America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 280 The Carriage Robbery
Chen Jianqiu and the three of them turned around calmly.

The first one to get off the horse was a middle-aged man with a stern face. He had a thick beard on his upper lip, which was comparable to Hanif. He wore a round metal badge on his left chest, a five-pointed star picture of.

This is the badge of the town sheriff.

"Let me see your hands!" Holding his gun, he walked towards the three of Chen Jianqiu.

"Relax, friend, we are just passing by." Hanif spread his hands, indicating that his hands were not touched by the gun.

"Sheriff, if I were you, I wouldn't point a gun at me." Chen Jianqiu pouted at the corpse, "This corpse has been dead for at least a few hours, and we just arrived here."

He pointed to the horseshoe print behind him.

"Also, this man was killed with a 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun, which we obviously don't have."

"Wyatt, he's right." Another man who was squatting on the ground examining the body raised his head and shouted to the sheriff.

The sheriff named Wyatt did not let down his vigilance in the slightest: "Can I see your ID? Wait, that nigger! Don't move!"

Sean, who was reaching for his ID, raised his hands innocently.

Hanif suddenly thought of something, and a schadenfreude smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Chen Jianqiu opened his coat to let the police chief see that there was no gun or other threatening things inside.

He took out his ID and handed it to Wyatt.

"Mr. Chen, thank you for your cooperation."

After reading Chen Jianqiu's documents, the sheriff breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out his hand: "Wyatt Earp, deputy sheriff of Tombstone Town."

His other finger pointed to the two people who came with him: "This is my two older brothers, Morgan and Virgil, they live with me in Tombstone Town now."

One of the two was checking the traces at the scene, and the other was checking the empty wooden box. When they heard Wyatt calling their names, they all waved to this side.

"By the way, what do you guys do and why are you here?" Wyatt asked.

"I'm a businessman." Chen Jianqiu said.

"I'm a bounty hunter," Hanif replied immediately.

"I am..." Sean also wanted to answer, but suddenly got stuck.

He can't say that he is actually a thief.

"He's the postman of our town, but he's coming with me, Mr. Sheriff." Chen Jianqiu replied for Xiao En, "We're going to San Francisco, just passing by here, and we're going to Tombstone Town to replenish some dry food and water."

"Well, it's not peaceful around here. Sir, can you come with me?" Wyatt waved at Hanif, obviously, he was more interested in this man's identity as a bounty hunter.

They came to the side of the overturned carriage.

Wyatt grabbed his belt with one hand and his chin with the other.

"The car was robbed," Wyatt said.

"Well, I can tell." Hanif shrugged his shoulders.

"The car is loaded with Wells Fargo Bank's silver coins worth 25000 U.S. dollars, which are used as currency in the town." Wyatt's eyes fell on the empty wooden box, "The people at the bank didn't wait for the arrival of the silver coins this afternoon, so Called the police."

"They're too big."

Hanif became interested, and with his professional sensitivity, he knew that the next step was to offer rewards.These guys who only know how to make up after something happened will definitely offer a considerable bounty to reward the murderer.

"The amount of the bounty hasn't been announced yet, but I don't think it will be less." Wyatt said as expected.

Hanif excitedly told Chen Jianqiu the news.

"talk later."

For some reason, Chen Jianqiu gave an ambiguous answer.

"Has he also been a bounty hunter?" Wyatt looked at Chen Jianqiu, a bit unconvinced that this young Chinese had also been a bounty hunter.

"Um, he's not, but he's a woman..." Hanif blurted out, but seeing Chen Jianqiu's inadvertent glance over, he forcibly held back the last half of the sentence.

Wyatt nodded. He understood the businessman's concerns. Maybe they had their own affairs to deal with, and they were not willing to get involved.

Chen Jianqiu and Hanif turned back to straighten their saddles.

"Boss, why don't we take this job?" Hanif was still a little unwilling.

