: Withdraw

“These Chinese are so scary.”

After staying near the Donner Tunnel for about a day and a half, the train started again. Joni, S Denver, and several other accomplices were locked up in the place where Charlotte once lived... that is, the dark and prisoner car lined up behind the locomotive. The range of activities was finally larger than the aisle, and there was no need to tie it all day long, at most they were handcuffed... In fact, they couldn't understand why these guys even had such tools for police use. Did they intercept the police station? However, thinking about what they saw and heard, Joni still felt his heartbeat from time to time.

"Hi, I haven't been killed, what do you think?"

Stanford nodded in agreement, and asked Charlotte, who was nestled in a corner of the car.

"What do you think I have?" Charlotte raised his eyelids slightly. The dim light made him unable to see Sdenver's face at all, but he didn't care, just snorted faintly.

"Did you know that those Chinese people won't kill you?" another cowboy asked.

"I don't know." Charlotte shook his head. He thought that the Chinese would kill him, as Guo Jinzhang described: only a complete head was left, but his whole body would be cut clean, leaving only a frame of bones, and then he was placed at the entrance of the Donner Tunnel. He believed that these Chinese people would definitely do it. Even more than 3,000 militiamen killed all of them at one time and threw the body of the Arkansas River, as if they were afraid that the Americans would not know. What's so great about cutting him like Denver Mayor? You know, he still had a deep feud with these Chinese. But unexpectedly, the guy who came out with two sharp knives, as if he was going to cut him alive, just "pulled" him back to the prison car. Of course, this is not the most hateful, the most hateful one is when the guy approached him with a knife, he actually...

"Hehe, of course you don't know. If you knew, you wouldn't be scared to pee your pants." A cowboy said with a smile.

"Hahahaha..." The cowboys burst into laughter.

"..." Charlotte's old face turned red. Fortunately, the car windows were all sealed tightly, and the light was dark, so it was hard to see. But when he heard the laughter of these cowboys, he still felt extremely harsh. He was peeing his pants. The dignified mayor of Denver, a big man who was qualified to be the governor of Colorado, was so scared that he pissed his pants by a few words from the *** man... This was even more shameful than his deeds that fell into the hands of the Chinese three times in a row.

"Hi, hey, why are you laughing at? It's not you who almost got skeletoned by the Chinese. If it were you, you might be worse than wet your pants." Joni and Charlotte had a little bit of "love" of chatting with each other. Thinking of the person in front of him who was still the mayor after all, after the cowboys became less and less sensible, they finally couldn't help but interrupt them.

"Of course I won't wet my pants, because I've been scared to death long ago. Hahaha..." a cowboy smiled.

"It seems you are not useful than me, because I just fainted."

"Hey, do you think this is funny?" Joni said angrily.

"What will the Chinese deal with us?" Stanver asked suddenly.

"..." The cowboys' laughter suddenly paused.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Seeing these guys' eyes turned to him, Joni was a little unrestrained. "I've never dealt with those Chinese people. If I knew that these guys were so difficult to mess with, I would rather freeze to death in the desert than provoke them... God, my family is probably still waiting for me to go back now."

"They won't wait for you. You'll only go back once a month, so they won't worry about you." said a cowboy.

"They will..." Joni shouted.

"Well, they will. But can we go back?" Stanver asked again, "Will those Chinese kill us?"

"I don't want to die." Hearing this, a cowboy jumped up, "I'm still young, I still have decades to live, I don't want to die here."

"So what can you do?" Another cowboy looked at him with a wry smile. "Can you still jump off this train? Man, here is Mount Nevada, we just passed the Dona Pass... There was a story of people eating up there. Even if you can jump on this train, you will eventually starve to death and freeze to death in this forest. Maybe you will be eaten by wild beasts in the mountains as food, and you will not even find a bone in the end..."

"You bastard, you will be eaten by a beast." The cowboy jumped and shouted.

“I just described a possibility.”

"Enough, you guys," shouted Joni, "Do you still feel that it's not annoying enough? The Chinese people outside have a bad temper. They annoyed them. Do you think we will have good fruits? I heard that the Denver Sheriff broke his kidneys by them... and it hurts for a full week before he slowly died. Do you know?"

"And all the more than 20 police officers led by the sheriff were seriously injured. So far, no one has been able to leave his home healthily, because they are basically disabled." Charlotte suddenly interfered.

“…”

Look at me, I look at you, the cowboys closed their mouths again. After a while, Stanford asked again:

"What will those Chinese deal with us?"

"If you don't cause them trouble, maybe when they feel the time is almost over, they will let you go." Charlotte said.

