As he spoke, the man suddenly looked toward the shadows beside him.
He chuckled softly. "Yao Yulou, truly, one may search everywhere in worn-out iron shoes and find nothing, yet gain it without the slightest effort. I followed your wife out and actually found Xiu Hanzhi. Hahaha."
This person was naturally the sinister middle-aged envoy Yao Yulou had seen the previous night.
He had not left the Yao Residence last night. Instead, he had remained hidden, watching Yao Yulou and Jiang Wanyou. Then, when he discovered Jiang Wanyou leaving the house, he quietly followed her with the mindset of giving it a try.
Unexpectedly, he had directly run into Xiu Hanzhi, the man their lord wanted. This luck was simply explosively good.
"I truly suspect that you already knew Xiu Hanzhi's whereabouts. I truly suspect just how much loyalty you still hold toward our lord."
As he spoke, the middle-aged envoy looked into the darkness again.
The first time he followed Jiang Wanyou, he had discovered a super-fat fish. Yet Yao Yulou, who had been married to Jiang Wanyou for more than a decade, had discovered nothing at all. How could that not arouse suspicion?
The darkness remained completely silent, as though it disdained to answer.
"In a while, you will keep He Congsheng tied down. Remember this: even if you die in battle, you must hold him down for me."
The middle-aged envoy spoke coldly into the shadows again.
Though Yao Yulou was suspected of betraying their lord, the middle-aged envoy did not care. Yao Yulou's life was in his hands, and so were the lives of Yao Yuzhi and Jiang Wanyou.
Besides, Yao Yulou was far from being his match.
Yet he alone could not defeat Old He. With the situation so urgent, he could not find any