"It's all over the city?" said Egger, raising his eyebrows, holding back his breath from looking too unusual, realizing that he might have underestimated the lethality of the Chancellor's affair with the Prime Minister's wife, which involved high-level gossip. However, after all, the purpose of spreading rumors is not just to disgust others, he urgently needs to know now whether his actions have been, or will they be able to disrupt Littlefinger's plans, enough: "Hmm...... What's the response?"

"What's my business. Tyrion scoffed, "That Shufu was just a little squire, and those notes weren't his last words." But the people who wrote these things are very cunning, and the content on them is either unsubstantiated or distorted and exaggerated, and there is no loophole to be found...... But after all, Berish is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a 'pillar of the country', how can a rumor kill him......? But I really haven't seen anyone in a few days, and all I know is that his brothel is still open. ”

"Yes. Egg hid his frustration, smart people don't usually gossip too much, and Tyrion's lack of care about these things is perfectly in line with his character. Fortunately, since this rumor has spread, I don't have to worry about finding out about this news to attract the attention of those who are interested. But next, who should you talk to to find out if your goal has been achieved?

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After thinking about it, he decided to take the time to "talk" with the Stark guard who sent Arya to class every day, after all, his direct purpose was to prevent Littlefinger from gaining Eddard Stark's trust, and to get this information, is there a better person than the person's subordinates?

He soon found out that there really was.

"That rumor ......" Arya sniffed again, the two adults in front of her finally talked about something she knew, and she didn't miss the opportunity to interject, showing off what she knew: "My father said that the king has written to ask Lady Arryn to return to King's Landing to explain the rumor and prove her innocence. ”

Egger also came back to his senses at this time, yes, he was really stupid, Ed's precious daughter was in front of him, why bother to go far and go to the guard outside the door? he habitually regarded Arya as a child who didn't know anything, but in fact, a ten-year-old child, the smarter one could already understand everything, but he didn't have enough experience and experience to analyze the meaning of what he heard. Arya is Ed's daughter and her "apprentice", she can get close to Ed every day, and at the same time she trusts herself with a simple mind, and if she uses it well, isn't it her best "ear"?

Thinking about the key to this, he was secretly happy in his heart, and the benefits of a relationship with a Stark were far more than he thought at first.

But don't get carried away, Arya may tell herself everything, but she will also tell her father, Eddard Stark, everything. He could get a lot of key first-hand information from her, but if he accidentally let Ed know that he was asking this and that all day long, and he was suspicious, he would be shooting himself in the foot.

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Tyrion winked at Arya, "Lady Arryn, if I'm not mistaken, it's your aunt." ”

"yes, she's my aunt. Arya winked at Tyrion in the same way, a little embarrassed, "I don't even know what she looks like...... I didn't expect her to be this kind of person!"

"It's just a rumor, you can believe what you hear, that's the characteristic of a rabble. "As for the king's letter, it was written in vain...... She would never come to King's Landing. If the rumors were true, it would be impossible for Lysa to leave the nest and run into the net, and if the rumors were false, it meant that someone wanted to do her something against her, and then she couldn't leave the safety of Eagle's Nest and run to King's Landing. ”

"Indeed...... In the Eagle's Nest in the Arryn Valley, Lady Arryn is the queen, but if she comes to King's Landing, she is just the widow of a former prime minister, and I will not come. Egg nodded in agreement with Tyrion's analysis, then casually asked, pretending to be nonchalantic, "Hmm—Arya, Prime Minister...... What has your father been doing for the past two days, and what does he think of the rumors, or is he still running around with Lord Baerich?"

Arya didn't think about it, and said everything she knew: "No, I heard Jory say that Littlefinger has been ordered not to leave the Red Keep, and my father ...... As if investigating the source of the rumor. ”

Ordered not to leave the Red Keep? Isn't this an otherworldly version of "restricting the freedom of life and waiting for an investigation"! As for investigating the source of the rumors...... Egg subconsciously looked back at the whole process of making and distributing the notes: the ink was the most common ink, and the paper was made of high-quality parchment commonly found on the market, and it was Tyrion's squire who bought it, and it was used for a reasonable and legitimate purpose. No second person was involved or aware of the whole process, and unless Ed could deduce from the fingerprints left on the slip of paper that he had done it, he would not be able to find out what he had done.

Hey, I knew I would wear gloves when I was doing errands! But it's okay, Westeros obviously doesn't have that technique.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt a strong sense of unreality: Could it be that Littlefinger, the chess player in the original plot of Game of Thrones and the biggest boss in King's Landing, was defeated by a small rumor of his own?

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Nothing is impossible, this is the real world, and the power of Littlefinger comes from intrigue and the trust of those in power, without any basis in reality. He is the strongest when everyone doesn't care about him, but once an opponent who knows everything and hides well targets him behind his back, and he is forced to be exposed to everyone's eyes, his "power" will be like spring snow in the sun, and his "power" will be wiped out in minutes.

Losing the trust of Ed and the King, and becoming a suspect in the murder of the Prime Minister, Petyr Berish's ambitions are over. Admittedly, Eddard Stark would suspect that these rumors were smokescreens spread by the Lannisters to prevent him from investigating, and Petyr could have made Eddard "discover" Cersei and Jaime's secrets as usual through other methods, but if he was so disturbed, even if the plot continued according to inertia, the ending would be a huge deviation from the original!

No matter what, the situation will not be worse than what happened in the original plot.

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Iger didn't bask in the joy of easily bringing down a villain with his hands for long: Littlefinger was finished, but after all, he wasn't dead, and even if he died, it still didn't mean he won. His opponent was not a conspirator, but a war - after the death of the last dragon of the House of Targaryen, Westeros had no real basis to remain united, but barely remained undivided under the great inertia of the wheel of history...... The Seven Kingdoms are too big, and they are at the dangerous historical juncture of "being united for a long time", and both the High Court and the rulers of the Western Realm are no longer satisfied with the status quo, and are consciously or unconsciously fighting against each other...... In fact, war is inevitable, but it is only a difference between "when it breaks out", "how big the war is", and "who loses and who wins".

Littlefinger's ambitions are over, but there is still one Varys still playing tricks on the ground, buying precious time for himself and Tyrion's money game, and it's up to him to take out another-stirring stick before the inevitable war breaks out, and grow to the point where he can protect himself and decide his own fate.

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"Arya did well today, but the master was not good, and she did something else too late and delayed the swordsmanship class. Egger was in a good mood and tried to kill him again, and he keenly noticed that the girl was very good at it. This little she-wolf has helped herself a lot today, and she has to give a little sweetness: "As compensation and reward, tomorrow the master will accompany you all day, whether it is sword practice, adventure stories or going to the paper mill to play, whatever you want, okay?"

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