Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

Chapter 192 "I can do it myself, thank you."

"Gulu gulu..."

The two walked side by side, and Ah Hai followed behind them, his stomach growling with hunger.

Ah Hai held his stomach, looking at the two people who turned back awkwardly. He raised his finger upwards, pointing at the sun, and said to Lin Jiu meaningfully:

"Master, the sun is at its zenith. Guess what we should do now?"

Lin Jiu looked at Jing Yi with some embarrassment, then turned back and glared at Ah Hai.

Jingzhi always had a faint smile on her face. She closed her fan, pointed to the bustling restaurant in front of her on the left, and bowed slightly to Lin Jiu and said:

"I wonder if I could have the honor today to invite Master Lin to have a meal at that... Tianranju?"

"Okay, okay!" Ah Hai agreed immediately, with the corners of his mouth almost stretching to the back of his head.

Ah Hai thought that Tianranju was the restaurant owned by his senior brother's future father-in-law. If he went there, Jingzhi might be able to get a discount.

His happy smile disappeared silently after Lin Jiu gave him a cold glare.

Lin Jiu said to Jingzhi with some apology:

"You just spent quite a bit of money. I'll treat you to a meal, but with all this stuff on our backs, I'm afraid we won't be able to squeeze in. I have to go back to the Taoist temple first."

Jingzhi looked at the restaurant which seemed to be full of customers and nodded:

"Okay, I have nothing to do anyway, so I'll just go with you guys."

Lin Jiu believed that the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water. He looked away, smiled slightly, and walked to the front to lead the way.

Ah Hai, carrying a basket of ghost-catching equipment, came up to Jingzhi and asked:

"I heard you came here to visit relatives. How do you have so much money to buy medicinal herbs?"

Jingzhi was not at all panicked, she asked back:

"Who told you that?"

Ah Hai: "I'm Brother Jiang."

Jingzhi was stunned for a moment, with a vague guess in his mind:

"Are you two relatives?"

Ah Hai scratched the back of his head and said with a smile:

"He's my brother."

Jingzhi smiles.

His father is interesting, one is Jiang, the other is Hai, so what about Da He?

"Then Da He..."

Ah Hai uttered an "eh" and raised his hand to interrupt her question:

"The 'He' in Big He's name is the 'He' of 'Hebi', not the 'He' of 'Heshui'. He has nothing to do with us, but we still keep in touch with each other from time to time."

The two chatted all the way, with Ah Hai asking more and more questions. Lin Jiu kept looking back, and when they reached the gate of the Taoist temple, he couldn't help but scold:

"That's their private matter. Why are you asking so many questions? Why don't you just go in?"

Ah Hai curled his lips and muttered quietly, "I've been listening all the way. If you didn't want to know, why didn't you stop earlier?"

Lin Jiu: “Hmm?”

Ah Hai shut up and started to act stupid. (′?_?`）

……

As soon as I stepped into the Taoist temple, I heard Abao's call from the courtyard on the right.

"Xiaozhu, Xiaozhu!"

The three of them walked over and saw that it was Abao sleeping on the bamboo chair.

He seemed to be having a nightmare and was talking in his sleep.

What was strange was that not only was he talking in his sleep, he was also holding a shuttlecock tightly in his mouth and biting it hard.

Ah Hai walked over and shook the shuttlecock twice, but it didn't move at all.

Lin Jiu closed his eyes and thought that he had been completely disgraced by these two disciples today.

He took a step forward and slapped Abao on the round face, waking him up.

Jingzhi secretly clicked her tongue, wondering if Abao had scolded Lin Jiu too much in his previous life and had come to be his apprentice in this life to pay back his debt?

The slap was so hard that she could even see Abao's face twisted for a moment.

"Teacher, master!"

When Po woke up, he saw his master's stern face. He was so scared that his legs slipped and he almost fell off the chair. "You guys are back?"

"Yeah." Lin Jiu responded softly and came to the water tank beside the courtyard. He wanted to scoop water to wash his hands, but then he remembered that his hands had not only touched corpses, but also patients.

If you take the ladle from the water, won’t you pollute the water?

