King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 196 Arya
The front and rear doors have been hung with black cloth, and Igor is sitting at Night's In the lobby of the Watch House, together with Nina, they sort out the accounts of the Night's Watch industry these days and plan for the future.

Most of these matters could have been handled directly by Nina, but there is a war going on outside the city, and all commercial production activities in the city have been suspended at this moment, hiding in the house to avoid the war, except for doing things that everyone loves to do , and always have to find something serious to do to pass the time.

Igor doesn't know much about the development of Westeros' current situation after deviating from the original track. Apart from rumors in the market, his sources of intelligence are nothing more than oneself's in-city industries such as brothels and shops. Part of the garrison soldiers who have taken refuge in oneself, and an Arya in the Red Keep... With the last source of information temporarily cut off and the garrison fully in combat, he is now almost "deaf and blind" - both There is no way to inquire about the current situation of the war in the Westerlands, nor to know the situation of the siege of King's Landing, and even whether Melisandre, who is the key to the victory or defeat, is in the city at this moment. Wait for the war to end.

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"We have too few sources of intelligence. If we can get through this crisis safely, we must increase our investment in this area - to make friends or to be able to enter and exit Red. Keep's friends, from nobles to squire servants, who cannot be directly contacted, investigate family and interpersonal relationships, and start with people around them - such as recruiting wives, children, brothers and friends into Night's Watch industry and office work, etc... ...when the time is right, use the 'businessman needs to be well-informed' as an excuse to pry open the mouths of these Red Keep insiders."

Littlefinger can rely on intelligence on a few brothels to hang out in King's Landing The reason for his success is that he lives in the Red Keep as the Master of Coin. He is well informed inside and outside the red wall, and it is natural and convenient to do things. And the Night's Watch industry... Now it has a lot of power outside the Red Keep, but due to its rapid development, the foundation is unstable, and the tentacles did not have time to reach the Royal Family castle. The disadvantage of relying on Arya's help in the early stage was not exposed, but Over time, this defect gradually became apparent.

Igor realized this and started working on it.

"This point, in fact, my lord - even if you don't say it, the King's Landing families are also trying their best to put people in the Night's Watch industry." Nina pursed her lips, "Lord Tyrion still Since then, some of our investors and clients have begun to ask for positions and jobs for their family's descendants and followers, but Lord Tyrion has kept the bottom line and only provides limited and irrelevant positions. Important jobs are needed. Assess ability and compete based on ability."

"Very good, continue to do so, but you can relax your requirements a little bit, nothing is perfect in this world... In order to take advantage of the power of these nobles, a little It’s okay to raise some idlers, as long as they don’t eat them completely and don’t cause us trouble. But it must be well controlled—important and critical positions must be occupied by people with clear origins and competent abilities.” Igor Nomination: "Also, do some in-depth communication with the prostitutes that Littlefinger left behind that he trained to see if there is a way for them to connect with Littlefinger's original informants in the Red Keep. This is a ready-made intelligence network, if It would be great if it could be inherited."

"Well, I see, I'll start doing it as soon as possible."

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Two newbies with business They have no experience in building their own intelligence agencies in the Night's Watch industry, but the ninth layer starts from a lot of ground... As long as they work steadily, some results can be achieved sooner or later. While discussing the details of the plan with great interest, a soldier from the security squad suddenly knocked on the door to report: "Master Igor, there is a little girl outside the door, knocking on the door and shouting that she is coming to the master, what should I do?"

"Arya? What is she doing here!" Igor raised his brows and quickly stood up nervously: "Damn, how dare she leave the Red Keep and run around at this juncture!"

Immediately put down the Discussing the matter, Igor pushed the door and ran to the gate, opened the door, and saw oneself's little discipline that seemed to be burrowing out of the mud.

Arya's body was dirty, as if she had run a long section of the road, holding her knees and breathing heavily, she looked up when Igor opened the door, and laughed at him: "Master, I just went to work. I'm looking for you, why don't you open the door to do errands today."

Do you open the door to do errands? What a ghost thing to do in such a chaotic day, Igor pulled the girl through the door and said, "You're going to die, did you get out of that 'secret passage' again?"

"Yeah. "The girl was still proud.

"What are you looking for?"

"My sword is with you, I want to take it back!"

"Sword? What sword? ?" Igor completely forgot about this, and it took a while to figure out what Arya was talking about: "I...you can't get it, but today!"

