When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 958 Todd, please sit down
"Todd, please sit down."

Looking at Todd standing stiffly by the door, Jeanna walked up to him and grabbed his arm: "Sit down when I tell you to. Why are we so estranged?"

Sitting on the soft tweed cushioned chair, Jeanna first served Todd a cup of coffee.

After all, it is close to Black Snake Bay, and besides black tea, coffee is the most convenient and cheapest to obtain.

But no matter how cheap it is, the price will not be too low.

There are too few Black Snake Bay pearl rice plantations, and part of the coffee produced has to be exported to achieve a trade surplus.

Todd was used to drinking coffee on the battlefield, but when he arrived at the place, he could only drink dandelion water mixed with coffee powder.

Now when I saw the familiar military coffee, I couldn't help but take a big sip.

Jeanna smiled and gave him another little more: "If you like, I'll give you a few bags. I have a lot of it every month, but I don't like to drink this stuff."

Todd grinned and stammered, "Well, then how can I, well, feel good about this..."

Jeanna kicked him: "Why are you being so polite?"

The two men sat face to face at the coffee table in the reception room, and several privy monks were waiting outside the door.

After taking two sips of coffee, Jeanna got straight to the point: "Don't be nervous. I asked you to come here because I want to ask for your opinion on something."

"You say."

"It's about the Grace Market in South Mound County. Since it involves you, I have to call you here..."

Todd breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it was not a mudslide.

At this moment, he became curious. What else was happening in South Mound County that he didn't know about?

“A kindness market in South Mound County thought the price of sweet peas as pig feed would rise sharply, so they stocked up on them.

But unfortunately, due to poor management by local pig farmers, swine fever broke out this year and no one was buying the pigs.

In order to make up for the losses, the person in charge borrowed public funds from the priest town, bought epidemic medicine, and controlled the swine fever, and then he was able to sell the sweet beans.

By selling the sweet beans, I can naturally repay the public funds. There is no loss on the books, and I even make a small profit.

When reporting to the higher authorities, they concealed the swine fever and only said that Tiandou made a little profit. The priests and religious followed suit and concealed the matter, not mentioning the swine fever at all.

Do you think this matter should be..."

"Which little bastard does such a thing under my nose?!" Todd's face turned half green and half red half after hearing this, and finally he couldn't help but stand up.

"What are you yelling for? Sit down!"

Todd sat down with an angry look on his face.

"This matter was originally only a matter of the Holy Maternity Guardianship Bureau, but it involves the Priestly Municipality, and we are considering how to deal with it."

"Are you still thinking about it? Who is it? I'll take people to catch him." Todd couldn't help but ask.

Jeanna took a sip of coffee and said, "Why arrest them? They didn't cause any damage."

"This has not caused any losses yet. They are just lucky. Otherwise, there is swine fever medicine on the market or it is not delivered in time.

Not only can we not keep the money from hoarding sweet beans, but we can't even collect the money from the priest town. Humph, I can think of it.

If they fail, they will certainly shift the losses to the civilians.

Besides, this is contempt for the county order, contempt for the Imperial Council of Cardinals, and contempt for His Holiness the Pope!

This precedent cannot be set, Your Highness, you cannot be soft-hearted, not only must you arrest them, you must arrest them severely, and use Pravda to make them an example and announce it to the whole country!

Damn it, who is it? I…"

Halfway through his speech, Todd suddenly became speechless as if something was strangled by the neck.

Looking at the smiling Jeanna in front of him, cold sweat broke out on his back: "You, you know?"

Jeanna's expression didn't change: "Know what?"

This made Todd unsure. He opened his mouth but no words came out.

Jeanne's face in front of him and Lysander's face in his memory kept switching. He froze for a long time before he collapsed like he was exhausted: "I have something to explain. It's about the mudslide accident earlier..."

"Finally speaking? It's not easy."

"In fact, you already knew it." Todd smiled bitterly, "Thank you for showing mercy and letting me say it myself."

Being forced to tell the truth and confessing it yourself are two different concepts.

Jeanna's expression finally changed at this moment, and she stopped smiling: "Don't you understand the truth? Why do you do such a stupid thing?"

"I……"

"You are a simple person. I know you. There must be many people who persuade you to do this, right?"

"I...I made this decision on my own because I was blinded by honey..."

"boom!"

Jeanna slapped the table, pointed at Todd and cursed: "You are still protecting him at this time? The regiment is full of believers, do you think the local area is also full of believers?"

Todd was stunned. He looked at Jeanne in confusion, not understanding what was going on.

Snorting foul air, Jeanna glared at Todd in frustration, then turned around and took out two stacks of documents from behind her waist.

