The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

Anyway, that's what the lady and the soldiers thought, and the task naturally fell to the young master, leaving him no room for excuses.

The questioning looks from the crowd and the encouraging gazes from his colleagues made the young master feel immense pressure.

"Sigh—don't blame me, I tried my best." The young master scratched his hair, and his palm turned brown—it was from the baldness he had caused last night by falsifying accounts.

He clapped his hands and pulled a wad of white paper from the pocket at his waist.

"This is the financial situation of our Fools. We are very poor and have no money to transport grain."

The young master forced a smile. He didn't know if the Fools actually had any money. Anyway, with his wild calculations, even if they did have money, they would become penniless.

Chapter 443 Difficulties

2024-01-24

Yu Jin took the crumpled paper from the young master, unfolded it, and examined it carefully.

"Ok?"

Yu Jin shook his head, and the young master immediately shuddered.

"Um--"

Yu Jin nodded, and the young master breathed a sigh of relief.

"Have you seen it clearly?" The lady felt utterly exhausted seeing Yu Jin and the young master's startled expressions.

"I don't understand."

Yu Jin put down the accounts and shook his head. Putting aside how messy the young master's handwriting was, even if it weren't messy, Yu Jin wouldn't have made any progress.

"None of that matters. Haiqi Island might be able to fill the gaps." Xin Hai wiped the sweat from his forehead as he saw the scene.

This negotiation was quite unexpected. She had prepared many strategies, hoping to gain the upper hand in the meeting.

But now, looking at her, she has no initiative whatsoever, and she hasn't even managed to get a few words in.

"That won't do! They made a mess of things, and they have to clean it up themselves! Deficits? Aren't the Fools able-bodied? Let them fill in the gaps themselves!"

Yu Jin stuffed the crumpled ledger next to Kanoin Heizo and waved his hand, saying, "Little Kanoin, calculate it for me!"

"Why do you think I can do everything?" Kanoin Heizo said helplessly as he saw Yujin ordering him around so skillfully.

He's a detective, not an accountant.

But it doesn't matter. Even an accountant can see the abnormality in the "accounts" that the young master calculated.

"He mistook addition for subtraction, he forgot to calculate the numbers here, and he forgot to multiply here..."

Kanoin Heizo pointed to the numerous errors in the accounts and complained listlessly.

What is all this nonsense? This guy is an executive officer? Isn't he more powerful than the young master?

"Snapped!"

The embers crumpled the accounts back into balls and threw them at him: "Did you hear that? You made a mistake! Before I even started recalculating, I already knew you Fools were rich!"

"I...I tried my best." The young master, seeing the questioning looks from the lady and the soldiers, tried to defend himself guiltily.

"Oh well, never mind." The woman covered her forehead with one hand and waved her other arm, causing the paper ball to burst into flames out of thin air.

In the end, this "account," which represented the young master's hard work all night, turned into ashes and vanished with the wind.

"Any more questions?" Yu Jin saw the lady rubbing her forehead and the young master looking up at the sky, and thought that everything should be settled now.

"I have!"

"Hey, you actually dare to have that?"

Ember pretended to roll up his sleeves, looking like he was about to suddenly attack someone.

Seeing Yu Jin's impatient expression, the skirmisher immediately shrank back. Just as he was about to retreat, he felt two burning gazes from behind him.

"Damn it!" The skirmisher gritted his teeth. He was usually arrogant, but that also meant he had a very strong sense of self-respect.

Faced with these two ladies and the young master, two bottom-tier executives, the stragglers would never allow themselves to back down.

"What I'm talking about are real difficulties." The skirmisher glanced at the embers, then at the lady and gentleman behind him who were glancing at him every now and then, and added:

“It’s completely different from the kind of nitpicking they do.”

You can't mock Ember, but you can still mock the lady and the young master.

“Okay, you go ahead.” Yu Jin sat back down. He was always a reasonable person, so why not listen to what the other person had to say?

At worst, I'll just give him another punch.

“First, we don’t have a boat,” the skirmisher said, holding up one finger.

"You don't actually expect to rely entirely on manpower to transport supplies, do you? The soldiers of the Fools are indeed physically fit, but they are still far inferior to tools."

"You guys work three shifts, just run around more," Yu Jin offered his solution without a care in the world.

This made everyone present twitch their lips. It seemed that even slaves in ancient times hadn't suffered this much.

Three shifts? Even treating people like animals is unacceptable.

“Sure, as long as you don’t care about efficiency.” The skirmisher’s eyelids twitched, but he still followed up on what Ember had said.

"That is indeed a problem," Yu Jin said, indicating that he still cared a lot about efficiency.

Transporting grain and cleaning up the mess are the top priorities; punishing the fools should come later. We must not put the cart before the horse.

"Secondly, since you say you're transporting grain and expect us to clean up the mess, you need to know the villages in each area, otherwise you're not transporting grain, you're just transporting a pile of garbage."

