The three people who came to see Liu Ben were Dr. Ge, Qi You and Phil.

"It's like this. I have a congenital heart disease. Although it's not fatal, sometimes I suddenly have difficulty breathing, palpitations, chest tightness, and even fainting when my emotions are strong," Qi You said seriously. "I've had this problem since I was a child, and I'm used to it."

"But my friend Dr. Ge bought some pine nuts from your store and sent them to me. After I took them for a while, I could clearly feel the pressure on my heart gradually easing. Although it's not completely gone, there has been a big change."

Qi You: "So I think this pine nut can reduce the frequency of heart disease attacks and alleviate some of its symptoms."

"Yes, I checked You, and his heart rate is now basically the same as that of a normal person. And as he said, the fact that his body is becoming comfortable is the biggest proof." Phil, who was wearing glasses, said with a smile, his face full of tenderness and gratitude.

"I see," Liu Ben nodded. "I've noticed the same thing before."

Doctor Ge said, "I heard from your store clerk, your aunt, that there was an old man in your village who also had his heart disease relieved after eating the pine nuts from your store, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

Qi You looked at Phil and Dr. Ge, then at Liu Ben. "So, because I've personally experienced the pain of heart disease, I also hope to develop a new drug to treat and improve heart disease by studying the pine nuts in your store, Mr. Liu."

"Drug research?" Liu Ben hadn't expected this. He blinked and said, "That's a good thing. Is there anything I can do?"

Qi You: "Actually, we just want to be able to purchase these pine nuts from you on a stable basis for our research and to supply the materials we might need after the research is successful."

"That's no problem, what a great thing!" Liu Ben was delighted. "If you're really doing medical research, I'll definitely cooperate."

"But..." Liu Ben looked at Phil again and asked hesitantly, "If you guys figure it out, which country does this drug belong to? Can Chinese people buy it?"

Qi You followed Liu Ben's gaze and looked at Phil. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "We have a company in Phil's home country, but this research will be a collaboration with Dr. Ge. So, to avoid disputes and facilitate the research, we will build a new research institute nearby, register a company, and have all of us hold shares."

Phil also said: "We can sign a specific contract at that time. The specific sales method, price and release quantity of the drug can all be negotiated."

Liu Ben lowered his head in thought, and after a while he said, "I can't give you an answer now, but I will ask my friends when I get back and get their advice."

"Of course, we can exchange contact information. Mr. Liu can contact us at any time. We will always wait for your news." Dr. Ge was very polite.

As they were talking, they felt a little thirsty and picked up some tea to drink.

Dr. Ge: "I really like this tea. It has a strong and special aroma."

Qi You: "I liked green tea more when I was a kid, but after I went abroad, I rarely got to drink that flavor."

Phil: "I also like Chinese tea. It has a unique flavor compared to the black tea we usually drink."

Liu Ben didn't understand this, so he said, "I'm okay, but this tea is too bland and not as delicious as the sesame, ginger, salt and bean tea my grandma makes."

"Hahaha, that's right," Qi You laughed, and said with a hint of nostalgia, "I haven't had a drink in a long time."

He was also a little master when he was young and had never cooked by himself. Sesame ginger salt bean tea was very popular among children, but after he left here, no one outside knew how to make it, and he himself couldn't do it either. Compared with ordinary tea that can be bought online, sesame ginger salt bean tea, a local specialty, is even harder to find.

Dr. Ge: "I rarely drink."

Phil was curious: "So how do you do it? You sometimes mentions it, but I can't do it."

"It's simple," Liu Ben said. "I can do it."

Sesame ginger salt bean tea is what local women are best at making. It is indeed simple to make. Just put some tea leaves in a cup, sprinkle a pinch of salt, beans, and a layer of sesame seeds, then use a ginger mortar with circles of ripples inside to pound the ginger into ginger paste, pour water into the cup, and then use boiling water to make it. This is a typical cup of sesame ginger salt bean tea.

Tea, sesame seeds, beans, and ginger are all grown by ourselves. In the past, during the autumn harvest, people who had been busy under the sun all day and sweating all over the ground lacked salt in their bodies. Coming back and drinking this was so refreshing.

