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

Gu Qingzhi's guess was accurate, so she wrapped the wound tightly with gauze and tried to dry her hair. Zuo Chengyu then led the palace troops to surround the back hall of the villa.

Feng Zhanye took a deep breath and opened the door.

Seeing the black mass of government troops standing at the gate, holding torches and looking aggressive, he looked at Zuo Chengyu with displeasure.

"What is Master Zuo going to do?"

Zuo Chengyu still had that hypocritical smile on his face: "Relax, I'm not here to make trouble for you today, but there are thieves in the prime minister's residence, I want to ask Zhan Ye if you have seen them?"

Feng Zhanye's face was stern, and he said teasingly, "Just now you and I were discussing matters together in the room of the Left Prime Minister. Do you think that I have another pair of eyes in the other courtyard?"

Zuo Chengyu did not feel that he was choked by him, but shook his head: "You misunderstood, but some soldiers from the government saw the thief running towards the other courtyard, so I brought them here to ask."

Feng Zhanye was unmoved: "Master Zuo, do you suspect that the thief has something to do with me?"

Zuo Chengyu waved his hands and said, "Hey, Zhan Ye, what are you talking about? I'm just worried that the thief hiding here with you might hurt you again. After all, that person killed more than a dozen of our soldiers, so he must be a vicious person."

His eyes were always on Feng Zhanye, trying to find some flaws on his face.

Unfortunately, under the training of this big family, Feng Zhanye has long since stopped showing his emotions on his face. Even if he looked carefully, he could not see anything unusual.

Feng Zhanye knew what he was going to do. It was not the first time that the villa had been ransacked. Before he could speak, he said for him, "If Master Zuo is worried, just order someone to search."

He was so positive that he didn't seem to have anything to hide, but Zuo Chengyu was suspicious by nature and didn't intend to believe him.

He gestured behind him, and the palace troops dispersed and began searching the villa.

"Master, if she is a female thief, then the servants in the other courtyard should also..."

With the attitude of rather killing someone by mistake than letting him go, the commander of the palace army beside Zuo Chengyu glanced at Feng Zhanye and said nothing more, but his meaning was already very clear.

Zuo Chengyu nodded slightly and ordered: "Well, question them separately, don't let the thieves take advantage of the opportunity."

The man agreed and took a group of people to the courtyard where the two maids, Madam Liu and Qiu Jiang and Qiu Hong, were.

"Master, there is one guard missing."

A palace soldier came to report, and Zuo Chengyu looked thoughtfully at Gu Qingzhi who was following behind Feng Zhanye.

Although Gu Qingzhi's wound hurt, she tried her best to hold her breath and make her voice sound normal. She answered respectfully, "Your Highness just came back feeling unwell. Wu Fang went to the north of the city to invite a doctor. He will be back later."

Zuo Chengyu glanced at her suspiciously. Although he didn't believe a word the master and servant said, since the person who went out was a grown man, he had nothing to do with the female thief.

He said nothing more, just waiting for the results of the government troops' search.

However, what they waited for was a report from the palace army. Qiu Jiang, Qiu Hong and Madam Liu were searched by the maids in the main palace, but no wounds were found, and there was no sign of anyone hiding in the villa.

The result is obvious, nothing was gained.

Could it really be a thief in the prime minister's residence?

The servants who could enter the prime minister's residence had files kept by them, clearly stating how many people were in their family, what they did for a living, and where they lived.

The chance of a maid sneaking in out of nowhere is smaller than a man giving birth to a child.

The search came to a stalemate. Seeing Feng Zhanye sitting in the house as if nothing had happened, Gu Qingzhi also looked calm, but Zuo Chengyu's face became increasingly gloomy.

From the motive, he was almost certain that it must be someone from the other courtyard who did it, but no matter how well they hid it, there should be some clues. What exactly went wrong?

As he was thinking, he looked up and saw his servant coming from the direction of the main mansion.

The servant whispered in his ear, "Master, I have found out that Ah Qing was given a laxative and she is indeed not on duty today. Her sister Ah Yang did not leave the house at all tonight and has been taking care of her."

This once again proves that the thief disguised himself as a maid in order to impersonate someone else.

Since none of the girls in the other courtyard are like that, could it be that the maid is a grown man in disguise?

Zuo Chengyu was shocked by his own idea, but when he thought about it carefully, it was not impossible.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Gu Qingzhi. The more he looked, the more he felt that there was something going on. After a while, he smiled and said, "Little guard, come forward."

