317 Borrowing

Despite growing up on Dragonstone, an island surrounded by the sea, the cold and humidity of the sea fog made Norton feel uncomfortable.

Dragonstone is a volcanic island, and the closer you get to the volcano, the drier it gets, and in fact the core of the island is not damp.

"We rarely have fog on Dragonstone." As she paddled the paddle, Norton said to the woman sitting in the boat.

The woman sat in the stern of the boat, dressed in an inconspicuous gray cloak, and looked like a fisherwoman, but if you could see her appearance, then this impression would naturally disappear.

The facial features on the heart-shaped face are exquisite, and the white neck wears a ruby collar that is very expensive at first glance, with an elegant temperament and a solemn expression, but the skin has a strange sense of whiteness, and it is too thin, and it loses a lot of points.

She was not interested in such a thing as the fog on Dragonstone Island, and after hearing this, she was noncommittal, but asked the lord of Dragonstone Island.

"The Duke hasn't been back for a while, and we rarely see him." Norton replied, his expression reverent.

"You love him so much?"

The woman's voice was hoarse and dry, and it looked very weird.

Norton felt that the voice did not match her appearance at all, and it was particularly ugly, but because the other party had paid enough money, he still answered the woman's question enthusiastically.

"Of course, Lord Duke was sent by the gods in heaven to save us, and we naturally love him very much." The young fisherman's words could not hide a burst of pursuit.

"Do you know madam, not long after our Duke came, he cleaned up the Crab Claw Peninsula, you don't know how arrogant the Crab Claw Peninsula used to be, and it was ...... at the beginning."

The Crab Claw Peninsula is not under the command of Lan Li, and actually has nothing to do with the people of Dragonstone, but Norton's own sister married into the Crab Island, which manages the Crab Claw Peninsula, and she has the same hatred for it.

"How is he different from before when he takes office?" The woman asked again.

Norton felt that she seemed to be very curious about her lord, but this was not surprising, and who in Westeros today was not curious about their mysterious lord?

"It's no different, the island has always been under the control of Lord Andrew, who was sent by the king, to say that this Lord Andrew is actually a distant relative of our Lord Duke, and the tax collection trial is very fair, and he is also a decent person."

"Have you ever seen Duke Lanli with your own eyes?"

"How could I not have seen it, then my father died of illness, and I still paid the taxes myself, the Duke is very kind......"

……

Time passed in this question-and-answer period, and as a young fisherman, Norton didn't have the patience to answer questions all the time, but it wasn't clear if it was because he was too beautiful or if he was particularly interested in talking today. In short, he never stopped talking along the way.

In the process, he never noticed that there were other people on the boat besides himself and the lady named Melisandre, or other creatures, but Norton didn't find out that it didn't mean that there really wasn't, and on the woman's shoulder, there was a black crow with three eyes.

Not only was Norton unaware of the crow's existence, but even the person who was stepped on his shoulder didn't seem to notice it, and his attention was all focused on the questioning, and he never paid attention to the shoulder.

Strangely, the crow seemed to be like an ornament, landing on the shoulder and moving with the subtle movements of the woman's body, but it never made the slightest movement of itself, or even turned its head.

It followed Melisandre adrift and eventually arrived on the west shore in a small boat from the north shore of Dragonstone.

Dragonstone is not a big island, but it is not small, and the west coast is much livelier than the deserted north shore, with a noisy harbor as far as the eye can see, some war or transport ships moored, and on the low peak behind the harbor sits a magnificent presence that is different from the other castles of Westeros.

Diagonally above the castle is a huge volcano that is faintly connected to the sky by the smoke of the peak.

"Look, it's called Dragon Mountain, and in the early years it was a place where Targaryen raised dragons."

Norton said proudly, "Do you know, all of us in Dragonstone actually have the blood of the Dragon family. ”

Many people know this.

The Targaryens ruled the island for hundreds of years, and because of their dragon training methods and strange appearance, the people of Dragonstone always treated them as gods, and although the island did not practice the right of the first night that had been popular in Westeros for a long time, the women were proud to sleep with the Targaryen "gods".

In this case, the number of illegitimate children born is naturally very large, and it can even be said that they are blooming everywhere, and then intermarry with each other over time, coming and going, it is estimated that any person who is dragged out of Dragonstone Island can be called the bloodline of the Dragon King.

However, Melisandre didn't come here to explore the bloodlines of the fishermen of Dragonstone, and she thought she had hollowed out the simple-minded fisherman along the way, so she didn't say anything more after hearing this, just nodded.

It wasn't until she landed at the port and paid the rest of the money that she left without pause. The young fisherman who had been secretly looking forward to something was stunned, but then he was proud of making a lot of money today-

The woman is good-looking, but he might as well charge twice as much.

……

Melisandre didn't know that she had been hacked, or even if she did, she didn't care much, and when she got to the island, she hurried towards the castle.

The Duke of Dragonstone was not in the territory, but she decided to stay here until the other party returned.

At the same time, the situation in the north must also be spread through the ravens here - she has been walking by sea and land all this way, and the only place she has come into contact with is the Great Wall of the Desperate North, but it is so strange that she can't even enter it, so she can only avoid it.

In addition, because of her discipleship, Lachlo's faith was not popular in Westeros, and she thought that no one would take anything she said seriously, so she didn't dare to say too much to others.

Dragonstone Island is different, not to mention the speculation in my heart, even if the current status and reputation of the Duke of Lanli are enough to win the trust of too many people.

But the one who is not there now, and Melisandre has to do it alone, provided that she can enter the castle and be treated as a guest, of course.

This is actually not difficult, or rather, it is not difficult for her now - the eyes on her forehead are strange and dangerous, but they have the power to deceive people.

With the help of Yuji, she successfully entered the castle and successfully bewitched a bachelor named Kans in the castle to write a letter.

One, ten, thirty......

A large number of letters were constantly written, and finally carried in all directions by the ravens in the castle, and the scene of "the goddess scattering flowers" was destined to provoke even greater changes in Westeros.

All this was seen by the three-eyed crow on her shoulder, but it did not stop it, but after witnessing all this, it flapped its wings and left, and finally quietly entered the bedroom of the Duke of Lanli.