industrial lord

Chapter 540: Fake Death to Escape
"It's rare to be confused..."

Frederick sighed in the moonlight. Behind him, the two former princesses hugged each other and cried loudly, their voices now hoarse.

Both of them blocked their memories of the cruel mental torture they had experienced, leaving only the instinct to obey.

As a result, Frederick gave them mushroom tea that enhanced their mental and physical excitement and sensations. Under the strong stimulation of tickling the soles of their feet, the shackles of this painful memory were broken.

From the perspective of the person involved, this is the most cruel punishment.

Frederick kept scratching his head, feeling a little sorry for them.

The two of them cried until they were tired and just lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

The weather was still cool at night, so Frederick covered them with the quilt and went to another room.

The next day, at dawn, the two of them had already woken up.

They recalled the experience of being sent to Hammar and the punishment Frederick had inflicted on them, and they immediately huddled under their quilts and trembled.

At this time Frederick came in with breakfast.

"It's time for breakfast. I made it for you. See if it suits your taste." Frederick put the coffee table on the bed and laid out breakfast.

Breakfast was simple, just oatmeal with milk, fried eggs and grilled sausages.

He felt bad for what happened to the two yesterday, so today he not only made breakfast for them, but also helped them comb their hair and get dressed.

Frederick had combed Maria's hair many times over the years, and his skills were no worse than those of the maids. He combed their hair into a hairstyle that was popular last year - the hair was first tied into several braids on both sides, and finally gathered into a braid at the back of the neck.

The clothes were no longer the coarse cloth dresses of the past, but the cotton clothes and silk skirts brought from Hanma City overnight.

Frederick also collected two sets of jewelry from the ones Casimir had sent him for them to use.

The two former princesses had not enjoyed such princess-level treatment for a long time, and coupled with the painful experience last night, they began to show symptoms of Stockholm syndrome.

Frederick didn't know all this, he was just reflecting on whether there was anything wrong with his past actions.

For him, the fact that the two former princesses were willing to take the initiative to make the request was good news amidst the bad news, as he had previously worried that they would become crazy.

But they no longer think about the past, nor do they have to go back to their old names. They continue to be called "Banana" and "Watermelon".

They also felt that Casimir might not let them go.

After a long conversation with them, Frederick said, "How about this? You will accompany me to Deer Harbor first, and then I will take you to the Citrus Island in the Kingdom of Sardinia."

"There's a United Fruit Company over there now, you can work there."

"I will arrange for you to fake your death in Deer Harbor or some other port in the Kingdom of Gaul, and then write a letter to Casimir asking him to stop targeting you."

Banana excitedly held Frederick's left hand and said, "Master, thank you so much!"

Xigua also held his right hand and said with tears in his eyes: "Master, you will always be our master from now on."

Frederick thought that he had become their long-term meal ticket.

At this time, someone rang the bell outside the door, and Frederick went out and took the person to the study.

The person who came was the captain of the guard arranged by the Dawn Chamber of Commerce. He was a veteran who had participated in the Six Days' Defense and the Battle of the Elbe. He worked in the Chamber of Commerce after retiring.

He muttered something to Frederick in a low voice.

"Are you sure?" Frederick frowned.

The captain of the guard answered confidently: "That woman has been wandering around the manor, claiming to be a refugee from the Danma Kingdom. She can mend clothes and wants to find a job here."

"I chatted with her for a while and found that her accent was deliberately faked. Some details accidentally revealed the flaws. She must be a spy from the Piast Kingdom."

Frederick thought about it and realized that the two sisters were very important to Casimir, so even spies were sent.

"Then arrange for her to come in and see." Frederick curled his lips, "Is there any older bachelor in the village? Arrange a proper one and see how she reacts."

The current manor can be said to be a closed entity with very few outsiders. Marriages with outsiders are all conducted with nearby manors. When there is no shortage of people, an outsider wants to come in. In addition to craftsmen such as blacksmiths and carpenters, tailors are also one of them.

But the person who came was a woman, and generally speaking, to enter the manor one had to marry someone, and having a skill was no exception.

The village chief of the manor quickly arranged for the girl to settle down here, but the village chief was fooled and did not arrange an old bachelor for her. Instead, he promised her to choose a young man here within a month.

Normally, a woman who is fleeing and comes to a place alone has no room for bargaining, and getting married is not a problem in the face of life and death.

Things like love have little to do with refugees.

This further confirmed the other party's identity as a spy.

Frederick told this to Banana and Watermelon. The two sisters looked at each other and seemed to have made some decision.

Banana said: "Master, Casimir may want to get the location of the Amber Forest from us."

Xigua went on to say: “He may have discovered that the location we left before was just a small mining area.”

Frederick understood a little.

