Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 169



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169. Me, Mokhwiyeong (6)

Peng Chae-hyang was trembling. Here, I could tell one thing.

I don’t know how great a man Peng Gyeong-seung is as a man of honor, or how great a man he is as a head of a household, but as a father, he is truly a bad man. If he can make such a pretty daughter tremble, that says it all.

“When did you come?”

The fan is currently broken, so I asked the attendant.

“Oh, you just got here. The lord is currently serving you.”

“I see. Your Majesty must be having a hard time.”

“I heard while I was serving tea that when the chairman comes, he will also listen to the interim report on the financial statements.”

Paeng Chae-hyang’s face had now turned pale, almost like a blank sheet of paper. I nodded. Paeng Gyeong-seung had come to make a surprise inspection.

“Miss Peng.”

“… … .”

“Miss Peng, Miss Peng.”

I grabbed Peng Chae-hyang’s shoulder and shook her. Only then did her pupils, which had been absent, come back into focus.

“Why, why? Don’t shake it. I’m getting dizzy.”

“I have to go in quickly and organize the data. You’re supposed to receive the financial statements too.”

“… … That’s right. That’s how it has to be.”

Even though Peng Chae-hyang knew it rationally, she couldn’t bring herself to take a step forward. I wondered how much Peng Gyeong-seung had to catch a rat to get to this point.

“Come quickly.”

I grabbed Pang Chae-hyang’s wrist and dragged her forcibly.

“No, no, no, silent Confucius?”

Paeng Chae-hyang was so flustered that her voice was hoarse, but I ignored her. As soon as I entered the main hall, there was a map of the interior the size of the main door, so it was easy to find the main room.

Paeng Chae-hyang was helplessly dragged towards me. I let her go only after I entered the main room. Paeng Chae-hyang touched her wrist with a red face and protested to me.

“I was able to walk on my own two feet.”

“No, I couldn’t have done that. Anyway, I’ll talk about that later and prepare the documents to report to the master.”

“……all right.”

Peng Chae-hyang also knew what was important now. She took out documents one by one from the bookshelf while going around and around. When I looked through the bookshelf, it was well organized. It meant that Peng Chae-hyang’s office skills were not as bad as I thought.

In his previous life, he was a person who spent his entire life buried in documents. Just by looking at his office space, you can tell whether he is good at his job or not. Peng Chae-hyang was not bad.

“Can I look at a few documents?”

“Yes, yes. As long as it doesn’t say it’s confidential.”

Peng Chae-hyang spoke without even looking at me. I took out a document from the bookshelf and looked at it.

The document was not as bad as I expected. Of course, the format of the document was not unified, and the content was not organized well, but it was within the range of understandability. I wrote down some revisions that could improve the quality of the document and handed it over to Paeng Chae-hyang.

“I think it would be better if you edit it like this.”

“Have you seen it already? There are more than ten pages of documents.”

“yes.”

Peng Chae-hyang looked at the documents and my revisions and her eyes widened.

“… … You really know how to do office work.”

“I really can’t believe what people say.”

“Oh, no. I just don’t believe it. To that extent, you probably just practiced martial arts all day.”

Peng Chae-hyang stuttered. It seems like she really didn’t think I would be good at office work.

Since it has come to this, I decided to properly donate my talents.

“Then I will audit the documents. Do you have an auditor’s pledge?”

“There is a letter of gratitude, but this is the first time I’ve given it to a foreigner.”

“Is there a rule that says you can’t give it to a foreigner?”

“That’s not true, but… … .”

“It is the right of the state to appoint auditors. Appoint them quickly.”

At my request, Paeng Chae-hyang handed me the auditor’s oath as if she was being pushed. I simply stamped my seal and became the temporary auditor of Cheolwon-gak. Even though it was called an auditor’s oath, it wasn’t anything special. The main content of the oath was that I would not disclose or use the information I learned during the audit.

As soon as I got the stamp, I quickly looked through the documents. In fact, Peng Chae-hyang’s documents were not badly written, but there were a few mistakes.

“Where is this inventory ledger? I think it’s missing.”

“Huh? Oh, if I look for it, I’ll find it somewhere. Just a moment.”

“Attach this document as supporting evidence.”

“Oh, yes!”

Paeng Chae-hyang began to supplement the documents according to my instructions. The documents gradually became more presentable.