Wang Fengjing also likes to make this when she is bored or has a taste in her mouth. However, her family has been very busy recently, so she rarely makes it.

"So that's how it is." Phil nodded. Now he remembered it and could do it for Qi You when he got back.

"Sir, you speak Chinese very well." Liu Ben was a little curious.

"I've been with You for a long time, and I usually learn from him." Phil looked at Qi You with tenderness in his eyes.

Liu Ben looked left and right and understood that they were a couple.

Qi You smiled: "Phil and I learned from each other. Before I left China, my Chinese wasn't very good either."

"Oh, by the way, there's something I want to ask Mr. Liu," Qi You thought for a moment and said to Liu Ben, "I'm looking for my family, but the home I lived in before I went abroad is completely different now. I've been asking around for a long time but haven't heard anything, and I've been trying to find out lately."

"I see Mr. Liu opened a shop here and knows a lot of people, so I'd like to ask you if there are any customers in the shop who know the person I'm looking for?"

Liu Ben didn't ask him why he didn't even have his family's contact information, but nodded: "That's nothing, but Mr. Qi, how long have you been abroad?"

"It's been over thirty yuan for forty years, and I didn't even have any contact information back then, eh..."

"More than 30 years...that would be hard to find," Liu Ben scratched his head. He was only in his twenties. "But tell me the name and I'll remember it. I'll ask if any of the elderly people in our village know him."

"Okay, thank you then." Qi You said gratefully.

He started reporting from his parents' generation. After all, his parents still had some connections. Liu Ben used the memo function on his mobile phone to take notes while listening.

"Qi Lu, my little aunt."

Liu Ben paused when he wrote the name. It felt familiar, like someone he knew. But he wasn't quite sure, as if it was just an illusion.

"What's wrong?" Qi You asked in confusion when he saw Liu Ben didn't move.

"It's nothing, go on." Liu Ben wrote the name, but he really couldn't remember it, so he continued writing.

Qi You nodded: "Gou Wen is Qi Lu's husband, my uncle."

Liu Ben: ...

Qi You: "Gou Qi, my cousin."

Liu Ben: …………

Liu Ben put down his phone and looked at Qi You with a complicated look.

Liu Ben: "Is Gou Qi your cousin?"

Qi You was surprised at first, then delighted: "You know him?"

Liu Ben: "Knowing is knowing..."

Liu Ben did not hide anything and explained the grudge between him and Gou Qi's family.

It was only at this time that he remembered that Qi Lu was the name of Gou Qi's mother who had passed away young. His mother said that she was a gentle woman, but unfortunately her husband left her, leaving her heartbroken. She died a few years after Xiao Ben was born.

When Xiao Ben was little, he used to go to the cemetery with his parents. But Gou Qi always said he was busy, and his mother worried it would be unsafe for him to go alone with a child. So, every year, he went alone, leaving Xiao Ben behind. As Xiao Ben grew older and had to go to school, his mother still went alone, so Xiao Ben's memory of the name faded.

Wait a minute, Mr. Qi has a congenital heart disease, and Grandma Qi also passed away due to heart disease. There can’t be a hereditary heart disease in this family, right?

Liu Ben: I’m a little confused.

Qi You didn't expect that this was such a coincidence. Liu Ben was actually the son of the person he was looking for, but now they have severed their relationship.

Hearing that the Qi family had either passed away or dispersed was already a bit sad, and then thinking of what Liu Ben had said about Gou Qi and Gou Wen's actions, Qi You's emotions were complicated and fluctuating. If his heart disease hadn't improved a lot, he would probably have fainted from anger by now. However, he was also having some difficulty breathing.

Phil nervously supported Qi You: "Don't get excited, take a deep breath."

Dr. Ge also stood up.

Seeing that the man seemed to be having difficulty breathing, Liu Ben thought for a moment, took out a tube of essential oil from his pocket and placed it under Qi You's nose.

Qi You felt a strange fragrance floating into his nose, and his breathing suddenly became smooth. The dizzy shadows in front of his eyes disappeared layer by layer, and his mind gradually became clear.

