America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 87 An Alternative Version of the Pitkin Incident

Sheriff Denny's home outside Pitkin County the next day.

The cabin was a bit cramped.

Danny and his wife gave up the bed to the wounded and intellectuals, and Sean and Holmes just "snuggled" on a big bed all night;

And they themselves slept in the room of their son,

Danny's son left Pitkin the day he turned 18 to find his own world outside of Colorado.

But one day three years ago, the cowboys he had been out with returned to Pitkin with news that his son had disappeared in New Mexico.

The Danes always believed that their son would return, so the room remained the same as when his son left.

"What are your plans for the future?" Chen Jianqiu leaned against the door of the room and asked Danny.

Danny put down the photo frame with his son's photo embedded in his hand: "I don't know."

"Pitkin is safe now, but there is so much movement here and so many people have died, it will be hard to say in two days." Chen Jianqiu did not say clearly, but Pitkin is basically a mess now, and no one can be sure what will happen later. what happened.

"What about you?" Teresa asked while she was arranging her clothes by the bed.

"We're going south to find a treasure left by the Aztecs in New Mexico." Chen Jianqiu was very frank, without reservation, "Are you interested in joining us?"

Danny was lost in thought, but Teresa answered for her husband, "No problem."

"I'm going to find my son." The straightforward woman said simply, "I'm tired of this peaceful but powerless life."

"Okay, while we're looking for the treasure, we're looking for news about your son." Chen Jianqiu nodded, turned and walked out of the room.

Adam was lying on the chair in the living room, his hat fell on the floor, and a wine bottle fell from his hand. It seemed that he drank too much again.

Chen Jianqiu picked up the hat from the ground and covered his face.

He walked out of the house and into the nearby warehouse.

A lantern was hung on a pole in the warehouse, and Asuka, Hanif, and Downey were counting the trophies.

"A dozen or so springfields, and some revolvers, as much explosives and bullets as we can get, and they were brought out on Sean's horse." Asuka pointed to the things on the ground, and then he He took out a bag and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu weighed it in his hand, and it was quite heavy. He opened it and saw that there were seven or eight gold bars and a large pile of US dollars inside.

It turned out that the injured Sean was not idle. He found Clark's safe behind the wooden table while others were moving ammunition.

In the matter of finding the loot, Sean played his subjective initiative. With his extremely high professionalism and desire for money, he opened the safe in 8 seconds when his right arm was injured.

There was no Guinness World Record at that time, otherwise Chen Jianqiu would have to apply for one for Sean.

Chen Jianqiu took out the pile of US dollars and counted them.

Two thousand dollars is a huge sum of money, plus those gold bars, I don't know if it is all of Clark's belongings.

Hanif looked straight from the sidelines.

He leaned over: "Chen, is your team still accepting people?"

Regarding the matter of making money, Hanif thinks very clearly that work is just to support the family, if being a bounty hunter doesn't make money, then it's fine.

People go to high places, and water flows to low places. I might as well hang out with this person in front of me. Maybe I can get on a road to wealth.

"We don't accept unlucky people..." Chen Jianqiu didn't even lift his eyelids. He originally wanted to say "unlucky people", but after thinking about it, he changed to a more euphemistic way of saying, "We don't accept people who are unlucky."

He raised his head and glanced at Downey again: "We don't accept child labor either."

Hanif was about to argue that his bad luck had only recently started, and that he was a well-known bounty hunter before.

But Chen Jianqiu interrupted him.

"But you can be our non-staff." Chen Jinqiu changed the subject, with a meaningful smile on his face, "You continue to be your bounty hunter and follow us around. Of course, you can also seek our help." Help, I will also choose to help you or not at my own discretion."

"Non-staff personnel?" Hanif was confused.

"Yes, there is a chance to make money, I will bring you along, I only have one request, no matter who asks, don't talk about the relationship between you and us." Chen Jianqiu took some dollars from the stack and handed them to Hanif , "Take it, and redeem the hat and carriage later."

Hanif immediately burst into tears of gratitude. During this period of time, he finally saw the money back.

"No problem, brother, I will prove to you that I am a trustworthy person." He vowed.

The next few days were eerily quiet in Pitkin County.

That night at the hotel didn't cause much disturbance, people just thought that the two forces were at war again, and they didn't know the result.

It's just that since that night, Clark Lackfield and Fred Phelps have never appeared in Pitkin.

The cowboys who worked on the Larkfield farm couldn't explain why, they just said that they met a devil who could control the trajectory of bullets and fly on the roof that night,
Only the hotel owner and the few policemen who dropped their guns knew what had happened. The police were silent, and the unlucky hotel owner visited the county magistrate's mansion several times to demand the hotel's maintenance costs.

As a result, the county magistrate thanked the guests behind closed doors, claiming that he had a bad cold.

In the end, Sergeant Danny, who appeared again, knocked on the door of the county magistrate, followed by several people, and walked into the house of the county magistrate.

We don't know what they talked about in detail. We only know that the next day, the county magistrate miraculously recovered from his cold, and for the first time, he showed up on a day other than the festival.

He announced the following things:

First: The Lackerfield gang and the Phelps family had a firefight. The bandit leader Clark, together with the mounted police captain Fultz, killed Fred Phelps and plundered the Phelps family's wealth.

Second: The county sheriff Danny Romney and his righteous friends went to investigate the truth, but were attacked by two gangs, who surrounded the sheriff in the hotel viciously.But by God's grace, the sheriff and his friends are all fine.

Third: Clark and Fultz had a firefight at Larkfield Farm because of the uneven distribution of spoils, and eventually both sides suffered losses.Both the bandit leader Clark and the depraved Mounted Police Captain Fultz were shot dead.

Fourth: The two most evil forces have been destroyed. Regarding the actions of the Mounted Police Fultz, he will appeal to the state government and give justice to the damaged hotel owner. Before that, the hotel maintenance costs were borne by the county advance payment.

Fifth: Sheriff Danny resigned as Sheriff of Pitkin County due to personal reasons. We will always remember what he and his brave friends have done for Pitkin County.

After announcing these, the county magistrate hurriedly stepped off the stage and got into the room.

"Boss, why do I feel that what he said seems to be true?"

Behind the crowd, Xiao En with a bandage on his arm retracted his head and asked Chen Jianqiu who was about to leave.

"What does it mean to be true? It's obviously true." Chen Jianqiu touched the black man's hand "inadvertently", and the black man cried out in pain.

This manuscript was written by him.

The fires at Lackfield Farm and Phelps Manor burned the two places into ruins, and the surrounding residents did not dare to approach them.

He asked Danny to buy a carriage, went around the two ruins, picked up a lot of good things, and then stopped by to watch the county magistrate's speech, "accepting" the fruits of his labor yesterday.

"Come on, let's go back."

(End of this chapter)