Chapter Seventy-Three: First Hearing

Pei Chu walked out of the broken rock, watching the dozen cowboys in front of him rounding up a Negro, and he was still a little curious.

From the words of several people, it seems that this Negro is a slave, which makes him curious about the system of the Union again.

The number of Negros in the port of Gold Mountain is not large, and although the status is not high, there are still a few Negro blacks employed as escorts in some shipping companies.

Of course, that's not all, he'd also heard that some people in the market town still had Negro slaves at home, like the black witch Media who appeared in the field of the previous night's battle, and his identity was hard work.

Later, someone found a large number of corpses from the manor of the original owner of Media, but after that battle, after Medea was slapped out by the eunuch Yu Liangfu of Ouchi, he had disappeared and no one was found.

"I'm here for this Madian!"

More than a dozen horses kept neighing, and one of them saw Pei Chu's cowboy for the first time and barked excitedly.

According to the rules set by their leaders, the money for the sale of the slaves demanded by the purchasers was divided equally among the people, but the one who succeeded in the capture was to take an extra share.

"The Madians?"

Pei Chu didn't feel too surprised to hear these cowboys call himself that.

The Xia people and the Madi people are somewhat similar in appearance, especially Pei Chu's hair is now unkempt, his clothes are ragged, his bare skin is tanned red and black, and he sleeps in the open for a month, except for the lack of common patterns on his face and body, in the eyes of these white people, there is basically no difference.

"Yo he!"

The cowboy on the horse took out a long rope from the saddle while driving the galloping horse, and danced the rope twice in the air in the high-speed running, and the ring at the front of the rope was suddenly thrown and came towards Pei Chu.

If Pei Chu was caught this time, with the strength of the horse galloping, he would definitely be tied up and dragged directly for a distance.

Pei Chu's brows furrowed, at the moment when the ring was about to hit him, his right hand copied, he grabbed the rope of the ring in his hand, and with a fierce force, he directly pulled down the cowboy who was grabbing the other end of the rope immediately, and hit the ground fiercely, and the galloping horse was suddenly frightened at this moment, passed directly past Pei Chu, turned his head and ran out into the distance.

"Damn it!"

"It's hard stubble!"

"Kill him!"

The other cowboys were furious when they saw their companions being pulled off their horses, and they took their weapons from their waists, regardless of the fact that one more Madi slave could be sold for money.

Bang Bang –

A flurry of gunfire rang out.

Pei Chu's eyes were quick, and the moment these people took out their weapons, the mysterious airflow in his body instantly surged rapidly, his five senses and strength were enhanced at the same time, and his body was like a fierce tiger pounced on left and right, dodging the bullets fired at him again and again.

His current martial arts cultivation already has the strength of about five martial arts, and he can't resist bullets face-to-face, but it is more than enough to react and dodge faster than the person who shoots.

In the crackling gunshots, pits appeared on the ground, and smoke and dust flew up.

After Pei Chu jumped to the side of a cowboy in a few steps, he dragged the other party to the ground with a stretch and a pull, and at the same time blocked by the view of the horses and the rest of the people, his body flashed like a ghost, often between a fist and a palm, the cowboys on the horse were knocked to the ground by him, either with a broken neck or a depression in the chest.

In this more than a month of solitary travel in the wilderness, he not only made great progress in martial arts, but also became more determined in his heart and thoughts. These men came up to arrest him and then shoot him, and he showed no mercy.

"Retreat!"

"Get out of the way!"

After Pei Chu wandered among the many cowboys and solved seven or eight people one after another, the remaining people finally reacted, no longer looking left and right with guns, but pulled up the reins and desperately urged the horses to escape.

But at this time, how could Pei Chu do what they wanted, his instantaneous speed exploded a few points faster than the horses, and almost in the blink of an eye, he solved the few cowboys who wanted to escape again.

From beginning to end, although these cowboys were armed with guns, except for the first few bullets that were threatening, Pei Chu surrounded them in the back, and everyone was completely a lamb to the slaughter.

After solving more than a dozen cowboys in the blink of an eye, Pei Chu did not relax his vigilance, and looked at the farther position, where a horse rolled up a burst of flying sand, but it was seventy or eighty meters away from him, suddenly stopped, turned his head and ran back.

Pei Chu didn't chase it, with his footsteps, he was able to catch up with the speed of the horse's start in an instant, but such a distance still couldn't catch up. Unless it is to ask God to let Li Xuanxiao's divine thoughts into his body, but in the face of two ordinary people, even if it is only a faint trace of divine thoughts, it is too high to look up to them.

After watching the two cowboys move away, Pei Chu turned his head, first grabbed a few horses next to him that had lost their owners, and found a few kettles and some black jerky and dry dough from his bag.

He has been living in the wilderness for a month, and he is short of materials, if it weren't for the experience of living as a low-level laborer for a period of time, and his martial arts cultivation has been a little successful, I am afraid that he may not be able to survive many times.

"Thank you, mighty Madi brother, for saving my life!"

While Pei Chu was searching for the trophies on a few horses that had not run far, the Negro people who were not far from him and whose necks were covered by a lasso stood up with difficulty, looking at Pei Chu with fear in his eyes, but still bowed down to Pei Chu to thank him.

"I am not a Mardi...... Forget it......" Pei Chu threw the kettle and a piece of dried meat he found towards the Negro man, and he didn't bother to defend himself, and then asked, "What's your name?" Are you a slave? ”

"William, William Johnson!" The black man hurriedly caught the kettle, but the jerky fell to the ground, and he didn't care, and hurriedly picked it up, "I'm a slave, no, I'm not a slave." I'm not, if I'm a free slave now. ”

"And what about these people who captured you, what are their origins?" Pei Chu didn't care about the other party's slave status, but pointed to the dead cowboy corpse on the ground.

William Johnson seemed to sense that Pei Chu did not have any malicious intentions, his expression gradually relaxed, he bit hard, and said vaguely: "They are slave catchers, and they capture fugitive slaves for the lord of the manor and get paid." They may not be either, though, and I know that some people serve a chamber of commerce that buys us Negros and ...... every year and you Madians. ”

When he said this, William Johnson seemed to be a little excited and a little frightened, "I know that the Chamber of Commerce, many of my brothers and sisters were bought by them, and there has been no news of them since. There were fewer and fewer slaves on the estate, and I had to escape. ”

Pei Chu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, "You mean they're all dead?" ”

"No, not death." William Johnson's hand stopped completely, his pupils dilated, and he seemed to fall into a great fear of memory, "It's something more terrifying than death." ”

Pei Chu looked at the other party's expression, and did not continue to ask, but asked another thing, "How did you, a slave, know the federal law?" ”

William Johnson picked up the kettle and poured his saliva, wiped his mouth, seemed to be slightly detached from his emotions, grinning and showing a mouthful of white teeth, "I have a friend who once taught me some laws, and I escaped to find him." ”

"Where?"

"Springfield."