Rose Mansion.
Sophia was there trimming her nails without even looking at Meng Shaoyuan.
Butler Qiu served tea and was about to leave, but was stopped by Meng Shaoyuan: "Butler Qiu, didn't I ask you to go to Chongqing with Xiao Ke? Why are you still here when Xiao Ke left?"
"Reluctant to part with it."
Butler Qiu said silently: "I bought the Rose Mansion with my own hands and renovated it with my own hands. Every stone and potted flower here was planted with my own eyes. But I sold it with my own hands. Are we now tenants? It was so lively here before, but it’s better now, look at it.”
"Steward Qiu, the situation is changing every day." Meng Shaoyuan sighed: "I know you are reluctant to let go, and I am also reluctant to let go. But you really have to go. If you can't let go of this place, do you want to let your wife be alone in Chongqing?"
Butler Qiu's eyebrows twitched.
"Let's go, let's go." Meng Shaoyuan waved his hand: "There will be a boat tomorrow. You can leave tomorrow and spend the New Year with my wife. I can't see my child, don't you want to see it too? I said, old Qiu, I know you have always looked down on me, I am a rough man and not worthy of your wife, but I sincerely regard you as one of my family."
For a moment, Butler Qiu was moved.
How could this scoundrel say such sincere words?
He was silent for a while: "I understand. Since the master asks so, I will leave tomorrow. Master, it's nothing. I'm going out."
"Hey, don't come. Mind yourself and pack your luggage. I'll send someone to pick you up tomorrow."
Meng Shao was originally here to arrange this matter.
The lease of Qiangwei Mansion ended after the Chinese New Year, and Meng Shaoyuan had no intention of continuing to rent it.
After all, it would be such a waste to only live in such a big place with five people.
One is Butler Qiu, the other is Sophia, two bodyguards.
There is another one, Gracie.
Those two bodyguards were actually specially arranged by Wu Jingyi to monitor Gracie.
Every week, Wu Jingyi arranges for Gracie's children to meet with her, stay with her for a whole day, and then take them away.
Not only did Gracie have no complaints, she was actually very satisfied.
After all, the nightmare life of the past is gone forever.
"Sophia." Meng Shaoyuan glanced at this foreign beauty: "I will arrange another place for you to live."
Sophia said not a word.
Why are you pretending to be cool? I'll deal with you later!
No, it seems that I can't beat her?
On the other hand, he seemed to be no match for her.
Sad, the greatest sadness for a man.
Meng Shaoyuan felt sad in his heart, but on the surface he had to pretend as if nothing had happened: "Gracie, you too, prepare to move."
"Okay, Master."
No matter what Meng Shaoyuan ordered, Gracie chose to obey.
"I've asked someone to show you the files on recent events in the concession. What do you think?"
Meng Shaoyuan seemed to attach great importance to Gracie's opinion.
"Klass made a wrong choice." Gracie blurted out: "He actually had another way."
"any solution?"
"in spite of."
"in spite of?"
"Yes, Master." Gracie said slowly: "The flood is coming. Since you can't stop it, let the flood submerge everything. Wherever the flood passes, it will submerge everything, even you, Master. I am in the file I saw above that you bribed the top officer of the British army. However, if the flood really comes, no one will sit idly by and ignore it.
When that time really comes, the consulates of the United Kingdom, the United States, France, etc. will come forward out of their own interests. Then, the initiative will return to Klass's hands. The adults in these consulates will join forces to put pressure and even send out the army to quell the riot. However, it is not a flood now, just a small wave. "
Meng Shaoyuan narrowed his eyes.
Grace said calmly: "You controlled it very well. You just caused chaos in the concession and did not take more extreme measures, such as strikes and market strikes, because you knew that this would give the powers a chance to intervene. Klass does not have that ability."
"What kind of ability?"
"The ability to turn waves into floods!"
Meng Shaoyuan sighed in his heart.
No one among his subordinates could see this.
Instead, he was discovered by a foreign woman.
Strikes and market strikes are the most direct and effective means, with immediate results in a short period of time.
However, this is too dangerous, so dangerous that I can't control the situation.
What he wants is chaos, but not chaos so big that it breaks the sky.
"Klass will get out soon, because he has been led by your nose." Gracie said with a bit of ridicule in her tone: "What he did was just to block the problem wherever it happened, but he If this end is blocked, it will pop up again at the other end, and it will continue to flow. If it is blocked, it can never be blocked."
Meng Shaoyuan was silent for a moment: "If, I say, one day, the public concession is no longer safe and the Japanese army comes in, what choice do you think I will make?"
"I dare not guess what you are thinking, Master." Gracie said, "However, I suggest that you be careful about the people around you."
"Why? I think my men are loyal."
"Yes, you are a strong leader." Gracie said frankly: "And this is when the situation is completely under your control. If the concession is lost, it will be another situation. situation.
The concession is both your advantage and your disadvantage. Everyone is operating in the relatively safe area of the concession. Once the safe harbor is gone, I believe some people will be shaken, and then the advantage will turn into a disadvantage. "
Meng Shaoyuan had the idea of promoting her to deputy district chief immediately.
He understood everything about this woman. She was not thinking about the present, but what would happen tomorrow, later, and a few years later.
The concession will be lost, it will be lost, and no one knows it better than Meng Shaoyuan.
When the time comes, some people will surely waver and rebel and surrender to the enemy.
Even people who now seem to have some strong convictions.
Gracie saw it.
"Thanks."
Meng Shaoyuan smiled and said: "Ms. Gracie, thank you for giving me such good advice. You can go back and rest."
"Okay, my master." Gracie stood up, walked out, and closed the door.
"What a pity for this woman."
"It's a pity that she looks a little ugly, right?" Sophia walked up to him: "Otherwise, she will be your next target, right?"
"Who do you think I am?" Meng Shaoyuan said in an upright tone, "Am I, District Chief Meng, the kind of person you imagined?"
"Yes, you are." Sofia grabbed his collar and pulled him up: "I don't understand what you said, but I believe you will not be able to get up tomorrow."
"Help, Qiangjian!"