"Your privy monk is called Lysander?"

Todd nodded, feeling something was wrong. Handing Todd the documents one by one, Jeanna spoke one after another.

"This is the shipment record of the Holy Equipment Court Pharmacy Factory in March."

"This is the shipment record of sweet beans for April from the Black Snake Bay branch of the Holy Scythe Monastery."

"This is the confession of Kashyan, the director of Enqing Market."

"This is the warehouse manager's confession."

"This is the confession and account book record of the middleman Gottschalk."

“This is the timeline of the whole incident.”

Todd took the documents handed to him by Jeanne one by one. The more he looked at them, the wider his eyes became, and the more angry his expression became.

But by the end, his anger had gradually disappeared. When he looked up again, he sat down powerlessly with an expression of great loss on his face.

“What a great idea! If the swine fever hadn’t broken out, the profits from the sweet beans would have made up for the losses from the medicine.

If swine fever breaks out, the loss of medicine can make up for the loss of sweet beans.

But regardless of whether it explodes or not, and whether there is extra profit to be made, Lysander will not lose money and can even make money from the middlemen.

It’s a pity that the subsidies and interest-free loans given to pig farmers were easily taken away as soon as they were received.”

Jeanna clapped her hands softly: "It's beautiful, so beautiful, I can handle both official and personal matters without delaying either.

What should he do? What should you do?
Should we go to Pravda and let everyone see what the brave soldiers who fought in the two Thousand Valley Wars are like now?"

With shaking hands, Todd took a sip of coffee and said, "You told me privately that you saved my honor. Please believe me, I will resign tomorrow."

"Please resign, please resign. If something happens, please resign. If you resign and I resign, who will do this?"

Todd was even more confused after hearing what Jeanne said.

I can't resign, and I can't not resign either. Could it be, could it be...

Todd straightened his back and waved his hands in panic, saying, "I really don't know about this. I didn't collude with them. I swear, really."

"If it were found that you were in league with them, it would be Carrie who would be looking for you now!"

Jeanna crossed her legs unhappily, took a sip of coffee, and calmed herself down before continuing.

"If you had just hoped for luck and didn't explain, I would have left you alone, and the Cheka would have been the one looking for you.

Since you have confessed, it means you still know right from wrong and there is still hope for salvation. Your position as the president of the order must be revoked.

As for other honors and medals, you can still keep them. It will be up to you to decide what to do with this matter in the end.

First of all, your chief privy monk can't get away. While you are talking to me, the Cheka should have found him by now.

Secondly, it's you. His Majesty has said that after this meeting, you should follow Armand to the windmill.

He wants to train the armed group of the Holy Fathers, which you are good at."

"Yes!" With a look of both sadness and joy on his face, Todd stood up and pounded his chest in salute to Jeanne.

"Okay, don't make this matter public. His Majesty will see you tomorrow. Think about it carefully when you go back. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Todd turned around with a shameful smile on his face.

Apart from anything else, this time it was a huge loss of face and it brought discredit to Her Royal Highness the Saint.

There are bad guys around!

"and many more……"

Todd turned around immediately and saw a dark shadow flying towards him. He subconsciously reached out to catch it, but it turned out to be a cloth bag.

"Your Highness, what is this?"

"Open it and take a look." Jeanne closed the cabinet door beside her.

Todd opened the bag and found it was filled with roasted pearl rice - the raw material for making coffee.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Our old-fashioned coffee is more expensive in Windmill Land. Take it with you."

Jeanna put the documents in order, clipped them together, stood up, and found Todd still standing at the door.

"...Don't piss in front of me. Go outside and cry if you want to."

"Goodbye, sister." Todd saluted Jeanne with a hint of tears in his voice and walked out.

As soon as he walked out of the porch, he saw the little Zhongsi who served him running over and said breathlessly: "Uncle Todd, Privy Councilor Lysander was just taken away by the Cheka. Before he left, he asked me to come to you and said you have a solution."

"I have a way? I wish I could cut him into pieces!" Todd cursed as he took the hat with his still trembling hands and put it on.

"what happened?"

Seeing little Zhongsi, thinking that this was the son of his comrade on the battlefield, he reached out and touched his head: "I will go to Windmill Land in the future, and you can stay in Zhongsi Academy to study... This is also good."

"why?"

"You'll understand when you grow up." Todd pushed his back and walked outside, saying, "It's a pity that the windmill is far away. I probably won't be able to make it to the wedding of His Majesty and Her Highness Jeanne."

"Ah, Her Highness Jeanne just told you..."

"No." Todd shook his head, "But I will only recognize Her Highness Na. I won't recognize anyone else."

(End of this chapter)