A Red Dead Redemption Story

Chapter 324: Then call me daddy

Faced with Susan's concern, Arthur was really dumbfounded. The raised slap just now was not only Susan's conditioned reflex, Arthur's subconscious dodge was also a habit he had developed since he was a child. He still remembered every time he was with others. After a fight in the mud, or when Susan caught him without taking a shower for a few days, he would just greet him with a friendly slap, and then be dragged to take a shower.

Looking at Arthur who was cleaning himself up, Susan hugged her chest and asked:
"Where's your fiancée?"

"...?"

Arthur was stunned by Susan's words. Seeing Arthur who didn't respond, Susan put her hand in her waist and said:
"Isn't it because I didn't bring it here? I also said that I would check it for you so that you would not be deceived by women. After all, you always suffer from women."

Seemingly opening up the conversation, Susan continued:
"A good man can't do it, Arthur, especially in front of women. Women's best ability is to bully honest people and good people. The better you treat some women, the more she wants to bully you, you have to be more aggressive , she will be honest instead."

"Ms. Grimshaw, let's talk about how you've been lately, shall we?"

Seeing Arthur trying to change the topic and not wanting to talk more, Susan asked doubtfully:

"Is it possible that you were abandoned by your fiancée so soon?"

"What! Not my fiancée!"

Karen on the side also interjected with a smile:
"That means being abandoned by a woman? That shouldn't be the case. Which woman has such no vision that she would be willing to abandon our Arthur?..."

When Susan heard Karen's words, she turned around and gave a righteous glance. This glance directly made Karen yell that the work was not done yet, turned around and ran away, and then Susan continued to ask:
"Not your fiancée? Then why do they say you have a girl with you?"

"I did bring a girl with me, but this can only be regarded as 'paying off debt' at best, right." Arthur was very satisfied with his description.

Then, under Susan's scrutinizing gaze, Arthur explained how he met Linda, what happened in the middle, and how he ended up like this.

In short, the entire process was recounted to her in detail.

During this period, Susan and Arthur drank two bottles of beer alone across the bar.

This is the first time in a while that Arthur has completely told the story to others.

After listening to Arthur's story, Susan frowned in confusion and said:

"Arthur, if you don't like her, can't you just leave her behind?"

"...Ms. Grimshaw, I am not an irresponsible person..." Arthur defended.

Susan couldn't help laughing when she heard this. She shook her head while laughing and said:

"This is not something to be done irresponsibly. How come you are such an old man and you still can't understand whether you like a woman or not?"

"..." Arthur suddenly didn't know what to say. After asking for another bottle of beer, he defended:

"The woman I love has left me."

Although she found out about Mary's death a little late, Susan did hear about it. For this woman whom Arthur couldn't love, she could only sigh and helplessly warn:
"Don't let one regret create another regret, Arthur, people should always let themselves live in the present."

The past cannot be pursued, but the future can especially be anticipated.If you want to talk about these truths, then Arthur knows too much.Don’t look back on the past that you can’t change?
The past cannot be forgotten, but it cannot be remembered?
Ha ha.

Although this is the truth, Arthur still can't convince himself now. He understands that lamenting and crying are meaningless. Dead people can do such things as standing still. He should have done better while he was still alive. , but ah, but...

Finally, after finishing the wine in the bottle, Arthur took his leave.

……

Generally speaking, the things Rhodes Town has to deal with are relatively simple. After all, Ale, as a debt-paying labor force, has done a pretty good job.

After inspecting a circle of cotton gins and walking around two plantations belonging to two major families, Arthur was [-]% satisfied with Alle's work.

As for the remaining dissatisfaction, Arthur pointed it out directly to Ale:
"Who did you put in charge of recruiting workers? Why do I only see black people among the workers?"

Ah Le, who didn’t expect Arthur to care about this, smiled and explained:
"Although most of the people we employ are black people, they are all free laborers. We all pay them hourly wages. Compared with hiring other workers, these liberated free laborers have the lowest and most cost-effective prices. .”

Arthur stopped in confusion, looked back at Ale and asked dissatisfiedly:
"I remember, I didn't ask you to save costs on manpower? With their daily salary, apart from letting us make a little less money, the money saved will not make us rich?"

"Boss, that's not what you're saying. Every time we reduce labor costs, our product prices can be lower. Only in this way can we have stronger competitiveness. Furthermore, when we use products that are far lower than the market price After the price crushes all other peers, we can swallow up most of the market, so in theory, squeezing them will make you rich..."

Faced with the simplest business logic mentioned by A Le, Arthur did not understand it, but he still shook his head and said dissatisfied:

"Ale, I don't have the habit of eating human blood steamed buns. You should know what human blood steamed buns are, right?"

"..."

I'm really sorry. Ah Le, who grew up in the United States, is not sure whether he understands Arthur's meaning correctly, but based on his literal understanding and combined with what Arthur said before, he knows that this is not a good thing.

Just listen to Arthur continue:

"I'm not a good person, but I'm not a greedy person either. I don't have much desire to do good things, and I know that people are not weeds on the side of the road. Good and evil breed in a single thought. I just hope that I, and you The simplest requirement that can be achieved is that when pursuing interests, don't base it on harming others. Even if someone has to be injured because of it, try to compensate them financially, and don't ask for nothing. Yes, but at least you have to have a clear conscience.”

"Boss, do you know who you look like now?"

Ah, are you rushing to give others away to take advantage?

"Like your father."

"……Correct."

"Then call Dad and listen."

"……Ugh!"

(End of this chapter)