Chapter 512
2021-01-06
Chapter 512 Winter Siege (middle)Myrcella can understand that Igor is grateful to the Queen for her help and decided to take it back Iron Throne's motives, but he couldn't accept the fact that he sent his troops south to fight against North - in her cognition, the world should not work like this.
Night's Watch's duty is to be optimistic about Wall, to fight against Others and wildling to keep Seven Kingdoms peaceful, and to do anything other than this is beyond the norm.
Daenerys · Targaryen rides a dragon north to participate in this epic war between the living and the dead, which is noble and worthy of praise. Night's Watch should ensure her safety and cooperate with her actions, and it is natural to deal with it afterwards. She expresses her gratitude and respect...but at the end of the day, the Dragon Queen is only protecting the Seven Kingdoms—a property she believes belongs to oneself.
If everyone acted according to oneself's thoughts and wishes instead of following the social division of labor and performing their duties, everything would be messed up!
Night's Watch broke the neutrality rule to help the Queen conquer the Seven Kingdoms.
Although the truth is true, Myrcella also understands in her heart: there are more things in the world that are more wrong than this - far from mentioning, the existence of oneself is itself a mistake: according to the conventional ethics, her biological parents But they cannot combine with each other and produce offspring.
A person who logically shouldn't exist, how can he have the confidence to accuse this person of accusing that person! It's true that Igor made a mistake, but he at least had a valid reason; he's now the traitor and thief that everyone in the North calls out, but that doesn't change him until now. "Uncle" and two brothers take good care of the fact. Anyone in the world can feel disgust or hostility towards Igor, but there should never be oneself in it.
Not only is it not annoying, in fact, that Night's Watch is almost the person Myrcella has seen since she was born that fits her in mind "hero" image: mature but not boring, powerful but not Rough, upright but not pedantic, brave but not reckless... Although he is in a high position and powerful, he is incredibly careful and gentle when dealing with people.
That's not much, but the more important point is: Myrcella can feel these qualities that Igor exhibits, and it is not pretentious.
Either he's an invincible actor, or that's what he really looks like.
No wonder Arya likes him!
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Speaking of Arya, sometimes Myrcella can't help but be jealous of oneself, the titular "sister": why, she is obviously a bear child, and she is doing something stupid and causing trouble. When suffering a disaster, there will be such a man to stand up to protect and accompany, and oneself ... is both sensible and smart, even more sensible than most adults, but from the moment of birth, Heaven and Earth are difficult. Unfathomable mystery is about to suffer the ruthless ridicule and torture of fate, drifting with the waves like a rootless seaweed, and being thrown onto the rocks one after another, causing the whole body to hurt when photographed?
Is this oneself atonement for the evil deeds of the previous life, or is this world just a fool for a fool?
Whenever thought of this, Myrcella would shake her head hard to threw the thought out of her head...and feel ashamed that oneself would have such a messy and stupid idea.
She doesn't believe that people have a previous life, Arya is not stupid, oneself and her fate are different, the difference is only: whether their parents have fulfilled the requirements of parents.
As long as oneself's father (whether by blood or once in name) and mother, one of the three can be stable, mature and responsible rather than a child who is so angry that even her real child I feel naive...or if there is any warrior who can stand up and protect oneself at a critical moment like Igor takes care of Arya, oneself will never have to suffer so many grievances and hardships!
Gu Ying doesn't have to be too self-pity, she's honest, Myrcella oneself also admits: Except for being under house arrest for a short period of time and changing her identity to come to Winterfell after several hands-offs, she has hardly suffered any deliberate actions. The external abuse is almost exclusively psychological: for example, being forced to live in a completely unfamiliar environment, separated from close family and friends, such as being incognito and having to cut off from oneself’s past, lying about oneself’s origins and childhood ... This kind of content that I don't know personally without personal experience will only make people feel hypocritical.
Igor made a mistake, but that doesn't take away the fact that oneself owes him a big favor, even more how, down to the bottom of my heart... Myrcella doesn't believe he's a bad guy either.
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As House Stark's "Third Young Lady", Myrcella and Sansa and Arya get along day and night, and the erstwhile Princess Baratheon has been silent for a few days. I learned that Bolton count led the army to the last Hearth to attack the Queen in the chat, but she did not immediately go out of the city to warn Igor for two main reasons.
One is not and the other is not.
At that time, Winterfell, who had not been attacked for hundreds of years, was suddenly surrounded by a surprise attack. She was in extreme nervousness from top to bottom. She simply tricked the guards into opening the door to a little girl's house for her. out of the city; and, if Igor had leaked the news at that time, then the latter would only have to send a Raven north to warn the Queen, wouldn't it be oneself's whistleblower that put thousands of North soldiers in deep danger, and also foiled a House Stark A planned military operation?
Igor and House Stark, the former is a friend, and the latter is oneself's family from now on. Since the great distress, the sensible Myrcella has found that oneself is more and more clear about everything: people can like friends more than family, but they can't put the former above the latter in the major event. Igor's favor to take care of Tommen, Joffrey and "uncle" by his position is insignificant compared to House Stark's protection and care of oneself after oneself's background is exposed. oneself If House Stark loses a war or even falls into extinction because of his personal subjective preferences, he will indiscriminately inform, then oneself will be the same as his mother.
Fortunately, after a few days of silent prayers for both sides inside and outside the city, the situation finally ushered in a turning point: Bolton count successfully raided and finally Hearth took the Queen's major news, making this confrontation a winner. There is no suspense anymore, the castle defenders are no longer facing the enemy as they were in the past few days, and Myrcella also sees an opportunity to protect both sides of the confrontation at the same time: at this moment, take the news first. Sending it to Igor will not only repay the debt owed to him for peace of mind, but will not threaten the safety of House Stark!
