Elder brother's garrison

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"No...no..." The minister's face was pale, and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.

"What's wrong with that! Can't I even see my own information?" the goddess of the hearth asked the minister.

"Regulations...regulations!" The minister gritted his teeth, throwing caution to the wind, and shouted angrily at the crowd before him, "These are the regulations! If every employee in the entire ship's equipment research center, regardless of rank, wanted to come to the finance department to inquire about their information, wouldn't our finance department be wasting all our precious working time on such trivial matters! Even the person in question needs a pass to come and inquire!"

The minister grew more confident as he spoke, and by the end, his tone had hardened again.

"Now that I'm all here, can't you just let me take a look?"

“If I set a precedent for you, wouldn’t that tell all the staff that anyone who comes to the finance department can use this kind of excuse to coerce them? No way! I said no, and that’s final!” The minister swallowed hard and gave a soft snort. “Besides, you came up here as a security guard, didn’t you? Instead of fulfilling your duties as a security guard, you’re easily fooled by a few words and stand with those who cause trouble. Don’t you think your behavior is an insult to your sacred duty?”

"Uh...this..."

The goddess of the hearth only held the position of a lowly security guard in the ship equipment research center. She usually did not get involved in the work of the various departments in the ship equipment research center, so she naturally did not know much about the finance department. After listening to the minister's rebellious words, she was unable to refute him for a moment.

"I'll say it one last time, leave the finance department! It's not that you can't check your information here, but you'll need a pass! You can go back and get your passes and come back! It won't take much time! Please don't waste your time, and don't waste my time either!" The minister said, leaning back in his chair.

This is really troublesome...

Xiao Bai frowned as he looked at the minister's confident expression.

Xiaobai's network of admirals can indeed influence the target's emotional state, causing the target to do things that are beneficial to him... but Xiaobai's network of admirals can only "influence the target," not "control the target."

In other words, Xiaobai's network of admirals has limited influence on humans. If the target truly has the mindset of not wanting to do anything no matter what, even Xiaobai's network of admirals is powerless to change it.

This is troublesome...

He couldn't leave the finance department office now; if he did, the minister would probably immediately start altering the data on the goddess of the hearth. But it wasn't a good idea for them to stay here and stall the minister. This was the ship equipment research center, and he couldn't afford to resort to violence against these people...

Xiao Bai couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

Human society is so complex, with constraints everywhere... Compared to navigating human society, leading ship girls to fight in the deep sea on the surface seems incredibly easy.

How to do it……

Xiao Bai pondered deeply.

Seeing Xiaobai's predicament, the minister at the desk breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Fortunately… these three strange young girls didn't seem to have much social experience, and the Vess Goddess was in a similar state, so dealing with them wasn't too difficult… Once they stayed a little longer, I'd find an excuse, using the name of the Ship Equipment Research Center, to morally blackmail them and kick them out, and then…

The minister's mind raced.

Suddenly, at that moment, another click sounded from the finance department's door.

Everyone instinctively looked towards the gate.

The door was pushed open, and a tall girl with her hands in the pockets of her white coat led a group of people into the finance department, completely blocking the already crowded entrance.

"Oh wow, looks like I'm not too late." The tall girl walked into the finance department, looked around, and her gaze locked onto Xiaobai at the desk in the distance. A hint of joy appeared in her eyes, and she waved her hand at Xiaobai, "Yo! Admiral! I'm here!"

Chapter 1704 I didn't dare spend a single penny!

Just after the tall girl in the white coat led her people into the finance department.

When the office staff working in the finance department saw the girl, they were as if they had seen an idol. They all put down what they were doing, stood up from their chairs, and stared in astonishment.

"Dr. Yubari?"

"Is that Dr. Yubari?"

"The one that's on the sign by the roadside?"

"Why is she here...?"

"Wow..."

……

The office staff jumped to their feet, waving excitedly at Yubari.

"Dr. Yubari!"

"Dr. Yubari! Good morning!"

"Dr. Yubari, what brings you here...?"

"Dr. Yubari, I've read your paper! You're my idol!"

"Dr. Yubari..."

The finance department staff were filled with a fervent urge to swarm him, to attack him en masse, and to rush to Yubari one after another for his autograph.

Yubari's position in the ship equipment research center... certainly fits the criteria of a big star in many ways.

Before these office workers, who were rushing towards Yubari, could even reach her, they were stopped by the people around her.

"Sorry, sorry, I have something to do, I'll be going now!" Yubari blew a kiss to the office staff next to her, leaving behind a cacophony of howls, like a narrow path walked by a big star, before arriving in front of Shiro and the other three.

"Yubari?" Shiro looked at the appearing Yubari in surprise.

"Ha! Don't ask, it's the security guards at the gate!" Yubari said smugly to Shiro, hands on her hips. "The security team at the gate just called me to confirm the authenticity of the pass you gave them, Admiral. After confirming the pass with the security captain, I casually asked where you went, and he told me you went to the finance department! Then I used my 250 IQ brain to think about it seriously. Last night, you told me you were going to investigate the salary issue of the Goddess of the Hearth. You probably discovered something in the finance department. Since you don't have a second pass, you'll probably be stopped at the finance department. That's why I stopped all the experiments and called someone to come find you!"