Gu Qingzhi felt that his smile had ill intentions, so she still took a few steps and came to him.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly reached out and punched her in the wound.

The punch was neither light nor heavy, but it made the wound, which had just begun to solidify, worse. The wound was torn again, and Gu Qingzhi stepped back violently in pain.

She could feel a wetness on her abdomen. If her clothes were not thick enough, the smell of blood would have spread out and exposed her.

She endured the severe pain, quickly tensed her body, and a layer of sweat broke out on her back.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Feng Zhanye stood up and stood in front of Gu Qingzhi.

"Why did you hit him!"

Zuo Chengyu wanted to see the expression on Gu Qingzhi's face through Feng Zhanye, but he saw her suddenly kneel down.

"I don't know how I have offended you, sir. Please let me know."

She tried her best to endure the pain, lowered her head to hide the paleness on her face, and then she made a normal sound.

Zuo Chengyu couldn’t see Gu Qingzhi’s expression clearly, but Feng Zhanye’s sudden reaction made him vaguely feel that he was on the right track.

"Why are you so nervous? Little guard, my punch just now shouldn't have been heavy, right? When you were competing with Cheng Ran, I remember you were very powerful."

Zuo Chengyu glanced at Feng Zhanye teasingly, then took a step to the side, intending to get closer to see her reaction carefully.

Gu Qingzhi was barely able to bear the pain and was unable to speak normally for a while. Feng Zhanye also noticed that something was wrong with her and quickly stood in front of her.

"It's been so long since this happened, and Master Zuo has punished him before, so why is he bringing it up today?"

The smile in Zuo Chengyu's eyes faded a little, and he looked into the alert eyes of the young man in front of him. He was so nervous, which could only mean that he guessed right.

His expression relaxed instead. Now that he knew who the thief was, he was no longer in a hurry.

"It's not impossible for a man to dress up as a woman. Who was the one with the knife wound, you or him? Why don't you take off your shirt and prove your innocence?"

Zuo Chengyu remembered that Feng Zhanye had tricked him in the incident with Marquis Guang'an that day. Now was a good opportunity for revenge, so he naturally would not let it go.

Upon hearing this, the two palace soldiers stepped forward consciously and stood on both sides of Feng Zhanye, ready to carry out Zuo Chengyu's orders at any time.

The young man's face gradually turned pale. A group of palace soldiers stood in the yard, and so many pairs of eyes were waiting for his reaction.

"Since Master Zuo is suspicious, I have nothing to say."

Without any hesitation, he stretched out his arms and allowed the two soldiers to untie his belt and take off his outer robe.

It was a freezing cold night, and the boy's white undershirt was as thin as a piece of paper, but the two men still did not intend to let him go and still reached out to untie his belt.

A hand suddenly pulled out a palace soldier's sword, and a cold light flashed. Before everyone could see the situation clearly, they saw a few drops of bright red suddenly falling on the ground behind Feng Zhanye.

Gu Qingzhi had already grabbed the long sword and stabbed it fiercely into the wound on his abdomen, leaving two symmetrical bloody holes in front and back.

Blood dripped down the blade, and the face, which was already pale to begin with, turned even paler.

Everyone present was stunned. No one understood why she wanted to stab herself.

"Azhi!"

Feng Zhanye was the first to see the situation clearly. He shook off the two palace soldiers, turned around and supported Gu Qingzhi, his face full of shock.

She hadn't been injured so badly in a long time. The pain seeped into her limbs and invaded her mind, almost swallowing her whole.

Gu Qingzhi forced himself to kneel on the ground and suddenly pulled out the sword.

"I know... if the young master doesn't bring the thief back... I won't be able to report to Lord Left Prime Minister." Gu Qingzhi's voice became weaker and weaker, and she fell into Feng Zhanye's arms.

The young man anxiously covered the wound on her abdomen. Blood flowed from between his fingers, burning his fingers.

"Your Highness is innocent... I am willing to take all the blame... Please let Your Highness go."

Gu Qingzhi looked at Zuo Chengyu and finished speaking.

"what!"

Zuo Chengyu was so angry that he laughed. He never thought that she would destroy the evidence in this way.

He stabbed himself in front of so many people. If he really took her back, how could he explain to his father?

"Okay, okay, what a deep love between master and servant."

He clapped his hands and laughed a more sinister smile than ever before, but he was helpless. He took a deep look at the two people on the ground and walked away.