Game of Thrones: Kings in the North

Chapter 76
Officials of the Night Watch, such as Old Bear Mormont, Bachelor Aemon, Chief Bursar Bowen Marsh, etc., they swore the oath of the Night Watch, not to marry a wife or have children, and the Night Watch Legion and the Great Wall became their destination in this life.

Some officials and veterans of the Night Watch have stayed in the bitter cold place of the Great Wall for decades, but they can only watch the Night Watch Corps decline day by day. Most of the Night Watch recruits are criminals, poachers, thieves, and robbers Scum like that, these people were sent to the Great Wall because of crimes, forced to wear black clothes, and voluntarily took an oath to become a decent person of the Night's Watch, and the number of decent people is decreasing day by day.

Ed's plan will undoubtedly boost the confidence of the Night's Watch officials.Commander-in-Chief Mormont said: "Lord Ed, Winterfell restarts Greenguard, Long Night Fort, Westbridge Watch, implements a food reserve plan, and builds a fort at Skull Bridge, which will undoubtedly help the Night's Watch and better prevent the wildlings from going south. The Night's Watch is willing to cooperate with the Starks."

For the Night Watch Corps, those deserted forts are useless to them. The Night Watch Corps has no extra troops to guard these forts, let alone manpower and material resources to rebuild the forts.Since Ed wants to rebuild the fort to store food, the Night Watch Corps can share the food, so naturally they are willing to give the fort to Winterfell for use.

Bowen Marsh, Chief of General Bursar, is a shrewd person, "Lord Ed, the Night Watchmen handed over the fort to Winterfell for use. It would be even more perfect if you can provide rent."

Ed looked at Bowen Marsh and couldn't help smiling, "The Great Wall was built by the legendary Stark family 'Fort Builder' Brandon, and the Stark family didn't know how much money they spent on the Great Wall. I want to use a few deserted castles now, and you actually asked for rent?"

"You go to the Seven Kingdoms, go to the Free Trade Cities, just go and find any nobles and merchants who would spend even a copper coin for the deserted fortress on the Great Wall? These are ruins, not a ready-made fortress. You It’s okay to ask for rent, you night watchmen rebuild Greenguard, Long Night Fort and Westbridge Lookout yourself, and the castle is restored to be usable, and I can pay the rent.”

Chief of Staff Bowen Marsh looked at chief craftsman Oser Yawick, Oser said helplessly: "The Night Watch Corps obviously doesn't have the funds and manpower to rebuild the fort. However, Winterfell uses the Night Watch castle. You should give me some money."

"I promise to give you food in winter. Are these food and seafood worthless?" Ed pointed to Skagos Island on the map.

"I kindly asked you to cooperate. If you insist on asking for rent, I have no choice but to give up cooperating with the night watchman. The rock species on Skagos Island have just surrendered. There are places on the mountains to store food, but I didn't agree."

Elder Xiong hurriedly laughed and said, "Lord Ed, there are hidden reefs all over Skagos Island, and the rock species have just surrendered, so we can't build a cold storage there."

Bowen Marsh, Chief of General Affairs, nodded, "I heard that rock species drink blood and like to eat people. How can barbarians cooperate? Lord Eddard should cooperate with our night watchman! The friendship between the night watchman and Winterfell has gone through thousands of years ,We are friends."

"My friend asked me for rent?" Ed was proud.

Elder Xiong looked at Bowen Marsh and Oser Yawick reproachfully, "It's outrageous that you two actually ask Lord Ed for rent!"

Elder Xiong turned to Ed, "Lord Ed, Fort Greenguard, Westbridge Watch, and Long Night Fort can all be handed over to Winterfell for reconstruction. As long as Winterfell agrees to share the food with us, there is no need for any rent."

Ed held Elder Xiong's hand, "I assure the Night Watch Corps that Winterfell will not let the brothers in black go hungry at any time, and we will fight against Winter together."

The two sides finalized the winter reserve cooperation plan, the night watchman
Ed waved his hand, and Dawson escorted the night watchman deserter Steve and the wild woman Osha.Ed said: "On our way to Castle Black, we encountered a few night watchman deserters and the female wildling Spearwife. We killed most of them and captured the deserter Steve and a female wildling named Osha."

The deserter from the Night Watch Corps was actually captured alive by the Duke of the North, which made the officials of the Night Watch feel ashamed.Xiong Lao recognized Steve at a glance.

"Steve, as the night watchman officer, why did you break your oath and run away?"

Chief Bursar Bowen Marsh was in charge of the night watchman's affairs officer, and Steve was his subordinate. Bowen Marsh frowned, "Steve, I sent you to the Haunted Forest two months ago to hunt, and you haven't When I came back, I thought you were eaten by wild beasts, but you actually became a deserter and shamed us."

Steve's eyes were blank, "I didn't become a deserter, it was the ghosts and ghosts chasing me, I had to escape to the village of the savages. You don't understand. The blue-eyed dead man"

Alliser Thorne, the coach of Castle Black, said disdainfully: "This idiot chooses the White Walker as an excuse? Are we living in old women's stories?"

Old Xiong said angrily, "Breaking your oath is a death penalty! Pull him out and hang him!"

Steve was pulled out.Ed said: "Steve is a swear-breaker. I don't know if he has ever encountered the ghosts. I read in the book that the long night 8000 years ago, the snow-covered land, the ghosts and ghouls Sweeping across the kingdom and village, the last hero found the Son of the Forest, and with the help of the Son of the Forest, formed the Night Watchman Legion, won the War of Dawn, and saved all mankind."

Allisa Thorne seemed quite amused, "Lord Ed, this is just a legend, it can't be true. This is similar to Brandon the 'Builder' in the North and 'Green Hand' in the Reach. Garth, the 'Winged Knight' of the Valley, belongs to the story. How can there be children of the forest and strange spirits like the White Walkers in this world?"

Bowen Marsh shrugged. "Yeah, those stories are unlikely to be true."

The chief ranger, Benyan Stark, said: "When many rangers are patrolling in the ghost forest, they will feel that something is watching them in secret. The rangers never joke about the ghosts."

Maester Aemon spoke. As soon as this venerable maester spoke, everyone in the audience fell silent and listened intently.

"Long Night is 8000 years ago, and some books record it as 6000 years ago. It is said that people of that generation have never seen the sun from birth to death. People were born in darkness and died in darkness. The ground was covered with snow and darkness enveloped the world. In "Overview of the Jade Sea" and "Man-made Miracles", there is a darkness that lasted for many years, and the legends around the world are consistent with the legends of Westeros, so I believe that the long night is real."

"I have been serving the Night's Watch at Castle Black since Aegon V came to the throne. I have studied the historical ranger reports and the records of various castles. Some ranger reports mentioned the children of the forest. Giants and White Walkers, I think these reports have a high degree of credibility. White Walkers may have actually existed in history."

(End of this chapter)