Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

"I'm really leaving, huh?"

He put on his clothes and placed the ointment on the bedside, reluctant to leave. Just as he reached the door of the room, he turned back without giving up.

Jingzhi curled up in the quilt, leaving only her two eyes exposed, staring at him straight, as if asking why he didn't leave.

He looked quite pitiful at this moment.

With a slight lift of his eyelids, his eyebrows, which originally looked a little sharp, turned slightly into an inverted eight shape.

A feeling of innocence came over me.

In addition, last night she insisted that Zhu Jiu turn into a puppy for her, so when she saw his expression at this moment, the scene that appeared in her mind was exactly the picture of the little puppy wagging its tail and acting coquettishly towards her.

"Uh... forget it... come back." She waved at him, and when her white arms touched the damp and cold air outside, she couldn't help but let the hairs stand on end.

She quickly pulled her hands back inwards, hid under the quilt, and said in a low voice, "Close the door, it's cold."

Zhu Jiu was originally quite happy that she was willing to keep him, but when the door was about to close, he couldn't help but have bad thoughts.

"Why are you closing the door? Are you afraid that my brother will see you and get jealous? Or... you..."

Before he could finish his words, a jade foot stretched out from under the quilt and gently kicked his knee, "I'm cold, that's all."

As she kicked her feet, the slightly cool temperature from the soles of her feet was transferred to his knees through a thin layer of cloth.

Zhu Jiu immediately gave up on teasing her. He grabbed the troublesome foot and tucked it back into the quilt, carefully tucking the corners in. "Didn't you say you were cold? You're cold, and you're still kicking me with your foot?"

She paused for a while, and found that she had no way to deal with him who was both considerate and arrogant, so she had to lift a corner of the quilt and signal him to go back to bed.

"Aren't you cold? Don't lift them." Although he said this, Zhu Jiu raised his eyebrows, took off his shoes and lay back down in a good mood.

As soon as I lay back on the pillow, she gently twisted my ear.

"What? Did I do something wrong?" he asked, turning his head childishly and pinching her earlobe.

Jingzhi's ears tightened, and she forgot what to say for a moment, staring at Zhu Jiu blankly.

This man... is really getting worse as he gets older.

Seeing her shocked expression, Zhu Jiu chuckled, twisted the two fingers of her ear and slid them down to the back of her head, pressed her head towards him, and gently sucked her sweet lips, "Apply the medicine?"

"Help me wipe it." Jingzhi blinked twice and pointed to the bedside table, "The medicine is in the drawer."

Looking at Zhu Jiu with a slight smile on her lips, she finally remembered what she was about to say, "I found out that I really have no way to deal with you."

"What do you mean?" The gentle woman in front of him froze for a moment.

"Literally, even though you always provoke Zheng, I just can't get angry with you."

After being together for many lifetimes, she obviously had a deeper feeling for him. He always said that she was partial, but deep down in her heart, she vaguely felt that she was the one who was truly partial to Zhu Jiu.

I always kissed and hugged him secretly, much more often than in the thatched cottage.

She and Caolu can be said to be still in the sweet and sour love stage.

Fortunately, Ah Zheng has a very straightforward character and now he has begun to understand how to fight for things. Otherwise, she doesn't know how Zhu Jiu will bully him.

……

Those words just now made Zhu Jiu feel quite complicated.

What do you mean by "he provoked A Zheng"? It was clearly a fight between two people, but the man in Caolu was good at forbearance and disguise, so he always looked like the bullied one.

But she was soft-hearted and fell for it.

Zhu Jiu didn't want to talk about this. He took out one of her arms, scooped up some ointment with his fingertips, and gently pressed it on the bruise on her wrist. "Does it still hurt?"

She was too tired, her head was a little swollen, and her thoughts were a little stuck. He didn't mention it anymore, and she was too lazy to say anything. She lowered her eyes and watched him rub the bruise on his wrist, and couldn't help but complain:

"You knew it would hurt me, and when I told you to let go last night, you should have let go."

"I will let go when it's time, but not last night." He replied righteously. If he hadn't held on tightly, she might have escaped halfway.

"Hmph... Anyway, I don't want to move. You bad guy have to help me apply the medicine, even on my ankles." Jingzhi kicked him again with some embarrassment.

The quilt was lifted up again. Zhu Jiu sighed and said that he had not finished applying the medicine on his hands. Just as he was about to put her foot back into the quilt, his eyes somehow caught sight of the circle of red marks on her ankle.

