"Death is not a sad thing, for their souls will be reunited with the Father in heaven."

"They are only parting with us temporarily, and one day, when we reach heaven, we will meet them again."

The priest's murmur drifted in the wind.

John Dutton buttoned up his cowboy hat and took one last look at the two bodies lying in the coffins of the pit, his face complicated.

As a retired veteran criminal policeman, I used to deal with corpses a lot.

But it's really the first time I've dealt with "my own" corpse.

Especially if you hit and kill "yourself" by driving your car, it will be even more exciting.

Not far away, two state troopers are asking John Dutton's second son, Jamie, some questions.

At the time of the car accident, Jamie, who was only ten years old, happened to be sitting in the passenger seat of the car, recalling the situation at the time of the car accident, and his face still had palpitations.

"My dad and I were on our way back to the ranch, and in the dark, of course, we had our headlights on."

"I swear, my eyes were on the road and it was like all of a sudden that the car appeared on the road and hit us head-on, so close that neither of us had a chance to hit the brakes, and the two cars had crashed into each other."

State Constable Ryan, who is investigating the crash, interrupted and asked:

"Can you elaborate on what happened after the crash?"

"I passed out after the crash, and then my dad woke me up and told me it wasn't safe to stay in the car and that I had to get out of the car immediately."

As he spoke, Jamie's eyes kept on Ryan, who was asking, and his tone seemed nervous.

Of course, this is also in line with the reaction of a 10-year-old boy after a tragic car accident.

"You got out of the car, and then?" Ryan continued.

"My dad and I got the two people off the opposite car, their doors had been knocked out of shape, and we had to break the glass to pull them out of the car," Jamie shrugged suddenly, "but unfortunately, they were both out of breath." ”

Ryan's companion Tom added, "When you saved someone, the other party's car was already on fire, right?" ”

Jamie nodded.

Tom was about to ask why you didn't put out the fire after you saved people, when Ryan suddenly stopped him.

Noticing the difference in the expressions of the two state officers in front of him, Jamie turned his head.

Sure enough, he saw his father, John Dutton, walking this way.

"Are you done asking?"

Before Tom could speak, Ryan replied first:

"That's it, Mr. Dutton."

John stepped forward and patted Jamie on the back.

"Let's go, you can take one last look at the two unlucky ones we saved before you are buried."

After speaking, he couldn't help but say that he took his son away from the two state police.

Behind him, Tom lowered his voice and complained:

"Ryan, there was a lot wrong with the car accident, that kid was obviously a breakthrough, why did you stop me from continuing to ask?"

"And we should stop this burial, there are a lot of suspicions about the two dead Asians, like their clothes, which I've never seen before."

Ryan turned his head and looked at his new partner with a serious expression.

"We've searched those two bodies and haven't found anything useful."

"That's why it's more suspicious, isn't it?" Tom argued, "Even if they were smuggled in from Canada and didn't have any documents on them to prove their identity, they should at least have money on them, right?" ”

The actual result was that when the state police arrived at the scene of the crash, they found nothing on the bodies of the two deceased, not even some small bits and pieces.

Ryan pouted disapprovingly.

"Maybe they left everything in the car."

"And then it was all burned down by a fire?" Tom's eyes widened, "What's even more coincidental is that Dutton and his son didn't put out the fire, and saw the whole car burned, can you believe it?" ”

Ryan turned his head to look in the direction Dutton and his son had left.

The main thing is to make sure that what you are going to say next will not be heard by the other party.

"Dutton and his son were involved in this car accident during normal driving, so they are the victims, and it is already the limit that they can save those two Asians from the car, and they are not obliged to fight the fire again, not to mention the danger when fighting the fire!"

"According to your suspicions, if the Dutton father and son really concealed something in this matter, they could have saved the two Asians at all, and wouldn't it be easier to let the two bodies be burned along with the car?"

Tom was about to retort when Ryan suddenly poked his finger in his chest and warned sharply:

"Listen! I don't care if anyone reminded you before you joined the company, any case related to the Dutton family is better to be left alone! ”

"Yellowstone Ranch has more than 3,000 square kilometers of land, the area is almost the same as Rhode Island, the Dutton family's power in Montana is so great that you can't imagine, let me tell you this, the previous governors and state attorneys, without the support of the Dutton family, they can't sit in that position!"

"I am not telling you this to make you afraid of the power of the Dutton family, but to tell you a basic truth, who is the true master of the land beneath our feet! John Dutton's words, here is the law! ”

"See that cowboy standing aside? His name is Lloyd, and he is John Dutton's man who does the dirty work for him, and the hospitality of the Yellowstone people is not just talk, and most of those who oppose the Dutton family and do not follow the rules of the Yellowstone Ranch are sent to the 'train station' by Lloyd and never returned. ”

Tom was stunned.

What train station?

"Don't get me wrong, I mean a 100-kilometre canyon that is uninhabited, and the three nearby states like to throw dead people into that canyon."

