Wilderness Redemption Tour

Lin Yan watched the female boss leave the house in hurried steps.

"Are you interested in her?" Arthur gave Lin Yan a smile that said, 'We're all men, I understand.'

"No...no. I just think she is a nice person. She doesn't mind that you are so dirty." Lin Yan explained with a blushing face.

"I've also been through the same stage as you. I've thought about what you've thought about. John and I boasted to each other at that time that we would sleep with her within a few days. We are all brave men, so don't be shy." Arthur walked over, patted Lin Yan on the back, and teased loudly.

I didn't expect Arthur to be so extravagant in the past. No, should I say that the people in the West were so "bold" in the past? Lin Yan thought secretly.

"Well, it's a bit interesting, just a little bit." Lin Yan stretched out his hand to gesture the approximate degree.

"Okay! Okay! Our gang has just arrived at this place. If nothing unexpected happens, we will probably stay here for a long time. You still have a lot of time to take her down. If you don't know the method, you can ask Molly and Marybeth after I take you back to the gang base. Of course, you can also ask me. Okay, now choose a belt buckle you like." Arthur led Lin Yan to the glass window of the counter and let him choose a belt buckle he liked.

Joining the gang also comes with free dating guidance? Why does it sound a bit tempting? It's not impossible to give it a try. Anyway, it's not my face that's being hit now. Thinking of this, Lin Yan looked towards the window happily.

Most of the belt buckles are made of brass, with a few silver-white ones. Lin Yan guessed that they should be silver. There are probably gold belt buckles, but I can't afford them in the short term. Silver is a bit extravagant, so I'll just choose the cheapest brass ones. So, when the female boss came back, he had already chosen a brass belt buckle with a grassland scene engraved on it.

“This one? You have good taste. Many women in this town choose this style for their husbands.” The female boss took out a belt of the same style from under the counter and skillfully installed the belt buckle on the gun belt.

Lin Yan waited for a moment, and the other party handed him the gun belt with the belt buckle installed: "Try it on and see if it fits."

Lin Yan took the gun belt and tied it around his waist using modern techniques.

"Hmm..." Arthur took two steps back, looked Lin Yan up and down, and said, "Except that he is a little young, he really looks like that."

Lin Yan imitated the cowboys in the western movies he had seen, put his thumb in the gun belt, and walked back and forth in the store. At this moment, he felt as if he had become a sharpshooter in the west. Unfortunately, he still lacked a pistol. This can only be discussed later. Even if it is given to me now, I will not use it.

After bidding farewell to the beautiful female shop owner, Lin Yan and Arthur rode the Tennessee Horse named Boadicea towards the current base of the Van der Linde Gang - Horseshoe Lookout.

Walking to the edge of the town, Lin Yan found a somewhat strange building, also made entirely of wood, with a wooden platform in front of the door. Shop? Probably not, the shops are all on the two streets behind. Residential? I vaguely remember that the residential houses seemed to be on the hillside behind the shops. While Lin Yan was thinking, the horse had already run closer, and he also saw the words on the building: train station\u0026 carriage station\u0026 post office.

I see! There is actually a train here. It seems that Valentine is not as small as I expected. The train should go to some big cities. I wonder how prosperous they are.

Along the way, Lin Yan found that everything he saw here was completely different from what he saw in westerns. In the movies, the protagonists are often in a desolate, dry, sandy desert with tumbleweeds rolling over from time to time. But the scenery around the small town of Valentine is completely different. Because it had rained, the rolling hills outside the town were full of green grass and unknown plants. Although the snow-capped mountains could be vaguely seen in the distance, it was indeed full of vitality here, a scene of spring.

Walking on the small path made by wheel tracks and horse hooves, Lin Yan, who has lived in the city for a long time, was excited by the small animals that popped out from time to time. "Is that a deer? There are deer here?" Lin Yan asked in surprise when he saw a medium-sized animal with brown fur and white tail from a distance.

