Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

"Hey, it's coming down!"

"Pretend nothing's wrong!"

As Jingzhi went downstairs, she saw the boss calculating with an abacus, while Qiu Sheng was holding a check-in list and carefully reading it.

As if hearing footsteps, he lowered the booklet and revealed a face full of anxiety, "How is my master?"

Jingzhi rolled her eyes: "...I'm holding the notebook upside down."

You little bastard, still pretending!

He just knows how to trick her every day, even though she is so nice to him.

Seeing that his trick had been discovered, Qiu Sheng threw the booklet away, scratched his head, and smiled awkwardly, "I didn't lie to you. My master is indeed injured."

Jingzhi looked at the busy first floor and knew that this was not the place to ask questions, so she pulled him out.

When she reached a quiet alley, she stopped and turned to ask, "How did your master get injured?"

Qiu Sheng didn't answer her question. Instead, he looked at her face, bumped her shoulder, and asked:

"You just spent so much time up there... Did you help him apply medicine?"

After taking a step back, he brushed off the non-existent dust on his shoulders and said calmly:

"none of your business."

"If you don't say anything, I'll go back." Seeing that he still had a teasing look on his face, Jingzhi closed his eyes and turned away.

"Hey, hey!" Qiu Sheng saw that she didn't care and really left, so he quickly chased after her, "Why are you in such a hurry? I'll tell you what I'm saying."

Jingzhi stood there with her arms folded across her chest, looking at him with a stern face.

Qiu Sheng cleared his throat and said:

"There's someone who's been trying to harm us behind our backs. Turns out he's the Feng Shui master who had a falling out with Old Master Ren."

"I never thought that a man in his seventies, already in his twilight years, could still give birth to a pearl."

What do you mean?

The more she listened, the more confused she became.

Jingzhi's brows gradually furrowed, and she asked:

"Ah...didn't your master say that Shi Jian would take action?"

Qiu Sheng raised his eyebrows slightly. Ajiu didn’t even call him. Could it be that they haven’t reconciled yet?

Also.

If Xiaoyu had been kissed by someone else, or had taken the initiative to kiss someone else, he would have been angry for a long time if he were in her place.

Seeing that his thoughts had gone astray, he quickly wiped his face, glanced carefully towards the entrance of the alley, and then lowered his voice and said:

"You don't know that Shi Shaojian's biological father is that old Taoist priest."

"The father and son teamed up to deceive my uncle-master. They originally wanted Shi Shaojian to learn more Maoshan secret techniques."

"He deceived Old Master Ren and told him to move the grave in twenty years. On the one hand, this was to cut off Ren Fa's luck and incense. On the other hand, he knew that Old Master Ren would definitely turn into a zombie, so he wanted to wipe out the Ren family."

"This way he can reap the benefits, both financially and financially!"

"My master and the rest of us, Chunchun, were the ones who were taken advantage of and fell into his trap."

"Oh, right! You know that little grove in front of our charity cemetery?"

Jingzhi was stunned by this explosive gossip and couldn't close her mouth for a long time.

Hearing Qiu Sheng's question, she nodded honestly, "I know."

Qiu Sheng clapped his hands, and there was another slap.

"The grove is gone. Not only that, but a huge crater was blasted into the ground by Master's Thunder Fist!"

"Not even ashes remain of that old Taoist priest, and his soul has been refined by my uncle-master."

As he spoke, Qiu Sheng faced the sky with his arms outstretched, constantly admiring Shi Jian's awesomeness.

Hearing him say this, Jingzhi became more and more confused, "Then how did your master get injured?"

Qiu Sheng chuckled, "An accidental injury! It was purely because my uncle was furious. He couldn't distinguish friend from foe and bombarded us relentlessly. If Wencai and I hadn't stood far away, we would have been blown to pieces by my uncle as well~"

Jingzhi: “…Oh.”

The amount of information was too much, she had to go back and take it in.

Qiu Sheng followed her closely and kept nagging, "Hey, don't go away, I haven't finished yet, there's a big gossip that you don't want to hear, but I want to tell you!"

Jingzhi: "Just tell me, I think your gossip level is comparable to that of Zhe Gu."

Qiu Sheng: "It's okay, I'll tell you after I finish, I'll go tell her, it's so exciting, I have to let everyone know!"

