Under Chen Ze's gaze, Hua Lao's momentum slowly weakened.

In less than a moment, his momentum completely subsided and he turned back into the drunken old man with cloudy eyes.

No, it's even worse.

In front of Chen Ze's eyes, Hua Lao looked extremely depressed. He fell down on the stone bench, and his whole person revealed a sad emotion.

"Want to know why?"

He smiled bitterly, and seemed to have exhausted all his strength before he supported his body, reached forward, and snatched the half-full wine bottle from Chen Ze's hand.

Then he drank heavily, letting the wine wet his clothes.

After a long while, he put down the wine bottle and exhaled heavily.

"You guessed it right."

Hua Lao did not look at Chen Ze, but lowered his head, as if talking to himself.

"This incident was indeed directed and performed by myself. I should apologize to you for this."

Chen Ze was silent.

Did he come to see Mr. Hua just to apologize?

And why should you apologize to him?

In the final analysis, he was just deceived by Mr. Hua and spent several days in vain looking for the spies. He couldn't even talk about apologizing.

And as early as the first time Mr. Hua asked Mr. Jing to come to him in the middle of the night, he felt a little strange.

Mr. Hua said that there was a spy in the city lord's palace, and even he had no way to find the spy for the time being, and had to rely on Chen Ze's help.

As Qingyang Zhijiang and the only two generals in the empire, Hua Lao has such a wide network of contacts and rich experience?

But he couldn't find the spy in the city lord's palace, so he still needed Chen Ze's help?

No, this sentence should be said like this: He actually let the spies sneak into the city lord's mansion?

Not to mention Mr. Hua, but even Chen Ze himself. Everywhere he goes, of course he will investigate the security issues of his place in detail. If there are suspicious personnel, they will be removed on the spot.

This should be a habitual action rooted in instinct.

Otherwise, if you are careless when sending troops outside, you are also not careful. How many lives do you have to die from the enemy's plan?

Chen Ze is still like this, and he believes that most generals should keep such a habit.

But what about Hua Lao?

Even if there is a gap of five years, Mr. Hua should not take it so lightly.

Moreover, it is even more impossible to say that he has lost so many confidants in the past five years that he does not have enough manpower to arrange the city lord's mansion!

Who is Mr. Hua?

It has only been five years, but he is still the super general who can rise to the top and make a call, and get hundreds of responses.

After losing five years in vain, once he found signs that Mr. Hua might come out of trouble, Mr. Jing was desperate and even willing to resign from a high position such as the military chief of a city and become a commoner.

It can be seen from this that he returned to Bo'an City to follow Mr. Hua.

Mr. Jing was like this, and the fat shopkeeper never gave up. He was even willing to abandon the army and go into business, and became a restaurant shopkeeper for five years.

The two of them are like this, and how many people are there like that?

At that time, Mr. Hua had more than 10,000 confidants and even disciples. Could it be that he still couldn't fill up a city lord's mansion?

It is true that Hua Lao's appearance will definitely cause panic to some people. There will be many people who want to secretly sabotage, but do they want to infiltrate the city lord's mansion?

It won't be that easy!

Even if he did come in, with Hua Lao's methods, he should have kicked him out long ago...

etc!

When he thought of this, an idea flashed in Chen Ze's mind, and he couldn't help but look shocked.

He looked at Mr. Hua again, but saw that the other man just nodded slightly, as if he had guessed what Chen Ze was thinking.

"Those five people...are the real spies, right?"

Chen Ze was surprised and slowly expressed his guess.

"So, Mr. Hua, you actually knew who the spy was for a long time, but you didn't tell them. It wasn't until I made such a commotion in the martial arts training ground that you followed the trend and used a trick to get these people to leave the city lord's mansion voluntarily, and then

Kill people again..."

"So, then Tang Feng is basically your own person, Mr. Hua?"

It is no exaggeration to describe Chen Ze's mood at this moment as shocked.

He thought and calculated endlessly, planning how he could help Tang Tianxing, how he could find Tang Feng, and how he could make them recognize each other as father and son.

But who would have thought that Tang Feng was not a spy sent by the enemy as imagined, but actually one of Hua Lao!

Over the years... I don't know what Tang Feng has experienced, but he is working under Hua Lao, and General Luo doesn't know about it, but this is not surprising.

After all, General Luo didn't have much interaction with Mr. Hua before, and if Tang Feng wanted to hide it and didn't want Tang Tianxing to find out that he was with Mr. Hua, it would be easy to do so.

So after Chen Ze was shocked, he smiled bitterly.

He, General Luo, or Tang Tianxing were all deliberately trying to conceal everything about Tang Feng from Hua Lao, but in fact, Hua Lao...

Needless to say, he knew it a long time ago, but Tang Feng is actually Hua Lao!

Who should I talk to to reason with this?

At the moment, what else can Chen Ze do besides smile bitterly?

"Tang Feng, this little guy is pretty good."

Mr. Hua knew what Chen Ze was thinking, so he slowly said: "It's just that he also has his own difficulties. He doesn't want to meet Tang Tianxing and his son. That's up to him. But what I can guarantee is that he doesn't care about Tang Tianxing."

The resentment is not as deep as you think."

Chen Ze nodded, this is good news.

However, compared to the current situation, Tang Feng, who should have been the top priority, has become less important.

The most important thing at the moment is why Hua Lao did this and why did he apologize to himself?

This is what Chen Ze is currently focusing on.

He always felt that he had missed something, otherwise it would not explain why after everyone evacuated the City Lord's Mansion, Mr. Hua suddenly gave a hint, allowing Chen Ze to discover the key.

So, why?

He looked at Mr. Hua.

But Mr. Hua had a bitter look on his face and seemed to have no intention of speaking.

"Mr. Hua?"

In desperation, Chen Ze could only take the initiative to speak and said hesitantly: "Do you... have any difficulties?"

He really didn't want to believe that Hua Lao, who had been helping him since he set foot in this world, would do something bad to him.

But looking at Hua Lao's face, it seems...

"Since you get along well with Meng Yang and the others, do you think you know what happened five years ago?"

Mr. Hua shook his head and finally spoke.

But Chen Ze was stunned.

Is this incident actually related to five years ago?

Chen Ze knew what happened five years ago through Meng Yang and Guo Zi's explanation, and he had analyzed it at that time and lamented what Hua Lao had experienced.
Chapter completed!