A Gorgeous Man Takes His Son to the City to Work 41

Chapter 41

Bai Qingyu pursed his lips and glared at He Renyuan. He would take Cha Bao to kindergarten first and settle the score later.

The beautiful man probably hadn’t made many fierce expressions before, so it didn’t look very convincing. Even Cha Bao couldn’t tell that his dad was angry.

He Renyuan couldn’t stand Bai Qingyu making such a vivid expression with that face. He paused and got out of the car a step later.

Before entering the kindergarten, the teacher checked the children’s backpacks for inappropriate items and the length of their fingernails.

Bai Xiaocha’s backpack didn’t need to be opened, its contents clearly visible. Teacher Xiao Yu smiled knowingly. Cha Bao opened his palms, his fingernails short, the back of his hands chubby. He passed the inspection.

“Dad cut them!” Bai Xiaocha said proudly, “Dad can also cut hair.”

Last time, when He Renyuan brought Cha Bao for a trial run, it was Teacher Xiao Yu who received them. Cha Bao called He Renyuan uncle, so Teacher Xiao Yu thought Cha Bao’s dad and He Renyuan were cousins. She smiled and looked up at Cha Bao’s dad, stunned for a full ten seconds, forgetting to speak.

Teacher Xiao Yu followed celebrities in her spare time. Now, she felt that she would never want to follow those easily-exposed ugly men in the entertainment industry again.

Actually, the boss was also handsome, but who could treat their cold-faced boss as a celebrity? Just imagining him smiling made her break out in a cold sweat.

“Hello, Xiao Cha’s dad, I’m the head teacher of the toddler class, just call me Xiao Yu.”

“Hello, Teacher Xiao Yu, I’ll leave Cha Bao to you. He likes to sleep, please let him sleep more.”

Teacher Xiao Yu, “Okay, okay.”

Bai Xiaocha, “Dad and Uncle are going to work, Baby is going to school.”

Bai Qingyu waved.

Teacher Xiao Yu took Cha Bao to the toddler class. He Renyuan wanted to show Bai Qingyu the kindergarten’s cafeteria and outdoor playground.

Bai Qingyu, “A morally depraved person like you shouldn’t enter a kindergarten.”

He Renyuan, “How am I… morally depraved?”

He Renyuan lowered his eyes and saw Bai Qingyu searching on his phone, “Can a lawyer who is familiar with the law coerce someone into marriage?”

There were very few search results. If the person involved was of sound mind, probably not.

Bai Qingyu put his phone away with relief. He knew He Renyuan was watching, he wanted him to see it.

He Renyuan said seriously, “I’ll take Cha Bao to school on my way to work and bring him home after work.”

“This can save non-renewable energy.”

Bai Qingyu was noncommittal, not wanting to talk to him.

He Renyuan, “Shall I send you back now? Or do you want to stay near Cha Bao?”

Bai Qingyu narrowed his eyes and glanced at He Renyuan. None of your business.

He Renyuan, “Why not come to the company with me? It’s only a five-minute walk from here. You can stay close to Cha Bao.”

Bai Qingyu sneered.

He Renyuan finally surrendered, “I apologize for kissing you, I shouldn’t have offended your divine majesty without your consent.”

Offended his divine majesty? Bai Qingyu’s eyes flickered. This wording was precise, highlighting the tea deity’s nobility and He Renyuan’s insignificance. For the sake of his sincere apology, he wouldn’t hold a grudge against the mortal’s impulsiveness.

Bai Qingyu said magnanimously, “Who will feed the chickens if I leave?”

He Renyuan paused. This was an answer to the previous question, he didn’t have to be so dedicated to his job.

“I’m planning to buy an automatic feeder to guarantee your weekends off.” It could also be used on weekdays.

Bai Qingyu planned to go back to his hometown on the weekend and immediately said, “Buy it now.”

He stared at He Renyuan taking out his phone, his shopping apps few, and instructed, “Download the red one.”

He Renyuan, “I’ll do it in the car.”

Bai Qingyu sat in the passenger seat and, in order to see He Renyuan’s phone screen clearly, leaned over, his chin almost resting on He Renyuan’s shoulder, like a cat looking at its owner’s phone.

He Renyuan downloaded the shopping app Bai Qingyu specified and entered “automatic chicken feeder.” He thought it would show something like a hotel food delivery robot, walking around the chicken coop, with a beautiful appearance, automatic cleaning and sterilization, automatic feeding…

Bai Qingyu said excitedly, “What are you waiting for? Click on the 45-yuan one.”

He Renyuan looked at the product image with only a simple motor and closed his eyes. It was like buying a water dispenser but only getting a timed water outlet switch. The material container on top and the supporting bracket below had to be installed by himself.

Why hadn’t anyone invented a food delivery robot for chickens? There were clearly more chickens in the world than people.

He Renyuan, “At least buy this one with remote Wi-Fi control.”

Bai Qingyu, “It’s sixty yuan more expensive.”

He Renyuan, “But it has feeding music, the chickens will come running when they hear it and eat fresh food.”

Bai Qingyu was tempted, “Okay.”

Under Bai Qingyu’s gaze, He Renyuan ordered the 102-yuan premium model.

Bai Qingyu’s eyes crinkled, his eyelashes touching, already imagining how to use old items to make the material container and feeding tray.

Bai Qingyu, “The loofah I planted has grown taller, with many tendrils.”

After speaking, he was tired from leaning over and simply put his left arm on He Renyuan’s shoulder. As if hinting at something, he stared at He Renyuan’s eyes, full of expectation, “It’s half a meter tall now.”

