America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 152 The Breakdown of Adults
The new carriage was still swaying, but compared to just now, Chen Jianqiu's surroundings are much more lively now.

A girl's curiosity is sometimes as powerful as a cat's.

Emily rode a horse and carriage side by side, constantly asking Chen Jianqiu about him.

Her imaginative questions followed one another, chirping like a normal girl, and it was hard to imagine that this teen had just led a team of cowboys off a gang of bandits, let alone sent one away at gunpoint with her own hands.

"Hey, sir, where are you from? What do you do?" The girl's questions were thrown like a cannonball.

"He came to find gold." Chen Jianqiu replied.

"Ah, panning for gold, that's really hard work." The girl thought for a while, "It's not as stable as our ranch."

"Although New Mexico is dry and rainless, the water plants around Lincolnshire are quite lush because of the water system." The girl said to herself.

"By the way, you sound like you're from the north, Nevada? Wyoming? If I'm not mistaken, you're a Chinese, right? How's it going there?"

The girl's questions followed one another.

Fortunately, Chen Jianqiu's nonsense ability has also improved by leaps and bounds because of Xiao En's existence.

He gave full play to the characteristics of the unsmooth information transmission in that era, and created an image of an honest Chinese gold digger for himself, and those materials were purchased for the camp in the mountains.

As for the other side of the ocean that Emily was interested in, Chen Jianqiu didn't want to say more, but told her that that continent also had rolling mountains and meandering rivers, and that people like himself had lived on that continent for thousands of years.

The civilization there has never been broken due to the invasion of foreign races, even if there will be a short period of darkness.

While chatting, a medium-sized ranch appeared in front of Chen Jianqiu.

A large grassland is surrounded by white fences, separated by fences in the middle, and there are patches of cattle and sheep inside.

Chen Jianqiu drove the carriage and followed the team into the pasture from the road between the two fences in the pasture.

A middle-aged man with a goatee is standing akimbo at the end of the road, furious:

"What about people? No one cares about the sheep running away! The fence is broken and no one repairs it. It's been a whole day, a whole day!"

Emily heard it from a distance. She stuck out her tongue at Chen Jianqiu, kicked the horse under her body, and rushed in front of the middle-aged man.

She jumped off the horse skillfully, and jumped towards the middle-aged man like a bird.

"father!"

When the goatee saw the girl running towards him, he suddenly seemed to be a different person, the anger on his face was swept away, and he gave the little girl a big hug dotingly:

"Emily, where have you been all day?"

The girl smiled and pointed to the cowboys behind her: "Fred's bastards are causing trouble nearby again. Uncle Howard and I went to drive them away."

When the middle-aged man heard her words, he looked up at the cowboys behind her, his eyes seemed to kill.

The cowboy in blue who stood first among the cowboys saw the gaze of the middle-aged man, and opened his mouth to argue:

"James, Fred doesn't care about his gang at all, they are bandits now, we..."

"Shut up!" The middle-aged man named James cut off the cowboy's words.

He let go of the girl in his arms, supported Emily's shoulders with both hands, and looked at her softly. Chen Jianqiu even felt that the change of this person's expression was faster than that in Sichuan opera:
"Emily, promise me, don't get involved in these things anymore. Fred is a serious businessman, and I will take care of him."

The girl shook her head with a look of unwillingness:
"What Howard said is true, those people are Fred's subordinates, even if I cover their faces, I can still recognize them!"

"They just robbed this Chinese man on the Thornton Trail!" The girl pointed to Chen Jianqiu, who was at the end of the team.

Seeing that Goatee and Emily were both pointing at him, Chen Jianqiu nodded, looking too honest.

The goatee was unmoved, he took a breath, and said to the girl in front of him:
"Emily, these things have nothing to do with you, understand? Girls can just do their needlework at home. There are some things we can leave to the sheriff and the judge."

Tears welled up in Emily's eyes suddenly:
"So Billy's death has nothing to do with me, right? He's my brother! He's your son."

After saying that, he broke free from the arms of the goatee, and ran towards the house crying.

"Emily!" Goatee James called his daughter's name, but the girl ignored him and ran into the house.

There was a "dong" sound from the room, and the girl locked herself in the room, crying loudly.

The goatee looked in the direction of the room, shook his head, put one hand on his hip, and touched his forehead with the other.

The middle-aged man's face was full of bewilderment and helplessness, and he had nowhere to vent his aggrieved stomach.

He caught a glimpse of the wooden barrel at his feet and kicked it.