Thinking of a certain scene, even Zhu Jiu, who had been married to her for decades, couldn't help but blush.

He and Caolu...had gone a little too far last night.

"I didn't ask you to move."

His face flushed as he leaned over to whisper something into her ear. Jingzhi was stunned at first, then annoyed, so he gently bumped Zhu Jiu, who was leaning towards him, with his forehead and said, "You're annoying... Who told you about last night?!"

Zhu Jiu: "You, you last night..."

Jingzhi blushed, picked up the pillow and threw it at him, stopping him from saying the lewd words, "You big hooligan."

Zhu Jiu smiled and took the pillow, "Have you ever seen a gangster blush?"

Jingzhi blushed and frowned: "...Who are you talking about? I'm not blushing!"

Seeing that she seemed to be about to get angry, Zhu Jiu quickly raised his hand in surrender, "I'm blushing, I'm a hooligan, my Jingjing is the best."

Jingzhi, who was suffocating after his words were blocked, grabbed his head and bit his lips.

It was not until someone pushed open the door of the thatched cottage that the two of them calmed down.

"I thought you would take the opportunity to bully her, but with your overbearing personality, how come she bullied you instead?"

Looking at the circle of teeth marks on Zhu Jiu's mouth, Caolu was in a good mood holding the tray.

Jingzhi: "No, nothing."

Some explicit private words could be said in front of Zhu Jiu, but in front of the thatched cottage, Jingzhi inexplicably did not dare to be so presumptuous.

She raised her chin proudly and snorted at Zhu Jiu who covered his mouth, "He is so shameless."

Cao Lu laughed: "You only found out today?"

Zhu Jiu was speechless. After being together for so long, he knew clearly what Caolu's weak point was.

With a turn of his head, his mouth almost touched Jingzhi's.

She had anticipated his thoughts and had already raised her hand to stop him.

Cao Lu chuckled and said, "Kissing her makes me angry?"

"You also have to see how she's feeling now."

Zhu Jiu remembered to act weak and pitiful. He ignored the thatched cottage, straightened his back, and holding the uncovered ointment, he looked at Jingzhi eagerly, "You haven't finished applying the ointment yet, can I help you apply it again?"

As he sat up straight, his loosened cross-breasted shirt fell apart instantly, and the claw marks on his chest, one after another, caught Jingzhi's eyes.

Some of them haven't even formed scabs yet, and are bright red in color, which hurts just by looking at them.

She pinched a little ointment the size of a soybean with a guilty conscience and smeared it on the wound on his chest. "Wipe it on. You help me and I will help you."

Zhu Jiu quickly raised his hand to block the ointment, and glanced down at his chest nonchalantly, "This medicine is difficult to make. My brother and I have made very little, so it would be a waste if I use it."

"What do you mean by waste?" She frowned.

Zhu Jiu was stunned, and her heart suddenly warmed. She couldn't stand seeing them not cherishing their bodies.

So Zhu Jiu said it another way, "This is my medal, I don't want it to disappear."

Jingyi choked and turned to complain to the thatched cottage, "Do you think he is shameless?"

Cao Lu put down the tray, raised his hand and gently covered his chest, not daring to look her in the eye, "I...I don't want it to disappear either."

Jingzhi: "...?"

With a muffled thud, she lay back on the bed and raised her hands to cover her face. "Whatever... Humph, I don't care about you."

"You said you don't care about us, but what does this little cat tail mean?"

Zhu Jiu lifted her wrist that was encircled by the tail, bent down, put her fingers into the quilt, and gently touched her dantian.

"This is just a minor injury, there's no need to use spiritual power."

He leaned close to her ear and whispered:

"I wish you would tickle me a few more times. The marks here must be more than my brother's..."

With a buzzing sound, she turned red from head to toe.

"Why do you have to compete in everything?!"

"There's nothing I can do. You have two husbands. My brother and I are destined to compete with each other like this in this life."

……

The facts were exactly as he said.

The days of two people are sweet and happy.

Living with three people, with all the fighting and quarreling, is also a brand new experience.

Jingzhi is both in pain and happy. Every day she is either helping this person or comforting that person. She is very busy.

She had been with two men, but for some reason, she didn't get pregnant in this life.

Zhu Jiu and Cao Lu secretly rejoiced. She didn't have enough time to begin with, and what would happen if she had a child?