As for being discovered by House Stark?
She hasn't made up her mind yet, but at worst, she admits her mistakes obediently and honestly and loses the trust she has earned so hard... The advantage of staying with a good person is that even if you do something bad, you don't get it right away consigned to eternal damnation.
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After listening to oneself's call, the black clothed man in front of him raised his eyebrows, but didn't show the shock and panic that Myrcella expected.
"Where did you get the news?"
"I watched Maester Luwin hurried into the main castle after receiving a Raven from the north. , and then it spread, and everyone in the castle already knows about it now!" Myrcella sweated for him, "I don't know if Robb had instructed Ser Rodrik to tell you this news, if Later, when he tells you about it and persuades you to surrender, you'd better accept his terms - every step the army of Bolton count gets from Winterfell, the less bargaining chips you have in your hands! It's even worse if you don't talk about it and continue to talk about it as usual, because House Stark has decided not to give you a chance to admit your mistake and bow your head, you better get out tonight!"
Igor stood in front of Little Princess, folded his chest and pondered deeply.
He didn't doubt that Myrcella would lie to oneself, but he also didn't believe Bolton had the ability or willingness to raid the last Hearth to destroy Daenerys - if a message, it was neither a lie but impossible to be the truth. , then it must be somewhere in between: one-sided or wrong!
Myrcella thought it was real, but in reality it was fake news created by Stark or House Bolton, which one?
A few seconds later, a chill from the bone marrow suddenly appeared in the scalp on the back of the head, and instantly spread down the back spine to the waist: Awesome, coup!
He always thought that oneself handled the whistleblower sent by the Old Flayer to talk about cooperation quite beautifully: not only quick sword cuts through tangled hemp, but also the whole team was captured in a single night without half being arrested. Yu, also tortured them and the law and method of reporting the situation and safety of the Fort of Dread. In the prediction, when Roose Bolton finds something wrong and wants to respond, oneself should have quickly dealt with the beating and coercion of House Stark, and the situation in North will be settled.
But I don't know which step went wrong. Bolton's uncooperative counterattack against oneself came so quickly and fiercely!
In the end, Hearth was originally the castle of the Umber family, and Night's Watch did not fly from there to Raven, the outer city camp of Winterfell. Even Skinchanger couldn't reach it hundreds of miles away. Igor can't get the news from the Queen in real time - which means: he has no immediate knowledge of the change in the direction of the north, House Bolton's army may really be on the way south at the moment, but he has no idea, but with Myrcella Contrary to what everyone in Winterfell thinks: they are not here to solve the siege of Winterfell, but for the lives of everyone in House Stark and oneself in the face!
"Miss Maeve, if I say that your source is a false letter fabricated by Roose Bolton, he actually didn't hurt Queen at all, and he may even have defected to Daenerys and become House Stark's enemy. , would you believe it?"
It is conceivable that when House Bolton's army escorted the Queen to this place, if she saw that the Three Headed Dragon symbolizing Targaryen had not been plugged into the wall Qi, the oneself who boasted that "waiting for the Queen's drive in Winterfell" not long ago is still drinking the northwest wind outside the two granite city walls... Not only will the image of oneself be shrewd, strong and omnipotent in the eyes of the Queen, it will be greatly reduced, and Arya in the city will be greatly reduced. The safety of everyone in the family, young and old, will be more difficult to guarantee!
"Aiya, my lord, I'm not kidding you!" Myrcella absolutely didn't expect Igor to react in such a way that she even waved her arms in anxiety: "I believe the battle strength of Night's Watch is very strong. , but you are by no means an opponent of the entire North, for The Seven's sake, please hurry up and find a way to get out, don't let me sneak out this time in vain!"
Igor shook his head, realizing The reaction of oneself at this moment is really like a desperado who wants to take all on one throw, but he still doesn't believe in the evil things have reached a dead end. After taking a few deep breaths and straightening his thoughts, he squatted down and faced Little Princess. , put one hand on the girl's narrow and thin shoulder, and asked seriously and slowly, "Myrcella, are you looking at me like crazy?"
Myrcella's heart pounded violently. A jump, this is the first time in more than two years that an outsider calls oneself's real name, she raised her head to meet Igor's eyes, and carefully observed the man in front of her.
A stubborn face with sharp edges and corners, a stubble shaven cheeks and chin with no pimples, and eyes that are serious and serious in the clear... Damn, how does he show a look of before Never found boldness and majesty? It seemed more manly than before...
With the strength and determination that came from the big hand on her shoulder, Myrcella's cheeks suddenly heated up.
Fortunately, her face was flushed from running a section of the road, and this was not revealed.
She twisted uncomfortably, remembering just in time that they were talking about business: "No, but I didn't say—"
"Very well, calm down, Take a deep breath, then come and sit down." Igor interrupted the girl's words, stood up straight again, pushed her shoulders and pulled her to the chair in front of the desk to sit down, and then dragged the other chair behind the desk to oneself Sitting down opposite her, he solemnly began to explain: "I said this news is false, not because I was dead-headed or unwilling to admit defeat, but because I didn't believe it: a man sent someone to give me land last month. Those who negotiate the plan to subvert the House Stark will be transformed into a loyal minister in less than a month, willing to take the risk to solve the biggest threat for Robb, just to maintain the position of the ruler of House Stark North!"
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(end of this chapter)