America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 17 Asuka's Mother

The lieutenant stared at Chen Jianqiu who was about to lie down on the chair in front of him, his anger remained undiminished.

"What are you still doing here? Wait until I shoot you down with a gun?" The lieutenant asked angrily.

"I'm staying here today, you have to save a bed for me." Chen Jianqiu was half lying in the chair, looking like a rascal to the end.

The lieutenant called in the adjutant.

"We don't have any spare beds here." The lieutenant said viciously, "Don't forget, you tied up my son."

He turned to the adjutant: "Throw him into a cage and keep him with that middle-aged Indian woman."

The adjutant dragged Chen Jianqiu up from the chair: "Sir, do you want to tie him up?"

"No need, he can't make much trouble with me, unless he wants to be shot." The lieutenant waved his hand, signaling to get the Chinese out quickly.

"Hey, you can't treat me like this. Your son and my brother can provide delicious food and drink! Besides, I came here as a hostage, so you treat me like this?" Chen Jianqiu expressed his dissatisfaction moderately, but Soon two soldiers with live ammunition came in.

"Get lost!" The lieutenant's anger reached a critical point again.

Chen Jianqiu was taken out.

The lieutenant called the adjutant to the table, and together they began to look at the map, discussing possible locations for tomorrow.

"Sir, will they have an ambush?"

"Impossible, I know, there are only three of them, and one is injured, so what if there is an ambush." ​​The lieutenant disagreed,
"Tomorrow you find three smarter people to follow me. Leave one or two people in the camp, and take everyone else with you. Follow us and keep your distance. Don't let the Chinese notice it, but don't be too far away. Make sure there is one." Anything can come right away."

The adjutant nodded, but soon asked another question: "What about the people on Morris' side? The sentry reported that they have camped not far from us."

"If they move, kill them all!"

The lieutenant's order was terrifying, but what he said afterwards made the adjutant shudder even more.

"It's almost time to start trading, you guys, quietly surround us, after we rescue the second lieutenant, kill the others!"

After all, it was brought out by Morris, and he even had the same idea. From the very beginning, the lieutenant didn't want anyone who knew anything but him to be alive.

After the lieutenant finished his orders, he sat back in his chair and slowly sipped his cup of coffee.

……

Chen Jianqiu was held by two soldiers with guns and approached the iron cage.

He turned his head to take a closer look, and was amused. One of the soldiers had gauze wrapped in his hand. Isn't this the one who was bitten just now?

The soldier noticed that Chen Jianqiu was staring at his hand, so he kicked it angrily, but he didn't see the person in front of him making much movement, but he kicked the iron cage.

The iron cage was motionless, but his feet were swollen, and new wounds were added to the old wounds. The soldier sat down on the ground and began to howl.

Chen Jianqiu stood aside and looked at him with a smile.

The other soldier couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward and opened the door of the iron cage, and made a gesture of invitation to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu was also polite, walked in swaggeringly, not forgetting to say thank you, and watched the wounded soldier limping away while being held up.

After waiting for no one around, he turned around and looked towards the corner of the iron cage.

Asuka's mother looked much weaker than before, with blood stains faintly visible at the corner of her mouth. She had actually sensed movement in the cage and wanted to open her eyes to see what was going on, but she didn't even have the strength to move her body.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Jianqiu felt bad in his heart.

Unfortunately, these bastards probably didn't give her any food, and she probably wouldn't be able to last until tomorrow.

He stepped forward, gently grasped the woman's bony wrist, motioned her not to move, then tore off a corner of his cloth vest, and wiped the blood from the corner of the old man's mouth.

He walked to another corner near the cage, sat down cross-legged, and started yelling, "Where's my dinner? I want water! You sons of bitches!"

The voice is getting louder, the more cursing the more ugly.

Not long after, the adjutant came over with two soldiers.After approaching the cage, he took a bag of water and a piece of bread from the soldier and threw them into the cage.

"Hey, is the bed we arranged for you comfortable?" The adjutant bent down and looked into the cage.

"Not bad, the environment is okay, quite safe." Chen Jianqiu picked up the water bag and bread.

The adjutant laughed and turned away, treating this man as a shameless country bumpkin with no bottom line in his heart.

As the adjutant left, the smile on Chen Jianqiu's face suddenly disappeared. He hurried back to the woman, opened the water bag, and slowly fed water into the woman's mouth.

The woman's throat was rising and falling slightly, and after taking a few sips, the water overflowed from the corner of her mouth.

Chen Jianqiu carefully wiped the corners of the woman's mouth, turned around to fetch the bread, and broke off a small piece from the corner.He looked around, but couldn't find any containers.

He picked up his left hand, poured a little water into the palm of his hand, and then put the corner of bread in, dipping in the water bit by bit.

He didn't want to push something as hard as iron directly into Mother Bird's mouth.

The bread became slightly softer under the action of water.Only then did Chen Jianqiu carefully put the bread in.

Asuka's mother could no longer chew, or even swallow, so Chen Jianqiu had to feed the woman some water.

After a while, probably because of some food, the woman's eyes slowly opened.

Seeing Chen Jianqiu, she sat up slowly, crossed her arms in front of her chest, her right forearm was close to her body, her right hand was clenched into a fist at the position of her heart, the back of her hand was facing outward, and her left wrist was pressing on her right wrist.

It was a sign language of the North American Indians, and it took the woman a long time.

Chen Jianqiu looked at the woman quietly and waited patiently. Although he couldn't fully understand it, combined with the old man's expression, it should be an expression of gratitude to him.

He also used his own way to try to convey a message to the woman, telling her that someone would come to rescue her tomorrow.

Looking at the dancing young man in front of her, a smile appeared on the woman's face, she seemed to understand.

The subsequent communication seems to be much smoother. Although the two do not understand each other's language at all, sometimes, the communication after mutual trust does not need to care too much about the details.

……

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Jianqiu was awakened by the crisp bird call in the valley. A brown bird was sitting on the cage, and its wing edge, back and chest and abdomen feathers were pink.

Chen Jianqiu recognized this kind of bird. It was called the brown-crowned sparrow. Asuka once told him the origin of this bird.

He believed the bird could bring him good luck today.

(End of this chapter)