"Ah...I see!" Upon hearing Yubari's words, Shiro was immediately moved to tears. "Thank you, Yubari!"

"Admiral, am I too late?"

"No, no! You've come at just the right time!" Xiaobai excitedly grabbed Yubari's arm, pointed to the department head sitting at the desk, and said as if she were tattlering on a teacher, "Yubari, I heard that I seem to have found an important clue about Miss Vestal Goddess here. Ever since I mentioned Miss Vestal Goddess, that department head has been acting guilty and forcing me to leave the finance office!"

"Okay, I understand completely." Yubari nodded, gave Shiro a reassuring look, and waved to the person behind her. With a rustling sound, the staff who had been maintaining order behind Yubari rushed to the department head's desk, surrounding it in layers.

"You! What are you doing! Who are you?!" Surrounded by people, the minister looked around in panic, shouting frantically at Yubari, "This is the Finance Department, a key location of the Ship Equipment Research Center. Unauthorized personnel are not allowed..."

“They’re not just anyone.” Before the minister could finish speaking, Yubari’s voice interrupted him. Yubari patted the shoulder of the female hearth goddess sitting at the table, gently pushed her aside, and stood directly in front of the minister. “They are auxiliary police officers that I specifically called here!”

The moment Yubari uttered the words "auxiliary police officer," the minister immediately became flustered and restless.

"What? Auxiliary... auxiliary police officer..."

"Auxiliary police officer?" Xiaobai was taken aback. She looked at Yubari curiously, "Yubari, what is an auxiliary police officer...?"

"This is the Ship Equipment Research Center. Although it's a research institution, it's also a semi-military facility with a lot of valuable information and data. So, to protect the stability here to a certain extent, the Ship Equipment Research Center has set up an organization to assist the police in investigating and collecting evidence against spies, thieves, embezzlers, and those who line their own pockets. They are the auxiliary police. They have the right to investigate in any department of the Ship Equipment Research Center. If the evidence is sufficient, they can even arrest the suspect on the spot."

"Take him away...take him away?!" Upon hearing this, the minister's face turned red with anxiety, and he stood up abruptly from his chair. "You can't do this to me!"

The auxiliary police officers on both sides of Yubari stepped forward and pressed the minister's obese body back into the chair.

"What...what are you doing! Do you know what you're doing! I'm the Minister of Finance! How could you..." The minister tried anxiously to stand up from his seat, but he was just an ordinary person and no match for the strength of the two well-trained auxiliary police officers beside him. He could only struggle frantically and in vain in his chair.

“Although I’m new here, I actually had a pretty good idea of ​​what was going on before I even came to the finance department.” Yubari wasn’t surprised by the department head’s actions. She said to the department head, “Last night, when I was discussing the salary of the Goddess of the Hearth with my admiral, I wondered if someone was interfering and switching her salary. When I received the call today and learned that the admiral had come to the finance department, I had a vague feeling that someone in your finance department was up to something. I advise you to be honest. These reliable auxiliary police officers are people I specifically called here to assist me and my admiral. If you want them to release you, you’d better hand over the Goddess of the Hearth’s information honestly.”

As Yubari finished speaking, he casually grabbed a piece of white paper from the minister's desk, picked up a ballpoint pen, scribbled a line of words, and handed it to the minister.

"Here you go, the pass you ordered. I still have some influence in the Ship Equipment Research Center, right?" Yubari said to the department head. "Now that we have a reason and a pass, shouldn't we show my admiral the information she wants to see?"

"..." The minister, who was pressed into his seat, stared blankly at Yubari, then turned his head and looked at Shiro with a confused expression.

"You...you are the Admiral of Yubari?" The minister's face was full of astonishment and disbelief.

"Uh...please excuse my poor performance."

"..." The minister's face turned pale and then red.

"Don't just stand there! Where's my data! My data!" the goddess of the hearth reminded the silent minister.

"..." The minister lowered his head and remained silent.

"Hey! You're really something..."

"They won't shed tears until they see the coffin, and they won't turn back until they hit a brick wall. If this matter really had something to do with him, why would he think it would be so easy for him to pull out your information?" Yubari wasn't surprised by the minister's silent reaction. She shrugged and walked to the computer on the desk under everyone's gaze, pressing the power button.

"What are you doing!" The department head shouted in a panic when he saw Yubari touching his computer. "That's classified information! Don't... Waaaaaah—"

The auxiliary police officer behind the minister pulled out a soft stick and shoved it horizontally into the minister's mouth, rendering him speechless and only able to whimper and shout at Yubari.

“Since you don’t want us to see it, then I’ll find it myself… I’ve been working at the Ship Equipment Center for so long, I can just use your office computer to connect to your office’s LAN and find some information, it’ll be a piece of cake.” As Yubari spoke, he bent down and typed rapidly on the keyboard, finally navigating to a certain page and pressing the Enter key.

