Bear Claw Grass didn't ask for it, and gave it to Lin Yao, which was an affirmation of his shot.

Lin Yao made a necklace out of bear claws to commemorate his first prey.

In this way, he became a hunter and was recognized by Glass.

For the next three months, he partnered with Glass to hunt carnivores within a radius of hundreds of miles, and when the carnivores were almost done, he began to hunt beavers by the river like ordinary hunters.

There is no danger in hunting beavers, and the number of beavers is huge, and there are too many to kill.

But hunting beavers has no additional bonus, which is very uncomfortable for Lin Yao, who is used to hunting carnivores and taking bonuses every day.

He calculated that the first month of becoming a hunter would be a total of $218 in base salary plus bonuses.

The second month was less, because there was less prey, and he only made $174.

In the third month, even less, within a few hundred miles, carnivores were rarely seen, earning only $122.

Three months add up, a total of $514, and if he was an apprentice cobbler, with a base salary of $30 a month, it would take at least seventeen months to earn that much.

Sure enough, he made the right choice, and the Revenant was more promising than the Leathermian.

Of course, there is also bad news.

Gerald was very dissatisfied with him, and he thought that having Lin Yao partner with Glass would greatly reduce Glass's hunting speed.

But I didn't want to, Lin Yao's performance was no worse than that of ordinary hunters, and the two cooperated with each other and made a lot of money.

Gerald knew Glass's strength and didn't dare to do anything with him.

For Lin Yao, he didn't have so many worries.

Gerald believes that Lin Yao is a credit to him for becoming a hunter, and Lin Yao did not make trouble for Glass as he said, on the contrary, they worked well together.

This is a betrayal, so in front of Lin Yao, Gerald not only kept a cold face all day long, but also privately threatened him that Lin Yao must give him two hundred dollars after returning to the town, otherwise he would not let Lin Yao go.

Lin Yao's answer was simple: "Am I like a fool?" ”

In fact, Lin Yao was not afraid of Gerald at all, let alone two hundred dollars, and he was not ready to pay the two hundred dollars he had promised before.

Gerrard looked at his youth and thought it would be a big mistake to scare him.

He could say with certainty that he had killed more people than the entire camp combined, and if you wanted to be my enemy, it was best to sleep with one eye open.

The conversation was not very pleasant that day, and when Gerard left, he let go of the cruel words and wanted to make Lin Yao look good when he returned to town.

Lin Yao knew very well that Gerald was not joking.

It's not that easy to understand, and he's also thinking about whether or not to let Gerald get back to town alive.

Winter...

"Glass, is there no start today, I don't see that everyone is leaving?"

"Yes, there is no need to start work, the boss has counted, there are about 20,000 skins now, the weather is cold, and we are ready to go home."

With the onset of early winter, the weather is getting colder and colder.

Lin Yao rubbed his hands together and looked at the cobblers who were still busy, it seemed that in a few days, when the leathers were processed, they should leave the reserve and return to the warm and comfortable town.

"How's Hawke doing?"

"Much better, thankfully the wound didn't suppurate, and he's now able to walk on the ground."

Hawke injured his bones, and he broke his muscles and bones for a hundred days, which is an old saying in Tang Guo.

After three months of recuperation, Hawke is now able to do odd jobs around the camp on crutches.

It is estimated that in more than half a month, he can even throw away crutches, and he is a great guy again.

"Glass, the boss called you over."

While the two were talking, a hunter ran over panting.

"What's going on?"

"Someone saw the Indians, the scouts of the Cree tribe!"

"Impossible!"

Glass's face changed drastically, according to the custom of the Cree, they should spend the winter in the south hundreds of miles away at this moment, and they will not return until the beginning of spring next year.

It is because of the Cree tradition of migration that they come to the reserve in the autumn to poach.

Otherwise, according to Montana's agreement with the Cree people, they have the right to hunt poachers who enter the reserve, and the prey in the reserve is strictly the property of the Cree people.

