Chapter 81: The Night Watch
Jones smiled happily.
Under the dim light, the black marketeer in front of him told him mysteriously, "We don't pay taxes on our things, so the price is particularly discounted." ”
Jones looked at the swords, swords, hammers, spears, light shields, heavy shields, leather armor, chain mail, and plate armor that were all over the ground, and he was very satisfied.
Can you not be satisfied?
I don't know when these people took these things from the soldiers who died in the west, north, and riverland, and they are very complete, and the number is enough for several squads.
"Later, my friend will come to you for a big business. Jones said sincerely, adding in his heart, "Let's talk about how to hang you." ”
"Well said, well said," replied the black marketeer cheerfully.
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"Was that the case before?" asked Jones, looking at the lady beside him.
Ravenna replied with some embarrassment, "This kind of thing...... It's been a long time since I've asked. ”
"But I remember that the lord's wife is usually in charge of the finances of the realm, right?" Jones asked, frowning, just now feeling that he had lost a large fortune.
"It's me," Carrylyn explained, sobbing, "and my mother asked me to learn finance, but ...... But after my father was caught......"
"There is no father, you are from the Swain family. The lady suddenly shouted, and the atmosphere became cold, and the thin little girl's legs trembled with fright.
Jones glanced at the noblewoman, wondering why she was so angry.
However, looking at the delicate little girl whose eyes turned red again, she still walked to her side, patted her shoulder, and smiled and said with relief,
"It's nothing, everything will pass. ”
The little girl, with red eyes, raised her head and looked at him for a long time.
It wasn't until the next time the two approached that the little girl said gratefully in a voice that could only be heard by the two of them.
"Thank you, sir. ”
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Five carriages moved slowly on King's Road, not far from King's Landing.
The cart was loaded with hides and cloth, bars of pig iron, a cage of letter crows, books on paper and ink, a bundle of sour grass leaves, a large number of oil cans, and valuable medicines and spices.
Several teams of plough horses were in charge of pulling the carts, followed by a group of imps riding donkeys.
And Arya is one of the imps who rides a donkey.
She didn't think that her squid head would become a "leprosy head", and she would completely become a boy Ali.
Of course, what saddened her the most was that her 'prestige' was seriously challenged.
When the captain smirked and said, "I've sold you, hahaha", she thought she had revealed her identity and was leaked by the captain to the Golden Robe of the King's Landing Guard.
So she pulled out the 'sewing needle' in horror, guarding against possible enemies.
At this time, a pair of big hands pressed her little arm violently, and the old man with long black hair, tangled beard and rotten teeth was full of wine, and he smiled, "Little guy, I finally found you, do you remember me?"
Arya looked at his tattered black cloak and remembered the Night Watch brothers who had visited her father.
"Recognize me, good boy. The black-cloaked old man said and pulled out a dagger.
"Let go of our eldest sister," the little fat man shouted and rushed forward.
The old man in the black cloak kicked the little fat man down and said intimidatingly, "You thieves, do you want to join the night watch after cutting off the thief's hand, or do you want to join the night watch?"
Sure enough, the group of people and children were frightened by the vicious man in black, and looked at their eldest sister for help.
"We didn't steal," Arya resisted, but the old man's hand grabbed her hair and cut it off, and her squid head turned into a handful of leprosy heads.
"At least not now," added Arya, who had her hair cut off and had become a tomboy, still stiff-mouthed.
"There is no time limit for the punishment of a thief. ”
The old man in the black cloak patted her hard for the first time, knocking her in place.
"Shut up from now on, and I'll bring you back to King's Landing, and the others must come with me, and it's better to be a night watchman than a thief," said the old man in the black cloak, muttering to himself, "maybe." ”
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The Great Wall of Desperation, several hundred meters high, sparkles in the moonlight, huge and mysterious.
The Great Wall was wide enough for twelve heavily armed knights to ride side by side.
Huge ballistas and monster-like trebuchets guard the walls, and people walk on the walls as small as ants.
For the people of Westeros, this is also the end of the world.
To the north, the world is an endless desolation of wind-torn hills, rugged rocks, and snow-soaked fields.
The Night's Watch built nineteen majestic forts along the Wall, and only three are still garrisoned.
And Castle Black is the one in the middle.
However, it is a castle, but it has no walls at all, but a wooden tower and a stone tower under the desperate Great Wall, which looks like a building block toy scattered with snow.
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A biting cold wind filtered through the tattered windows.
The black castle without walls is always chilly.
At the ends of the long room, the coals in the iron brazier burned, but Jon Snow still tossed and turned, trembling uncontrollably.
He found himself suffering from insomnia again.
In Winterfell, he was a bastard, so he joined the Holy Night's Watch as a way to escape the humiliation.
But reality has dealt him one heavy blow after another.
The Night's Watch is a dump for scum from all over the country, and many of his so-called brothers are dead-looking serfs, debtors, poachers, rapists, and thieves......
They even nicknamed themselves 'Master Jon', continuing to mock their illegitimate status.
Later, he took the initiative to put aside his pride and tried to become brothers with these men in black, and when his life began to take a turn for the better, bad news followed.
My father turned out to be a traitor.
What's even more shocking is that Jones Amber, who is slow to do anything, joins the army heading south, and he can never leave the Night's Watch.
Even the reply was dismissed as a waste of resources.
In the end, he could only continue to blow the cold wind and endure everything in silence.
Yesterday, something even worse happened, this damn place, even the legendary eccentrics, appeared in front of his eyes.
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Seven Layers of Hell, why did I come to this place?
Now as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw the corpse's round pale face, and the severed arm wriggling on the ground, constantly opening and closing his fingers.
That's a ghoul.
The draugr shoved black fingers into his mouth, and the ghost hand dug deep into his throat, cold as ice, suffocating him......
Fortunately, his ice wolf Bai Ling knocked the ghoul away, and then he snatched the oil lamp from the hand of the commander Xiong Lao, and smashed it on the ghoul's body, and the raging fire ignited, more vivid than any time.
The next day, not even among the night watchmen believed in the existence of ghouls.
When this kind of news reaches the various princes, it is already predictable what the reaction will be.
The entire Great Wall of Desperation was abandoned by Westeros like an illegitimate child.
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