Meng Qing glanced at her, saw her serious gaze waiting for his response, then looked out the car window and laughed, “I think using other people’s money to do good deeds is quite thrilling.”
Back in Bincheng, Meng Qing began arranging for Tu Feibai’s family, sending Ding Jingman and Yu Tao’er to the countryside and leaving behind enough property for them to live on for the rest of their lives. While they could no longer live as extravagantly, they could still live comfortably.
Yu Tao’er protested, “Feibai, how can I get used to rural life? That broken place has nothing. There’s nowhere to go out and spend money. Even if you want to send us to a safe place, you should arrange for us to go to the city, somewhere like Qianhai…”
Meng Qing directly slapped a stack of bills across her face, “Want to go to Qianhai? Take the money and go yourself! Don’t ever say you’re Tu Feibai’s concubine again. Scram!”
Yu Tao’er covered her face and cried out, but upon seeing Meng Qing’s cold gaze, she immediately stopped crying, not daring to pick up the scattered bills, and obediently went to her room to pack.
After sending away Ding Jingman and Yu Tao’er, Meng Qing continued to intensify his efforts to destroy Tu Feibai’s army.
Finally, Tu Feibai’s troops were defeated and scattered.
Zhou Qianliu and Zheng Xiong’s troops subsequently arrived in Bincheng.
Meng Qing distributed money to the servants, telling them to find their own way. If they could carry anything from the house and wanted to take it, they were welcome to do so.
Yu Yi watched from the second-floor window as people gradually came out of the house, carrying bags of various sizes. After waiting a while upstairs and hearing no more movement, she slowly descended.
She found Meng Qing sitting alone in the living room, on the Western-style sofa chair where Tu Feibai used to sit when she first came to apply as a maid.
She asked, “When are you going back?”
Meng Qing countered, “Aren’t you not going back either?”
Yu Yi was puzzled, “Isn’t our mission not complete?”