Even when I was dragging the Taesang family, I didn’t have to go all the way to the warehouse to get the troublesome documents I was carrying. This was because the inventory in the warehouse was well organized in documents.

“Isn’t this something you have to go and see for yourself?”

“You’re being unnecessarily diligent. You don’t have time for that. First, you need to make sure that the documents don’t conflict with each other. You can review them later and edit them yourself after you’re done.”

“I see.”

He also taught me how to eat raw food. I finished organizing the documents without any trouble. After reviewing them again, I found that all the conflicting contents in the documents were corrected, and all the supporting documents were attached. At this point, I felt like I had done everything I could to save myself from the government office.

“……and.”

Paeng Chae-hyang opened her mouth wide when she saw the neatly organized documents. Judging from the speed at which she was working, it would have taken half an hour, but since I was involved, it only took half an hour. This was the difference in experience.

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

Paeng Chae-hyang stuttered as she spoke. It was almost like magic that the quality of the documents could be improved this much in just half an hour.

I had just finished organizing my documents when someone burst open the office door without even knocking.

A huge man with a lion’s head looked down at us. I could tell who it was just by looking at him. The author was none other than Peng Jingseung, the current head of the Habuk Peng family.

“I meet you, my lord.”

Peng Chae-hyang immediately knelt down on one knee and greeted him. It was hard to tell whether this was a greeting between a father and daughter or between an emperor and his subject.

I had no intention of getting down on my knees, I just took the lottery.

“This is Mukhwiyoung from Hwiyoungdan.”

“You must have known that I came to Cheorwon-gak, but you ran away to the chief secretary’s office instead of coming to see me first.”

Peng Jingseung did not even acknowledge my greeting and spoke in a low voice. Peng Chaehyang’s small shoulders trembled and shook. Soon a trembling voice came out of her mouth.

“I was organizing the documents needed for the report because I heard you were going to hear the interim report.”

“Huh, you tried it. So, who is the person next to you? The head of the Whiyoungsangdan?”

Peng Jingseung unexpectedly used a respectful title for me. It seemed like it was the first time he had heard of me. He knew the name of the Grand Master, but he didn’t know the name of the Household Master, so it seemed like it was a difference in their closeness with Peng Chaehyang or a difference in their interest.

“Yes. I am staying here as a guest for a short time thanks to the favor I received from Lady Peng.”

“I see. I understand you’re a guest, but why are you in the guest room?”

“I became the temporary auditor of Cheorwon-gak.”

“… … Interim auditor?”

Paeng Gyeong-seung rolled the words around as if they were unfamiliar. As Paeng Chae-hyang had said, there had never been an external auditor, so Paeng Gyeong-seung seemed to have not expected it either.

“Is this the one you appointed?”

Paeng Gyeong-seung looked at Paeng Chae-hyang. When Paeng Gyeong-seung’s gaze pierced Paeng Chae-hyang, she seemed to shrink a little.

“……yes.”

“Even though you know that it is unprecedented for an outsider to inspect the halls inside the Pangka?”

“I wrote a letter of gratitude… … .”

“Who are you to make such a judgment!”

Paeng Kyung-seung shouted softly. Paeng Chae-hyang immediately froze and turned pale. This was the part where you could see why Paeng Chae-hyang didn’t want to come into Cheolwon-gak. I glanced at Paeng Chae-hyang and opened my mouth.

“I’m sorry to interrupt, but does Sega have a rule that prevents shareholders from appointing external auditors?”

“No, that’s not true. But traditionally… … .”

“If it’s not against the rules, then Lady Peng didn’t do anything wrong.”

I cut him off. Peng Kyeong-seung’s thick eyebrows fluttered.

“Maybe it’s because he’s young, but his manners when he speaks are really bad.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.”

“Okay. He was the one my child brought in, so he’s responsible for my child. Okay, let’s say the auditor is like that. Is the financial statement ready?”

Again, Peng Gyeong-seung’s gaze pierced Peng Chae-hyang. Peng Chae-hyang nodded.

“yes.”

“Just do it right here. I’ll listen.”

Peng Kyeong-seung said.

“From here on out, it’s Sega’s business, so I would like you to leave, Master Mukdanju.”

“No.”

“… … ?”

Peng Jingseung was momentarily dumbfounded by my firm answer. It seemed he had never dared to imagine that there would be a guest in Habuk Pengga who would disobey the master’s orders.

“There are some documents that I have been handling as an auditor. I need to be there to explain them.”

