Chapter 325: The Origin of the Red Light District
Wyatt, Holiday , Sean and Hanif got on the bus in Las Vegas.
However, they didn't all rush to the first-class box to see Chen Jianqiu, first, for fear of arousing unnecessary suspicion from those Pinkerton detectives, and the first-class seat really didn't let the idlers wait.
Only Wyatt and Chen Jianqiu, who came out of the first-class seat, took a look at each other from a distant carriage, and the two tacitly returned to their respective positions.
The train continues to move.
Only a few horseback riders took a few glances from afar.
Whether these people were robbers or not, when they saw the police officers standing at the junction of each carriage with spears on their backs, they stopped their desires from being out of range.
This is also a change that Chen Jianqiu brought to the company's subordinate trains after becoming the chairman of the board of directors of Santa Fe Railway Company.
He proposed at the meeting:
Focus on transportation quality, improve service awareness, and focus on safe production.
Everyone, including the executive committee, pondered the meaning of this sentence until after the meeting.
"It's just to send more police officers on the train and buy more guns! You fools! Eventually, Sean, who was listening, woke them up.
So, the Santa Fe Railroad Company bought a large number of new guns and ammunition from the Roswell Gun Factory.
The once dangerous frontier train has begun the challenge of a safe accident-free section.
The train quickly crossed the state border, from New Mexico into Colorado and from Colorado into Kansas.
The scenery outside the window has also changed from a desert to a mountainous area, and then to an endless high plain.
Finally, the train stopped at Dodge.
Before the Pacific Railroad ran through the east and west coasts of the United States, it was the terminus of the Eastern Railroad, and now, it is an important transportation hub.
Chen Jianqiu and Camilla walked down the train with suitcases.
On the other side of the platform, he saw a large wave of cows being driven into the train carriage by cowboys.
Cattle from the surrounding cattle producing areas, such as Texas, are mostly loaded here and shipped to various parts of the East. 、
Cowboys have to travel long distances to get here with the cattle of their hired ranchers.
That's why it's also known as the "City of Cowboys".
"Let's find a place to live, and I'll let you know if there's any action." White and Pinkerton's detectives appeared behind Chen Jianqiu.
These people are putting their revolvers back on their own.
"Okay." Chen Jianqiu just agreed, and then watched the detectives leave.
"How's it going, Chen, did you get any useful information?" Wyatt also stepped off the train.
"The people at Pinkerton were really suspicious of me." Chen Jianqiu looked at the backs of the detectives and said meaningfully, "These fools have been trying to trick me. ”
"So what do we do next? Do you continue to follow, or do you go to Jesse James yourself? Wyatt asked.
"Follow!" Chen Jianqiu touched his chin, "I'm quite interested in that detective named White." ”
Chen Jianqiu turned his head, glanced at White, and found that he was the only one standing here, so he asked:
"Sean, what about them?"
"They're going to fetch the horses."
"I remember you were the acting sheriff of Dodge City, right?" Chen Jianqiu suddenly remembered.
A smile tugged at the corner of Wyatt's mouth.
He pointed to the railroad tracks in front of him and introduced to Chen Jianqiu and Camilla:
"Yes, then on behalf of the 'hospitable' people of Dodge City, I will introduce you to this 'Sin City'."
"The railroad divides the whole of Dodge City into two parts, bounded by the railroad, with residential areas for residents on one side and salons, taverns, and chicken yards on the other."
Chen Jianqiu looked in the direction pointed by Wyatt and found that there was indeed a qualitative difference in the flow of people on both sides of the railway.
There were still people on the train going down.
This is the last depot under the jurisdiction of the Santa Fe Railroad, and the employees of the railroad company are getting off one after another.
They were going to stay here for the night, wait for the train from the east to arrive, and then get on the train and head back to New Mexico.
"Ah, Mr. Chen, are you visiting Dodge for the first time? Do you want to be happy with us? Captain Eaton's head reappeared at the door.
He saw Camilla beside Chen Jianqiu, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Chen, I forgot, there is a beautiful lady by your side." ”
Chen Jianqiu took Camilla's hand and nodded at Eaton with a smile.
