Chapter Eighty-Six: Another Version of the Pitkin Affair
The next day, outside of Pitkin County, at Sheriff Danny's house.
It was a bit cramped in the cottage.
The Dannies gave up their beds to the wounded and intellectuals, and Sean and Holmes spent the night "snuggling" in a large bed;
And they themselves slept in their son's room,
Danny's son, on the day he turned 18, left Pitkin to find his own world outside of Colorado.
But one day three years ago, the cowboys who had gone out with him returned to Pitkin, bringing back news of his son's disappearance in New Mexico.
The Dani couple had always believed that their son would return, so the room remained the same as when their son left.
"What's next for you?" Chen Jianqiu leaned against the door of the room and asked Danny.
Danny put down the frame with his son's photo embedded in his hand: "I don't know. ”
"Pitkin is safe now, but it's so much movement here, and so many people have died, it's hard to say in two days." Chen Jianqiu didn't say it explicitly, but Pitkin is basically a mess now, and no one is sure what will happen later.
"What about you?" Teresa, who was tidying up her clothes by the bedside, asked.
"We're going south to New Mexico to find a treasure left behind by the Aztecs." Chen Jianqiu was very honest and unreserved, "Are you interested in joining us?" ”
Danny was lost in thought, but Teresa replied for her husband, "No problem." ”
"I'm going to find my son." The blunt woman said simply, "I'm fed up with this quiet but powerless life. ”
"Yes, we are looking for treasure and finding out about your son." Chen Jianqiu nodded, turned around and walked out of the room.
Adam was lying on a chair in the living room, his hat had fallen to the floor, and a bottle of wine had fallen from his hand, and he looked like he had drunk too much.
Chen Jianqiu picked up his hat from the ground and put it on his face.
He walked out of the house and into the warehouse next to him.
A lantern hung on the pillar of the warehouse, and Asuka, Hanif, and Downey counted the loot.
"A dozen or so Chuntian, and some revolvers, as many explosives and bullets as we can take, all of them were brought out on Sean's horse." Asuka pointed to the things placed on the ground, and then he took out another bag and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.
Chen Jianqiu took it in his hand and weighed it, it was quite heavy, he opened it and saw that there were seven or eight gold bars in it, and a large stack of dollars.
It turned out that the injured Sean was not idle, and he found Clark's safe behind the wooden platform while the others were carrying ammunition.
In the matter of finding the loot, Sean exerted his subjective initiative, and with his high professionalism and thirst for money, he took 8 seconds to open the safe with an injury to his right arm.
At that time, there was no Guinness World Record, otherwise Chen Jianqiu would have to apply for one for Sean.
Chen Jianqiu took out the stack of dollars and counted them.
Two thousand dollars is a huge amount of money, plus those gold bars, I don't know if it's all of Clark's belongings.
Hanif looked straight at the sidelines.
He came up: "Chen, do you still accept people from your team?" ”
As for making money, Hanif thought very clearly, work is just to support his family, and if he doesn't make money as a bounty hunter, then he doesn't do it.
People go to high places, water flows to low places, it is better to mix with the person in front of you, maybe you can embark on a broad road to make a fortune.
"We don't accept unlucky ......" Chen Jianqiu didn't raise his eyelids, he originally wanted to say "unlucky", but after thinking about it, he changed to a more euphemistic expression, "We don't accept unlucky people." ”
He looked up and looked at Donnie again, "We don't accept child labor either. ”
Hanif was about to argue, saying that his bad luck had only started recently, and that he was a well-known bounty hunter himself.
But Chen Jianqiu interrupted him.
"But you can be our supernumerary." Chen Jinqiu's words changed sharply, and a meaningful smile appeared on his face, "You continue to be your bounty hunter and follow us around. Of course, you can also ask us for help, and I will choose whether to help you or not. ”
"Supernumeraries?" Hanif was confused.
"Yes, there is an opportunity to make money, I will take you, I have only one request, no matter who asks, don't say anything about the relationship between you and us." Chen Jianqiu took some from the stack of dollars and handed them to Hanif, "Take it, go back and redeem the hat and carriage." ”
Hanif was immediately grateful, and during this time, he finally saw the money back.
"No problem, brother, I will prove to you that I am a trustworthy person." He swore by it.
The next few days were surprisingly calm in Pitkinshire.
The night at the hotel didn't cause much of a stir, people just thought that the two forces were at war again, and they didn't know what the outcome was.
It's just that since that night, Pitkin hasn't seen Clark Rackfield and Fred Phelps again.
The cowboys who worked on Rackfield Farm couldn't say why, except that they met a devil who could control the trajectory of bullets and fly on rooftops that night.
Only the innkeeper and the policemen who dropped their guns knew what was going on, and the policemen kept silent, and the hapless innkeeper visited the magistrate's mansion several times to ask for the cost of repairing the hotel.
As a result, the county magistrate naturally closed the door, claiming that he had a bad cold.
Eventually, Sergeant Danny knocked on the county commissioner's door, followed by several people and walked into the county commissioner's house.
We don't know exactly what they talked about, but the next day, the county magistrate's cold miraculously cured, and for the first time in addition to the holiday celebrations, he appeared.
He announced the following:
First: The Rackfield Gang and the Phelps family caught fire, and the bandit leader Clark, together with Mountie Captain Fultz, killed Fred Phelps and plundered the Phelps family's wealth.
Second: County Sheriff Danny Romney and his righteous friends go to investigate the truth, but they are attacked by two gangs who viciously surround the sheriff in the hotel. But God just favored him, and the sheriff and his friends were fine.
Third: Clerk and Fultz fought a fire at Rackfield Farm due to an uneven distribution of spoils, and both ended up losing out. Clarke, the leader of the bandits, and Fultz, the leader of the depraved Mounties, were both shot to death.
Fourth: The two worst forces are gone, and he will appeal to the state government about what Fultz has done, and justice will be given to the innkeeper who has been damaged, until then, the cost of repairing the hotel will be paid by the county.
Fifth: Sheriff Danny resigned as Sheriff of Pitkin County for personal reasons, and we will always remember what he and his courageous friends did for Pitkin County.
After announcing this, the county magistrate hurriedly stepped off the stage and went into the house.
"Boss, why do I think he seems to be telling the truth?"
Behind the crowd, Sean, who had a bandage on his arm, withdrew his head and asked Chen Jianqiu, who was about to leave.
"What is true, this is obviously true." Chen Jianqiu "inadvertently" touched the black man's hand, and the black man screamed in pain.
He wrote this manuscript.
The fires at Rackfield Farm and Phelps Manor burned the two places to rubble, and the surrounding residents did not dare to approach them.
He asked Danny to buy a carriage, go around the two ruins, pick up a lot of good things, and then stop by to see the county magistrate's speech and "accept" the fruits of his labor yesterday.
"Let's go, let's go back."
(End of chapter)