"Let us go?" Stanford and others were stunned. "Do you think they will do this?"

"In fact, even if I have a deep hatred with them, they let me go twice... If it weren't for our damn Grant's order to massacre their companions, Colorado would not have fallen to this point now, and the entire state's city was destroyed by only one city, but even this city was let go because the Chinese were going to California to vent their anger for their compatriots. Otherwise, tens of thousands of citizens in Denver would have become their captives." Charlotte replied lightly.

"...In other words, their tempers are not that bad?" Stanford asked in a low voice.

"As long as you listen to them, you should be able to understand it this way. Of course, there may be some guys with a bad temper. They may suddenly rush in and beat you up, but the leader Jin Zhang. Guo is not a person who likes to kill people. Although he once brought these Chinese people to retaliately massacre more than 3,000 white militiamen, he is usually very restrained..." A ray of dim sunshine shone on Charlotte's face, and the cowboys saw the bitter smile on his face. He couldn't help but smile bitterly... The person who made enemies with him, the person who hated him the deepest, the person who wanted to kill him quickly, was actually the person who saved his life in many cases. This is a kind of irony.

"Why don't they kill you? There is so much hatred between you and them... And, before that, didn't they say they wanted to kill you?" Joni asked suddenly.

"I don't know, no one knows what these Chinese are thinking," Charlotte said with a head shake.

"No one?"

"No one!"

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The train continued to travel through the Sierra Nevada. This was the most difficult itinerary for the entire Pacific Railway. It had the most dangerous roads and the most tunnels, so naturally it became the place where Guo Jinzhang and others took the most "black hands"... It was almost every few miles to stop. The Chinese workers were very energetic. Under the arrangement of Guo Jinzhang and others, they either set off firecrackers, boiled water and freeze, or... Anyway, it was all kinds of methods. Everyone kept using their intelligence and talent to give as many "surprises" as possible to the guys who would catch up! However, just as everyone was trying to prepare enough "gifts" for the later white people, they didn't know that some people had been furious because of their "slow" actions.

George Clement Perkins, the governor of California, is currently on the Nevada border, a small town near California... President Hayes was very dissatisfied with his dissatisfaction with the threats of Chinese workers and the warnings of the White House, and eventually gave this dissatisfaction to the Republican boss Brian. There is no way. Who said Perkins is a Republican member? Brian, who is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, was of course extremely dissatisfied with such anger, but he had no choice but to face Hayes who was anxious and angry. He could only acquiesce to Averte when he warned Perkins again through the Embassy in Mexico, and added a few warning words.

So, Perkins finally couldn't stay in Sacramento... If he didn't give the president face, he would have to give the Republican leader face. The president had only one year term and had promised not to fight for re-election, but Brian's Republican leader still didn't know how many years he could be. After this term of California governor, if he couldn't be re-election, he might have gone to Congress to be a senator, and he would have to ask the boss to take care of him. Moreover, the White House repeatedly warned him again and again, otherwise, if something really happened, he would probably have to bear much greater responsibilities.

So, Governor Perkins quickly organized a group of men to set off... He was still very smart. Anyway, he was going to block the Chinese, so what could it be? There were so many Chinese in California. In order to prevent those already violent guys from infecting the gentle Chinese in the state, it would be better to block them out of the state directly. So he placed the interception location in Reno. Of course, he greeted the Nevada government, and Nevada naturally agreed to this... They still have many aspects to rely on California, so of course they have to sell their face.

Speaking of which, Reno is a good place.

On the eastern foot of the Sierra Nevada Range, it has just developed for more than 20 years, but it has become an important railway, highway transportation hub, and agricultural, animal husbandry and mining trade center in Nevada. However, although it is a relatively famous city in Nevada, Reno is far from reaching its golden period... Its golden period was in the first half of the 20th century, when Reno was known as the "world's divorce capital" and thus became the most famous small town in the United States.

In the first half of the 20th century, divorce was not as common and free as it is now, and divorce was disgraceful. But in Reno, there was a kind of "no responsibility divorce". Divorce was not required. As long as you live in this city for a specified time and pay a certain fee, you can get divorced. Therefore, thousands of Americans flocked to this for a smooth divorce, making this city famous.

In order to attract more Americans to divorce in Reno, Nevada also shortened the residence time required for divorce twice: in 1927, the residence time for 6 months was shortened to 3 months; on March 20, 1931, Nevada Governor Barza signed two bills, one of which was to shorten the time required for divorce and residence to 6 weeks. As long as you live for this period of time, both parties can apply for divorce in Reno.

