Chapter 130: Enlightenment
Mei Yang took a very comfortable hot bath.
In the evening, he and the Elf King brought some elf fruits back home, washed them, and placed them in their nest.
After doing all this, the clothes on his upper body were also wet, so wet that they were almost transparent, sticking to his body, revealing the pink and white of his skin.
Mei Yang sneezed at that time. When he lowered his head and looked up again, he saw that the Elf King's robe was also very wet.
They all went back to their respective rooms to take a shower.
Mei Yang did not take a bath. He turned on the shower head and ran the water for a long time until the bathroom was filled with steaming mist. Then he took off his clothes, walked under the water, and let the water jet wet him from head to toe.
This step was actually wrong. Given his current condition, he should have taken a cold shower.
But he was too young to understand that a hot bath had no suppressive effect on some of his thoughts, and it could even amplify his senses and the details that were engraved in his mind from his retina.
Back to the time just now, Mei Yang and the Elf King were bathing the fruits in a large wooden tub in the kitchen.
Originally, this was just a very serious job, at least that's what Mei Yang thought at the beginning.
Until the Elf King called Mei Yang over and helped him roll up his sleeves.
The sudden physical contact brought the two of them too close together, causing Mei Yang to return to his original position after the service ended. He and the Elf King silently washed the fruits with a brush. His gaze was always wandering, secretly observing the man who was only one step away from him.
Mei Yang didn't understand. How could the Elf King be an albino when he had so many brilliant lights on his body?
His hair wasn't pure snow-white, but a lustrous platinum blonde. His eyes sparkled, and his skin felt like velvet in the sunlight. His bare arms were strong and muscular, and those bulging veins...
"What are you thinking about?" asked the Elf King.
"No, no." Mei Yang looked away in panic.
"Pay attention, you've got a lot of water on the floor."
"Oh, okay."
Mei Yang then became a little more obedient.
He lowered his head, his face flushed. He prayed that the Elf King didn't see his abnormally flushed face and neck - well, it seemed difficult, because Mei Yang felt that his ears were also burning.
Did he just notice me looking at him?
Mei Yang was lost in thought, and his hands moved more skillfully. He washed one fruit in just a few strokes and then went on to wash the next one.
During this period, the water was changed three times.
Because of the afterglow of the setting sun, neither of them turned on the lights. In the half-light and half-darkness of the kitchen, at the junction of sunlight and shadow, many things were quietly magnified.
Mei Yang didn't know what was wrong with him.
The kitchen was so quiet that only the sound of splashing water could be heard. He even stopped looking around politely. But when he looked at the big, bony hands in front of him, and the fingertips that occasionally touched accidentally while washing, Mei Yang felt a throbbing sensation throughout his body as if he had been electrocuted.
He put it down to a cold, and he did sneeze.
But now, while taking a hot bath, Mei Yang couldn't help but review that scene, reviewing every detail of the human body at the intersection of light and darkness. When he opened his eyes again, saw the part of his body that was erect, and the very unfamiliar heat, Mei Yang finally understood two things.
First, he seems to have some weird fetish.
Second, he may not only have a fetish, he may also have a fetish for the Elf King.
The black-haired boy's dull brain became increasingly rusty under the hot water.
He really had no experience and did it very awkwardly, but fortunately he was sensitive enough and quickly resolved this embarrassing situation.
Afterwards, he quickly cleaned himself up.
After he turned off the shower head, wiped off the water stains on his body, changed into clean clothes, and left the warm bathroom while wiping his dripping hair, and returned to the bedroom, he was shocked by the low temperature. Mei Yang shuddered and finally realized that the point of the whole thing did not seem to be a fetish.
It is not surprising that people have some quirks. The main premise is that he seems to have fallen in love with a person of the same sex, an elder whom he previously regarded as a breeder.
Mei Yang: “…”
Mei Yang now finally understood why, when he was close to the Elf King before, he always subconsciously felt that their relationship was not that of a parent and child, but some other more special and intimate relationship.
It turns out that I like the Elf King, I like him.
I really dare to think so.
Mei Yang closed his eyes and was convinced of himself.
He sat on the bed and thought for a while, wondering where this liking came from.
Is it because I didn't have fatherly love when I was little that I yearn for the role of Daddy? No, not really. I don't want to call him Dad at all, and we don't have a traditional foster father-son relationship.
And just now...
Due to his birth, Mei Yang has always been a very studious person. His situation requires him to have a strong learning ability in order to grow and survive in a not easy environment.
He now just thought that he liked the Elf King, liked this man, and had desire for him.
But he didn't know whether this liking was due to liking the male gender or liking the Elf King as a single being.
There was no light in the room and the sun had already set. Usually, Mei Yang would have been asleep at this time, but now, he didn't feel sleepy at all.
