Chapter 60
He Renyuan, having undressed his wife, was about to get down to business when he suddenly stopped.
“Wife, can you still get pregnant?”
If he got pregnant and lost his memory again, who would compensate him for a wife? Tea deities reproduced easily, in spring and autumn, the trees could bear many tea seeds.
“I’ll go buy a condom.”
Bai Qingyu, “Are condoms 100% effective?”
He Renyuan was dumbfounded, “No.”
If Bai Qingyu bloomed a hundred flowers, as long as he successfully pollinated one, there would be a little Cha Bao?
Bai Qingyu, “There’s no such thing as uncontrolled reproduction in the divine realm, otherwise, with immortals’ long lifespans, the divine realm would be overcrowded. We won’t have more children after having an heir.”
He Renyuan only half-believed Bai Qingyu. His memory had only just returned three days ago, it might be incomplete. If something went wrong, who could he pray to?
He would go back and ask Old Man Deng. Although Old Man Deng looked down on him, he wouldn’t lie to him.
There was no bed or pillow here. Unless they were standing, any position would rub against his wife’s delicate skin.
He Renyuan switched to using both hands to “stir-fry tea,” at full power.
Bai Qingyu’s skin under his palms was hot and flushed, trembling slightly.
Pressing, kneading, shaking, flipping. In the three years He Renyuan loved tea, he had gone to Chaozhou to select tea trees and visited factories to watch tea masters hand-fry tea.
For example, Taiping Houkui was pan-fried, and the tea leaves were shaped like needles. The tea maker had to press the leaves with their palms to shape them.
He Renyuan pressed Bai Qingyu’s smooth back against himself with one hand. The temperature for hand-frying tea was higher than with machines. His palm felt like it had just touched hot stones, pressing tightly against the tea leaves. But two hands couldn’t compare to a machine, so the frying time would be longer, and the tea leaves would be more fragrant and mellow.
He Renyuan had seen experienced tea masters, and he had also learned a little, knowing how to control the force, temperature, and time based on the moisture and aroma of the tea leaves.
The final product was satisfactory. He Renyuan gently kissed the tears at the corner of the tea deity’s eyes. The taste was the same as three years ago in the divine realm, instantly bringing him back to their intimate moments.
Perhaps because the tea deity had raised a child for three years, his gentleness and kindness had also blended into the tea, the aroma more fragrant and mellow.
The hand-fried tea was delicate, green, and denser. When brewed, it sank to the bottom of the cup faster than machine-fried tea.
He Renyuan just wanted to carry his thoroughly kissed wife to take a bath. As soon as they entered the water, Bai Qingyu sank to the bottom.
Even with a long lifespan, humans didn’t have divine power and couldn’t hold their breath underwater for long. He Renyuan could only coax him from the shore, “It’s almost twelve o’clock, let’s go back and eat.”
There wasn’t a single bubble on the water surface.
Anxiety surged. His wife was nowhere to be seen in the water, only dead people could stand steadily on the shore.
He Renyuan took a deep breath and dived in to look for him, one lap, two laps, this lake was unnervingly large.
He knew the tea deity wouldn’t be in danger in the divine realm, but he was just a mortal who constantly saw news about “wife falls into water, husband tries to save her, both drown.”
He Renyuan’s red blood cells were still regenerating and couldn’t support him holding his breath for long. He reached his limit, surfaced, and saw Bai Qingyu standing on the shore, fully dressed, playing with two glowing orbs.
Bai Qingyu, “You haven’t fully recovered, don’t swim.”
He Renyuan laughed in exasperation. Who gets out of the water without saying anything?!
Before he could get angry, Bai Qingyu squatted down and extended his hand, “I found your memory fragments, I’ll return them to you.”
He thought for a moment, He Renyuan had the right to know the whole truth, including the mango incident.
He Renyuan was so smart, he would definitely wonder why he suddenly disliked mangoes, he must really want his complete memories.
He Renyuan supported himself on a stone slab, his arm muscles bulging, his abs clearly defined. He was only wearing a pair of blue and white hospital pants. He sat on the slab and caught his breath, the scar on his chest rising and falling with his breathing.
Bai Qingyu leaned over and kissed the scar, sucking away the water around it.
The lake water in the divine realm wouldn’t cause infections, but it wasn’t good to soak in it for too long.
He Renyuan couldn’t resist, grabbed him, and spanked him.
“Where did you learn to give a slap and then a sweet date?!”
First torturing him with pig feed, then secretly preparing a wedding room in the divine realm. Then sinking into the water and making him worry, while also going to find his memory fragments.
He Renyuan despised himself for being so easily swayed. Every time the latter happened, he felt the former was completely tolerable.
Bai Qingyu, busy covering his butt, let go of the orbs, which instantly entered He Renyuan’s body.
Three minutes later, He Renyuan helped the tea deity up and rubbed his butt, “I’m sorry.”
Bai Qingyu glared at him, “Who taught me that?”
He Renyuan said humbly, “Me.”
Bai Qingyu’s arguing, refuting, and deceiving him, it was all his work.
He had planned to take Bai Qingyu home after he recovered, but he left him alone in the human world for three years, clumsily dealing with the city’s scams using the knowledge he taught him.
After all, even a lawyer couldn’t have imagined that Bai Qingyu and Cha Bao would be scammed by a parrot at an acrobatics show or extorted by a kindergarten parent with a glass.
It was his negligence.
He was clumsy dealing with others, but masterful with himself.
He Renyuan hugged Bai Qingyu, “I’m sorry, I didn’t keep my promise.”
Bai Qingyu, “It’s not your fault, you’re less than thirty, I’m two hundred, I should be responsible for our relationship.”
He Renyuan, “You’re two hundred—okay, little ancestor, let’s go back and eat.”
