Chapter 354: Who Poisoned

Prince Anyang should be nearly sixty years old this year, but he looks only forty years old, and he is well maintained.

When Su Chen came closer, Prince Anyang asked. "Young man, are you Su Chen?"

"Junior greets the prince." Su Chen bowed his hands.

Prince Anyang looked at Su Chen meaningfully, and the corner of his mouth curled: "You are very brave. You are the first one who dares to call yourself a junior to me when we meet for the first time."

Su Chen smiled. He naturally knew what Prince Anyang meant. He was the lord of a county. Most people would kowtow and call themselves ministers when they saw him.

Only the younger generation with close relationship in the family can be called junior. There is also a situation where people with a very high birth but young age can call themselves juniors out of courtesy.

For example, in the case of Su Chen, if Su Chen was a descendant of the royal family of Yunyuan Empire, he would be fully qualified to call himself a junior in front of Prince Anyang.

But Su Chen was not, so Prince Anyang would naturally think he was arrogant.

Su Chen smiled: "Your Majesty, are you going to punish me for my disrespect?"

"Hmph, no matter how angry I am, I dare not punish the person who is jointly admired by the three great alchemy giants. Otherwise, if Grandmaster Guo and Grandmaster Huang quit their jobs and even left Anyang County, wouldn't I be dumbfounded?" The Prince of Anyang County said indifferently.

Su Chen knew that what the Prince of Anyang County said was absolutely true. The value of a third-grade alchemy master to a county is immeasurable. If the third-grade alchemy masters left one after another, even the lord of a county would be panicked.

"Why did your Majesty summon the juniors here?" Su Chen asked.

"Nothing, I'm just curious, I want to see what you, the genius who has been in the limelight in Anyang City recently, look like." The Prince of Anyang looked at Su Chen meaningfully, "Do you know that recently many people have even cried to me in the court, saying that you extorted their family's wealth, and some people even wrote to me to report that you robbed a second-rate sect in Anyang City of all its wealth."

Su Chen smiled and said, "I don't deny these, but I took them all in a gentleman's way, without any dirty robbery. The prince should also be very clear about this."

The Prince of Anyang laughed and said nothing more.

From some angles, his appearance is indeed somewhat similar to that of Princess Xiling, and they are indeed father and daughter.

"Sit down."

The Prince of Anyang pointed to a seat below him.

Su Chen was not polite, he walked over and sat down on the seat.

"Since the prince summoned me here just to chat, I just have a question for the prince." Su Chen said.

"Oh? What's your question?" asked the Prince of Anyang.

"Three months ago, I went to the Mu family. At that time, the old man of the Mu family had a purple jade coral plum. He said that it was given by the prince." Su Chen said.

"Oh, it was indeed given by the prince." The Prince of Anyang said casually.

"Then the prince knows that there is a strange poison called Jiuxiaosan on the purple jade coral plum?" Su Chen said.

"What?"

The Prince of Anyang's expression changed slightly. He was leaning on his seat leisurely, but he sat up directly after hearing the words, staring at Su Chen with a pair of sharp eyes.

Seeing the reaction of the Prince of Anyang, Su Chen was basically sure that the Jiuxiaosan on the purple jade coral plum should not be put by the Prince of Anyang, and he was also unaware of it.

Of course, the possibility of the Prince of Anyang pretending is not ruled out, but this possibility is very low. First, the pupils and body reactions of the Prince of Anyang are close to the natural reactions under that situation, which is difficult to fake. Secondly, he is a prince, so there is no need for him to pretend in front of Su Chen, a junior.

"It seems that the prince is unaware of it." Su Chen said.

"Humph, of course I don't know. Who has the guts to tamper with the things that I gave to Mr. Mu." Anyang County Prince showed anger on his face, "Mr. Mu too, why didn't you tell me about such a big thing?"

However, after saying this, Anyang County Prince was silent. Yes, it is normal for Mr. Mu not to say anything. The imperial gift was poisoned. According to normal logic, it must be the poison of Anyang County Prince. How could Mr. Mu come to tell him? Is his brain filled with water?

"It's really not the prince who poisoned it?" Su Chen confirmed again.

"Of course not, Mr. Mu was a trusted general under the old county prince. I should treat him with courtesy. How could I poison him?" Anyang County Prince frowned.

"If the prince poisoned Mr. Mu, there is a good reason, that is, you are afraid that the Mu family will be too powerful. You only need to let Mr. Mu, the head of the Mu family, die quietly. With the current situation of the Mu family's senior executives, the Mu family will definitely fall apart and it will not be possible to grow."

Su Chen analyzed calmly. He knew the situation of the Mu family very well. It was all supported by Mr. Mu. In fact, the reliable Mr. Mu Ba was a role that did not have much real power in the Mu family.

If Mr. Mu died, the Mu family would definitely be seriously injured, that's for sure.

The Prince of Anyang listened silently, but did not get angry, because he was smart and immediately understood the intention of Su Chen's words.

"You mean, the person who poisoned the purple jade coral plum is trying to alienate the relationship between me and Mr. Mu." Prince Anyang said in a deep voice.

Su Chen nodded: "To be precise, it is a win-win plan. If Mr. Mu dies of poisoning, then you, the prince, will lose a capable left and right arm. If Mr. Mu does not die of poisoning, but discovers the toxicity of the purple jade coral plum, then he will be alienated from you. No matter which case, you will lose Mr. Mu's right-hand man, which is tantamount to cutting off one of your hands for you, the prince."

"Hmph!" The face of Prince Anyang became more and more gloomy as Su Chen spoke, and finally snorted heavily, "Who dares to plot against me like this?"

"My prince, think about it, who has come into contact with the purple jade coral plum?" Su Chen said. The current situation is that the person who poisoned is also a threat to Mr. Mu. Su Chen only cares about this matter for Mr. Mu. Originally, I thought the person who poisoned was the Prince of Anyang, but now it seems that Su Chen has basically ruled out this possibility.

The Prince of Anyang frowned slightly and said, "The purple jade coral plum was given to Mr. Mu by me personally. The only people who handled it from beginning to end, besides me, were my confidants."

"It seems that the prince needs to check the confidants around him." Su Chen said leisurely.