Damian Gutierrez was very happy at this time.

He was sitting with his future in-law, Arturo Priego, another large owner of Juárez's estate, drinking mezcal wine in the "hanging garden" of the Priego estate.

They discussed topics including, but not limited to, the future cooperation between the two families, and the division of power in Ciudad Juarez.

"Mr. Gutierrez, I will treat Ariana like my own daughter, don't worry."

When it came to talking, Arturo Priego's old face turned red with excitement and alcohol, and he swore to Gutierrez to express his sincerity.

Gutierrez was very satisfied.

Of course he knew what old Priego was thinking.

However, as long as he is still firmly seated in the position of Archon Juarez, the Gutierrez family can firmly hold the head of Priego.

As for what will happen a hundred years later.

His daughter is by no means a good kind, and with Ricardo's pus-like appearance, it is not certain who will eat whom.

The cunning archon drank wine and a smile appeared on his face.

His gaze swept downstairs, and he suddenly saw Perez, the butler, standing in the corner of the courtyard wall, glaring at him.

"Excuse me." Gutierrez put down his glass, stood up, and greeted old Priego.

He walked down from the second floor and waved to Perez in the corner.

"What's wrong?" Gutierrez whispered to the butler who came to him.

Perez looked left and right, and after making sure no one else was approaching, he pulled out a piece of letter from inside his clothes and handed it to Gutierrez's hand.

"Found on a crocodile gang." He said in the same low voice.

Gutierrez opened the letter and hurriedly swept it over, but his brow was furrowing and tightening.

"Looks like Sergio and the crocodile gang got together." Perez had already read the letter in advance, "Thiago intends to kidnap the eldest lady. ”

"Sergio's younger brother has abducted the eldest lady before, and I guess it is very likely that Sergio is responsible for this."

Perez continued his reasoning, but in general, his reasoning was based on brain supplementation.

"That wolf-ambitious guy can't help it. He knew he had no chance of winning against us, so he was going to use such a despicable approach. Perez stared at his master.

Gutierrez looked at the letter and thought.

Judging from the words of the letter, he was more convinced that it was the flattering behavior of Thiago, a pretentious fellow.

"So, who killed Thiago?" He found a problem.

"It doesn't matter, my master, it may be that the crocodiles are fighting among themselves, I heard that a few days ago, at a meeting, there was a fire inside them, and several of the leaders died." Perez combines the most up-to-date information.

"I think, just let Alvarez find an opportunity to clean up the Crocodile Gang, and warn Sergio by the way."

"No, two days will be my daughter's big day, and I don't want Juarez to be restless at this time."

Gutierrez put the letter in his pocket and gave orders to Perez at the same time.

"In the past two days, I have sent someone to watch over the eldest lady, and I can't make any mistakes, as for Sergio and the crocodile gang, when the marriage is over, I will clean them up."

Then he turned around and walked back up the stairs to the second floor.

"Mr. Gutierrez, there's nothing wrong with that, is it?" Old Prego asked, seeing that the archon had returned.

"Oh, there may be a big man coming on the wedding day, and I asked the housekeeper to arrange it." The smile on Gutierrez's face remained.

"Drink! Drink! ”

……

In Ciudad Juarez, a young girl hurries through the crowd.

In Mexico, when the sun is fierce, women often cover their heads with long scarves called "rebozo", but few cover their faces.

But the girl managed to cover her face with a scarf.

She didn't want others to recognize her identity.

The young girl walked a few blocks to the camp of the Country Rangers.

She hid around the corner opposite the camp gate, looked around, and after making sure there were no suspicious people, she walked quickly to the soldiers on duty at the camp gate.

"I'm looking for Salvador Romero." The girl's voice came from under the scarf.

The soldier looked at the woman in front of him suspiciously.

Seeing that the soldier did not believe him, the girl took a letter from her waist and handed it to him: "Please take the trouble to give him this letter." ”

The soldier took the letter suspiciously and looked at the words on the envelope.

It's really for the little master.

But when he raised his head again, he found that the girl just now was gone.