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, Mei Yang told himself.
Then he made a very bold decision.
He stood up, with wet hair, and planned to seek help from the elders.
…
It had been quite some time since the Elf King had taken his bath.
He dried his hair with magic and sat by the window, quietly flipping through the watercolors the cub had painted that afternoon.
I couldn't help but lift up a strand of my own snow-white hair to compare it with the radiant platinum hair in the painting.
The Elf King never thought that Mei Yang actually possessed such a natural talent.
But this also explains why the mother tree likes him so much and is willing to accept him.
According to this human cub himself, he was abandoned by his tribe and then walked into the dark forest alone and came under the mother tree.
He acted very familiar with everything in the Mother Tree, as if he had lived there for a long time, including the vine elevator - a little trick that even the Elf King himself didn't know. If he knew, he wouldn't have led his people to camp at the edge of the forest for the transition.
In the past, every time the Elf King returned to the Elf Mother Tree, he would fly up with the help of magic.
Mei Yang, it seems like he still has many secrets.
But he is also sincere, kind and lovely - the Elf King deliberately kept Mei Yang under his nose and observed him for a long time, and finally came to this conclusion.
Mei Yang is really cute.
His incredible talent is a bit like the author of that botanical encyclopedia...
A sudden knock on the door interrupted the Elf King's thoughts.
"Come in." said the Elf King.
It creaked and closed again, and a few seconds later, a cub with wet hair appeared in front of the Elf King.
"What's wrong?" asked the Elf King.
He knew it was Mei Yang. At this time, it couldn't be anyone else.
But why did the cub come here at this hour? And he looked so worried?
"I have something to ask you." Mei Yang said softly. He looked around like a child visiting someone else's home. Finally, he brought a small stool and sat in front of the Elf King with his back to him. He looked very well-behaved. "Can you help me wipe my hair first? It's cold at night and it won't dry."
It is indeed a bit cold tonight. In this late spring cold season, human cubs with weaker constitutions are indeed prone to catching colds. Just now, when he was bathing the elf fruit, he sneezed when it was only a little wet.
Just as he was thinking about it, Mei Yang sneezed a few more times.
After sneezing, he felt a little embarrassed and tilted his head back to look at the Elf King with a silly smile.
The Elf King quickly screwed up the window, then quickly went to the bathroom to get a towel, sat back in the chair, and wiped the cub's hair.
While wiping, she used her palms to dry it gently and carefully.
The towel with the same light herbal scent as the Elf King's covered Mei Yang's sight, making him feel more and more at home.
"King, I have a question to ask you. It's bothering me. If I don't get an answer, I won't be able to sleep." Mei Yang stretched out his legs, and the Elf King's fingers gently shuttled through his hair. He squinted his eyes in comfort, and his toes curled and tightened like cat paws.
"Well, if you ask," the Elf King agreed.
He prided himself on being quite knowledgeable, and he appreciated the cub's eagerness to learn, so he was happy to answer.
"I want to ask about relationships." Mei Yang asked quickly.
"Feelings?" The Elf King paused, "Kid, you're not yet an adult."
"But I will grow up eventually. I am growing up now. I mean, will elves be with people who are not of the same generation as themselves and form families? Do they all have free love?"
"Of course. In fact, you'll find that in our tribe, there's no such thing as peers. Every elf is born from the Elven Mother Tree. We are infertile, so there's no blood relationship or ethical ties. Any two elves, regardless of their age, can freely fall in love and form a family."
"What if I fall in love with someone much older than me?"
"I will bless you, cub."
The two of them had a sporadic conversation, during which Mei Yang noticed that there were really no entertainment facilities in the room.
His good daddy, the Elf King, is really pure and simple in private.
Well, that's a tough one. I know what I want, but what about him? Will he accept my advances?
Under the baking magic, Mei Yang's hair dried quickly.
Now, there is no reason to stay with parents late at night.
Mei Yang stood up, thanked him obediently, and said goodnight to the Elf King.
Before leaving, he turned around, looked at the Elf King, and said word by word with great solemnity: "I haven't told you before, but I'm actually an adult. Humans become adults at eighteen. I am an adult."
After saying this, he didn't wait for the person inside to answer. He closed the door as if escaping and quickly left the Elf King's room.
Mei Yang's heart was pounding. He wondered if the wise Elf King had noticed the hints in his words and his hidden thoughts.
He couldn't think any more. His limbs felt like they had been soaked in lemon juice, sore and excited. He needed to breathe some air.
So Mei Yang mustered up his strength and climbed up the stairs in two steps at a time. He had to go to the terrace to get some fresh air, maybe the moon could calm him down a little.
He almost walked out of the cave with his head down.
The moment he emerged from the dark cave, Mei Yang was completely stunned. Who was I? Where was I? What was I doing?
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