"But today is It's a war." Arya was made a little bit not knowing what to do by the anxious and angry look of the man, "If there is a bad guy who wants to hurt me and my elder sister, there is something I can use for self-protection."

"Bullshit... just bullshit..." Igor was shaking with anger, he hung a black cloth on the door and huddled in the house to stay out of the house, just to avoid any connection with this war? One side is Stannis and Ed, and the other side is Renly, who has made a promise and wants to recruit oneself. With the neutral status of Night's Watch, no matter who wins or loses, he will not be in trouble.

He is far from trouble, but this little discipline of oneself brings the war to oneself!

How to deal with hot potato? Of course, I hurriedly threw it back to the previous owner. Igor thought for a while, then turned to the oneself guard squad and loudly said: "Go get the horses, two horses! Also, no one has come to my place today, understand? !"

"Yes, sir!"

Arya looked at Igor as if she was facing a great enemy, staring at him innocently, making the man feel There was no anger: "Nina, go get a small black clothed and put it on her."

A dozen minutes later, the saddled horse was led to the door, and Arya also The quilt was covered in black, and the smallest black clothed looked like a blouse on her body. Nina had to tighten the belt for her and tied a cloth strip on her chest to prevent the clothes from slipping off.

"Close the door, and don't let anyone knock except me!"

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Igor rode out the gate of the house, the street There were no pedestrians in the sky. Occasionally, there were a few guys who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to steal and loot. Seeing Igor wearing a black clothed horse and a sword, he quickly retreated into the alley. Packing up the mood and taking Arya with him, he set off on his way to the Red Keep.

Arya seems to be quite new to wearing black clothed, not only has no self-consciousness to cause trouble, but she even happily asks the girl if she can join Night's Watch. Igor was so angry that he didn't have the mood to care about her, and he just rode his horse on the road without saying a word.

The girl quickly found out that something was wrong: "Master, this is not the way to the office."

"Don't go to the office, now I will send you back to the Red Keep, obediently and honestly in Stay inside. Sword, I will send someone to deliver it to you when I find the time."

"Don't be so troublesome, go to the office to get the sword, and I can go back by myself."

"Oneself go back?" Igor glared at the girl angrily: "The rogue ruffian who just stuck his head out on the side of the road, did you see that you were not escorted and fell into their hands, do you know what happened!"

"What's there to be afraid of, I just wanted to chase me, but I can't run as fast."

"You still feel very proud?" Igor was almost not angry with this bear child Death: If an underage noble lady falls into the wrong hands in this mess, you know what will happen with your ass: "If you still have my master in your eyes, close your mouth and follow me obediently. !"

"Oh—" Arya had never seen Igor look so fierce, she knew she was wrong, she shrank her neck, and followed the man on horseback obediently.

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Ms. Stark's riding skills are good, and the house is not far from Aegon's High Hill. almost there. Before arriving at the destination, Igor noticed something was wrong: on this day, the Red Keep, which should have been closed and guarded, was now open to the city gate, and the gate was strangely unguarded.

"There's something...not right, Arya, if you meet someone you don't know later, don't say anything, don't do anything, let me handle it."

" Good master."

The two slowed their horses and entered it carefully through the Red Keep gate.

The huge castle seems to be empty, but this is absolutely impossible. Intuition tells Igor to turn back and retreat, but if he leaves now, will he let Arya this big trouble live with oneself? Resisting the tension, I rode to the Tower of the Hand for a while, and at the same moment when the sounds of fighting, shouting, wailing and weapon collision were far into my ears, the first corpse appeared in front of the two of them - the man facing Falling down on the stone pavement, the cloak was wrapped under the body, soaked with blood - it was a cloak of grey wool trimmed with white satin, and the two guards Eddard Stark had sent to oneself as helpers wore this kind of clothes. cloak!
Arya also recognized the identity of the fallen dead at a glance, and was instantly so frightened that she couldn't stand up again - this is the person who tricked oneself into the kitchen to get snacks an hour ago!
Igor felt a chill on his back: The worst happened. Oneself, who was out of the way, was dragged into trouble by the evil discipline of oneself. He lowered his voice and ordered to Arya: "Go, go back to the original road. , something happened here."

"But Sansa..."

"No but, go!"

It's easy to get in and out, but it only takes a few minutes , When I arrived at the bronze gate of Red Keep again, there were people at the originally empty gate - more than a dozen fully armed, golden robes in chainmail and full body armor stood by the gate, and immediately saw two black horses on horseback. clothed person, lance swiped at Igor and Arya.

"Who, don't move!"

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(end of this chapter)