Chapter 23: Change of Plan
The convoy began to move forward that night.
Walking on this hidden path in Yu Lun's mouth, Lin Yi had ten thousand grooves in his heart to vomit.
Can this also be considered a road?
At best, it's just two ruts through the weeds and the woods!
While it was hidden enough to be seen sporadically, it was too much to be covert.
The road was so winding that it sometimes turned into a creek, and on a few occasions there was no rut in sight, and the convoy would not have been able to cut through the weeds and find the next rut without Yuren showing the way.
The fault between the two ruts is nearly a mile long.
Now Lin Yi fully believes that Yu Lun has walked the King's Road for thirty years, and even remembers this kind of path.
The terrain was fairly flat, surrounded by meadows and woods, and they passed a small ravine in the afternoon of the next day, where the water was babbling and the willows were fluttering.
But except for Lin Yi and Arya, no one could enjoy such a view, they were so tired that they could fall asleep.
Yu Lunqiang fought his spirits, beckoned Zhong to bury the pot on the spot to cook and set up a tent.
When the people in the convoy heard the order, they immediately cheered.
They had never experienced such a long march since they had come out of King's Landing.
I didn't close my eyes for more than 30 hours, and the soles of my feet were full of blisters.
Looking at the valley in front of him, Yulun was a little melancholy.
He knew the place, which was less than half a day's walk from the hotel.
That's right, after a day and a night of speeding in the convoy, the road was only half a day's journey on weekdays.
Because of their heavy load, the carriages were slow, and the valleys and rivers made the roads so muddy that the wheels sank into the mud almost every moment of walking, and several men had to pull the wheels out.
This made Yu Lun a little anxious, but his sense of responsibility could not allow him to leave behind so many carriages and recruits.
Therefore, Yu Lun could only secretly instruct Lin Yi in private to let him run away with Arya when he saw that the situation was not good.
As for Gendry...... Yoren and Robert didn't have much of a relationship.
In this regard, Lin Yi just smiled and didn't care.
Arya didn't care, she now had a maroon horse, and with her skills and riding skills, she could have ridden away.
But she had no intention of leaving the camp, and she even thought that the slower the convoy, the better.
The slower she gets to the north for a day, the more she can learn.
As for what golden-robed chasers, Arya didn't care, she had more confidence in Lin Yi than everyone else.
She had seen what Lin Yi's sword was like when it danced, and no one could come out alive from that kind of sword light.
Now that she is getting closer to the north, Arya's heart is getting more and more empty, and she has endless questions every day.
Lin Yi also noticed the little girl's emotions, and in addition to teaching swordsmanship, he would also do ideological homework.
Tonight Arya hit a rabbit and a pigeon, and ran in front of Lin Yi as if she was invited.
Lin Yi praised her with a smile, gave the rabbit to Yulun, and then took Arya and made her a roast pigeon with the spices in the convoy and the wild onions picked on the spot, and the two of them were half and a half.
Although the meat is not very much, it is a delicacy that Arya has not touched for a long time.
Arya also kept a little of her own half, ready to give Gendry a taste.
As for the rabbit given to Yulun, he stewed a large pot of rabbit broth with mushrooms, and the convoy divided it one by one, even the three in the prisoner car.
Of course, these three copies were sent by Arya after she returned, and the others didn't have the guts.
"Someone is grateful."
Jia Kun licked his fingers and said politely.
But this surprised Arya, because Jaquin hadn't spoken to her in a long time.
"It's better for a girl not to get too close to someone."
Jaqun said with a smile.
"Someone doesn't like it."
Arya understood.
The former person refers to himself, and the latter person should refer to the teacher.
"Why?"
Arya asked.
Jia Kun thought for a moment and shook his head: "Someone doesn't know and doesn't know. ”
Arya looked at his face, couldn't see anything wrong, and turned away.
Since you don't understand, then listen to the teacher, what the teacher says will not be wrong.
Before going to bed that night, Green Hand and Repai were still whispering about Gendry's identity.
Repai felt that Gendry must have committed a crime, and the Green Hand eavesdropped on the conversation between Yulun and Lin Yi, but only heard a few sporadic words, so he thought that Gendry was the illegitimate son of the beheaded wolf-sama.
"Believe me, surely, I heard Yuren say so." The green hand lowered his voice and said firmly.
"He's not!"
Arya slapped Green Hand's ass with a wooden stick and retorted in a low voice.
"You're hitting me again!" Green Hand rubbed his ass in frustration, "How do you know it's not." ”
"......" Arya was momentarily speechless, she knew of course that her father was only Jon's illegitimate child.
But Arya is no longer the Arya she used to be, just a little thought, she was smart enough to think of a very crucial evidence.
"Lord Eddard wasn't in King's Landing sixteen years ago, how could it be Gendry's father!"
"How do you know he wasn't in King's Landing sixteen years ago?" Green Hand looked at her suspiciously.
"Don't you even know about the siege of Storm's End?"
Arya had a look of surprise on her face, as if she didn't know that this was a very strange thing.
Green Hand's lips squirmed twice, but he still couldn't say the word "I don't know".
Seeing the green hand lying down and admitting defeat, Arya was a little proud.
"You know so much."
Repai said enviously.
"My mother only taught me how to bake bread."
"It's so good that I can't bake bread."
Arya reassured.
"It's your only craft, don't forget, it's useful at Castle Black."
"Well, I'm sure I won't forget, every step is in my head...... Alas, I would have been a baker too. ”
“…… Who isn't? ”
Arya suddenly lost the interest in speaking, turned around, and looked at the "red sword" in the sky with a pair of big eyes.
……
Sitting cross-legged at the highest part of the valley, Lin Yi looked down at the whispering children, then sighed and took out his mobile phone.
With the cover of the "red sword" in the sky, the light of the mobile phone screen is not so conspicuous in the dark night.
Lin Yi swiped the lock screen and found the map he had taken in King's Landing - although there was still a parchment map in the inventory, in the dark night, the parchment was obviously not as clear as the phone.
"You should be at God's Eye Lake soon, right?"
Lin Yi used two fingers to zoom in on the map and compared the distance on it.
There was no scale on this map, and Lin Yi could only use the known distance between two cities to measure how far he had traveled.
With this calculation, Lin Yi suddenly frowned.
It's been a month, how did you get out of such a distance?
If they want to reach the Great Wall of Despair, they will need at least a dozen steps from King's Landing to where they are now.
At the current rate, it will take about a year.
That's too long, right?
Lin Yi sighed.
The convoy was mainly slowed down by horse-drawn wagons and baggage, and the roads were so bad that they could walk up to ten miles on the smoothest day.
If you can abandon the carriage and the baggage, the speed can be increased by at least ten times.
But the north is at war with the Lannisters, and the Trident Valley and the Riverlands have long since become dead grounds, and those who are still alive in this land are either bandits or deserters, and they can starve to death without baggage.
Originally, he thought that the recruitment team following the night watch was looking for a guide, but now he realized that it was a lot of trouble.
It can't go on like this!
Lin Yi frowned, he made up his mind, and after arriving in the north, he escorted Arya to find his eldest brother Robb, and then asked Robb to send a guide who was familiar with the road, and the two rode lightly to the Great Wall.