“How impudent. Okay. Do as you wish.”

Peng Kyeong-seung sat down in his seat, crossed his arms, and crossed his legs. He looked extremely uncomfortable, perhaps because I had crossed the line too much.

I know I crossed the line. But that’s okay. I just had to prove it with my skills anyway.

“Then I will report it to you.”

Paeng Chae-hyang began her report, stuttering. The first thing to do was to give Paeng Gyeong-seung the documents we had just organized.

“This is a report.”

“Okay. Go ahead.”

Paeng Chae-hyang’s voice echoed through the room. The report went smoothly. Fortunately, Paeng Chae-hyang was the type of person who didn’t get nervous when she actually went into battle.

Paeng Gyeong-seung started looking at the documents while listening to Paeng Chae-hyang’s report.

“Hmm.”

While giving me the report, Paeng Kyung-seung asked me several sharp questions. As I listened to those questions, I could clearly feel that Paeng Kyung-seung was a capable manager. Each question hit the nail on the head.

Although Paeng Chae-hyang stuttered, she was able to defend Paeng Gyeong-seung’s question well. Because Paeng Gyeong-seung’s question was exactly the same as the question I had asked her just a moment ago while organizing the documents.

But for some reason, the more Paeng Chae-hyang answered, the more Paeng Gyeong-seung’s expression became darker. It was as if he wanted Paeng Chae-hyang to make a mistake.

Peng Gyeong-seung continued to flip through the documents with a shit-eating expression on his face, then picked up the documents as if he had found something.

“Wait a minute, but why did you organize it like this?”

“yes?”

Paeng Chae-hyang came closer and looked at the documents Paeng Gyeong-seung had. It was related to Cheolwon-gak’s accounting, but the accounting was not based on cash, but on events that generated cash. Originally, Paeng Chae-hyang had used cash as the basis, but I told her to change it.

I should have skipped over it while explaining why it was changed this way, but since I didn’t have time, I just skipped over it and couldn’t explain it to Pang Chae-hyang.

When Peng Chae-hyang hesitated, Peng Gyeong-seung shouted as if he had been waiting for this.

“How can you handle things like this! If you can’t even explain how you handle things, what are you going to do when you become the head of the household?”

Peng Kyung-seung’s loud voice even made me lose my spirit. It must have been even worse for Peng Chae-hyang, the person involved.

“Just a moment. Let me explain. Originally, Lady Pang calculated in cash, but I changed it.”

“Doesn’t this seem like a place where a silent prayer wheel would fit in?”

“Still, I feel like I should join.”

“How ridiculous!”

Paeng Kyung-seung started to lose his temper. Honestly, I felt like I had held back a lot. Immediately, Paeng Kyung-seung’s overwhelming aura began to stab me. Paeng Kyung-seung didn’t seem to think I was a commoner, so his aura wasn’t that strong. That’s why I was able to dispel his aura easily.

“Huh, did the upper class learn martial arts?”

Peng Kyeong-seung smiled mischievously as he watched me relieve my energy.

“yes.”

“Is that why you were so rude? Because you trusted my meager skills?”

“How could I believe in martial arts and do that in front of the three greatest Taoist monks in the world?”

“Then why do you interfere in the internal affairs of the Peng family like this? Do you have two lives?”

I actually had two lives, and I wanted to say that this was the second, but it really felt like my throat would fly off. I cleared my throat and said.

“I explained it to you earlier. I am telling you this because I am the auditor.”

I said calmly.

“To explain, new equipment was brought into the ironworks, and since the equipment was expensive, we recorded a lot of expenses based on cash outflows, so we processed them based on incurred expenses. In addition, we included the equipment as an asset. That way, it will be advantageous for Cheolwon-gak to receive external investment later.”

“I’ve never heard of such a method!”

“It’s a method that merchants sometimes use. It’s because it’s burdensome to process expenses when purchasing land or expensive equipment. Cash-based accounting isn’t wrong. It’s just accounting that makes it easier for Cheolwon-gak to attract investment. Don’t you think it’s good for Cheolwon-gak to receive a lot of investment?”

Paeng Kyung-seung kept his mouth shut. No matter how good he was at managing his business, he couldn’t compete with me in this kind of work. Of course, this would have been something that would have caused a lot of controversy among fellow merchants, but Paeng Kyung-seung, who didn’t know much about this field, couldn’t hold back on my words.