Chapter 37 Preparing for a train robbery
After returning from the Ewing Basin last time, Dutch and the others have been discussing how to rob the train safely.
The guy who was caught was called Kieran Duffy. At present, no one had any ideas about him. His current role was to be a prisoner and be tied to the stable.
On that day, while Wang Xuance was drinking with Pearson and his uncle in the kitchen, Pearson checked the food reserves and said to Wang Xuance: "Hey, Mr. Henry, we don't have enough food. Now there are only two wolf legs left. Do you want to go out to hunt?"
Wang Xuance didn't know why Pearson asked him to go hunting, but he could feel that the food in the camp was starting to decrease again. The two wolves he brought back last time were almost finished. Maybe he was in a hurry to seek medical treatment.
Arthur walked into the kitchen and Pearson asked, "Arthur, we are almost out of food, we may all starve to death on this damn snow mountain. We have two wolf legs left, and these things are to be distributed to everyone in the camp, and we don't know how long we will stay here."
"When I was a navy..."
Before Pearson could finish his words, Arthur knew that he wanted to talk about his brilliant achievements in the Navy again.
"No, no, I don't want to know what happened to you in the Navy, Mr. Pearson."
“We were trapped on the sea for fifty days.”
"Unfortunately, you survived." Arthur continued to interrupt Pearson's words. Arthur and the others were almost ignorant of the calluses, and they really didn't want to continue hearing them.
"When we escaped from Blackwater, there was too little time. I had no time to prepare supplies. Now, we have no food." Pearson also knew that Arthur did not want to hear his glorious record, so he simply talked about his current predicament.
"I asked Lenny and Bill to go out for hunting before, but these two idiots didn't bring anything back, so I need you to go out for hunting now to see if you can bring back anything." Pearson directly said his request.
"Lanny? He might prefer reading? As for Bill, he is a fool. Unless the mountain is full of prey that cannot move, Bill will definitely not bring back anything."
On the other side, Charles also walked into the kitchen, heard Pearson's words and said, "I can go out hunting with Arthur. Although my hand is injured, I can track the prey. Arthur can draw the arrow."
Hearing Charles' words, Arthur hesitated a little: "Are you sure? I don't know if I have the talent to use bows and arrows."
"Of course you can, you believe in yourself, your marksmanship is good, so there will definitely be no problem when you pull the arrow."
Seeing that someone was willing to go hunting, Wang Xuance simply sat back next to the fire pit: "Since you have decided to go out for hunting, I don't have to go."
"Bring this, this is the last can." Pearson handed Arthur a can of pickled viscera.
"Shet, if I had to eat this to live, I think I might be better off starving to death." After a sarcastic sentence, Arthur honestly put away the canned food that tasted certainly wouldn't be good.
Seeing that Charles was indeed going out to find food, Arthur advised: "Charles, you need to rest. Your hand is seriously injured. You need to rest!"
"This is not a rest, and, Pearson is right, we don't have enough food." Charles took the lead and walked out: "Come with me, Arthur."
The two rode their horses and rushed to the depths of the wind and snow.
Pearson was praying, hoping that the two of them would bring back some food.
Turning back, I saw the uncle start drinking again, and I took a few steps, grabbed the bottle of wine from the uncle, which had not yet finished drinking, and stuffed it into my mouth: "Shet, Uncle, this is the wine Mr. Henry gave me, go and drink your own."
As the oldest and thickest among the gang, the uncle did not care about Pearson's mockery, but instead groped to take out a bottle of gin from his bag, opened the lid, and drank it in small sips.
"Mr. Henry, I'm not sure if Arthur can bring back the prey. Can you go out and see what you can bring back." Pearson hesitated for a while, and still wanted Wang Xuance to go out for a look.
Wang Xuance looked at Pearson. The middle-aged man was very worried. "The ladies and children don't have enough food."
"Okay, I'll go and have a look, but I may not bring anything back." Wang Xuance shrugged. In the game, he still liked this fat man quite a bit.
On the horse and set off from the other side, Arthur and his friends went to Xiongya Creek in the south, while Wang Xuance went to Spider Gorge in the north, which was the stream that Arthur and Havel brought John back before.
Wang Xuance had seen many goats there before. Although it was not easy to deal with, eating some mutton in such cold weather is good for the body.
