America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 235 Debt collection is not simply a dinner party
"Have a meal?"

With both hands in his sleeves, Chen Jianqiu sat with his legs crossed at the door of his grain shop basking in the sun.

Mai Sien stood in front of him, holding a well-framed invitation card in his hand.

People on the street behind him came and went, but everyone who passed by would stop for a while and respectfully salute the young owner of the grain store in front of him:

"Hello, Mr. Chen!"

"Mr. Chen!"

……

And Chen Jianqiu would smile and nod to each of them, except that he didn't look at the lawyer.

"Well, yes, Mr. Leonard would like to invite you to dinner." Mai Sien suppressed his anger and explained.

He rode a horse for four days and crossed the Chihuahua desert, which is not shitting, before he came here. If he was not on the same boat with Leonard, he would have thrown the invitation on the face of this person in front of him.

"Oh, no." Chen Jianqiu replied very simply, "I ate his food last time, and the cook's skill was average."

He had no intention of accepting the invitation at all.

Mai Sien's hand that was holding the invitation hovered in mid-air, and it wasn't right to take it back, or not to take it back, it was very embarrassing.

"I still hope that Mr. Chen will give him a chance. He wants to discuss the debt with you." The lawyer felt that his patience had reached its limit.

"That's nothing to discuss, just ask him to prepare the money on time." Chen Jianqiu stretched, "Riding a horse for four or five days is just for a meal, it's not worth it."

This can be said to be without any sympathy, Mai Sien's face flushed red.

"We are already raising funds, sir, but we have a lot of creditors, so we still have to discuss it with you in advance." The lawyer looked like he was going to smash the pot.

Chen Jianqiu looked the lawyer up and down, touched his chin thoughtfully, and then said to him:

"Okay, I'll think about it."

Before the lawyer could react, he found that the invitation card in his hand was already in Chen Jianqiu's hands. ;
Seeing that Chen Jianqiu had no intention of keeping him for dinner, Mai Sien got on his horse and left towards the entrance of the town.

Chen Jianqiu watched the lawyer leave, picked up the invitation beside him, stood up, and turned into the room.

"Sifu, call everyone over here." Chen Jianqiu said to Li Sifu who was cleaning the house.

After a while, the core members of Chen Jianqiu's team gathered in the back room of the grain store.

Zhang Danian happened to be there these two days, and he brought a group of Chinese over, so he followed along.

"What do you think?"

Chen Jianqiu threw the invitation on the table, and everyone circulated it to watch.

"Hongmen Banquet!" Zhang Danian smacked his lips and shook his head, "The visitor is not kind and has no good intentions."

"I'm afraid I want to renege on my debt, or I have thought of some other unreliable method to delay it." Abiot also held a similar view.

"Kidnapping, fighting, threats of force... are all possible." Hanif rarely spoke to Abiot, who was quite familiar with the routines of people like Leonard.

Others have also expressed their views. Although the details are different, there is a consensus on the general direction.

Leonard didn't think much of this meal.

"Boss, ignore him, there's no need to go." Asuka stood on the edge of the table with folded arms, "Either we'll see you in court in two months, or we'll send someone to fuck them up."

"Two months?" Chen Jianqiu turned his head and asked Dylan's lawyer beside him.

Dylan nodded: "Two months to make a final decision. It may take more than half a year for a formal judgment. The transfer of mortgage property rights may take a month or so."

Chen Jianqiu touched his chin, and after thinking about it, he made his own decision:
"Go, Hongmen Banquet? What kind of Hongmen Banquet? Has Xiang Yu owed Liu Bang money? At best, he's a hooligan."

Zhang Danian didn't know what to say for a while.

"However, for this meal, it's not interesting for me to eat with him alone. I have to call someone else." Chen Jianqiu picked up the invitation card on the table, looked at it, and said,
"If you want to do something on someone else's territory, you still have to say it."

More than a week later, Chen Jianqiu's figure appeared in front of the gate of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.

Unlike Myers, who was only promoted to deputy sheriff last time, this time, Pile should also be in the security station.

Because Chen Jianqiu saw his horse at the door.

He knocked on the door of the police station.

"Come in." A man's voice came from the room: "The door is not closed."

Chen Jianqiu pushed the door open and looked through the door. As expected, Paile was indeed there.

He was looking down at his previous notes, and didn't notice Chen Jianqiu's arrival.

"If it's theft, blackmail, harassment, etc., please wait for Sheriff Miles to come back; if it's more serious, please briefly state the situation." Pile still didn't look up.

"Pile, you can't finish Leonard's scandals in a notebook." Chen Jianqiu spoke.

Pile was startled, he seemed to have heard this voice before.

He raised his head and saw Chen Jianqiu's face, his mouth was slightly opened, but he didn't speak, his expression was complicated.

He didn't like the person in front of him, but this person actually saved his life.

"It seems that your injury is almost healed." Chen Jianqiu said with a smile, breaking the embarrassment.

"Well, it's okay. Fortunately, I was rescued in time and saved this arm." Pile stretched out his right arm and rolled up his sleeve.

There, apart from leaving a gunshot wound, it stretched freely.

"That's good." Chen Jianqiu picked up a chair at the gate of the security station, placed it opposite Paile, and sat down.

"I heard that you sell grain between Lincolnshire and Roswell?" Pile couldn't find any suitable words to greet, so he asked directly.

"Well, I just opened a small shop to make ends meet." Chen Jianqiu replied.

There is no redundant information, no pain or itching.

"What do you want me to do?" Paile finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked.

"Reminiscing about the old days, I will have a meal with you, have a drink or something." Chen Jianqiu's expression was still so calm.

"Really just have a meal and drink?" Pile looked suspicious, "Are you sure you don't have anything to ask me?"

Different road non-phase plan.

His and Chen Jianqiu's ideas are very different, so Paile really doesn't believe that the two of them can talk about something while eating.

"Don't worry, Mr. Sheriff, I won't ask you." Chen Jianqiu said helplessly, "Besides, I asked, will you agree?"

Pyler was relieved.

He was worried just now, if Chen Jianqiu really asked him to use his power to do something for the savior.

This will make it difficult for him.

Now such a thing has not happened, which makes him feel very comfortable.

"Okay, wait for me for a while, I still have an hour to get off work." Paile smiled at Chen Jianqiu.

In a small town in the west, Chen Jianqiu has seen or heard of two sheriffs who commute to and from get off work on time, one is Danny and the other is Paile.

He sat across from Pyler, quietly waiting for the sheriff to get off duty.

After locking the gate of the security station, Paile also cleaned up the fruit peels and other garbage at the gate, and then rode on his horse and followed behind Chen Jianqiu.

The two chatted about things around Lincolnshire along the way.

However, as the road got farther and farther away, Pile gradually discovered that this didn't seem to be the way to the town tavern.

"Where are we going?" Pyler asked alertly.

"Eat." Chen Jianqiu said.

"Where to eat?" Pile frowned.

"Leonard's house."

Pile's face changed color, and he pulled the rein, ready to turn the horse's head.

However, not far ahead, two or three people appeared.

As Leonard's chief of staff, lawyer Messwain had already brought people to meet them.

"Welcome Mr. Chen!" The lawyer saw Chen Jianqiu, but he also saw an unexpected person behind Chen Jianqiu, "And... uh, Sergeant Paile?"

"Let's go, sheriff, everyone is here." Chen Jianqiu looked at Paile lightly.

Pile couldn't, so he had to turn his horse's head around again.

The two followed Meswin towards Leonard's mansion.

　One more, two more later
　　
　
(End of this chapter)