The old conductor happily disembarked and walked along the other side of the track with his conductors.
To Chen Jianqiu's surprise, the neighborhood they walked towards was as red as a fire.
Chen Jianqiu took a closer look and found that there was a red light hanging at the door of each store.
"Chen, do you know what kind of place it is?" Wyatt asked.
Red light? Red-light district?
"Isn't it a place where women who have lost their footing are trying to change their lives through their work?" Chen Jianqiu put forward his own opinions.
"Hey, yes." Wyatt recounted the allusions to the Red Light District, "Every time the car stopped, the employees in the car would go to the brothels in the city to catch up. ”
"Considering that in case of an emergency, the railway company can find itself in time, these employees always have to hang a red light at the gate of the chicken yard that is unique to railway employees."
"In general, the more lights, the better the business."
"So later, over time, regardless of whether the railway employees came or not, the old bustard hung up the red light in front of his house early."
"So, it's a red-light district." Chen Jianqiu looked at Wyatt.
Wyatt nodded.
"Okay, then we'll stay around there tonight." Chen Jianqiu decided on the address for the night.
Wyatt glanced at Chen Jianqiu, and then at Camilla beside him, and said in his heart that his boss was really debauched.
If one is not enough, do you have to make two or three at the same time?
Chen Jianqiu saw something strange in the eyes of the former Dodge Sheriff: "Oh, I didn't mean that, I just thought that the people from the Pinkerton Detective Agency would definitely stay there at night." ”
On the train, he gave a message to these people who itched under their crotches.
"We'll have to keep an eye on them." Chen Jianqiu said.
The three of them walked towards the back car.
After meeting up with Sean and the others, they took their horses with them.
"Once you've found White and those Pinkerton detectives, Sean, you're in charge of keeping an eye on White, Hanif, and you're in charge of the other guys' movements; Wyatt and Holiday are the places you know best, wait in your room, we'll have work to do at any time. ”
Chen Jianqiu set up the task.
"Remember, report to me as soon as there is any movement."
After meeting heads, they redivided into the original two groups, one after the other, pretending not to know each other, and rode out of the train station.
Dodge City deserves to be called Wyatt's Sin City.
Compared to Tombstone Town, there are no fewer gunshots here.
The division of the railway has brought peace to the people in the residential area, but also pushed the security of the commercial area on the other side to the abyss.
Chen Jianqiu and Camilla rode side by side, shuttling between the tavern and the chicken yard.
They're looking for the hotel they're staying at tonight, and they're looking for the detectives.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out in the street.
A vigilante wearing a police badge with a shotgun rushed out of the corner of the street and shot down a cowboy.
The cowboy's face was pressed to the ground, blood was flowing from the wound behind him, and he saw that he was hopeless, and he became a real street fighter.
The policeman shot the cowboy in the back again and stomped on his back:
"Fuck, you owe me money, damn it."
Another officer wearing a police badge appeared on the opposite corner.
He wore jingling boots, two hands in his pockets, and tilted his head to look at the cowboy who was dead on the ground.
"Bull! Don't go overboard! The officer waved at the man who was stepping on the body.
"Please call me by name, my name is Steve!" The man yelled.
Chen Jianqiu now somewhat understands why Wyatt did what he did in Tombstone Town.
He just brought his style in Dodge City to Tombstone Town.
Here, there is no distinction between police and bandits.
However, Chen Jianqiu had no intention of caring about these things for the time being, and he continued to move forward.
Eventually, they find the hotel where Pinkerton's detectives are staying near a chicken house called "Pretty in Pink".
Chen Jianqiu chose a hotel diagonally opposite.
Not close and not far away in an excellent location.
From his room on the second floor, he could clearly see the entrances and exits of the hotel and the chicken yard.
After Chen Jianqiu finished eating, he sat at the window and began to wait for the detectives to "build a team".
However, when the men walked out of the hotel door, he didn't see White.
The door to Chen Jianqiu's room rang.
Sean squeezed in through the crack in the door:
"Boss, White walked through the back door and into a tavern."
(End of chapter)