Qin Lin exited the game, pulled out his phone, and was about to call Professor Li Kai over to examine the tea trees and check whether they had any cancer-preventing or cancer-fighting effects.
Before he could, someone knocked.
He opened the door. Professor Li Kai was standing outside.
"Brother Qin, I saw Ma Liewen picking tea leaves outside. Is that guy here mooching tea again?"
As soon as Professor Li Kai entered the office, he headed for the tea table and expertly picked up the Quality 2 wild Tieguanyin to brew.
He enjoyed drinking the tea Qin Lin kept here, too.
Qin Lin sat down at the tea table as well and explained with a smile, "Old Ma likes tea, and these leaves have just grown in, so they're ready to pick. He came by to join in."
Professor Li Kai nodded. "Ma Liewen, Chen Shengfei, and Li Qing are quite the trio of drinking buddies. All three have their own hobbies."
Qin Lin agreed.
They weren't just hobbies, either. Each of them had become something of an expert in his own field of interest.
After chatting for a bit, Qin Lin tried to steer the conversation toward the tea leaves.
But Professor Li Kai solemnly asked first, "Brother Qin, were the plants in the manor and ranch grown in Special Soil?"
"Brother Qin, I looked at the seeds planted around the manor and ranch. The fact that their branches extend in the same directions and take on similar shapes is incredible."
"I picked some stems and leaves to check their genes, and I found that they were extremely unusual. The only way this could happen is if the Special Soil caused genetic mutations!"
"Brother Li, you tested those trees?" Qin Lin realized he meant the Flower House Trees.
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