Chapter 211: Anecdote of King's Landing (2)
Milan Taylor, who had long since come down from the Gripen's mount, was the first to return to the Traveler's Inn in King's Landing.
The inn's main building sits on the north bank of the bend, with long, low wings jutting out of the river, as if to embrace passing travelers.
The ground floor of the inn is made of limestone, the upper floor is made of lime stucco wood, and the roof is paved with stone slabs. It has stables and a pavilion covered in vines.
Smoke rose from the chimneys, and candles lit up in the windows of many guest rooms.
"It seems that the inn is still open for business while I'm away," Milan Taylor thought, and entered the hall through the inn door.
"Business seems to be good, but have you been visiting King's Landing more lately?" Milan asked a bartender at the bar as he approached the lobby.
In front of the bartender sat a few dusty servants, who seemed to have come from afar, and the snare drums and violins could be seen quietly sitting beside their chairs.
When the bartender heard this, he spotted Milan Taylor who was approaching him, and greeted him with a smile: "The boss is back?"
The voice was quickly connected by another voice: "You came back so soon, you must have returned by carriage from the King's Road, it is unbelievable that a beautiful woman like you did not encounter a robbery on the road." ”
It was Brienne, dressed in knight's armor, who had been in King's Landing since escorting Milan from the Riverlands to King's Landing.
Milan smiled and said to the burly female knight, "Beauty, I asked you to accompany me, but you chose to hide, but fortunately you did not go with me, otherwise I would have left you in the north." ”
"Anyway, how did you come back so timely, did the merchant ship you took turn back halfway, girl?" said Britney.
Milan glared at her.
"Milan. Well, you don't want to sleep in your bed just after you get back?Anyway, it's normal that Earl Lynn wouldn't want to rescue a worthless Miss Stark?In my opinion, my going to the execution ground tomorrow morning is the surest plan. ”
Milan didn't reply, but after a while, he turned to the bartender and gave him a look.
The bartender agreed, brought a bottle of wine and a tray with three clear glasses from the wine cabinet, handed them to the band guests on high chairs, and invited them to their seats in the hall.
After only the people he knew were left at the bar, Milan whispered to Brienne, "You guessed wrong this time, Lord Lynn personally arrived in King's Landing to participate in the rescue plan. ”
Brienne was surprised, "Lynn has come to King's Landing in person? is it too dangerous, did he come with his Gripen Legion? No, his army can't come so fast, the Golden-robed team won't allow the northern army to get close to King's Landing." ”
"When did I say that the Lord is coming with an army?" Milan said.
Brienne remembered the young lord she had seen in Twin River City, now Lord Lynn, the guardian of the North, and she was not sure what she thought, she was dumbfounded and asked, "Milan, what do you mean?"
"You just need to know that the Lord has arrived in King's Landing, you don't have to ask about other things, and I don't have the right to ask what the Lord thinks, he asked me to gather strength in case of emergency, so I want to ask you what you think, after all, you are a hired person, not our Lord Lynn's men. ”
"Is it to rescue Miss Sansa? I'll be the one to count, but you must tell me why Earl Lynn wasn't with you, and where he's gone?" Brienne didn't hesitate.
Milan glared at her, "I said, I don't have the right to intervene in the affairs of adults, I just do what he tells me." ”
Brienne untied the sword, then unfastened the belt, and the knight's sword fell with a "thud", and before it fell to the ground, Britney's manly hand picked up the sword and rested it on the bar table.
"Then go and gather your strength, tell me what to do before you act, as long as the sword is at my waist, I can't resist the urge to strike as soon as possible. ”
Milan Taylor smiled, then walked through the doorway of the hall and into the inner hall.
A man described as haggard and pockmarked walked out of the cellar, holding a butcher's knife for cutting meat.
The butcher bowed respectfully to Milan and said, "You can come back, the golden-robed brothers of the Red Keep have come a few times, saying that things are going too fast, and tomorrow it may be directly announced by that little ghost king Tomman that the sentence against Miss Stark, and then directly dragged to the church to be executed, everyone is waiting for your next instructions." ”
"Is there bread?" Milan asked.
"What?" said the butcher, stunned for a moment, "oh, yes, there are hard breads and stale oatcakes, and there are plenty of them in the cellar." ”
Milan grinned and said, "Prepare more, and then send someone to gather your subordinates, this time maybe the Earl will personally command you." ”
"Lord Earl, Lord Lynn is coming to King's Landing?" the butcher's eyes widened.
Ever since they were recruited by Milan Taylor to become the Dead of the North, they have been full of reverence and yearning for the great guardian of the North who was favored by the gods in Milan's mouth.
It would be a matter of pride to be able to see Lynn in person.
Because, that's Lord Lynn, whom we swore allegiance to,
Milan gave the butcher an affirmative look, then lifted the curtain and returned to the inn hall.
Brienne asked, sipping the Three Sisters ale from the North on a high chair, curling the corners of her mouth.
"It's only been so long since I escorted you to King's Landing, and you've gathered so many dead men loyal to Lynn here, if you were given a few more years, wouldn't you be able to build an army in this city that belongs to the North?"
Milan expressed disdain for Britney's eavesdropping on her conversation, "Are you a knight, or are you a female knight who claims to be full of chivalry, and you actually do something to eavesdrop on your conversation?"
Brienne stared at her and eavesdropped on the conversation, which did not conform to her code of conduct, but she quickly blamed Lynn for the incident.
Lynn was so curious that she had been in King's Landing since she came to King's Landing from the Twin Rivers, she had been hearing people talking about the deeds of the guardian of the North in King's Landing, and she had become a knight fan before she knew it.
When she learned that Lynn was likely to arrive in King's Landing in person, she couldn't suppress her curiosity and couldn't wait to find out more about Lynn.
The atmosphere in King's Landing is very eerie, and the High Court Thorn Witch and Duke Tywin Lannister are desperate to execute Sansa and then crown Little Rose as queen to stabilize the situation and strengthen the alliance between the Riverlands and the West.
And the party that intends to rescue is also quite numerous.
The northern forces represented by Lynn's Milan, as well as Cersei, who wants to regain control of power, also include a figure that no one can imagine, Petyr Berish, the little finger hiding in a dark corner, but he doesn't want to watch Sansa die like this, each side has its own purpose and thoughts.
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