Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

Chapter 199 "I'll beat you to death!"

After bandaging his finger, Lin Jiu helped Jingzhi trim the trees in the yard.

Originally, only dim sunlight shone through the layers of leaves, and the whole yard was a little gloomy.

After he finished pruning, the branches were reduced by almost half, and the ground, which had not seen the sun for a long time and even had moss growing on it, was directly exposed to the sun.

Jingzhi stood beside the stone table, looked up at the sunlight which seemed to be getting stronger, frowned and whispered:

“It’s so hot.”

The sound of shuttle was heard.

Lin Jiu was dragging two large branches scattered on the ground and was about to walk out of the yard. Jingzhi quickly called him.

"Don't lose it."

Lin Jiu paused slightly and looked back with some confusion.

"If you don't throw it away, what's the point of keeping it?"

"For firewood. The sun is so strong, it should be dry in a few days."

“…Okay.” My dear brother is really frugal, worthy of being an illegitimate child.

Jingzhi walked around the tree and when she reached the corner on the left, she suddenly exclaimed, "Huh?"

"Brother Lin, why don't you cut this one off as well?"

The place she pointed to was a side branch that extended to Lin Jiu's courtyard.

The branches were covered with lush leaves, blocking a corner of the sunlight above his courtyard.

Lin Jiu raised his eyebrows slightly and said jokingly:

"Borrowing my brother Lin's tree, I can get a corner of shade. In the hot summer, I can have a place to cool down."

Seeing that she was still looking up at the tree, Lin Jiu walked over dragging the branch and casually placed it in the corner of the wall facing the sun.

Then, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a slightly larger movement and sighed exaggeratedly.

"Could it be that Brother Lin is so stingy that he won't even give me a little shade?"

Jingzhi withdrew her gaze from the tree and gave him a cold look.

"Are you pretending again?"

"...I'm not pretending." He supported himself against the wall with one hand, raised his eyelids and looked at her innocently, and wiped the sweat from his hairline with his right hand from time to time.

"I'm really hot."

"...Forget it, just keep it." Considering that he helped him with his work.

Little did he know that this cheating wife would later help him a lot.

She pulled off the branches that had fallen on the stone table, patted the stone chair and said:

"Sit down and rest for a while."

Lin Jiu: "No need, rest after you finish the work."

When he was pruning, he thoughtfully left the leaves on top of the stone table and the swing, so that the place was still cool and comfortable.

Jingzhi sat under the shade of a tree, supporting herself with her hands and watching Lin Jiu who was still carrying wood.

As I watched, it seemed as if time had gone back more than a hundred years.

The thin branches behind him looked like the small braids on the back of his head. Jingyi was mesmerized for a moment.

It wasn't until she saw the corner filled with neatly piled broken branches and two buckets gently placed in front of her that she came to her senses.

Jingzhi sniffed lightly, raised his head, and asked in confusion:

"What are you doing with the paint?"

Lin Jiu wet the rag with water, wrung it out, and half-knelt in front of the swing frame. He gently wiped the dust off it, chuckled, and said:

"Brother Lin, it's not that I just like to swing. This thing is old. Wait until I apply some wood wax oil on it so you can use it for a longer time."

Jingzhi's heart seemed to be hit by his familiar words and began to beat wildly.

Erdi always said the same thing to her every one or two years when she was painting the house.

When she pursed her lips and was still thinking about how to answer him, Lin Jiu interrupted again:

"It will definitely be useful when your childishness disappears."

The feeling of being touched just now was instantly shattered by his words.

Jingzhi picked up the leaves on the table and tore them apart, muttering softly:

"You're so naughty."

Lin Jiu: "...I think I'm okay."

The sun was very strong, and when I wiped it with a rag, the moisture was carried away by the wind and dried it completely.

Lin Jiu had clearly never painted anything before, but he found this job surprisingly easy to do.

In a short while, the wooden swing, with the texture of time, began to show new life in his hands.

Lin Jiu even carefully applied a layer of oil to the iron chain above.

"Okay, don't worry about sitting down. With this sunshine, you can play tomorrow."

Jingzhi rested her chin on her hands, lying on the table, staring at him blankly, and did not forget to say to him:

"Whoever wants to play, I won't play."

"Yes, yes, you don't want to play~" Lin Jiu laughed in his heart, picked up the small wooden horse next to him, and asked Jingzhi: "What about this one? Do you want to paint it?"

Jingzhi shook his head and said, "No, I'll chop it up and use it as firewood later."

"It's a pity to use it as firewood." He said jokingly, "You don't want to ride it?"

"I'll beat you to death!" Jingzhi slammed the table, stood up, picked up the shattered leaves on the table and threw them at his face.

Lin Jiu closed his eyes and held his breath, reaching his bony hands over his head to brush away the debris.

Even he himself was shocked.

Even though Jingzhi treated him like this, he couldn't get angry at all. Instead, he felt that this was a despicable person.

After all, she's so funny when she's angry.

Seeing that he didn't accept the challenge, Jingzhi paused for a moment, then snorted, sat down, and said unhappily:

"You just work hard. Take a break."

In her previous life, she only knew how to tease the honest and shy Lin Jiu every day, but in this life, she was teased by the naughty him. She really deserved it.

……

When the two apprentices came back from their stall, they saw that the gate of the Taoist temple was open, but there was no one inside.

There were voices coming from next door, so they both climbed up to the top of the wall and looked at Jingzhi and Lin Jiu next door, who were arguing like children.

The two of them stared with wide eyes, looking at the man below who not only laughed but also joked, their faces full of disbelief.

Ah Hai: "Brother, has Master ever played a joke on you?"

Po stiffened his neck and turned his head: "Does being sarcastic count?"

Ah Hai asked again: "Have you ever seen him so positive?"

A Bao nodded: "I am very active when it comes to making money."

Ah Hai shook his head and tutted his words: "I think Master will not only fail to make money this time, but he might even lose his life."

Po: "...What do you mean?"

Ah Hai's eyes rolled cleverly, "Hey, I won't tell you."

Seeing Lin Jiu's face change secretly, he shrank his neck and quickly jumped off the wall.

Po followed.

"Hey, don't speak half-sentences."

Lin Jiu rolled his eyes and shouted across, "You're back so soon! Did Boss He transfer the stall to you?"

A Bao's response came from next door, "It's turned around."

Lin Jiu nodded, "Then wash it thoroughly. Keeping the food stall clean is the most important thing."

Someone grumbled, "No matter what you do, keeping it clean is the first priority."

Lin Jiu secretly glanced at Jingzhi and shouted angrily: "If you have time to gossip, why don't you get two buckets of hot water!"

When talking about hot water, Jingzhi's ears turned red silently.

She quickly interrupted: "I, you, you go back and wash it, I will do the rest myself."

"Okay." Lin Jiu put down the wooden horse, patted the dust off his hands and said, "Don't forget to have dinner together tomorrow night."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work today." Jingzhi said.

"Don't be polite with me. Let's go."

The sunlight gradually turned orange, shining on the undried swing, bringing a warmth.

Jingzhi looked at the newly renovated yard and suddenly grinned with a gentle smile.

Last year in this door today, the face of peach blossoms in red.

Jiu, thank you for being willing to be born into this world.

I... like it here.

……