Chapter 27
After Bai Qingyu finished eating, he went into the tea-frying room and stayed there for a long time before coming out.
Without Bai Xiaocha’s interference, he finished the production in one go. Not only was the Huangshan Maofeng stir-fried, but he was almost stir-fried himself.
As soon as the door of the tea-frying room opened, a rich tea fragrance wafted out. Everyone working in the villa stopped what they were doing and took a deep breath.
It smelled so good, smelling it was a blessing. They had smelled plenty of tea fragrances and tasted tea while Young Master He Renyuan was making tea, but even those that cost nine hundred yuan per brew didn’t smell as good as today’s tea.
Like cats smelling catnip, a group of people gathered at the door of the tea room, “Qingyu, what kind of tea did you stir-fry?”
Bai Qingyu, “Huangshan Maofeng, a thank-you gift for the young master.”
The housekeeper nodded repeatedly, “The young master will definitely like it.”
Bai Qingyu, “I’m a little hot, I’ll go upstairs and take a shower.”
The tea deity felt very dehydrated, especially his hair, which was very dry, and needed a shower.
It would be even better if he could soak in a bath, although the He family had a bathtub, but the water in the city also cost money, it was too wasteful to fill a whole tub.
Hmm? Could he go to the fourth floor and soak in the swimming pool?
Bai Qingyu’s eyes lit up. He asked the housekeeper, “The young master said I could use the swimming pool, can I use it now?”
There were gasps of surprise around him. Bai Qingyu looked around, but everyone’s faces were calm.
The housekeeper didn’t doubt the young master’s decision, “Of course, no one will go up to the fourth floor, you can swim as much as you like, but… should I still arrange a lifeguard for you?”
Bai Qingyu probably hadn’t been in a swimming pool before. It was his first time swimming, and the housekeeper was a little worried.
Bai Qingyu, “No need, no need, I can swim, I’ll bring a lifebuoy.”
Wood naturally floated on water, it wouldn’t sink.
The housekeeper agreed and conveniently activated the pool’s nanny-level anti-drowning monitoring system, which intelligently recognized a person’s swimming state.
On the fourth floor, Bai Qingyu closed the door, squatted down, and touched the water temperature. The temperature of the constant temperature pool was just right. He plunged in without any skill and quickly surfaced, lying on his back.
The gentle pool water surrounded him. Bai Qingyu let his dehydrated long hair down to absorb as much water as possible.
No one would come up to the fourth floor. Even if they did, he would transform back as soon as the door moved.
His long, dark green hair swayed in the water, tiny bubbles rising from it like strings of pearls. Bai Qingyu floated for a while and drifted to the center of the pool.
Then what? How to swim?
Bai Qingyu tentatively turned over in the water, paddling with his arms and kicking with his legs. After splashing around for a while, as if activating a skill card, he started swimming smoothly.
He knew it, immortals were born knowing how to swim.
Bai Qingyu swam two laps and lay on his back to sleep. Just as he closed his eyes, a red light flashed on the ceiling, and a mechanical voice sounded, “If you are not drowning, please change your posture.”
Bai Qingyu patted the water.
The red light stopped.
Did it think I was drowning in this posture? Bai Qingyu muttered, turned over, and floated face down.
The pool system’s mechanical voice became more urgent, “If you are not drowning, please change your posture.”
Bai Qingyu had to give up on sleeping and swam around the pool until he was thoroughly soaked, then he went ashore.
The water-saturated tea deity looked refreshed, his fair skin flushed, his long hair shiny and soft. He leaned against the pool wall in a daze, his long hair floating like willow leaves, his eyebrows like the tail of a swallow. A few simple strokes, black and white outlines, with a touch of green, it was an immortal freehand painting.
“What time is it? Is it time to pick up Cha Bao from school?” Bai Qingyu picked up his phone from the shore. He had actually been soaking for three hours.
The Shu He Group’s kindergarten had long school hours, until 5:30 pm, to accommodate the working hours of employees.
He Renyuan was going to pick up Cha Bao after work and should be back soon.
Bai Qingyu hurriedly got out of the water and went into the changing room to put on his short-sleeved shorts and pajamas. When he came out, he transformed back into his ordinary appearance.
He had just finished feeding the chickens when Cha Bao ran in from outside and threw himself into his arms, “Dad, I saw an alpaca today!”
“Did you go to the zoo?”
“I saw it at kindergarten.”
He Renyuan said, “After-school entertainment at the kindergarten.”
Bai Qingyu was surprised by the variety of activities at the kindergarten, “That’s great.”
He Renyuan thought, it’s great but you still won’t transfer Cha Bao. Cha Bao would have to go back to his old kindergarten on Monday.
