Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

After Jingzhi had eaten his fill, he quickly headed towards the town with the money in his pocket.

She was afraid that Wencai would die, so she even flew all the way from the charity cemetery to the town entrance.

As soon as she landed at the town entrance, before she had time to ask someone where the rice shop was, she saw that the shop in front of her left was crowded with people, as noisy as a vegetable market.

There was also an old man with gold teeth who was there maintaining order and having fun.

"Don't worry, don't worry, we have it all. A new batch of glutinous rice has arrived from the next village. Everyone, line up and don't squeeze!"

Well, it seems that everyone in the town knows that there are zombies causing trouble.

The old man simply divided the crowded crowd into two teams, and Jingzhi chose the smaller team and lined up at the back.

After a while, many more people followed her, and the two teams almost stretched across the street.

"Don't push! What are you pushing?" The rice shop owner saw Jingzhi staggering after being pushed by a strong man. He quickly held Jingzhi's arm and glared at the strong man and shouted:

"What are you pushing for? Can't you see that the old lady is about to fall?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Jingzhi's waist bent, her back hunched, her feet wobbled, and her hand that was holding the rice shop owner's sleeve trembled slightly. Her voice was no longer crisp, but became as hoarse as an old woman's:

"Boss, can you sell me 30 kilograms of glutinous rice? I have a 5-year-old grandson waiting for me at home, and I can't leave him alone."

The burly man behind him almost popped his eyes out, pointing at Jingzhi's back, shaking with anger:

"She looks so young, how can she be an old lady?"

Jingzhi turned around, shaking her bent legs, and smiled kindly with half-drooped eyelids:

"My dear, I'm 79 years old. Maybe I look young, but my hair is fake. Look at my hair, it's all white."

She muttered to herself: Young man, your aunt must have said too much... You are over seventy years old, and you dare to fight with me!

The rice shop owner smacked his lips and waved his hand at the strong man:

"Alright, alright, why bother with an old lady? It's just a matter of buying it first."

As he spoke, he patted Jingzhi's shoulder and said:

"Wait here for a moment, I'll get it for you!"

Seeing that he was so understanding, Jingzhi nodded repeatedly and said yes, then handed over the change.

After a while, Jingzhi heard a conversation between the rice shop owner and a young man coming from the noisy shop:

"Dad, do you want to add some sticky rice?"

"Hush, keep your voice down!" The boss' voice immediately dropped an octave. "Why are you mixing sticky rice in there? Are you trying to kill that old lady? It's not easy for her to live to this old age. Hurry up, load 30 kilograms of sticky rice!"

"it is good!"

After a while, the rice shop owner came out carrying a light brown bag of rice.

"Here, 30 kilograms of glutinous rice. This is the change. Take it!" He asked, still a little worried, "Can you carry it? Where is your home? Or should I have someone deliver it to you?"

Jingzhi took the money, waved it with one hand and said:

"No need, you're busy in the shop~ By the way, have you seen Qiu Sheng? He's... the guy who works at the rouge shop near you~"

The rice shop owner rubbed his chin and pondered for a long time, then suddenly said "Oh" and said a little guiltily:

"He came to buy rice about two hours ago."

"Oh? Do you know where he went?"

Jingzhi frowned, wondering why he hadn't returned to the charity cemetery yet, having walked for so long, and riding a bicycle. She hadn't noticed him along the way. Did he take a shortcut and she didn't notice?

"... Well, I didn't see it. Anyway, I have to get busy. Hey, over there, don't push!"

Seeing the boss leave in a hurry, Jingzhi picked up the rice and walked towards the town entrance at great speed, which shocked the strong man behind her.

30 kilograms of rice, and she can still walk so fast, what old lady in the world can have such a skill?!

……

"Have you found Qiu Sheng?" Lin Jiu asked.

Jingzhi gasped and threw the heavy bag of rice in his hand to the ground with a bang, raising a cloud of dust.

