Wilderness Redemption Tour

"Humph!"

A cold snort came from behind Sean, and Catherine Braithwaite, wearing a pure white lace pajamas, strode in and sat on the single-seater sofa where she sat in the afternoon.

After sitting down, she reached out and took out a slender cigarette from the cigarette box on the coffee table, lit it, and looked at Hosea and said, "Mr. Matthews, haven't you taught your people what politeness is?"

Hosea glared at Sean in mock anger and scolded him, "Didn't I tell you to be civilized when you came here? Why can't you remember? Take your foot off now!"

After scolding Sean, Hosea turned to look at the hostess who was smoking and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, country people are ignorant. But they completed the task brilliantly, didn't they? I saw the fire and smoke in the northeast direction just now from the window."

Even when he heard Hosea talking about the mission, the leader of the Braithwaite family did not show much joy.

She took a deep breath and said with a little anger: "I didn't expect that the Gray family would also invite helpers to deal with us."

"Just now, my people discovered that several valuable stallions that were originally tied in the stables were all missing, and the grooms who were responsible for looking after them were brutally murdered. You know, I bought those stallions at a high price. But..."

Having said this, she grinned and laughed again.

"However, compared with Gray's tobacco fields, my loss is not unacceptable."

"The Gray family's losses are not limited to the tobacco fields." Sean, who was crossing his legs, continued her words.

"Oh?" Hearing this, Catherine Braithwaite's eyes lit up. "From what you said, is there any unexpected surprise?"

"Haha, of course." Sean shook his head and said proudly, "In addition to the tobacco fields, we also burned their warehouses and barns. There was a lot of grain in the barns."

"Hey! This is really good news." Catherine Braithwaite's mouth corners curled up into a small arc.

"It seems that I can sleep well tonight." She stood up and put out the half-smoked cigarette in her hand in the ashtray, then stood up and said to Hosea, "It's getting late, Mr. Matthews, you can take your people and leave."

Then she said to the butler standing outside the door, "Gus, pay these gentlemen their dues, and then send these guests away for me."

"Yes, ma'am." The dark-skinned butler with short gray hair responded, and then made a gesture to Lin Yan and the other two to invite him in. "Gentlemen, please follow me."

Lin Yan and Xi'en ignored the hostess. Only after Hosea nodded slightly to her did he follow the others out of the villa.

After everyone left, Catherine Braithwaite sat back on the sofa, her hands naturally placed on the armrests on both sides, her eyes narrowed, and she silently said: "Hosea Matthews... Sean McGuire... Jamie Custer..."

......

After leaving the villa, Hosea received the reward for this mission from the butler Gus, and then left Braithwaite Manor with Sean and Lin Yan.

"How much money did we get from that old woman?" Sean couldn't wait to ask Hosea as soon as he got on the horse.

"Alas!" Hosea sighed and said dissatisfiedly: "After my hard work, she reluctantly agreed to pay us three hundred. I have never seen such a stingy rich person."

"What?" Sean was so excited that his voice broke.

"We risked our lives to sneak into Gray's house to set fire for him, and she only paid us three hundred? What an old miser!" he said indignantly.

"By the way, the old woman just now said that her stallion was stolen. Do you think it was Arthur and his men who did it?"

"That should be the case." Lin Yan continued, "I heard at noon that Dutch asked Arthur to take John and Javier to Gray's house in the afternoon. Maybe they have received a commission against the other family just like us."

"After this incident, the two families will probably stay quiet for a while. When they recover, they will definitely retaliate against each other. By then, it will be our turn to reap the benefits."

"Yes, Dutch and I think so too." Hosea agreed with Lin Yan's analysis, and he added: "But it is not ruled out that the two major families will adopt more radical methods due to the intensification of conflicts."

"I'd rather the two families fight tonight, so that tomorrow I can step on that old miser's head and threaten her with her life to make her hand over all her family's wealth." Sean said "optimistically".

Later, Hosea curiously asked about the details of the mission, and Sean happily recounted his "glorious achievements" with exaggeration. When he talked about the cash box behind the carriage, he even lifted the cash box and showed it off to Hosea.

At first, Hosea listened with a look of satisfaction, but when he heard that Sean's mission was affected by a cash box, and that Sean was not only unaware of it, but also proudly took it out to show off, he criticized him mercilessly: "For your behavior of putting money before life, my evaluation of you is: stupid!"

Stopping Sean's "sophistry", Hosea explained to him: "Once the operation begins, the entire process must be as fast as possible. The longer it takes, the more variables will arise. If you were not lucky enough this time and did not encounter a strong counterattack, your actions alone could have ruined the entire team."

Seeing that Sean was still a little unconvinced, Hosea patiently persuaded him: "Sean, since you have chosen this line of work, you must take it seriously. What I have given you are things that can allow you and your companions to survive as long as possible during the operation. These are the survival rules of our industry that I have summarized through our peers or my own experience. This is not meaningless preaching, but a solid code of conduct. If you encounter these things again in the future, I hope you can abide by them."

"Okay... okay... I'll try to accept your suggestion." Sean raised his hand and pressed his forehead, as if to imprint Hosea's words in his mind. After a moment of silence, he returned to his usual lively and cheerful tone, glanced at Hosea and said, "Hosea, although you didn't participate in the operation, I, the generous Sean, still decided to give you a share of the money in this cash box."

"Oh, thank you so much." Hosea replied calmly, "I hope you can really listen to what I say. I don't want to see you or others become a corpse because of you one day in the future."