America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 21 The Return of the Soul
When the two returned to the cave, Asuka was feeding the woman water and wiping her face with water.

Only then did Chen Jianqiu see clearly the original appearance of the Indian woman. According to Asuka's age, his mother should only be in her forties, but her face that has experienced many vicissitudes made her look at least fifty or sixty years old. .

Asuka settled down with her mother, turned around and came to the campfire in the cave.

At this time, Chen Jianqiu and Xiao En had already brought the lieutenant to the side. Chen Jianqiu first chopped off the arrow with an axe, then held the root of the arrow with his hand, and pulled out the whole arrow with all his strength.

"Ah!" A scream came from all over, and the lieutenant woke up from a burst of pain.

Chen Jianqiu held him down, applied the foamed yarrow to his wound, and then bandaged him briefly to stop the bleeding.

"Kill me! Kill me!" The lieutenant twisted his body crazily. As soon as Chen Jianqiu let go, he fell to the ground, staring at the three of them with incomparable viciousness.

"You ordered the slaughter of my people?" Asuka asked.

"Yeah, that's right, it's me, you dirty, vile, savage scumbags, do you think I came here from Northern Utah chasers just because of an order from the Army? You scumbags"

"And you, Chinese, I met a bunch of railroad Chinese guys in Utah, and they fell to the ground, panting like dogs, and then died."

The lieutenant had gone completely insane.

With a sound of "boom", the lieutenant was punched by Chen Jianqiu so that his whole body fell back, blood splashed for a while, covering his entire face.

"You don't even spare the old and the weak, women and children." Asuka's eyes became colder.

"Yeah, I should have slaughtered your mother at the time." The lieutenant's face was covered with blood, and his mouth was full of blood foam, and his speech was slurred.

"puff"

This time it was a left uppercut, and the lieutenant flew out with his teeth. He stopped provocative and stubborn, and leaned against the stone wall and hummed.

"Kill him, this is the greatest kindness to him now." Chen Jianqiu said to Asuka.

Asuka lifted the lieutenant out of the cave, and after a while, screams continued to come from outside the cave.

Ten minutes later, the screams gradually subsided, Asuka walked in with a piece of blood dripping in his hand, and he knelt down in front of his mother.

"Father's enemies and tribe's enemies have already paid the price, but it's a pity that not all of them were killed by birds. Please allow me to use the scalp of one of them to pay homage to my tribe."

Asuka's mother nodded.

They performed simple yet ancient rituals around the campfire, which they believed would bring the soul to rest.

After the ceremony, everyone found a place to rest.

I don't know if it was because of being too tired these two days, Chen Jianqiu quickly fell into a dream.

In a mansion, a woman dressed in the late Qing Dynasty sat in an exquisite carved pear wood chair.Chen Jianqiu found that he had turned into a four or five-year-old child, snuggling in her arms.

The sky outside the door was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the sound of killing could be faintly heard.

A man rushed in with a group of soldiers.

"Second Madam, Eldest Madam has already brought Tianbao out of the city, I will quickly escort you to leave in disguise! The enemy army has entered the outer city. The city will be destroyed soon."

The woman held Chen Jianqiu in her arms, stroked his hair tenderly, tears flowed down her cheeks slowly,

She murmured: "Although Chang Luo is not my own, she has long been in love with mother and child. The king died two years ago, and I have no intention of living in this world. You take Chang Luo and leave quickly!"

After finishing speaking, she released Chen Jianqiu from her arms, straightened her up and stood in front of her, and wiped the gray marks on his face with her sleeve."

"In the future, mother will not be by your side. You have to listen to your uncles, live well, learn to be brave, and learn to be strong."

"No, mother, no, I don't want it." Chen Jianqiu's vision gradually became blurred.

The woman became cruel and pushed him towards the man kneeling beside him. The man gritted his teeth, picked up Jian Qiu, and rushed out the door with a group of soldiers.

The figure of the woman gradually became smaller until she disappeared through the door.

"Mother! Mother!"

"Mother! Mother!"

The voice gradually became real, and Chen Jianqiu felt his face was a little wet. He opened his eyes and found that the bird was shouting loudly outside the cave.

Chen Jianqiu quickly got up, and Xiao En was also startled, and followed him out.

"Chen, my mother is missing." Asuka was extremely anxious.

"Let's go up to the top of the mountain and have a look." Chen Jianqiu immediately took out his weapon from his horse and ran along the path to the top of the mountain.

At this time, the sky was already twilight, and it was not far from the cave to the top of the mountain, and the three of them arrived at their destination in a short while.

At this time, the sun has jumped out of the horizon, and the morning light shines on the earth, bathing the vast forest and rolling mountain peaks.

The woman was sitting on a rock on the edge of the cliff.

"Ouch, I'm scared to death. I don't want you to play like this. Come down quickly, come down quickly." Sean patted his chest, panting.

But neither Chen Jianqiu nor Asuka spoke, and they noticed something strange.

The woman looked towards the northeast with a peaceful expression, but her face was dilapidated and old, like a candle flickering in the wind, which was about to be extinguished at any moment.

"Mother!" Asuka was about to move forward.

The woman beckoned to him and let the bird come to her side

"You have finally grown up." The woman looked at Asuka kindly, "My Asuka has finally grown up. My injury is too serious, and the time is coming. Originally, this breath was just to last until I saw you. Now that the person who killed your father is dead, and the revenge of killing your people has been avenged, I should go too."

"Mother!" Asuka knelt down on one knee.

The woman took Asuka's hand and said to him: "From now on, follow that Chinese, repay his kindness to our tribe, learn more from him, and entrust you to him, I am at ease."

Then, the woman turned to Chen Jianqiu and made the same gesture as she did in the cage last time.

"Thank you, you." The woman said in poor English.

"My soul will follow your father." The woman sat on the stone, she smiled and closed her eyes.

Her soul returned to nature, to the meandering Rippa Bricken River, and to the majestic Black Mountain, where her soul would live forever.

The three of Chen Jianqiu found a place to bury Asuka's mother.

On the way back to the cave, Asuka suddenly said to Chen Jianqiu: "Chen, if you are willing, I swear with my soul that I will always be loyal to you and repay your kindness."

Chen Jianqiu patted him on the shoulder: "You are my good brother, and so is Sean."

Sean grinned, revealing a crescent white.

Suddenly, for some reason, Chen Jianqiu looked at a forest not far from them.

A gust of wind blew, and several deer rushed out of the woods.

Chen Jianqiu and Asuka glanced at each other, and immediately ran towards the woods as if flying.

When they arrived at their destination, they found two half-smoked cigarettes left on the ground.

"Run away?" Asuka looked at Chen Jianqiu.

"Well, run away"

……

"That's awesome, head, how did they find us so quickly?" On a mountain road not far away, a well-dressed man with a tie was riding a horse, carrying a gun, and asked another man beside him.

The man had smoothed his hair and put on his gray bowler hat, his face was hidden from view under the brim, but his aquiline nose showed that the man was not easy to get along with.

"Boss, why don't I call people and bring them back immediately." The man in the tie suggested.

The hooked man looked back at him, and with just one look, the tie man immediately shut up.

He raised the reins in his hand.

"No, you go and check the details of that Chinese man first."

(End of this chapter)