Wilderness Redemption Tour

"Based on the current situation, it will be difficult for Dutch to fulfill his promise. In that case, there is no point for you to stay. Pinkerton, Cornwall, and Angelo Bronte's men will definitely not give up so easily, so we should leave as soon as possible..."

In a wooden house in the Lakai camp, Hosea, Lin Yan and Marybeth sat around a square table. Lin Yan looked at Marybeth intently, trying to persuade them to leave with a serious look on his face.

Marybeth listened carefully the whole time, sometimes biting her lower lip, sometimes frowning in thought, and sometimes hesitating to speak, looking like she was worried about something.

"Is there any problem?" Lin Yan took in the other party's expression when he spoke just now. After the first phase of persuasion came to a temporary end, he asked back.

Marybeth asked the question she had been thinking about without thinking, but it was a question that neither Lin Yan nor Hosea had expected beforehand: "Why did you... come to me first?"

Lin Yan and Hosea looked at each other, neither of them expected Marybeth to start from here. They both thought about it at the same time, and just when Lin Yan was about to answer, Hosea raised his hand to stop him.

"Let me talk about this question." Hosea turned to look at Marybeth. "The reason we came to you first is because we think you are a smart person. A smart person will know better than others how bad our current situation is. People like to follow the crowd, even in this kind of thing. As long as someone takes the lead and leaves, the faith of the remaining people who are still hoping will gradually collapse as fewer and fewer people are around them. By then, maybe we don't even need to ask, those people will leave on their own."

After listening to Hosea's explanation, Marybeth smiled with a helpless yet somewhat relieved smile. "So, I am one of the test subjects in your experiment this time."

"We don't mean that." Hearing Marybeth calling him a "test subject", Lin Yan waved his hands repeatedly to deny that he and Hosea had such an idea.

Seeing Lin Yan's reaction, Marybeth covered her mouth and chuckled a few times. "I know, I'm just making an analogy."

"What do you think?" Hosea asked gently.

Marybeth played with the ends of her brown curly hair with her right index finger, her tone a little unnatural. "I do have the idea of ​​leaving, but not now..."

"Why?" Hosea asked, but before Marybeth could answer, he continued, "In my opinion, it's best to leave now. If you are worried about Ms. Grimshaw, don't worry, she is not unreasonable. If someone wants to leave, she will neither stop you nor say anything sarcastic to you."

Marybeth shook her head. "It's not about that. It's some...personal reasons."

Personal reasons? Lin Yan was stunned when she heard this. She was a girl, and unlike Abigail, she was not married and had a family. What personal reasons could she have? Could it be... because of Jilan???

Lin Yan knew that Marybeth and Jilan were dating, but he didn't know to what extent. He was not the kind of person who would gossip. He would hide away when he saw others dating, so how could he ask such gossip questions? But when he heard that Marybeth refused to leave because of what she called "personal reasons", he understood. He didn't expect that Jilan, who looked honest, was really good at this. It had only been a short time since they started dating, but he had already coaxed Marybeth into submission.

"Because of Kieran?" Hosea was in the camp every day, so how could he not know that Marybeth and Kieran were dating? Now that he heard her say this, the old man immediately understood.

"...Yeah." Marybeth hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement. "Even if I want to leave, I have to discuss it with Kieran first to see what he thinks."

"Hey! This isn't a difficult problem to solve!" Lin Yan stood up and said, "I'll go get Jilan now and we'll discuss this together."

After saying that, without waiting for Marybeth to speak to stop him, Lin Yan walked directly to the window, opened it, and looked outside, but he didn't see Jilan. Just as he was about to go out to look for him, a weak voice came from just below the window: "What's wrong?"

"Huh?" Lin Yan looked over when he heard the voice and found that Jilan was looking at him with an expression that said, "Don't ask me why I'm sitting here, I don't know anything."

"You guy..." Lin Yan beckoned at him speechlessly: "Come in, there is something for you to do in here."

"Okay!" Kiran patted his butt, opened the door and walked in happily, sitting in the remaining empty seat.

"You should have heard what we just said, right?" After Jilan sat down, Lin Yan looked at him and spoke again.

Seeing that his little trick was exposed, Kiran smiled awkwardly.

"Since you've heard everything, let's cut to the chase." Relying on his relationship with Kieran, Lin Yan didn't bother to be polite with him anymore, but went straight to the point: "From what Marybeth said just now, she has to ask for your opinion before leaving, so what do you think of the topic we just discussed?"

"Uh..." Kiran scratched his head. Lin Yan asked so suddenly that he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Marybeth saw that things had come to this point and didn't care about being polite anymore. She turned sideways to face Kieran and said bravely and proactively: "I originally wanted to discuss this with you slowly, but since Jamie said so, I might as well ask you here. Kieran, are you willing to leave the gang with me and start a new life in a completely unfamiliar place?"

"Of course I am willing." Kieran's face flushed slightly and he answered in a low voice. "But... once we leave, all these things in the gang... the horses I take care of, the chores I do every day... and your cleaning work... won't all these things fall on other people's shoulders once we leave? I don't want to add burden to others..."

Lin Yan was shocked when he heard this. She was such a nice girl, such an outstanding literary young woman, and she was determined to elope with a "pirate captain" like you who had no money, no house, and no car. But you were thinking about whether it would cause trouble to others if you just left. You really treated the camp as your home? What was your intention? Did you develop Stockholm syndrome after being caught by Arthur?

Unable to bear it any longer, Lin Yan raised his hand and slammed Jilan's head: "You are leaving soon, why are you still worrying about that? If you want to leave, just leave. There are others to do your work for you."