"Yes, that's the white-tailed deer. They can be found in the mountains and foothills of Ambarino State. On the way here, I found red foxes, western chipmunks and black-tailed rabbits. Oh, and there are also birds like falcons, ravens, orioles and woodpeckers. There are no trees here, so the bird calls are not obvious, but it will be lively once we get to the camp." Arthur introduced enthusiastically.

Lin Yan sat upright on the horse's back, bouncing up and down with the ups and downs of the road. Gradually, his body was not as tense as at the beginning, and he began to feel that riding a horse was not a difficult task. After walking for about twenty minutes, Lin Yan saw a forest in front of him, and Arthur behind him also said that the camp was approaching.

When he got close to the woods, Lin Yan found that most of the trees here were pine trees, and there were also some low shrubs that he couldn't name. Arthur directed the horse to turn at the fork in the road to the road leading into the forest.

Not long after walking, Lin Yan saw a man wearing a blue western hat and a dark fur coat holding a shotgun and pointing the gun at him on the horse. Lin Yan immediately raised his hands to indicate that he had no ill intentions.

"Hosea, it's me, Arthur." Arthur behind Lin Yan spoke at the right time.

"Oh, Arthur, I just heard from Javier and the others that you were almost shot in town. Who is this young man?" When Hosea heard that it was Arthur, he put down the shotgun aimed at Lin Yan and asked.

"This is the man who saved my life, the new member of our gang, and Dutch also agreed. Jamie Custer. Jamie, this is the 'brain' of our Van der Linde gang, Hosea Matthews." Arthur introduced the two to each other.

"New member? It looks like we have to hold a welcome party tonight. I see Sadie's mental state has improved a lot. Why don't you tell Ms. Grimshaw later and we can celebrate together tonight. Jamie, I'm glad you can join us!" Hosea walked closer and told Arthur what he was thinking, then greeted Lin Yan with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Matthews." Lin Yan also greeted the other party with a smile.

"Okay, that's a great idea. I'll tell Ms. Grimshaw. See you later." Arthur said, tapping the horse's belly with his spurred boots and continuing to walk towards the camp.

Not far from the camp, Lin Yan saw another lady guarding the camp. Her golden hair was tied into a bun at the back of her head, with fluffy curls on both sides of her temples. She had a pair of light yellow eyes and a mole on the right cheek above her lips. She was wearing a black plush coat, a white lace bra and a purple long skirt. She was also holding a shotgun and guarding the outside of the camp.

"This is the Karen I told you about before, Karen Jones. Don't look at her like this, she is the camp's gunner and is as brave as any man." Arthur was afraid that Lin Yan would suffer a loss because of Karen, so he warned him in advance.

"Hey, Arthur, you're back. Who's this guy?" Karen didn't speak the gentle, graceful voice that Lin Yan expected. Instead, she spoke in a rough voice like most of the men he had seen here. It seems that although this Ms. Karen Jones has an amazing size, her temper is probably proportional to her bust. I'd better be careful. Lin Yan looked down at the turbulent waves in the distance and immediately lost all his improper thoughts.

"This is our new member, Jamie Custer. Karen, Jamie has never been in contact with a gang before, so you have to be gentle with him." Arthur warned.

"Hey, you actually asked a lady to be gentle. Was I rude to you before?" Karen asked back angrily.

"Oh, oh, sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. I meant that you should be as gentle to him as you are to others." Arthur saw that the situation was not right and quickly changed his words.

Karen Jones met Lin Yan's gaze, smiled at him, and said, "Come over, Pearson has prepared dinner, and we have already eaten."

"Oh, it seems we are back late. Pearson is always punctual in cooking every day. See you later."

After saying goodbye to Karen Jones, Arthur controlled the horse and came directly to the hitching post of the camp. The two dismounted one after another, and after Arthur tied the horse, he led Lin Yan to the center of the camp. Some people in the camp who had never seen Lin Yan cast curious glances at him.

At this time, an elderly blue-eyed lady in the camp with brown hair, a red lace jacket, and a black cotton pleated skirt came up to Arthur and asked, "Arthur, who is this person? Why are you so dirty again?"

