Chapter 37: Chapter 37

"Forget the tea ceremony, do you know where Mr. Ling is?" Tang Bai changed the topic.

Jiang Quan turned around and pointed to the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him, "Mr. Ling is there."

Tang Bai stood up and saw a thin figure behind the window, it was a gentle omega, calm and elegant, sitting in front of a low table and carefully brewing tea.

Mr. Ling has a pair of well-maintained hands, and his movements when he makes tea are smooth and flowing, pleasing to the eye.

The green tea buds sink into the white water, the blue waves roll over, and the tea water soon turns into a translucent yellow-green color.

Mr. Ling poured the brewed tea into the sea of tea, then poured two cups of green tea for Tang Bai and Xie Ruhang, and said in a warm voice, "Please."

Xie Ruhang glanced at Tang Bai without moving, and after seeing Tang Bai holding the tea and smelling the aroma, observing the color of the tea and the way the tea leaves were turning and changing, he also studied in a serious manner.

Tang Bai took a sip of the tea, the fragrance was sweet and refreshing, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Good tea!!!"

It is indeed a good tea, and Tang Bai has not had a tea as amazing as this one for a long time!

"This tea is sweet and wild, could this be the absolute green tea that can only be nurtured by absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and fighting with weeds in the mountains?!" Tang Bai said in a shocked voice.

Xie Ruhang: "????"

Xie Ruhang was overjoyed to see Mr. Ling, who had always kept his emotions at bay, as if he had met his soulmate in a high mountain river: "Yes!"

Xie Ruhang : "？？？？？？"

Mr. Ling raises his eyebrows and explains to Tang Bai the whole process of making this tea, from seeding and picking to production, and takes out his treasured tea leaves to share with Tang Bai, the two of them gazing at the green tea with the eyes of a rare treasure and a perfect beauty.

Xie Ruhang took a sip without any expression, and did not feel any aftertaste of the tea, instead, there was a tea leaf in his mouth, Xie Ruhang calmly pooh-poohed the innocent tea leaf.

Grass is a plant. And he is the weed caught between two tea masters.

Seeing Xie Ruhang's sullen expression, Ling Xuan Yun was worried that he had left Xie Ruhang out: "Mr. Xie?"

Tang Bai looked back blankly, and saw Xie Ruhang take a sip from his teacup and sigh, "Good tea, good tea."

Green Tea Tip #10: Throw in your favorites, even if you don't have anything in common you can't belittle the other person's preferences.

See Xie Ruhang focused on tea, the two began to talk about the tea ceremony, only to hear Tang Bai said: "I advocate natural tea, from the heart, go with the flow, tea into the treatment of people, all aspects of life ......."

This theory not only drew frequent nods from Mr. Ling, but also gave Xie Ruhang a jolt!

So that's the theory behind the cultivation of the mind in high segment green tea?

Wonderful!

Green tea tips11: the highest state of learning tea is tea people unity, everything in the world can be tea.

"Mr. Ling, my rash visit this time is to ask you to help me with one thing ......" After hearing Tang Bai's intention, Mr. Ling was silent for a while, looking at the gushing Tang Bai behind the dense mist, and did not immediately agree.

The gland is a private part of the body, and the removal of the scar from the gland goes from being shameful to being invisible.

"It's fine if Mr. Ling doesn't want to."

Mr. Ling rubbed his teacup, sighed, and said softly, "Mr. Tang Xiao and I will go to the bedroom."

Tang Bai surprised Mr. Ling by following him into the bedroom, which had a double bed, except that there were very few traces of the other male owner in the house.

Tang Bai retracted his gaze and saw Mr. Ling sitting in front of the dresser, looking into the mirror and removing his neck ring, revealing a shallow scar on the back of his neck that looked like a small pale pink centipede from afar.

"It's ugly, isn't it." Mr. Ling reached up and rubbed the scar, "Some people would cover it with a tattoo, but I didn't want to please anyone else, so I left it alone."

Tang Bai said carefully, "I have some ointment for fading scars."

"No need, I stopped bothering with these things after I learned tea." There was only a wooden comb on Mr. Ling's dresser and no skin care products.

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

Mr. Ling looked up at Tang Bai and heard him say earnestly, "The tea ceremony is a worship of the "broken", a gentle attempt to achieve some kind of possible perfection in a life that we all know cannot be perfect."

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

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Tang Bai and Mr. Ling emerge from their bedroom to see Xie Ruhang surrounded by a group of children, the most basic of generic languages on top of a light screen cast in the air.