While Tom hadn't recovered from the shock of these words, Ryan continued to give his new rookie partner "Popular Science":

"If Dutton and his son really had a grudge against those two unidentified Asians, their bodies would have been thrown directly at the 'train station' after the crash instead of being buried in front of us, and even a pastor was found for the two."

"John Dutton is trying to tell us in this way, even if this car accident is suspicious, but he is not afraid of us investigating at all, so man, don't be stupid and do all that useless work, the death is just two inconsequential illegal immigrants, we just need to report this as a normal traffic accident and be done."

On the other side, John and Jamie, father and son, who were walking towards the funeral scene, were also discussing the interrogation of the state police just now.

John didn't ask Jamie what he had told the police, only that Jamie had just made two mistakes.

One is that when Jamie answers a question, he shouldn't keep staring at the police officer who is questioning, which can easily make the other party suspect that Jamie is trying to judge what he should do next from his eyes, so as to better prove the lie.

The other is Jamie's sudden shrug of his shoulders, which has actually exposed the panic in his heart, and wants to use this action to increase the persuasiveness of the lie.

Jamie didn't refute.

When he was questioned by the two policemen just now, although he tried to pretend to be very calm on the surface, he was really panicked in his heart.

The most important thing is that the father who has been a criminal police officer for more than 30 years obviously has more say in how to deal with police interrogation.

The father and son walked silently to the deep pit where they were buried.

After reading the eulogy, the pastor made a cross on his chest, looked up and nodded at John, and turned to leave.

He came from the church in the town, and the Dutton family donated a lot on weekdays, so this time he came to return the favor.

The pastor named Bob was not at all interested in the identities and origins of the two deceased, and he did not want to know at all.

After the priest left, Jamie finally had time to take a closer look at the two bodies in the pit.

In the pit on the left is a tall middle-aged man in his fifties, with half-white hair and a resolute face covered with wind and frost.

The pit on the right is a young man in his thirties, with fair skin, a thin body, and an obvious circle of fat around the waist and abdomen.

Jamie's gaze finally stopped on the young man.

The last time he looked at his body and appearance like this was when he looked in the mirror after taking a shower.

It turns out that after death, this is what it looks like from the perspective of others.

Thinking back to what happened in the past day and night, Jamie only had two outrageous words left in his heart.

In the past, Li Jian was an UP master of the European and American film and television regions with more than 300,000 fans in the Celestial Empire.

On the eve of Qingming Festival, he and his father Li Youzhi, who had just retired from the criminal police team, drove back to his hometown to pay respects.

's mother left early, and his father devoted himself to the work of the criminal police team, Li Jian became a "de facto orphan" since he was a child, and the relationship between father and son has not been good.

During the college entrance examination, Li Jian deliberately went from his hometown of Mongolia Province to the southernmost Guangdong Province, and enrolled in a little-known agricultural university majoring in sociology.

After graduating, I changed jobs several times, and eventually became an UP master.

And his father Li Youzhi has always looked down on Li Jian's work, thinking that this is a waste of time, and it is better to go back to his hometown to take the civil service exam.

Because of work, the father and son quarreled on the phone.

When Li Jian turned over thirty, the two had one more quarrel.

Get married and have children.

However, not getting married and not having children is already the last stubbornness of Li Jian's generation of young people.

So the father and son quarreled even more fiercely.

In the most serious case, the two did not talk on the phone for more than half a year.

It wasn't until Li Jian received a call from the local hospital in his hometown that his father was seriously ill and hospitalized, so he hurried back to his hometown.

Fortunately, it was not an incurable disease, and the operation was a success.

During their hospitalization, the father and son also reached a settlement.

During this period, Li Jian also obeyed the arrangement and participated in a blind date.

The girl's appearance is okay, and she is not the kind of fishing girl on the Internet who asks the garage when she opens her mouth, but unfortunately she doesn't feel anything when she looks at each other, and it ends after a meal when she meets.

Anyway, Li Jian was finally obedient.

After recovering from illness and being discharged from the hospital, Li Youzhi chose to retire from the criminal police team that he had worked all his life and began to think about giving his son Zhang Luo a blind date.

Li Jian agreed, but the actual plan was to wait for Li Youzhi's body to recover and return to Guangdong Province, and then Emperor Tiangao would be free.

The tickets to go back have been quietly booked, ready to wait for Qingming to "visit" his mother and leave.

After the car entered the high-speed tunnel, Li Youzhi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was the first to notice that the situation was wrong.

The lights in the tunnel were all out.

But it was too late.

A pickup truck with its headlights on suddenly approached.

The devil knows where the car came from.

Li Jian didn't even have time to step on the brakes, and the two cars collided violently.

Father and son drive a Blue Bird that is nearing the end of its life.

The car of the small day is indeed fuel-efficient, but it is also really not crash-resistant.

Not to mention a sturdy American-style muscle pickup truck on the other side.