……

Everything has two sides.

Double the sweetness, there will definitely be double the bitterness.

Jingzhi never expected that the two of them would be bedridden together...

One autumn afternoon, fallen leaves covered most of the pond surface.

After feeding them the medicine, Jingzhi walked out with the empty bowl.

Zhu Jiu raised his withered hand and smiled sadly towards the thatched cottage.

"See, with what we have, how can we be worthy of her? I don't want to burden her anymore."

After only a glance at the thatched cottage, she turned to look at the lush tree outside the window. "Ajiu, do you regret this? You didn't have to do this. I calculated for you. You still have more than ten years to live. Why would you use a forbidden technique to bind you to me and die with me? Her eyes have been swollen from crying these past few days..."

Zhu Jiu glanced at the back of Cao Lu's head, then sat up stubbornly, "I would rather give her only one chance to be hurt than to cause her double the pain like a blunt knife cutting flesh."

"You think clearly, but she..."

Zhu Jiu: "I've aged so quickly in recent years, do you think she hasn't noticed?"

He closed his eyes, clutched his chest, and took a deep breath before continuing, "She can't hide her feelings, but when something big happens, she always hides her negative emotions, for fear that we might worry about her."

Cao Lu turned back to look at Zhu Jiu for a long while. For the first time in her life, her eyes turned red in front of him. "Ah Jiu, she is so good. I can't bear to leave her."

Zhu Jiu was stunned and frowned. "Don't follow my example. Although I stole an extra lifetime, this is not only unfair to you, but also caused her a lot of trouble. If we want to leave, we should leave cleanly."

Cao Lu nodded and raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes. "I know. When are you planning to leave? My body can't hold on for much longer. She hasn't slept well in a long time and has been eating less recently. It's best to hurry up."

With a "squeak" sound, the door opened.

The two patients sat on the bed in a daze, watching Jingzhi walk in with a cold face.

"Ajiu, I haven't brought up that topic since we got married."

"You two, are you really going to do this to me?"

No matter how stubborn her tone was, it couldn't hide her increasingly trembling voice.

Zhu Jiu and Cao Lu's eyes became wet almost at the same time. They each took out a small porcelain bottle from the drawers on both sides.

Zhu Jiu's eyes were filled with tenderness and no regrets: "Jingjing, I stole this life, but I don't regret it at all... Now, it's time to end it all."

Cao Lu gently opened the lid of the small porcelain bottle with shaking hands and sighed softly, "This medicine is colorless and tasteless. After drinking it, Ah Jiu and I will be like falling asleep... You don't need to worry, just enter your next life peacefully."

Jingzhi slowly squatted between the two beds, already sobbing, "No... I don't want to... I can't bear to leave you... Please, don't leave me..."

Zhu Jiu still had some strength left, so he leaned over and gently touched her head.

"Little silly cat, he and I will never quarrel again and upset you. In the next life, we will become the same person and continue to love you. Jingjing, don't forget, if you meet me, remember to call me Jiu first."

Caolu stared at Jingzhi's tearful eyes after she raised her head, "Don't listen to him, call him Ah Zheng."

The two men's final argument ended at this moment.

They smiled at each other, then turned to look at Jingzhi, who looked panic-stricken.

Zhu Jiu smiled and said, "Jingjing, I'm sorry... I... I love you."

Although I really don't want to leave you, it's time to go...

The rules took effect immediately when he uttered the last word.

Her feet began to turn into tiny dots of light, and she was completely unable to stop their suicidal behavior.

Seeing that she seemed to be reaching out to grab the medicine, Zhu Jiu stuffed the pinky ring that he had already held in his palm into her hand, tilted his head back and drank the medicine.

"Brother, don't hesitate."

Cao Lu paused and immediately followed his footsteps.

The two porcelain bottles rolled to the ground.

"Jingzhi...Qingqing..."

"I love you... I love you... My name is... Ah Zheng..."

Please remember to call me first...

Two large hands hung down from the edge of the bed, one on the left and one on the right.

Jingzhi's eyes were filled with tears and she could hardly see their sleeping faces.

The two hands stretched to the extreme, just as they touched their gradually cooling fingertips, they completely disappeared into thin air...

Ah Zheng, Ah Jiu...

Ah Jiu, Ah Zheng...

In no particular order, I hate you guys!!!