I was lucky today. Not far from Spider Gorge, I saw a goat, and I opened my bow directly. In a silent manner, my prey was easily hunted by Wang Xuance.
Not far away, a white-tailed deer was quietly eating grass.
When he pulled the bow and shot the arrow again, the white-tailed deer fell quietly to the ground.
Putting the white-tailed male deer and goat on the horse's back, Wang Xuance walked beside the horse with a bow and arrow on his back. After all, although he could still sit down, it was not very comfortable to ride a horse like this, so he would simply stop riding.
Anyway, it is not far from Porcer Village now, it is just over an hour away.
As soon as I returned to Pearson's kitchen, I saw that Charles and Arthur had returned, and Arthur was peeling the deer.
"Mr. Pearson, come and help me take these two preys." As he said that, he carried a goat himself, walked to the kitchen, threw it away, and sat next to the stove.
Pearson was very happy to see Wang Xuance bringing back two preys, "Oh, Mr. Henry, thank you for giving us more abundant food. With these two preys, I think we can have sufficient rations for the next ten days, and we can survive."
"You have to know that when I was in the Navy, we were trapped on a deserted island for fifty days..."
"Okay, Mr. Pearson, you have repeated four times over the past few days about your trapped island. Now, all you have to do is to quickly deal with the prey that Arthur and the others brought back. It is almost two o'clock now. If you don't prepare food, I don't think Arthur will eat you directly."
These days, Wang Xuance has been eating with the people from the Van der Linde gang. They are all stews cooked by Pearson. They cannot be said to be unpalatable, they can only be said to be barely swallowed.
However, after Wang Xuance gave Pearson some spices, the people in the camp gave Pearson's stew a clear improvement.
These days, Darqi and the others have not forgotten the captive they brought back, Kieran Darfei. Although he did not whip him with a whip, the food he ate was barely alive.
Wang Xuance had also visited him before. Although he felt that Kiran was in a pitiful state, Kiran was still a prisoner of the Van der Linde Gang, so Wang Xuance didn't want to do anything. He just told Kiran that he would cooperate well and would definitely go down the mountain in the future. According to the current situation, he was not in danger of his life.
Arthur and Charles have left the kitchen. After all, Arthur still doesn't like to mingle with uncles and the others.
However, Wang Xuance likes uncles quite a lot. After all, who can refuse a funny 'one-shot boy'?
I just lie in the same place every day, drink and tell some bad jokes occasionally, and it's good to live such a life.
After leaving the kitchen, I just walked to the big room of Arthur and Ducky, and heard the voice of Ducky inside: "After we have to snatch this train, leave the snow mountain and go east, there must be something we need."
When he walked into the house, he saw Darchiath Hosea and the other two surrounding the stove, discussing the robbery of the train.
"If you really want to rob a Cornwall train, it's best not to reveal your identity. As far as I know, the people in the Odrisco Gang will wear a headgull when doing things, and you can do this too, so that you can throw things on the Odrisco Gang's head." Wang Xuance leaned against the door and listened to their plans, but he really didn't know what to say.
In his opinion, this classical robbery method was really a bit behind. Ram, the great sage and saint in the banking industry, well, now, Ram is just about nine years old and is still living his childhood in Germany.
In Wang Xuance's opinion, these people did not hide their identity even if they robbed them. They really thought that a masked scarf could block their faces?
No wonder I was chased by others, I did it all by myself.
When Daqi heard Wang Xuance’s suggestion, he invited him to discuss: “Do you want to participate in this robbery?”
"I'm not interested in this robbery, but I'm interested in what you robbed. On the Cornwall train, there may be some bonds and some documents. I can pay for these things."
"And, you are now being hunted by Pinkton. If possible, you should try to cover up your identity." Wang Xuance still felt that it was a bit reckless to wear a masked siege and dare to attack a heavily guarded train. Moreover, do you really think that people don't know your identity?
Otherwise, when Cornwall found them, they must have been found. Then Cornwall brought the bounty hunter and guard, and Pinkerton came.
When Arthur heard Wang Xuance's words, he also thought it made sense. After all, if you can not reveal your identity, it would be better not to expose it. However, Hosea may not agree with the robbery plan, so he did not participate in this discussion.
After Wang Xuance finished his suggestion, he walked to Javier. There was a fire here, which was just enough to roast the fire.
Chapter completed!