"Oh, Ms. Grimshaw, I was just about to introduce you all." Arthur responded, then picked up the frying pan and spoon beside him, knocked the frying pan with the spoon, making a crisp "clang clang" sound, which attracted the attention of everyone in the camp, and then he said loudly: "Everyone, this person next to me..." He pointed at Lin Yan next to him and continued: "This is Jamie, Jamie Custer, a new member of our gang. Maybe some people don't know yet, Jamie saved me in town today, and he happened to have nowhere to go, so Dutch and I agreed to his request to join the gang. From today on, Jamie is a member of our family. Jamie, do you want to say a few words?"

When everyone heard this, they all cast friendly glances at Lin Yan. Lin Yan even saw a little boy who looked only four or five years old in the front of the crowd, looking at him curiously. It was the first time for him to speak under the gaze of so many people, and he couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

Bill, who was wearing a plaid shirt, saw Lin Yan's hesitation and said to him in his loud voice, "We are all family, why are you so nervous? Just say whatever you want to say."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Lin Yan mustered up the courage to say, "Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Custer, you can just call me Jamie from now on. I used to be a projectionist and commentator in a circus, but I've only been studying for two weeks and basically didn't learn anything." At this point, Lin Yan scratched his head embarrassedly as a cover-up. Then he continued, "It was completely coincidental that I saved Mr. Morgan. I just happened to see the murderer shooting at him, so I pushed him down. I had no experience in surviving in the wild before, nor had I ridden a horse, let alone fired a gun. I hope to learn this skill from everyone, and make more contributions to the camp and the gang in the future." Lin Yan became more and more excited as he spoke, and at the end, some people in the camp applauded his speech.

"Okay, let's stop here. I think you're all hungry. Pearson still has some dinner for today, let's go eat." Ms. Grimshaw said to Arthur and Lin Yan, then he turned to the crowd and said to everyone in an unquestionable tone: "Arthur just told me that he wanted to hold a welcome party tonight, I think this is a good idea. It so happens that Arthur brought back the spices I asked him to find, and the camp also has meat and vegetables that Bill and his friends brought back in the afternoon. Ladies, help Pearson later. We'll make some snacks and pickle some meat. Marybeth, Molly, you are not allowed to hide, you all have to work. We'll have a bonfire party tonight to celebrate our finding a new home and to welcome Jamie and Sadie to become one of us."

Arthur and Lin Yan came to the campfire while Ms. Grimshaw was arranging the next work for everyone. Arthur took out two tin plates and two spoons from the car beside him, handed one to Lin Yan, and said after smelling it, "Today's dinner should be round bread with stewed meat." As he said that, he used the iron spoon beside him to scoop a spoonful of stewed meat from the iron pot hanging above the burning campfire and poured it into his own plate, then said to Lin Yan, "Please, eat as much as you want, the bread is in the basket on the car."

Lin Yan didn't say anything. He took the iron spoon handed to him and nodded at him. Then he looked down at the steaming pot. This stew looks good and smells good, but I don't know if it will taste good. While thinking, Lin Yan scooped out a small piece of meat.

Taking a bite of the stewed meat on the plate, Lin Yan tasted it and it was not very delicious, but given the environment, it was considered delicious. He ate the small piece in two or three bites, and then used an iron spoon to put a few more pieces on his plate, then reached out and took out a piece of bread from the car.

The bread felt very hard and didn't look very tasty. But in order to be full, Lin Yan tried to take a bite. The bread was very hard and difficult to chew, and it had a strong sour taste. It was basically difficult to swallow if eaten dry. So Lin Yan put the small piece of bread in the palm of his left hand holding the plate, and ate the meat on the plate with a spoon in his right hand. Then he imitated Arthur's actions and put the plate on the wooden barrel next to the carriage, then tore the round bread into small pieces, dipped it in the broth on the plate, and waited for the bread to absorb the broth and soften, and then put it into his mouth with a spoon.

After Lin Yan ate a round bread in this way, he found that he was already somewhat full. He decided not to eat it yet and see what else he could eat in the evening. Lin Yan touched his stomach and looked at the sunset in the distance.