episode_0032

“Is this all there is?”

The first place Lim Seo-ryun checked was the goods warehouse. The wide open warehouse contained mostly supplies and food for our own use, and there were almost no luxury items left. Lim Seo-ryun pushed herself into the warehouse, cast her eyes here and there, and said with a frown on her face.

“……Hmm, I thought they had absorbed the hard work of the people in this village and accumulated a lot of wealth.”

The judge smiled at me with a triumphant look on his face. I patted the head of the sentence and then spoke to Lim Seo-ryeon.

“It is operated cleanly. Don’t you know it when you see it? Jeondae Munju was no different from an animal and went around sucking people off, but there is no need for that now.”

But Lim Seo-ryeon shook her head firmly despite my words. She seemed convinced that I had committed corruption.

“No. As an anti-midwife, my intuition speaks for itself. I have seen many disgusting people like you who make pretense. They always showed me an empty warehouse and said this to me. ‘Now, let’s see. We have nothing.’ Do you think such a pathetic trick would work in front of me?”

Even after seeing her sharp eyes, I was not impressed. His eyes were shining brightly, like a detective in a mystery novel, but it was about a month since I became Moonju, and I really hadn’t eaten anything.

“Even if I give you a chance, you won’t understand. After all, you guys are all the same.”

She said that and took out her sword from its sheath. The attendants were shaken by that sight, and I walked backwards, hugging Seonjang. Lim Seo-ryeon smiled in satisfaction at my appearance and struck the floor of the warehouse with her sword sheath.

bang!

With a loud noise, a large hole appeared in the floor of the warehouse, and a pitch-black space appeared. Due to the impact of the floor shaking, the sacks and other miscellaneous items were pushed off the shelf, and the servant standing next to him lost his balance and stumbled forward.

“Oh my!”

A voice rang out. There was a secret space under the warehouse.

Lim Seo-ryeon spoke in a strong tone.

“Secret space right under the warehouse! Trivial tricks like not knowing what is going on don’t work on me! Right here! There will be a lot of evidence of you guys cheating!”

I couldn’t help but be a little embarrassed by her confident attitude. Because I really didn’t know that there was a secret space under the warehouse. Did you know the sentence? When I looked at the sentence, she covered her mouth and spoke in a low voice.

“Oh my.”

And that voice scared me even more.

Did you really not know?

No, what if the real Moonju had created a slush fund over there? What should I do if I open the inside and find a lot of things like high-quality ceramics or jewelry?

It seemed like it was very obvious that my expression was rotting. Lim Seo-ryun smiled cheerfully and pointed to the floor she had destroyed.

“Yes! Looks like I got it right! Your pretentious acting ends here! aide! Come quickly and take out the items inside!”

The young man who was watching the situation from behind followed Lim Seo-ryeon’s orders and jumped into the space. He seemed quite deep, so you might hesitate, but he seemed to have no hesitation about corruption like his superior.

Lim Seo-ryeon was fiddling with her sword with her arms crossed. Judging from his actions, it seemed like he was planning on stabbing me even if something suspicious came out inside.

Would it be better to just run away now?

“Stay there. Because cutting off your limbs and blocking your movements is nothing.”

Just looking around with the intention of running away, Lim Seo-ryeon slightly pulled out her sword from its scabbard and made a threat. I had no choice but to spread my hands out to calm her down, and we had no choice but to wait in front of the warehouse until the deputy finished his investigation inside.

Senseon looked back and forth between me and the hole with a nervous look on her face, and seeing her attitude made me even more nervous.

It ends in vain like this?

really?

“Uh, inspector?”

A man’s voice rang out from below. Lim Seo-ryun spoke, slightly raising the corners of her mouth at the man’s voice.

“Why are you doing that?”

“….This is the liquor warehouse. The only thing there is alcohol?”

“…….”

Lim Seo-ryun looked at me without saying a word. She asked the adjutant, forcing her expression to harden as if she was rebelling against an unbelievable reality.

“…is it some kind of famous or expensive liquor?”

“No. It is a liquor made by simply soaking rice. Since there are only a few buildings, it would be a bit difficult to use this as evidence of denial… .”

I looked at the sentence in silence.

If this was going to be like this, why did he look so nervous?

She read the meaning of my expression and waved her hand to explain.

“No, it hasn’t ripened yet, so the taste changes when exposed to the outside air. I deliberately kept it hidden so that I could drink it once it matured… .”

And Senseon looked at Lim Seo-ryeon. When Lim Seo-ryeon made eye contact with Seon Seon, she looked away and said,

“….I’m sorry.”

What is this year doing?

really.

******

“…However, no matter how empty the warehouse is, there are bound to be flaws in the ledgers. Give me the ledger!”

“There’s another warehouse over there, aren’t you going to check there?”

