America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 8 Human Skin Treasure Map

Sean was a little dazed.

The two men ran away again, leaving him alone by the pond.

But for some reason, he really believed that the two of them would come back this time. Although the Chinese was cruel and cheap, he always gave people a sense of security.

So he took out the water bag, and after confirming that the water in the pond was not saline-alkaline water, he drank to his full, filled another bag full, and then lay down on a stone beside him to play with his fingers.

Sure enough, not long after, he saw Asuka appearing not far away on Huey.

"Where's Chen?"

"Riding a black horse to the west."

"Then we're waiting for him here?"

"Well, he said to let us wait here."

Wait until the sun goes down.The negro was playing with the grass he pulled out on the ground, while Asuka built a bonfire and wiped his ax by the light of the fire.

"Brothers, I'm back."

A familiar voice appeared, Xiao En and Asuka turned their heads and saw Chen Jianqiu appearing on the other side of the pond, and he was riding the black horse.

"We have to get a pair of saddles tomorrow." Chen Jianqiu's face was scratched and his clothes were a little disheveled, but he was in good spirits.In stark contrast to him was the black horse, dejected and exhausted.

Asuka took out a piece of oatmeal cake from the saddle bag and handed it to Chen Jianqiu. Huey seemed to be a little dissatisfied because someone snatched his rations.

Chen Jianqiu fed the oatmeal cake to the black horse, and patted its neck with his hand. He weaved a simple halter with a rope, put it on the black horse's head, and tied the other end of the rope with a horse knot. , buckled on a stone.

"I observed the terrain when I came back. The general direction is correct. I should be entering the mountain in a short time." Asuka stood up.

Chen Jianqiu hummed: "I am on duty for the first half of the night, and you are on duty for the second half of the night."

"What about me?" Sean leaned forward.

"You lie down."

The Negro shrank back.

Chen Jianqiu took out the human skin he found in the sheriff's office from his arms, and studied it carefully by the light of the campfire.

The human skin is somewhat darkened due to time, but the picture depicted on it is still vaguely discernible.

The one on the far left is a place similar to an altar. Right above the altar, there is a painting of a uniquely shaped animal, which resembles a snake with wings. It is covered with feathers. The gorgeousness of ink before the out.

This even reminded him of the similarly shaped "Singing Snake" in the Chinese "Shan Hai Jing".

Is this the god believed by which tribe?

The painting on the right depicts a valley. The edge of the valley is very strange, in the shape of an inverted "mountain".

At the bottom of the entire human skin, there are several rows of neatly arranged symbols.Rather than words, this symbol is more like a miniature version of a picture, with antlers and the head of an unknown animal... Chen Jianqiu looked at it for a long time but didn't see anything.

So he put away the human skin, and took out the book again, and he didn't lose it despite the bumpy journey.

The content in the book is written in English. Before Chen Jianqiu crossed, his English level was at least four or six, so there would be no situation where the letters in the book knew him and he didn't know the letters in the book.

This is a diary, most likely it belongs to the old mine owner.

The diary is jumping, not every day, and some even every few months.The previous part mainly describes the military history of the former Northern Army colonel, from the Mexican-American War to the Civil War, and then to the Battle of the Little Big Horn with the Indians.

The old man has a staggeringly flexible moral bottom line: he is a Whig, but he supports a fight with the Mexicans, because he has long planned to grab a fortune there; In the battle with the Confederate Army, he was passive and sabotaged, because he had his own plantation in Mississippi; he betrayed his old boss Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn, which resulted in the annihilation of the famous general; Crazy Horse" then stabbed him in the back.

But these were not the focus of Chen Jianqiu's attention. He turned to the back of the diary and finally found what he was looking for.

Nov. 1880, 12

Damn blizzard!

If I hadn't killed that damn Indian, the federal army would still be chasing bison on the grasslands of South Dakota, and my stupid officer would just throw me in this damn place to kill the bandits
Bandits?Except coyotes and deer here?Where are there any living people?
I might as well go mining!Maurice and I negotiated to go to Stone Springs, where he was sent as sheriff, and there was a coal mine that was for sale, and it was a good deal.

Today, I stopped a caravan selling private goods on the road. They were all fake and worthless things, and there was even a human skin painting.

The rednecks of Wyoming are poor and crazy.

Nov. 1881, 2

There was a problem in the coal mine, two workers died, and the coal production was affected. I went to Denver and wanted to invite an engineer back. I met Lockhart, the well-known archaeologist.

He even said that human skin is a treasure map.He must be out of his mind.

Nov. 1881, 4

It's like a treasure map.

Chen Jianqiu flipped through the diary again, this was the last page.Although I don't know what the old mine manager experienced during the two months from February to April, he seems to have found enough evidence to prove the nature of human skin.

He pulled out the human skin again, and took a closer look.

Even if this is really a treasure map, I can't find the exact location based on the above information. What's more, their main task now is to escape the hunt.

He wrapped the human skin and the diary carefully, and put them away again.

After a while, Asuka woke up, picked up the gun, stood up, and approached Chen Jianqiu who was staring at the bonfire in a daze.

"Chen, go to sleep."

Chen Jianqiu nodded, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep.

When he woke up again, it was already dawn, the sky was still full of stars, and the horizon in the distance was pale. Some courageous animals even began to drink from the other side of the pond far away from them. .

At this time, Asuka is on the ground with her knees together, her calves on the ground, and her buttocks on her heels. It is a bit like the way people in the Han Dynasty of China sat, facing northeast and staring into the distance.

The faint morning light bathed his young face from the side.I don't know what he is thinking at this time.

Chen Jianqiu didn't know whether he should disturb him at this time, but Asuka noticed his waking up first, and spoke:

"My home was originally in that direction, where our ancestors grew up for generations."

Chen Jianqiu thought that my home was still on the other side of the ocean, but he just asked, "Then why are we heading south now?"

"We Sioux originally lived in the Black Mountain in Dakota State, which is our sacred mountain. The white people expelled us, and then we had a war."

"Didn't you win the battle?" Chen Jianqiu suddenly thought of the records in Colonel Robert's diary.

"But they started to slaughter the bison on the grassland, blocked our place, food became more and more scarce, and we finally failed." Asuka was a little depressed.

"My father chose to negotiate with them for the sake of the tribe, but he was deceived by Robert and killed under the flag of truce. The tribe was massacred, and I escaped with the rest of the people, migrating all the way south, and finally fled into Yu Tain Mountain."

Chen Jianqiu didn't know how to comfort the young man in front of him. He suddenly remembered the humiliation that the land on the other side of the ocean was suffering at this time and the tragic experience in the next few decades.

But he also thought of his motherland, which was rising more than 100 years later.

He patted Asuka on the shoulder.

"Dignity does not rely on charity, but ultimately depends on blood and fire."

(End of this chapter)