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Chapter 695 An unexpected gain
The arrival of Count Weisen's messenger made Buxa a little nervous, fearing that something might happen to the wheat business this year.

The first thing the messenger said when he saw Buxar was: "Something happened!"

Buxa's heart skipped a beat.

The messenger continued, "Count Weissen has informed us to send this year's wheat samples to Weissenburg as quickly as possible."

Buxar asked nervously, "What happened?"

The messenger waved his hand and said, "It's a military secret. I can't tell you."

When two silver coins accidentally flew into his pocket, he whispered, "Something terrible has happened in Hanma City!"

"Aren't they digging a canal over there to bypass the Kingdom of Danmar? Grand Duke Wessen suddenly went to inspect it and ate moldy bread during dinner."

"Later, we found out that this batch of moldy flour was transferred from the army."

"Grand Duke Weisen went to check the military rations himself again, and he found something wrong."

"We don't know if this batch of flour has a storage problem, or if it was swapped in Hanma City, or if the flour shipped there already had problems."

"The military rations have always been managed by Count Weissen. This time we suppressed it due to the issue of storage, but we dare not let it happen again. If Grand Duke Weissen gets angry, he will be hanged on the city wall!"

"Grand Duke Weissen is now paying attention to military rations, so Count Weissen is particularly strict about purchasing military rations this year and will hold an extra round of bidding, so it's brought forward."

Buxa was extremely depressed, not knowing who had done this to bring suffering to a person with a conscience like him.

He said to the signalman: "Thank you, I will go to Weissenberg immediately."

"You must have come all this way, please go to the castle and rest for a while."

The messenger shook his head and said, "No, we still have to rush to the next place to inform them."

Burkett was listening and immediately said, "Why don't you come to the church to have something to eat first? There are freshly baked sausage bread and beer."

The messenger was a little hungry after running so far. He had originally planned to eat some dry food on the way. Now that there was ready-made food, he decided to eat some.

He said, "That's a problem. No need for beer. Just a bowl of hot soup will do."

Burkett turned around and asked the two old men to take them to the church restaurant to prepare food and open two cans.

After the messenger entered the church, he said to Buxar, "Mr. Steward, this matter cannot be neglected. It concerns everyone's annual income."

"You go and prepare the car first. I'll help you prepare food for the journey, and then ask the villagers to load the wheat."

Buxar looked up at the sun in the sky and decided to set off so that he could reach Hamma before sunset and then hire a boat to go to Wisemburg overnight.

I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to do some public relations this time.

"Okay." Buxar agreed, "Please help me pick the best wheat and prepare a few more barrels of beer."

Burkett is no problem at all.

Near noon, Buxar prepared the carriage carrying wheat and called the driver and the farmers to work.

Burkett asked a farmer to pack a pile of wheat that had been dried for two days into sacks, moved out the beer barrels, and prepared a sausage and noodle meal in the church kitchen.

At noon, Buxar checked the wheat and then set off with the convoy, taking a few guards with him.

Frederick had been concentrating on painting and had no chance to do this.

After dinner that day, as Frederick was feeding his horse, Burkett whispered to him, "The wheat from this morning has been prepared. There will be no problem."

Frederick nodded and said, "We will go to Duke Cooley when Boska's telegram arrives."

In order to prevent Buxar from discovering the problem, they only sent and received telegrams at night.

At about ten o'clock that evening, a telegram arrived, and Burkett translated it immediately, but it turned out to be a code that needed to be translated again. However, Frederick and Bell Burket were busy in the room at that time, so Burkett could only stuff the telegram through the crack of the door and knocked hard on the door a few times.

The next morning, Weissenberg sent a telegram saying that Buxa had arrived overnight.

At breakfast, Frederick said to Father Raum, "I want to visit Count Cure after breakfast."

Raum said, "Oh, that's as it should be."

"It's just that Duke Cooley doesn't care about worldly affairs at all now, and sometimes he doesn't listen to others. Please don't take it to heart."

"Let Burkett go with you. I walk slowly."

Frederick complied.

On the way to the castle, Burkett said to Frederick: "There are two knights in the castle now. One is the illegitimate son of the Duke of Cure's father. He is very loyal to the Duke, but his ability is mediocre."

"There is another knight who has been very loyal to Buxar in recent years. I'm afraid he will stop us."

As Burkett said, the knight forbade Frederick to see the Duke of Cure on the grounds that his identity was unknown.

"Unless you step over my body!"

The other knight drew his sword and leaned on it, also with a grim look on his face.

Without saying a word, Frederick knocked down the two knights with one punch each. The ice froze their limbs to the ground, making them unable to move.

He asked Bell Burke to guard the stairs while he took Burkett up to the tower.

The other guards saw that the two knights were knocked down by a punch and were now lying on the ground, their lives unknown. They thought that they only earned a few hundred copper coins a month, so why risk their lives?

Frederick said, "The son of that illegitimate child was the mastermind behind the assassination of Bosco. Buxar promised that he would inherit the title after the death of the Duke of Cooley and his son."

Burkett opened his mouth to say something, but ended up just shaking his head.

When the two men walked into the top floor of the tower, they staggered because of the strong smell of incense here. Frederick couldn't help but complain: "Good guy! Grand Duke Wessen doesn't need so much incense!"

Not to mention incense, even moxibustion doesn’t have such a strong smell.

The smell came from the prayer room and could be seen with the naked eye. If one didn’t know better, one would have thought there was a fire.

Burkett couldn't help but say, "This is the first time I've seen so many incense sticks burned to worship the God of Light. There are no such devout believers in the Holy City."

Frederick's mouth twitched, thinking that he was still too young.

Duke Kure was wearing a white robe and was very thin. He knelt in front of the altar, chanting scriptures and occasionally turning the rosary in his hand.

Frederick took out the telegram sent back by Bosko and read it out in a low voice outside the door.

In the letter, Bosco talked about many things that only father and son knew, and then talked about his experience of being assassinated while out hunting and escaping after being injured.

After he finished his belief, Duke Kure's body swayed and he fell to the ground.

Burkett was responsible for taking care of the Duke of Cure, and Frederick went to Buxar's bedroom.

The layout of the room is quite standard, and there should be a place to keep secret letters.

However, Frederick did not find the secret letter here, but instead found several large volumes of clippings, all of which were military news from newspapers such as the "Wessen Daily".

Frederick then went to the study where Buxa worked and searched again.

The findings here are surprising.

"Wow!" Frederick couldn't help but exclaimed in admiration as he looked at the telegraph machine in front of him.

(End of this chapter)