them after Concubine Cao's death? It was too cold-blooded.

——Although Prince An sent people to the Cao family to look for clues again and again and felt that Concubine Cao was murdered by the Cao family, in order to find the murderer and avoid alerting the enemy, Prince An sent people to search secretly, so the Cao family did not know. Prince An and Concubine Cao's two sons all suspected that the Cao family had the murderer and did not want to bother with the Cao family. The Cao family just thought that without Concubine Cao, they would have no good days.

The Cao family felt like the sky was falling, and Concubine Cao's eldest son really felt like the sky was falling, because not long after, the emperor really let another family's son be adopted by the deceased prince instead of him, shattering his dream of becoming a prince. How could he not feel like the sky was falling?