They returned to the ward. Just as He Renyuan changed his wet clothes, his assistant brought lunch.
“Thank you.” He Renyuan set the table and called Old Man Deng, asking if he had eaten lunch.
Old Man Deng said energetically, “Yes, three bowls.” He had enough strength to beat up a scholar.
He Renyuan made some small talk, saying Cha Bao missed his braised pork, and finally got to the point, “Old Man Deng, does each generation of tea deities only have one descendant?”
Old Man Deng, “Yes, how many do you want? Can’t our Cha Bao be an only child?”
He Renyuan, “Yes, he can, thank you, Old Man Deng, I’ll take the only child Cha Bao to see you soon.”
He Renyuan ate heartily.
He drank tea diligently after the meal.
At 3:30 pm, the children who didn’t attend after-school activities could leave.
He Renyuan was allowed to leave the hospital to pick up Cha Bao. After three days off, he seemed less like a CEO, not even wearing a suit, but jeans and a baseball jacket, looking cheerful, like a college student picking up his little brother from kindergarten.
“Boss Dad.” Bai Xiaocha sniffed He Renyuan’s shoulder, “You smell like Dad.”
He Renyuan, “Baby has a good nose.”
Bai Xiaocha cleverly used his advanced sense of smell, “And milk tea! Did Dad make milk tea?”
He Renyuan, “…Yes.”
Bai Xiaocha asked with concern, “With egg pudding and strawberries?”
He Renyuan couldn’t keep up, “Yes.”
“Cha Bao, Dad prepared a candlelit dinner tonight, do you want to eat?”
Bai Xiaocha misunderstood “Dad” and thought it was Bai Qingyu, he touched his head, “Is it for Dad?”
He Renyuan, “Yes.”
Bai Xiaocha touched his head with both hands, “Can Baby not eat?”
The dinner Dad prepared for Boss Dad definitely wouldn’t be delicious.
He Renyuan was surprised. Was his son so considerate as to give his dad some alone time?
Bai Xiaocha, “If Dad can’t finish it, Baby can eat a little, it’s okay, Baby won’t get a stomachache.”
He Renyuan paused and accidentally found the solution to having some alone time.
He said firmly, “Dad is a grown-up, I can finish it myself, Baby can eat with Grandpa Housekeeper.”
Bai Xiaocha said, “Dad, you can do it.”
Bai Qingyu waited for He Renyuan at the hospital entrance. When the car arrived, only He Renyuan got out. Cha Bao was in the car seat, with the housekeeper, saying, “Goodbye, Dad.”
Bai Qingyu was puzzled, “Baby, we’re going to eat, aren’t you coming?”
Dad + food, wasn’t that your favorite combination?
Bai Xiaocha, “Grandpa Housekeeper’s birthday is coming, Baby will eat with Grandpa Housekeeper.”
Bai Qingyu: ? Coming? So it hadn’t happened yet?
He Renyuan waved goodbye to Cha Bao and closed the car door, “Bye.”
Another car followed. He Renyuan led his wife into the car, “We’re going to dinner, just the two of us.”
…
After being discharged, He Renyuan, being petty, didn’t let Bai Qingyu work at Yu Jingtian’s tea house. He opened a tea house for his wife downstairs… letting Bai Qingyu be the manager, overseeing the tea quality.
Bai Qingyu could go to work if he wanted to, or stay home and raise chickens.
Bai Qingyu occasionally went to the tea house office.
It was a tea house with a disproportionately large back office. There were only a few tables in front, but a spacious office in the back.
Bai Qingyu sat at the computer, seriously… playing a pet-raising game called “Peacock Manor.”
He chose a white peacock, started from hatching the egg, logged in every day to complete tasks, and finally raised it to level twelve, a beautiful adult white peacock.
But even as an adult, he still had to log in, feed, clean, and interact every day, otherwise, it would get sick or hungry. The game mode was basically the same as the once-popular QQ pet.
It was Bai Qingyu’s first time playing a game, he was inevitably addicted, logging in on time every day, diligently raising his pet.
Sometimes, even in bed, he would remember that he hadn’t fed his electronic pet dinner.
He Renyuan, “It won’t starve to death.”
Bai Qingyu, “How can you bear to let it starve? It’s very uncomfortable to be hungry, you know that best, I always fed you when you said you were hungry.”
He Renyuan was indiscriminately jealous, jealous of the electronic pet, jealous of every creature that freeloaded off his wife. Although he looked down on kept men, he wouldn’t allow his ecological niche to be occupied. Just like a mistress, after taking the top spot, saw everyone as a potential threat.
He lectured his wife about the dangers of game addiction, it would cause imbalance in the husband-wife and father-son relationships.
Bai Qingyu, as if he hadn’t heard anything, “The peacock baby is so cute.”
He Renyuan had a follow-up checkup. While the doctor was examining him, Bai Qingyu accompanied him for the blood draw and opened the game, “I forgot to clean it yesterday, my pet is very much like you, has a cleanliness obsession, I hope it’s not sick today.”
He Renyuan: “…” Your husband is having a checkup and a blood draw, and you’re not even looking, finding a pet substitute online. His wife used to care about his checkups, now she didn’t. Could it be that Bai Qingyu only liked raising things, not independent men?
He was incredibly jealous, his hand clenching into a fist during the blood draw. The electronic pet seemed to be across dimensions and species, but humans and tea trees were also different species, his jealousy was justified.
The doctor couldn’t draw blood and became a psychologist again, pushing up his glasses, “I know this game, my daughter also plays it. After the pet reaches level twenty, it can be paired up for marriage and hatch eggs together.”
He Renyuan was instantly cured, “Marriage?”
The doctor, “Can you relax your hand now so I can draw blood?”
He Renyuan, “Wait, let me apply for a pet first.”
The doctor: “…”
