A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 220: Shocking Waves
Duan Rong and Xiao Yu, one in front and one behind, stepped into the document library.

Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong's back and said, "Xu Shouxian wanted to send me an assistant, why did you stop him? You have your own assistant, so you put my work aside?"

Duan Rong turned his head and looked at Xiao Yu. After a slight hesitation, he turned around and walked a few steps. He came close to Xiao Yu and said in a low voice, "More people means more eyes."

Xiao Yu's heart moved. She looked at Duan Rong's serious and vigilant expression, and there was a thoughtful look in her eyes. It was obvious that Duan Rong had something else to say.

Duan Rong stood there, the scent of rouge emanating from Xiao Yu's body rushed into his nostrils and stirred his heartstrings. Duan Rong touched his nose and turned to walk towards the desk in the corner of the document library.

But Xiao Yu still couldn't understand what Duan Rong meant. They were just pretending to check the accounts, so were they afraid of others seeing it?
Xiao Yu wanted to ask Duan Rong again, but at this moment, she heard footsteps getting closer and closer in the corridor. It was obviously Huang Qing who came back. Xiao Yu suppressed her doubts, walked straight over, and sat silently in front of the desk.

Duan Rong sat in front of the desk and looked again at the entry he had already checked.

Of an account of more than 3,000 taels, more than 500 taels were embezzled.

So how much is in the account for one month? How much is in the account for one year? And what year did this start? Two years, three years, or five years?

If this accounting scandal of embezzlement covered up by a maze of accounts with a double-book structure were to be uncovered, it would undoubtedly cause a huge uproar!
Duan Rong entered the backyard account office without really planning to check the accounts. Just like what he said to Xu Shouxian just now, to be in harmony with the world and turn a blind eye is the way to work together. This was his real thought.

If he really wanted to check the accounts, he could just devour a few weapon spirits in the accounting office in the backyard and easily acquire the ability of an old accountant with many years of experience.

But he had no intention of really checking the accounts, because judging from the lesson of Xiao Zongting's mid-year inventory, Xu Shouxian was obviously a petty person who would take revenge for any slight. If he really found some problems, who knows how Xu Shouxian would take advantage of him in the future.
But now, things are completely different!
This is not one of those minor problems encountered during the mid-year inventory review; this is a fatal flaw, Ruan Fengshan's Achilles' heel!

Duan Rong was almost certain that once this matter was exposed, Xu Shouxian would die!

How can a dead person find any opportunity to infect him?

Moreover, Xu Shouxian was not only against him, he was also against Xiao Zongting. If he got rid of this man, Old Xiao would be able to operate more easily in Yuanshun Escort Agency in the future.

Duan Rong sat in front of the desk, his eyes flickering. After several thoughts flashed through his mind, he had decided to expose this matter!
However, he had to make sure that he could escape safely from this terrible wave!

The current situation is undoubtedly very favorable to him!
No one thought that they were checking the accounts seriously, and no one believed that he could understand the nesting doll-like maze of accounts!

Duan Rong decided that he would use the remaining four and a half days to thoroughly check the accounts for the twelfth month!
Because the twelfth lunar month is the off-season for the escort agency's business, and the accounts of this month are relatively the least.

However, it is a whole month after all. Based on the floating differences in the accounts of this month, we can basically deduce the situation for the whole year.

In that case, with the data for the entire month of twelfth lunar month, Xu Shouxian could be killed on the spot to prevent any further troubles!
After Duan Rong finished thinking, he picked up the twelfth month summary account in his hand and flipped to the first page. He decided to start from the beginning.

Duan Rong took the account book and pointed to the first item on the first page. He looked at Huang Qing and said, "Brother Huang Qing, please find the relevant account book for this item."

Huang Qing took a look at the entry, then stood up and walked to the shelf to start searching.

As soon as Huang Qing left, Duan Rong looked at Xiao Yu and said, "You should go and help him! It will be too slow for him to find it alone."

Xiao Yu looked at Duan Rong with a puzzled look. "Just now you stopped me from giving you an assistant in the corridor! Now you're assigning me tasks! What do you want to do?"

Facing Xiao Yu's questioning, Duan Rong could only smile helplessly and said, "Aren't you getting more and more annoyed as you sit there flipping through the account books?" Xiao Yu was stunned by what Duan Rong said. She had indeed been impatient for a long time.

"Looking for the account book on the shelf, at least you have something to do? Just think of it as killing time!" Duan Rong advised earnestly.

Seeing Xiao Yu still sitting there hesitating, he begged, "Just think of it as helping me... ok?"

"Okay!" Xiao Yu really couldn't stand Duan Rong's nagging anymore, so he stood up and started looking for the account book on the shelf with Huang Qing.

Xiao Yu was not very familiar with it at first, but with Huang Qing's reminder and guidance, she quickly mastered the pattern of the arrangement of the account books.

But the two of them couldn't keep up with Duan Rong's progress when they were looking for the account books together. Duan Rong would urge them from time to time, which made Xiao Yu very angry. She stood in front of the shelf, staring at Duan Rong who was sitting in front of the desk with her beautiful eyes. "Why are you urging me? Aren't you looking for it?"

The final signature and reviewer of the first account of the twelfth lunar month was Zhu Shicheng.

Xiao Yu took several relevant account books and angrily slammed them on the table in front of Duan Rong. Duan Rong was concentrating on the accounts at the time and didn't notice Xiao Yu's emotions at all.

He took the account books, flipped through them quickly, and spread out the books in front of him.

Xiao Yu was originally very angry, but when she looked at Duan Rong's serious and focused look, she suddenly became distracted. She remembered what Duan Rong said to her at the door of the document library: more people mean more pairs of eyes.

Xiao Yu's mind suddenly brightened, and she stared at Duan Rong, who was busy looking through the accounts. For some reason, she suddenly felt that Duan Rong could understand the account book. Because she was almost certain that Duan Rong's current appearance was definitely not fake.

Once he thought of this, the anger in Xiao Yu's heart suddenly disappeared...

At this moment, Duan Rong suddenly picked up one of the account books, pointed at one of the items, looked at Xiao Yu, and said, "Find the account book for this item as well."

Duan Rong was immersed in the maze of accounts, and there was a subconscious, decisive, commanding tone in his voice.

If Xiao Yu was still in the angry mood just now, he would definitely get angry at this moment, but at this moment, Xiao Yu glanced at the entry, then said nothing and went to the shelf to look for the account book.

What Duan Rong asked Xiao Yu to find was this item, the second level of the account.

About half an hour later, there were more than thirty account books opened in front of Duan Rong's desk.

It was not until this time that Duan Rong finally thoroughly investigated this three-layer nested entry.

The item signed and confirmed by Zhu Shicheng amounted to more than 2,400 taels of silver, and the difference after verification was more than 420 taels.

The proportion of embezzled silver and money was almost the same as the one signed and confirmed by Xu Shouxian before.

Duan Rong's eyes flickered, he believed this was definitely not a coincidence.

(End of this chapter)