America 1881: Legend of the West

The next morning, Hellman rushed to Brannan's suburban villa.

He couldn't wait to ask if there were any preliminary results achieved last night.

However, the villa door was closed.

Hellman knocked on the door for a long time before the butler appeared at the door belatedly.

"The young master took someone out last night and he hasn't come back yet."

The housekeeper glanced at Hellman through the crack of the half-open door and closed the door again.

Hellman was locked out.

He's a little weird.

No, no matter how far away it is from Hyde Street Pier, we should be back in one night.

Did the two sides get into a fight?

Just as he was holding the horse, he was about to mount and leave.

Brannan and his entourage appeared at the gate of the villa courtyard, heading towards him.

Hellman narrowed his eyes.

Something doesn't seem right about this group of people.

Brannan rode ahead.

The second-generation rich man's eyes were bloodshot, his suit jacket was missing a sleeve, and his trousers were covered in dust.

And the followers behind him were also disgraced.

From afar, Brannan saw Hellman standing at the gate of his villa holding a horse, and he suddenly became furious.

He dismounted quickly and walked quickly to Heilmann's door.

"What? Did you suffer a loss last night?" Heilman asked.

Brannan put his hands on his hips and stared at Hellman with a ferocious expression: "Are you fucking kidding me?!"

Hellman was confused:

"Didn't Huo Li and Chen Jianqiu come?"

"What the hell!" Brannan spat on the ground, not looking like an upper class person at all. "You think this is interesting, don't you?"

After saying that, he passed by the old detective without waiting for Hellman's reply.

"I think you should speak more clearly." Hellman's voice also became colder.

If it had been ten years ago, Brannan would have been lying on the ground eating dirt.

"You asked me to take reporters to Pier 63 on Hyde Street last night, saying there would be a surprise there."

Brannan turned around, the corners of his mouth twitching with anger.

"It turned out there was a surprise, but it wasn't about Holly and Chen Jianqiu, but about my wife and his lover!"

Hellman took a breath, and he immediately understood what was going on:

"I think we've been trapped!"

"You fell into a trap!" Brannan roared at Hellman without grace. "No wonder you Pinkertons were kicked out of California, Mr. Hellman! Our cooperation has been terminated. Do you understand? ?”

Hearing the wealthy young man's hysterical accusations, Hellman smiled instead of getting angry.

He has a way to deal with such people.

"Then how about I help you catch the lover who is committing adultery with your wife?"

Upon hearing this suggestion, Brannan's eyes lit up:

"Okay! You help me catch the adulterer and the adulterer, and I'll pay you."

Last night he and his idiot entourage chased the love rival named Dick along the coast with guns.

As a result, I chased him all the way to Fisherman's Wharf but still didn't catch up.

It seemed that this was not the first time Dick had been caught hooking up with someone else's wife, and he was very experienced in escaping.

Not only did Brannan lose track of the man, but his cuffs were also caught on nails on the railings of the trestle.

As soon as he exerted force, the sleeve became half-length.

So, when Hellman offered to arrest him, he agreed.

At this time, he had completely forgotten about the anti-strike and Chen Jianqiu.

After Brannan returned to the villa, Hellman sighed deeply.

He was more worried about another thing now.

What happened last night was obviously a trap, and the consequences of damn Brannan betraying his teammates were revealed.

The chess piece that he finally buried might be in danger.

He anxiously mounted his horse and galloped towards the barber shop in the city.

"Take a look."

In a remote warehouse on the outskirts of the city.

Chen Jianqiu took the newspaper handed to him by Hanif.

The headline above is what happened last night at the beach at Pier 63, Hyde Street:

San Francisco rich man discovered his wife's affair, and a chase took place on the beach with a gun drawn!

"It's time to close the net." Chen Jianqiu folded the newspaper and put it back on the table. "Only you and those three people know what happened yesterday. Now it is certain that the mole is among these three people."

He stood up.

Hanif stepped forward and handed another report into Chen Jianqiu's hand.

This is the whereabouts of those three people over the past two days, detailing where they went and who they met.

Chen Jianqiu did not read the report. Instead, he handed the report back to Hanif: "Go and check it yourself. If you find out, it will be cleaner."

"Hey, thank you boss, I know you still value me." Hanif said with a shy face, "Following you is definitely the wisest choice!"

"Oh?"

Chen Jianqiu was just about to leave the warehouse when he heard Hanif's words were interesting.

He turned around, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the bounty hunter with a smile:

"What? Someone wants to poach you? How much is your thick eyebrows and big eyes worth?"

Hanif was so frightened by Chen Jianqiu that he quickly reported the truth:

"It's the people from Pinkerton. They want to return to California and recruit me to lead the team."

"You promised them?" Chen Jianqiu raised his eyebrows.

"No, how is it possible? I, Hanif, am a man who repays his kindness. How could I betray my benefactor! Boss, your kindness to me is deeper than the waters of the Pacific Ocean and higher than Mount Whitney (the highest peak in the United States). !”

Hanif said righteously.

"I'm afraid I didn't give him enough money." Chen Jianqiu glanced at him.

Hanif chuckled.

"Okay, I'm leaving, you can figure it out on your own." Chen Jianqiu stepped out of the door.

"Boss, when will I be reinstated?"

Hanif asked towards Chen Jianqiu's back.

"Be an assistant to your apprentice for another three months. When he says you can become a full-time employee, you can go back and be his boss." Chen Jianqiu's voice drifted over.

Hanif looked at the roof of the warehouse.

He seemed to have returned to the time when he was a non-staff member.

He turned his head and shrugged at Holly: "Sir, please call those three people over."

Holly nodded and walked out the door.

A few hours later, the summoned officers of the Knights of Labor appeared at the door of the warehouse.

But, there are only two people!

Senior undercover Duncan and angry young man Bowen both came, but only Gordon, the lumberjack, did not show up.

"We didn't find him," said the labor union official who didn't know the truth. "The workers at the lumberyard said he left first."

"Snapped!"

Holly slapped the table in front of him, startling everyone present.

"You go to the office and wait for me first. There will be a strike the day after tomorrow. I will make the final arrangements." He said to everyone in the Knights of Labor.

Everyone, including Duncan and Bowen, did not understand the significance of Holly's arrangement.

If they want to go to the office, why bother calling them to this barren warehouse in the suburbs?

This is really unbelievable.

But they still followed Holly's arrangement.

After everyone left, Hanif walked out of a cubicle in the corner of the warehouse.

"We have to find Gordon immediately and we can't let him cause damage to this strike!" Holly looked serious.

"Don't worry, he can't run away." A smile appeared on Hanif's lips, "Just leave him to me."