Chapter 37

"Let's not talk about the tea art class for now. Do you know where Mr. Ling is?" Tang Bai changed the subject.

Jiang Quan turned and pointed to the French window behind him, "Mr. Ling is over there."

Tang Bai stood up and saw a thin figure behind the window. It was a gentle omega with a calm and elegant temperament. He was sitting at a low table and carefully making tea.

Mr. Ling has a pair of well-maintained hands. When he makes tea, his movements are smooth and flowing, which is a pleasure to watch.

The emerald green tea buds sank into the white water, the green waves rolled, and the tea water quickly turned into a transparent yellow-green color.

Mr. Ling poured the brewed tea into the teapot, poured two cups of green tea for Tang Bai and Xie Ruheng, and said gently, "Please."

Xie Ruheng glanced at Tang Bai calmly. After seeing Tang Bai holding the tea and smelling the fragrance, observing the color of the tea and the changes of the tea leaves, he also began to learn seriously.

Tang Bai took a sip of the tea, which was fragrant and sweet, and had a long aftertaste. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Good tea!!!"

It is indeed a good tea. Tang Bai hasn’t had tea as amazing as this for a long time!

"This tea is sweet and wild. Could it be that this is the unique green tea that is grown in the mountains and fields, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon and competing with weeds to produce it?!" Tang Bai exclaimed in shock.

Xie Ruheng: “???”

Xie Ruheng was delighted to see Mr. Ling, who usually kept his emotions to himself, as if he had found a soulmate: "Yes!"

Xie Ruheng: “???????”

Mr. Ling raised his eyebrows and explained to Tang Bai with a little pride the whole process of making this cup of tea, from sowing and picking to production. He also took out his treasured tea leaves to share with Tang Bai. The two of them stared at the pot of green tea as if they were a rare treasure or a peerless beauty.

Xie Ruheng took a sip expressionlessly, but did not feel any tea aftertaste. Instead, a tea leaf went into his mouth. Xie Ruheng calmly spat out the innocent tea leaf.

Grass is a kind of plant. And he is the weed sandwiched between two tea masters.

Ling Xuanyun saw Xie Ruheng's gloomy expression and was worried that he had ignored Xie Ruheng: "Mr. Xie?"

Tang Bai turned around blankly and saw Xie Ruheng picking up the teacup, taking a sip and sighing, "Good tea, good tea."

Green Tea Tips 10: Cater to the other person’s preferences. Even if you don’t have a common language, don’t belittle the other person’s preferences.

Seeing Xie Ruheng concentrating on tasting tea, the two began a heated discussion on the tea ceremony. Tang Bai said, "I advocate natural tea, follow my heart, go with the flow, and integrate tea into every aspect of my life and interactions..."

This theory not only made Mr. Ling nod his head frequently, but also shocked Xie Ruheng!

So this is the high-level Green Tea's theory of psychological cultivation? !

Wonderful!

Green Tea Tips 11: The highest realm of learning tea is the unity of tea and tea master, and everything in the world can be tea.

"Mr. Ling, I came to visit you this time because I want to ask you to help me with something..." After hearing the purpose of Tang Bai's visit, Mr. Ling was silent for a while. Looking at Tang Bai who was talking nonstop behind the mist, he did not agree immediately.

The glands are private parts, and the scars left after gland removal go from being embarrassing to being invisible.

"It doesn't matter if Mr. Ling doesn't want to."

Mr. Ling stroked the teacup, sighed, and said softly, "Mr. Tang, come with me to the bedroom."

Tang Bai happily followed Mr. Ling into the bedroom. There was a double bed in the bedroom, but there were few signs of another male owner in the room.

Tang Bai retracted his gaze and saw Mr. Ling sitting in front of the dressing table. He took off his necklace in front of the mirror, revealing a faint scar on the back of his neck. From a distance, it looked like a small light pink centipede.

"It's ugly, isn't it?" Mr. Ling reached out and stroked the scar. "Some people would cover it up with a tattoo, but I don't want to please others anymore, so I just left it alone."

Tang Bai said carefully: "I have some ointment to reduce scars."

"No, after I learned tea making, I stopped caring about these things." There was only a wooden comb on Mr. Ling's dressing table, and no skin care products.

Tang Bai thought for a moment and said, "I read The Book of Tea and was deeply impressed by a passage in it."

Mr. Ling looked up at Tang Bai and heard him say earnestly: "The tea ceremony is a kind of worship of "imperfection". It is a gentle attempt to achieve a certain possible perfection in a life that we all know is impossible to be perfect."

After a moment of silence, Mr. Ling smiled and sighed.

When Tang Bai and Mr. Ling came out of the bedroom, they saw Xie Ruheng surrounded by a group of children. On the light screen in the air was the most basic common language.

