Bunyan was gone, and Egger left the room in a hurry, intending to find Tyrion.

Throughout the process, Tyrion was almost always offering to help. But Egger is a self-aware man, and his use of half-truths and half-truths to arouse the interest and impress the other person is a deliberate and successful performance...... But then the other party took the initiative to provide a feasible plan to leave the Great Wall, and it was not until after a few words of conversation just now that he suddenly ran to ask the commander-in-chief about the important person - this is not because he is eloquent or the other party is so simple-minded that he was played around.

The truth is: Tyrion's IQ and EQ are high enough to tell in a few small words that Iger doesn't want to participate in the patrol and is willing to fulfill his wish.

Iger sometimes can't help but wonder if the other person is interested in the lies he has made up and wants to get more information and stories from him, or if it is true and pure...... Just want to help yourself, the unlucky guy who is in trouble?

The purpose of the other party is not important, the important thing is that Tyrion has indeed reached out to him, and this time he will probably save his life and completely change his future destiny, and such a huge favor can only be repaid with a lifetime of friendship and loyalty.

But a lifetime of friendship and loyalty is not a complete substitute for verbal thanks.

In a black castle full of grown males, it's all too easy to find a gnome.

......

"Tyrion, thank you, I knew you would make it!"

"Of course, don't look at who I am, the little demons of the Lannisters want to do something, who would dare to stop them?" Tyrion held his head proudly, "But, although I always knew that the Starks were poor, I realized how poor they really were." ”

"What do you mean?"

"It didn't take much effort to convince the Commander-in-Chief and Maester Amon, but Bunyan Stark finally said he wanted to 'talk' with me about the amount of funding. The dwarf couldn't help but laugh: "Originally, I was ready to be slaughtered, but when I returned to King's Landing, I asked my brother to borrow some money to settle the matter, but his offer made me almost laugh out loud." ”

"Rare?"

"It's not a lot, I have a few months' pocket money, but his self-righteous look amused me. Tyrion shrugged, "I was very cooperative, 'taken aback by his price', and after some haggling, I was able to ...... Huh?"

A few months' pocket money? two or three months is a few months, eight or nine months is a few months, how much is it? Either Tyrion is slapping his swollen face and becoming fat, or the Lannisters are really rich enough to do this...... But no matter what, for himself with a personal net worth of less than one golden dragon, it must be a huge amount of money. Iger was waiting for the next step, but the dwarf suddenly made a silent gesture and motioned for him to follow.

What is there to sneak around in Castle Black, where everyone can hear the roar?, Iger was full of doubts, but he followed.

They walked through the training ground in the middle of Castle Black, came to the arsenal, and found Jon.

As well as a bunch of recruits.

It's easy to tell what happened here: a bunch of young men who had been beaten up by Jon on the training ground teamed up to block him in the house, intending to give the bastard some color, but he was caught up in Tyrion's space by just in time to be out of the Commander-in-Chief's house, and the latter "happened" to sympathize with the bastard and the unlucky bastard, so he chased after him. Iger remembers the episode, but he doesn't know when it happened.

Seeing several recruits standing beside Jon in a surrounding formation, he frowned, took a diagonal step out of the door, and waved his head, "Get out." ”

......

I don't know if it was the majesty of his "veteran" who played a role, or if Queen Tyrion's younger brother scared a few recruits, and the young men cursed in a low voice, abandoned their bastards, and cautiously left the room from Egger.

"What's wrong?" he asked, originally intending to thank Tyrion and negotiate a time to leave the Wall, but Jon was here, so it was not good to rub salt in his wounds.

"Nothing. Jon turned around and continued to pack up his practice equipment, sniffing and trying to keep tears from running out of his eyes. He took off his armor, leather jacket, and sweaty cardigan, and put on his usual coarse black shirt, and suddenly missed Winterfell, his brothers and sisters...... Even Sansa, who is not close to him.

No one had ever told him that the Night's Watch was in such a situation, only the dwarfs of the Lannisters and Egg had told him a little bit of the truth. But at that time, his mind was full of killing the legendary human predators like the rangers in front of him, fighting side by side with other Night's Watch brothers to repel tens of thousands of wild armies, and proving that he was no worse than any of his sons...... But here, even survival is so hard.

He was a guardian of the North, and he must have known that when he asked his father to join the Night's Watch, Duke Stark agreed without any hesitation or dissuasion, which made Jon's heart ache even more.

Is the kindness of the past just a cover-up, and under this mask, the father is actually very disgusted with himself?

