48 Hours a Day

Matthew's face suddenly changed, “I swear, if you do anything to Jane and Wendy, I'll kill you, Cook, no matter how many people you run to, no matter how many connections we've had, I'll catch you up and put a bullet in your head. ”

“Well, all I need is this anger.” The old man on the hunchback suddenly shut his mouth when he said this, and then he saw Jane walking over with tea and cookies, and he said, “What are you talking about? ”

“Yeah, I talked to Matthew about the salmon we went fishing with,” Old Camelback took a cup of tea and smiled and thanked him, "I don't know if he ever told you, we went out hunting and lost our way, how we got to the side of a creek, I don't know if we were the first people to find it, anyway, the salmon there were so much tm, it was almost crowded together, one sticking to the other, each one was so fat, Matthew and I didn't even need to use any fishing gear to catch them, and they didn't have any security, they were there waiting for you silly, which made me curious, what made them look like this? ”

“What is it?” Jane asked with interest.

“It is the lady of life, it is the life that makes them this way, for a long time they have no natural enemies, this creek provides them with a considerable amount of food, so they gradually lose their guard against the outside world and immerse themselves in brief happiness until one day the danger comes and they even forget to flee. ”

The old man on his back drank tea and continued, "Seeing them reminds me of the society we live in today, isn't it like this creek, it does its best to maintain order so that the fish that live in it can thrive as much as possible, all these laws, the economic order, God… all of this is creating an illusion of prosperity, peace of mind, willingness to be domesticated, loss of self instinct, yet you know, Madam, when danger really comes, none of these things will save you, your laws, your money, God, they won't save you. ”

Cook said the living room was trapped in silence.

Jane tried to squeeze a smile on her face, "... to be honest, you scared me a little, sir. ”

“Well, I apologize for that, ma'am, and by the way, your tea is delicious.” The old man with the hunchback raised his glass, and then he turned to the other side, and sometime he walked into the living room, Wendy, “you're lucky to have a very clever mother, little girl. ”

Wendy asked, “How was your harvest? ”

“What?”

“You said the creek was full of salmon. How was your day? ”

“Oh, great, we didn't hit the deer, but we did catch a lot of fish, and I had to take off my coat and wrap up all the fish I couldn't fit, but even so, the fish we caught was still insignificant compared to the rest of the creek, and your father and I had to eat roast fish for days, and I didn't want to smell it for a long time afterwards.” The old man with the hunchback seemed to be trapped in memories, smiling.

Matthew, who hasn't spoken, said, "Well, Mr. Cook and I have something to talk about, Wendy, why don't you and Mom go upstairs first. ”

“Well, then we'll leave the living room to your men.” Jane laughed courteously at the old man on the hunchback.

The next moment, however, her smile was suddenly frozen on her face.

Because the old man with the hunchback pulled a revolver out of his waist and pointed it at her, "I like you, darling, really, you remind me of my own daughter, and I really hope this never happened, but... I need you to help your husband wake up, because whatever I said before, he just can't hear me, and I think it's time for life to show him the truth. ”

He pulled down the barrel and hit the hammer.

Jane suddenly took a breath, opened her eyes and looked overwhelmed. At the same time, Matthew on the other side straightened herself out of her seat, like an angry leopard, trying to jump on her. As a result, the old man's left hand pulled out another pistol and pointed at him.

“Not yet to your part, my child, be patient. ”

“You don't know what you're doing. ”

“On the contrary, I know exactly what I'm doing.” The hunchback old man, Guan 'er.

“What do you want, Cook? If you kill my wife, I'd be less likely to join your Cook gang. ”

“Well, let's see... I'll kill your lovely wife first, then I'll take your daughter away when Lincoln County is over, but in return, I'll give you Cook, and you can use their strength to find my whereabouts. Many of them and I have lived for quite some time, they know my hobbies, they know where I like to go, they even know where I live, and all you have to do is put words out of their mouths and let them bring you to me willingly.

“Don't worry, they're all easy people to get along with, just feel their temper and give them what they want, they'll treat you like you're one of them, so you may lose two families, but you can harvest over 40 brothers, even though sometimes you feel a little noisy... but you'll get used to it, I can give you a whole year, don't let me down, my child. ”

“Don't do this, Cook. I'll kill you when I find you!” Matthew was furious.

“I wouldn't mind if you had the skill. ”

“If you don't let my mother go, I'll kill you too.” Wendy on the other side also said.

“Ha-ha-ha," Cook laughed, seemingly amused by the indiscriminate words of a child, but the next moment his laughter stopped, as he saw the shotgun in Wendy's hand.

Unlike her mother, Wendy had heard the old cowboy tell her stories about her father's whereabouts, so when the old man with the hunchback first showed up, she knew who he was, but Wendy didn't show any look of fear and fear like a normal girl.

Instead, she buried everything in her heart, and she never had any emotional fluctuations in her face, so even an old lake like Cook was deceived by her. Wendy waits in silence... waiting.

Until Matthew and Cook confronted each other, she finally found the opportunity to sneak out the shotgun she had hidden behind the cabinet. She forced herself to calm down, recalling in her head the method of shooting given to her by Zhang Heng, and then lifted the shotgun at the fastest possible speed, aiming at Cook's heart.