Wilderness Redemption Tour

"Pay him." Catherine stared at the well-dressed old cowboy below with burning eyes.

This sentence was like an order to the man who was suspected to be her son. The man did not say anything, but obediently took out a stack of banknotes from his coat pocket and threw it to Hosea.

"You are such a straightforward person." Hosea took the banknote, felt the thickness with two fingers, and stuffed it into the inner pocket of his vest.

Seeing Hosea calmly putting the money into his pocket, Mrs. Catherine tried to suppress her anger and said word by word, "I know what you said. It must be Sheriff Gray who asked you to do this."

"Now I'm telling you, I don't want this wine anymore." She unconsciously made some body movements while speaking. "Since you've taken the money, then do me a favor. For this, I'm willing to pay you another ten dollars."

Hearing that the lady of the Braithwaite family wanted to ask for help for ten dollars, Lin Yan, who was standing behind Hosea, secretly complained: Tsk, your Braithwaite family has such a big family business, but you only ask for ten dollars for help. I would be ashamed if I were you. How dare you ask for help...

Without waiting for Hosea to reply, she said, "Please take the wine in your car to the town, to the tavern owned by the Gray family, and then give it to me for free!"

"Mom!" Hearing Mrs. Catherine's slightly crazy idea, the man standing behind her couldn't help but speak up to stop her.

"Shut up!" Lady Catherine turned around and scolded.

After scolding her children, Mrs. Catherine continued to say to Hosea: "Just think of this as my marketing fee to you, how about it?"

"Ha..." Hosea put his left index and middle fingers together, made a good luck gesture to the other party, then turned and walked towards the carriage.

"As you wish, ma'am."

Lady Catherine half turned around and said, "When you are done, remember to come back and report to me. Tell me how it went. I will give you some extra money, and maybe we can play a game of Cribbage."

"Okay, I'll be back." Hosea replied as he got on the carriage.

"Then our next stop is the 'Palace of Pleasure'."

Pleasure Palace is the name of a tavern in Rhodes Town. Unlike the other shop signs that all use people's names plus the business scope of the shop that Lin Yan has seen, the tavern "Pleasure Palace" in Rhodes Town gave him a sense of "freshness" for some reason as he was tired of such clichéd shop names.

After getting his gun back from the gate guard, Hosea did not continue the topic they had discussed when they came, but instead talked to Lin Yan about Leviticus Cornwall on the way to the tavern.

"What? Cornish paid Pinkerton detectives a lot of money to do their best to deal with gang members?"

After hearing this news, Lin Yan suddenly felt a little regretful that he had not gotten rid of this businessman in Valentine in advance.

"Yes, this is the news I got when I sold the bonds yesterday." Hosea nodded and said, "When we were in Plowshare Village, Dutch ignored my advice and insisted on robbing the Cornwall train. Because of a batch of worthless bonds, he offended the wrong people."

"How could those bonds have no value? Arthur told me that he heard from Dutch that the bonds should be very valuable." Lin Yan asked puzzledly.

"Bonds from legitimate channels are indeed very valuable, but the ones we have are not allowed to be seen in public. I am quite satisfied if I can sell them at one-tenth of the original price."

"So how much did you end up selling those bonds for?"

"Less than a thousand, probably closer to a thousand."

"It's already pretty good. Instead of holding on to it, it's better to cash it in. Does Dutch know about this? What does he say?"

"No, I haven't figured out how to tell him. After the incident in Blackwater Town, I feel that Dutch has completely changed. I'm afraid that if I tell him now, he will do something unpredictable."

"The purpose of telling you this is to tell you what kind of enemies the gang is facing now. The Pinkerton detectives who were chasing us have received financial support from Cornwall. The situation of the gang will definitely become more difficult in the future. Maybe one day we will face a large group of Pinkertons, and it will be a problem whether we can escape again."

After talking for a long time, seeing that Hosea had turned the topic to persuading him to leave, Lin Yan sighed. He was about to confess to Hosea that he didn't want to leave for the time being, but he heard Hosea talking to himself: "The old woman from the Braithwaite family wants to push us to the front and use us as guns, so we naturally can't let her do what she wants so easily. We need to change our clothes before going to the tavern."

"Ah?" Lin Yan was so busy thinking about what to say that he completely ignored Hosea's words.

"I mean, I'm going to make you a clown's...idiot...son."

"what?"

"I'll play the clown, and you'll play my idiot son. You just need to... act like you're... brainless, and leave the talking to me, and you can continue to be your mute."

"Oh..." After Hosea's explanation, Lin Yan came back to his senses and finally understood his mission.

Isn't it just keeping silent and playing dumb? I'm good at it! When I was in school, my teachers always said that I didn't act dumb.

It wasn’t enough to just perform, He Xia also changed Lin Yan’s outfit.

While no one was paying attention, he got out of the car and stripped off the scarecrow's costume in the roadside tobacco field.

"Take off your coat and put this sack on you. Change your hat too. Wear this tattered straw hat."

After Lin Yan put on a sackcloth and a torn straw hat, Hosea looked at him carefully, then grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and rubbed it on Lin Yan's face twice, then made Lin Yan lie on the ground and roll over.

Looking at his "idiot son" who was made dirty by him, he nodded with satisfaction. "Well! That's about it... From now on, you are my dumb idiot son Fenton."

"Don't you need to dress up, you clown?" Lin Yan looked at his dirty self, then at the old man who was still dressed smartly, and suddenly felt unbalanced.

Hosea made a silent gesture to him and said, "Shh! You can't talk. Just watch me perform."

After entering the town of Rhodes, Hosea parked the carriage in the open space behind the tavern. At the back door of the tavern, two guards were sitting on the steps chatting quietly.

"Okay, Fenton, calm down... Think about your mother, she loved you so much when she was alive..." Hosea winked at Lin Yan, and continued as he got out of the car, "But you actually strangled her to death when you lost your temper. It's really a sin. Okay, move two boxes of that stuff from the back, and then follow me."