Xie Ruhang, who has always been quiet, patiently teaches these children to read and write, and they all learn very carefully, none of them deserting.

"Every time Mr. Xie comes back, he will help me teach these children to read and count." Ling Xuan Yun said, "He will also prepare rewards for these children, and can fulfill a wish of one of the children who learns the best."

"Lu Xiaoshan learns well every time, Mr. Xie likes this child very much, Lu Xiaoshan's wish is that he wants to learn mecha with Mr. Xie, so Mr. Xie has assigned Lu Xiaoshan a different homework specifically."

"Last month Mr. Xie bought new clothes for all the children and Jiang Quan was the happiest, he is a very pretty little omega, Mr. Tang Xiao may not have seen it because Jiang Quan's parents made a point of dressing him up in a beta way."

"They were even thinner before they came to me, they couldn't eat meat for months, and some of the children's families were so poor that they couldn't afford to eat, and the only meal they had in a day was at my place, and they could eat two big bowls at a time."

"These kids have to leave after six months with me, they have to go to school, but some of the families are really poor and after a couple of years of schooling, they'll withdraw the kids from the family to help out."

"Quit school to help?" Tang Bai asked, "What can such a young child do to help the family if he doesn't study?"

"A lot, for example, the mines employ child laborers, a ten year old can make seven or eight star coins a day in the mines, which is quite a lot for them. For such a small amount of star coins, there are all kinds of diggers in the mines, children, old people, cripples, and omega."

Seeing Tang Bai's incredulous look, Mr. Ling said softly, "To tell you the truth, Mr. Tang Xiao may not believe it, in the slums, apart from omega's in the red light district who would undergo gland removal surgery, there are also a lot of omega's who want to engage in a normal profession who would also undergo the surgery, such as going to work in the mines."

Tang Bai froze and asked, "No inhibitors?"

"Inhibitors are very expensive ah Mr. Tang Xiao, one to 1,000 stars, to omega's physical strength to go to the mines to work hard for only 20 stars a day, a month do not eat and drink no day and night in the mines to sell their lives, but also can only earn 600 stars, how can they afford to buy?"

"Gland removal surgeries are once and for all, and they're cheap, only a hundred star coins, why are they so cheap? Because they don't need much good surgical procedure, post-operative care, and some omega's are so money minded that they can't even afford anesthesia."

"Actually, the other part of the reason for the low cost of gland removal surgery has to do with the red light district, there are some omega's who still want to subsidize their families after having their glands removed, so they go to the red light district and work odd jobs. Yeah, I'm not kidding because they really need the money ......"

......

Xie Ruhang finished checking Lu Xiaoshan's homework before realizing that it was getting late, it was already time for these children to go home, he raised his head and saw Tang Bai's eyes reddened, his heart thumped, and realized that he didn't even know what came out of Tang Bai, and he actually left Tang Bai out in the cold like that.

"You're fine ......" Xie Ruhang, who had just opened his mouth to try to remedy the situation, was gently tugged on the corner of his shirt by Tang Bai, only to hear Tang Bai whisper, "Brother Xie, I want to pay for all the kids here to go all the way to college."

The dark phoenix eyes were slightly surprised.

"It's not just here, I... I also want all the children in the slums to be able to go to school, I want everyone to have enough to eat and wear new clothes ......" Tang Bai choked in the middle of his sentence, "I also want to contract all the omega's inhibitors and find them a normal job, not the mining kind, the kind that's so exploitative ......"

Those amber eyes were already red, and his nose was also red, Tang Bai buried his face into Xie Ruhang's shoulder and said sadly, "How could there be such a bullying job, working a whole day for only twenty star coins ......"

The fabric at that spot on her shoulder was already wet and damp from tears, a realization that caused something to sting Xie Ruhang's heart gently.

He carefully placed his hand on Tang Bai's slightly trembling back, and Xie Ruhang could smell the soft, clean milky odor of Tang Bai's body, so Xie Ruhang softened his voice and whispered in the tone of a child, "Okay, that's what we'll do."

Tang Bai lay on Xie Ruhang's shoulder for a while, the wave of sadness in his heart eased over, he raised his face in embarrassment, and then realized that all the children around him were staring at him with wide eyes. ......

Tang Bai: "......"

"Little Brother Xie, why is your pretty brother crying?"

"Did little Brother Xie bully Pretty Brother?"

"Little Brother Xie just said he likes Brother Tang Bai, he won't bully Brother Tang Bai!"

"But my daddy likes little daddy, so he'll go bully little daddy!"

Tang Bai: "............"

Tang Bai feels socially dead once more.