Amber has always been an expensive decorative material, and its main production area is in the Kingdom of Piast. Its value is higher than that of gold mines. In recent years, Casimir has been carrying out reforms and needs to import a large number of industrial products such as tractors, improved seeds and fertilizers from the Principality of Wessen, which requires a lot of funds.

Compared to agricultural products and minerals, luxury goods such as amber are more valuable.

Now it seems that the two sisters control a large-scale amber production area and have fooled Casimir.

Whether Casimir has discovered that he has been fooled or not, it is only a matter of time before he finds out.

Wesson's army will automatically spawn where there are mines. Amber is also a mine.

But this cannot be done now, we’ll have to talk about it later.

Three days later, Frederick hosted a barbecue outside the house and accidentally burned a small hole in his clothes.

It happened that the tailor in the house had gone home the day before, and the new tailor was brought into the house to mend clothes.

After the clothes were mended, Frederick was very satisfied with the tailor's craftsmanship, so he called her over and rewarded her with two gold coins.

During the reward ceremony, Banana sat on the sofa and used his thighs as a pillow for Frederick, while Watermelon massaged his legs. The tailor could see both of their faces clearly.

After the tailor left, the three of them found a place where there were no outsiders to discuss the matter.

"She is from the Lewandov family." Xigua recognized her. "I have never seen her, but I have seen her mother. They look very similar."

Banana added: "Baron Lewandoff was originally just an ordinary knight, but he was appreciated for saving Casimir at the Elbe River."

Frederick remembered the last name and said, "Levandov died of food poisoning in the dark north."

"It seems she is of some use. Take her with you when you leave the day after tomorrow."

The next day, Frederick's men began to pack their luggage. The butler, guards, servants, etc. filled a passenger ship for nobles to travel on. The new tailor was also pulled on board just in case.

As soon as the passenger ship headed for Lugang set out to sea, Banana and Watermelon immediately developed severe symptoms of seasickness.

The others were not much better, half of them felt dizzy.

Two days later, when the ship docked, many people helped each other get off the ship, and bananas and watermelons were even carried down on stretchers.

To make matters worse, the group started suffering from vomiting and diarrhea the day after arriving in Lukang, and this time it was real.

Fortunately, there is a local prescription for treating acclimatization. It is made by boiling herbs in water and adding ash from burned reeds. After drinking a large cup, you will feel better in one day and see results in three days.

But the banana and watermelon did not survive and died that night. The next morning, a simple memorial service was held in the church and they were buried.

On the riverbank, Frederick asked Count Toth, deputy head of the Rhine Alliance Royal Mage Corps, who was in charge of the Lugang Swamp Reconstruction Project, "Toth, what happened to those two bodies?"

He originally planned to use the empty coffin to fill the stones, but Thoth brought two young female corpses of similar build.

The source of the corpse must be made clear, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble.

Toth said: "Principal, please first rule out the possibility that I killed the person intentionally."

Frederick said calmly: "I can clearly see the marks on the neck of the corpse."

Toth immediately said, "A big case happened in Amstel some time ago."

"These two women hooked up with a businessman a few years ago and became his mistresses."

"They agreed that the businessman would give the woman a large sum of money when she left after a few years."

"The businessman has made a fortune recently, and the two women are also going to leave this year, but they want to increase the money, but the businessman is unwilling to do so."

“An argument ensued, and finally the two women tied the businessman’s hands and feet to the legs of the bed while he was sleeping and suffocated him with a plastic bag.”

"Later, the housekeeper reported the case to the authorities, and the two women were sentenced to death by the court."

Frederick understood and just shrugged.

Hanging was not applicable to women because most women now wore skirts. The church believed that it was immoral for them to kick their legs on the gallows, so they changed it to using a rope wrapped around the neck and then tightened.

As for the bodies, those with families had their bodies collected by their families, while those without families were just taken to the side of the cemetery and buried randomly.

Few people who work as mistresses or gigolos use their real identities, so don't expect to find their family members.

After Todt learned of Frederick's plan, he gave the gravekeeper some money, saying that he was the family of the deceased. He then dug out the body, packed it in a box and shipped it back overnight.

It is shameful to be sentenced to death, so it is not uncommon for family members to secretly collect the bodies of prisoners, and the gravekeepers don't care.

The act of replacing the fake with the real was done personally by Toth and other magicians from the Royal Mage Corps. The reason given by Frederick was that the two of them were undercover agents who had completed their undercover mission.

So these uncles promised not to reveal it. Some of them even poured some rotten mud on the corpses, saying that the bacteria in the mud would accelerate the decay of the corpses and soon no human form would be recognizable.

God knows where they got the experience in dealing with corpses.

"That's enough for this matter." Frederick said no more. "Now tell me about the progress here."

"There's going to be a fight in Hanma City. You have to go there, and the work in Lugang has to stop."

(End of this chapter)