Chapter 15: Huang Wufeng
For a manor or a faction, account management is a major matter.
If people are not managed well and money is not accounted for clearly, problems can easily arise.
For an ordinary person to become an accountant at Three Talents Manor, even if that person is very capable, Three Talents Manor wouldn’t dare to let them manage the accounts. Unless their family background is clean and their roots are well-known.
It was precisely because of Hua Xiaomei’s recommendation that Zhan Ming brought Shi Feizhe to the accounting office of Three Talents Manor, to be tested by Mister Wang, the accountant.
Mister Wang was a rather lean middle-aged man, looking to be around fifty or sixty, currently clicking away on an abacus with the other accountants, checking the accounts.
His brows were furrowed. Suddenly interrupted by Zhan Ming, he was originally very impatient and about to get angry. Only after seeing Hua Xiaomei did he smile and greet him.
“So it’s Young Master Hua, this old man failed to welcome you, my apologies, my apologies!” Mister Wang clasped his hands and said to Hua Xiaomei.
Hua Xiaomei returned the greeting with refined courtesy, and explained Shi Feizhe’s situation to Mister Wang.
“Oh? Is this little brother really proficient in arithmetic?” A strange glint flashed in Mister Wang’s eyes.
Young Master Hua had already sorted out the accounts, why send someone to the accounting office? Could it be that he didn’t trust this old man?
“I have a little understanding!” Shi Feizhe said confidently.
Just now he had looked around the room, and seeing the abacus, he felt relieved.
Ancient accounting, was nothing more than addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, borrowing, lending, and credit, along with daily journals, detailed ledgers, and such. Its difficulty wouldn’t exceed a system of two-variable linear equations!
It couldn’t stump him, a corporate slave!
Mister Wang casually asked some questions about daily general ledgers and interest calculation methods, and Shi Feizhe answered them all with ease. These were too simple for him.
“Unexpectedly, this little brother is truly proficient in arithmetic!” Seeing Shi Feizhe’s fluent answers and clear problem-solving ideas, Mister Wang truly looked at Shi Feizhe in a new light. He was much better than the few useless ones around him!
This was good, with this person in the accounting office, it would just happen to dispel Young Master Hua’s doubts!
“Since it’s Young Master Hua’s recommendation, with little brother’s abilities, for the first few months, let’s start with twenty taels a month.” Mister Wang thought for a moment and said to Young Master Hua, clasping his hands.
“Little brother has such skills, I was truly blind to it!” Hua Xiaomei looked at Shi Feizhe and said, he hadn’t expected Shi Feizhe to really understand arithmetic.
Arithmetic wasn’t something ordinary people could come into contact with!
Hopefully, when I consume this Grand Medicine in the future, it can also improve my arithmetic! Hua Xiaomei thought silently.
Shi Feizhe was surprised by the twenty taels a month! But thinking about the cost of living in Three Talents Town, and for Hua Xiaomei’s sake, the salary offered by Three Talents Manor was reasonable.
“Little brother, familiarize yourself here, I still have some small matters to attend to!” Hua Xiaomei looked at the sky and suddenly said to everyone present.
“Thank you, Brother Hua!” Shi Feizhe clasped his hands and said, his gratitude to Hua Xiaomei was genuine. Without Hua Xiaomei’s help, at this time he had no leads on martial arts manuals, no means of livelihood, he was like a blade of grass in the Jianghu!
“Please, Young Master Hua!” Zhan Ming and Mister Wang bowed to Hua Xiaomei and said.
Hua Xiaomei returned their greetings, then, swaying his fan, he left the accounting office courtyard with a swagger. After turning a few corners, he arrived at the main hall of Three Talents Manor.
The main hall of Three Talents Manor was quite grand, the eaves slightly curved upwards, under the black tiles and black eaves were several nanmu pillars, each requiring an embrace to encircle. There was a couplet on the two pillars near the main entrance of the hall.
The first line: “Fragrance of flowers permeates the garden, Three Talents prosper”. The second line: “Bamboo shadows sway on the window, all directions are bright”. Horizontal inscription: “Flowers bloom, the moon is full”.
