After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

The guard was still the most keen to detect someone coming. He took a look outside the window and confirmed that it was the friend he was looking for before giving him guidance and letting him follow the mechanism directly to the top floor.

Then the man just came up and knocked on the guard's head without saying a word, and said cursingly: "Well, you brat, you have been back in the capital for so many years and have refused to give any news. Want to hide from me forever?!"

The man's voice was a bit vicissitudes, and it sounded like an older person, but because he hadn't walked into the house, Qi Zizhen couldn't see his appearance clearly for a while, and could only vaguely see the man's white hair under the moonlight.

He turned his head and looked at Qin Gong, and finally decided to get up and walk to the door. When the guard was holding his forehead and felt aggrieved, he inserted it in time. Shi Shiran bowed his hands and saluted: "Senior Guian, are you the guard's friend?"

Perhaps because he was concerned about the presence of outsiders, the old man glared at the guard and snorted softly: "What friend, I am his master, and he introduced me like this in front of you?"

Qi Zizhen turned slightly sideways without any trace, half blocked in front of the guard, and respectfully said: "The junior doesn't know the identity of the senior, so he is at a loss. Maybe the guard just doesn't want to expose the identity of the senior easily, and I hope that the senior will not blame him."

With Qi Zizhen's protection, the guard quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, I just don't want to expose your identity, Master."

"Shut up the traitor, you're disturbing my mood." The old man glared at him again, and he could only shut up aggrieved and guilty.

The old man seemed to be satisfied with this, and he was ready to talk about the business, asking: "Where is your national teacher?"

Qi Zizhen raised his eyes to look at him, his expression was clear but not cold, and his posture was respectful but not humble: "It's the junior."

The old man let out a soft "Hey" and became a little surprised: "When did the national teacher become a child?"

Qi Zizhen couldn't figure out what was going on in his mind, he nodded slightly with his eyes closed, and replied, "I'm not just a junior, I only succeeded when the new emperor ascended the throne last year."

"What?!" The old man looked even more surprised when he heard his answer: "The new emperor has ascended the throne?"

Qi Zizhen: "..."

guard:"……"

Guard: "Master, please don't be ashamed."

The old man seemed to realize his gaffe just now, and he didn't even care about what the guard said. After coughing lightly, he forcibly brought the topic back, took out a small paper bag and handed it to Qi Zizhen: "This is found in the incense burner in the room surnamed Zhu. Incense ash."

Qi Zizhen was brought back to his thoughts by the pack of incense ashes, and there was some surprise in his eyes. After carefully taking the incense ashes, he quickly thanked: "Ah, senior actually got it, it's amazing, thank you senior!"

In front of the old man, he was still quite young, and his body was thinner than ordinary people. He had a cold appearance at first, but he said a sudden compliment in an extremely natural and sincere way.

It's like a serious child pretending to be an adult, but he couldn't help showing pure joy when he got what he wanted, and he had to suppress his emotions because of his status.

Looking cute, sensible and lively.

The other three people who knew his character couldn't help admiring in their hearts.

As expected of being selected as a national teacher, the ability to fool people is really amazing.

The old man didn't know the inside story. When he was old, he was always prone to have a preference for sensible and good-looking children, and his attitude was much gentler than when he first came.

And Qi Zizhen, who took the incense ashes, seemed to suddenly realize that it was too impolite to receive seniors on the balcony, so he restrained his unintentionally exposed emotions just now, and invited the old man into the room with an elegant appearance to rest for a while.

The old man didn't refuse either. He took off his shoes and socks on the balcony and walked into the National Teacher Tower at his invitation.

Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong also imitated Qi Zizhen's appearance and greeted him obediently, cleaned up the wine jar on the table, and poured a cup of warm tea for the old man.

Qi Zizhen also handed the incense ash to Qin Gong after the old man sat down, and asked him to try to identify it.

After Qin Gong nodded, he took it and walked to a windless corner to identify it.

During this process, Qi Zizhen returned to the table and wanted to ask the old man if he had any other discoveries.

After pondering for a while, the old man said: "I have carefully checked the rest of the room, but I didn't find anything unusual for the time being. It's just that before I left, I saw a woman coming in, who seemed to have walked towards the incense burner, and put the remaining incense ash Take them all away."

woman?

Qi Zizhen frowned, and suddenly thought of Zhu Fengyu's wife who ran to the gate of the palace to make trouble in the morning, and asked, "Did I ask if you noticed the characteristics of that woman?"

The old man shook his head: "The room was very dark at the time, and I was hiding in a low place, only to see that the shoes she was wearing seemed to be embroidered with patterns of pear blossoms."

Qi Zizhen's eyes showed regret, but he didn't say much, and then asked about other things: "Then senior, did you notice any discomfort? If there is something wrong with the incense ash, this junior is worried that there will be poison left in the room. And implicate the seniors."

His words were full of sincerity, and the old man had already seen such reminders from the guards in their letters. He waved his hands when he heard the words: "Don't worry, the world is dangerous. It's not without reason that I can still live to this age."