Qi You took a deep breath, inhaled more floral fragrance, and finally felt better.

"Thank you, Mr. Liu..., what is this?" Qi You asked after thanking Liu Ben.

He also thought about what his relationship with Liu Ben was. Liu Ben should be his cousin in terms of blood relationship, but Liu Ben had severed ties with his father and his cousin, and even changed his surname. He couldn't shamelessly call himself an elder. At this time, he could only call him Mr. Liu.

Phil and Dr. Ge sat back down only after seeing that he had recovered.

"Mr. Qi, don't get too excited. This is pine flower essential oil, made in my workshop." Liu Ben thought for a moment, took out another bottle from his pocket, and handed it to Qi You: "This is for you."

Even if we ignore the kinship relationship, at least what I said almost made the person die, so I should make amends.

"I can't accept this," Qi You said, pushing it back to Liu Ben: "Alas, he was a good kid, but I didn't expect that after he grew up, if I hadn't left..."

Liu Ben shrugged: "If you hadn't left, he wouldn't have learned well. He just inherited Gou Wen's genes."

"Doesn't he have a heart? His mother raised him, but his father abandoned him long ago, married and had children abroad, and lived a prosperous life. How could he just accept this scumbag father like that!"

Phil advised: "Don't be angry with people like this."

Qi You calmed down a bit and sighed, "Things have changed, people have changed..."

"Don't mention him," Liu Ben said, "Just pretend he doesn't exist. Gou Qi is working at Gou Wen's company now, selling nutritional supplements. We don't have much contact."

"Well, let's not talk about him." Qi You closed his eyes and took a sip of tea.

Phil looked at the essential oil in Liu Ben's hand and asked, "Can I ask how you sell this essential oil?"

Liu Ben took a look and said, "You can use it."

"I can buy it. Please name your price." Phil insisted. He didn't understand the Chinese people's euphemisms before, but after living with Qi You for more than 30 years, he is now considered a very mature "China expert".

"Okay then, I've been asking a friend to sell this essential oil for 50,000 yuan per bottle."

"Really? It's very cheap!"

Liu Ben remained calm: "Really, really."

Phil said readily, "I'll transfer the money to you."

On the first day Phil and Qi You arrived in China, Dr. Ge taught them the convenient payment method of mobile payment. Living in China would be very inconvenient if you don’t know this.

Moreover, this payment method is easy to learn and they were able to use it proficiently on the same day.

Although Dr. Ge was a little surprised at the price of this essential oil, seeing that Qi You liked it very much, it meant that this essential oil was very helpful to his body.

Qi You hesitated for a while, then spoke: "If possible, can I ask where my aunt's grave is?"

Liu Ben: "I haven't been there for a long time, but my mother left behind a lot of notebooks before she died. There might be records there. I'll go back and look for them."

The few of them drank tea and chatted for a while. Liu Ben didn't quite understand the medical knowledge they were talking about, and felt a little bored sitting there, so they exchanged contact information and left.

Liu Ben felt a bit sad on the way back. He hadn't expected Qi You to also like men, and had even been kicked out of the house for liking men. He had a congenital heart disease, so he wasn't... lucky. Compared to that, You Ying and himself were much better off. You Ying had said that his parents and grandfather had already accepted his homosexuality. While his own family had some difficulty adjusting, they didn't strongly object.

However, it was also because Qi You was kicked out of his home that he met Phil, his future lover, in the capital. It was really fate.

But the point now is whether I have a hereditary heart disease!

Liu Ben didn't want to ask them in person whether the Qi family's gene was stable, so he could only go to the hospital for a check-up.

After arriving at the hospital, I registered and went to the relevant department to wait for examination.

It's the weekend now, and the hospital is still quite crowded and noisy. The doctors are also very tired.

While waiting, You Ying sent a message asking where Liu Ben was.

Liu Ben said truthfully: "In the hospital."

You Ying immediately asked, "What are you doing in the hospital? Are you sick?"

Liu Ben also had a lot to complain about, so he told You Ying everything that happened today.