What he said actually piqued her interest.

"Any other exciting gossip?"

Qiu Sheng's eyebrows twitched, and he said with a wicked smile:

"Do you know why my uncle is so angry?"

In order to hear some gossip, Jingzhi was forced to play the supporting role:

"why?"

"Xiao Li told us before that she lived deep down below. It turns out she was the Ghost Queen chosen by the Ghost King, but she was forced into it."

"Tsk." She didn't want to know about Xiaoli, so she stopped walking and started moving forward again. When she reached the entrance of Zhegu Temple, she even pushed Qiu Sheng out.

"Go quickly!"

Qiu Sheng felt very uncomfortable when he was halfway through gossiping, so he kept gossiping through the crack of the door.

"She and my uncle have been in love for a long time! But her love for my uncle is one-sided!"

"My uncle originally wanted to refine her, but she blocked a trick from that old Taoist priest for my uncle, and she lost half her life!"

"My uncle later decided not to refine her, but he didn't expect Xiaoli to pester him every day. She even said she wanted to marry him. My uncle got so angry that he was humiliated!"

Jingzhi's jaw dropped completely.

After a long while, she leaned against the eaves of the door and asked:

"You were eavesdropping on someone's roof? How do you know so much?"

Qiu Sheng leaned against the eaves and said, "Well, is there any need to eavesdrop? Everyone in the Taoist sect has spread the news. It's unclear whether my uncle can keep the position of the head this time!"

"If you want to be the leader, you can't marry a ghost wife. If you want a wife, you can't be the leader. You can't have your cake and eat it too~"

Jingzhi: "...You care so much about others, go back and take good care of your master."

Qiu Sheng stood at attention and saluted Jingzhi, "Got it! Master's wife ordered me to do this, how dare I disobey! Let's go!"

After Qiu Sheng finished gossiping, he looked refreshed and turned to walk out of the alley...

Jingzhi was left standing at the door with a confused look on his face, digesting the thoughts.

Has so much happened in the past half month?

Then he...still takes time to visit her every day.

She remembered that Shijia Village was very far away from here...

……

Before going to bed at night, Zhe Gu knew there was gossip to be heard, so she came over with a pillow and insisted on sleeping with her.

As she reached the door of her room, a stone aimed at her back flew through the air.

Zhe Gu turned her body slightly and easily caught the stone with a slight scent of osmanthus, speechless.

She yelled outside:

"Lin Zhengying, don't think I don't know it's you! I'm going to sleep with her! Come in and hit me if you dare!"

The moonlight was clear and there was silence outside the courtyard wall. Zhe Gu showed a victorious smile.

He wiped his nose with his thumb, letting out a light hum, pushed open Jingzhi's door, and walked in quickly.

Then close the door, lock it, and blow out the candle, all in one go.

Jingzhi, who had just been sitting cross-legged practicing, now looked at her with slightly shining eyes, looking puzzled.

"what are you doing?"

Zhe Gu threw the pillow onto the bed, rubbed her hands, and walked over with a wicked grin, saying hia hia hia~.

"Pretty girl, I'm here to pamper you tonight, so tell me all the gossip you know!"

Jingzhi stretched out his hands, pinched Zhegu's soft cheeks, and said seriously:

"Don't smile so obscenely."

As soon as she said that, she was pushed down on the bed by Zhe Gu and her armpits were tickled madly.

"Hahaha, I don't dare anymore! Let go, let go! I surrender!"

"Auntie Sugarcane, Auntie Sugarcane, help me, stop scratching me, hahahaha!"

Three heads protruded from the wall outside, namely Qiu Sheng, Lin Jiu, and Wencai.

Qiu Sheng rested his hands on his chin. A man in his twenties, he was smiling kindly at this moment.

"Master, we don't really need to ask her to go back. Look how happy she is here, smiling all day long."

Wencai looked at the two girls who were playing and quarreling in the corridor between the rooms, and suddenly sighed, "It's good that Tingting is here. The three of them will definitely get along well."

Qiu Sheng turned his head and asked, "Hey, did you deliver the invitation? Will she come tomorrow?"

Wencai suddenly became alert, "I've sent her there, but whether she comes or not depends on whether she's free tomorrow."

Qiu Sheng: "...You little brat! Play fair!"