Jingzhi saw his hesitation, walked over, rolled up his sleeves, picked up the ladle familiarly, scooped up a spoonful of clear water and held it above the stone ditch.

"Stand on top, or your shoes will get wet."

Lin Jiu was stunned for a moment, and seeing that she was still holding it up, he could only step onto the stairs and stand beside her with his hands spread out.

The cold water dripped into his palm drop by drop. Lin Jiuzi carefully rubbed each finger. Jingzhi scooped one scoop after another until the third scoop of water was used up, then he stopped.

"sorry to bother you."

"What's the big deal?" Jing was used to being close to Lin Jiu in her previous life, so she naturally took his hand and tried to pull up his sleeves that were sliding down.

Lin Jiu, who had forgotten everything, felt uncomfortable.

He took a step back and gently pushed her hand away with his fingertips, which were still covered with water. "I can do it myself, thank you."

Jingzhi didn't force him, and let him go with a smile. She watched him fold his sleeves up twice, then she gently poked his wet cuffs with her fan and said teasingly:

"Look, you're all wet because you won't let me help you."

Lin Jiu choked and his cheeks turned slightly red.

He put his hands behind his back, lowered his eyes and said awkwardly:

"It's okay, it's hot."

Lin Jiu (slightly alert): This guy... does he have some ulterior motives towards him? Why is he being so nice to him?

Ah Hai and Ah Bao's eyes almost popped out of their heads.

When did their master speak to a stranger in such a friendly manner?

Their eyes lingered on Jingzhi's pretty face for a while before they suddenly realized.

It turns out that the reason their master is afraid of women is because of his male sexual orientation?

Abao and Ahai couldn't help but feel a chill, and both pinched their collars and shivered twice.

How could Lin Jiu not notice their little action?

He gave them both a cold look and said to Abao:

"What did you dream about just now? Tell me and I will help you interpret it."

Po didn't know why he looked unhappy. He rubbed his head and thought for a few seconds before saying with a wry smile:

"I dreamed of playing chess with Ah Zhu."

Jingzhi took a step up the stairs, crossed the wet ditch, walked to Ah Hai and asked quietly:

"Who is Ah Zhu?"

Ah Zhu, it sounds like a girl's name.

Jingzhi looked at Lin Jiu inexplicably.

Lin Jiu suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head. He turned around and saw that Jingzhi had already withdrawn his gaze and was standing behind him, whispering to Ah Hai.

Ah Hai crossed his arms and raised his chin towards his senior brother.

"He's got his fiancée, and the place we're going to is her family's restaurant."

"Oh~" Jingzhi finally let go of the worry he had raised.

At this moment, Lin Jiu walked towards them and slowly explained:

"It's like playing chess, you make one move, Xiaozhu makes another... I think you dreamed of eloping with Xiaozhu."

Po's eyes widened, "How did you know?"

Lin Jiu stood in front of Ah Hai, raised his chin a little proudly and said:

"Your master calculated it."

"puff……"

Jingzhi looked at the back of Lin Jiu's round head with a smile, and suddenly wanted to touch it...

Lin Jiu also heard her laughing. He was inexplicably not angry. The corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he asked A Bao again:

"Do you want to go first, or Xiaozhu?"

A trace of guilt appeared on A Bao's honest face at this moment, and he said vaguely:

"...Xiaozhu goes first."

He added, trying to cover up the truth:

"But she ate all my chess pieces."

How could Lin Jiu not understand the little thoughts of his eldest disciple? He glanced at A Bao and said coldly:

"Dreams are always the opposite. In the dream, it was Xiaozhu who took the initiative, but in reality, it was you who took the initiative."

"She ate all your chess pieces... Actually, you wanted to eat all the beads."

"Hey~~" Ah Hai poked Ah Bao's arm, his eyebrows almost raised to the sky, and asked with a teasing look:

"Does Xiaozhu smell good?"

Abao raised the shuttlecock in his hand and waved it as if to hit him, then snorted at him in annoyance.

"How dare you say that, you stinky boy, you even dream about harming me!"

"Master is different. He always protects me."