Chapter 8: Wilderness Scenery

Mornings in Valentine are different from those in Blackwater Town. There is a lack of civilization here. Early in the morning, before the dew on the leaf tips has evaporated, men go to the tavern to drink in groups and get drunk. Maybe he picked an unlucky person who didn't like him, beat him up for some inexplicable reason, and then staggered into the brothel in full view of everyone. What happened after that is unspeakable.

It is worth mentioning that Valentine has more brothels than any other town in New Hanover. Some horse dealers who are well-established and have some reputation will choose one to patronize after completing a deal on the horse black market in Emerald Ranch. This makes those skilled Women's money bags have never been thin - they think their profession is extremely noble and worthy of pride, but I have to admit that this is indeed a bad trend that is not worthy of praise, but this trend has spread to women from good families who abide by the law. Inside, they were itching with hatred. There is a poem from China tens of thousands of miles away that vividly describes this mentality: When looking at the window, I envy the prostitute in a brothel, and I can’t move my fingers and the clothes are full in the box.

It's a pity that those hard-working wives can only watch their husbands enter other women's ornately decorated rooms, while they work tirelessly to carry swill and pour it into the pig trough day after day... Valentine Town has gathered many people of unknown origins. Among them are prostitutes, homosexuals, loan sharks, debt evaders, beggars, prisoners, fugitives, etc. Their disorderly lives have made Valentine a mess. From then on, Valentine became a natural prison. But unlike the usual gloominess of other prisons, these

"Prisoners" brought unprecedented vitality to Valentine, both economically and politically, making it a truly open and free town.

If you have a hand-drawn map of the west, you can find that the towns around Valentine - Annesburg in the east, Saint-Denis in the southeast, Strawberry Town in the west, and even the village of Coulter in the north, which has not yet formed a town scale, are larger than It is more civilized, but it is not difficult to find that those towns just accepted civilization first, and then formed an encirclement and marched towards Valentine in the middle. No wonder the bards in the Heart of the Earth always say that Valentine is barbaric Sooner or later, the relationship with debauchery will disappear.

Therefore, before the capitalists have built various mines in Valentine, the large chimneys of the metallurgical plants have not yet erected on this land, and Valentine is still an out-and-out livestock town, take off your riding boots. , step on the staggered ruts of Valentine and enjoy the wet soil with bare feet, because soon this romantic and friendly wilderness scenery will no longer exist like the era of outlaws and sharpshooters...