"Wait until the amount comes out." Chen Jianqiu gave a seemingly reasonable answer.

He doesn't need that little money at all now.

In his opinion, if the bounty is too low, it is not worthwhile to rashly get involved in such a thing.

Even if he wanted to intervene, he was more interested in black eating black than receiving bounty.

He didn't mind earning a huge amount of extra money.

"There were three people at the scene, or even more." Morgan stood up and asked his younger brother who had done a detailed study of the traces at the scene, "Who do you think did it?"

Wyatt took a deep breath: "I'm not sure who it is, but I can roughly guess who it is."

Near the town of Tombstone, there is only one group called "Collinth Cowboys" who have the ability and courage to do these things.

A loose organization of three hundred or so cattle thieves, robbers, and smugglers, they were notorious for their crimes in Arizona.

These cowboys have a reputation for being hot-tempered and reckless, and horse-drawn carts and the like are commonplace.

But this time, they hit the idea of ​​Wells Fargo.

"Let's go back first, we have to tell Wells Fargo and the Sheriff the news." Wyatt signaled the two brothers to stop work, and at the same time walked towards his horse.

Chen Jianqiu was ready, and the two teams walked together.

On the way, Wyatt chatted with Chen Jianqiu, topics including Tombstone Town and Wyatt himself.

Located on the southwestern border of the United States, it was originally just a wilderness full of bushes.

But not long ago, silver mines were discovered nearby.

When the news spread, Tombstone Town sprang up almost overnight.

This was what happened everywhere in the western United States in that era. People rushed from the far east for land, resources, and wealth, with dreams of getting rich.

Wyatt and his two brothers were also among them.

They had crossed over 900 miles from the city of corruption, Dodge, where they were supposed to make a fortune.

However, he was late.

When Wyatt came to this place, he found that the high-quality silver mines had already been occupied, and his dream of making a fortune fell through.

This made him and his brother extremely frustrated.

But in a new town, there will be new problems, such as public security.

The railway did not reach the town, and the merchants needed to transport their goods and silver out through the road they were now under.

This has also become the best target for the cowboys to rob.

So the merchants turned to Wyatt and his brothers for help.

"I have stayed in many small towns in Kansas and served as a sheriff there." Wyatt held the rein, looked into the distance, and said to Chen Jianqiu, "So, I know what those cowboys are thinking."

"So, I was hired as the deputy sheriff of the town," Wyatt said.

"His marksmanship is very good, and for some reason, bullets can't always hit him." Morgan, who followed behind, laughed.

"Actually, the sheriff named Bihan doesn't care about anything at all. We are basically doing all the punishment of crimes." Virgil added.

The two elder brothers kept introducing Wyatt's great achievements to Chen Jianqiu. Obviously, they were very proud of their younger brother.

Chatting and chatting, not far away, the outline of a small town gradually appeared.

Tombstone, here we come.

Like other western towns, a street runs from north to south, with white wooden houses standing on both sides of the road.

It has the mess and hustle and bustle of other small western towns that other small towns don't.

The ground is full of wet mud. If you accidentally fall or a carriage passes by you and you can't dodge, your body will be covered with black mud, and the mud is often accompanied by horse manure.

As a result, the cursing sounded endlessly.

All kinds of people are on both sides of the road, discussing various topics, such as the latest price of silver.

They come from different places, and each of them has a different accent, but their common desire for wealth allows them to chat together.

"In front is the hotel in the town." Wyatt pointed to a pointed wooden house with a sign in front, "I suggest you stay for one night, and then buy some supplies at the grocery store in the town."

"Camping in the wild in the town is not a good idea." He looked at Chen Jianqiu, "The vicinity of this town is too messy."

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Wyatt." Chen Jianqiu bid farewell to the sheriff, and said the polite words of the Chinese, "If you need it, you can come to us."

The two teams separated at the entrance of the hotel.

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(End of this chapter)