The soldiers shouted at the inside of the camp: "Here's a change of guard!" I'm going to send something to the little master! ”

When he took the letter and came to Romero's room, the infatuated man was lying on his bed staring at the ceiling in a daze.

His sweetheart is getting married, and the groom is not him.

It made him feel like he couldn't breathe.

Romero lay there unloved, as if in a coffin.

"Little master, someone sent you a letter." The soldier stepped through the door and said.

Romero was unresponsive, still in a daze, his brain now in a state of standby.

Seeing this, the soldier had no choice but to continue to report:

"Well, the person who sent the letter seems to be a girl, she ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, the half-dead man on the bed suddenly rose from the bed with a carp, startling the soldier.

"Where is she now?"

Romero grabbed the soldier's shoulders with both hands and shook it, his eyes a little crazy.

"Well, she's gone." The soldier was nervous and quickly replied.

The fire in Romero's eyes went out for a second, then rekindled.

The soldier was still shaken:

"What does she look like? Do you have a name for who you are? What are the features on the face. ”

She covered her face.

"How tall is she?"

Although he didn't know what happened to his little young master, the soldier didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly compared the woman's height to him.

Romero paced quickly back and forth in the room, but jumped up after a few steps, and said to himself:

"It's Amanda, it must be her."

The soldier was dumbfounded.

Can this also be guessed?

"What about faith? What about faith? Give me the letter! Romero reached straight into the soldier's pocket.

The soldier was afraid that he was really going to touch it, so he quickly took the letter out of his pocket and handed it to him.

Romero took the letter with trembling hands, opened it tremblingly, and began to read it.

"It's her! It's her! She finally wrote me back! The young man trembled with excitement.

He read the letters, laughing wildly with the letter, hiding his face with tears in his eyes, and sitting on the edge of the bed with a sigh.

The soldier stood from the sidelines and watched all this.

He felt that his little master was really crazy.

"Oh, my Ariana, my dear Ariana, why are you punishing me like this! I hate my incompetence! I hate it! ”

Romero began to hammer the table frantically, then hugged the legs and cried.

The soldier hesitated, thinking whether to go up and persuade him, or drag him away from the table, or go directly to report to his brother, Sergio.

Suddenly, Romero got up from the ground, he ran to the soldier and stared straight at the soldier:

"Rope, is there a rope?"

The soldier was furious by him, wondering if his little master was going to hang himself.

"Rope! Thick rope with thick forearms! Romero stressed again.

Only then did the soldier react, and he hurried out.

After a while, he returned, carrying a bundle of hemp rope on his shoulder.

Romero snatched the rope from his shoulder and rushed out the door, muttering:

"Ariana needs me to save her!"

"Ariana, you wait for me, I'm coming!"

He carried himself to his horse, threw the rope onto the horse, then turned on his horse and whipped away in the direction of Gutierrez's mansion.

The camp of the Village Cavalry Patrol, not far from Gutierrez's mansion.

After a while, Romero was under the wall of the back garden.

The adobe wall in the back garden was not very high, and Romero stepped on horseback and climbed onto the wall.

He bent down and carried the bundle of rope from the horse's back to the wall.

He rode against the wall, but his form froze.

Because through the open window on the second floor, Romero saw his longing sweetheart, and his sweetheart was also looking at him through the window at this time.

Romero waved his hand in the direction of the window and said on his lips:

Wait, I've got the rope, I'll come and save you!

And Ariana, who was lying on the window, was also looking at him with affection.

Just as the pair of mandarin ducks looked at each other affectionately, a voice came from outside the wall:

"Boy, do you really dare to come?"

Romero looked back and saw that Alvarez, the leader of the consul's private forces, with several soldiers, was standing not far from him, watching him.

And the soldiers, with guns in their hands, were also facing him.

Romero was about to open his mouth to say something, but Alvarez picked up a rock from the ground and smashed it.

The stone struck the young man in the head.

Romero fell headlong off the wall.

The girl on the second floor let out a terrible scream.

Álvarez patted the dust off his hands, looked at Romero, who had fainted on the ground with disdain, and said to the soldiers behind him:

"Tie it up for me, wait for the lord to fall!"

(End of chapter)