Chapter 56
“Let’s not go out until I’m fully recovered.” He Renyuan was scared. What if he taught the tea deity something, and he went out and practiced it? How could a disabled person be a responsible guide?
Bai Qingyu’s tea-colored eyes widened. He enjoyed collecting food for He Renyuan, like raising a pet rabbit, happily gathering grass, feeding, cleaning, and healing him.
He Renyuan stopped being a QQ pet and became a teacher, dedicated to educating and nurturing.
He realized teaching rules was useless, there were too many rule-breakers. He should teach the tea deity how to deal with rules, not obey them.
“I’m fine, this small injury will heal in two days with some herbs.” Bai Qingyu took out a hundred-yuan bill and waved it like a banner, “Not a wasted trip, he even gave me a hundred yuan.”
He Renyuan wouldn’t even bend down for a hundred yuan on the ground, and now his wife was hit by a car and was happy about the hundred-yuan compensation. He closed his eyes, “Your Honor, the defendant ran a red light, full responsibility. My wife’s medical checkup will cost at least a thousand, not including nutrition and lost wages. The defendant is trying to scare him with a hundred yuan, taking advantage of his ignorance of the law, is this acceptable?”
He Renyuan often made up scenarios for lessons, Bai Qingyu both the student and the judge.
Judge Tea Deity immediately ruled, nutrition? Right, he saw a bag of buns on the scooter, if he was compensated with one, he could bring it back for He Renyuan, “The defendant should provide some nutrition.”
“Lost wages? Does your wife have a job? Can she provide proof of income?” Bai Qingyu’s law lessons were effective, he had learned to find loopholes.
He Renyuan, “The plaintiff has to take care of her paralyzed husband, she’s the main breadwinner.”
Judge Tea Deity was pleased, “It is a little less.”
“But I was also at fault, I could have dodged earlier.”
He Renyuan gritted his teeth, “Then why didn’t you?”
Bai Qingyu, “I wanted to teach him a lesson. It’s fine that he hit me, what if he doesn’t pay attention next time and hits a mortal?”
He Renyuan was both amused and exasperated. He wanted to shake his head.
Bai Qingyu folded the hundred-yuan bill and put it in He Renyuan’s pocket, “Here you go.”
He Renyuan wouldn’t take the money, “Keep it, buy what you want.”
Because the tea deity was injured, Lawyer He suspended class for a day, focusing on lesson planning. The paper and pen were picked up by Bai Qingyu at the school. Rural primary schools were tuition-free and provided free notebooks. The children were wasteful, often discarding them after a few pages.
Bai Qingyu peeled and pitted the mangoes, used magic to create rain in a stone groove to wash them, then mashed the pulp with a stone.
Food didn’t expire here, they took what they needed.
He Renyuan usually avoided watching Bai Qingyu prepare food, lest it affect his appetite. Only animals were fed with stone troughs these days.
He finished his lesson plan, eight classes a day, keeping Bai Qingyu too busy to pick mangoes.
Since typing with pinyin was more convenient, He Renyuan also taught the tea deity pinyin.
Bai Qingyu was initially enthusiastic about class, he liked listening to He Renyuan talk, like someone falling for a lawyer in court, or a teacher in class.
He Renyuan’s words made sense, but his questions were difficult.
He Renyuan, “If someone, besides me, gives you a large sum of money, what do you do?”
Bai Qingyu answered perfectly, “I won’t accept it. Gifts given with the intention of pursuit can be reclaimed, and accepting money from others might be money laundering.”
He Renyuan kissed him, “So smart.”
His biggest headache was Bai Qingyu’s blind trust in what humans said, a serious problem that needed to be corrected before his injuries could heal.
He Renyuan could only use himself as an example. If Bai Qingyu became shrewd with him, then other humans wouldn’t be a problem.
“I’m just a lawyer, you’re a deity, a judge.”
“Refute my arguments, question my evidence. Successful rebuttals will be rewarded.”
Bai Qingyu looked up, “Only kisses, no other rewards?”
He Renyuan was now abstinent, not sleeping with him or asking for food. His lips weren’t as red, a scholarly air about him.
He Renyuan coughed, “You’re a student, don’t think about these things. I have no strength until I recover.”
Bai Qingyu, “You have no strength for bed, but you have strength for class.”
He Renyuan was pleased by his sarcasm, “Teaching doesn’t take strength.”
Bai Qingyu, “Studying law makes you inhumane.”
He Renyuan: “…”
Bai Qingyu made mango tea, “Here.”
Delicious green tea mango.
He Renyuan refused to drink it. Mango season wasn’t over. If he didn’t drink it, Bai Qingyu wouldn’t go out to pick mangoes, and wouldn’t be hit by a car.
He’d rather starve, he still had some backbone.
Bai Qingyu took a sip and covered He Renyuan’s mouth.
He Renyuan, weak from his hunger strike, was easily pushed down, letting Bai Qingyu feed him the mango juice.
Bai Qingyu held him, “Do you have strength now?”
“…” He Renyuan’s efforts were wasted.
Bai Qingyu discovered more ways to make He Renyuan speechless.
Wasn’t the purpose of He Renyuan’s teaching to make him argue?
Bai Qingyu was good at it, saying he was uncomfortable, the technique was bad, or he hadn’t compared prices when He Renyuan asked how he was.
He Renyuan was so angry he even ate the mango.
But He Renyuan could also be unmoved, especially when explaining boring but important knowledge, perhaps wanting to finish in one go.
Bai Qingyu would go get water or make tea.
“Lawyer He, I drank a lot of water, I need to pee.”
Bai Qingyu wanted to escape, but He Renyuan saw through him. He knew what Bai Qingyu looked like when he had to go.
“No, finish criminal law first.” He couldn’t chase after him with his injured leg.