You Ying: "Mo Fang, that shouldn't be the case. Heart disease is not a genetic disease."

Liu Ben breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

You Ying: "However, the chances of younger generations of families with a history of heart disease developing heart disease are slightly higher than others."

Liu Ben: "...Isn't this hereditary?!"

You Ying: "It's just that the chance is higher than others, but it's still small."

Liu Ben: "Well, let's check first."

Liu Ben underwent a series of lengthy examinations. The good news was that the results were positive. Liu Ben did not have any genetic diseases and was in very good health.

What the doctor said is the same as You Ying's. Congenital heart disease is more likely to occur under adverse environmental conditions. The possibility of it being inherited alone is actually quite low. However, if you want to have a child in the future, you still need to have regular prenatal checkups.

"I'm fine!" Liu Ben was the first to report the good news to You Ying.

Although You Ying felt the chances were low, he heaved a sigh of relief after receiving the confirmation: "That's good."

Liu Ben: "Although, it's better for me not to have a baby."

You Ying: "If you like children, we can adopt one in the future, or wait for You Guoguo to give birth and then grab one to play with."

Liu Ben: "Is this something a proper brother should say?!"

You Ying: "Look at You Guoguo, she's so ambitious. She's always running around, busy with work. Even if she had a child, there would be no one to take care of it, right?"

Liu Ben: "Then have you ever considered that she wouldn't be able to find a partner if she was so busy with her business?"

You Ying: "That's not necessarily the case. If she wants to have a baby, she can do it on her own."

Liu Ben: ...

Liu Ben: "Let's not talk about the child. Anyway, today is such a coincidence. That person turned out to be my blood cousin, and he also has a gay lover."

You Ying: "You can have this, you can inherit this."

Liu Ben: "Hahahahahahaha."

You Ying: "But you don't have to like other men, just like me."

Liu Ben: "Isn't this genetic requirement a bit demanding?"

You Ying: "I've learned programming. If I could edit your genes like a program, I'd program in the fact that you only like me."

Liu Ben: "This is too perverted, cut it out."

You Ying: "Okay, delete it and start over. Have you eaten?"

Liu Ben: "No, I was going to have lunch, but I was in a hurry to get the test, so I didn't eat."

You Ying: "Then come to my house. I haven't eaten yet. I've already asked the chef to come over and cook."

Liu Ben: "Okay, okay."

Liu Ben folded the useless reports, put them on the seat of his motorcycle, and rode the motorcycle to You Ying's house.

Although Liu Ben is no longer a member of this community, he often goes to You Ying's house, and the security guards in the community all know him. Even when he rides a motorcycle in the community, they just take a look and don't pay much attention to him.

When he arrived at You Ying's house, Liu Ben casually parked his motorcycle aside and went in.

You Ying was sitting in the living room playing games. This was so common that it would be strange if he wasn't playing games.

In the kitchen, a man in formal chef's clothes was waving a spatula.

Liu Ben and You Ying were playing games together. As they were playing, You Ying thought of the last time Liu Ben played games and started laughing. He said to Liu Ben, "Last time you had a midnight snack, you drank four cans of fruit wine and still got drunk."

"Really?" Liu Ben scratched his head. He only remembered that he felt sleepy while playing the game. Then he drank the soup, took a shower and went to sleep.

"Yes, you were wearing a VR headset at the time. You killed a lizard in the game and declared yourself a dragon slayer. Later, you jumped around and said you were... a bull orc," You Ying said with a smile.

Liu Ben: ...

Liu Ben glanced at You Ying guiltily, making sure he wasn't taking him seriously before chuckling, "Really? Hahahaha... Oh, by the way, I met with Mr. Qi today mainly to discuss the pine nut supply issue."

Liu Ben quickly changed the subject and briefly told You Ying the content of his conversation with Mr. Qi and others.

You Ying: "If you're willing, let my lawyer talk to them. I roughly understand your thoughts."

Liu Ben: "That's great, I don't understand that either, you know."

They played games and chatted, and after the chef finished cooking and left, the two of them went to the table to eat.

