America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 181 The New Mayor of Roswell
In the two days after the arrival of the expert team, apart from the "layoffs" who rolled up their bedding, Chen Jianqiu also bid farewell to another team.

This team is bigger than the team of soldiers, there are men and women, old and young.

They are the residents of Roswell.

When Chen Jianqiu brought oil expert Smith and engineer Jackson to visit Roswell Town, what they saw was a mess.

On the route where the tornado passed, there was almost nothing left, whether it was a wooden house or an adobe hut, they were all completely destroyed, and there were at most a few broken walls left there.

"My God! What happened before here?" Smith raised his eyes.

"A tornado."

Chen Jianqiu picked up a broken piece of wood on the ground, glanced at it, threw it aside, patted the dirt on his hands and stood up.

He saw the edge of the town, the surviving residents were stacking their luggage on the carriage.

They all looked numb, with a trace of sadness in their eyebrows and eyes.

"Everyone pack up your things and get ready to set off." A man who looked quite old walked back and forth between the carriages of each family.

"Mayor?" Tom shouted behind Chen Jianqiu, it seemed that he knew the old man.

The old man is the former owner of the land in this town, the first postmaster of the town, the namer of the town of Roswell, and the mayor—Van Smith.

His father's name was Roswell Smith.

The mayor glanced back at Tom, who recognized the young man, and approached him.

"Sorry, I haven't had time to tell you about this, where is Vaughan?"

"Dead." Tom sniffed, "I was bitten to death by a rattlesnake not long ago."

"Oh, poor boy, that's really a pity." The mayor shook his head.

He looked around at the surrounding residents who were loading cars and the scattered wreckage of houses.

"I guess I might have been really wrong. There's nothing in this place but rattlesnakes and sandpit and goddamn natural disasters."

Everyone didn't know what to say for a while.

In front of nature, human beings are always so small. It will give you gifts, but it will also destroy you when you lose your temper.

"You guys, are you going to leave together?" Chen Jianqiu asked.

The mayor found that the speaker was an unknown Chinese, and looked at Tom:

"Who is this?"

"Oh, this is the new chief of our fortress garrison. His surname is Chen." Tom introduced.

"Sorry, I haven't been to the stone fortress for a long time, and I haven't seen you." The mayor hurriedly took off his hat and saluted Chen Jianqiu, "Well, yes, we are going to give up this town, many of us, including me , there is nothing left."

Chen Jianqiu heard the meaning behind his words.

Anyway, the current land is not his, so it is better to go to other places to find opportunities to stay in this ghost place.

"Mr. Mayor, I want to ask you something." Chen Jianqiu said suddenly.

"You say, as long as I know, I will tell you." The mayor looked like he knew everything.

"Was it Captain Leah who bought the ownership of the town and its surrounding land from you? Or is there someone else." Chen Jianqiu cut to the chase. He knew that he might not be able to get the answer, but he didn't have much time after all.

Unexpectedly, the mayor told him directly.

"That person is just a white glove. The people behind it are said to be quite powerful. They seem to be from New York, and they seem to be very skilled in their lawyer business. With the help of a bastard like Scott, New Mexico is really too chaotic. It's gone." The mayor said indignantly, it seems that he suffered a lot of unfair treatment when selling the land.

Chen Jianqiu knew it in his heart.

"By the way, Mr. Chen, can you send some soldiers to escort us? Just go to Lincolnshire." The mayor seemed to remember that the person in front of him had a gun in his hand.

"Oh, you said the soldiers, many of them are ready to go home." Chen Jianqiu pointed in the direction of the Chihuahuan Desert, "If you walk faster, you might be able to catch up with them."

The team leaving the town quickly assembled, the mayor said goodbye to Chen Jianqiu and the others, and led the team out of the town.

"You are the mayor of this town now." Before leaving, the mayor said to Chen Jianqiu earnestly.

Nothing in writing, no democratic elections, not even a chapter left for him, only a spoken word.

Chen Jianqiu looked at the deserted and dilapidated town behind him, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

Mayor, you are really generous.

"Boss, why didn't you just tell him we found oil?" Sean asked behind him.

"It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go."

Sean nodded half-understood, and his boss seemed to be saying something about his hometown.

In the evening, everyone returned to the stone fortress.

When the large army left, the entire stone fortress suddenly became a little deserted, and the people who stayed were busy with their own affairs.

Chen Jianqiu returned to the office, and he called Asuka in.

He took out a note and a letter from his bag and handed them to Asuka.

The note was given to him by Browning when he was in Montrose before, and it recorded the temporary residence address of Zhang Danian and the others.

"According to the address on this note, find Zhang Danian and give him the letter. I wrote it very clearly in the letter and asked him to send some people over first. Remember, don't come all over."

Asuka nodded, and went back to pack her things and prepare to leave the next day.

Afterwards, he called the thin and tall accountant in again, and handed him another piece of paper: "This is the material that needs to be purchased for the next step of work, take a look."

The accountant moved his face to the piece of paper, and frowned after looking at it: "A lot of your things are not next to the oil well, these are all building materials,
"What's more outrageous is this, bullets and explosives?" The accountant pointed to a few lines of supplies on the paper, feeling very emotional.

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Chen Jianqiu looked at him indifferently.

"No, I have to report this matter to my superiors." The accountant insisted.

"Yes, no problem." Chen Jianqiu agreed without hesitation.

Anyway, the last post office employee in Roswell had left town with his chief during the day.

Now the only postman with a radius of hundreds of miles here is Xiao En, the new postmaster appointed by Chen Jianqiu.

After everything was almost arranged, Chen Jianqiu was the only one left in the office.

The light of the kerosene lamp in the room was dim, and he folded his arms, lost in thought.

Oil is a good thing, but it is meaningless without the convenient transportation and sales that yearn for transportation.

It would be great to have a place to stay, but Roswell is now an abandoned ghost town, dilapidated.

What's more, this piece of land does not belong to him theoretically.

These need to be discussed in the long term, and they cannot be resolved in a short while.

Chen Jianqiu did not forget the biggest purpose of his trip - the treasure hidden in the territory of the Nahua people.

The attitude of those Nahuas was ambiguous, not to mention asking for their cooperation, if they left rashly, it was hard to say whether they would immediately attack the fortress.

Among the soldiers who surrendered, although they had been screened by themselves, many of them had no combat effectiveness, but what if they really caused trouble?
If you really wanted to find the treasure, who would you take with you?Keep those people?

These are all problems.

Chen Jianqiu stood up, paced back and forth in front of the table, the kerosene lamp projected his profile on the wall, shaking back and forth.

Suddenly, Chen Jianqiu stopped.

He didn't turn around, but he opened his mouth, as if speaking to the air:

"Come in if you have anything to do. It's cold outside. It's more dangerous to hide at my door furtively. If you are targeted by Camilla's gun, I'm afraid you won't even have a dead body."

Just as Chen Jianqiu finished speaking, a man dressed in denim appeared at the door.

He stared at Chen Jianqiu's back and walked into the room slowly.

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