1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 43 [Mexican Bandits]

"What happened to them?" Horse Whistle asked.

"We've met bandits!" Millie cried again. "I don't know what's going on with them. Mom told me to run."

This is not a rare thing. In the wild lands of the Midwest, compared with the current West, the crime level of later generations of the United States can be described as shy. It is normal to meet a group of bandits.

Ma Shao thought for a while: "Let's go over there and have a look."

Then he took Millie with him, and headed in the direction she pointed with a group of people, and soon came to a slope. With the cover of the slope, they carefully observed the front.

A gang of bandits had just finished their work. There were a dozen of them, all riding horses with guns.In front of them was a carriage with various sundries piled up on it, and under the carriage were two corpses, a man and a woman.

The two corpses must be Millie's parents, but Millie was asked not to show her face, so she hasn't seen this scene yet.

The bandits were discussing something together around the female corpse. The horse whistle could faintly hear the conversation, but they couldn't understand a single word.

They don't seem to speak English.

"It's Mexican," said Stone Crow.

"Why?" Horse Whistle was surprised.

"Intuition." Stone Crow said, "You are still young, and the Apache people are most familiar with Mexicans."

Indeed, most of the Apaches live in what is now Mexico, and have more contacts with Mexicans. The Sleeping Bear clan originally moved from the southwest to its current location.

Apaches know Mexicans better than Americans, and of course hate Mexicans more.

"Kill these Mexicans!" Thick Shoulders said viciously.

"It should be to kill these bandits." Ma Shao glanced at Millie who was startled by the thick-shouldered tone, "We are good people."

"Yes, kill these bandits!"

Although the Mianxiong clan has a large number of people, it takes a lion to fight a rabbit with all its strength, and the fewer casualties the better, so the horse sentry ordered some clansmen to detour to the bandits' sides, and then charged at the same time.

Accompanied by his charging whistle, nearly a hundred Apaches killed from three directions.

There is no suspense in the course of the battle.

The Apache side had about ninety revolvers and twenty rifles. There were many men and many guns, and they had no martial ethics.

In contrast, the dozen or so poor bandits were defenseless.

Facing the sudden attack, the Mexican bandits who were caught off guard suddenly panicked and fled backwards in a panic, but they couldn't escape.

Not long after, they were wiped out by the intensive rain of bullets from the revolver.

Afterwards, everyone in Apache counted the spoils and found that the bandits were quite rich—a total of more than 900 Spanish silver dollars were seized, as well as some U.S. dollars and gold, and of course their items, such as firearms and horses.

One of the most popular currencies in North America, the Spanish silver dollar is worth about as much as a dollar.

Therefore, Horse Post estimated that the value of these trophies should reach two thousand dollars, which is quite impressive.

And they only paid the price of a few minor injuries for this, which is naturally something to be happy about.

But there were also those who fell into grief - Millie, who saw the dead bodies of her parents, and for a 12-year-old, it was nothing short of heaven falling.

She fell on her parents and wept, looking pitiful and helpless.

"What are you going to do with her?" Shi Ya walked up to the horse post and asked.

Ma Shao thought for a while, and finally said: "I am going to bring her back to the clan."

"She's white." Stone Crow reminded.

"I know, but she is still young, she should be able to gradually integrate into us." Ma Whistle said.

But this is not the real reason for his decision, he actually has other considerations - he wants to find someone to learn English.

Although a little girl's language level is not very high, she is a native speaker after all, and she is definitely much better than most non-native language learners. She is enough to be an English teacher as a horse whistle, at least more than enough to teach spoken English.

Moreover, as an Indian, if Ma Shuo finds an adult American as an English teacher, he will either be afraid or have to pay a high price.

In contrast, Millie is undoubtedly a safe choice.

After all, what could a little girl have in mind?

So he walked up to Millie, comforted him a few words, and then said, "Millie, what are you going to do in the future?"

"I...I don't know." Millie sobbed blankly, and her answer was completely expected by the horse whistle.

"In that case, would you like to come to my village?" Ma Shao didn't know what the clan should say, so he could only say it was a village.

"Where is the village?"

"To the east, we need to walk for a few days."

Millie didn't speak for a while, but looked at the horse post and the other Apaches, and then asked hesitantly, "You...are you really good people?"

"Of course." Ma Shao smiled, "Don't you think we don't look like us?"

Millie was silent for a while, and finally agreed: "Okay, I'll go back to the village with you. By the way, what's your name?"

"Hmm...you can call me Whistle." Ma Whistle thought for a while, and finally gave himself a sloppy English name.

For Americans, regardless of transliteration or free translation, the names of Indians are a bit strange and difficult to remember, and the horse whistle does not know how to free translate its own name, Whistle To Call Horse?

As for the English name of the previous life, "Shaw Ma", it is obviously a Chinese name.

"What a strange name." Millie couldn't help saying.

"If you learn our language, you will be able to understand my name." Ma Whistle said, "Actually, in my opinion, your name is also quite strange."

"No, Millie is a nice name, everyone says so!" Millie insisted.

"Okay." Ma Whistle said, "Maybe it's because my English is so poor."

Millie nodded approvingly: "Indeed, but I can teach you, and you can also teach me your language."

"Of course no problem." Ma Whistle smiled.

Millie's parents were then briefly buried, taking their belongings with them.

The couple had nothing of great value, but they did have a sack of wheat, which the Sleeping Bear clan could use.

People followed the planned route, passed by the four clans one after another, took all their young and old with them and continued eastward to the Sleeping Bear Clan.

With the participation of all the four clans, the number of the team has reached 600 people, and there are thousands of horses, which looks quite majestic.

In addition, two other clans joined on the road. One of them had just lost the battle with the Rangers of the Republic of Texas and had to seek refuge with others.

The other was a clan that participated in the Battle of Arapaho not long ago. When the horse sentry led a team of hundreds of people past their location, they discussed it and decided to bring the whole clan, young and old, to join it.

As a result, the size of the team was further expanded, reaching about [-] people and more than [-] horses.

Therefore, the horse sentry that followed 20 people to the expedition returned to the Mianxiong clan with 800 people and more than 2000 horses.

　Only to find that the starting point can display spaces.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)