"damn it!"

The barrel was kicked to the ground and rolled over for several weeks before stopping at the fence.

Seeing that their boss was not in a good mood, the cowboys didn't dare to comfort them, so they led the horses and left one after another, busy with their own affairs.

Only Chen Jianqiu and his carriage were left on the spot.

Chen Jianqiu suddenly realized that he was in a bit of an embarrassing situation. He watched the scene completely, and now he was the only one left in the audience.

Billy?Is that Billy the Kid?
After James the goatee vented, he turned his head and found that Chen Jianqiu was still there.

"How do I call you, sir?" His politeness surprised Chen Jianqiu. He thought that all the red-necked farmers were as rude as the old man in Montrose.

"Chen Long, my name is Chen Long, sir."

"Your occupation?"

"Gold diggers." Chen Jianqiu pointed to the things on the carriage behind him, "These are all going to be sent to the gold digging camp."

Afterwards, Chen Jianqiu told James what happened just now, omitting the part where he killed the gangsters.

"It's dozens of miles away from the town, and I won't be able to go back for a while. It's getting dark, so you can stay here overnight. I'll find someone to help you go to the town to deliver the news tomorrow." James pointed out Pointing to the warehouse, "You can unload your stuff over there first."

"Okay, thank you very much." Chen Jianqiu repeatedly cupped his hands in thanks.

Chen Jianqiu got the carriage to the warehouse, untied the pack horse, led it to the stable, and then returned to the warehouse to start unloading.

James passed by the stables and saw the pack horses staying in the stables obediently. The fodder was neatly placed in the front trough, and the pitchforks and other agricultural tools were also sorted out and placed in the corners of the stables in an orderly manner.

He came to the warehouse and saw Chen Jianqiu unloading the carriage by himself.

"It's not easy for you gold diggers from China. I met several Chinese businessmen when I was in California, and they helped me a lot."

James had a good impression of this young man, and felt that this man looked very hardworking, honest, and responsible. It would be great if such a man could work for himself on his ranch.

"Come over and have dinner when you're done." He said to Chen Jianqiu.

The dinner on the farm started a bit early, except for a few cowboys who lived nearby, others ate at the long table in the restaurant with Chen Jianqiu and James and his wife.

Dinner was potatoes, wheat bread and boiled beef.

After the potatoes are peeled, they are boiled together with the beef, and then taken out separately and eaten with salt.

"I'll go and see Emily, this girl still locked herself in the house." After eating, Mrs. James wiped her hands on the apron, and then walked towards Emily's room with a plate of food.

After the others finished eating, they all returned to their dormitories. Only James and Chen Jianqiu were left in the dining room, who were eating slowly.

It's not because Chen Jianqiu finds the potatoes and bread hard to swallow, but because James has been chattering with him.

It seems that this man really doesn't have too many people to confide in.

From his words, Chen Jianqiu learned that the Fred they mentioned during the day is the largest rancher in the vicinity. He owns the largest ranch, the most cowboys, and the strongest power.

He even has his own exclusive lawyer.

In addition to his own cowboys, he often employed men without regular jobs, though those men were not capable of working on the ranch.

Fred sometimes asks them to collect debts for himself or threaten others, and they are charged by the number of times, and they are usually stocked.

But James still doesn't quite believe that these people would blatantly rob.

"Did you see what they looked like?" James asked.

"No, they all wear square scarves." Chen Jianqiu replied absent-mindedly.

How did he know what Fred's men looked like?Besides, he doesn't care much about these things, he only cares about how to get a new car to transport the supplies back to the camp as soon as possible.

Or, buy one from the rancher in front of you?But all the money brought out was exchanged for supplies, and the rest was on his most trusted bird.

The two fell silent at the same time, and both began to nibble on the last potato on their respective plates.

"You said, a person who watched his son go astray and go to death, but was powerless, isn't he very useless?" James suddenly put down the potato in his hand, buried his head in his hands, and began to sob.

Sometimes, the collapse of adults is only a moment, there is no reason, and it cannot be stopped.

"No, if you have done everything you can and have a clear conscience, it doesn't count." Chen Jianqiu ate the potato in his hand and said softly.

When Mrs. James returned to the dining room, Mr. James the goatee had returned to normal, and there was not even a trace of crying on his face.

"Emily still won't eat at all." The lady put the plate on the table, and the plate remained the same when it was taken away.

"Mr. Chen, let me take you to your room."

Chen Jianqiu nodded.

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