48 Hours a Day

Zhang Heng rescued the peasants from the church just walked to the center of the town and met another group of people.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense and both sides raised their weapons and pointed at each other as soon as they met.

"Davidson, you bastards, colluding with the Cooks, trying to kill us all with the help of those gangsters! ”

The other guy, Davidson, was supposed to be the head of the town, and he said, “Listen, Nicole, we were just trying to teach you a lesson, and we didn't expect it to go that far, and we did make a mistake, and we shouldn't trust the Cooks. ”

“Tell that bullshit to the dead.” Nicole Cold Road, "now those bastards have been killed by a good man named Zhang Heng, what are you trying to do in front of us, to finish what they didn't do and kill us all? ”

“Of course not, we just want to talk to you, we just talked about it, considering your loss, we can put together $5,000 for you, and of course we know that this money is far from relieving your loss of loved ones, friends… but at least it will make your next life easier. ”

“Without you, our lives will never be easy.” Nicole was furious, "and you weren't just trying to compensate us for our kindness. If there's any more bullshit, say it together. ”

Davidson nodded, “What happened to Sheriff Harper was a tragedy, but given the circumstances, we had no other choice...”

Davidson only said half the words, saw Nicole spit on the ground, then Nicole's eyes swept through the people in front of him, nobody dared to touch his eyes, all bowed their heads, “you bastards, shot him, 32 shots in total, everyone had a share, they shot the sheriff in their town, didn't kill him immediately, deliberately avoided the harm, left him to die on the ground alone, you white gentlemen have to admit that you can really play with me, make my eyes wide open. ”

“What can we do?” The owner of the grocery store couldn't help but say, “The Cooks are standing right next to us looking at us with guns, and if we don't do what they say, they're going to kill us all. ”

“Nicole,” Davidson went on, "Everyone here is always feeling guilty about what happened that day, our consciences are tormented and we've been punished, but that's it, we have no other way to move forward, and as long as we can reach a consensus, Sheriff Harper and the others are dead in the hands of the Cooks, we'll let you go. ”

“What, are you worried that the good things you've done will be known to others and your consciences will suffer? What kind of punishment is this, you know what punishment is, when you're all hung up on a hanger for this thing, that's what the fucking punishment is. ”

“Is it necessary to do this, Nicole, if I recall correctly, that your relationship with Sheriff Harper is not very good, and don't forget that he hates black people, and that many of your people are in jail. ”

“Yes, Harper is an obnoxious, uncultivated old bastard, I've thought about shooting him in the bare head countless times, but when the Cooks tried to kill us, except for that Mr. Matthew, only this old bastard stood up... the whole town, only he stood up, you have to admit, that old bastard had balls, and then you killed the only one in the whole town who had balls. ”

“We didn't have a choice...” the grocery store owner mumbled.

“You always have a choice, you have guns, not fewer people than them, and you can't even resist," Nicole sneered, “you're a bunch of cowards in the fucking world. Now, either get out of our face, or you start a war, where's all that bullshit coming from? ”

“Nicole, it's not that simple.” Davidson is still patiently explaining, "You don't know what we're dealing with. The guy named Zhang Heng killed the Cook Gang people who stayed in town, but the Cook Gang still has more than 30 people, and they're all dead men with blood on their hands, not farmers and miners like you and me, and when those people come back, we're going to face their anger, so now we have to stick together and face the upcoming holocaust, and that's the only way to keep the town alive. ”

“Is your head broken, Davidson? If we work with you after this happens, we might as well just shoot ourselves in the head. Who knows if you'll turn the gun around and do anything to survive? ”

…………

Just as the two groups were still confronted, Zhang Heng had quietly detoured back outside the hotel.

Wendy moved the table against the door with her hands busy.

“Has anyone been here while I'm gone?” Zhang Heng asked.

“Yes, the owner of the grocery store, he ran over shortly after you left, but he didn't knock on the door and he went looking for someone else, and what happened out there, I saw a lot of people.” Wendy was curious.

“The people who live in Blisstown are mainly a group of miners and their families, as mining leads to the contamination of nearby water sources, extensive crop deaths and the depletion of the rest, so that the relationship between the two sides starts to get more and more tense as it provokes the anger of the local farmers, and from time to time some erm... friction occurs until six months ago,

“A miner's boy and a farmer's girl went out to play, and only when the boy came back did the girl disappear. The girl's father thought it was the boy who murdered the girl, so he asked several friends to rush to the boy's house and kill the boy, as well as his brother, who was ready to resist. Two days later, the girl returned home safely to find out that she was mixing her mouth with the boy, and when she was angry, one person wandered off and lost his way.

“This time it was the miners' turn to come and claim… With guns, the farmers' side received early information and organized personnel, clashes erupted between the two sides, injuring three or four people each, and these farmers from time to time went to the mine to disrupt, the contradiction deepened.

“About a month and a half ago, an old man with a hunchback appeared in town, listening to the miners complain about it while drinking in a bar, and told the miners that he could help them with their troubles, as long as the miners would pay $6,000, and he said he could find someone to teach the farmers a lesson and keep them from messing around.

“The miners discussed it and thought it was feasible, so they gathered the money, and then the elderly hunchback came here with the Cooks, and they grabbed the farmers, and they were going to kill them and their families, and in order not to let the miners in town regret it, they forced them to kill their own sheriff, the process… quite cruel, I would not describe it in detail, but I think their real purpose was not really just to make that 6,000 dollars, but your father. ”

“Does my father have anything to do with this?” Wendy was surprised.

“Your father didn't have anything to do with this, but with Cook, the head of the Cook gang, and it all makes sense. Remember that one-armed man from the Cook gang who was hanged before, he showed up in Lincoln County for a reason, and I think it's very likely that he was looking for your father, and that fake sheriff guy didn't know exactly what it had to do with Cook and your father, but there's no doubt that the two of them knew each other, oh, maybe with the Dolan Sheriff of Glen Town, all three of whom were old acquaintances, and Cook threatened your father with the lives of these peasants to do one thing for him. ”