As soon as these measures were introduced, Reno City was crowded with people. People who came to divorce lived in hotels, farms, ranches, small villas and even family hotels. Some people could not find a house, and even lived in the tent they set up. Anyway, it was not long. It was actually worth it to suffer a few weeks of sin and get a lifetime of freedom of marriage. At that time, along the banks of the Trucki River, there were rows of "divorce tents" that became a big scenery in the small town.

Most of the people who go to Reno are young women, accounting for more than 60% of tourists. While they live there, they wait for the divorce judgment, and have to enjoy entertainment. Many people immediately find new love there after divorce. Reno also has a "divorce ranch", where lonely women and handsome cowboys will perform classic romance.

Reno's "Virginia Street Bridge" also has extraordinary significance in the history of "Reno's divorce", because women who had just divorced had to stand on the bridge and throw their wedding rings into the surging Trucky River water, and a marriage ended. Later, the bridge became a "endangered historical location" in Nevada and was protected.

Until the early 20th century, because gambling had not been legalized, and the natural environment in the state was harsh, deserts and deep mountains, Nevada was still a poor state, but the rich income brought by the divorce industry made Nevada taste the sweetness. Because the income of the divorce industry was very considerable, the monthly income of lawyer fees alone was $100,000. In addition to hotels, casinos, hotels and shopping, the divorce industry brought Nevada a year to $5 million, accounting for a large part of the state's fiscal revenue at that time... It can be said that relying on the income of the divorce industry, the poor Nevada was really well-off for a while. Unfortunately, after the 1960s, divorce had become more and more common, and people's attitudes became more and more tolerant. Nevada, especially Reno, had quickly disappeared in this regard, and the divorce industry gradually declined.

However, that's all for the future. At this time, Lipiao Astronomy was defeated.

However, one day, two days, three days... one star-singling has passed one after another. The group of Chinese rebels who should have arrived had not appeared for a long time. They sent people to the mountains to find them along the railway, but there was no information. So Governor Perkins could no longer hold on.

"Nevada is asking me when will those Chinese appear? How do you ask me to answer?"

"Why would you ask Washington?"

Edmund made his own suggestions with a bitter face, but in his heart he cursed the White House, especially President Hayes and Secretary of State Averte, and he scolded him bloodily... You said you should be careful of the Chinese, be careful of the Chinese, those Chinese are extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, it may cause a terrible disaster that will be unbearable to the whole of California. But what about people now? My buddy believed you and worked hard to persuade his boss to come to Reno with a large group of people, waiting to start a massacre to protect the safety of California and Nevada. But you are good, just hand over the people! How do you ask your buddy to explain to the boss?

"Washington? What's the use of asking them? They will only say that this is a trick of the Chinese, deliberately making us unable to hold on and play with it... They will only make us wait patiently and wait patiently." Perkins's hair, which was not long before, had been straight due to his anger. "But what about people now? Those Chinese people were eaten by wolves in the mountains of Nevada, or did they encounter brown bears?"

"George, the bears are hibernating now." Edmund Young reminded.

"So what?" Perkins was so angry that he almost laughed out loud. The guy still had time to remind him that the bear would hibernate at this time? "If I had known, I should have let Staman come over, not myself."

"Steman must hate you very much now. He thought you had robbed him of a good opportunity to show his face in front of California voters." Edmund Young smiled. The time they mentioned were actually George, George Staman, Perkins' deputy, the commander of the California militia during the general period, and also the Speaker of the California Parliament. Of course, he is also the deputy governor.

"He won't hate me, he will just make fun of me from everyone behind his back, and then organize a welcome ceremony to welcome me back to Sacramento." Perkins smiled bitterly.

"I think we can wait for a while. You know, the environment in Nevada is very harsh, especially in winter, so even if the railway has been opened, the train must be very careful when moving. Since the Chinese have passed the Great Salt Lake and the desert, they must have entered it. Perhaps, they just dare not rush to go at full speed, so they have not arrived for a long time." Seeing Perkins' mood getting better, Edmund Young hurriedly took the opportunity to persuade. Although he was very dissatisfied with not being able to wait for a person after waiting for seven days, he still didn't want to give up so easily when he thought of the increasingly severe warning from Mexico... What if it was true? If it wasn't true, Washington wouldn't warn them again and again, right?

"What you said makes sense, then we'll wait two more days." Perkins thought for a while, "but at most two days, if I haven't seen the arrival of the Chinese in two days, I will immediately lead our militia back..."

"All right."

...

After making up his mind, Perkins and his men continued to wait in Reno, waiting for two days... The Chinese workers still did not show up.

So, he withdrew!
Chapter completed!