She frowned and looked anxiously at Lin Jiu, who was concentrating on sticking talismans at the door, and said:

"No, I've been keeping an eye on the situation along the way since I left home, but I haven't found him."

"This is strange... Logically speaking, we shouldn't be able to find the person." Lin Jiu muttered to himself. After thinking for a moment, he turned to look at Jingzhi and said:

"Forget it. You take the rice to the front hall first. I'll be back after I finish putting up these."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance up at the sky again.

Fortunately, tonight is not a full moon night, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

But even so, he still didn't dare to relax or be careless at all. He quickly turned back and continued to stick the talisman paper on the door. At this moment, his hands moved faster and faster, as if he was racing against time.

After getting Lin Jiu's reply, Jingzhi said no more, bent down to pick up the bag of rice on the ground, turned around, stepped over the threshold, walked through the long porch, and hurried towards the front hall.

When she passed by the couch at the side of the front hall, she suddenly caught a glimpse of Wencai lying against the wall with his back to her. Jingzhi was furious and took two quick steps forward. She raised her hand and slapped Wencai hard on the leg:

"You're going to die! Your master told you to get moving, and you still dared to sleep!"

Wencai hummed weakly and moved his legs slightly. Jingzhi's eyes immediately followed his legs.

When she saw that the glutinous rice where he had moved had turned black, her eyelids twitched suddenly and she quickly pushed Wencai against the wall.

Then look at the place where he had just been lying.

Good guy!

It was like the outline of a human body at a death scene, a dark human figure.

Jingzhi took a deep breath and shouted out the door:

"Uncle, something's wrong! Come in and check on Wencai! He doesn't seem to be right!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned Wencai around by the shoulder. When Jingzhi saw this, she couldn't help but gasp.

Wencai's face was as pale as a ghost, his lips were purple, his eye circles were as dark as a panda's, and his two sharp teeth were exposed through his lower lip.

When Lin Jiu heard the cry, his heart skipped a beat and he rushed in from outside in one step.

She asked anxiously, "Look quickly, is he going to turn into a zombie?!"

Wencai shook his body from time to time, his eyelids half open and half closed, and he called out "Master" weakly.

Lin Jiu opened his eyelids and took a look, then grabbed his hand that had grown a sharp nail and took a look. After sighing heavily, he hurriedly said to Tingting who came over:

"There's still hot water in the kitchen, go get some."

Then he asked Jingzhi: "Are there any more snakes?"

Jingzhi nodded blankly, "Yes, the rest is in the basket. Do you still need the snake gallbladder? I'll go get the knife."

Lin Jiu quickly stopped her, "No need, bring the whole basket over here, and then bring the bathtub over here, hurry up!"

Jingzhi responded with an OK and ran out quickly.

Lin Jiu glanced at Wencai, gritted his teeth and quickly removed the bandage on his arm. When he saw the wound, he was stunned again.

There was a layer of black around the nail holes. He stretched out two fingers to push aside the green herbs and pressed gently. He found that the muscles had become hard, just like necrotic flesh.

"Master... do you need to apply the medicine again? But I feel like I'm almost healed. It doesn't hurt at all."

"It doesn't hurt?" Lin Jiu frowned, tore off a small piece of flesh from the wound, and said in a deep voice: "It really doesn't hurt?"

Wencai blinked and felt it for a while, then nodded: "Not only does it not hurt, it's a little itchy. Is the wound healing?"

Lin Jiu snorted, helped him up and said, "What's good about that? I told you to move more, but you were lazy. Now look what happened. The blood is blocked up."

Wencai's mind seemed to be a little confused. He stared at Lin Jiu and asked:

"What happens if it gets blocked?"

"If it's blocked, it will become hard like your wound."

"Huh? What happens if it gets hard?"

Lin Jiu sighed and said:

“Hard means stiff, and stiff means hard.”

"What happens if you become stiff?"

