In order to avoid the attention of the golden-robed people, Egg and Yuren deliberately chose a place outside the city walls to carry out this shady transaction. As soon as the problem came out, there was a sudden silence around - in this era of literacy rates in the single digits, "people who can read and write" are not scarce but also not abundant, and if you can add, subtract, multiply and divide on this basis, it is even more in the "talent" column. The members of the Wall Defenders who met the requirements were either volunteers like Bunyan Stark and Jon Snow, or unlucky people like Alyssa Thorne who were forced to wear black after being on the wrong side of the war. But now that it is the age of peace, how can there be a similar figure here, led by a raven to the Great Wall?

Of the dozen or so Night's Watch recruits here, absolutely no one is literate - except for Jaqun Hegar.

There was no suspense, and after a few seconds of silence, a gentle male voice slowly sounded.

"Someone happens to know some Westeros writing. ”

......

Someone, someone, can't they say "me" properly?

Although he couldn't help but complain secretly, Iger knew in his heart that Jacquen was not pretending to be forced, but hiding his identity from Braavos: he was a King's Landing disguised as a Lorras noble, and in Rollas, the upper class thought that calling himself "I" was extremely vulgar and only replaced himself with "someone".

Although he was unhappy, Egger, who was also disguised as a nobleman who was "Caina", could only pretend not to know about the faceless man's pretense - since Jaqun opened his mouth, it proved that his mission was not in the Great Wall of Desperation, and he did not want to go around the north of the north before returning.

"Are you literate?" said Egger West, who was also playing his role dedicatedly, pulling out a note and grabbing it to the edge of the cage: "What is written on it?"

"Office...... Night's Watch?" Jaquin squinted his eyes and replied correctly, "Night's Watch Office." ”

"Very well," Iger put away the note and turned to look at Yoron, "What crime has this man committed?"

Don't you know, Yu Lun rolled his eyes at Egg, but after all, he took a golden dragon from the other party, and it was not too much to cooperate in acting. As a raven, he was much more clever than most of the Night's Watch: "Peeking at the King's book. ”

"Peeking at the king's book?" Egger raised his eyebrows and looked at Jaqun, "What book?"

"Books about dragons, someone has been curious about this powerful magical creature since childhood, Valyria has been destroyed, and only Westeros may have information about dragons. ”

This answer is too broad, and it is not known whether it is true or not: "Because of this, he will be sent to the Great Wall?"

Yu Lun didn't know how to answer, so he had to shake his head: "Who knows, it's not me who has the final say." ”

"Since you're not a murderer, it's you. Egger made a satisfied expression, God knows how many people Jaqun had killed, probably more than all of them combined. But as long as you don't want to hurt yourself, no one else cares, everyone just wants to go down the stairs: "But before I let you out, I want you to make some assurances - I think the book itself is meant to be shown to people, and what you have committed is not a great crime, if you want to leave and go home one day, it is easy to say." But before I can recruit anyone else available, you'll have to be in the office for a while...... Besides, you have to talk to me and pay the appropriate ransom before you plan to leave, do you agree?"

"Someone agrees. ”

"Good, swear. ”

"Someone in the old and new gods—"

"Stop, I'm not from Westeros, I don't believe in the gods, old or new. "There is only one true god in the world, and that is death, and swear by your name to the god of death, and in addition to the above, you must add one more, and you will not harm the interests of the night watch." ”

Under Egger's gaze, Jaqun clearly hesitated for a moment before slowly speaking: "Someone, Jaqun Hegar, swear to the god of death that he will never harm the interests of the Night's Watch in this life, and that before he has to leave, someone will serve the Night's Watch Legion with all his heart, and promise to inform the Night's Watch and pay the ransom before leaving." ”

......

(Good guy, it turns out that this kid is moving the idea of ransom? It's so cunning, compared to the ransom of dozens or hundreds, a golden dragon is a fart!) Yu Lun suddenly sneered, but understood that this money would not be his turn to be taken by the prodigal crow anyway, so he endured it and did not turn his face.

Iger didn't know what his brother in black was thinking, he only noticed that Jaquin had quietly changed his oath - "before I had to leave"? God knows if Jaquin would have to leave immediately to carry out that mysterious mission? Maybe before night he would find him, tell himself that he had to leave, and then put down the money and turn around and leave.

However, the other party's tricks on the details of the oath show that he at least didn't intend to treat it as nothing, and Egg didn't plan to keep him, and he didn't have high expectations, so he naturally turned a blind eye to his cleverness. He could have forced Jacquin to swear allegiance to the Night's Watch forever, but just as he had made the same oath and was now bent on breaking away, when he was forced to take an obviously unreasonable oath, he would have a reason to break his oath.

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"Alright, let him out. ”

How do you make it look like Lao Tzu is your subordinate? Yuren glanced at Iger and handed him the key. "Drive it yourself, I'll have to watch the other two guys. After that, Lang Raven pulled out a sword: "Whoever dares to run, I will kill whoever is, the sword is not long-eyed!"

If you drive it yourself, you can drive it yourself, and put it before the crossing, the other two guys in the cage may indeed be able to scare Egg, but now he is a night watch warrior who has killed strange ghosts on the Great Wall of Desperation, and a year of Ranger career has turned his physical and mental quality upside down. In the case of a fellow sword-wielding officer beside him, if he is still afraid of two prisoners who are firmly controlled by shackles, it is really a soldier for nothing.

Looking directly at the three people in the cage, Iger calmly walked to the door, simply opened the lock, and opened the cage door.

Jakun bent down and got out of the cage, jumped to the ground and stood firmly, the other two prisoners roared from the depths of their throats and were about to rush out, but they were finally forced back to the corner of the cage by the bright sword blade stabbed by Yulun, Egg locked the door with a calm face, lifted the shackles that shackled Jaqun's hands and feet, threw the key back to Yulun, who put the sword into the sheath, and clapped his hands.

......

"Change into black. Egg took out the package he had prepared and threw it to Jaqun: "From now until you leave, you are a member of the Night's Watch, and you don't have to defend the Great Wall of Desperation to deal with those ghosts in Saibei, but it is better to change the name you used when you entered the cell...... Well...... Let's call it Aquin, how. ”

"Someone has no opinion. ”

"It's good if it's okay...... So, Yoron, and the other future Brothers of the Oath, I wish you all the best of luck. Iger looked at the remaining dozen men, said goodbye in a loud voice, turned on his horse, and prepared to return.

"My lord, do you want any other helpers, I can do anything but be illiterate!" shouted one of the remaining recruits, and although everyone did not know what the Desperate Wall was like, they knew on their toes that life would be much more difficult than King's Landing.

You can do anything...... Wouldn't it be better to sweep the office or something, and hire innocent people from King's Landing, so why pick on you stealing chickens and dogs?" Egger smiled and politely declined the speaker's offer, "Let's go, Aquin. ”

......

Iger didn't have another horse for Jaqun, so the two had to ride the same horse back to the city. It's a unique experience to ride with a faceless being like this: even if you know there's no threat, you can't help but wonder if the man behind you is going to stab you in the stomach with a dagger out of nowhere...... Finally returned to the office in the east of the city, and when he dismounted, Iger found that he actually had some leg shorts.

When he re-entered the office with his newly acquired subordinates, who didn't know how long they would last, he found that there were still many people waiting for him.

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