He Renyuan didn’t understand what he was hinting at and hoped for a clearer hint. He would agree to anything.

Bai Qingyu looked at him, “I haven’t built the loofah trellis yet!”

He Renyuan could only search for “loofah trellis,” the product name being “outdoor climbing frame.”

A few green pipes and connectors could be assembled into the trellis Bai Qingyu needed.

Bai Qingyu, “Buy number 3, the one that’s 1.8 meters in length, width, and height.”

He Renyuan thought for a moment and chose the one with a height of “2.2 meters.”

Bai Qingyu frowned, “You spent thirty yuan more!”

This was the most extravagant person he had ever seen! If they weren’t in the city, he could just cut bamboo poles from the mountain and build it himself.

“Why did you buy the extra thirty centimeters?”

He Renyuan, “It’s too low, I’ll bump my head when I go in to pick the loofah.”

Bai Qingyu said in surprise, “Didn’t you dislike it? Why do you want to pick them now?”

He Renyuan, “I think it’s quite nice to be among the melons and plums.”

Bai Qingyu, “Good that you’ve come around. The loofah I grow is very delicious. Stir-fried with eggs, it’s soft and tender, Cha Bao loves it.”

He Renyuan looked at the excited Bai Qingyu. Did shopping with him make him happy? He struck while the iron was hot, “Let’s go to the mall and buy some books and stationery for Cha Bao.”

“The mall?” Bai Qingyu immediately opened the car door and got out, “I’ll take the subway back, goodbye.”

He Renyuan: “…” Could he only compare prices with Bai Qingyu on a shopping app for the rest of his life?

If it was for a lifetime, that would be fine too.

Bai Qingyu entrusted the follow-up of the eating broadcast account to He Renyuan. He didn’t worry about it at all.

He Renyuan dutifully opened the Douyin app and monitored the public opinion.

At nine o’clock in the morning, @Principal Mom posted a statement.

[The person in charge of this account (male) uploaded videos of kindergarten children eating to the internet for profit without the parents’ permission. I have now deeply realized my mistake and apologize to all the babies, their parents, and fans who appeared in the videos. All profits will be donated to the free lunch program for rural primary schools. This account will be deleted one day after this statement is posted.]

All other videos on the account had been deleted, leaving only this statement.

Half of the comments below were scolding the principal, the other half were lamenting the loss of their online snack.

He Renyuan quickly scanned the comments and saw a few people sharing archived videos. He hesitated and didn’t report them.

Public opinion wasn’t attacking Cha Bao or Bai Qingyu for the time being, so He Renyuan was relieved.

Just as he was about to put down his phone and drive back to the company, his fingers paused.

The most important thing for humans was to learn from the past.

A keyword “popular foodie baby” could lead to Cha Bao, he just hadn’t thought of searching for it.

The tea deity had been active in the world for thousands of years, he couldn’t have left no trace, right?

He Renyuan sat up straight and immediately searched for “tea deity” in the browser.

The first results were about tea deity worship ceremonies in tea-producing areas.

One article described the process in detail. He Renyuan spent fifteen minutes reading it but didn’t find any clues. The worship procedures were similar, but the offerings in the accompanying pictures looked familiar.

He scrolled past these reports, wanting to see folk tales.

Suddenly, he saw a post.

[Original Poster: The tea deity appeared this year and ate our offerings. When the tea deity eats offerings, he will bestow blessings. This year’s tea harvest will definitely be bountiful, praying hands.]

[There are still people who sincerely believe in deities these days, you should call the police if your offerings were stolen.]

[Original Poster, where do you live? I don’t mean anything by it, I’m also a tea deity, I’ll help you eat them for free.]

[Marking this, I sell health products.]

[Actually, passersby can eat for free… we won’t stop you if you want to eat.]

Almost all the replies in the post were mocking the original poster, until the original poster came back a year later and said that the quality of this year’s tea, both new and old, was really very good.

However, no one in the thread believed him.

The post was from more than three years ago, when He Renyuan fell off the cliff. The original poster’s home address, revealed on his profile, was nearby.

So, could he guess that Bai Qingyu took him to some immortal cave to heal his injuries, and because he was a human and needed to eat, Bai Qingyu went out to “take” offerings for him?

He had a similar flash of memory when Bai Qingyu delivered breakfast to his office.

He Renyuan looked at the picture attached to the post. The offerings weren’t messed up, almost every dish had a little bit taken, and the remaining food in some dishes had a peculiar shape: a piece was taken from the middle, an ordinary person wouldn’t do this.

No wonder he swallowed Cha Bao’s leftover hodgepodge so easily, it wasn’t his first time eating it.

Now he had evidence, and corroboration from a tea farmer. From his observation, Bai Qingyu was genuinely tolerant of tea farmers, at least he wouldn’t directly dismiss them like a defense lawyer submitting evidence.

He Renyuan saved the post and was about to forward it to Bai Qingyu when his finger paused.

The comments were all mocking the stolen offerings, Bai Qingyu would be sad if he saw them.

With Bai Qingyu’s personality, seeing the post would be like a white bird seeing ink stains on its feathers, constantly preening by the water.

He Renyuan sighed and exited the post.

With both he and Bai Qingyu having no memory of the past, finding evidence was as difficult as climbing to the sky.

But sometimes, evidence wasn’t the most important thing, the judge’s mood was more important.
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Bai Qingyu: You’re slandering the judicial system.
He Renyuan: No.
Bai Qingyu: You’re slandering me!