Jingzhi came in from outside carrying a large bathtub, with a basket hooked on his finger. Seeing Wencai asking questions non-stop, he couldn't help but roll his eyes, sneered and cursed:

"Is your brain really gone? If it freezes, you'll become a zombie!"

She gently put down the bathtub and handed the basket to Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu nodded to Jingzhi and said, "Go and get Tingting some hot water. Bring some more."

After saying that, he opened the rice bag on the ground and poured some of the raw glutinous rice into the bathtub. Then he glared at Wencai, who was still sitting there stupidly, and urged him, "Hurry up and get in!"

Wencai was a little confused, but afraid that Lin Jiu's intuition was still there, he nodded, holding the edge of the bathtub and stepped in carefully.

……

"Here it comes, the water is coming! Hold on, it's a little hot!"

As Jingzhi spoke, he quickly poured two buckets of hot water into the bathtub. Suddenly, streams of hot steam rose from the bottom of the bucket.

Tingting also came over at this time. Jingzhi took the half bucket of water from her hand and poured it all back in with a splash.

"Sister Jingzhi, is it really not too hot?"

Before Jingzhi could answer, Lin Jiu shook his head and said with a frown:

"Hot spots are good. He can't feel anything now. His blood isn't flowing. Hot spots can help with blood circulation."

As he spoke, he opened the basket on the table and poured several poisonous snakes in the basket into the bathtub.

"Uncle Jiu...are you really going to do this? The snakes I caught are all poisonous. If he gets bitten, he'll die!"

Jingzhi looked at the poisonous snake that fell into the hot water and was scalded and kept rolling and moving, and couldn't help swallowing.

Tingting was so scared that she hid behind her. She wanted to look but didn't dare to. She felt even more guilty towards Wencai.

Lin Jiu didn't turn around, but said to Wencai with a serious face:

"If you don't want to die, rub them on your body. Applying snake gallbladder is useless now. You can only fight poison with poison."

As he spoke, he asked Jingzhi to bring more hot water, scooped a bowl of raw glutinous rice and handed it to Tingting, asking her to cook glutinous rice porridge, and then hurried to pound the medicine.

Given Wencai's current situation, he needs to take multiple approaches to achieve his goal.

……

In this way, the three of them were busy all night until dawn. Tingting changed Wencai's bath water. When he finally became hot, everyone breathed a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted from their shoulders.

Jingzhi sat at the table, propped up her head and looked at him, saying lazily:

"It's good to know it's hot. It means you're really getting better this time."

Tingting continued to pour hot water into the bucket. Wencai gave a dry laugh and shivered from the burn. He supported himself on the edge of the bucket with his hands and tried to stand up. He was halfway up when Lin Jiu held his head and pushed him back down.

"Put your hand in there and soak the wound in hot water. It's already this late, and you're still not behaving! Open your mouth!"

Wencai glanced at his burned arm, looked up at Lin Jiu with a bitter face and asked:

"Master, why are you opening your mouth? I don't want to eat glutinous rice porridge anymore. I'm about to throw up after eating five bowls in one night."

Lin Jiu grabbed the mirror from the table and walked up to him and said:

"Look for yourself. If you don't want to have those two teeth ground off, then let Awei take you away."

Wencai looked at himself in the mirror and bared his teeth. He instantly lost his temper. This time he didn't dare to say it was scalded. He hunched his shoulders and buried himself in the water again, saying aggrievedly:

"Go ahead, I'm ready!"

After saying that, he opened his mouth wide as if ready to die, baring his two sharp teeth towards Lin Jiu.

"……snort."

Jingzhi looked at Lin Jiu, who was tough on the outside but soft on the inside and started to help Wencai grind his teeth, and a smile gradually appeared on her face.

"Uncle Jiu, you are so kind to him."

Lin Jiu glanced at her dazed eyes, thinking she was sleepy, so he said with a concerned tone:

"You haven't slept all night. Do you want to go and rest for a while?"

"……snort."