Bai Xiaocha whispered in his father’s ear, “Dad, the alpaca baby wanted to eat my hair!”
Bai Qingyu said, “Don’t worry, there are no alpaca babies at the kindergarten you’ll be going to tomorrow.”
Bai Xiaocha clenched his fist. Okay, Baby would go to a different place to eat.
He Renyuan hinted, “Cha Bao is very popular with small animals.” He was very excited playing at the kindergarten today.
Bai Qingyu, “Yes.”
He Renyuan: “…” He was going to be angered to death.
Bai Qingyu took out a package of tea. He had put some effort into the packaging – although the box was a tea box he picked up from He Renyuan’s storage room.
“This is for you.”
He Renyuan was surprised, “Tea?”
Bai Qingyu, “Yes, it’s a famous tea I bought on Huangshan. Try it now.”
Bai Qingyu held the little one, both big and small looking at He Renyuan expectantly, their eyes big and round, like bowls of amber tea.
He Renyuan looked at Bai Qingyu. He seemed particularly refreshed today, his eyelashes as if naturally moist, impossible to dry.
He collected his thoughts and made himself a cup of calming tea.
The tea was ivory yellow, lightly processed, with a faint fragrance of flowers and chestnuts, the delicate tea aroma like the clouds and mist on a high mountain.
“Huangshan Maofeng?”
“Yes!”
Both Bai Qingyu and Bai Xiaocha’s eyes curved into smiles, as if it was something to be very excited about, their eyes sparkling with joy, like the light reflected from tea under the sun.
He Renyuan looked down and savored the tea that made the father and son so proud for some reason.
He finished the cup in one go, but tasted a different base note from Huangshan Maofeng, a familiar feeling of reunion.
Based on his experience, this pack of tea wouldn’t be less than five figures. Bai Qingyu had used his salary from his previous job to buy him tea.
Even as repayment, Bai Qingyu was willing to be this generous to him.
The corners of He Renyuan’s mouth turned up.
Bai Xiaocha cupped his face in his hands, “Uncle, is it good?”
He Renyuan, “It’s good.”
Bai Qingyu, “We were at the tea shop, and Cha Bao chose this tea.”
“Cha Bao has a good nose.” He Renyuan saw the dawn of cultivating Cha Bao’s refined taste in food, “His tongue must also be sensitive, he can tell which kindergarten has better food.”
Bai Xiaocha, “They’re all delicious!”
He Renyuan: “…” He had hired that five-star chef for nothing.
The kindergarten today was too interesting. Cha Bao sat in his father’s arms for a while and then slowly shut down, his eyes and mouth tightly closed, he wouldn’t wake up even if he was tossed and turned like stir-fried tea.
Bai Qingyu also yawned, “I’ll take Cha Bao upstairs to sleep. The chickens are fed, the eggs are collected, and the chicken manure is shoveled.”
He Renyuan looked at Bai Qingyu’s back, three chickens in one sentence, he, such a big boss, was right in front of him, and he didn’t care at all. Did he pay him thirty thousand yuan just to raise chickens?
Of course not, he was doing it so that Cha Bao could attend his kindergarten and be an enrollment advertisement.
He Renyuan stood up angrily. The housekeeper hurriedly asked, “Aren’t you eating dinner?”
He Renyuan, “Not eating, going swimming first.”
The housekeeper said, “Qingyu also went swimming today, do you need to change the water?”
He Renyuan, “Isn’t it too late to ask now?”
It would take a long time to change the water, what swimming?
The housekeeper observed the young master’s expression. Not changing the water was the right decision. A good housekeeper knew how to save water for the boss.
As soon as He Renyuan stepped into the pool, he glanced at the smart panel, which showed that the last person used the pool for three hours. Then, he smelled a very faint tea fragrance, not in the air, but emanating from the water.
Why did this pool of water smell like cold brew tea?
He got into the water and became even more certain of his guess. It was as if a large amount of pure rock tea had been steeped in cold water for more than three hours. Without high-temperature volatilization, the floral and fruity aromas were fully preserved in the tea, sweet and not bitter.
The point wasn’t the cold brew, but the tea itself. Just a few wisps of fragrance, although he was smelling it for the first time, it was hauntingly familiar.
Last time, Bai Qingyu said he used tea leaves for bathing and briefly let him smell the fragrance on his wrist, it was the same, almost breaking his composure.
It was impossible for the pool to have a tea smell out of nowhere. Only Bai Qingyu had been up here today. Could he be so extravagant as to use tea leaves to cold brew a whole pool of water for swimming?
He Renyuan took a deep breath, plunged into the water, opened his eyes, and searched for evidence at the bottom of the pool.
There were tea leaves!
He Renyuan, like a lord of the ocean, quickly swept across the bottom of the pool, reached out, and grabbed two tea leaves stuck to the drain.