You Ying asked as they ate, "You haven't done a livestream in a while. I remember what your last livestream was... You went to a dairy farm and livestreamed milking. That was about ten days ago, right?"

"Yeah, it seems like there's nothing good to broadcast live." Liu Ben sipped his soup and said.

"Just what you usually do."

Liu Ben thought that what he usually did was to farm in the space. Unfortunately, there was no signal in the space and he could not broadcast live.

Liu Ben: "By the way, our village is very beautiful now. If you are not busy, you should come and live here." We can also go to the pine forest to broadcast live at that time.

The transplanted osmanthus pines are growing well, and some have even started to form flower buds. It is unknown when they will bloom, which is why Liu Ben is in a hurry to hang nets on the trees.

You Ying asked while chewing, "Well, you're taking me to meet your parents so early?"

Liu Ben pondered for a moment and said, "I think we've been getting along really well lately. There's no conflict, and no discomfort. We should be officially dating."

You Ying stopped chewing, looked at Liu Ben and asked, "Really?"

"So this is still fake?"

You Ying asked: "Are you sure about your feelings towards me, are you just a friend or a partner?"

Liu Ben tilted his head. "Of course I've thought about this question seriously, and even searched online. Look—'two people will be very happy together'. I'm especially happy playing games with you, right? And then there's 'getting jealous when seeing the other person interested in someone else'..."

You Ying was surprised: "You? Are you jealous?"

"It was last time," Liu Ben asked him to recall, "I came back from the class reunion, and you saw that girl's profile picture and said she was pretty. I felt unhappy at the time. Could this girl be as pretty as me?"

Liu Ben patted his chest loudly.

You Ying: "...You are quite handsome, but why do you want to compare yourself with a woman?"

Liu Ben: "Then I got drunk and went back with you. You even made me some soup. Although I can't remember the taste, it left a deep impression on me. It felt like my soul was shaken. That must be love!"

You Ying: …………

"Finally!" Liu Ben looked at You Ying solemnly: "I was drunk, but you didn't do anything. This shows that you are also a good and reliable guy!"

If this were the orcs, it would be the perfect time to pick up some soap! No need to fight, just eat it all.

You Ying remained calm: "Of course, I'm a serious person!" So touching muscles while drunk never happened.

Liu Ben patted You Ying's shoulder with an appreciative look on his face: "According to common sense, if you want to date me, you have to be able to fight me to a draw."

You Ying thought: Where does this common sense come from? Who is the "common sense"?

"But you're really good in other areas. I think even if I meet someone else I can talk to, they definitely won't be as good as you. As they say, cherish the time you have."

You Ying was surprised: "Of course, you can actually say sweet words!" Although it was a bit messy.

Liu Ben scratched his head. "That's what I really think! So how about you?"

"I think you're great too," You Ying smiled. "Every aspect of you suits my taste."

"Hehehe, then we..."

"Well...let's officially be together."

The author has something to say:

Liu Ben: We are officially together!

Everyone: Haven’t you been together for a long time?

Liu Ben: ...I just tried it before!

Everyone: Oh, indifference.jpg

Thank you to the little angels who cast their votes or irrigated me with nutrient solution~

Emmm·····Throw 2 watermelon mines! ヽ(灬＞v＜灬)ノ

Zeng Yanyan irrigated 100 bottles of oolong tea (>ω<*)

Emmm·····irrigate 50 bottles of black tea (@^▽^@)

I irrigated 5 bottles of Da Hong Pao (o^▼^o)

5 bottles of clear tea (★ω★)

On rainy days, do not use an umbrella to irrigate 3 bottles of green tea ヽ(゜W゜ヽ)

Cold night, cool down with 2 bottles of fruit tea (*'▽'*)"

Picking the weeds to irrigate 1 bottle of Tieguanyin (●◇●)

I don’t often buy a bottle of Nanbei irrigation flower tea (//▼//)

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

P.S. I just remembered that comments will be reviewed by netizens, so there are many comments about Minotaur... They will be rejected during the review stage, not necessarily because of reports ==, there is no solution to this, fortunately I can still see your comments in the background ORZ