Rebirth: The flatterer prince I raised couldn't be so clingy

Yuan Jie is the person who is most familiar with Gu Qingzhi's abilities, and almost all of her abilities come from him.

Gu Qingzhi's current skills are naturally incomparable to her sixteen-year-old self in her previous life, but she cannot explain to Yuan Jie why she has become stronger.

The more Yuan Jie understood her, the more the guilt in her heart spread.

"What? Are you not used to not spilling a few drops of wine on you?"

Gu Qingzhi held her temper and retorted to him, then took the wine bowl handed to her by Yuan Jie, picked up the wine jar beside her, filled a bowl with it, and drank it down with her head tilted back.

The clear wine mixed with the rich malt aroma exploded between the lips and teeth, and then the throat began to feel hot, and the pain in the heart was no longer so severe.

"What a waste! How can you drink like that!" Yuan Jie snatched the wine bowl from her hand distressedly and held it in his arms like a treasure. "This wine needs to be savored carefully, do you understand?"

Gu Qingzhi rolled her eyes. It was obvious that some people drank faster than her just now, and they still had the nerve to scold her.

Gu Qingzhi pulled two white radishes from the ground and made a cold dish. The master and disciple drank two more cups of wine with the side dishes, and they were in high spirits.

"How are the market conditions these days? From the tone Old Qin used a while ago, have you stolen his business again?" Gu Qingzhi drank little, only warming himself with strong liquor, and asked while taking small sips.

Yuan Jie picked up a piece of radish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth, looking up proudly, "Of course! Who made his subordinates dawdle?"

Gu Qingzhi curled her lips and whispered, "No wonder."

My master and Old Man Qin are from the same industry, but Yuan Jie focuses on recruiting elite assassins, while Old Man Qin focuses more on quantity; Yuan Jie acts in secret, while Old Man Qin acts in the light.

As the two of them knew each other for a long time, their relationship evolved from simple competition to that of both enemies and friends.

"Hehe, your master is much better than him. The four people under me are now famous in the industry. Only you are already famous, but you are lazy and have done nothing for two months."

Yuan Jie was extremely proud. While talking about his own great achievements, he did not forget to poke Gu Qingzhi in the spine.

Gu Qingzhi could only smile bitterly and drink in silence. In her previous life, she was the number one assassin known to everyone in Kyoto, but what was the use? In the end, she only brought disaster to herself and the people around her.

"I remember that a few years ago, when you were still practicing with me, you were very diligent. Whenever Feng Ping saw the injuries on your body, he would hide and cry out of pain. A few days later, he went to the city to kowtow and worship a master to learn medicine."

Yuan Jie seemed to be happy after drinking. He stared at the beams and recalled Gu Qingzhi's childhood. There was a tenderness in his eyes.

Gu Qingzhi felt her nose sore when she saw him like that. She couldn't bear to hear him say that, so she interrupted him quickly, "Okay, why are you still being so pretentious?"

Although she said so, she couldn't help but recall the time when she and her brother first came to Pingjiao Town. They were really poor at that time, so poor that they had to beg on the streets out of hunger. If it weren't for Yuan Jie's help, perhaps the two siblings would have starved to death on the streets.

He was Gu Qingzhi's master, and the person to whom she could never repay her gratitude in her entire life. Because of this, her heart ached when she thought about how he worried about her in her previous life, but ended up dying without a trace.

"Master, have you...come into contact with Zuo Xiang's people recently?"

Gu Qingzhi closed her sore eyes and asked the purpose of this trip.

Yuan Jie couldn't help but feel puzzled when he heard the name, and asked her curiously: "Zuo Xiang? How could I have any connection with those big shots? Why are you asking this?"

Gu Qingzhi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw his reaction. At this time in the previous life, in order to make better use of the assassin Lan Zhou, Zuo Chengyu specially invited Yuan Jie to collect information for her and investigate the assassination target.

As expected, Yuan Jie was also blinded by the good reputation and sincere attitude of the Zuo father and son, and agreed to work for them.

