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

Gu Qingzhi turned and left the pavilion in the middle of the lake, walking slowly towards the backyard.

Pei Xie waited for a moment and stood up naturally.

"I'm a little tired from sitting here. I'm going to the lake to get some fresh air." He nodded slightly to Feng Zhanye and Gao Ye, his tone calm and composed.

Gao Ye was excitedly describing to Feng Zhanye how he had obtained the "Broken Jade Spring". Upon hearing this, he casually waved his hand.

On the way back with the wine utensils, Gu Qingzhi deliberately slowed down her pace. She heard a slight noise in the woods by the lake. She turned around and saw a small stone flying accurately at her feet.

She looked around to make sure there was no one around and headed into the woods.

A figure was lazily leaning against a big tree, and turned back when he heard footsteps.

"Senior sister, your hearing is still as good as ever. You noticed the slightest movement."

Gu Qingzhi raised her eyes slightly, "You are not bad either, you are good at using hidden weapons - Nan Ke."

It seemed like he hadn't heard this name for a long time. Pei Xie grinned, put his hands in his pockets and looked her up and down with interest.

"Oh, who would have thought that the famous Lan Zhou would be content to stay in the palace as a servant serving tea and water? Senior Sister, what are you thinking? Does he know who you are?"

In Changyi Casino, if we were to say who are the hardest people to hire, they would definitely be the four disciples of Yuanjie's lineage.

First of all, there is Lan Zhou, who became famous the earliest and is still the benchmark for all Kyoto assassins.

Next is Nan Ke, an extremely terrifying hidden weapon. Everything depends on his mood. You must have a clear conscience when asking him to do something, otherwise you may end up with a bounty on your enemy and both you and him will suffer losses.

Who would have thought that two of the four people, each with a higher price than the other, would be teasing each other.

Gu Qingzhi was too lazy to beat around the bush with him and put the wine utensils in his hands.

"You're not much better. Aren't you also working for Gao Ye? Does he know?"

Pei Xie frantically gathered the thrown wine utensils into his arms. After he had secured them firmly, he heaved a sigh of relief and smacked his lips, "Master let Huang Liang and me go. I'm doing this just to earn enough money to eat!"

"Nothing good, no early rise."

Gu Qingzhi didn't believe it and glanced at him.

"Same words to you."

The senior sister and the junior brother were bickering as usual, but Gu Qingzhi felt that this feeling had been long since she had felt it.

When she drowned in her previous life, these people had disappeared for a long time. However, Yuan Jie was killed by Zuo Xiang and his son, and she herself was imprisoned, so she could not be sure whether they were also implicated.

Now that he saw Pei Xie standing in front of him in good health, the guilt buried deep in his heart eased a little.

At least this time, the choice she made did not harm them for the time being, but she still felt uneasy unless she kept them all under her own supervision.

"How's the Master doing lately?"

Gu Qingzhi found a tree to lean against, put her hands in her pockets and asked him casually.

"Same old style, he appears and disappears all day long. Only Hua Xu knows where he is. He asked Huang Liang and me to guard the opening, but he just threw it away after using it. How wicked!"

Pei Xie pouted and spat secretly, but Gu Qingzhi caught the key point.

"So both of you are alright now?"

"Yeah, the recent bounty offered by the gambling house is both low and extremely boring. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so idle as to be someone's retainer, right?"

Pei Xie raised his hand out of boredom, and the set of exquisite and luxurious glass wine utensils in his hand flew into the air, and was caught steadily by his other hand.

He was weighing the value of this thing and vaguely felt that someone was looking at him.

When he raised his eyelids, Gu Qingzhi was carefully examining him from head to toe.

"Why? I won't sell myself unless you pay me enough."

He covered his chest in a threatening manner, looking alert.

Gu Qingzhi glanced at him speechlessly: "The palace is short of a team of secret guards. If you have nothing to do, why not come and help me."

"A monthly salary of ten taels, otherwise, no discussion."

"Why don't you go and rob..."

Gu Qingzhi held her forehead helplessly. She could guess that he would ask for a lot, but she didn't expect it to be so big.

She hasn't discussed this matter with Feng Zhanye yet. After all, she's not the one paying, so it's not easy for her to make the decision directly.

"Look, Senior Sister, I finally found a leisurely job. Gao Ye is a man who pays generously and doesn't ask many questions. It's rare that he suits my taste. If you want to poach me, you have to increase the salary, right? Ten taels is quite a bargain."

Gu Qingzhi felt that describing him as "nothing for nothing" was too polite.

"Forget it, let's talk about this later."

She took out a piece of paper from her bosom and handed it to Pei Xie, then took the wine utensils from his hands.

"When you have time, please send this to Old Man Qin and ask him to check it out for me."

"What is so mysterious?"

Pei Xie took it, looking gossipy.

Gu Qingzhi raised her chin, indicating that he could open it.

It was a rubbing that she had recently spent some time making, and it contained the contents of the silk she had previously obtained from the old man in the dungeon.

I thought Pei Xie would just take a look, and put it in his arms if he didn't understand, and I promised her to be done with it. But I didn't expect that this usually cheerful man would read it very seriously, and even the hand holding the paper began to tremble unconsciously.

He suddenly turned the paper towards Gu Qingzhi, staring at her like a hawk, and pointed at one of the patterns on it.

"This one says 'Snake Head' on it. What does it mean?"

In Gu Qingzhi's impression, he rarely had such moments. Most of the time, he was lazy, cynical, and didn't care about anything.

She looked at the pattern on his finger, it was the "Snake Head Card".

"Why, have you seen it?"

She had a vague feeling about this and asked.

"More than just seeing it, it left a deep impression on me..."

He grinned, revealing a row of sharp white teeth, his smile was full of coldness, and his hand seemed to accidentally brush across the scar on his neck that was covered by the necklace.

Gu Qingzhi did not intend to hide it, nor was there any need to hide it. For those who were in the dark, the more they knew, the more ways they would be able to deal with it. What they feared most was that like in the previous life, they would be wiped out silently by Zuo Xiang and his son without knowing anything.

"This is something from the Black Serpent Head, an organization I'm investigating. You saw it, maybe on a badge, right?"

"Yes." Pei Xie nodded. "I saw it on the night my family was destroyed. It was hanging on the waist of the man in black who set fire to my family."

Gu Qingzhi probably knew about Pei Xie's past from Yuan Jie, but she didn't expect that this matter would be related to the Black Snake Head.

"Are you saying that it was the person with the Black Serpent Chief Card who wiped out your entire family?"

"That's the only clue. I won't make a mistake."

Pei Xie's expression had changed from before, never been so serious and cold. This matter was probably what he cared about most in his life. Now that he had found a clue from Gu Qingzhi, he naturally would not let it go.

"Are you in charge of the secret guards at Prince Duan's mansion?"

"Yes."

"Your purpose here is to find out the truth?"

"Correct."

"I'll join."