The huge house was occupied by Gongsun Lin alone, but there were more than a dozen servants, mostly locals. At her command, the kitchen began to bustle with activity. Lu Mo did not go to rest, but instead surveyed the surroundings. He always did this when he arrived in an unfamiliar place.

"Don't worry, these servants were all carefully selected, there won't be any problems." Gongsun Lin felt that Lu Mo was making a fuss over nothing.

She personally selected all these people and strictly vetted them from beginning to end. How could there be any problems? Does Lu Mo not trust her?

"Better safe than sorry!"

Lu Mo didn't stop. To be honest, he didn't trust this girl's judgment. If she wasn't even very bright, how good could her judgment be?

Now that he and Qingqing are on Julie's territory, they have to be careful in everything they do. If these servants have Julie's spies, their whereabouts will be completely exposed. Not to mention dealing with Julie, they might even have trouble getting back.

Gongsun Lin pouted sullenly. If it weren't for wanting to learn Lu Mo's kung fu, she would have beaten him up long ago with her fiery temper. How dare he doubt her!

Lu Mo carefully checked the house and found no problems, but he still dared not let his guard down. He went to the courtyard outside, and soon Lu Mo's shouts were heard. Ye Qingqing was startled and rushed over with Gongsun Lin.

A dark-skinned, short man was grabbed by the collar by Lu Mo and hopped around in mid-air like a frog, yelling loudly. When he saw Gongsun Lin, he started talking in the local dialect, which Ye Qingqing couldn't understand at all.

Gongsun Lin asked Lu Mo, "He's my gardener, why are you arresting him?"

“He’s a female spy; he was just trying to go out and report something,” Lu Mo said coldly.

“You’ve misunderstood. He went out to buy tools, not to tip off anyone. He’s worked for me for three years. He’s a very honest man. He wouldn’t be a spy,” Gongsun Lin explained, feeling that Lu Mo was making a mountain out of a molehill.

Although the gardener was not particularly handsome, he was very skilled at growing flowers and kept her flowerbeds very beautiful. Moreover, the gardener was not good at talking and would not say more than three words from morning to night. He just kept his head down and worked. Gongsun Lin had a good impression of the gardener.

"My brother is absolutely certain he's a spy. It's almost dark now, what kind of tools did he go out to buy? He can't just go buy them tomorrow morning, are you stupid?" Ye Qingqing rolled her eyes in annoyance.

With that level of intelligence, he's not even as smart as Julie's toes. He'd be more than capable of saving Basha; he'd probably get himself into trouble too.

Gongsun Lin was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the sky. It was indeed getting dark. Only then did her IQ come to a head. She glared coldly at the gardener, her eyes filled with murderous intent, and shouted, "Who sent you? If you don't tell the truth, I'll chop off your claws!"

He pulled out a gleaming dagger from somewhere and held it to the gardener's hand. For craftsmen, their hands are their life; without hands, they would starve to death. The gardener's face turned deathly pale, and he broke out in a cold sweat, but he still refused to speak.

“Tell him that if he doesn’t confess, we’ll make his brother a transvestite!” Lu Mo suggested.

Gongsun Lin was stunned for a moment, then repeated it in the local language. The gardener's face turned even paler, and he looked desperate. Before long, he confessed everything. He had indeed gone to inform the others, but the master he contacted was not Julie, but a local ruffian named Black Tiger, who was very powerful in the capital.

It was Hei Hu who arranged for him to work as a gardener for Gongsun Lin. For the past three years, he has been reporting Gongsun Lin's every move to Hei Hu.

I'll kill you!

Enraged, Gongsun Lin raised her knife, intending to sever the man's neck. What she hated most was being controlled and monitored; otherwise, she wouldn't have lived alone in a foreign country all this way.