"It's true, only the Kree will smear their foreheads with bird droppings, and no one dares to joke about this."

"Let's go, let's take a look."

Glass called Lin Yao and hurried towards Henry's tent.

Henry Edward, the big boss in the camp, their employer, the owner of Henry's Fur Company, a minor nobleman from France.

He was not very old, he looked to be only twenty-six or seventeen years old, and he wore an aristocratic trench coat with a stand-up collar, a red jacket underneath, and a gold watch hanging from his chest.

Unlike the usual polite and personable appearance, Henry looked flustered today.

Seeing Glass enter, he immediately spoke: "Glass, we may be targeted by the Cree, and the patrol told me that they saw the Cree scouts. ”

"From what I know of the Cree, they shouldn't be patrolling the Northern Territories at this point in time, unless something happens." Glass thought for a moment and replied, "Mr. Henry, prepare to transfer immediately, no matter what the purpose of the Cree is, we must be careful that they will come to attack the camp." ”

In the reserve, the Cree are the bosses.

They may not have advanced weapons and a commendable civilization, but their strength is not comparable to that of hunting camps.

According to Glass, there were more than 6,000 Kree people, and because of their racial habits, more than half of them were warriors.

At any time, they could pull up an army of more than two thousand, armed with muskets, bows and arrows, horses, spears, whenever they wanted.

Such an army may not be a threat to the Union, nor to the garrison in Montana.

But put it down below, the individual counties are not their opponents at all.

The dozens of guns in the camp, the old guns, and the dozens of people, are not enough for one person to spit at the mouthful.

"The transfer is easy to handle, I have ordered Taylor to prepare, but I am worried that they are not for our skin, this kind of thing has not happened."

Henry knew the importance of the transfer, but he was more afraid that the Kree were for plunder.

Glass frowned, the Cree are also intelligent species, not savages, and they will even negotiate with the Montana legislature in exchange for a reserve for their own survival on the grounds that they will not disturb the town.

Now, the Kree don't show up sooner or later, but when they've hunted enough prey, it's really hard to say what the purpose is.

The preciousness of fur does not need to be repeated.

In other quarters, Montana merchants come to exchange furs with the Cree people.

If these Cree people who appeared came for the fur on their hands, they would probably have moved to camp immediately, and they would have been hunted down by the Cree people.

"The last time the Cree hunted down poachers was six years ago, when their tribe contracted the plague and needed enough money to buy medicine."

"For money, they killed two waves of poachers, stole their skins and exchanged medicine with the merchants outside."

"This shows that in the absence of a special reason, even if they know that someone is poaching, as long as the number does not disturb them, the Cree will not take the initiative to hunt poachers, because they know very well that poachers are also white, and the situation of the Indians is not good now, and they must learn to refrain and not make trouble for themselves."

"I think it may be that we have hunted too much prey this time, which has aroused their disgust, and sending scouts is to make us retreat, and it will not necessarily do anything to us."

Glass was a little underconfident, not so much explaining as comforting Henry.

When Henry heard this, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, and as if he had told the Indians, he said aloud: "After I go back this time, I will not come again for three years, no, for ten years." ”

Glass shrugged his shoulders and replied, "If nothing else, I'm going to go back and pack my things, Hawk's legs aren't neat yet, I'll have to get him a stretcher." ”

Henry waved his hand: "Let's go, let's pack our things and leave, we won't be delayed for too long." ”

Glass nodded to Lin Yao, and the two left Henry's tent.

Standing outside, Glass didn't wait for Lin Yao to speak, and said bluntly: "The Kree are action-oriented, the scouts have appeared, their attack is not far away, hurry up and go back and prepare." ”

"How's their strength?" Lin Yao asked rhetorically.

"It's strong," Glass said, gesturing around, "This land wasn't given to them by the state of Montana, it was the Cree who used three thousand lives to force the state legislature to give them a piece of land." ”

Lin Yao nodded: "I understand." ”