America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 179 Tom and Jerry

Chen Jianqiu led the team out of the stone fortress and headed straight for the oil well camp.

At this time, the tornado had dissipated, leaving only a mess.

Chen Jianqiu is not in the mood to go to the town to comfort the victims for the time being, after all, he is empty-handed and has nothing.

He didn't even have a Bible in his hand.

Neither can provide them with material encouragement, nor can they give them spiritual comfort.

Therefore, Chen Jianqiu still focused on the immediate matter: get Holmes back first, this man is a treasure.

He hadn't expected the sudden appearance of those Pinkerton detectives. Chen Jianqiu knew that after Lincolnshire last time, Lynch would not let it go.

However, I didn't expect it to appear at this juncture. If this group of ungrateful guys returned to the drilling camp and kidnapped the geologist, it would be very difficult.

Thinking of this, Chen Jianqiu patted the black radish.

The black horse, having drank water and gnawed a few bites of oatmeal cakes in the stone fortress, was refreshed again, and when he felt his master pat him, he raised his hooves again and accelerated tirelessly.

A few minutes later, they came to the drilling camp.

The camp was quiet, the campfire was still burning, but the bodies on the ground were gone.

Chen Jianqiu had an ominous premonition.

The crowd stopped.

"Holmes!" Chen Jianqiu shouted loudly.

No one answered.

Chen Jianqiu got off his horse, took out his gun and walked into the camp, and the others followed him into the camp.

They also drew their weapons and were on alert.

There seemed to be some kind of whisper coming from the ground in the camp.

"Holmes!" Chen Jianqiu shouted again.

Half of the head protruded from the ground not far away, and a pair of eyes blinked.

Then, an arm also stretched out from the ground, waving towards them: "Here it is!"

The voice is not who Holmes is.

Chen Jianqiu put the gun away, walked over,

In front is a big pit, which is full of corpses of soldiers. The geologist is holding a shovel and covering the corpses with soil.

And next to him, there were two soldiers who were doing the same thing. They didn't have guns by their side. While working, they were still discussing some irrelevant topics.

"Mr. Holmes, you don't have to work too hard, we can take care of it, you can take a rest." A soldier straightened up and said in the direction of Holmes.

Then he was stunned because he saw Chen Jianqiu.

Didn't this person run away, why did he suddenly come back?Still bring so many people?

Chen Jianqiu smiled and waved at him, looking harmless to humans and animals, the soldier really couldn't connect him with the murderous maniac just now.

You know, what is lying in the pit now is all done by him.

Chen Jianqiu squatted down, looked at the sweaty Holmes, pouted his lips in the direction of the two soldiers, and said in a low voice:
"Who are these two?"

The geologist wiped the sweat from his brow: "Oh, these two people? It turns out that one is a boiler worker and the other is a master metal worker. They couldn't even hold their guns, so they were left to guard the camp."

"Oh~" Chen Jianqiu nodded thoughtfully.

It turns out that Vaughn's soldiers really have skilled jobs, and he thought that these people were all self-taught by reading the manuals

"Why are they both so polite to you and didn't do anything to you?" Chen Jianqiu continued to ask him.

"Oh, they respect intellectuals, yes, like me." Holmes also straightened up and straightened his back.

"What about me?" Chen Jianqiu said with a smile.

Holmes raised his head and saw him squatting on the edge of the pit, pinching the soil, and quickly showed a smile on his face: "You are not bad, you are not bad, but if you can add some raw stock to me, that would be great."

Chen Jianqiu ignored him, and directly shouted at the two soldiers on the opposite side: "Hey, what's your name?"

The two soldiers glanced at each other:
"Tom."

"Jerry."

"Where is your home?"

"We have no home, sir, and after the Great Depression of 1873, we have nothing."

"Okay, it's just you two." Chen Jianqiu jumped down from the top of the pit. He took out the stack of US dollars that Holmes gave him before from his pocket, divided them into two stacks and stuffed them into their hands. Mix it up."

"I'll give you your share later." Chen Jianqiu turned his head and said to Holmes with a playful smile, "It counts in your original share."

Holmes sighed. It wasn't the first time this guy took money from him.

In Chen Jianqiu's words, who made him the owner of the original stock.

Asuka and the others also found a few shovels from the tent, and joined Chen Jianqiu in the procession of burying the pit.

Chen Jianqiu covered Vaughan's face with the last handful of soil, then added another layer of soil, and then stepped on it with two feet.

Dust to dust, dust to dust, born in nature, and returned to nature.

After burying the men, with the help of boilermen and metalworkers, they dismantled the drills and steam boilers and reloaded them on the wagons.

These things took them a lot of time, and it was almost dark when everything was loaded into the carriage.

"Go and seal the drill hole." Chen Jianqiu ordered.

After the two worker masters finished processing the hole, they looked back: "Do we really not need to leave a mark or something?"

Holmes pointed to his eyes, then pointed to the map in his hand: "Don't worry, you have to trust my eyes."

Everyone pulled out the stronghold and set off. Since there were many big guys on the carriage, the speed of the return journey was not as fast as when they went.

By the time we got back to the stone fortress, it was completely dark.

"If you don't come back, we may have to send another group of people to look for you." Geronimo opened the gate of the fortress and welcomed the team in.

"Have you found those Nahua people?" Chen Jianqiu asked as he walked into the house in a hurry.

"No, except for the mountains in the south, the other directions here are plains. If they are really in the mountains, I'm afraid we won't be able to find them." Geronimo, who is also a local Indian, knows very well the living habits of these tribes.

"Then wait for them to come to us." Chen Jianqiu drank the water on the table and drank it.

"What about the group of soldiers who surrendered?" Geronimo pointed to the opposite room, where the guys squatting in the corner were all locked up there.

"Closed for now, I don't have time to deal with them now." Chen Jianqiu continued to drink water, "The two cooks will come out first and take care of their food, and the food will be deducted from their inventory."

He needs to rest now, and so does Holmes, and sleeping next to the steam boiler is indeed not a very pleasant experience.

This night, there was no incident, the years were quiet, there were no Nahuas, no prison escapes, and no gunshots.

In Vaughn's previous office, Chen Jianqiu sat on a chair and flipped through the materials in his desk and cabinet, such as letters, authorization documents and so on.

He wanted to see who the owner of this place was.

Vaughn's immediate boss was a man named Joseph Calloway Leah, who was well-known in New Mexico, and Vaughn called him the captain in his letter.

But from other documents and the Masonic letter, it's clear that this man was just a white glove.

Among all the materials, Chen Jianqiu has seen another name mentioned more often.

This person had met him once, at a ball in Santa Fe before.

Senator Scott from New Mexico.

It seems that this person has also helped a lot here, whether it is about the legality of land acquisition or other things.

"This guy really has a lot of hands and eyes in New Mexico."

The image of the old man appeared in Chen Jianqiu's mind, and he said to himself.

He sat back on the chair, playing with Vaughan's seal in his hand: "These guys stretch their hands so long?"

While he was still thinking, footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.

Asuka suddenly appeared at the door of the room:
"Boss, there is a situation."

Chen Jianqiu raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

"Outside the fort, a few people came."

Is it a Nahua?

Chen Jianqiu dropped the seal in his hand and walked towards the stone wall.

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