Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 79 The Traitor on the Laughing Lion

As for whether these people will ask Salado to verify this matter, Ian is not worried, not to mention whether it is possible for grassroots cadres to go to the top leaders for such a trivial matter. Even if they want to, Salado Sann will Not in King's Landing.

Different ships have their own trade routes. Although they are all ships under Salado, if Salado doesn't call them (for example, in the War of the Five Kings, in order to form a "Royal Fleet" for Stannis, Salado assembled all his ships), it is possible that they will not meet for years.

Everyone was drinking, and the tavern maid finally brought all the good wine and food that Ian wanted, the wine from Qingting Island, the fat and tender roasted pigeon, a roasted whole lamb and a large pot of beef soup, served with fresh White bread, butter, and a vegetable platter made the mercenaries around salivate.

"Let's put the table together and eat together," Ian said with a smile, and then beckoned the maid over, "Add some more dishes, and always pay attention to keeping the wine at our table sufficient, as long as the golden wine from Qingting Island is needed. "

"Yes, my lord." The maid nodded and asked Ian if he needed anything else.

"No need," Ian refused directly, and pushed away the woman whose breasts were about to fall on his face, "but after the meal, you can ask my brothers, if they need anything, I will charge all the expenses on the account."

"You are such a generous lord!" Boris immediately praised, "Sir Lucian, you are more generous than any lord I have ever met."

"To Sir Lucian's health!" Boris said, raising his glass high, and drank it down.

"To Sir Lucian's health!" echoed the sailors.

After all the sailors finished toasting, Ian tore off a piece of mutton leg and stuffed it into his mouth, while casually asking, "How long will your ship berth in King's Landing this time?"

This question is very important. If these people leave in a hurry, then Ian will have to pay a higher price to keep them.

"For half a month, we just went out to sea once, so this rest is a little longer." Burlis replied, "However, we have been here for a week."

"Are you... do you need our help?" A sharp-eyed sailor seemed to see Ian's thoughts, "You are a friend of the Prince, and you are so generous to us. If you have anything, just ask!"

"Yes! Just tell me, if you need any help from the brothers, you must not be polite!" The sailors promised while putting food and wine into their mouths, patting their chests.

"I do need your help," Ian nodded, "but I need to talk to your captain."

"Now? The captain didn't go into the city, do you want us to go back to the ship to find him now?"

"Tomorrow," Ian said, shaking his head. Calling people from the ship into the city at night is too arrogant, and then raised his glass to the sailors again, "You should enjoy tonight."

After dinner, most of the sailors and Ian's mercenaries stayed at the inn and chose special services. Only Bronn and Sir Grantson followed Ian back to their rented house. Of course, Bronn was Came back with Ian on orders from Ian.

"You seem to have a lot of questions, my friends." Ian came to the main room of the house, and asked Luo Er to close the door.

"I have doubts about everything, but I'm not interested in knowing the truth. What I'm interested in is who to kill and how much money I can get, that's all." Bronn sneered. Wanting to go back to the inn just now, I asked the boss to leave his daughter to me. Temporarily, if I don’t go back for a long time”

"Okay buddy, since you only care about how much you can get, then I promise you, the golden dragon will fill your pocket after this operation is over." Ian resisted the urge to roll his eyes, "Go, go enjoy your of."

Bronn grinned, and left the house quickly.

"What about you? You're not interested in the truth either?" Ian turned to look at Sir Granson.

"At least I need to know what the purpose of our trip to King's Landing is. Of course, that's just to let us serve you better, if it's convenient for you." Granson smiled awkwardly, of course he wanted to know The truth, but if he had to choose between the truth and the golden dragon, he would choose the latter.

"First of all, I have to admit to you that I lied to you before," Ian tapped on Roll's breastplate, "I told you a story when we first met."

"You said that Mr. Doggie was your kidnapper." Sir Granson nodded.

"It's true, but the story doesn't happen in the West, because I went to sea with my father seven years ago. The story of my being kidnapped by them actually happened in New Ghis. Of course, this story is not important."

"Yes."

"The important thing is that those people I asked you to hunt and kill at the crossroads are not wanted criminals in King's Landing. In fact, they are traitors on my father's ship, a group of mercenaries who have been active in the Eastern Continent for a long time."

Sir Granson nodded. In fact, he had already guessed in this regard. After all, if the target was a bandit operating in King's Landing, the employer should not have repeatedly emphasized that 'no one knows the target'. If the target was a servant from the Eastern Continent, In the case of Bing, it is more reasonable that they have no one to know.

"Over the years I've been on my father's ship, we've entered the Sea of ​​Smoke 4 times to explore the ruins of ancient Valyria, the first three times were basically fruitless.

But a few months ago, we strayed into a dragon king's mansion, where we found a Valyrian steel sword. I don't know if you know, but the purpose of my father's going to sea was to find the family's lost family. Sword 'Guang Xiao'. "

(ps: Here is an explanation of a difference between the TV series and the original book. In the TV series, the "stoneman" infected with gray scale disease lives in the ruins of Valyria. That is actually a modification of the original work. The real stoneman lives The place is on the upper Rhone north of Volantis, Chayon the 'Sorrowland', home of the Rhoynar, and there are scarier things in the ruins of Valyria.)
"I've heard of it."

"So, when we found the Wagang Sword, our mission was complete, even though it was not 'Light Howl'. Then we chose to return, but on the way back to Lannister Port, we were attacked by 'Crow's Eye' Euron. Serenity's attack, we repelled them after a hard fight, though my father was also badly wounded.

Due to the heavy losses and unable to sail normally, we had to temporarily recruit a group of sailors in the Stone Step Islands, and gave up the idea of ​​returning to the west, and prepared to go directly to King's Landing.

But what I didn't expect was that after our ship passed the throat (the passage from Blackwater Bay into the Narrow Sea), the sailors on board rebelled. We fought fiercely all night, and finally the Laughing Lion hit a rock near Raven's Rest and sank.

Some of the rebels fled westward with the wealth we ventured to find, and I, Goudan, Duckdan and a few others chased them all the way, until we chased them near Harrenhal, only to catch the two lone traitors. "

(End of this chapter)