A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 10 Dutch or Dutch
Generally speaking, life in the Coulter Village camp has not been easy these days. Although efforts have been made to repair it, the conditions of the camp are still very bad.

After returning that day, through some small means, we found a plan to rob the train from a member of the Odris Gang.

Dutch is still Dutch, and has been busy making plans these days... His plan naturally includes robbery and dreams.

Arthur hasn't been running around these days, but is thinking about the bounty issue. If he wants to continue living like this, there is no problem with a bounty on his head, so before, they basically didn't think too much about the bounty issue. Care, after all, when government agents come, they shoot with one shot, and when bounty hunters come, they shoot with one shot. There is no difference between the two.

Mainly it's also easy to handle.

This kind of life made Arthur overlook an important point before, that is, in the American West in 1899, most problems could be solved with money. If it didn't work, it must be the wrong way to give money.

The first thing Arthur planned to do after leaving the Coulter Village camp was to find a way to get a newspaper to see if he had been offered a reward. He really didn't pay attention before.

First, find a way to get rid of the bounty on your head. As for the money, you can use the money you and Hosea defrauded the real estate developer.

……

Arthur's thoughts gradually drifted away. Fortunately, before his thoughts drifted away completely, the sunshine outside the window brought him back to his senses.

Let's go see how John is doing.

The weather is really good today, it has cleared up.

Arthur came to the house where John was, and saw Pastor Swan, who had a strange floral cloth wrapped on his head and a cowboy hat on top, sitting beside John's bed, as if he was holding John's hand and saying something.

Arthur's first physical reaction was to tease him - are you saying John's last prayer?

Fortunately, the words didn't come out of his mouth, and the thoughts just turned around in his mind and were dismissed by him.

"Pastor Swan, I didn't expect to see you here."

Pastor Swan quickly grasped a small bottle of brown medicine in his hand, then stood up and put his hands behind his back.

"Arthur, hello. John, I'll leave first."

His tone was very awkward, and his eyes were evasive.

Did Arthur know that Pastor Swan had never visited David before? After returning, John kept complaining about pain. Arthur had found this small brown bottle for him.

In the end, Arthur chose not to expose him, but just said after careful consideration:

"If you want, we should talk when we have time. This habit of yours will only destroy yourself."

Pastor Swan lowered his head, and you could vaguely see that he was nodding, and said:

"I will, Arthur."

After Pastor Swan finished speaking, he fled the house as if fleeing.

Arthur turned his head and looked at John, who was lying on the bed recuperating with most of his head wrapped in gauze.

It seemed like nothing serious, so Arthur jokingly said:
"Looks like you're still alive?"

John responded sincerely: "I owe you a favor."

To John, Arthur is like his older brother. Although he has a bad mouth, he always cleans up his mess silently.

I may not be able to pay back the favor I owe.

"You will pay it back, but now you should just recuperate."

Arthur didn't go on.

Dutch, who pushed the door in from outside, interrupted him and said:
"Arthur, it's time for us to prepare the train. I asked Bill and Javier to keep an eye on Odrisk's camp."

John raised his hand to indicate that he was here too, and said, "Do you want me to join you?"

Dutch replied decisively: "Of course, but now you..."

After briefly examining John's condition, he continued:
"Look at you now."

Dutch's refusal was tactful, as if he was concerned about John's health.

And John disagrees.

"You know I always look like this, Dutch, it's just a scratch."

As he spoke, he sat up.

Looking back, for a long time, John was Dutch's favorite child. Whether it was reading, writing or learning to shoot and target, Dutch felt that John was better than Arthur, so for a long time Everyone nicknamed John Dutch's golden boy.

Dutch was telling John to lie down and not force himself, while Abigail pushed the door open and walked in from the outside with little Jack.The lively scene in front of her made Abigail frown. Apparently she felt that everyone had disturbed John's rest.

She greeted Dutch politely, while little Jack silently looked at John, his unfamiliar father, lying on the bed.

He has slightly blond hair, a small dark red scarf around his neck, and a small denim outfit that makes him look well-behaved and sensible.

"This kid wants to see you, John." As she said that, Abigail gently pulled little Jack and asked him to lean against the bed.

When John saw Abigail coming, he decisively gave up his plan to sit up and lay motionless on the bed with his eyes closed, answering:

"So now he sees me, or sees my crippled appearance."

What an awkward father.

Abigail took a deep breath and held back the words she was about to say.

The next second, John turned to look at Abigail and continued:

"What about you, are you here to see me?"

"I would rather see a corpse now!"

Abigail's tone contained many things, including anger and sadness, and more importantly, dissatisfaction with John, a rotten person.

John had just left the mother and son missing for a whole year, and now he was missing again. If it hadn't been for Arthur, he might have lost his life.

To be honest, she didn't know how she felt when she saw John like this.

"John Marston, you are a rotten man!" she couldn't help but curse.

Dutch was tired of the farce in front of him. He had more important things to do. He spoke decisively to stop Ben from continuing the conversation and concluded:
"He's an idiot, Abigail, we all know it."

"Okay, now John, you have a good rest, and Arthur, come with me."

There was no other way, I originally wanted to give him some advice.

Arthur got up and followed Dutch to the next room, where Hosea was already waiting for them smoking a cigarette.

As soon as he entered the room, Dutch couldn't wait to spread the plan on the table, then pointed to a few circled and marked places and said:

"We have to change it. The previous plan was still too conservative. Here, here and here. We only know the location and target of the expected attack, but what about the time? The previous plan was too unstable."

Dutch took out a cigar from his pocket and lit it for himself.

Arthur shouted crazily in his heart, Dutch, you are the fucking idea king of the West.

Looking at Hosea's expression, Arthur could tell that they had already communicated.

He refused the cigarette offered by Hosea and wondered if it was still too late to worry about Hosea's lungs.

Arthur chose to wait quietly for Dutch's next words.

"Believe in my plan, we should first eliminate the group of people in the Odrisk camp, eliminate all unexpected factors, severely injure them, so that they have no time to cause trouble, and put this robbery plan into our own hands to implement, Odrisk The people I helped are just a bunch of trash, I don’t believe they can succeed.”

Dutch was holding a cigar in his mouth. He felt confident that he could convince the two of them.

The reason why he chose to convince the two of them first was because the failure of Blackwater Town had dealt a huge blow to the entire gang. Everyone had little confidence. At this time, his authority could no longer be questioned in public.

Before Arthur could speak, Hosea raised his hands in disbelief and questioned Dutch:
"Why are we doing this?"

"You see, now that the weather has improved, we can leave here, and then, just like we planned before, we keep a low profile! I thought we were going to keep a low profile?"

Faced with the questioning, Dutch seemed very irritable. The two must have had a heated discussion before Arthur came.

Regardless, Dutch believes Hosea will be won over eventually.

Dach looked at Arthur, but at present it still depends on Arthur.

After all, Arthur at least supports the robbery plan. Although there are some differences in the plan, it is just a different method and the same purpose.

After several previous conversations, Dutch believed that Arthur would support him, and now he needed to work with Arthur to convince Hosea that this was something that had to be done.

So, Dutch asked in as calm a tone as possible:
"What do you want me to do, Hosea?"

Hosea looked directly at Dutch and said:
"I just don't want any more people to die, Dutch!"

(End of this chapter)