Chapter 273
"I'm afraid I can't help you," Dany laughed apologetically, explaining, "We've just returned from King's Landing and are heading north."
Seeing the thin Septon look disappointed She pointed at the wolf corpse and said, "brother, do you want these wolves?"
"Yes, yes, of course, we are short of food." The old man pulling the cart shouted again and again.
More than 100 people cheered and ran to the beach and began to skin and kill wolves.
But when he saw a peasant woman draining the blood directly, Dany hurriedly walked over to stop her, loudly said: "Don't waste blood, you can enema."
Dothraki especially likes it Eating blood sausages, but in Westeros and major Free City, she rarely sees blood sausages.
"How did these wolves die? It's strange that there isn't a single wound." Someone wondered.
Dany taught a few women to enema with blood, and said, "See that red-nosed old man? Look at the chain on his neck, there are 40 knots, one is poisoned. expert. But don't worry, this poison is harmless to humans."
Archmaester Perestan glanced at her with a blank face, but said nothing.
However, although he slandered Dragon Queen as a liar witch, he was also shocked by her mingling with sloppy peasant women.
It's not a pretense at all. In this environment, no one knows her, so there is no need to pretend to be close to the commoners to bribe people's hearts, and her expression, the smile on her face, comes from the heart, without any reluctance.
If she didn't have Magic and no dragon, she would be a really good Queen, the old man sighed.
But then he smiled wryly and shook his head, a princess of a subjugated country, a teenage little girl, without those mysterious powers, it would be difficult for her to even survive, how could she restore the dynasty?
Many people are powerful, more than 40 wolves, after tossing for more than two hours, finally turned into pieces of bacon, strings of blood sausages, and more than 40 wolf fur coats.
Well, women and children are directly clothed in bloody wolf skins, the autumn wind is bleak, the weather is gloomy and cold, and a sackcloth is not cold at all.
Afterwards, the three of Dany also joined the team of the poor people's meeting, and the old Archmaester was placed on the sack cart and crowded with a large pile of blood sausages.
Through chat, Dany found out where the group came from.
Coming from the Saltpans in the east, follow Trident Road west to Kingsroad a few kilometers away, then head south to King's Landing.
"Ai, we don't want to leave our hometown, but a light snow fell in our village two months ago. Seeing that winter is coming, there is almost no grain storage.
This One cow, ten sheep, a few sacks of barley, and half a cart of turnip are all the food for the entire village, and if you don't go to King's Landing, you will starve to death!" said the old man who pulled the cart with a sad expression.
"Saltpans is finally a small sea trading port, it should be able to provide a lot of work, right?" Barristan wondered.
The burly brawny man spat and cursed: "Forget it, the Saltpans are ruined. Nothing but Quincy Cox's thief's stone castle, set on fire by bandits brought by Hound. White ground.
Clegane, that beast who should go to hell, kills people when he sees people, rapes/violates when he sees women, burns houses when he sees them, even babies and Septa are not spared.”
"How did Clegane fall so far?" Old Knight's eyes widened in disbelief.
"By the way, why did you curse Ser Cox?" he asked again.
Saltpans is on the Trident side, with a small wharf connecting the inland river to the bay, the Fiefdom of Landed Knight Ser Cox.
"Cox, the old man, doesn't care whether the townspeople live or die. When the robbers raided the town, not only did he not send his soldiers to resist, but he closed the castle gate and did not allow us to go in and escape." A young man said angrily.
"Hey, someone," Dany pupil shrink, took the short bow from the hand of a "Beggars' Sect brother" next to him, with a "snatch" sound, an arrow was nailed into the ash tree, and the neck was crooked. on the tree.
A man in grey leather armor slid down a tree trunk without a word, got into the woods and ran away.
"Damn, it must be the bandits' secret whistle." A tall woman in the team cursed.
"Is the Three Rivers watershed so messed up?" Barristan murmured.
"Ai, there are refugees everywhere, deserters, bandits, and without more than a dozen brothers to accompany us, we don't dare to go out." The thin Septon lamented.
"It's useless if you don't go out. The lions from the Westerlands and the wolf cubs from the North take turns to come to our village to grab food and women, and King won't take care of them." The old man shook his head.
"King is useless. Only by uniting and building the power of oneself can we protect oneself and our family." The thin Septon waved his fist and said firmly.
"Yes, the power of our oneself!" One Stars patted his chest and began chanting aloud, as the others slowly joined in.
It was the same as when we first met, and the sound was rolling and spreading to the distance.
Not to mention, the beggar army's set is quite effective.
Along the way they encountered several gangs of robbers hiding in the woods, who greedily glanced back and forth at the buffalo, the goat, and the smoked wolf meat carried on the shoulders of the beggar brother, but ended up in an imposing manner of the crowd. Backed away in the sound of pressing prayers.
About two kilometers to the west, the ash forest thins, and they encounter the first body.
Hanging from the underside of a charred tree trunk.
As the loudly praying procession approached, the scavenger crow "gu gu" that was pecking at the meat strips spread out.
Dany found that the calf of the corpse near the ground was only white bones and a few pieces of rags, and there were traces of being bitten by sharp teeth on the bones.
The corpse's face was a terrifying gray-green, the mouth was propped open, and someone pushed a rough white rock
between his teeth.
"Salt." Barristan said sullenly.
