Chapter 1600 - 1599: Two Sets of Accounting Books

Chapter 1600: Chapter 1599: Two Sets of Accounting Books

Chapter 1599: Two Sets of Account Books

Uncle Fu felt a sudden jolt in his heart hearing Ou Pengfei say this.

Today the master had already declared the dividend amount owed to Ou Xue, and said it was to be given to the Eldest Lady Ou Xue. But Ou Xue’s dividends had all been taken by him and given to the Old Madam, invested into the company. How could he come up with the money?

Housekeeper Fu knew that if he couldn’t produce Ou Xue’s dividends and didn’t have a good excuse, he would be in grave danger today.

But Ou Pengfei’s words coincidentally followed the route he and the Old Madam had determined back then, which was to disguise it as if Gu Weiwei had commissioned them to secretly use Ou Xue’s dividends to run the company. This way, even if their borrowing of Ou Xue’s money was discovered by the old man, they would have a way out.

Portraying the company as founded under the orders of the late Madam Gu, Gu Weiwei, made the diversion of Ou Xue’s dividends legitimate.

But he was puzzled—why did Ou Pengfei say this? Was he blindly guessing, or did he know their plan?

If he knew the plan, why did he not expose them but rather choose to cover for them?

Ah, it must have been the Old Madam who instructed him to say so.

He wanted to look at the Old Madam again, but found that Ou Pengfei was blocking her from his view. He couldn’t pay too much attention to the Old Madam, lest people see through their collusion—ah, no, cooperation.

Therefore, he sighed and said, "Yes, indeed, before Gu Weiwei was pregnant, she instructed me that if she died early, I should take some of her money to start another company for her, to leave to her descendants when her child grew up.

Later, after Madam Gu gave birth to Miss Ou Xue and passed away, I thought of using the lady’s dividends to invest in the company I started for the Madam. So, over the years, Miss Ou Xue’s dividends have actually been invested into the company belonging to Miss Ou Xue."

Uncle Fu said this, bowed to the master: "I’m sorry, master, I didn’t report this to you, it was Madam Gu’s request."

As for the fact that he and the Old Madam registered the legal representative in Ou Xue’s name and now made the company public—whether it would become something made for others, he wasn’t worried at all. The company was in the Old Madam’s hands, the account book in his, the Old Madam had long instructed another book to be made, what was there to fear?

Make a fake account book for Ou Xue, take the main chunk of the company, and leave her an empty shell. No, there’s no need to leave even a shell for her; he just needs to make another set of account books, find a way to let her know the company is deep in debt and make her unwilling to take over the company, crying out for justice to give it to him!

Fortunately, the Old Madam planned ahead, having the company make two sets of accounts. The real account book was kept in his basement, while the company’s account book was made for outsiders to see.

Furthermore, according to the accounts, over the years, the company’s prosperity has relied entirely on the subsequent "investments," which were originally actual company profits, but he reinvested them under the aliases of him and the Madam.

As a result, he had squeezed Ou Xue’s shares severely, leaving her only thirty percent, and the remaining seventy percent landed entirely in the hands of him and the Old Madam’s aliases.

Meanwhile, Mengyu told Ou Xue about what he had discovered concerning the Ou Family, and finally said: "Aunt, that’s the situation. What do you plan to do now?"

Ou Xue felt a bit dizzy: she had actually become the legal representative of a large corporation? Yet, her status as the legal representative was only nominal; the real benefits were in the hands of Old Madam Ou and Housekeeper Fu!