Chapter 270
2021-01-06
Chapter 270 Hot Potatoes... guys"Granted land for your visit." Igor relieved Come on, although the itinerary is set, we can't just let Robb donate the land. Before that, oneself needs some preparation time. Before crossing, Igor once denounced all the preparations for the leadership inspection as formalism, who would have thought that oneself would one day become a person he once hated: "But there are still some things - after all, I went south because of insufficient supplies, and ended up going all the way. Running around and fighting, I haven't gotten half a grain of food yet... Please allow my people to stay outside the city for a short period of time, until I assign missions to my subordinates and send them to various places to buy food and grass, and then leave for the north. You just came back from the south , I must also stop in Winterfell to deal with some family and state affairs."
"Two days." Robb simply agreed: "There are indeed many things to be dealt with, but my younger brother is missing, and his life is unknown. ——'Find him' is at the top of the priority, and we will leave for the north in two days."
"No problem." After listening to the tone, I knew that there was no negotiation.
"In addition to me, I will invite Glover, Umber, Karstark and Bolton, the four closest to the land grant, to come together to decide this major event that is about North, especially their safety. ."
"This..." Igor was stunned for a moment. Of the four families, only Glover and Umber barely managed to have a little friendship with oneself. Originally, it was only Robb who had to deal with it unexpectedly. Who would have thought it would become five people. The addition of the other four will greatly increase the variables of oneself's plan, and oneself must send the news to Queenscrown as soon as possible. "As a monarch, it's really admirable to think about your bannermen like this. If that's the case, then I'll say goodbye first..."
"Okay, even you speak flattery. Continue to sit still. , we're done talking about wildling. Next, I have a few things, or more precisely, a few people to give you - or Night's Watch." Robb waved his hand to stop those who had already stood up and were about to leave. Igor: "Joffrey, Tommen and their sister Myrcella are now in Winterfell. Although there is no suspense about their origins, King Robert's will before his death hopes to keep them alive. So, my father has planned for these three children. Future: The two boys must 'voluntarily' join the Night's Watch Legion, while the girl changes her name, is adopted by Winterfell, and will grow up with Sansa and Arya."
"This time I'm taking two The boy brought back the Wall?" Igor had been greeted a few months ago, so it wasn't a surprise. "Night's Watch doesn't have the right to say no, I'm just worried... if Kingslayer and his two sons are reunited in this way in the Wall, will he see it as a deliberate humiliation to do something impulsive."
"As long as Kingslayer has a little brains, he should know that this is protecting those two children!" Robb resolutely and decisively replied: "Take a step back, even if this is deliberately humiliating him? House Targaryen used to rely on dragons. slaughter all sides, forcing the Westeros to admit their family's rambunctious privilege, how old is he, James Lannister? The moment he fucked his elder sister, he should be ready to be humiliated by the world !"
After a pause, Robb also remembered that it wasn't James Lannister who was sitting opposite oneself, and his breath slowed down: "Even if Kingslayer really gets emotional and wants to do something, how to get it done? He is also about Night's Watch, I believe...you will not let me down."
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No one wants to pick up the hot potato, but accept those "neither can The character who kills and is difficult to handle" is one of the missions of Night's Watch Legion, not to mention at the threshold of asking people. Igor shrugs: "My lord trusts me so much, I'll try to handle it."
"Keep an eye on them. Whether Night's Watch Legion is raising two idlers or intending to raise them into real Night's Watch men , it doesn't matter, the key is - don't let them fall into the hands of people with ulterior motives and bring greater disaster to the Seven Kingdoms."
Igor voted, of course he knew what the so-called greater disaster was. , and nothing else, in case Joffrey is in the hands of Tywin Lannister, while the Westerlands spirit slowly recovers from the ravages of war... After Stannis, Aegon, and Euron Crow's Eye, Westeros will almost certainly have one more king.
