The suspicion in my heart became clearer due to Hua Lao's words.

Chen Ze did not hesitate and directly gave the answer he observed.

Hua Lao's response to this was just to silently take another sip of the strong drink in his hand.

This is undoubtedly telling Chen Ze that his guess is correct.

"Then do you know where this spy came from?"

After a while, Mr. Hua wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth and asked again.

Where does it come from?

This question made Chen Ze ponder for a moment.

After he felt that there was a spy hiding in the city lord's palace, he naturally thought about this issue, but the choice was too wide.

If we start from the current situation, Zheng Yuanyun has worked hard in Bo'an City for many years, so naturally there is not even a single die-hard loyalist to him here.

You know, although Chen Ze didn't see it with his own eyes, according to what Chen Ming told him afterwards, Zheng Yuanyun was defeated in Juhe City. Even when some people were encouraging him to surrender, there were still people who knew they would die.

, choose to advance and retreat together with Zheng Yuanyun.

And their fate was not surprising at all. With Zheng Yuanyun's death, they were also buried with him.

There are die-hard loyalists of Zheng Yuanyun in Juhe City, but what about in Boan City?

It's hard to guarantee that there won't be subordinates who are loyal to Zheng Yuanyun.

Now that Zheng Yuanyun is dead, his position as the city lord of Bo'an City has been transferred to Hua Lao. Even the city lord's mansion has been occupied by Hua Lao, and Zheng Yuanyun's family has been expelled to a nearby place.

Placement of affiliated cities.

Since then, the nature of Bo'an City has naturally changed, and Zheng Yuanyun, who has been in Bo'an City for a long time, has completely lost his power.

If he loses power, will life be easier for his confidants?

Although the empire has not evaluated Zheng Yuanyun's performance in this battle until now because the front line is still going on, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the lord of Bo'an City has changed his position in such a short period of time.

Lord, this also shows that Zheng Yuanyun has really lost power.

All that is missing is settling the accounts.

Zheng Yuanyun died, how should the account be settled?

Naturally, the dead will no longer be punished, so naturally it is the living who will bear the blame. Apart from Zheng Yuanyun’s family, how can other confidants get rid of him?

Furthermore, becoming Zheng Yuanyun's confidant does not happen overnight. How much effort does it take, and even how much tribute will it bring to Zheng Yuanyun?

In terms of Zheng Yuanyun’s character...

To say that the vitality was not seriously damaged would be a more modest statement.

After paying so much, before I could get my money back through being the city lord's confidant, the investment was just gone...

Everyone lost everything.

Who can I talk to to reason with you?

Zheng Yuanyun died, and his family members were closely protected by people sent by the empire. They were not even in Bo'an City, so naturally they could not find his family members to reason with him.

So, how else can this kind of pent-up anger be vented?

You can't take it out on the empire, right?

No matter how angry or helpless, no one has the courage to do this kind of thing.

Then, it seems that it is okay to vent it on Mr. Hua.

Hua Lao's status is not low, but after all, he has been living in seclusion for many years. Now that he has come out again, his power will always be weaker.

Moreover, in this troubled time, if we can catch some clues about Hua Lao, and use this to please the three great national masters who will obviously have their interests damaged due to Hua Lao's emergence, this may not be an opportunity.

An opportunity to change his identity from Zheng Yuanyun's confidant to the national master's subordinate.

If you can really use this to knock on the door to the national master level, even if you are just an insignificant subordinate, there will be a lot of people who dare to do this job!

Therefore, no matter what the purpose was, Zheng Yuanyun's former confidants seemed to have enough reasons to dare to sneak into the city lord's mansion to stir up trouble at this time.

What's more, as Zheng Yuanyun's confidants, they are very familiar with the terrain of the city lord's palace. Let them lurk and get twice the result with half the effort.

However, this is only one aspect of Chen Ze's suspicion.

If it was true that Zheng Yuanyun's confidants were doing things secretly, he didn't care that much.

After all, Zheng Yuanyun is dead, and the confidants he left behind are still leaderless at this time anyway. Even if they have plans, the role they can play is still limited.

On the contrary, it was another aspect that made Chen Ze more concerned, and it was also the reason why his face looked solemn at this time.

If he is Zheng Yuanyun's confidant, this matter has something to do with him, but if not, but another aspect of his speculation, this means...

If he is not Zheng Yuanyun's subordinate, that means that this spy is coming directly towards Mr. Hua.

He is Hua Lao’s enemy!

Then it is either the three great national advisors, or the only general in the empire, or it may be a spy from the enemy country who has been lurking in Bo'an City.

No matter which one, it will be more difficult and troublesome than Zheng Yuanyun's remaining confidants.

The military rank of national advisor or general has reached the pinnacle of generals. It can be said that they are below one person and above ten thousand people. Even the Qingyang royal family may have to give some face and some scruples.

Hua Lao's status is comparable to them, but now in terms of power, he is far behind. In the short term, he will not be able to compete with these four people.

And these four people also have enough reasons not to let Hua Lao come back again, let alone rely on Bo'an City and Anluo Province to rise again.

If one of them, or in other words, all of them join forces, use their energy to target Mr. Hua... then it will be a sad day.

As for the enemy country, wasn't it because Hua Lao established his great reputation back then by stepping on the enemy's generals?

Therefore, Hua Lao probably had many enemies in the enemy country, but when he chose to retire, he lost his trace for a while. Those enemies had many inconveniences when they went deep into the Qingyang Empire and could not find him.

If these two come true, the harm to Mr. Hua and the Lord's Mansion of Bo'an City will actually be far greater than that of Zheng Yuanyun's remaining henchmen.

But which category it is, because Chen Ze has just returned to Bo'an City, he can only make such speculations for a while, and he still has no way of knowing who it is.

So, he turned his attention back to Hua Lao, wanting to wait for Hua Lao to give his answer.

However, what he didn't expect was that the answer he was waiting for was a smile on the corner of Hua Lao's mouth.

"Don't look at me. I don't know who is hiding in the dark. I'm not even sure if there is someone lurking in the dark."

"this……"
Chapter completed!