A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 198 The Shepherd

"Hosea, how's it going? I heard you had a good chat with that female doctor."

As soon as Arthur, who pushed the door in from outside, finished saying this, he discovered with some embarrassment that Hosea was not the only one in the room.

Not only Tilly and Lenny are also in the house, but also a woman suspected of being the legendary female doctor.

At this moment, several people looked at Arthur with strange looks.

Hosea sat on the chair, he frowned, and then said to Arthur with disgust:

"You brat! What nonsense are you talking about as soon as you come back?"

"Ah, I'm sorry." Arthur looked at Tilly and Lenny who were covering their mouths and laughing, and said pretending to be angry:
"Lenny, what are you doing here, brat? Didn't I arrange for you to be an assistant with Mr. Smith!"

Lenny could tell at a glance that Arthur was changing the subject, he said with a smile:

"Arthur, don't you know that today is the weekend? The law firm is not open on weekends."

Hearing this, Arthur rolled his eyes, and he secretly made up his mind that when he saw that guy Smith, he would definitely ask Smith to change his working hours to 770.

Can you stay here without opening?
Arthur continued:

"Since you have a rest, you should go read a book and study the laws! Besides, you also have to prepare for the university entrance exam. Did you forget?"

Speaking of this, I have to say how much effort and effort Arthur has put in so that Lenny can become a lawyer.

Nowadays, if a person wants to enter a university to obtain a college degree, although a high school degree is not necessary, but since most people applying for a university have a high school degree, if you don’t have it, others have it, why should the university admit you?
So in order to solve this problem, Arthur sponsored a large amount of research funds to the university where Lenny was going.

Despite the cost, Lenny still needs to complete the college entrance exam on his own.

Originally, Arthur was planning to let Lenny study adult education in school to supplement high school courses, but Lenny insisted that he only needed some textbooks to study on his own.

Of course Arthur tried to persuade Lenny to make this decision, but he persisted and finally let him go.

In short, although there are no academic requirements for practicing law in this state, yes, there are no academic requirements. It’s amazing, right?
But most states do, which means that if Lenny wants to do this job in more than one state in the future, he still needs to have a bachelor's degree and then get a law degree.

As for the requirements of this state, Arthur and Smith have a look. According to him, practicing lawyers in this state need to pass the state law examination, as long as they prove their knowledge and ability of state law, and then register with the local bar association, and finally Once you have experience as an intern in a law firm, you will be able to work as a legal practicing lawyer.

We've gone too far, we've gone too far, let's bring it back.

Lenny heard Arthur mention the exam, and he finally said in a tone no longer as confident as before:
"I haven't forgotten. I'll go back and get ready. Then, Hosea, I'll leave first."

Hosea smiled and asked Lenny to review carefully. After Lenny left, he immediately turned to Arthur with a different expression and asked:

"Tell me, who told you about my gossip with Dr. Kate?"

This time, before Arthur could answer, Tilly spoke first:
"Well, Hosea, I'll go back first too. Marybeth told me that I still need my help, so I'm leaving first."

After speaking, Tilly trotted away.

Seeing this, Hosea didn't know yet, it must be what Tilly and Arthur said.

"Hello, Mr. Callahan. Kate Blackburn, well, I am the female doctor you mentioned who chatted well with Mr. Matthews." Kate introduced herself humorously.

After looking carefully, Arthur realized that Dr. Kate was probably about the same age as Lenny?
Now, hearing the doctor himself say so, Arthur felt embarrassed. He said apologetically:
"Sorry, Doctor Kate, I was just joking."

After Kate put her medical tools in her bag and carried them on her back, she smiled gently at Arthur, then gave Hosea a few words, agreed on a time to come back to see him, and then left. .

After Kate left, Hosea said to Arthur in disgust:
"How about it, do you still think that the wind is the rain in the future? I can be Dr. Kate's grandfather at my age."

Arthur sat down opposite Hosea, picked up an apple from the table very naturally, then took out his dagger, peeled it and said:
"Okay, I see. How about you scolding me as soon as I come back? Do you feel better physically?"

"It's okay, it's nothing serious. After all, at this age, you have to have some physical problems." Soon, Arthur peeled the apple, separated it from the middle, and handed half of it to Hosea. He took a bite of his half of the apple, which was quite sweet.

After Hosea took the apple, he did not eat it, but stared at it for a while, and then asked in a somewhat elusive tone:

"Do you know how Dutch is doing?"

After Arthur frowned and swallowed the apple in his mouth, he said:

"Why do you care about this? He's very good. He hasn't been idle since you left. In short, he's living a good life. Before I came back to Valentine, I saw him. Don't worry, I never mentioned you. "

Arthur's words were a little bit heart-wrenching, and Hosea said a little unhappy:

"Did I ask you this?"

"You're welcome, I'll give it to you." Arthur said with a smile.

Although Arthur didn't seem to be worried about making Hosea angry at all, in fact, the first thing he did when he came back was to ask about Hosea's physical condition.

As for the diagnosis result, how should I put it, it is neither too good nor too bad. There is no better way than taking a good rest, regular checkups, and taking some medicine that is more comforting than actual.

Hosea finally gave up on continuing the topic, and then said while eating the apple peeled by Arthur:
"I heard that a group of Scotch shepherds came to town recently, and they had some trouble with other farmers."

"Who told you this? Besides, this has nothing to do with us, so don't worry about it." Arthur said with a frown.

Hosea said:
"I'm just getting old and I'm not going to die. Are you still going to let me just idle like this?"

Arthur said helplessly:
"Okay, go on, I know about this, what do you think? To be honest, the contradictions are nothing more than pastures, land, what else can there be? Sheep are things that eat grass and are connected to each other. The grassroots eat together, and it’s normal for the cattle farmers to have conflicts with them.”

Hosea found that Arthur was not aware of the problem. He put the last piece of apple into his mouth and swallowed it, and said seriously:

"Didn't you set up some kind of New Hanover Cattlemen's Association? Haven't you considered that this matter will become your problem in the end?"

"..."

Arthur really didn't think about the matter that far. When Hosea said this, it seemed that it might become a troublesome matter related to him.

After all, Arthur is now wooing these ranchers.

"So what's your suggestion?"

Hearing Arthur ask for his advice, Hosea smiled and said:

"How? Did you find that your old buddy is still useful."

"That's very useful. You are living younger and younger. After two years, you will grow back backwards." Arthur joked with a smile.

"It's just your mouth. Listen, first of all, you have to make sure that the interests of these people's shepherds are consistent with yours?"

"Recently, the prices for the sheep that have been resold at the auction house are very good? And Morris has been doing sheep business for a long time, and there has never been any major problems."

The price was really good, so that was the first thing that came to Arthur's mind.

Hosea shook his head and said:
"I talked with Mary Beth. The sheep bought by the auction house are not grazed in our local area, but are all driven here from other places for sale."

"so what?"

"So there have been no conflicts between shepherds and local farmers here before, but this group of Scottish shepherds is different. I heard that they have bought an abandoned farm with no pasture nearby and are preparing to It’s settled here.”

(End of this chapter)