America 1881: Legend of the West

The first reaction of the quartermaster and the soldiers around him was to draw their guns and fight back.

But Li Sifu swept a shuttle in front of him with a BAR, smashing the box on the carriage behind the quartermaster.

The quartermaster's soldiers glanced at the Krag-Jorgensen rifles in their hands and immediately gave up the idea of ​​resisting.

"Misunderstandings, all misunderstandings." The quartermaster said with a smile on his face, "We are just in a hurry and have to leave overnight."

"You have to pay for the overnight journey."

Under the firelight, Li Sifu said with a smile.

The quartermaster gritted his teeth, moved closer to Li Sifu, and whispered:

"Sir, I have something important to tell you. Come with me."

He led Li Sifu to the side, turned his head and looked behind him, then blocked the view of the people behind him with his left hand, took out his stack of private money from his clothes with his right hand, and quietly stuffed it into Li Sifu's pocket:

"Sir, we are running a small business, please be kind and let us go."

The quartermaster's flesh ached when he took out the money.

It was all his own money, and he would have to find a way to reimburse Wiltord later.

But his outstretched hand was caught.

Li Sifu looked at him and smiled:

"Presumptuous, huh?"

"Yeah" the quartermaster nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Li Sifu raised his head and shouted into the darkness:

"Boss, this guy is giving me money, so he wants me to let him go!"

While the quartermaster was stunned, a man walked out of the dark night with his hands behind his back.

He slowly walked up to the quartermaster, took the wad of money handed over by Li Sifu, counted it, and put it back into Li Sifu's pocket:

"Just accept the little kindness from others."

Chen Jianqiu said.

The quartermaster was overjoyed and turned around to tell his soldiers to pack up and run away.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jianqiu spoke again:

"Did I tell you to leave?"

"But, this, that..." The quartermaster's eyes widened and he pointed at Li Sifu's pocket and then at Chen Jianqiu.

"The money has been given and you have come. We have to fulfill our friendship as landlords. How can I let you leave like this? I'm so sorry." Chen Jianqiu said.

He waved at Li Sifu and the soldiers holding guns.

The soldiers rushed forward, those who fired their guns, those who escorted the people, and those who drove the carriages.

An hour later, the goods on the car were returned to Zhao intact and returned to the farm's warehouse; the quartermaster and soldiers were "invited" into the camp next to the farm; and their carriages and pack horses were directly seized and rushed to the road. Enter the transport convoy to the farm.

In the camp on the border, Wiltord was still waiting for good news from the quartermaster.

Every day he walked up to the camp’s lookout point and looked in the direction of Roswell.

However, the convoy that the colonel expected never appeared, and the grain storage in the camp warehouse was decreasing day by day.

With hundreds of mouths, no matter how frugally they eat, the food stored in the warehouse will soon be exhausted.

Finally, the big soldiers under his command couldn't bear it anymore.

"There was a piece of bread yesterday! Today there is only half a piece left! You don't want us to live!"

Still in front of the food distribution shed, an angry soldier held up half a piece of bread in his hand and roared.

"If you don't want to eat it, you can give me the remaining half piece." The quartermaster soldier in charge of distribution said weakly, pointing to the half piece of bread, "I'm not full myself."

He sighed: "You can also go to the surrounding areas to catch some wild animals to satisfy your hunger. I am here every day, and I can only starve to death."

The troublemaking soldiers looked at each other.

"Stop making sarcastic remarks here. See for yourself what is edible around this damn place. Even the lizards and rattlesnakes have been caught!" A soldier stood up and said, "Hurry up and get the quartermaster out! He I have to give everyone an explanation!”

"He has been out buying food for a few days, and no one has been seen yet. You want to find him, but I still want to find him."

The quartermaster felt a little tired from standing and talking, so he planned to find a place to sit down, but he looked around and couldn't find a chair that he could sit on, so he had to lean on the table.

"He, if he doesn't come out, I, we will rob the warehouse!"

When the soldiers saw the quartermaster like this, they could only threaten him like this.

"Go and remember to find some food. Seeing that they are all serving as soldiers in the same military camp, share some with me."

The quartermaster felt tired even while sitting and answering, so he simply lay down on the table.

He took off the key chain from his waist and threw it to the leading soldier.

When the soldiers saw what he said, they gathered in groups and attacked the warehouse aggressively.

The warehouse door is locked.

The soldiers holding the keys were surrounded, trying the keys one by one.

But firstly, he was not familiar with it, and secondly, under the public gaze, the soldier's hands were trembling a little, and his movements were not very neat. Coupled with my bad luck, I couldn't get the key right after trying for a long time.

The soldiers behind were anxious.

"Get out of the way, I'll do it!"

A bearded soldier raised his gun and began to smash the lock on the door with the butt of his gun.

After a few hits, there was only a "dong" sound.

The lock was smashed open and fell to the ground.

Everyone couldn't wait to open the door and rushed in.

But when they saw the situation in the warehouse, they were stunned.

The warehouse was empty except for a few bags of potatoes in the corner.

The soldiers were angry.

Feeling that their intelligence had been fooled, they returned to the greenhouse angrily.

The bearded leader took a step forward, grabbed the collar of the commissary soldier who was lying on the table looking at the sky, and dragged him up.

"Where's the food?! Where's our food? And our military pay!" the bearded man roared angrily.

"You ask me, who am I going to ask?" The quartermaster soldier showed no sign of fear at all, with a look of arrogance on his face, "That's what happened when I got the key. If you want to ask, just ask the commander. There's no point in embarrassing me. hero."

The bearded man was right.

He let go of his hand, raised the gun in his hand, turned around and shouted to the soldiers behind him:

"Brothers, let's go to Wiltord and ask for an explanation!"

Under his leadership, the soldiers rushed to Wiltord's house like a tide.

"Wiltord! Come out!"

The bearded man stood up and shouted at the closed door.

However, there was no response from inside the room, not even any movement.

The bearded man turned his head and exchanged glances with the person behind him.

Didn't this guy run away early after hearing the noise?

"Wiltold! Come out! If you don't come out, we will rush in!" The bearded man shouted again.

"Are you looking for me?"

The colonel came out from the back of the room, looking calm.