At the moment before the collision, Li Jian, Li Youzhi and his son clearly saw a white foreigner in his forties wearing a cowboy hat and a boy sitting on the opposite pickup truck.

The other party's face was also full of horror.

When he opened his eyes again, Li Youzhi found himself lying on the steering wheel, and there was an inexplicable memory of a white man named John Dutton in his mind.

And when he saw his foreigner-looking face in the rearview mirror, Li Youzhi, who had been a criminal policeman for more than 30 years, almost didn't hold back.

The first thing he did when he got out of the car was to rush to the Blue Bird on the other side, which had been knocked out and the front of the car was destroyed, smashed the glass, and dragged his son and himself out of the car.

It's a pity that both of them have lost their breath.

Just when Li Youzhi was holding Li Jian's corpse and crying sadly, a familiar and unfamiliar voice sounded behind him.

"Dad?"

Li Youzhi turned his head with red eyes and found that it was the boy who was sitting in the passenger seat before.

Following the memory in his head, he knew that the boy's name was Jamie Dutton, and he was John Dutton's second son.

Just before getting out of the car, out of the instinct of the police, he also tested the other party's snort and found that he just fainted.

At this time, people not only woke up, but also got out of the car, and Li Youzhi had one more headache.

How to explain to the boy Jamie that he occupies the other man's father's body by occupying the magpie's nest.

However, the other party's "Dad" just now, although it was in English, the tone was very similar to his son Li Jian.

Li Youzhi's eyes widened, and at the same time, an extremely absurd thought popped up in his mind.

Wouldn't his son Li Jian also run into the boy Jamie's body?

It turns out that the judgment of the old criminal police is really accurate.

After a brief verbal trial, father and son had to accept the fact that they had both swapped souls with John Dutton in the pickup truck in the car accident.

And based on the memories of the original body in their heads, the two discover an even more fucked-up fact.

They crossed.

From the Celestial Empire in 2023 to the United States in 1994.

Well, an America that is a little different from the normal plane.

There is no time to delve into these, Li Youzhi and Li Jian's father and son first faced a very thorny problem.

What to do with the bodies of their father and son.

Li Jian basically couldn't help in this regard, and the ideas were all taken by Li Youzhi.

Li Youzhi searched all the suspicious items on the body, including the mobile phone that the father and son could turn on normally but could not find the signal at all.

Li Jian grabbed a mate60pro, and when he returned to his hometown, he planned to show off in front of Li Youzhi.

It's a pity that before he had time, Li Youzhi took out a mateX5 in front of him.

Without any hesitation, the two mobile phones that could prove the identity of the traverser were smashed by Li Youzhi on the spot, ready to turn around and throw them into the fireplace and burn them.

In fact, the clothes on the two of them were even more suspicious, but Li Youzhi still didn't let the two of them be in the wilderness, and finally left them behind.

This also laid the groundwork for the state police to suspect that there was something else wrong with the car accident after they arrived at the scene.

"Let's get started."

John's voice interrupted Jamie's distraction.

The coffin was closed, and the two cowboys next to him began to shovel and fill the pit.

Although Tom, the state police officer, was unwilling to hide in his eyes, he was finally called away by his companion Ryan.

Confirming that the two had driven away, John immediately gave Cowboy Elod a look.

The other party understood, turned around and pulled out a horse from the woods behind him, carrying two corpses on it.

The two cowboys who had just filled in the soil dug up the coffin again, carried out the bodies of Li Youzhi and Li Jian inside, and threw down the two bodies that Elod had brought.

The coffin was re-covered and buried in the soil.

Jamie watched in amazement as everything happened.

Turning to look at John, the other man just shrugged his shoulders and told Jamie that the two bodies were two cattle thieves who were shot dead in the process of escaping when they were bumped into by the rancher's cowboys while stealing cattle from the ranch next door.

The state police didn't know about it, and no one was going to tell them.

Because in the land of Montana, there is also a law enforcement department called the Animal Husbandry Police.

They don't have to wear police uniforms to patrol the streets, but as long as it is related to ranch affairs, or large or small cases that occur within the ranch, the animal husbandry police have the final say.

This department is overseen by the Department of Animal Law Enforcement under the State Ministry of Animal Husbandry.

Unfortunately, John Dutton, who owns the largest ranch in the United States, is the head of this animal husbandry law enforcement division.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the entire Montana livestock police are John's "private soldiers".

Under normal circumstances, killing two cattle thieves is nothing to John at all, and the corpse is thrown directly at the "train station".

It's all pretty civilized.

If a century ago, cattle thieves would not only have been lynched if they were caught, but their bodies would have been hung on the gallows to dry as an example!

Now, the bodies of the two cattle thieves are of better use.

As for the bodies of Li Youzhi and Li Jian's father and son, John has asked Elaud to prepare a firewood pile.

The fact that the two bodies were left behind has always been a concern, and the problem must now be addressed once and for all.

Gasoline was poured on the firewood.

The flames that raged quickly engulfed the two corpses.