When Chen Jianqiu got dressed and appeared at the gate of the house in a hurry, there was a mess outside.

It was overcast.

Several white wooden fences were broken, and the barrels piled up next to the house were made several holes by stray bullets, and the liquid in them soaked the ground, and the flower pots fell to the ground, scattering wood slag and fragments.

The cowboys who have not been opened in their bodies are rescuing the wounded; Several bodies lay on the edge of the fence, unheeded.

Uncle James snatched the gun from Emily's hand, looked at the daughter in front of him, his expression was complicated, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Uh, what's going on?" As soon as Chen Jianqiu walked out of the door, he saw the father and daughter who were speechless.

He couldn't bother with the affairs of other people's father and daughter, so he had to go to the other side to see the injured cowboy.

He took out a chewing cigarette case from his bag and handed it to Howard, who was treating the wounded man's wounds.

This is Teresa and Geronimo's quenched hemostatic ointment, they put some herbs that can stop bleeding, put them in a grinding dish, mash them into a paste, and then put them in a clean chewing tobacco box.

Although this kind of thing is mediocre, can only be used on smaller wounds, and does not last long, it is better than nothing now than watching these people bleed to death.

James was still staring at his daughter, but his daughter didn't want to spend any more time with him.

"The people who were Fred just now are the same people who robbed you yesterday."

She walked up to Chen Jianqiu's side and pointed to a corpse on the ground with a flowered head and an unrecognizable face.

The owner of this corpse was Fred's dog leg who was killed by Chen Jianqiu, and the scene was terrible at this time.

“Yue！” Chen Jianqiu ran to the side, holding on to the corner of the wall and retching.

Emily looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

How could this poor honest boy have seen such a tragic picture for the first time, and how could he have thought of coming to such a dirty, disorderly, and barbaric place in the West?

"Daddy!" Emily looked at Daddy James.

The goatee father was also a little angry at this time, he walked to Chen Jianqiu's side, patted him on the shoulder, and took out a clean square towel from his pocket and gave it to him.

"It's cruel." Chen Jianqiu took the square towel and wiped the corners of his empty mouth.

"Kid, you're going to get used to it." Daddy James sighed, "That's how it is in the West, maybe you're still alive today, and the next day the corpse will appear in the wilderness and be dragged away by the wolf." ”

He glanced at Chen Jianqiu:

"Son, in this way, I will arrange two horses and a car for you today, you can leave quickly."

Daddy James walked over to the injured cowboy: "Fred's men will come tomorrow, and then it won't be as simple as a dozen people." ”

"They won't stop until they take the ranch."

"What about you?" Chen Jianqiu frowned.

Originally, he just wanted to be low-key to match his status as a gold digger so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

He has seen too many of these grievances and hatreds in the west, and he doesn't want to care about them, and he can't manage them.

But Daddy James arranged a car for him to take him away, which he didn't expect.

"James, call the police, there's no way we can fight Fred!"

Mrs. James held in her hand a bloodstained shirt that had been taken off from a wounded cowboy.

The wounded cowboy was dying, and the lady's hands were covered in red blood, and she was on the verge of collapse, tears welling up in her eyes.

"No, Mom, have you forgotten how Billy died? Fred had Lincolnshire people to back him up, and the sheriffs were complicit with him, and it was useless to call the police, Mom. ”

Emily, who is much stronger than her mother, picks up the gun that fell to the ground again

The girl began to check her gun.

The gun was left to her by her brother.

She took the gun and looked into the distance, at the junction of heaven and earth, where the grass stretched and swayed in the wind.

A girl in a skirt ran wildly, followed by two older boys.

"Emily, don't run away, if you drop your clothes again, Dad will scold." The boy in the overalls shouted at the girl, looking doting.

"You dare to teach her to shoot, and you're afraid that Uncle James will blame you?" Another young man in a blue cowboy hat walked up to him and said to him.

The boy in the overalls smiled, his hands folded around his waist, just like his father did.

The two men watched silently as the girl ran in the wind on the grass, like a nimble pronghorn.

"Billy, I heard that Crook's cavalry regiment is recruiting, and the county magistrate recommended you, when are you leaving?" The young man in the blue cowboy hat asked suddenly.

Billy was stunned for a moment, then bent down to pick up a small clod of dirt on the ground and threw it into the distance.