A mechanical buzzing sound could be heard.

The group picked up the photocopier next to the three ministers' desk and slowly printed out a densely packed pay slip.

"This is the goddess of the hearth's pay slips for the past few years." Yubari picked up the still-warm pay slips and handed them to the goddess of the hearth, who was waiting with her tail held high. "Here, take a look for yourself."

The female kitchen god quickly took the pay slip.

"Waaaaah! Waaaaah!" the minister screamed frantically from his chair.

The goddess of the hearth ignored the minister's shouts, lowered her head, and carefully checked the pay slip.

The goddess of the hearth glanced at her payslip.

"Huh? Huh?? Huh???" The goddess of the hearth stared wide-eyed. "Why...why does my payslip show that I have so much money every month! So much money!"

"Let me see." Little White moved closer to the goddess of the hearth and looked at the payslip. "Ah... sure enough..."

The female cook's pay slip showed that she received more than 10,000 yuan after tax each month, including her basic monthly salary, overtime hours, selection of outstanding employees, winter and summer air conditioning fees, and various deductions such as social insurance, housing fund, and taxes.

This conclusion is the same as what the security captain said.

Ok.

My older brother was right.

"So, Miss Stove Goddess, how much money do you actually receive each month?" Xiao Bai asked the senile Stove Goddess.

“I… every month…” The goddess of the hearth looked up blankly, holding her payslip, “Don’t even mention ten thousand, I don’t even have half of that… where did the rest of the money go?”

“…Where to…” Xiaobai repeated the words of the female god of the hearth, then shifted her gaze to the minister on the desk, who was being held down in his seat by the auxiliary police officers. He looked dejected and his eyes were somewhat vacant. “As for this…you’ll have to ask the minister…he seemed to be very interested in your information, Miss Female God of the Hearth.”

"Let him go," Yubari said to the auxiliary police officers, then looked at the chief, "You heard what just happened, right? Now tell me, is there anything else you want to confess?"

The auxiliary police officer released his hand from the minister and removed the large stick that had been preventing him from speaking.

The minister was completely disoriented, slumped in his seat, and stared blankly at his desk.

"Minister, may I ask where Miss Stove Goddess's extra money goes each month?" Xiaobai asked the minister.

"You intercepted it?" Yubari asked.

The minister shuddered, looked up, and his facial features immediately contorted in a distressed expression.

"No! No, I didn't!" The minister stood up from his chair, his features contorted, his mouth gaping down, his voice hysterical but low-pitched, sounding like he was crying or wailing, "Comrade Yubari! I...I didn't, I didn't...I...I didn't dare spend a single penny..."

Regarding the comment in the previous chapter about why Xiaobai always forgets to take the pass...

Well... how should I put it? Actually, it's like this. It's not that Xiaobai forgot to take it, but the pass itself is a one-time consumable, like a leave slip.

The prototype of the pass comes from the leave slip my homeroom teacher gave me when I was in high school and junior high. The gatekeeper would confiscate those slips to prevent some naughty students from reusing them. The pass for the ship equipment research center is based on the same principle.

It was my fault for not explaining things clearly when I wrote this; I could have written it better. I'm very sorry. (bows deeply)

written request for leave

I'll take a day off at the beginning of the month to try adjusting my schedule and improving the quality of my updates. Then I'll challenge myself to start updating at 4:30 PM tomorrow.

goo.

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Chapter 1705 Split up

Faced with overwhelming evidence, all words are powerless.

The moment Yubari asked, "You intercepted it," the department head, who was already on the verge of panic, broke down as if Yubari had shattered the last wall of his heart.

In the finance department office.

The minister's wailing echoed through the room.

"I haven't dared to spend a single penny of the Kitchen Goddess's salary, not a single penny!"

The minister wailed, waving a trembling finger in front of his face, desperately pleading with the crowd.

“Over the years, all the money that belongs to her has been deposited into a special bank account. It’s a bank account I opened specifically for the Goddess of the Kitchen God. I really haven’t touched a single penny!”

The minister's statement, in a sense, was tantamount to admitting guilt without being asked.

However, as everyone watched the minister writhe his obese body and the sorrowful expression on his face, their curiosity grew.

"Bank...account?"

After listening to the minister's confession, Yubari frowned in confusion.

"Yes! Bank account!" The minister pointed tremblingly at the bookshelf behind him, stamping his legs on the ground. "All the extra salary the Goddess of the Hearth has received over the years, I... I've put it all in a bank account. I really haven't touched a single penny! If you don't believe me, you can see for yourselves. I didn't even take the passbook with me. I put it in the first book on the second shelf of the bookshelf behind me!"

"Huh?" Yubari looked at the minister's bookshelf.

The bookshelf behind the minister was crammed with historical classics. The books were square and neat, with no wear or tear on the edges. They were at least 90% new, and it was obvious that they were the kind of decorative books that had just been bought from the bookstore and put on the bookshelf to make a show of culture.