The unromantic Lin Jiu, who had no idea about romance, saw with his eyes that she was sleepy.

Lin Jiu pursed his lips innocently.

Why are you suddenly angry?

He didn't say anything wrong.

……

Just then, a familiar sound of footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.

The two of them looked outside at the same time, and saw Qiu Sheng walking in, carrying a bag of rice and yawning.

"Qiu Sheng, did you go back to your aunt's house to sleep last night?"

Qiu Sheng threw the rice aside and poked Wencai's wound. Seeing him scream in pain, he smiled with relief and said to Jingzhi with a tired voice:

"No, it rained heavily last night and I took shelter outside all night."

At this moment, a familiar voice came from the door:

"Impossible! I was on patrol last night and it didn't rain at all!"

Everyone turned around and saw that it was Awei.

Qiu Sheng did not answer him. As if he was extremely tired, he curled up in the rocking chair and fell asleep in just a few breaths.

Not only was he sleeping, but there was also a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth.

Jingzhi looked at that smile and her heart gradually began to lift.

She had seen that smile on Lin Feng and Er Di's faces, but Qiu Sheng clearly didn't have a partner, so how could he...

Moreover, they were busy all night last night and passed by the uncovered courtyard countless times, but there was indeed no rain at all. This was really... too weird.

At this time, Lin Jiu quickly retracted the file. Fortunately, he was quick and had already ground Wencai's teeth flat.

He let Awei examine Wencai, then slowly walked behind Qiu Sheng and reached out to lift up his slightly covered collar to take a look.

Jingzhi had sharp eyes and saw two strawberry marks.

As someone who has been through this, Jingzhi was extremely certain at this moment that Qiu Sheng must have lied.

She couldn't help but sigh. Last night, Qiu Sheng was so engrossed in some gentle place that he completely forgot that he had a junior brother whose life was hanging by a thread. It was really... too much.

At this time, A Wei came forward and looked at Qiu Sheng carefully, then stood up and asked Lin Jiu:

"what happened to him?"

Lin Jiu loosened his collar and said calmly, "It's nothing serious."

Awei hesitated for a moment before hesitatingly stating his purpose:

"Um... I don't know where Old Master Ren has gone... What should I do?"

Jingzhi leaned back in his chair and complained:

"What should I do? As the captain of the security team, shouldn't you take it as your responsibility to protect the villagers? Go find them quickly."

Ah Wei gritted his teeth and snorted. He caught a glimpse of Lin Jiu glancing at him. He smiled awkwardly and asked Lin Jiu:

"I know I need to look for it, but where should I look for it?"

Lin Jiu took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands carefully, then said slowly:

"Let's go look for it in a dark place."

Awei looked at him expectantly:

"Let's go now, shall we?!"

Lin Jiu glanced at him, then looked at Qiu Sheng, who was lying on the recliner, and silently shook his head and said:

"No, I have to watch them."

"Ah? But..."

Seeing that Awei was still insisting on his actions, Jingzhi could not help but stand up and pointed at the exhausted people in the room and said:

"We are all exhausted after a night of work. You can go by yourself."

She took another step closer, "Captain Awei, are you scared?"

Ah Wei cleared his throat, squeezed his buttocks, raised his head and chest, pointed his nose at Jingzhi and said:

"Who's afraid? Just go by yourself! Humph!"

Seeing Awei's back disappearing at the door of the charity cemetery, Jingzhi turned around and saw Lin Jiu unbuttoning Qiu Sheng's clothes.

"Uncle Jiu, what are you doing?"

When Lin Jiu heard the voice, he turned around and saw Jingzhi staring at him intently. He couldn't help but blush.

He raised his voice in a rough and somewhat aggressive tone and said:

"Turn around!"

Jingzhi curled her lips, but turned her back obediently. However, she couldn't help but be curious and asked:

"If you don't want to look, then don't look... What's wrong with Qiu Sheng? And why are you undressing him?"