After walking for a few dozen meters, they found the second body, which was dragged down by scavengers. The body was scattered in the yellow grass, and a broken rope loop was hanging on the branch. Swing with the wind.
A teenage child stumbled and nearly fell, and a half-helmet was dug out of the soil, with the dead man's head in it, and crawling maggots and black beetles crawling between the carrion .
There is also a lion head emblem on top of the helmet.
"The lion's helmet, good steel," the burly man took the helmet and knocked off the rotten head and insect on the tree trunk, "there is no rust, no dents, and it can be washed clean. Use it."
Further, every few steps, you will encounter one or more dead bodies, until you reach the intersection, which stretches for nearly one kilometer, and there are about one or two hundred dead bodies.
They hang from tree branches, with ropes around their necks, their bodies swollen, their cheeks gnawed by crows, dangling from under trees, and their mouths are full of salt.
Many have coats of arms sewn on their chests, Direwolf, an axe, arrows and salmon, a pine tree, an oak leaf, a bantam rooster, a wild boar head...
The emblems of the nobles of North, Riverlands and Westerlands can almost be found here.
"The Seven is on top, they are deserters, and they got together to become bandits?" White Cloak ugly complexion said.
"These are the men who ransacked the Saltpans, caught by Earl Tarly and hanged in the woods to warn the rest of the bandits," said thin Septon.
Then, the entire group set foot on Kingsroad, the road of Westeros, a five-meter-wide dirt road.
The yellow mud road extends to a small wharf by the river, where several ferries are parked, and there is an Inn next to the Great Way.
It was a three-layer stone building next to Trident, sitting west to east. Kingsroad passed by the door and saw a white stone chimney standing on the side.
After approaching, Dany was surprised to find that the south wing extended to the river, and half of the buildings were built on stone piles in the river.
If the traveler wants to, they can even open the window, lie in bed, drop a line in the river, and catch a few trout.
On the north side of the Inn there is a thatched cowshed and a clock tower, which is surrounded by a broken white stone wall.
Dany and the three of them parted with the group of poor people at the Inn. Before leaving, White Cloak quietly stuffed a Golden Dragon for Septon, "This place is 600 kilometers away from King's Landing. For months, this food is not enough for you."
The hotel yard was a large piece of brown mud, Dany stood at the gate of the yard and hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and stepped on it.
A dilapidated gallows stood in the yard, and a little boy was dangling from the rusted chain on it.
Four girls stood on the porch watching him, the youngest was only two or three years old, with watermelon heads and naked crawling on the ground.
The oldest is a teenager, with brown hair, brown eyes, scrawny, pale cheeks, and wearing an old blue dress. Seeing Dany's entire group approaching, she immediately guarded the little fellows with her oneself body vigilantly.
"Who are you?"
Perestan clutched his ass, limped, and shouted impatiently: "Of course it's a guest, call your mother quickly, Prepare me a basin of hot water."
"I don't have a mother, she was killed." The girl in the blue dress said in a panic.
"Little Sister, where's the shop Boss?" Dany asked with a smile.
The girl's gentle smile infected the girl. She looked at Dany curiously and said, "My elder sister Jenny is the Boss. She went to the river to fetch fish. We set up a net in the river, and every morning You can get a few trout."
"Miss, you are so beautiful, even in men's clothes." The little girl blushed and said.
"Hehe, iron armor is not only for men," Dany shook his head and asked, "What's your name?"
"Willow, my name is Willow. Miss, it's dinner Or accommodation? By the way, do you have Silver Coin?"
"We only stay for one night and need to pay a Silver Coin? Why don't you grab it?" The old Archmaester said surprised and angry.
Willow glanced at Dany, gritted his teeth, and insisted: "Not one, at least three, we need money to buy food."
"Okay, just three, troubled times It’s normal for prices to go up in China.” Dany walked under the porch, found a wooden stick by the stairs, scraped the mud off the iron boots, and stepped on the wooden floor, watching the little girl rolling on the ground, Baring his teeth, "Isn't she cold? Why isn't she dressing your younger sister?"
Willow shook his head and said, "It's warm with a fireplace in the house. You can see that too, Tracy likes it. Crawling on the floor, the clothes are soiled and worn."
Lifting the little doll, she walked into the house and said, "Tracy is not my younger sister, some of them are the Sparrow brought them, some were brought by oneself, and they are poor children without parents."
"They?"
Willow whistled, as if by magic, In the blink of an eye, under the table, by the window edge, by the fireplace, and in the stairwell, boys and girls with ragged clothes and disheveled hair emerged. Several older girls were still clutching full-stringed crossbows in their hands. Take a slingshot or a rock.
All "fully armed".
"Are you really going to rob?" Perestan exclaimed.
Willow glanced at the old man, like the Queen in the castle, and commanded the orphans loudly: "Put down your arms, they are not enemies. Walter, go to boil water, Will, go to the river and find Jenny, Tell her there's a customer in the shop. Tansy, Pate, go get some wood to add to the stove, and I'll show them the room."
The doors on both sides of the corridor were open, letting Dany pick whatever he wanted. , from the second floor to the third floor, the room is completely empty.
Barristan frowned: "I was here two years ago, and it was almost full."
"There are not many customers now, and now, except for Sparrow, who is a robber, the former If we don't have money, the latter will take our money."