Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

"What should I do, Brother?"

It was just dawn and Wencai could no longer wait. He stood up from the steps at the door, walked back and forth, and looked at the silent forest.

Qiu Sheng stared at the table full of food that had already frozen cold, then sat up straight. "Let's go! Master probably hasn't found her yet. I think she might be there!"

Wencai came over and asked, "Where is it?"

Qiu Sheng thought for a moment, picked up Xiao Li's jar and put it in Xiao Yu's hand, "Hey, keep an eye on her, don't let her run away."

"Let's go! Let's go check on Aunt Sugar."

Wencai's eyes lit up, "Oh, that's right, why didn't I think of that, she and Zhe Gu are best friends."

……

Running all the way.

Qiu Sheng only saw Zhe Gu and not Jing Zhi.

"What about her?"

Zhe Gu blocked the fire with one hand and held the incense above the candle flame with the other hand to light it. She glanced at the anxious Qiu Sheng and said, "What's the point of you coming? Why doesn't your master come?"

When Qiu Sheng heard this, he knew in his heart that he had found the right place this time.

He hurried forward and began to pat Zhe Gu's back, saying with a wry smile:

"Oh, you know my master is clueless about relationships. I guess he's probably gone to his uncle to look for someone else."

Zhe Gu watched the spark on the incense burn out, then she slowly bowed a few times and inserted it into the incense burner.

Then she turned to the two young men who were staring at her eagerly and said, "I don't care. I'll only let her go if she apologizes."

"Oh!" Qiu Sheng scratched his head and hurriedly stepped forward to grab Zhe Gu who was about to go to the back hall. "It's definitely not what she said. You misunderstood."

"Okay then." Sugar Girl turned around, put her hands on her hips and asked:

"Did my senior brother kiss the female ghost mouth to mouth?"

Qiu Sheng choked, "Yes, but he——"

Zhe Gu raised her hand and made a pause gesture, "Did he take the initiative to kiss her?"

Qiu Sheng's head gradually drooped, "...Yes, but he didn't mean it."

Aunt Zhe spread her hands, sighed and said:

"Woman, no matter if he did it on purpose or not, as long as he really did it, she has the right to be angry."

"No matter how much you explain, it's useless. Just go."

Seeing his senior brother retreating in disgrace, Wencai thought about what he hadn't finished saying last night, gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly towards the backyard with his mouth closed:

"Master's Wife! My Master couldn't stand the coldness of the coffin fungus, so he kissed Xiaoli. He was careless! The second time Xiaoli tried to kiss him, he dodged and didn't get the kiss!"

Seeing that he was about to scream, Zhe Gu quickly covered his mouth and pushed him out, "You're going to die! She cried all night and just fell asleep. If she wants to call you, you have to wait until she calms down before calling you!"

Wencai broke free from her hand and looked inside again, "But..."

Zhe Gu pushed Qiu Sheng out the door as well, then closed the two doors. "Just think about it, if the woman you like told you that she kissed a man, but it wasn't intentional, what would you think? And it's when you're about to get married..."

After these words were spoken, Qiu Sheng and Wencai slowly put down their hands that were about to push the door open.

Qiu Sheng: "...Then you take good care of her."

After walking two steps into the alley, he turned back and said:

"My master's wife's physique is most likely to attract zombies, demons and other such things. You'd better keep a close eye on her and don't let her run around."

Zhe Gu rolled her eyes at him and said, "I know, hurry up and leave. It's so early in the morning and it's too noisy!"

After saying that, she closed the door, patted the incense ash on her hands, and turned around.

"Ouch, you scared me to death."

Zhe Gu patted her chest and gently twisted Jingzhi's waist.

"Why are you out here instead of sleeping?"

Jingzhi pointed outside the door with swollen eyes, "Wencai woke me up."

"I'm telling you." Zhe Gu muttered softly, quickly pulling Jingzhi towards the backyard, "Go to bed, go to bed. It's not even half an hour old, and you're already up. Look at your eyes, they're so ugly!"

Jingzhi looked back at the closed door and asked, "Aren't you going to open the temple today?"

Sugarcane Lady: "Even gods need to rest sometimes. I haven't rested this month, so I'll just take today as a day off."