I pointed to another warehouse. It was a warehouse containing several valuable items, including Jin Dynasty porcelain that had been passed down from generation to generation in this clan. In response to my question, Lim Seo-ryeon shook her head and shouted.

“It’s not too late to check the ledger.”

In front of her was a ledger recording revenue, a ledger recording warehouse receipts and withdrawals, and a ledger about the operation of this sect.

As soon as she saw the ledger, she sat there with a wry smile on her face, and the adjutant prepared a brush and an inkstone on the desk that he did not know where he got it from. She said while grinding the ink.

“Since you are caught by the midwife’s giraffe, all of your denials are bound to be revealed. I will take off that dirty mask of hypocrisy.”

She shouted with a triumphant expression on her face, but at the same time she seemed a little nervous. The way he was flapping the paper with his eyebrows pressed together made him look like a Confucian student preparing for an exam in the past.

Sensei spoke to me with the Giraffe of the Anti-Spanish Sect in front of him.

“Would you like some tea?”

“Is that so?”

Then, the deputy standing next to him raised his hand and said.

“Oh, please give me a drink too.”

Seeing this, Lim Seo-ryeon, who had been putting her head down on the ledger, raised her head again. When she glared sharply, the deputy who had asked for the car lowered his hand and said,

“….Now that I think about it, I don’t think it’s necessary.”

They’re playing with each other.

really.

********

3 hours later.

“……Hey, are you just going to keep looking at the ledger?”

Unable to wait, I stroked the head of Seongwon, who had begun to doze off, and asked Lim Seo-ryeon. With bloodshot eyes, Lim Seo-ryeon looked alternately at the ledger, the cash register, and the inventory records in the warehouse.

He even counted the items in the warehouse and the money in the safe by hand, saying he would count them with his own eyes.

But it never came out of her mouth that she had found evidence of infidelity.

The amount was just right, and I didn’t find any extravagances or strange items that were unnecessary.

Our clan was perfect on paper.

He did not commit fraud in the first place, and he sold all of the items left behind by Jeondae that could be considered reprehensible.

If you think about it, it seems that the sentence was to prepare for such a situation, as he sold all the goods in the warehouse to merchants at low prices.

The judge said while yawning.

“…There is no problem with the ledger. How hard I worked on it.”

Senseon said that and leaned his head on my chest and pampered me. Even though he was a top-notch expert, the nervousness was nowhere to be seen.

On the contrary, Lim Seo-ryeon’s relaxed appearance as a top-notch expert and a member of the Hangsan School has long since disappeared. She bit her nails, breathed heavily, and rubbed her chin, looking as if she had been poisoned.

“….This can’t be happening… .”

“How long will it be like this?”

I frowned. Then, the adjutant who was fidgeting between me and Lim Seo-ryeon slowly approached my seat and spoke in a low voice.

“…Please understand. The inspector said that his performance was very poor. These days, I’m very nervous because of the pressure to build up results.”

I tilted my head at his words. Looking at the way he said something about the Xiangshan Sect’s Kirin, wasn’t he a talented group? I spoke to him in a lower voice.

“I heard it’s the midwife’s giraffe?”

“In the Hangsan Sect, he was called so because his martial arts talent was so outstanding, and his smarts were highly praised and he was working in the Murim Alliance… . It seems like you’re not suited for this kind of thing.”

At that time, the desk made a rattling noise, and Lim Seo-ryeon jumped up.

“….What is that building over there? I don’t think you’ve gone in yet?”

Then she pointed to another warehouse. I said with a sour expression.

“That’s a warehouse too. I asked you earlier if you were going in, but didn’t you say you would look at the ledger first?”

Now it didn’t matter whether I went in or what I did.

After the tension subsided, all I could think of was a wish for this performance-mad woman to disappear quickly.

Lim Seo-ryeon frowned at my words and said as she walked towards the warehouse.

“Yes, in that warehouse! That warehouse is definitely full of evidence of fraud!”

It was a desperate tone of hope rather than certainty. Sensei woke up from his sleep at the sight of her and spoke cautiously.

“Be careful. The ceramics inside were taken to my house… .”

“Do I look like someone who would eat pottery or something?”

Lim Seo-ryeon said so and opened the warehouse door and entered.

In the warehouse, the pottery was standing as it was, and as soon as Lim Seo-ryeon saw the pottery, she blinked and said.

“Oh, this is a pretty good piece. where… .”

And the moment she touched the pottery to check it.

Jeokjeok

Suddenly

“Huh?”

Even before Lim Seo-ryeon, who dabbled in pottery, could confirm the incident,

Before I could even remember that I had broken and eaten a piece of pottery from a mountain not long ago.

Clink!

The pottery cracked horribly at the point where Lim Seo-ryun’s hand touched it and shattered on the spot.

“Uh… .”

Senseon’s face became contemplative.

“Uh… .”

Lim Seo-ryeon’s face was pale.