With the previous experience of the Yuzhou governor, Gu Qingzhi was worried that Yuan Jie would follow the same path as in his previous life. After thinking for a moment, she found a reason that was relatively convincing to him.

"I was working as a guard in the Prime Minister's Mansion recently, and I accidentally offended Zuo Chengran, the second son of the Zuo family. He investigated me and reported it to Old Man Qin. His buddy told me about it, so I asked you."

Yuan Jie looked up in surprise, then realized something was wrong. He frowned, put down the wine cup in his hand, and looked at her seriously: "Tell the truth!"

"That's the truth." Everything Gu Qingzhi said was true, but she also knew that Yuan Jie should have heard something from her first sentence.

"Although I am old, I am not a fool. If you don't want to mobilize the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, how could you go in and investigate in person?" Yuan Jie revealed Gu Qingzhi's thoughts in one sentence.

Yes, how could it be possible to hide it from him?

"My good disciple, assassinating an important official of the court is not as easy as you think. Moreover, that man is the prime minister second only to the emperor. You can't be careless for a moment." Yuan Jie's worry was evident in his words.

Gu Qingzhi sighed inaudibly, smiled bitterly and shook her head, deciding to hide her true thoughts: "What are you thinking? He's just a steward in the prime minister's mansion who takes people's lives lightly."

"Really?" Yuan Jie was suspicious.

"Really." Gu Qingzhi nodded helplessly.

"You little brat, you scared me so much that I couldn't even drink my wine properly!" Yuan Jie glared at Gu Qingzhi, relaxed his brows, picked up the wine bowl and started drinking.

"I just want to inform you not to pay attention to anyone from the Prime Minister's Mansion. If I fight to the death with my own family, old man Qin will laugh at you to death if the news gets out."

Yuan Jie curled his lips: "No wonder his men smiled at me when they came to give me the money that day. I knew he was full of bad intentions!"

The master and the disciple drank for a while and finally felt satisfied.

"If you have any message, just ask Old Man Qin to pass it on. Why did you come here?"

After eating and drinking his fill, Yuan Jie sat at the door with his sharp eyes fixed on the bag that Gu Qingzhi brought into the house.

Gu Qingzhi pursed her lips, picked up the bag and threw it to him, "I bought you winter clothes and shoes out of kindness, and this is your attitude?"

Yuan Jie's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he chuckled as he untied the bag and put on his heavy winter clothes. Gu Qingzhi knew that he had one arm and it was inconvenient for him to wear the clothes, so she helped him try on the clothes.

"You are worthy of being my good disciple, so filial!" Yuan Jie swayed left and right, touching the winter clothes with his mouth almost grinning from ear to ear.

"Come and have a look, my apprentice bought me new winter clothes..."

Before he could finish his words, Yuan Jie's mouth was tightly covered by Gu Qingzhi.

This old man is becoming more and more outrageous. He has to call all the neighbors over just to watch her deal with their enthusiasm awkwardly.

Sure enough, several families nearby opened their doors and came out.

"Hey! Qingzhi is back!"

"Little girl Qingzhi is back?"

"How is Miss Qingzhi these days?"

Gu Qingzhi felt her scalp tingling when she saw the good things Yuan Jie had done. She glanced at the culprit beside her and could only force a smile to greet a few old acquaintances.

After Uncle Zhang, Aunt Li, and Sister Zhao exchanged greetings, she turned around and saw Yuan Jie looking at her as if he was enjoying a good show. Gu Qingzhi could only glare at him.

These people were not the most enthusiastic. The most difficult one was Aunt Wang from next door, who held Gu Qingzhi's hand across the fence and refused to let go.

"Our Qingzhi is finally back! Come and let Auntie take a good look at her. Why has she lost weight recently? This girl is in her prime, so she should eat more."

Gu Qingzhi didn't even need to reply, she just said "hmm" a few times perfunctorily, and Aunt Wang started talking nonstop again.