There was another one. He Renyuan couldn’t wait to come up for air and grabbed it while holding his breath.
Splash—He Renyuan surfaced, choking on water and coughing.
Three tea leaves.
He Renyuan stared at the evidence in his hand. Bai Qingyu had really used the pool as a bathtub, cold brewing tea here, making a whole tub of bathwater, and soaking for three hours!
He let Bai Qingyu use the pool for swimming, not for bathing!
Then the water he choked on was Bai Qingyu’s bathwater?
He Renyuan coughed even harder, his ears and neck flushed.
He clutched the tea leaves tightly. Bai Qingyu was really generous when taking a bath. Whatever good tea he had, he used it lavishly. Where did he get so much good tea, even better than the famous teas he had collected for three years?
Not only did he have good tea, but Bai Qingyu also had an excellent ability to identify and stir-fry tea. He didn’t look like a housekeeper from the countryside at all, but more like a down-on-his-luck nobleman, all his possessions being priceless tea leaves, like a poor scholar in ancient times who wouldn’t sell his paintings and calligraphy even when he was destitute.
Bai Qingyu had this kind of stubbornness, He Renyuan had experienced it.
Bai Qingyu must have a fixed channel for obtaining tea leaves.
He Renyuan didn’t covet the tea leaves… he didn’t even believe himself when he said that.
He had a strong premonition that the source of Bai Qingyu’s tea was very important to him.
He Renyuan opened the pool’s surveillance footage, rewound the time to the afternoon, and saw Bai Qingyu come in, splash some water, and then go into the bathroom to shower and change.
Then – before the bathroom door opened, the screen went black.
He Renyuan fast-forwarded to the end in disbelief. When the image reappeared, Bai Qingyu came out of the bathroom, his hair wet, his wet pajamas in his hand, looking like he had already swum.
No???
A person who helped him with a lucky draw online also knew how to delete surveillance footage???
He Renyuan pursed his lips. Bai Qingyu, a seemingly honest housekeeper, with a harmless cub, but with unusual strength and methods.
This kind of absurd plot was only seen in spy movies.
Was there any need for a spy to be placed in his house?
He Renyuan froze. Oh no, there really was.
In the Shu He Group, his subordinates often tried to guess his intentions and “specially recruited” some tea-savvy people into the office. It wasn’t that they hadn’t recruited commercial spies before.
But Bai Qingyu couldn’t possibly be a spy. Who would bring a child to work as a spy?
He Renyuan carefully stored the tea leaves and went downstairs for dinner.
It was only seven o’clock in the evening. Yesterday, it was a lively banquet, but today it was a bit deserted.
He Renyuan, “Uncle Qi, has Bai Qingyu eaten?”
The housekeeper, “It seems not, Bai Qingyu is casual about eating, he always says he’s not hungry.”
He Renyuan sent Bai Qingyu a WeChat message.
[Come down for dinner.]
He waited and sent another one.
[I have something for you.]
Bai Qingyu still didn’t reply, like an employee who didn’t answer the boss’s call after work.
At this time, the security guard came in with several packages, big and small, with tattered packaging, all addressed to Bai Qingyu.
He Renyuan sent another message.
[Your packages are here, come down and open them.]
This time, there was a response.
[Coming right away.]
He Renyuan: “…” So nothing was more effective than a few broken packages.
Bai Qingyu happily ran downstairs. The trash can he bought last time was very useful, making him look forward to online shopping.
There was a pile of packages in the living room. Ordered yesterday, arrived today, first-tier cities were really fast. Bai Qingyu planned to put one of the small vehicles on the first floor, so he squatted down and started opening the packages.
He Renyuan gave the housekeeper a look, and the housekeeper tactfully left.
He Renyuan then condescended to walk over and help Bai Qingyu open his precious packages.
“What’s this?” He Renyuan opened a small package, and several pairs of underwear in different colors fell out.
Bai Qingyu exclaimed, “Ah,” and introduced, “These are the underwear I bought, three yuan each, random colors, I couldn’t choose.”
He Renyuan closed his eyes. He even had to worry about what kind of underwear Bai Qingyu wore.
“Can you even wear these?”
Bai Qingyu took a look. Hmm, they seemed too small, not a normal size at all, he couldn’t even get his thighs through, right?
He didn’t even think about returning them and rolled up his loose pajama pants, wanting to try the leg opening of the underwear. The waist seemed okay, but he wasn’t sure about the thighs.
The underwear got stuck on his upper thighs, squeezing a ring of soft flesh, fair and firm, looking pitiful.
“No, it’s too tight,” Bai Qingyu said disappointedly.
He Renyuan took a deep breath. What was Bai Qingyu trying to do with a body like this?