Bai Qingyu stood up, “How do I know you’re not lying? Do you have a teaching license?”
He Renyuan raised his eyebrows in surprise. Bai Qingyu was getting good at this.
“Then what’s your solution?”
Bai Qingyu, “You should prove yourself, not ask me.”
He Renyuan was speechless.
Bai Qingyu said slyly, “I’ll go to the human world and buy a law book, I have a hundred yuan.”
“Wait for me.”
Bai Qingyu disappeared.
He didn’t buy a law book, but wandered around the food stalls.
He Renyuan had been on a hunger strike, only having mango jam in the divine realm. Bai Qingyu wanted to buy some snacks.
Human-processed food should be better.
“Are these oyster pancakes delicious?” Bai Qingyu watched the auntie fry them, with shredded carrots, seaweed, cabbage, scallions, and peanuts.
The fried oyster pancakes floated, plump and cute.
One bite with so many ingredients, it was very appealing.
“Delicious, five yuan each, freshly fried.”
Bai Qingyu, “Okay, two please.”
He Renyuan had a large appetite.
The stall owner pointed at the QR code. Bai Qingyu handed over a hundred-yuan bill, “I only have cash.”
The stall owner wiped her hands on her apron and gave him 90 yuan in change.
“Are takoyaki delicious?” Bai Qingyu asked.
“Delicious,” the stall owner said.
“One order, please.”
“Is grilled cold noodles delicious?”
Since He Renyuan had been eating sweet things recently, Bai Qingyu wanted to buy him savory snacks.
He happily brought back ten kinds of snacks, forgetting about criminal law. A hundred yuan could buy so much.
He Renyuan smelled normal food for the first time in months – offerings were usually bland.
Bai Qingyu, “Eat, you’ll feel better with some strength.”
Although the aloof and abstinent He Renyuan also had his charm, it wasn’t comfortable.
During Bai Qingyu’s absence, He Renyuan optimized his lesson plans, trying to make the class more engaging.
Nothing was more engaging than Bai Qingyu himself.
He should optimize his teaching method.
Why couldn’t he teach while doing his wife?
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He Renyuan’s external injuries healed before his internal ones. His internal organs were damaged from the fall, harder to heal than broken bones, so he had to rest even after regaining mobility.
Besides verbal lessons, he could now teach Bai Qingyu how to swim.
The tea deity, although stubborn, couldn’t drown. After some effort, he gained a new experience.
One day, after He Renyuan recovered, Bai Qingyu transformed into his true form, wanting to greet the ancient tea deities sleeping in the valley—
He wanted to share his lifespan with this mortal.
The two-hundred-year-old tea tree was beautiful and elegant. Bai Qingyu, back in his true form, was surprised to find a small tea sapling sprouting from his roots.
This was—
A thick fog dispersed, the past like a fleeting cloud.
Later, the tea deity thought he had a baby after waking up from dormancy and calmly raised Bai Xiaocha.
While pregnant with Bai Xiaocha, Bai Qingyu went to the human world a few times.
He lingered outside the tea deity temple, looking up at the wild fruit trees.
He brought back offerings and fruits a few times, but felt confused.
Because he only consumed sunlight and rain, not human food.
Maybe Cha Bao liked them.
Bai Qingyu touched his belly, accepting this explanation.
When Cha Bao sprouted, his roots separating from the mother tree, Bai Qingyu couldn’t wait to bring him to the human world.
To reunite with He Renyuan.
Tears soaked Bai Qingyu’s eye mask. He held the bleeding He Renyuan. So he was good at cutting Cha Bao’s hair because of He Renyuan, and Cha Bao’s black hair was because he liked He Renyuan’s hair.
Whatever he liked, Cha Bao had.
“Do you remember me?” He Renyuan’s voice was soft and comforting, “It’s okay if you don’t, I still have a way.”
“I remember!”
He Renyuan smiled, then was pushed away by Bai Qingyu.
Bai Qingyu ripped off his eye mask, his hands and feet covered in He Renyuan’s blood, a shocking sight.
No wonder He Renyuan was wearing black today, black hid bloodstains best, he had planned this.
He Renyuan’s lips were pale, he must have drawn a lot of blood.
His lips trembled as he held He Renyuan’s wrist, wanting to give him divine power.
He Renyuan pushed him away with all his strength, “What medicine can solve, your divine power isn’t needed.”
He had already used a lot of Bai Qingyu’s divine power in the divine realm.
“Let’s shower and change first, then deal with the blood, don’t scare Cha Bao when he comes back.”
Bai Qingyu, “Ri-right, change clothes first.”
He Renyuan slowly followed Bai Qingyu. Although at a cost, there was a good outcome.
Bai Qingyu turned to look at him. He Renyuan smiled at him, as if nothing had happened.
Bai Qingyu scratched his cheek, his face thinner than He Renyuan’s, blushing as he remembered the past. It was originally so innocent, suddenly so NSFW.
He was about to follow He Renyuan into the room when He Renyuan suddenly asked, “What do you remember?”
Bai Qingyu blushed.
He Renyuan, “Do you remember anything that supports us taking a bath together?”
Bai Qingyu argued habitually, “No!”
He Renyuan smiled at him.
Bai Qingyu whispered, “You take your own shower, I’ll go take mine too.”
He Renyuan watched him go upstairs, lock the door, and only when he took off his bloodstained clothes and the wound was exposed did the first moan of pain escape.
To be safe, he had cut himself with the dagger, to make it look real for the restriction, there had to be real blood flowing from his body.
He cleaned the blood, applied some medicine, and gritted his teeth as he bandaged it.
It hurt, but it didn’t. He was overjoyed.
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Our tea deity, only falls for his husband’s tricks, only argues with his husband, only eats his husband’s… (rhyme it yourself).