Jingzhi looked at Zhegu's warm smile steadily, sniffing lightly with the tip of her nose. Suddenly, she frowned, held Zhegu's face and said:

"I'm not willing to give in. If he can kiss other women, I want to kiss other women too!"

Zhe Gu's face was filled with fear. She leaned back repeatedly, pushing Jingzhi's shoulders with both hands.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's not what I taught you. You should kiss other men!"

"Junior sister, what nonsense are you talking about!"

An angry shout reached their ears.

Zhe Gu looked back and found that it was Lin Jiu standing on the wall. She looked happy, but suddenly frowned.

"What nonsense are you talking about? You know exactly what you've done!"

Jingzhi glanced at Lin Jiu leisurely, then pinched Zhegu's chin and kissed her cheek hard.

Lin Jiu glared at Zhe Gu: "You! Let her go!"

"Eh—no, she took the initiative, not me! Oh, you guys—"

Zhe Gu covered her wet cheeks, and her usually eloquent mouth suddenly stuttered.

Seeing Lin Jiu's increasingly gloomy expression, Zhe Gu felt a chill on her neck.

She stomped her feet and struggled to break free from Jingzhi's shackles.

"Oh, I don't care! You guys chat among yourselves!"

After saying that, he ran to the backyard, leaving the two quarreling lovers standing facing each other.

To be precise, Lin Jiu was standing on the top of someone's wall, looking down at Jingzhi below.

As if she refused to admit defeat, she leaped straight up and flew to the roof, standing there and looking down at him.

He was wrong, and she couldn't lose her momentum.

"You go back," she said.

Lin Jiu looked at the bandaged wound on her hand and felt relieved.

He pulled out a small bottle of the same cold pine scented perfume from his bosom and looked up eagerly at Jingzhi who was bathing in the sun. "Come back with me, okay? I received the gift..."

Jingzhi turned her head aside, suppressing the heat that welled up in her eyes again, "I don't have any gifts. Even if you bring a hundred of the same things, it's not the one I want to give you..."

They... this is a lose-lose situation for both sides.

Lin Jiu lowered his hands dejectedly, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I made you sad again..."

Jingzhi: Is he too lazy to even explain?

Lin Jiu added: "I don't expect your forgiveness, I will show you."

He always remembered what she had said before.

Some things cannot just be said.

Do it with your heart.

After saying that, he put away the bottle of cold rosin, but took out a small translucent frosted glass bottle from his arms.

Jingzhi recognized it at a glance. It was the sandalwood-scented perfume that she had been debating whether to buy at the time.

"It's been so long, I... I'm stupid, I don't know what you like, I just know that you seem to like the smell of me, this... is for you."

Lin Jiu didn't dare to go over, for fear of upsetting her.

He only took a greedy look at her haggard profile, then placed the perfume on the wall and jumped down to the alley outside.

After going down, he shouted inside, “Don’t worry, I won’t go in until you forgive me.

"I'll always...wait for you here."

"go home together."

Only then did Jingzhi remember the hand he had raised just now and the cracked wound on the palm of his hand.

So she jumped off the roof.

He didn't care whether Lin Jiu could catch it or not, so he took the golden medicine handed to him by Zhe Gu and threw it over the wall. "Whatever you want, wait if you want!"

The tips of his ears stood up.

There was no cracking sound.

Then he should have caught it.

Tsk, go to sleep.

Zhe Gu looked at the bottle of perfume sparkling in the sun, turned around and asked her, "Hey, you don't want that thing?"

Jingzhi paused as he was returning to his room. He was silent for a moment before saying, "...I don't know."

Sugarcane Girl: "...What do you mean you don't know? It's made of glass and it might get blown down by the wind!"

She glanced at the figure who was walking faster and faster, with even the hem of her skirt fluttering backwards, and suddenly a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes.

"Hey hey hey, it looks like it's going to fall! The wind is so strong—"

Before he could finish his words, a white figure turned back and headed straight for where Lin Jiu had just stood.

Before Zhe Gu could come to her senses, Jingzhi flew back into the room at an even faster speed, waved his sleeves, and closed the double doors.

She looked back again and saw that the wall was bare, with no small glass bottles on it.

Zhe Gu muttered softly, "You're all so stubborn! Do you think this is an inn?"

……