Xie Ruheng, who is usually taciturn, patiently taught these children how to read. The children learned very seriously and none of them was absent-minded.

"Every time Mr. Xie comes back, he helps me teach these children how to read and count." Ling Xuanyun said, "He also prepares rewards for these children, and can fulfill the wish of the best student."

"Lu Xiaoshan always learns well, and Mr. Xie likes this child very much. Lu Xiaoshan's wish is to learn mecha from Mr. Xie, so Mr. Xie specially assigned Lu Xiaoshan another homework."

"Last month, Mr. Xie bought new clothes for all the children. Jiang Quan was the happiest. He is a little omega who loves beauty. Mr. Tang may not have noticed it because Jiang Quan's parents specially dressed him up to look like a beta."

"Before they came to me, they were even thinner and hadn't eaten meat for several months. Some of the children's families were so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat. Their only meal of the day was at my place, and they could eat two large bowls of rice at a time."

"These children stay with me for half a year and then leave. They have to go to school, but some families are really poor and they will have their children drop out of school after a few years of study."

"Drop out of school to help?" Tang Bai asked, "How can such a young child help his family if he doesn't study?"

"A lot. For example, the mines employ child laborers. A 10-year-old can earn seven or eight star coins a day, which is a lot for them. For such a small amount of star coins, all kinds of people work as miners in the mines, including children, the elderly, the disabled, and omegas."

Seeing Tang Bai's incredulous look, Mr. Ling said softly, "Mr. Tang may not believe this, but in the slums, in addition to the omegas in the red-light district who undergo gland removal surgery, there are also many omegas who want to engage in normal careers who will undergo this surgery, such as working in the mining area."

Tang Bai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Can't I use inhibitors?"

"Suppressants are very expensive, Mr. Tang. One bottle costs one thousand star coins. Even if an omega works very hard in the mines for a day, he can only earn twenty star coins. Even if he works hard in the mines day and night for a month without eating or drinking, he can only earn six hundred star coins. How can they afford it?"

"Gland removal surgery is a permanent solution and is very cheap, only one hundred star coins. Why is it so cheap? Because they don't need a good surgical procedure or post-operative care. Some omegas are reluctant to spend money and don't even want anesthesia."

"In fact, another reason why the cost of gland removal surgery is low is related to the red-light district. Some omegas who have undergone gland removal surgery still want to supplement their family income, so they go to the red-light district to do odd jobs. Yes, I'm not kidding, because they really need the money..."

After checking Lu Xiaoshan's homework, Xie Ruheng realized that it was getting late and it was time for the children to go home. He looked up and saw Tang Bai's red eyes. His heart skipped a beat and he realized that he didn't even know what Tang Bai had done and he had actually ignored Tang Bai like that.

"You're okay..." Xie Ruheng just opened his mouth to try to save the situation, but Tang Bai gently pulled the corner of his clothes. Tang Bai whispered, "Brother Xie, I want to support all the children here to go to college."

The dark phoenix eyes showed a hint of surprise.

"Not just here, I... I also want all the children in the slums to go to school, I want everyone to have enough food to eat, and wear new clothes..." Tang Bai choked up halfway through his words, "I also want to contract all the inhibitors for omegas and find them a normal job, not the kind of exploitative jobs in the mining areas..."

The amber eyes had turned red, and the nose was also red. Tang Bai buried his face in Xie Ruheng's shoulder and said sadly: "How can there be such an oppressive job? Working a whole day only makes twenty star coins..."

The fabric on the shoulders was already soaked with tears, and this realization made Xie Ruheng feel as if something was gently stung in the heart.

He carefully placed his hand on Tang Bai's slightly trembling back. Xie Ruheng could smell the soft and clean milk scent on Tang Bai's body, so Xie Ruheng softened his voice and said softly in a coaxing tone: "Okay, let's do this."

Tang Bai lay on Xie Ruheng's shoulder for a while, and the sadness in his heart slowly subsided. He raised his face in embarrassment, and then found that the children around him were staring at him with wide eyes...

Tang Bai: “…”

"Xiao Xie, why is your beautiful brother crying?"

"Did Brother Xie bully Brother Pretty?"

"Little Brother Xie just said that he likes Brother Tang Bai, and he will never bully Brother Tang Bai!"

"But my dad likes the little dad, so he will bully the little dad!"

Tang Bai: “”

Tang Bai felt that he was socially dead again.

This chapter is all about Tangtang's silly words. Real action will begin in the next chapter. He is still a naive young nobleman now, so please give Tangtang a little more patience.

The tea ceremony is a worship of "imperfection". It is a gentle attempt to achieve a certain possible perfection in a life that we all know is impossible to be perfect. —— Okakura Tenshin, The Book of Tea

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