America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 2 A Big Fire

Chen Jianqiu is a time traveler.

When he woke up, he was lying on an old train from San Francisco (now San Francisco) to Salt Lake City, and then he was thrown into a coal wagon in Salt Lake City, and he traveled over mountains and mountains to Shiquan Town.

The Chinese laborers built the Pacific Railway with flesh and blood, and the coal was eligible to sit on it, but they themselves were thrown together with the coal.

During the one month that he traveled through time, Chen Jianqiu only thought of being close to him for the time being. As for why he came to the United States, he didn't know where this body's ability came from.

He found a job as a miner in a coal mine in Stone Spring Town. The owner of the mine was a kind-hearted old man who paid him $20 a month and worked 12 hours a day.

That's $10 for two weeks' wages!
Chen Jianqiu threw the flour to the Chinese uncle who just walked out of the tavern and was about to go home: "Old man, please trouble me again." He rushed towards the black man.

When the black man saw him chasing him, he didn't pretend to be drunk. He spread his legs and ran wildly.

After running around a corner, Chen Jianqiu realized that he seemed to have made a mistake.Letting a black man run into the night is like letting a chameleon into the forest, even if it is squatting in a corner, it is not easy to be found.

The smog has not dissipated, there are no street lights on the streets of the town, and the black people escape into the shadows.

"Damn!" Chen Jianqiu was a little annoyed.He looked down and saw a hitch on the side of the road, and after a second thought, he kicked the hitch.

There was a muffled sound of "boom", and the stake obviously didn't buy him. Chen Jianqiu hugged his feet, and cursed while jumping: "Damn, shit!"

The moonlight shone on the street, and the lights from the windows of the houses along the street scattered into the haze, forming hazy light and shadows.

At a street corner, a crescent-shaped arc of white light suddenly appeared.

The Negro laughed.

"stop!"

Chen Jianqiu let out a roar, and rushed over with a stride, with no trace of injury on his feet.

The black man realized that he had been caught in a trap, shut his mouth quickly, turned his head and ran away.But this time the pursuers locked on his trail and began to pursue him hotly.

Seeing that the distance between the two was getting closer, the black man ran around a corner, climbed over the fence, and jumped into the backyard of a large house.

Chen Jianqiu followed closely behind and followed in.He recognized this big house, and the owner was the coal mine owner who seemed very kind.The whole yard except where they came in was a low fence with walls on both sides.The black man panicked and broke into a dead place.

At this moment, the black man had been forced to a corner near the window of the house. He turned around and shrugged.

"Hey man, what are you after me for?" said the black person.

"Then why are you running if I chase you?" Chen Jianqiu's smile surfaced again.His right hand began to press the knuckles of his left hand, and the knuckles made a "click".

Seeing this, the black man changed his face again, put on a boxing frame while stepping back, and swished two punches: "Brother, I advise you not to mess with me, I have practiced boxing. I..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was already punched firmly in the face.The black man staggered back a few steps and sat down on the ground.

Chen Jianqiu took a wrong step forward and grabbed his collar: "Money?"

The black man shook his head, completely discouraged, took out the note from his pocket, and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu just put the money into his pocket.

A loud bang.

The back door of the house was knocked open with a "bang", and a person fell out of it and fell to the ground.Another figure with a bow and arrow on his back and an ax in his hand came out of the door.

"Your accomplice?" Chen Jianqiu pressed the black man under him with his backhand and asked in a low voice.

The black man hurriedly shook his head, expressing that he knew nothing.

"Colonel Robert! Do you still know this axe?" The black shadow raised the axe in his hand and said to the old man lying on the ground, "Do you think you can escape the punishment of blood and fire from the gods by hiding in this town?" Is it?"

With the help of the lights in the house, Chen Jianqiu could clearly see the face of the old man on the ground, who was the boss of the coal mine.

He sat up unhurriedly, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and the kindness in his face was completely gone, and he put on a sarcastic expression: "I killed too many Indian bastards, it makes me want to Think, which one are you? Huh? Crazy Horse bastard?"

A dark figure holding an ax walked into the light. It was a young Indian, and he held the ax high with trembling hands.

"You can also choose to put down the ax and run for your life." The coal mine boss smiled darkly, teasing the fragile nerves of this young Indian, "The sheriff will come soon, and then you will be like your idiot father, Die horribly."

There was a "pop" gunshot.

A bullet hole appeared on the forehead of the coal mine boss, and blood began to flow out of the bullet hole. The old man opened his eyes wide and fell backward with an expression of disbelief.

Another figure came out from the back door of the house, holding a six-shot revolver and smoking from the muzzle.

Chen Jianqiu knew this person. He was the sheriff of the town—Sheriff Morris.He was still carrying a box in his hand, and he didn't know what was in it.

Before the Indian boy could react, his head was hit suddenly, and he fell straight forward like a wooden stake.

The sheriff skilfully drew a trap rope from his waist, bound the Indian tightly, then checked the revolver in the underman's hand, and after ejecting all the bullets in the roller magazine, he put the gun in the Indian hands.

Then, he took out the gun in his waist again.

Only then did Chen Jianqiu hear the sound of "crackling" burning coming from the room. After a while, flames and thick smoke had climbed out of the windows on the second floor.

"Okay!" Chen Jianqiu and the black man seemed to understand what happened at the same time, and they were going to find a chance to escape.

But a familiar voice sounded.

"Two people inside, raise your hands, come out."

Johnny, who was still in the tavern just now, has brought four men with rifles to block the backyard door. The three dark muzzles are facing the corner where Chen Jianqiu and the black man are.

The two were helpless, raised their hands, and slowly walked out of the corner.

"Boss, what do you say?" Johnny looked at Morris.

"The Indian went into the old mine manager's house, stole his gun, killed the poor old man with it, and set fire to his house." Morris came down the steps carrying the box ,"I'm late."

Johnny froze for a moment, but quickly acted and let one of his men carry the Indian out.

"Then what about these two people?" Johnny pouted in the direction of Chen Jianqiu and the black man.

"Take them with you, my friend who released the wind." Morris said very simply.

The black's eyes were wide open, and Chen Jianqiu couldn't believe it.

A black man and a Chinese man, in the backyard of an old white mine owner, letting out an Indian?What about cheating ghosts?
But Chen Jianqiu did not resist. A rifle was pressed against his waist, and his hands were tightly bound.

Johnny pushed him from behind, and said sullenly: "Boy, do you know how our people treat criminals? I will treat you well."

He reached into Chen Jianqiu's clothes, took out the ten-dollar bill, patted his face with the bill, and smiled unscrupulously.

The two men woke up the nearby residents to put out the fire, and the rest locked Chen Jianqiu and the others into the carriage.Drive towards the security station on the other side of the town.

(End of this chapter)