"I'm not going." He smiled and said, "I have to help my father, the ranch is too busy to get out." ”

"That's a shame, your marksmanship is the best among the young people in the county." The boy sighed.

"What about you? Paylor? Billy suddenly asked, "When are you leaving?" ”

"How do you know I'm going too?" The boy named Pyler was stunned, he couldn't remember when he had told his best friend the news.

He had planned to surprise Billy on the day of his departure, with his bags on his back and riding a horse around the west in the army.

"Emily told me." Billy smiled mysteriously at Pealer, as if he had punctured some of his secrets.

Paylor was trying to defend something, but was interrupted by Emily's voice in front of him.

The girl turned her head, gently brushed away the hair that had been blown by the wind on her face, and shouted at them, "Brother! Pyler! What are you doing? Come along, there's a hill ahead, let's practice our guns there, okay! ”

With that, he lifted his skirt again and ran forward quickly.

The two boys stopped communicating with each other, and they hurried to follow, fearing that the girl would fall and get hurt.

……

It was getting darker, and dark clouds began to appear in the sky that were not common in New Mexico.

Emily recovered from her memories as she bit her lip and clenched the gun in her hand.

"I won't be afraid of them, when my brother was here, they didn't dare to set foot in this ranch, and now that he's dead, I'm still here!"

For the first time, James the Goatee reacquainted himself with his daughter, and he suddenly realized that his daughter had grown up and was no longer the little girl who followed his brother every day.

But he shook his head anyway:

"Emily, you and your mother go back to the house to pack up your things, and I'll ask Uncle Howard to take you away later, and you go to your grandfather's place to hide first."

Daddy James waved at Howard, motioning for him to come to his side and explain something to him.

The two turned their backs to the direction of everyone, and Chen Jianqiu knew that nine times out of ten, he was explaining what was going on.

However, the loyal cowboy seems to have a disagreement with his employer, and the two argue.

"I should stay with you."

"No, you are my old buddy, the person I trust the most, I need you to protect my wife and children, it is more important to me." Daddy James was insistent.

He pointed to the injured cowboys: "You take them with you." ”

Then, he said to the other cowboys: "If you want to go, you can bring it up now, I don't force it." ”

The cowboys looked at each other, knowing that this could be a must-lose battle, and that they would be here if they didn't know what to do.

A few men spread their hands at James and walked to their horses, which they mounted and prepared to leave:

"Sorry, James, Fred has too many people, we still have to feed our families, and we don't want to die because of this. Only, good luck. ”

Instead of stopping them, James waved goodbye to them.

Soon, there were only five or six cowboys left around him, all of them about James' age, old bachelors, who had followed James a long time ago, and now planned to die with him.

Chen Jianqiu stayed where he was and didn't move.

James turned around, saw the Chinese, and remembered his promise.

He said to a cowboy beside him, "Go find two pack horses and put a flatbed cart on this gentleman." ”

The cowboy nodded and left, but Chen Jianqiu did not leave.

"Anything else? Mr? James asked curiously.

"Why don't you evacuate with us?"

The middle-aged man is as stubborn as his goatee: "This is where I grew up, it's all I have, and I'll do my best to protect it"

"Okay, I see." Chen Jianqiu turned around and walked towards the warehouse.

After a while, Chen Jianqiu's carriage had been loaded, and the old cowboy was very careful to cover the back of the carriage with a layer of canvas to protect it from the rain.

Chen Jianqiu sat in the driver's seat of the carriage, holding the reins, he raised his head and saw Daddy James at the door, and just wanted to say something.

Daddy James waved his hand at him: "Sir, I wish you a smooth journey." ”

Suddenly, Emily appears at the door of the warehouse, followed by Howard.

"James, Emily doesn't want to go." Howard said helplessly.

"Listen to Daddy, hurry up and leave with Uncle Howard, you are my only child!" James said he was going to pull his daughter.

Emily dodged.

"Let Uncle Howard escort Mommy. I said, I'm going to stay and fight side by side with you, Dad. "Emily is categorical.

It seems that both father and daughter are bull tempers, not a family, and do not enter a family.

James wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Chen Jianqiu.

"It seems that none of us can leave for the time being, so look outside."

Outside, it was completely dark, and the wind was strong, making the flags on the pasture rattle.

The dark clouds on the horizon were rolling on top of each other.

Beneath the dark clouds, dozens of horses appeared, as well as heavily armed cowboys on horseback.

The storm is coming.

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