America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 212 The older a person gets, the darker their hands become

"Gold?" Astor's jaw almost dropped, "Have you found the treasure?"

Chen Jianqiu looked at him.

Don't admit it, don't deny it.

"What, um, my wife..." Young Master Astor, who was so resolute just now, suddenly became coy and hesitant to speak.

"Do you want to ask what the secret is in the treasure?" Chen Jianqiu said it for him.

"Well, what is the secret involving our family?" Astor still looked like he wanted to know.

"You should take a look at this first." Chen Jianqiu took out the letter he got from the old mayor from his pocket.

Although this letter was basically useless, Chen Jianqiu still kept it and used it from time to time to appreciate the words of the freemasons.

Astor frowned and looked at it for a long time, becoming more and more confused.

"This is just a coincidence. The 'treasure' your old man mentioned is the oil field in Roswell." Chen Jianqiu said, "There is no family secret. If there is one, it may be for you to hug.

New things and the future.”

Astor let out a long sigh.

He was not interested in the gold in the treasure, but suddenly felt that this journey to the west was like a dream.

"Don't worry, you have to believe your old man. He said there is a treasure there, it is a treasure." Chen Jianqiu showed a smile on his face.

When Astor first started, he was not familiar with this smile, but as time went on, he understood more and more what this smile represented.

Sean knows the meaning of this smile best.

"Well, do you need me to do anything else?" Astor suddenly became wary, "Let's talk about the price first. Don't expect me to make too many concessions."

"No, I just hope you can provide me with some resources for builders and raw materials when the time comes. Is that okay?" Chen Jianqiu said.

"Okay, but I don't have many resources in New Mexico." Astor agreed.

A week has passed.

The two headquarters are in New York and the other in Cleveland, and both have excellent appraisers and accountants, as well as strong legal teams.

They quickly figured it out, and the two young masters seemed eager to go back for Christmas, so the deal was quickly concluded.

The signature was signed in the morning and the train was taken in the afternoon.

As for Astor and Chen Jianqiu, all the procedures have been basically completed. As long as Chen Jianqiu delivers the gold to the steward, the agreement will automatically take effect.

"If you have any questions, just tell my butler. I think I will find time to come over next year." At the train station, Astor IV, who was neatly dressed, said to Chen Jianqiu who came to see him off, "I think we are business partners now.

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Chen Jianqiu smiled and said nothing. Together with the housekeeper, he sent the young master to the car, and then watched the train go away.

In addition to the housekeeper, there are people who cannot go home for Christmas.

Rockefeller Jr. mobilized his team, which came from Ohio and Texas. They were notified a week ago to come to New Mexico to prepare an oil extraction and refinery project.

There is no Christmas, because Standard Oil's board of directors wants to see the assessment report by January 30.

These people will return to Roswell with Chen Jianqiu and others.

Before Chen Jianqiu left, he went to visit Scott again, but the old man was not in Santa Fe.

From his confidants, Chen Jianqiu learned that he had just set out for Albuquerque in the morning, which was his second base camp.

The old man also made a special trip to ask his confidant to leave him a letter.

It seems that it is the same all over the world. During festive seasons, the old man is also very busy.

Chen Jianqiu returned to the hotel, went to Camilla's room to chat for a while, and then returned to his room.

He lay on his bed and opened Scott's letter. The content inside still asked him to clean up Rockefeller quickly, and asked him to use this letter to ask a judge named Milner in Lincoln County for help if necessary.

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Chen Jianqiu was reading a letter when suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the room.

It's so late, who is it?

He put away the letter, got out of bed, walked to the door, and opened it a crack.

A bearded face appeared in the doorway.

It's Abiot.

Chen Jianqiu opened the door and looked left and right towards the corridor.

There is no one else.

He let Abiot in.

"Didn't I say we would gather tomorrow?" Chen Jianqiu asked.

"I have news, I don't know if it will be useful to you." Abiot said to Chen Jianqiu, "Scott asked me to kill two people."

"Who?" Chen Jianqiu frowned.

"Two Mexicans." Abiot took out an envelope from his arms and poured out two black and white photos.

Chen Jianqiu took the black and white photo and looked at it.

This is a very ordinary-looking Mexican cowboy, which can be seen everywhere on the streets of Santa Fe.

"What's the background of these two people?" Chen Jianqiu handed the photo back to Abiot.

"The old man called me into the office before he left in the morning. He didn't say anything, and I didn't ask." Abiot replied, "He only gave me the addresses of these two people, in an adobe house outside the city.

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"I took a look in the afternoon and found that these two people don't have any serious occupations. Judging from my many years of experience as a bounty hunter, these two people should also be doing dirty work."

Chen Jianqiu thought for a while and guessed what Abiot meant.

Old man Scott is doing something shameful again.

He put on his leather jacket, put on his gun holster, put on his cowboy hat, and walked outside Hanif's room with Abiot.

He knocked on Hanif's door.

Hanif stretched out half his head, saw Abiot, and rolled his eyes.

"Stop rolling your eyes, bring your weapons and come with me." Chen Jianqiu said to Hanif.

"Ha, there is work." Hanif's head retracted.

Less than half a minute later, the door opened again, and a heavily armed bounty hunter appeared at the door.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Jianqiu knocked on Camilla's door again.

Now that we have taken action, we must be absolutely sure that nothing will happen.

After a while, four people and four horses appeared on the streets of Santa Fe.

Except for Chen Jianqiu, the other three people were all once famous bounty hunters.

Under the leadership of Abiot, the four people rode out of the city and soon arrived at their destination.

This is a lonely adobe hut, located behind a small hill, with only a few large rocks around.

There was a faint light shining through the window of the adobe hut.

Chen Jianqiu and four others got off their horses about a hundred meters away from the adobe house.

They tied their horses to the stone and quietly came to the window of the adobe house.

They leaned against the window and quietly listened to what was going on inside.

There was a conversation between two men inside the room, speaking Spanish.

Among them, only Camila can understand Spanish, but judging from her expression, it seems that things are not that simple.

Chen Jianqiu didn't even think about it. With a wave of his hand, the four people rushed in.

The light in the adobe house was very dark. There was a table facing the door with a kerosene lamp on it. Two Mexicans were sitting at the table discussing something.

The Mexican among them who was facing the door saw Chen Jianqiu rushing through the door. He reached out to touch the gun at his waist, but Chen Jianqiu shot him through the palm of his hand, causing bleeding.

The other one, when he was about to get up and run away, was shot in the calf by Camilla who was behind Chen Jianqiu, and fell to the ground wailing.

Hanif and Abiot rushed forward, one on each side, and instantly controlled the two injured Mexicans.

"There are other people in the house." Camilla said to Chen Jianqiu.

She learned from the conversation between the two people just now under the window outside that the two men had taken over Scott's mission and asked them to kill an identified person.

However, the two men felt that there was still money to be squeezed from the victim, so they took out the man's pocket watch, lied to Scott that the mission had been completed, and then kidnapped the man.

They plan to drain this man's oil and water and then fight against him.

In their view, this should not be considered a breach of contract.

Chen Jianqiu took the kerosene lamp on the table and began to search in the house.

The house was not big, and he quickly discovered the entrance to a basement.

When he opened the trap covering the entrance and put the kerosene lamp close to the entrance of the basement, he saw a man tied up and thrown down below.

His mouth was stuffed with a rag and he couldn't speak, and he screamed "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" toward the entrance of the cave.

Chen Jianqiu used the light of the kerosene lamp to see the man's face clearly.

He knew this man.

Scott's attorney, Matt Dillon.

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