The skirmisher then extended his second finger.

"This Coral Palace can help. We have information on villages near Haiqi Island. All you need is for our people to accompany you when you transport grain."

Upon hearing this, Xin Hai exchanged a few words with the officials behind him, and then placed a scroll on the conference table, presumably a more detailed map.

But the stragglers didn't look at anything; they grinned and continued speaking to the embers:

“You heard it too, this is only from Haizhi Island. If you want us to only operate in the Haizhi Island area, then we can pretend that what just happened didn’t exist.”

After the soldier finished speaking, his smile widened. He didn't think Ember had any reason to favor Haiqi Island; after all, the Fools were just a group of laborers he had casually kidnapped.

Helping one place is helping, helping two places is also helping, so why not help more?

During wartime, gathering points can change daily. Haiji Island, located in the rear, might be stable, but places like Hachiyun Island, Fumasa, and Kujo Jinya are quite different.

Those areas were on the edge of the battlefield, and the locations of villages changed even more rapidly. Given the skirmishers' understanding of the shogunate's people, they wouldn't bother with the thankless task of compiling such data.

At that time, won't it be the fools who will have to do it? That way, they'll have a chance to escape!

Thinking of this, the skirmisher almost burst out laughing. But Ember's gaze was fixed on him, forcing him to suppress his laughter.

"As for this... I might have a way to solve it." Yu Jin stroked his chin, thinking of someone who could perfectly solve both problems.

"What method? Create clones? Slice them into pieces? No way! If we lure Thor out, we'll all be in trouble. Let me tell you, she's incredibly powerful!"

Seeing Yu Jin's thoughtful expression, the soldiers feared that he might come up with some new trick to solve these problems.

He even brought up Thor, whom he hated the most. Fearing Ember wouldn't take it seriously, the Scatter Soldier added fuel to the fire, saying, "He might be even more powerful than that fat dragon in Liyue!"

The soldiers didn't know whether Thor or Rota was stronger, but as the saying goes, "If you're so tough, come and fight him!"

How did you know I knew these things?

"Huh? You actually know how?"

The three people opposite him nearly dropped their jaws when they heard what Yu Jin said.

"Judging from what the three of you are saying, this person's strength..." Xin Hai heard Sanbing and Yu Jin's words, and Bao Zhu's clear eyes sparkled.

If someone can get three executives to sit down and have a proper talk, how weak can their strength be? If we're talking about strength, then it's limitless.

"Why are you always thinking about fighting? You're all just little kids." Yu Jin waved his hand; he was a person who liked to reason.

Unfortunately, few of the people Yu Jin had met before could speak clearly, let alone listen to his reasoning.

"The method I'm going to tell you isn't about brute force!" Yu Jin stood up. Although he could create many clones to run around, he now had a more convenient method.

"Do you know Gui Long?" Yu Jin sat down again, put his hands together and rested them on his chin, and said in a deliberately profound tone.

"Guilong? That sounds like the name of a grandmaster of swordsmanship." The young master's eyes gleamed with excitement.

"Your hearing is really bad."

Ember indicated that the young master had a hearing problem. Seeing everyone's confusion, he stopped being mysterious and shrugged, saying:

"He's basically just a pirate captain, a smuggling boss, and a garbage dump manager."

Chapter 444 A Decisive Mind

2024-01-26

"Pirate captain?"

"Smuggling ringleader?"

"The garbage dump manager?"

"Do you three really have to repeat what I said?"

Yu Jin glanced sideways at the three executive officers opposite him. Why were these three so easily startled? They had no self-control at all!

"Ha, pirates? What use are these villains who take advantage of chaos?" When the skirmisher heard that Ember's solution was to find a pirate to help him, he immediately sneered.

It wasn't him... Well, anyway, the skirmishers always like to peek through the crack in the door, and this time is no exception.

Pirates? Aren't those guys just good at taking advantage of others' misfortunes and petty theft—things that require neither brains nor strength, only guts? What great use could they possibly be?

"You little brat, are your eyes on the top of your head?" When Ember saw the Scatter Soldier looking down on people again, he figured that the Scatter Soldier must have been looked down on a lot in the past, so now that he had become stronger, he immediately transformed into the "evil dragon" he used to be.

"If you ask me, even if Guilong is terrible, he's still better than you guys!" Yu Jin said, pointing at the three people opposite him.

Then he saw Coral Palace and the others standing to the side, and with a turn of his arm, he pointed at them.

"Oh, I almost forgot about your resistance. You're no match for those pirates like Guilong."

At best, Guilong ambushed passing soldiers; compared to the filth done by the rebels and the fools, he was far better.

Xin Hai was taken aback when she saw Yu Jin pointing at her. She quickly smiled and said, "Haha, Yu Jin, you're quite the joker."