"What's wrong with them?" The horse whistle asked.

"We met bandits!" Millie started crying again, "I don't know how they're doing, Mommy told me to run." ”

This is not an uncommon thing, the wild land of the Midwest, compared with the current west, the level of crime in the United States in the future can be described as shy, and it is normal to meet a gang of bandits.

Ma Whistle thought for a moment, "Let's go over there and have a look." ”

Then he took Millie with him, and the rest of his people headed in the direction she had pointed, and soon came to a dirt slope, and with the help of the dirt slope, they carefully watched ahead.

A gang of bandits had just finished their work, and they were a dozen of them, all armed with guns and riding horses. In front of them was a carriage with all kinds of miscellaneous items piled on it, and under the cart were two corpses, a man and a woman.

The two bodies must be Millie's parents, but Millie has been asked not to show her head, so she has not seen this scene yet.

The bandits were discussing something around the female corpse, and the horse whistle could faintly hear the conversation, but he couldn't understand a word.

They don't seem to be speaking English.

"It's Mexican." Stone Crow said.

"Why?" Ma Whistle was surprised.

"Intuition." "You're still young, and the Apache people are most familiar with Mexicans." ”

Indeed, the Apache mostly lived in what is now Mexico and had more dealings with Mexicans, and the Sleeping Bear Clan originally moved from the southwest to its present location.

Apache people are more familiar with Mexicans than Americans, and certainly hate Mexicans more.

"Kill these Mexicans!" Thick Shoulders said viciously.

"I think I killed these bandits." Ma Whistle glanced at Millie, who was frightened by her thick-shouldered tone, "We're good guys. ”

"Yes, kill these bandits!"

Although there are many people on the side of the Sleeping Bear Clan, the lion fights the rabbit also needs to exert all their strength, and the fewer casualties the better, so Ma Sentry ordered some of the clansmen to detour to the sides of the bandits, and then charge at the same time.

Accompanied by his charging post, nearly a hundred Apache men killed him from three directions.

There is no suspense in the course of the battle.

The Apache side had about ninety revolvers and twenty rifles, and there were many people with many guns, and they did not speak of martial virtue.

In contrast, the dozen or so poor bandits were defenseless.

Faced with the sudden attack, the Mexican bandits, who were caught off guard, immediately went into chaos and fled backwards in a panic, but they could not escape.

In a short time, they were wiped out by a rain of revolvers.

The Apache then counted the booty and found that the bandits were quite wealthy—more than 900 Spanish silver dollars, as well as some dollars and gold, and of course, their belongings, such as guns and horses.

The Spanish dollar is one of the most popular currencies in North America, and its one is worth about the same as one dollar.

Therefore, Ma Whistle estimated that the value of the loot should be as high as two thousand dollars, which is quite substantial.

And they only paid the price of a few minor injuries for this, which is naturally a thing to be happy about.

But there were also people who fell into grief - Millie, who saw the bodies of her parents, which for a twelve-year-old child was like the sky falling.

She lay on top of her parents and wept, looking pitiful and helpless.

"What are you going to do with her?" The crow walked over to the horse whistle and asked.

Ma Whistle thought for a moment, and finally said, "I'm going to bring her back to the clan." ”

"She's white." Stone Crow reminded.

"I know, but she's still young, and she should be able to integrate with us gradually." Ma Whistle said.

But that wasn't the real reason for his decision, he actually had another consideration – he wanted to find someone to learn English.

Although a little girl's language level will not be very high, after all, she is a native speaker, and she is certainly much better than the vast majority of non-native learners, enough to be an English teacher who is a horse whistle, at least more than enough to teach spoken English.

Moreover, as an Indian, if he finds an adult American to be an English teacher, he will either not dare to feel at ease, or he will have to pay a high price.

In contrast, Millie is undoubtedly a safe choice.

After all, what bad intentions can a little girl have?

So he walked up to Millie, comforted her for a few words, and then said, "Millie, what are you going to do in the future?" ”

"I ...... I do not know. Millie sobbed blankly, her answer completely in anticipation of the Whistle.

"In that case, would you like to come to my village?" Ma Whistle didn't know what the clan should say, it could only be said to be a village.

"Where is the village?"

"To the east, we need to walk for a few days."

Millie didn't speak for a moment, but looked at the horse whistle and the other Apaches, and then hesitantly asked, "...... you guys Are you really good people? ”

"Of course." Ma Whistle smiled, "Don't you think we don't look like us?" ”

Millie was silent for a while, then finally agreed, "Okay, I'll go back to the village with you." By the way, what's your name? ”

"Hmm...... You can call me Whistle. Ma Whistle thought about it for a moment, and finally came up with a sloppy English name for himself.

For Americans, whether transliterated or paraphrased, Indian names are a bit strange and difficult to remember, and Whistle Horse doesn't know how to translate his name, Whistle To Call Horse?

As for the English name of the previous life, "Shaw Ma", it is obviously a Chinese name.

"What a strange name." Millie couldn't help but say.

"If you learn our language, you'll be able to understand my name." "Actually, it seems to me that your name is quite strange. ”

"No, Millie is a nice name, everyone says so!" Millie insisted.

"Okay." "Maybe it's because my English is so bad." ”

Millie nodded approvingly, "Indeed, but I can teach you, and you can teach me your language." ”

"Absolutely." The horse whistle smiled.

The group then simply buried Millie's parents and took their belongings with them.

The couple didn't have anything valuable, but they had a bag of wheat, which was exactly what the Sleeping Bear clan could use.

Following the planned route, the people passed through the four clans one after another, and took all their young and old to continue eastward to the Sleeping Bear Clan.

With the addition of all four clans, the number of the team reached six hundred, as well as thousands of horses, which looked quite imposing.

In addition, two more clans were joined on the way, one of whom had just lost a battle with the Rangers of the Republic of Texas and had to take refuge with others.

The other was a clan that had recently participated in the Battle of Arapaho, and when the horses passed by with a party of several hundred men, they decided to join them with their whole clan after a little discussion.

As a result, the size of the team was further expanded, reaching about 800 people and more than 2,000 horses.

So, the horse whistle who had followed the twenty people on the expedition returned to the Sleeping Bear Clan with 800 people and more than 2,000 horses.