This was the main hall of Three Talents Manor, “Flower Hall”!
Every time he saw this “Flower Hall” and this couplet, Hua Xiaomei felt that Zhan Yunfan was truly a damn talent at flattery.
As soon as he walked into Flower Hall, a wave of fragrance rushed towards him, he quickly turned around and delivered a kick!
“Ouch!” A coquettish cry, a stunningly beautiful woman dressed in flamboyant attire was kicked to the ground by Hua Xiaomei. She pouted and said, “Brother Hua, what are you doing?!”
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The bright yellow silk could only cover a small part of her body, revealing her exquisite figure and fair skin. Combined with her fresh beauty, bright eyes, white teeth, and her coquettish tone, she was infinitely seductive.
“Brother Huang, why are you here!” Hua Xiaomei said with a dark face.
“Oh my~ What do you mean Brother Huang, I’m clearly Brother Hua’s Xiaomei Huang!” The beauty on the ground wrinkled her nose and said rather adorably.
“…”
Hua Xiaomei’s face darkened even more.
The Central Plains Demon Sect was divided into four families, Hua, Huang, Xiong, and Jiang. Among them, the Huang family had an unorthodox manual called 《Heavenly Human Transformation Record》.
Celestials, were a type of creature in the legends of the Nine Provinces’ Buddhist sects, neither male nor female. Those who cultivated the 《Heavenly Human Transformation Record》 had to be male-bodied but female-hearted, and visualize the Celestial Diagram during cultivation. Then, as the cultivation of the technique deepened, they would develop more feminine characteristics while retaining their masculine features.
At this point, it was necessary to absorb the Yin and Yang essence of all living beings, experience love, hate, joy, and sorrow, and finally reach the great perfection realm of formlessness, without the appearance of a man, a woman, or any living being.
Those who cultivated the 《Heavenly Human Transformation Record》 throughout history ultimately cultivated themselves into androgynous beings, absorbing Yin to supplement Yang and absorbing Yang to supplement Yin, and were finally beaten to death. No one had ever cultivated it to the great perfection realm.
When he was young, Hua Xiaomei had seen the Huang family’s kid, at that time he was still a little fatty, bullied by him all the time! If it weren’t for the housekeeper watching over them, he might have even tricked the fatty into a cesspit and killed him.
He never thought that a boy could change so much after puberty, the former little fatty had become a delicate beauty, and even more frightening was…
“Brother Hua, I’m so lonely, why don’t we dual cultivate~~” The beauty slumped on the ground, staring at Hua Xiaomei with wide eyes and a coquettish voice.
“Huang Wufeng! You better behave yourself!” Hua Xiaomei said.
He was already thinking of finding a chance to dunk this guy in a cesspit!
It was just that the 《Heavenly Human Transformation Record》 was rather strange, he had fought with this guy before, and only had a slight advantage, unable to kill him.
Sigh! When he was out in the Jianghu, he was pestered by demonic women. When he returned to the Demon Sect’s territory, he was still pestered by a demonic person from within the sect!
He was too pitiful!
There was no helping it, who made him so handsome!
“Oh my~ Brother Hua has said it many times, I’m Huang Wufeng now! Feng as in phoenix!” Huang Wufeng said.
The male phoenix is called Feng, the female is called Huang. Wufeng, Wufeng, the meaning was self-evident!
“Bah! Maybe if you took out your treasure, it would be bigger than mine, stop pretending!” Hua Xiaomei was getting annoyed by Huang Wufeng, he threw down a sentence and went inside the main hall.
Inside the main hall, a woman in green sat in the main seat, resting her head on her arm, tilting her head and watching Hua Xiaomei and Huang Wufeng with amusement, she couldn’t help but let out a silver bell-like laugh.
“Hahaha~ This is so amusing. It’s rare to see Brother Hua at a disadvantage!”
Hua Xiaomei knew that this person in front of him was the truly troublesome one!
Hua Xiaomei: There’s no helping it, I’m too handsome!
