002 Horse Whistle
Looking at the corpse of a white man on the ground who had been shot in the head, the horse whistle sat down with a butt - mainly because of the recoil of the shot.
In his previous life, he was a middle school teacher, and his most bloody and brutal experience was that he killed chickens in the countryside when he was a child, and he was naturally inexperienced in shooting and killing, and his body was young, and he felt a little physically and mentally exhausted after a shot.
It seems that it is better for children not to shoot guns.
Wait, kid?!
Ma Whistle was stunned, then stood up, looked left and right at this thin and young body, and then suddenly realized his current identity, and at the same time, some scattered and trivial memories kept flooding in his mind.
Rebirth?
For this bizarre encounter, there seems to be only one reasonable explanation in his cognition.
Ma Whistle combed through the memories of the past and present lives as much as possible, and finally figured out the situation.
It is true that he has died, but for some unknown reason, perhaps the intervention of some transcendent being, or perhaps an accidental natural phenomenon, he has been reborn.
According to Ma Whistle's understanding, his consciousness may be quantum fluctuations, because it happens to fluctuate like a dead horse whistle in another time and space, so it is equivalent to rebirth, or "soul wear".
All in all.
He was reborn into 19th-century America as an Apache Indian.
The name "Apache" in the name of the Apache helicopter gunship comes from this brave and warlike tribe.
Now, his biological age is ...... Nine years old.
The horse whistle took a few deep breaths to calm down.
After his rebirth, his name was still somewhat of a "horse whistle", or more precisely the "horse whistle" in the Apache language, which could be translated as a horse whistle.
The name Ma Whistle is slightly different in Chinese, but it is a good name that can be passed down from generation to generation in Indian culture.
In fact, that's what has been handed down.
The father of this body was called Ma Sentinel, a fierce Apache warrior whose name was passed down to him when he was killed in a conflict with the Arapahoe.
For this rebirth encounter, Ma Whistle did not feel any resistance, but joy.
After all, he died of illness in his twenties in his previous life, and now he suddenly regained his life, and he was only nine years old, how could he be unhappy at a lively age?
If you are a believer, you must thank God or something. But he didn't believe in gods and Buddhas, he was a materialist agnostic.
Of course, there are also bad points. For example, in the United States in the 19th century, as an Indian, the situation was definitely not good, not to mention the backwardness of the productive forces, and there were often worries about his life.
Just now, his clan suffered a massacre - the white people took advantage of the warriors of the clan to go out hunting, slaughtered most of the women and children who remained in the clan camp, and only a few escaped, which is the reason for the death of this body.
What's more, for all kinds of previous lives, Ma Whistle is inevitably nostalgic.
He misses the Internet, the hot pot, the mobile phone, and his girlfriend.
I can only wish Bingbing happiness, alas......
The horse whistle has no time to be nostalgic.
Through the cover of the dirt slope beside him, he heard a movement from the camp a few hundred meters away, and he didn't know if it was the people who had returned, or if the white people were doing something.
The people in the direction of the camp couldn't see him for the time being, and he had to find a safer place to hide just to be safe.
Before that, of course, he needed to bring his loot with him – the white man's stuff in front of him.
After a brief raid, the horse whistle found the following valuable items:
A bag of coins, including gold and silver dollars, Spanish dollars (the Spanish dollar was one of the most important currencies in circulation in the United States at this time), and some banknotes or bank bills, were quite a lot in general, but he certainly couldn't spend them for the time being;
a somewhat rudimentary pocket watch;
a blood-stained dagger;
A leather coat.
And, of course, the most practical, that breech gun, a front-loading rifled flintlock pistol, to be precise.
Although Ma Sentinel's main job in his previous life was only a middle school physics teacher, he had a lot of part-time jobs on the Internet, such as keyboard military scientist, keyboard economist, keyboard politician, keyboard physics...... Well, physics probably doesn't count as keyboards, at least in middle school.
With his knowledge, he was able to identify and recognize the model of the gun, the Kentucky Long Rifle from Missouri in 1837.
In fact, it was written on the gun, and he mainly used English knowledge.
The Kentucky rifles produced in different periods and regions are different, but the common feature is the length of the barrel, for example, the full length of this gun is much taller than the current height of the horse whistle, and it is quite inconvenient to pick it up when it is more than one meter and a half by eye.
Fortunately, the Kentucky rifle is relatively slim, and the weight is not too heavy.
The Kentucky rifle is famous, and during the American Revolution, this gun was in the limelight.
At the famous Battle of Saratoga, American sniper Moxie Murphy used this gun to shoot British General Fraser, which greatly changed the tide of the Revolutionary War.
Through the writing on the gun, the horse whistle also obtained some other information.
This gun was produced in 1837, so naturally, the current time is after 1837, and combined with the memories in the body, it seems that the Mexican-American War of 1846 has not yet been fought.
On the whole, it is now mostly the early forties of the nineteenth century.
For a more precise date of the Common Era, the horse whistle still needs to find someone to inquire to know. The old chieftain or shaman of the clan knows more about the outside world, and they should know.
In addition to these few things, there is actually one thing that is very valuable, and that is the scalp of white people.
The whites offered a bounty on the scalp of the Indians, and the Indians also saw the scalp of the white man as an important trophy that could at least bring honor. In fact, the white man's scalping was first learned from the Indians, which was a means for the Indians to remember their military exploits.
But the horse whistle can't get his hands on it, this thing is too underworld.
And he doesn't have this skill, and he may not be able to peel off the blood after ten minutes of tossing, in case it is discovered by the white people over there.
Let's run away.
The horse sentry took the trophies with him, put on the fur coat that was like an overcoat to him, and hurried out of the place.
He didn't dare to run too far, he just wanted to hide from a group of white people nearby, and wait until the warriors of the clan came back to be safe.
Compared to later generations, the United States at this time was quite wild, and the distant world was also dangerous for a nine-year-old Apache child, not only whites, but also wild beasts, and of course, Indians of hostile tribes—the Indians were far from monolithic, and the only ones who could really be relied on at the moment were their own small clans.
The sentry found a cave and hid in it for several hours, until it was getting dark, and then he went out cautiously and felt near the camp.
Not far after walking, suddenly there was a neighing of horses and an Apache shout in front of him: "Die, white man!" The Sleeping Bear Clan wants you to pay for it with blood! ”
Ma Whistle hurriedly took off his leather coat: "It's me!" ”
With a neighing sound, a young Apache man with two feathers on his head stopped nearby, his eyes were red, he had obviously just cried, and he looked at him with some disbelief: "Little whistle...... You're alive? ”