......

"No wonder. Jon said angrily, trying to hide his grievances, "No wonder you have to do everything you can to get out of here, this place of the hell...... It's so cold in this place. ”

"yes, it's cold. "It's just cold? It's bitter and sinister. Egger was amused, no matter how precocious or tall and strong the young man in front of him was, he was just a child after all: "You have to look at it from a different point of view—I got the chance to leave here by chance, and I have to come back as soon as I am called, and you, as long as you quit before taking the oath, can return to Winterfell at any time, and you will never have to come back for the rest of your life." ”

Jon didn't answer and could return at any time, which was true in theory, but it was impossible not to be impressed. But now that his father, who could protect him, had left the North for King's Landing as Prime Minister, Winterfell was in charge of Lady Stark. And Caitlin Tully's attitude towards her illegitimate child can almost be described as hateful...... In addition to eating well and living warmly, I may not have stayed comfortably at the Great Wall.

Once he had reached the Wall, he would never return to Winterfell. To put it nicely, this is called valuing honor over pleasure, and to say it is ugly, you have to die to save face and suffer sin. Like Tyrion, who had been knocked out in the Commander-in-Chief's office a moment earlier, Jon would have chosen to save face.

"If you choose to stick with it, you've got to think about how you're going to fit in. Everybody, especially men, goes through similar choices, and Egger empathized with Jon's predicament, and when he didn't speak, he continued, "To be a night watchman is to stay here for the rest of your life, and this life is long or short, and it's all up to you. If you still think of bullying the children of peasants, blacksmiths, miners, and even orphans with the martial arts you learned from Sir Roderick, and if you want to vent your disappointment with the Night's Watch on your fellow recruits, sooner or later a brother will stab you in the stomach while you are unprepared. ”

"I watched you and the group of recruits in the morning. Tyrion approached as well, "That's not practice at all, if you're holding a real sword, they'd already be dead several times." You humiliated them with complete shame, I remember - you decided to join the Night's Watch after listening to Egger's tales of the Wraiths and the army of savages, do you think you should be proud to defeat these people who have never even touched the real thing?"

Jon blushed, he was proud to have won.

"He's a smart man, he knows everything he should know, but it's just that he suddenly suffered a bad situation, and his heart was temporarily unbalanced. "Egger doesn't want to be like Tyrion's fangs and sharp teeth, and he will mock everyone when he sees it. The dwarf is not afraid of offending people, he can't do it himself, and in the face of a potential protagonist, he is willing to take a moment to release some friendliness: "Jon, we don't talk darkly, we all know that you want to do something big to choose this path, but have you ever thought that if the Great Wall is a place that can do big things and stay comfortably, how can there be a shortage of people?"

"I-" Jon muttered, Iger had a point, he always had a point, but what he needed now was comfort!

"In my hometown, there is an old saying. Before Heaven wants to arrange a great mission for a man, he will first cause his heart to be tormented, his body to be exhausted, and his things to be unsatisfactory, so that he will become strong and more talented. ”

Egger moved out of the famous chicken soup for the soul in ancient times of the Celestial Empire - the heavens descended to the people, and they must first work hard and work their muscles and bones. It was a bit difficult to say this sentence in the Westeros language, and although the life of the Night's Watch was hard, it was not enough to starve, so he omitted the last half of the sentence: "It is not easy to do great things, but as long as you survive the hardships, you will definitely gain something......"

The young man interrupted him unconvinced: "To put it lightly, then why don't you stay and suffer with me?"

"I'm not an illegitimate child. Iger shrugged his shoulders and put himself in the shoes of the Caina nobleman: "I am an only son, I don't need to do anything big to prove anything, as long as I can return home safely, I can naturally inherit the family business...... And you can't. I don't discriminate against bastards, Jon, and your birth was your father's fault, but the world is so cruel - you have to pay for your father's fault. Because he was already dead, the traverser's tone slowed down, after all, he was not here to teach the boy a lesson: "If you really feel lost, this is fine, I will show you the way." ”

Jon looked up at Egg, waiting for the next step.

......

"What do you think is the greatest glory a Night's Watch could achieve?"

"Faithfully defend the peace of the northern border and the Seven Kingdoms. ”

"No, what you're talking about is just the basic mission of a good night watchman. Iger shook his head and unceremoniously dismissed the bastard's answer: "The greatest achievement of the Night's Watch is to destroy the Night's Watch and tear down the Great Wall. ”

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