45,000 merit points

Yang Qing took his order of spring rolls, braised pork and ribs, moon cakes, and shredded beef and chili to go from the Thousand Flavors Restaurant before making a brief stop over at the Celestial Soup Herb Garden for brief stop over to buy their eight treasures porridge and snow plum wine.

He had been hesitant to go there on the off chance that Xia Ting was there, but his desire for the porridge and the wine won that fight, plus he was banking on Xia Ting being busy handling the aftermath of the case they had done.

His guess was right, but before he could celebrate to have escaped the clutches of that soup glutton, one of the staff members informed him that Xia Ting had picked a few soups and wines, and he was saddled with the debt. Xia Ting even had the audacity to reserve some in advance on Yang Qing's tab.

Yang Qing could only helplessly sigh to himself as made the payment along with the bill for the eight treasures porridge and the snow plum blossom wine.