Wencai: "No way! Brother, you're not a virgin anymore, Tingting will definitely dislike you!"

"You tm!"

The two men jumped off the wall and fought all the way from the end of the alley to the entrance.

It is lively inside the temple and it is lively outside the temple.

Lin Jiu turned over and jumped, then squatted quietly on the wall.

In those affectionate eyes, there was only her smile.

"Hey, there's a guy sitting on the wall...why don't you go over and talk to him?" Zhe Gu put her arm around Jingzhi and whispered in her ear.

When Jing looked up, she met his affectionate eyes.

"...Yes, there is something to talk about." She was stared at by him so hard that she couldn't speak clearly. She pulled Zhe Gu and slowly walked towards her from the end of the corridor.

That location was closest to the door of her room.

The closer she got to her room, the closer she got to him.

She just felt that the left half of her face was about to be melted by his stare.

My eyes couldn't help but glance in his direction.

I discovered that he was not sitting, but half-squatting, and he looked quite handsome in that squatting posture.

By the way, it seems like he really went to get a haircut.

The sides of the temples were shaved up, leaving only a small amount of stubble.

The bangs on his forehead were also trimmed short and pushed back, revealing his broad forehead and two thick sword-like eyebrows.

After shaving his head, he seems to be handsome again.

Jingzhi's face turned red uncontrollably.

It just so happened that the moonlight was just right tonight, and that hint of red caught Lin Jiu's eyes.

Seeing that she was about to fail, Zhe Gu pushed Jingzhi into the room and slammed the door shut.

"What are you looking at! Have you never seen a beautiful woman?"

Lin Jiu didn't want to talk to her any more. Seeing Jingzhi go in, he simply jumped off the wall and went back to sleep.

After all, he has important things to do tomorrow.

When I see her, I can’t have dark circles under my eyes…

however……

……

midnight.

Zhe Gu was holding Jingzhi's arm, sleeping soundly, with a smile on her face, "Hey, kitten, my... zzz..."

Suddenly, two soft sounds were heard in the air, and her acupoints were pressed.

Zhe Gu opened her eyes quickly and found that she could not move or speak. She could only move her eyes to look at the person who came.

Zhe Gu's eyes were full of disbelief and resentment.

"Lin Zhengying, you bastard, you sneak attack!!!"

Lin Jiu understood her look and silently lifted the quilt up to cover her face.

Then he dug up the person sleeping next to her.

The kitten is his, his alone.

Perhaps it was because she hadn't been close to him for a long time, Jingzhi missed him so much in her subconscious that she didn't wake up. Instead, her rosy cheeks rubbed his chest involuntarily.

Lin Jiu's heart softened.

He carried her to the next room and lay in the same bed together, but Lin Jiu didn't dare to get too close to her for fear of waking her up.

He has been guarding her for half a month. He knows that she has always slept alone. It is the last day, and he cannot let Zhe Gu take advantage of her!

In the middle of winter, the warm quilt suddenly became cold, and Jingzhi frowned slightly.

His body subconsciously stretched towards the source of heat on the bed, and his hands and feet clung to Lin Jiu tightly like a monkey climbing a rock.

He held his breath, hugged her loosely, and listened to her breathing for a long time.

Only after her breathing became long again did he quietly breathe a sigh of relief.

"Little troublemaker, I'll come see you tomorrow."

He lowered his eyes to look at her slightly curled eyelashes, and lightly touched the air above her nose with his index finger.

As if responding to him, Jingzhi whimpered and held him a little tighter, "Jiu...zzz...don't kiss others...zz...I will...zz...be angry...zzz..."

Although he knew she was talking in her sleep, Lin Jiu still nodded seriously in agreement.

"Okay, from now on, I will stay away from other women."

As if receiving his promise, Jingzhi's mouth corners gradually curled up.

"Okay... zzz... I miss you... zzz... Jiu..."

Is she responding to him, or is she saying "I miss you so much"?

Lin Jiu began to doubt whether she was asleep or not.

After waiting for a long time, seeing a hint of crystal at the corner of her mouth, Lin Jiu confirmed that this little troublemaker was really asleep.

Lin Jiu slowly lowered his head and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. He then looked deeply into her sleeping face and said softly and firmly:

"In half a month, you will definitely be my wife, Lin Jiu."

"Kitten, it's mine."

"It's mine alone."