There are so many troubles, Igor frowned, but from another point of view, while Robb throws troubles to Night's Watch, he has to pay compensation or preferential treatment in other things... House Stark has always been honest, using With this kind of compensation mentality, oneself can try to get more benefits.
"Wait... Sit down, there's more!" Robb raised his hand and beckoned, once again stopping the begin to stir plan to leave and rush to prepare for the North nobles to visit the land grant Igor: "You captured Yara Grejoy at Deepwood Motte not long ago, didn't expect something?"
"Think of something."
Igor didn't understand Robb for a while Meaning, what should oneself think of? Asha is indeed a woman full of wild beauty, but let alone oneself thinking about the land-grant resettlement plan, even if there is no... he is impossible to do something to this Kraken's daughter. The lawful instinct and the concept of sexuality caused by the growing environment are one factor. On the other hand, he is also convinced that a man who dares to rape a woman like Asha will be stabbed to death by a woman with scissors sooner or later, even if he succeeds the first time. on the bed.
Robb saw that Igor didn't understand oneself's suggestion, and he didn't continue to play dumb riddles, he made a prompt: "Your beautiful captive, and a younger brother."
"Oh... ...Yes." Igor opened his mouth and raised his eyebrows, realizing that more trouble was coming to oneself.
“During the previous battle against the Westerlands, Theon offered to send him back to the Iron Islands and persuaded father Balon Greyjoy to send troops...but because the war was going well, I didn’t say yes,” Robb continued. What happened: "That is to say, when the Lord of the Iron Islands sent his brother and daughter to attack North, his son was still in my hands."
Theon Greyjoy was a hostage, even by the name." Adopting a son" doesn't change the nature of things. And the role of the hostage is to let the opponent refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases at the critical moment, but what if the opponent ignores the existence of the hostage?
Hostages are useless.
Igor can guess everything that follows: with Robb Stark's character, it is unlikely that he will order the execution of his brother who grew up with him since he was a child, especially if it is not Theon's fault.
"Everyone told me I should kill him myself." Robb explained each minding their own business before Igor could comment: "But on second thought, according to Westeros Law... Theon is the first in line to the Seastone Chair, no matter if it is his elder sister or which Uncle, if you want to get a firm seat, you must first remove Theon as a scourge, why not save his life first, so as to threaten the ruler of the Iron Islands in the future ?"
"But once he wears black clothed, he automatically loses this function." Igor shrugged, almost trying to make Robb admit that he simply didn't want to kill and raise his brother, but in the end he gave up.
Robb's indifferent expression about this, probably has also become Igor's face and ability to talk nonsense: "Guarantee him alive, don't let his crazy Uncle send someone to kill him secretly, other than that Otherwise, just use him as a normal Night's Watch."
Igor sighed, guarantee he's alive? When there are Cold God and his servants to the north of the Wall, humans in the south are united again, and there are a bunch of mad Ironmen overseas, which "ordinary Night's Watch" dares to claim to be absolutely safe?
"I try, but I don't give any guarantees."
Theon is not Bran, and Robb is impossible to ask for more for him...but this time Igor didn't leave in a hurry. Leaving, standing up and sitting down twice, he patiently sat in his chair and watched Robb in case he suddenly called oneself to wait.
It seems that there is really nothing else to do, and the two just stared at each other for a few seconds, until Igor was about to say goodbye again, and Robb Stark said again: "Igor, whether it's Lord Commander Mormont or me, You've always trusted your mind, do you think...in this matter, did I do something wrong?"
Do you mean not killing Theon? Igor made an indifferent expression: "Killing him is a duty, not killing him is a love... Judging from Theon's growth process, social circle and resources that can be mobilized, after we have repulsed Ironmen, he Being alive poses almost zero threat to North. No right or wrong, I'm just talking about what it's like to be a Night's Watch - when the army of the dead strikes, what Wall needs is available manpower and supplies, not a Another troublesome figure who got stuffed in for various reasons."
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