The guard at the side also interjected at this moment: "Young Master Qi, don't worry, my master can't do anything, and life-saving is the absolute priority..."

Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by the cold eyes of the old man. He quickly completed the word "one" and made a gesture to shut up obediently.

Qi Zizhen looked at their interaction with a more relaxed expression than before: "It seems that the relationship between the senior and the guards is very good."

The old man snorted softly: "I haven't heard from you for more than 20 years, so I don't have a good relationship with such a villain."

It sounds like children are quarreling because each other ignores them, so cute.

Seeing the guard sitting on the side, Qi Zizhen raised his hand and poured himself a cup of tea, and said gently: "The guards usually value love and righteousness, maybe they are bound by other things."

Hearing Qi Zizhen defending himself, the guard quickly responded: "Yes, yes, I also have a reason. The Wei family saved my life before, of course I must repay it."

The old man's expression was still not very good: "Then I'm even more curious. As the No. 1 life-saving apprentice under my command, why, who else can be bullied to the point of dying?"

"Well..." The guard scratched his cheek uncomfortably, and looked away, "You, you guess?"

"I guess your size." Without saying a word, the old man slapped him on the forehead. The guard had no choice but to shrink back in aggrieved manner. At the same time, he fully realized what it means to speak out, and shut his mouth peacefully again.

Qi Zizhen roughly guessed how their master and apprentice get along in daily life, so he didn't continue to dwell on this topic. After chatting briefly for a while, he respectfully watched the old man leave from the place where he came up.

The guard who sat honestly for most of the day was greatly relieved, and suddenly recovered from a listless state to a state of radiance.

Just at this moment, Qin Gong came out from the corner, refolded the paper wrapped in the incense ash, and gently placed it in front of Qi Zizhen, with his head half down, looking not very good.

Seeing this, Qi Zizhen frowned slightly, and asked with some concern: "You don't look very well, could it be that there is still poison in the incense ash, which has affected you?"

Qin Gong shook his head: "I have been trained since I was young, ordinary poisonous powder and medicine powder are ineffective for me, I just..."

When he said this, he paused again, biting his lip slightly, as if he didn't know whether to continue talking.

Seeing his appearance, Qi Zizhen didn't speak again, waiting for him to finish his entanglement.

After a long while, Qin Gong closed his eyes and decided to tell the story: "I just realized that this Gu □□ is a bit special, and there is only one person who can make this formula."

"That person is my aunt."

When he said the last sentence, Qin Gong lowered his voice slightly.

Qi Zizhen was taken aback: "Your aunt?"

Tang Leyuan, who was originally sitting on the other side, also seemed unbelievable, and came over and asked, "Are you sure it's your aunt? Is it possible it's someone else?"

Qin Gong shook his head: "I don't know. But I didn't know this formula because once before, my aunt wanted to murder my uncle, and my mother inadvertently noticed that there was something wrong with the spices. Later, my mother So I secretly included my aunt's formula in the forbidden art recipe that we have passed down from generation to generation."

That is to say, his aunt herself has a criminal record of harming others, and it is not impossible if that foreign woman is really her.

Qi Zizhen frowned, and asked again: "Then has your aunt ever left your village before?"

Qin Gong nodded, and briefly talked about the past stories he heard from his mother.

Qin Gong's aunt is actually an orphan picked up by Qin Gong's grandfather outside. Since his grandfather is busy all year round and has no time to take care of her, Uncle Qin Gong, who is the elder brother of this aunt, takes care of her most of the time.

After the aunt grew up, she developed a heart of admiration for the uncle. After the uncle noticed it, he clearly rejected her, saying that he only regarded her as a younger sister.From love to hatred, the aunt wanted to poison the uncle, but Qin Gong's mother noticed it in advance.

After this incident was discovered, my aunt cried again and said that she was just obsessed with ghosts, so my grandfather just locked her in his room and grounded her.

Just during this time, the uncle passed the imperial examination and became a child student, so he left the village on the grounds of taking part in the imperial examination.

My aunt heard about this after the confinement ended, and she quietly left within a few days.Since then, both of them have never returned to the village.

At first, the uncle would write letters back from time to time, but since he arrived in the capital, there has been no news.

Speaking of this, Qin Gong lowered his eyes, and his voice became a little low: "I entered Beijing to join the army. Apart from my own ambitions, I was entrusted by my father to see if I could find news about my uncle. I didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, his last dark breath was related to his aunt whom he loved and hated.

The author has something to say: Uncle has appeared before, guess who he is ww

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I just finished the fourth exam today, and there are five more exams to come, so if there is a cute little one who voted for the nutrient solution and didn’t thank you, it’s probably because the stupid author fainted and forgot qwq (I’m talking about me yesterday orz)

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Thanks to [an arctic rabbit], [lemon extract], [jasmine xiaohuang twist], [Mu Qing] for the nutrient solution mua~

Thank you [Mu Qing] for mine mua~