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

After Feng Zhanye had dinner, Gu Qingzhi and Wu Fang agreed on changing shifts between morning and evening. After a night of hard work, they could finally take a break.

She had long been accustomed to such a life of sleeping during the day and going out at night, but she was not very sleepy at the moment. After thinking about it, she realized that there were still many things to do, the most important of which was to confirm that her brother was still alive.

Just now, Aunt Qiruo said that there were palace soldiers patrolling outside the courtyard, but fortunately there were only two teams, so there were always some places that were not taken care of.

In order to avoid trouble, Gu Qingzhi chose to climb over the wall from a remote place, and in a short while she arrived at Wutong Lane.

Wutong Lane, as its name suggests, has a huge old sycamore tree planted at the entrance of the lane.

Although the alley is bustling with children playing everywhere and looking peaceful, once you go inside you will run into many people dressed strangely, some with their faces covered, some wearing masks, and some simply covering their entire bodies with hats.

This is where Gu Qingzhi and her brother live, and it is also the area where assassins from the entire Kyoto are active.

She did not go home, but turned quickly and familiarly into an unknown alley and climbed into a yard along the wall of the dead end at the end of the alley.

This is the backyard of Changyi Casino.

Gu Fengping will visit the owner of Changyi Casino today for a consultation, and this is where all the Kyoto assassins are commanded.

The bustling casino in the front yard does not affect the tranquility here at all.

Old man Qin was sitting in the yard, sipping tea with his eyes closed. A gentle and humble fourteen-year-old boy was sitting next to him, busy applying medicine to the sores on his hands.

The old man was in good spirits and had sharp ears. He could even recognize the footsteps of a martial artist like Gu Qingzhi.

"Girl, you don't take the right path, did my back wall provoke you again?"

Gu Qingzhi thought she could act normal, but when the young figure and the scene of being killed on a rainy night overlapped, she couldn't help but choke up in her throat.

Seeing Gu Fengping sitting in front of her alive, she felt mixed emotions.

"What are you standing there for? Come and help me." Hearing Old Man Qin's voice, he raised his head and looked at her. Everything was normal.

Gu Qingzhi finally came to her senses and walked over to him to hand him some ointment.

Soon, Gu Fengping treated the sore on the old man's hand properly.

"Boss Qin, just change the dressing once a day. Sister, I'll wait for you outside."

Gu Fengping naturally knew that Gu Qingzhi came to see Old Man Qin for serious matters, so after he gave the doctor's instructions, he tactfully left the yard.

"It's really rare for you and your sister to appear at the same time." Old man Qin joked with a smile.

Gu Qingzhi calmed down and did not respond. Instead, she sat down opposite Old Man Qin without any hesitation and poured a cup of tea and drank it all in one gulp.

"Pay the money."

She went straight to the point, took out the stack of land deeds from yesterday and threw them on the stone table.

The old man raised his hand and called to the waiter beside him. The waiter took out a purse from his pocket and handed it to Gu Qingzhi, but she pushed it down.

"Wait a minute, you don't have to pay me, just sell me some information."

"Hey! Why are you still here to buy information from me? Did your master Yuan Jie, that old man, get mad at you?"

The old man glanced at her with his eyes slanted, but it was as if he was looking through her at someone else.

"You don't have to bully me with words. Just tell me whether you are willing to sell it or not."

Gu Qingzhi was no pushover either. She had been an assassin for several years since she was sixteen and had contributed a lot of money to the old man. Her master was familiar with him, so naturally there was no need for so many formalities.

"Of course we have to do the business of 'Lanzhou'. Otherwise, if you are unhappy, I will be killed by your sword."

Seeing the old man smiling as he moved the purse closer to his arms, Gu Qingzhi stopped talking nonsense and directly stated her request.

"A Yuzhou governor is coming to Kyoto to report on his work recently. Please keep an eye on his movements for me."

On this day in the previous life, Gu Qingzhi said the same thing to him, but at that time, the Governor of Yuzhou was the first assassination target assigned to her by the Left Prime Minister.

Now that everything has started over again, although Gu Qingzhi rejected their recruitment, she could not guarantee that the people she assassinated in the previous life would be safe. In order to obtain evidence of the father and son's crimes, she naturally had to investigate.

"This is not a difficult matter. It won't cost that much silver. The remaining money..." Old man Qin drank the tea leaves, smacked his lips and spit them out, rubbing his hands with a smile with shrewd wrinkles in his eyes.

"You keep half, and give the rest to Yuan Jie." Gu Qingzhi knew that even if she told him, Old Man Qin would most likely let him use his share to help the poor women and children in Wutong Lane.

This old man is like this. He is a local tyrant, but he is asked to do charity.

"No problem." The old man agreed happily.

Gu Qingzhi did not stay in Changyi Casino any longer, but followed Gu Fengping back to the clinic.

Gu Fengping went into the back hall and brought out two bowls of sugar water and fried dough twists. The brother and sister sat in front of the medicine cabinet and ate.

Such scenes might be common in ordinary families, but for these two siblings it was a rare moment of peace.

"Tell me, are you injured again and are you following me? Have you run out of ointment? Or do you want me to volunteer to save people again?"

After finishing his meal, Gu Fengping patted the fried dough residue on his hands and stood up to organize his medicine box.

Gu Qingzhi chewed on the crispy fried dough twist and softened her tone for the first time, "Nothing, I just came to see you."

"Do not believe."

Gu Fengping denied her without even raising his eyelids.

It’s no wonder that Gu Fengping didn’t believe it. She had been very busy in her previous life and had never taken care of him since she became an assassin.

Speaking of which, Gu Fengping might have grown up purely on his own. She was always injured as an assassin, so he took the initiative to go to the clinic to be an apprentice. She didn't even know when he learned to make these snacks.

Gu Qingzhi understood that she was always away from home for ten days or half a month, and the relationship between the siblings was probably like that. She was not a pretentious person, and she was satisfied to be able to confirm that Gu Fengping was safe.

Remembering that there was a sick child in the villa of the prime minister's mansion, he asked Gu Fengping for medicine.

"Then please get me two doses of medicine for the cold."

"Well, that's just right."

Gu Fengping muttered something casually, stepped on the stool and started rummaging around in the medicine cabinet, then packed three large bags of medicine and stuffed them into Gu Qingzhi's arms.

"Three times a day, one pack per day."

Then he rummaged through his medicine box and pulled out a strange-looking herb with a pungent bitter smell.

"This! Great stuff! I took great pains to pick it from the top of the mountain. It emerged from the ground in the middle of the night on a foggy day. This stuff is great for curing a stuffy nose. Just smell it a few times when you feel uncomfortable."

Seeing the golden light coming out of Gu Fengping's eyes, Gu Qingzhi knew that something bad was going to happen, and hesitantly reached out to take it.

"This is another herbal medicine you studied yourself. Why are you testing it on me? Maybe I'll get dizzy and nauseous again?"

"No, no, I've tried this myself. Even though it smells bad, it really works." In order to prove that the medicinal material is reliable, Gu Fengping even went up to sniff it himself.

Seeing that he was full of energy, Gu Qingzhi wrapped up the herbs and stuffed them into her arms with some doubt, comforting herself that no matter whether these things were useful or not, they were at least valuable.

My own brother risked his life to go up the mountain in heavy fog to pick them, and now I'm just giving them to him for free, so I can't refuse him.

It was almost noon, and Gu Qingzhi calculated that it was time for her to go back.

Before leaving, she couldn't help but remind him that if he encountered any problems, he could go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find her. This made Gu Fengping look strange, but he didn't say much and just agreed casually.